Twilight Mirage 07: Second Street Drifting

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🗓️ 11 August 2017

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Following a distress call from the Vice-Warden of Contrition's Figure, Seance's correctional facility, the Beloved Dust prepare to enter the building under special circumstances. The gunslinger Fourteen Fifteen checks in with an old friend at The Signal*, and manages to only talk of work, while the Excerpt ⸢Signet⸣ spends time thinking of a past so different from, and yet so close to, the present. Tender Sky, an architect utterly familiar with The Mesh, considers herself ready for what awaits inside the digital environments of Contrition's Figure. But these are strange times. Something has changed in the facility and, worse, perhaps the Beloved Dust aren't the only people interested.

These people, these people,
They're people, first

This week on Twilight Mirage: Second Street Drifting

The Living Library of Memorious // VOLUME 147χ: The Signal
Publications: Print: Seance: The Signal
Founded in PM 0079 by former explorer Expectancy Saint-Argent, The Signal survived two journalistic crises while establishing itself as a primary source of news for many citizens of Seance and the wider fleet. The paper saw dark times during each, but, steered by the infamously pugnacious Saint-Argent, redoubled in strength each time. Much of its initial editorial team, Saint-Argent included, were not, in fact, residents of Seance, having been born on The Sky Reflected in Mirrors. "It's quite simple," the founder was oft quoted saying. "Growing up in a city where, so often, one is kept in the dark, a child will develop a pertinent sense for the truth."

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)

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Music by Jack de Quidt

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0:00.0	Dispatch 93A. A. I'll tell you one thing satellite. Even now, even with so many of the
0:18.9	divine's gone, the fleet is really good at knowing how to take care of its own.
0:24.0	So much of what they do is about understanding what people need and how to get it to them.
0:31.0	But I have my doubts, satellite, if they're any good at
0:36.4	understanding people outside of the fleet. The assemblage has this book, overcoming the problem of other minds.
0:46.0	It's kind of a slog, all about knowledge and selfhood and all of that.
0:51.0	The first half is an epistemology textbook meets Holy Tract, but the second part, it turns and suddenly it becomes a story, a sort of long-form fable. It's about this divine or a stand-in for one anyway who
1:07.2	can't convince someone of his divinity. He tries over and over again to display his power, his knowledge, his technological superiority,
1:17.0	but the would-be convert just shrugs.
1:21.0	The lesson, as the fleet teaches it, is that there are people that you cannot teach, many who
1:27.0	do not or will not understand. But they don't know what we do, do they satellite?
1:35.0	We know that when someone shrugs at a display of power,
1:39.9	at a display of knowledge, at a display of
1:43.4	technological superiority. It is not because they do not understand. It is because they are because they are not impressed. you're going to. You said I'd get out of here. Um, what was your, you had a long name?
2:26.0	People just called me Signet.
2:28.0	Cool.
2:29.0	Signet, you said I'd get out of here if I helped and, and you fed me and that's cool and I've told you everything I know like as far as I know I don't there's no other I mean well I've told you the stuff you asked and I can't just tell you this okay let me think on this please and let me just
2:46.6	waste some options just give me some time okay and Kaskarra like nods her head and she
2:51.4	says we can give him time we have something else I'll tell you about it after dinner and
2:56.2	unless there's anything else the dinner goes off without a hitch
3:00.8	Masalia manages not to try to start shit for once.
3:05.0	Comes close.
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