251 The Solar Barque
Save Point: The Solar Barque Sethkill is proudly showing Mariel around the boat-pits as though he was responsible for them, even though he is neither building nor designing the vessel that will become the new Vermillion Dragon. That responsibility...
Flawed Art Online
First of all, let me start by saying - I am so very sorry for trapping you in a pillar of light. I know it's terribly derivative, like something out of one of those old Greyhawk fantasy novels. In fact that's where I got the idea. Yes, long before...
The Table is Adjourned
The morning is proceeding as normal, and he's just about to head out for work, when it becomes apparent that their daughter hasn't come home from the party last night. Events then follow a predictable path in which they call all her friends, or at...
15-Second Trailer
(start) "There's something I have to tell you, before you arrest me. Please, it's very important. We're in a locked room with only one exit and there's nowhere else I could possibly go." (burst of static) "And that's what happened. Which is why you...
389 Many Years Earlier
Cut Scene: Many Years Earlier Somewhere outside an Azatlani Lower University She is just skipping lightly down the steps outside the school, glad that it's finally over, and happy to see her boyfriend heading towards the gates in the near...
461 The Implicate Order
Save Point: The Implicate Order The Dragons wings are like crystal fracture planes across spacetime, dislocating the light as it passes through. They drift subtly back and forth even whilst at rest, moving around themselves in strange and...
381 The Nuclear Dance
Save Point: The Nuclear Dance The Wound In The World "The locals call it Crescent-Moon Bay or Half-Moon Bay, because it forms an unusually perfect semi-circle. But there's another name for it too, that seems to be something out of folklore - 'The...
469 On Top Of Old Smokey
Save Point: On Top Of Old Smokey Somewhere In The Northern Icefields Descending crystals of melted and refrozen icewater, ever recirculated, branch into structures of such fantastic complexity that Cleo could almost suspect they were biologically...
995 A Dart Made Of Black Paper
Cut Scene: A Dart Made Of Black Paper The Unknown Region At some point, awareness comes back to him and he finds that he is limping, ever so slowly, down the soundless road toward the sea. Something has hurt him quite terribly, but he can't quite...
199 Who Walks by Herself In The Rain
Save Point: Who Walks by Herself In The Rain Once Cleos eye has healed and the button is discarded, she comes to visit Terrowne in the green garden, the fruiting apple orchard that is the third part of the City of Uruk, a shared space where all are...
999 The End of the Way
Final Cut Scene: The End Of The Way Aftertime At the end of time, beyond life, beyond even death on arrival, they find themselves walking across the green places. The slow stream meanders, as always, just as it should be. Strange and beautiful...
998 The Escapement
Final Save Point: The Escapement Terminal Platform Cleo is still mourning her soulblade, despite the fact that in the breaking of it she has found an even greater strength. "Do you know how long I've had this thing?" she says redundantly, holding...