Episode description[edit | edit source]
Though we don't get into some of these things in this session, Dream Askew carries a content warning for violence, gangs, oppression, bigotry, and queer sexuality.
MICHAEL TURN THE LIGHT ON IN THE GENERATOR SHED IF YOU CAN HEAR ME!
MICHAEL!
Ah, to hell with all this.
MICHAEL! TURN THE
He can’t hear me. No. Well, I don’t know how trying again is going to help.
MICHAEL WILL YOU TURN THE LIGHT ON IN THE GENERATOR SHED!
IF YOU CAN HEAR ME!
No, I won’t wave. It’s too dark. I don’t think he’s looking in our direction anyway. Alright, I’ll wave a bit.
MICHAEL!
You wave too
Contents[edit | edit source]
Opening[edit | edit source]
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It's me again. Hector. I promise I won't hang up this time. I promise. I had to... I had to put something in the mail, I'm sorry, but I had to, something paper, I do not trust the hands… but I trust the hands more than the air. The waves, radio and ocean and sign and wind and electromagnetic, they, they can't — they've been ripped away from us, they used to be ours, or at least we used to know how to ride them, but they're not free anymore, they ain’t loose, they're tight, they bit down on the line, like in Job 41, “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, or tie his tongue down with rope, or—”
Nothing. It's nothing. It's — we were wrong about what Leviathan is. We thought it was aberrant, we thought it was a creature, or a clever devil, or a conspiracy. We knew it was aligned with the tall city, but we did not know how high Bluff's towers would reach.
I'm going. I need to — I can feel it. It wants me to be another me, but I'm going. Don't come after me. Heard is already there, he — we made a covenant. I have to. I, I have to follow him. But I’m having thoughts. I drive between the hills and their shadows are doors to other mes I've already been, but not yet. Electrical wires give way to open sky, and, is there a difference… between me and I — the thread on the wall, I could follow it, I could open other people's eyes, there's more than one mystery. I could put this one —
Shh. Shh. Wait, listen. Do you hear it? “Can you pet him like a bird? Or put him on a leash, for your maidens?”
Bluff City is Leviathan, and I cannot keep silent about its limbs anymore, “its power and its graceful form, who can strip off its outer coat? Who can open its jaws, its rows of scales are its pride. One scale so near to another that no air can pass between them. Its snorts flash with light. Its eyes, like the rays of dawn, smoke billows from its nostrils, as from a boiling pot over burning reeds.
“Nothing on earth is its equal: a creature devoid of fear, it looks down on all the haughty. It is the king over all the proud.””
Plot[edit | edit source]
This episode was character and enclave creation.