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Who's Karochka?

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.

The text of the respondent transcript appears to have been obliterated by a spilled drink.

'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.

If you hit the bullet hard enough it flies towards your enemy.

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.

An off-hand reference to Portofiro's colonial past.

Same place those old pilots came from, different reality.

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

She was part of the trio standing in front of the Housing Campaign.

There's a lot of smog and granite cloud in Novessa... but you can see more stars than you might think.

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

You were a full world away. Counting down days in cigarette stubs -- a thick curtain drawn over Novessa, watching a phone that never rang.

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

Pia mater: the thin, almost transparent final membrane protecting the brain. On top of which you found the small controller.

A familiar tick. Like he's caught a glimpse of an alternate future and can't look back.

You never met Twitchitov, but you were always aware of his presence on some unknowable higher level.

You hear his words, then unhear them.

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

Sixteen-years-old, physical education class. Mia Holloway climbing the rope ladder directly above you. Panties, constellation pattern, eking loose from sweat-damp gym shorts.

'What is this? Arrête! Get off me!'

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

The iron artery that was intended to link Portofiro with La Luz, until the collapse of the Old Luzian Empire prior to Year Zero. The ruins became an infamous suicide spot in the 50s.

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

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