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Orlavin-3 is a hybrid psychotropic, capable of inducing paralysis-grade calm while forcing vivid, inescapable hallucinations.

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You may remember him from such court cases as 'CAMPF VS. SANTOS ELECTRONICS LLC' and 'CAMPF VS. STATE MARRIAGE LICENSING BOARD.'

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You've seen yourself like this before.

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In the Portofiran plushie scene, some of the knock off labels have become their own commodity, almost as sought after as the real deal.

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Not vigilant enough. Either of you.

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One of the reasons, he told you, that he always took the nasal route with his blow: concerns about receding gums.

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Somewhere within: A hard drive of perfect memory, each scene evenly catalogued and ready for playback.

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'Boundaries are illusions; everything looks back.'

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The sequence of the numbers is rhythmic, almost rhymed. You commit all three to memory and archive them away.

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The sequence of the numbers is rhythmic, almost rhymed. You commit all three to memory and archive them away.

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Acuerda -- a coastal city of the Illuminated Empire's mainland. A corrupt commercial centre functioning as the launchpad for Luzian goods, directed at the Developed World.

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TEMPO DEL SUR: I heard some stuff over in Cicatriz F. It got me seeing pictures, Hersh. This thing, when it hits... new world order.

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Holiday memories of your mother, struggling with an antenna, trying to access foreign cartoons -- through the static, glimpses of a shaggy, vintage vagina.

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Your recall the THWACK of foot making contact with his forehead. He looks hurt, lost. His glasses are on wrong.

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Your memories make you who you are, you memory-killer.

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You recognise the name on the disc -- Eloísa Alba -- from the 'Weaponised Boredom' section of Petre's music stall. In other words: 'free jazz'.

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You'd remember a name that stupid.

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Tanka Hônen survived his assassination of East Kodian opposition leader Reido Saiji, whom he shot twice with a homemade firearm at a train station opening ceremony.

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Supposedly, The Vessel was disgusted by the practice, but eventually ceded as a political gesture to earn the support of the traditionalists in the Shogunate.

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A forgotten beast, hibernating in your hippocampus stirs, raises its head and snorts.

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You once heard an old hand say that the tortured walk their own province.

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Day 523, row unknown: sighting of a senior operant dusting the spines of cloth-bound logbooks. Hands: trembling, liver-spotted. You kept moving.

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Solar Point: a small coastal area of Lágundi, a Luzian colony famous for luxury tourist resorts.

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Melita's voice in your ear: 'The Bank will always deal'.

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Famous for sterile logistics, tax-flexible exports, and a stunning aversion to political alignment.

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HOLOCENE has never once lied to you. As far as you know, at least.

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The gaps in his remembrance are more detailed than most people's actual memories.

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You are reminded of certain religious teachers of your childhood, who wore traditional silk raiments all year round.

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However, due to a loophole in the city code, the canals aren't technically a part of Portofiro.

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Formal term for one of various conditions that up until a few decades ago were known collectively as dying of old age.

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This must be where Project OKEANOS was run -- a secretive EMTERR program, meant to breed dolphin-human hybrids.

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The image forces its way back to you -- the man's unblinking, obsessive stare, while on the bed Ramses convulsed uncontrollably.

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A pseudo-language stretching back centuries, cobbled together from imperial slang and colonial patois. You first learned of its existence after joining the Opera.

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You recall the faint clinking of glasses, just a few metres away.

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Even you have memorised the names of their cartoon wolves.

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'It is a good thing yesterday was not the end of history after all.'

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You remember the first batches of number, at least. The right combination must be among what's left.

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You roughly remember where you stopped last time. Whatever's left, you'll have to try all over.

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The same 'heroes' who dropped Berrion bombs on the Tenantries of St. Ulwen.

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'Borders are illusions. Everything looks back.' That's their motto.

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... more than 50 known political prisoners, a number of priceless works from the Museo Moderno...

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Highly obscure, collector's stuff. The kind of information that your brain auto-deletes upon learning.

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Prison, torture, madness, a bullet to the temple. A variety of fates, and history repeating itself.

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The most widely accepted tally: One hundred and fifty million deaths, approx. 10% of the global population.