Twilight Mirage 01: The Beloved Dust

Friends at the Table

Games, Leisure, Fiction

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🗓️ 30 June 2017

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

The Beloved Dust, a group of investigators and operatives with Divine mandate, learns that there is an imminent threat targeting Composure's Coliseum* during a important (and highly populated) ritual. Former excerpt and pilot of the Divine Belgard, ⸢Signet⸣, trades favors religious and mundane. The dilapidating assassin Fourteen Fifteen blends into the audience to see things from a higher ground. And Tender Sky, a highly skilled digital architect, enters the event directly in order to protect it from the inside.

Before anything else, recognize what is at stake.

This week on Friends at the Table: The Beloved Dust

The Living Library of Memorious // VOLUME 778Φ

Composure's Coliseum

In the year 28350AM, in the middle of a boom in historical interest on the part of the Fleet's citizens, the Divine Composure built a this innovative structure that blended virtual mesh space and and material reality. At first, the Coliseum simply offered its audience a place to watch re-enactments of foundational events in the broad history of the MIlky Way. But not content with pure replication, Composure's excerpt made these simulations interactive, allowing for outcomes far different than the recorded past. Because of the many possible outcomes, these re-enactments offer the public a chance to consider other possible worlds. Attendees describe the experience as stimulating to both mind and soul, and it is due to their popularity that the events continued long after the death of Composure.

Hosted by Austin Walker (@austin_walker)

Featuring Ali Acampora (@ali_west), Janine Hawkins (@bleatingheart) and Jack de Quidt (@notquitereal)

Produced by Ali Acampora (@ali_west)

Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot)

Episode description by Austin Walker

Music by Jack de Quidt

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0:00.0	Dispatch 57A.
0:05.0	Satellite, the moment that a ship breaks through from the long black into the twilight mirage is breathtaking.
0:17.0	Every new arrival splits the difference between violence and creation.
0:24.2	With the divine fleet licking its wounds, any unexpected change carries threat.
0:29.6	But as we learned a long time ago. Threat carries possibility. So, when the stable
0:36.4	curvature of the H.S. Mercury's kiss disturbed the pomegranate blots of
0:40.6	Emperians false nebula, I knew things were about to get interesting, which satellite
0:46.7	makes my job a whole lot more tolerable.
0:50.5	But as I watched that ship hang in the clouds above the floating city of Séons,
0:55.0	looking down on that impossible open-aired metropolis in the stars,
1:00.0	I wondered for a moment if it might be okay that my tenure here be boring,
1:05.0	that perhaps my desire for more active afternoons should come second to maintaining the long-lasting
1:11.2	serenity of the divine fleet.
1:14.2	But I have seen the projections, and the projections don't lie.
1:18.0	They don't know how.
1:19.9	A graveyard's architecture can be sublime, yes, and grieving can be joyous.
1:26.2	But that doesn't change the fact that Seance is first and foremost, a home for the dead. And the You're going to be. Welcome to Friends at the Table and actual Play Podcast focused on Critical World Building Smart Characterization
2:14.4	and Fun Interaction Between Good Friends.
2:16.3	I am your host Austin Walker, and today we will be playing The Vale by Fraser Simons,
2:21.7	and if that sounds new, it is new because we are playing a new
2:25.5	season of the show starting today though you are calling twilight mirage which is named after
2:30.3	the synthetic nebula described described in that intro.
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