ChecksTAKE HEART, MUSIC BOX. YOU WILL BE A BEAUTIFUL COG IN A SHINING…Reading: Open fileReadingOpen fileNeed to knowMy clearanceStatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC10TAKE HEART, MUSIC BOX. YOU WILL BE A BEAUTIFUL COG IN A SHINING MACHINE.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC9If things don't go according to the plan.StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC11ALL THAT I HEAR LATELY, IS MY SUPERBLOC BABY!ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10This is a very good plan, operant. Very well thought out. There is only one minor concern...EntanglementEntanglementIntellectSpooky action across this plane and beyond. Extrasensory awareness. Influence of the stars.DC15A voice rises from a room you know to be empty. Immaterial and absent power. Ten thousand celestial limbs.PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC14What's coming will be ugly. You deserve something beautiful, here at the end of all things.NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC14Force your body into fight mode with an epidural of adrenaline, straight to your spinal cord.EntanglementEntanglementIntellectSpooky action across this plane and beyond. Extrasensory awareness. Influence of the stars.DC14Gleaming discs fall like a strange plague upon the city below. The sun blooms little rainbows between them. From the tram windows, children laugh.InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC9Left behind on purpose. Lone survivor. A warning.RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC12You recognise the name on the disc -- Eloísa Alba -- from the 'Weaponised Boredom' section of Petre's music stall. In other words: 'free jazz'.PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC13Criminally underappreciated. Retrospect will vindicate her.RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC15The name on the disc -- Eloísa Alba -- seems vaguely familiar. You're pretty sure she was an experimental composer -- some sort of 'free jazz' artist?RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC14Ran afoul of the Azzurri mob, as rumour has it.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC14As the ideas of 'cultural manoeuvre' and 'letting teenagers inflict their music onto everyone' pass through your head, it suddenly seems obvious:PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC12Each Portofiran youth a potential cultural assassin-in-waiting.InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC12Morally good. Practically moronic.Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC14This may, perhaps, prove to be the Superbloc's final and most dramatic own goal.PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC9Teens do not like being given things. They prefer to take.TechnoflexTechnoflexIntellectThe secret language of machines and consumer products. Bend any device or system to your will.DC13The greatest advantage a machine has over man: the will to live is not required.StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC13THE AUGMENTOID LARVAE WILL NOW SERVE THE PEOPLE.PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC8Its body has been broken, but its soul lives on.SensorsSensorsActionPerceptions and pleasures of the phenomenal world. Notice details that others miss.DC12A smell of fresh plastic and aluminium coating, still contained within the transparent hemisphere, rises to your nostrils.PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC12The ghost of new music.TechnoflexTechnoflexIntellectThe secret language of machines and consumer products. Bend any device or system to your will.DC13like the very moment you rip off the cellophane that envelopes a brand new disc... Or even better, a repressed colour variant disc.Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC12If it comes.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC8Better to be prepared. If you have only one choice -- you have zero choice.ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC12Beyond the auditorium doors, you hear whispers from the waiting crowd.TechnoflexTechnoflexIntellectThe secret language of machines and consumer products. Bend any device or system to your will.DC10Ashamed of its single disc offering.SensorsSensorsActionPerceptions and pleasures of the phenomenal world. Notice details that others miss.DC10Etched jaggedly into the plastic: 'FUK MUSIC'.TechnoflexTechnoflexIntellectThe secret language of machines and consumer products. Bend any device or system to your will.DC10Someone's done the hard part for you. The way is open.
StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC10TAKE HEART, MUSIC BOX. YOU WILL BE A BEAUTIFUL COG IN A SHINING MACHINE.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC9If things don't go according to the plan.
StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC11ALL THAT I HEAR LATELY, IS MY SUPERBLOC BABY!
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC10This is a very good plan, operant. Very well thought out. There is only one minor concern...
EntanglementEntanglementIntellectSpooky action across this plane and beyond. Extrasensory awareness. Influence of the stars.DC15A voice rises from a room you know to be empty. Immaterial and absent power. Ten thousand celestial limbs.
PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC14What's coming will be ugly. You deserve something beautiful, here at the end of all things.
NerveNerveRelationWhen the task requires a steady hand and a quiet mind. Don't let the world see what's behind the mirror.DC14Force your body into fight mode with an epidural of adrenaline, straight to your spinal cord.
EntanglementEntanglementIntellectSpooky action across this plane and beyond. Extrasensory awareness. Influence of the stars.DC14Gleaming discs fall like a strange plague upon the city below. The sun blooms little rainbows between them. From the tram windows, children laugh.
InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC9Left behind on purpose. Lone survivor. A warning.
RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC12You recognise the name on the disc -- Eloísa Alba -- from the 'Weaponised Boredom' section of Petre's music stall. In other words: 'free jazz'.
PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC13Criminally underappreciated. Retrospect will vindicate her.
RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC15The name on the disc -- Eloísa Alba -- seems vaguely familiar. You're pretty sure she was an experimental composer -- some sort of 'free jazz' artist?
RecordsRecordsIntellectThe totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.DC14Ran afoul of the Azzurri mob, as rumour has it.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC14As the ideas of 'cultural manoeuvre' and 'letting teenagers inflict their music onto everyone' pass through your head, it suddenly seems obvious:
PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC12Each Portofiran youth a potential cultural assassin-in-waiting.
InstinctsInstinctsActionThe uncontrolled aspects of your physicality. Raw impulses. How your organism perpetuates itself.DC12Morally good. Practically moronic.
Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC14This may, perhaps, prove to be the Superbloc's final and most dramatic own goal.
PersonalismPersonalismRelationWhat makes people tick, yourself included. Empathy and manipulation. Your humanity at large.DC9Teens do not like being given things. They prefer to take.
TechnoflexTechnoflexIntellectThe secret language of machines and consumer products. Bend any device or system to your will.DC13The greatest advantage a machine has over man: the will to live is not required.
StatehoodStatehoodRelationSocial force embodied in presence and coercion. Command and intimidate others. Internalised propaganda.DC13THE AUGMENTOID LARVAE WILL NOW SERVE THE PEOPLE.
PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC8Its body has been broken, but its soul lives on.
SensorsSensorsActionPerceptions and pleasures of the phenomenal world. Notice details that others miss.DC12A smell of fresh plastic and aluminium coating, still contained within the transparent hemisphere, rises to your nostrils.
PoeticsPoeticsIntellectSee and express what others can’t. Engage your creative engine. Lateral thinking and subconscious associations.DC12The ghost of new music.
TechnoflexTechnoflexIntellectThe secret language of machines and consumer products. Bend any device or system to your will.DC13like the very moment you rip off the cellophane that envelopes a brand new disc... Or even better, a repressed colour variant disc.
Grey MatterGrey MatterIntellectDeductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.DC12If it comes.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC8Better to be prepared. If you have only one choice -- you have zero choice.
ShadowplayShadowplayActionFor any action you'd rather go undetected. Advanced, covert spy techniques. The voice of your training.DC12Beyond the auditorium doors, you hear whispers from the waiting crowd.
TechnoflexTechnoflexIntellectThe secret language of machines and consumer products. Bend any device or system to your will.DC10Ashamed of its single disc offering.
SensorsSensorsActionPerceptions and pleasures of the phenomenal world. Notice details that others miss.DC10Etched jaggedly into the plastic: 'FUK MUSIC'.
TechnoflexTechnoflexIntellectThe secret language of machines and consumer products. Bend any device or system to your will.DC10Someone's done the hard part for you. The way is open.