Winter in Hieron 23: Make the Library Smile
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🗓️ 12 May 2017
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Summary
Collector-Curator
They pursue two patterns. They showed me only the first until today, but I've finally gained their trust! I've marked what I understand with an X, and seek your guidance on the rest. Brackets are lacunic markers, as in Roak's Notation.
A Lukewarm Sun, Bowing - X
A Room of Seeded Prisms
Two lodestars that carries [the banner of the queen of death] - X
One which sees [the old world] - X
One which destroys [the old world]
The Second Face of the [Bright Boy]
A tower of [tomorrow's light.]
A new archive of "broken, whole mirrors" - X
The Cooling Embers of a God's Verse - X (Though we must find this book)
A stolen fiddle in its home - X
I do wish you were on terms with Tel, Collector-Curator. Your goals may be different, yes, but competing merchants are both benefited by the construction of roads.
This week on Friends at the Table: Make the Library Smile
Kurr,
My relation to Tel is not your concern, nor do we compete like petty shopkeepers. Our differences will shape the future of the Archives and of Hieron. If you can, you must walk the road for me. If you cannot, show whoever goes the value of your apparitives before they go. Their utility is ideology enough.
As for the missing parts of the sequence… You use Roak's terms yet do not remember her greatest lesson: When you do not understand an element of a pattern, do not bang your head against the wall until you understand it. Instead, move the world until it is uncontrivertably true.
Hosted by Austin Walker (@austin_walker)
Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot)
Episode description by Austin Walker
Music by Jack de Quidt
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| 0:00.0 | Ephraim and Lem as you come up the side of this mountain you can hear the sounds of arguing |
| 0:10.0 | coming from the study and observatory of Sunder-Havleton and Uclantel, who you're going to for various reasons, |
| 0:20.0 | but mostly because you believe that they or their associate Jean Kerr can lead you to |
| 0:27.6 | your your compatriot Ferro Ferritas who has been taken by mental acquisition, a department of the archives. |
| 0:37.6 | And you can hear some arguing, not shouting, but definitely some very agitated voices I'd say. You hear one of them say, |
| 0:50.1 | there isn't enough time, We have to do this now. |
| 0:53.0 | And you're hearing this through a pair of small windows that don't have any glass in them. |
| 1:00.0 | They're just kind of like broken into the side of this this red |
| 1:04.0 | clay building at the top of this mountain and through a kind of a heavy |
| 1:10.1 | wooden door. What do you do? How close are we to the building? As close as you need to be. |
| 1:18.0 | Can I creep to the side of the door and try and listen through the wood? |
| 1:23.4 | I mean I know the windows actually how high is... |
| 1:25.4 | I'll just crouch beneath the window I think... |
| 1:29.4 | Yeah good that's the image we want. |
| 1:32.4 | Inside you see what to a to a I'd say a less familiar eye |
| 1:39.6 | would look like a messy living room in an apartment but to your trained eye as an archivist, |
| 1:47.6 | you know that they are in the middle of some sort of incredibly complicated ritual. And inside you hear Sundar say, it's now or never, send me. What do you do? |
| 2:01.6 | If they're trying to leave, we should stop them, right? |
| 2:05.0 | Uh, if there's nobody left in the building, we can't get what we came here for, |
| 2:10.4 | presumably we need their help rather than something |
| 2:14.0 | they've got. |
| 2:15.0 | Can I see anybody through the window? |
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