Twilight Mirage 47: Uncontrolled Fires

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🗓️ 13 April 2018

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

As half of the Notion explores the jungle valleys of Skein, the others descend to Terncage, the planet's largest metropolis. A pair of old allies tells the group that a mysterious calamity called "Dark Day" is nearing, and that the Rapid Evening's oracular Crystal Palace has predicted that it will follow a pair of strange murders. The predicted victims are Wind's Poem--the artist and researcher responsible for Tender's ReFrame system--and Profit's Cadence--the new leader of the Church of the Self, which is rapidly spreading through the New Earth Hegemony. Complicating things further, both are killed by a prototype gun that threatens the peace that Quire established during the Miracle.

Tender Sky leads the crew into a meeting with an old contact who knows a thing or two about weapons. Grand Magnificent bumps into a rival from his time on in the space trucking lanes. And Fourteen Fifteen frets as they consider the consequences of meddling with the future.

This week on Twilight Mirage: Uncontrolled Fires

It forever seemed like time's up

When we swerved in the Honda

Now forever seems like no time

I mean time flies when you have some

Hosted by Austin Walker (@austin_walker)

Featuring Ali Acampora (@ali_west), Art Martinez-Tebbel (@atebbel), Jack de Quidt (@notquitereal)

Produced by Ali Acampora (@ali_west)

Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot)

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0:00.0	An excerpt from a letter by Keene Forester,
0:04.1	A Gloaming, chief in excessor of the rapid evening, delivered by secure courier
0:09.9	to the brink one week before a dark day.
0:15.2	You've done a good job, Gray.
0:17.0	Really.
0:18.4	Under other circumstances, I'd be proud.
0:22.2	You secured limited access to K-upside switchboard and the Crystal Palace distribution.
0:27.2	You managed to set up a burrow virus to funnel resources from the Kesh Perennial Fund.
0:32.3	Your agents, even if you wouldn't call them that, from the Kesh perennial fund.
0:32.6	Your agents, even if you wouldn't call them that, have been able to avoid my own through
0:36.9	a style of micro-probabilistic manipulation only you could have taught them to do. Your presence has corralled a loose affiliation of smugglers, fixers, and the rankest of opportunists
0:48.5	into a force for stability instead of decay. You and Damani have managed to keep the brink, ostensibly a stationary
0:56.2	trade hub, one step ahead of a being that has spent the last 50,000 years demonstrably predicting the future. You have made yourself my rival, but I do not care because I cannot lose you.
1:13.0	You know that right now Crystal Palace can predict everything that's happening in this galaxy.
1:20.0	It knows why young lovers break up better than they do.
1:23.0	It knows the name of every newborn baby before breath can become parental voice.
1:28.0	It knows the fates of armies, navies, and singers, omelets and it knows and I know and you know what's coming.
1:42.3	In two weeks the the dovetail snaps, the lights turn off, and guaranteed events ain't.
1:50.0	I warned Crystal Palace, Gray, You have to listen to me. I told that this place was different,
1:57.0	that small moves meant more here, that physical explanations were no longer enough, but it asked me to move in the interests of our people, and I did.
2:10.0	Come back with me. There are other postings. We can sit far away. You, me and Damani and whoever else you,
2:22.1	God damn well please. You are too talented, too smart, you've given up too
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