A.Journal

Checks

Easy

Knowledge, exactly what you're lacking just now.

Medium

THE PARTY GIVES PRECISELY ACCORDING TO THE PEOPLE'S NEEDS AND NOT ONE IOTA MORE.

Easy

A little shiver runs down your spine and gathers in the small of your back.

Easy

He needs time. And space.

Medium

He pruned the conversation forcefully, artificially. There is more.

Challenging

Back in Foto 24, your would-be double gurgles his assent.

Medium

Making inroads with his persona. Competent in-theatre, at least for this period of play.

Medium

Medium

Velodisk! A modern laser-hybrid format, played using a heated stylus unit. Astounding sonic fidelity. Cause of thousands of home fires.

Medium

A consecrated ground of tiny, crooked monuments.

Easy

All across the city of Petre there is silence. People peer out fearfully from the slivers between curtains.

Trivial

A fresh injection of fear, primal grade.

Easy

SUCH INSULT! THE DEPRESSED REACTIONARY IS MISTAKING YOU FOR YOUR DIRECT OPPOSITE, YOUR SWORN ENEMY.

Medium

Oddly specific.

Medium

Now speaking proudly of the stock he earlier disparaged.

Trivial

In his baroque hierarchy of shame, 'cool' falls just under 'replayer', the cardinal sin.

Trivial

In his baroque hierarchy of shame, being 'cool' falls just under being a 'replayer', whatever that is.

Trivial

The techno-fascist secret police of La Luz -- dark subconscious of the state, specialising in old school, ugly methods.

Easy

Your natural enemies. The ones who took you all apart five years ago. Hackles rise.

Medium

Overplaying his persona, classic misstep. Baby's first time in-theatre.

Medium

You see him now -- eyes wide, reward circuit shorted out by the cut and thrust of commerce.

Trivial

Sock merchant for the Im-Ex Bureau. One of the Opera's most battle-tested covers.

Easy

The Guardia Municipal. Street cops.

Easy

OBSESSION WITH FOREIGN IMPORTS. SUFFERERS OF SO-CALLED 'LUZIAN MANIA' WILL CONSULT THE WALL.

Medium

ANOTHER VICTORY FOR OUR GREAT AND ANONYMOUS CENSORS.

Easy

Natural blink reflexes suppressed, the two children you spoke to earlier stare at the TV in the adjacent stall.

Medium

The signal blockers: wiry battlements like the skeletons of titanic insects face out across the strait on Portofiro's most desolate shore, snagging Luzian radiowaves as they enter.

Easy

NOTHING THE FIRM, LOVING HAND OF A RE-EDUCATION CENTRE CAN'T FIX.

Easy

Natural blink reflexes suppressed, the two children stare at the TV in the adjacent stall.

Easy

Incapable of competing with Luzian media on the most basic neurological level.

Easy

Fuck this. You want blood. Dopamine. Wolves.

Trivial

This merchandise isn't 'smuggled' at all -- they're government-sanctioned from the Luzian Cultural Ministry.

Medium

INSIDIOUS IMPERIALISM. TODAY, THE SOFT POWER -- TOMORROW, THE HARD.

Easy

He says it to everyone.

Trivial

La Luz. Once a powerful empire, now reconstituted as a modern techno-fascist state, the rising military and cultural power of the day.

Challenging

The most important history is the one that never makes it into the books, but defines how those books are written -- or aren't.

Easy

EXPORT-ONLY PROPAGANDA. IMAGINE WHAT THEY RESERVE FOR DOMESTIC CONSUMPTION.

Easy

It's less an opinion, more a criminal sentence.

Easy

Which raises an intimidating question...

Easy

The vendor sighs and seems to deflate ever so slightly before your eyes.

Easy

Tarred, somewhat inevitably you feel, with the replayer brush.

Easy

Nostrils flare like hairy little cannons.

Medium

Behold! The paladin who stands before Absurdity and declares 'Well, technically...'

Trivial

Did he say... red?

Medium

That's the brand slogan.

Trivial

A technological muscle flex. Reproduction and erasure just millimetres away in space, milliseconds in time.

Easy

Crucially, such a process would result in an empty disc... like the one you found on PSEUDOPOD's body.

Legendary

Fanatical, biased, not to be taken literally.

Legendary

Mystery solved. PSEUDOPOD listened to a priceless tape and lost his soul.

Medium

Remanence: the charge that remains after the removal of a magnetic field. The ghost of magnetic possession.