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For the last time, there were no such days.

Nestor had already been forced from power the last time you were here. The toppled regime was old news.

Musicians. Electronic artists.

A desert city known to be the centre of Luz' film and music industry.

Discrepancy found.

Approximately 25 items are missing from the count of Operant CASCADE's possessions following her extradition from Portofiro in 91. Due to failure to keep up with requests for a formal inventory, the exact number of CASCADE's lost / forsaken belongings remains officially unknown.

Didn't Ultra Violeta herself mention a missing recording engineer?

The Militia Ruban Rouge, or M.R.R., an extreme communist fringe group who have slipped further and further into darkness over their ten year 'campaign'.

A stack of gleaming hi-fi equipment, speakers resting on cinder blocks, the only thing arranged with care in the apartment. Your asset presses play with a large finger:

You remember the feeling of inert PSEUDODPOD -- at once mundane and disturbing, like some piece of surrealist human furniture.

The Tenantries of Saint Ulwen, re-annexed in the early 80s.

Despite its reputation as an unfortunate star, every Luzian is taught to rely on Canopus above all others.

Flashes of HOLOCENE's red folder: 'MONSTROUS INTELLIGENCE'... 'HALLUCINATORY LOGICAL CONSTRUCTION'...

When you knew Eszti, she hated EMTERR but understood its lumbering bureaucratic movements. Seems she's put that knowledge to fine use.

A name you recognise from your political theory training. A quasi-mythical figure, the first man to describe the ideology now known as techno-fascism, dead 150 years before the invention of the computer chip.

You already have a name for him, even if it's a fraudulent one.

The words of your old double HOLOCENE come to mind. In the so-called Developed World, the whole political and cultural economy of a place is revealed through its sporting rivalries.

The local's local. Team of the working classes, with strong ties to the old silk industry.

Recreación is a money laundering vehicle for the profiteer class, those who've won the End of History by steering years of 'stabilisation packages' to their chosen enterprises.

Hold on, could it really be...

You didn't know that.

Roger Klaus Twitchitov, Director-General of the Operant Bureau from 58 until his untimely death in 87.

Eight hundred and sixty two.

A man runs away in your mind, zig-zagging towards an unknown fate, but still very much alive.

You remember the many times you have staked out a place, a person. All by yourself -- at all times, in all weathers.

That's the poetry magazine you got for Hauzmann. Glossy cover, pretty high-end.

That's the poetry magazine you have on you. Glossy cover, pretty high-end.

That's the poetry magazine you found in the book stand behind her.

It was the title of the report lying around when he asked you to clean. It was in front of you the whole time.

This is the woman the shrimping girl mentioned.

It's customary to 'invite' the angel to the festivities -- to bless the union.

Inherited from your mother. The only decent thing she ever actually gave you.

Timestamp: five years, three months since last contact.

Operant CASCADE is classified ONLY CHILD. Understanding of sibling dynamics best described as 'theoretical'.

A vulnerability leaked to the Opera in 87, courtesy of a disgruntled engineer who had defected to the People's Republic.

In Mircea you knew only cold and austere churches of fine stone, all consecrated to the One Indivisible God.

'YOU BUT FROM A DREAM'. The words on the red disc.

Including in gymnasiums across the former Republic of Mircea. Regular class cancelled for the occasion.

To 'shake the Hand of Fate' is to die, in this part of the world.

Defector accounts confirm Buendia favours a hands-on approach to counter-intelligence. No foreign network, including yours, collapses without his say.

The cost of a new set of tyres.

The Guardia Municipal. Street cops.

Could be the work of the Militia Ruban Rouge, an extreme communist fringe group. They've ransomed public figures before.

You did a little of that too, but no need to mention.

She's thinking of the order of silent monks in FIST PUNCH III and their mastery of killing words. Wicked deadly.

Better known as 'playing dead' -- widely observed in the animal kingdom, unheard of in humans.

Ramses told you he'll need 'around half a day' to capture anything significant.

Ramses told you he'll need 'around half a day' to capture anything significant.

A relic from the military coup in Mircea.

After the rocket exploded live on the world's television screens, Sweet Nestor made bold televised speeches blaming 'foreign hands'. By the time he boarded the helicopter that would ferry him to exile, he'd accused at least half the Developed World of engineering the disaster.

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