Crack the lid open. Apply liberally around your eyes, lips, and nose using broad strokes. Pat dry to aid absorption. When you no longer recognise yourself, that’s how you know it’s working.

PersonalismMaximum rank: +1
EntanglementMaximum rank: +1

Exerting on Relation Checks cost -1 Anxiety

Pull faces to express yourself

Dissonance active

When covering your face.

The unread half

Order

SkillThresholdNearest threshold

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 6

The bullet, the monotheist agent who fired it, all of them in on it.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 6

'I betrayed Crew. M.I.H.O. compromised from within.'

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 7

The song is coming through strong enough in here that you can make out words.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 7

Lips in the concrete, singing to you.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 7

A melody rises and falls, but you can't tell where it's coming from.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 7

Snatches of the song's chorus echo down the tubes. You're closer to the source.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 7

You hear catches of the song, words, a man's voice and a guitar.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 7

Upstairs, your double twitches, electrical reflex running to a dead switchboard.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 7

You find yourself humming along with the building, involuntarily.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 7

You hear a few chords on a guitar, just for a moment.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 8

Whether by chance or by stratagem, it seems you were destined to meet here.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 8

She will notice the missing pen in four days, but never once suspect you.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 8

Feet swaying gently, a few feet above the ground. The laces of their left shoe have come untied.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 8

The past you can account for... but the future?

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 8

An echo of your former asset, clapping his hands together, urging dock workers to pick up the pace.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 8

A weave of city away, the being formerly known as PSEUDOPOD twitches in his dream.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 8

Far above, the stars remain fixed in their sockets.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 8

You tell her... all will be forgiven!

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 8

Cordoning off the whole neighborhood, all-night shifts, non-stop abuse from everyone who can't get to their corner shop, or bar, or home...

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 8

Within the hull, Ultra Violeta clasps her keyboard to her chest and stares unblinking at her damp shoes.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 8

Whatever happens has already happened.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 8

Nameless corpses, piled in flames. Faces turned toward each other.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 8

A rapid montage of people entering and exiting this room over a series of months. All of them wear loose-fitting outfits in mismatched colours.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 8

The doctor blows onto his tea. A smell of mint rises with the steam.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

Long-dead hands carrying the hull, white fingers in the brine.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

Atoms shiver as you pass through them.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

He promises myriad truths: great, terrible, the undoing of all you know.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

You already know her name. It rang out to you across the noumenal plane.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

He stared at her mouth, disbelief, wonder. His dreams come to life. He asked her if she remembered his fantasy, offered her the job on the spot.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

He stared at her mouth, disbelief, wonder. His dreams come to life. He asked her if she remembered his fantasy, offered her the job on the spot.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

Somewhere in the streets of Quisach, a well-to-do teenager grips his little sister by the hand and scrutinises the face of every beggar, every outcast squatting by a canal or hobbling through the alleys, wondering if, maybe...

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

The void around you grows agitated, heating and wetting, as your senses close around the thing.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

Swish of a dirty-green cloak, dust flies up after it, blinding you. When you can see clearly again, the man responsible has disappeared.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

Her father, calling from beyond. Calling for her help.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

Washing out the container that carried homemade rice and beans, glancing out the window above the sink as the sun goes down.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

Metaphysical.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

You can feel her digging into your mind, childlike, thumping buttons, pulling wires...

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

Years of regulars move in and out of the bar's entrance. Among them, a pair that was recently halved, a lonely silhouette amid the rest.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

He even began to distrust those towards the end.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

A little voice somewhere intones: 'No take-backs'.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

Yes, correct.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

It's her, but from a dream.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

So very alone.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

You are milking your lucky cow dry, take it easy on him. Once a day is more than enough.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

Whatever happened in 69, it may not have had anything to do with him at all.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

A phantom itch. He's scratching at something that hasn't happened yet.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 9

Another plaything of the stars, impelled by processes beyond its comprehension.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

Could these be the sensitive, invisible fingers you've always felt, hovering darkly above your days?

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

The slowly collapsing mind of an old political philosopher, violently working through its own contradictions.

Entanglement2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

THE PRISM.