Twilight Mirage 09: The Sound of Strings

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🗓️ 25 August 2017

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Driven into a corrupted, digital city by a mysterious foe, the Beloved Dust set up to rescue the inhabitants of the rehabilitation center called Contrition's Figure. Tender Sky and ⸢Signet⸣ chase the iconoclasts* as they heads towards skyscraper (and a mysterious, living cloud above). Sho Salon and Fourteen Fifteen, meanwhile, contend with streets packed with furious simulacra as they seek the source of a strange song.

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This week on Twilight Mirage: The Sound of Strings

The Living Library of Memorious // VOLUME 205E:

Entities: Alien (Unconfirmed): Biological (Unconfirmed): Antagonistic (Confirmed): The Iconoclasts

The beings commonly called the Iconoclasts are responsible for the deaths of multiple third generation divines. Because communication has been limited, evidence inconsistent, and motivations unclear, the Library has officially placed the Iconoclasts in the "entities" category, pending additional information that might recategorize them as an "organizatisea. Run to it, or run dry, but all will run. We are the river, and it is the sea. Run to it or run dry, but all will run. We are the river, and it is the sea. Run to it or run dry, but all will run. We are the river, and it is the sea. Run to it or run dry, but all will run. We are the river, and it is the sea. Run to it or run dry, but all will run. We are the river, and it is the sea. Run to it or run dry, but all will run. We are the river, and it is the sea. Run to it or run dry, but all will run. We are the river, and it is the sea. Run to it or run dry, but all will run. We are the river, and it is the sea. Run to it or run dry, but all will run. We are the ri

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	Transmission MP2.
0:07.0	2.
0:10.0	Mirage Primary, we have received your dispatch.
0:14.0	Crystal Palace has been made aware of this inconsistency from guaranteed events.
0:20.0	Official recommendation is to hold and continue surveillance.
0:24.0	Under no circumstance should you engage on behalf of any subject involved in the matter.
0:30.0	Divert 5% of observational budget to the cloud phenomena, both inside and outside the mesh.
0:37.0	Beyond that, Crystal Palace defers to Agent and Field to identify most efficient allocation of operational resources.
0:46.0	Message Lock, prepare for dispatch, send on Mark.
0:52.0	Three, two. Send on Mark. 3. 2.
0:54.0	Pause.
0:57.0	Authorize allotment of personal communication time,
1:01.0	voice signature, keen, forester, gloaming, diamond encryption, record.
1:09.7	Off the record, Damani, this is a cluster fuck.
1:14.0	No one knows what that thing is.
1:17.0	Your instruments didn't pick it up until this last report,
1:20.0	but when we analyze the data, it says that thing has been there since the
1:24.9	de Gumpion died. Some folks here think it's a ghost, others think it's the
1:30.2	killer or both. My money's on neither. World don't work that way too clean.
1:36.5	But it ain't supposed to be there and this wasn't supposed to be some adventurous assignment.
1:47.1	You and my daughter both were supposed to have simple recon deployments, watching the last years of a crumbling civilization, important but safe, predictable, guaranteed clouds.
2:00.0	When people think of clouds, they think of rain, but a little water in the problem.
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