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

A.k.a. 'The Freezer'. The Opera's labyrinthine archival complex. Where the old, useless, and discredited are consigned until they're dismissed or die of despair.

Five years, three months, ten days. That's how long it's been since her voice was in your ear.

El Dolor de Viudas. Extremely popular at pelota matches and the main cause of Portofiro's looming epidemic of atherosclerosis.

El signo del Vega. Angel of ancestors and bringer of the new year.

Fig. 1452: a linocut of an early diving suit, so primitive that the explorer had to be sewn into it before he went under — and cut free after surfacing.

It's the metal stripper. The one who urged you to come down here.

Most GMs don't carry guns.

If what you're looking for is still down here, it must be on the other side.

'He's no one. Just a seedy little oddity'.

For the last time, there were no such days.

An old-school, derogatory term for spies.

Know them? You introduced her to them.

An infamous image, from Nestor's 64 campaign -- the dictator, holding a baby with his own face superimposed over the infant's, moustache and all -- 'Soy Nestor'.

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

In truth, it was Portofiro that got 'fucked' when the local economy collapsed and EMTERR swept in with another round of 'stabilisation' packages that only tightened its clamp on the city's collective throat.

KINDRED. You played down the cryptonym when she asked you about it half-drunk one night. Nothing to it, you shrugged. First name that came to mind. Which wasn't a lie -- it was the first. You just also happened to mean it.

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

He was born within one. Knows little else.

There hasn't been a movie shown in this theatre in years. It was already closed when you were in Portofiro last, vacant and waiting.

Musicians. Electronic artists.

Weeks, he said. The Weeping Eye had Karolina for weeks.

Supreme Leader Nestor, more often referred to as 'Sweet Nestor' (once earnest, now ironic) was the political leader of Portofiro from 28 to 80, when he was finally exiled for good.

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

Said operant then asserted she could 'set up a top-tier surveillance op while crawling through my own puke' and downed another schnapps.

'Machine Gun King', if your limited Tsunese serves you well.

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

That Mr. Metamoto guy comes to mind.

There is no such thing as a high priest of capital. There are, however, EMTERR representatives.

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?

Felix Kaido... the name knocks loose some rubble of memory. Revolutionary. Aeroplane. Tragic end.

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'.

By night, the Dreameater Chrisom drinks the tears of sleeping birds. By day, its brilliant ventral display wards off its natural predators.

Simple: the strike of a metal pin ignites the bullet's firing cartridge. Having nowhere else to go, the energy from that contained explosion pushes the bullet out of the gun's muzzle.

The first tram ride into Portofiro, HOLOCENE at your side, face turned to the window, giving a twenty minute answer to one of the world's most common questions.

Looking at the two girls, you are reminded that all your close relationships have ended in either tragedy or miscommunication, usually both.

Magnitude of setback: Enormous. Failure rating: Spectacular. Morale damage: Catastrophic, yet Not Unfamiliar.

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:

Your mother's standard load out was also a callomanic.

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

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

The intern from the literary magazine.

A classic and storied CASCADE tactic. See also: the time you had six months to get your parent or guardian to fill out a permission slip for a class trip to the Hothica Lighthouse.

Based on the reports from Constanz and Melita, he certainly wasn't like this before.

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

It's exactly the way those kids learn the lore from their wolf show -- fiction imbibed with a seriousness that outstrips anything in real life.

Leatherback turtles often emerge from unknown battles in the abyssal depths.

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