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Kurt wasn't looking at his eyes. He was looking at the stack of paper clutched in his fists.

PSEUDOPOD was hooked up to a stereo system when you found him. You never checked what he had 'on-deck'.

Second bullet this lifetime.

His words return -- 'A little photo should not count as a crime, it's not like it's a loaded gun or something.'

Five years in the Freezer? Wouldn't think so.

Orders... message? No... friends. Bald guy... Hahaha. Massive bald guy.

'... assets left to fend for themselves.'

The voice of the Opera's Head Traumatist barks in your mind: Push harder than you think you should. Force the clot.

The voice of the Opera's Head Traumatist barks in your mind: Push harder than you think you should. Force the clot.

You've never been here. Everything you're experiencing is for the first time.

Is it... possible you've been here before? You have no memory of it, but he seems very certain.

Double: LOST IN-THEATRE. Status: Captured. Interrogated. Loyalties: Non-existent. Conclusion: Failure, brackets, Inevitable.

Ancient Luzian game of divination. Uses a unique deck of cards not seen elsewhere.

Blood trickles from Ignatz' lip to his eye.

Commander Roque.

Tempo had many criminal-grade contacts in La Luz. Probably how he dodged the fallout after your network blew.

The 'Decreto de Recaptura Cívica', a set of regulations from 81. Drinking age raised to 16, limits on public assembly, and stringent gun laws. All tied to 'stabilisation' packages arranged by EMTERR.

You don't recognise the song.

Squad, from 'square', a formation that can defend itself in four directions.

A houseboat doctor -- could it be Dr. Hugo? Perhaps he's changed his name.

The words of an old friend echo in your ear:

Oskar Metamoto... the Party Alley casualty.

May be time to make a visit to the Party Alley tailor.

Her sponsor... the Civilisation Trust. The blank space there gnaws away at you.

You recognise him.

You recall Vespar speaking of his time in the Guardia Municipal. A decade of low-stake days.

A high ranking member of the military, sworn to protect the Rustamian head of state -- back when the Dream of Rustam still was a state.

She laps from the same pool as Malen's father, who got himself kidnapped after hearing about the Phone that Makes People Disappear on this same show.

You remember a similar dark smear above the left eyehole of Recreación's mascot head -- the thing on your head right now.

Countless injuries were reported in the aftermath of the incident, and two fatalities confirmed.

You remember a similar dark smear above the left eyehole of Recreación's mascot head.

Being sent to organise among the lunar cadmium miners is a common punishment for political offenses in the People's Republics.

You know very little about the lunar cadmium mines and would prefer to keep it that way.

HOLOCENE would have loved this section. Cryptograms were his thing.

HOLOCENE would love this section. Cryptograms are his thing.

The Raposeira -- Iron War Queen of the Luzian naval fleet.

The Treffe School of psychoanalysis is known to be the most 'experimental' in the so-called Developed World.

No she did not.

She said hussy.

Some Portofirans refer to Luzians as 'strange cousins', a nod to this island's colonial past.

Historically, you're closer to the opposite.

The M.I.H.O. report title. Project ESCHATON.

'Territories' meaning, in this case, La Luz's island states -- briefly independent, now reannexed.

No sense of direction... so he learned to read his instruments well.

An apartment block housing hundreds of families who were displaced after their original homes were seized by eminent domain, victims of the city's mid-century ambitions.

There are rumours that a high-speed bullet train is being constructed from Cicatriz-Frontera to the Tenantries of St. Ulwen, connecting Luz's thousands of miles of territory in a trip that takes less than a day.

Reaching into another person's head to glimpse what is inside -- it is not the first time recently that you've heard about such a method.

For a moment, you're back in that classroom, staring at a great plume of smoke on a small screen, rising, and rising -- until the feed abruptly cuts out.

If you ever need it, you can now pluck that information from the archives.

Not really. Bagman doesn't sound like he's trying his hardest not to cry.

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