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{{Infobox episode
|title = Guaranteed Events, Or: An Accounting of the Time When We Built the Machine

|episode_number = 63
|episodeFocus = Crystal Palace
|release_date = August 3, 2018
|length = 34 minutes
|previous_episode = "[[The Feast of Patina]]"
|next_episode = "[[Futura Free Pt. 1]]"
|episode_page = http://friendsatthetable.net/twilight-mirage-63-guaranteed-events-or-an-accounting-of-the-time-when-we-built-the-machine   |transcript = https://docs.google.com/document/d/1trrjDujyI1ObqHJwPIU4a2oAjbx4j7i3cSPTeOf-QQc/edit?usp=sharing  |color_theme=tm}}

== Episode description==
<blockquote>[[Crystal Palace]], in all its endless worker-bee wonder, clacks and whirs its way across space, and now, as it nears the destabilizing stain of the [[Twilight Mirage]], time as well. Even now, in transport, it is thinking, predicting, prophesying: Its pulleys spinning with magnetic unison, decks of hole-punched cards flipping through its designators, a pleasant coughing of gears and pinions. This is how it knows everything.

But it did not always: There was a moment before its creation--back when there was still time to divert the direction of the [[Principality of Kesh|Principality]]--and a time during its bloody construction, when it felt the waves of the future but could not yet pass them on to us in anything more than a mechanical roar. And then there was the day it was finished, the very beginning of <em>[[Guaranteed Events]]</em>.

<strong>This week on Twilight Mirage: <em>Guaranteed Events</em>, Or: An Accounting of the Time When We Built the Machine</strong>

<poem><em>You dream of walls that hold us imprisoned
It's just a skull, least that's what they call it
And we're free to roam</em></poem></blockquote>

==Contents==
===Plot===
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=== 822 Years Before the Beginning of Guaranteed Events ===
This section describes the events around the first proposal of Crystal Palace. Proposed in ''Counterexample Guided Model For Non-Interventionist Regulation of the Meta-Divine'', a paper written by a number of academics in the Principality of Kesh, but most notably [[Renna Rose]], which was submitted to ''Foundations and Findings in Post-Divine Technologies'', and reviewed by [[Jace Rethal|the Doctor]].

=== 285 Years Before the Beginning of Guaranteed Events ===
This section concerns itself with the design and construction of the Machine by Tanner Indiana, a soldier for the Rapid Evening.

=== The Beginning of Guaranteed Events, or, the Final Entry in [[Subjective Change Log 883, τ.24]] <sup><ref>0:23:29</ref></sup> ===
{{Quote|I thought, what I'd do was, I'd get a job there. At the Machine|[[Figure A]], Subjective Change Log 883, τ.24}}The finale vignette in this episode is focused around the final day of work [[Figure A]], the first synthetic Janitor for Crystal Palace, as they recount their time 'cleaning' the palace, a process that involves looking through the data output of Crystal Palace and generalising the results into 'sentences', for easier use by the Rapid Evening. They tell of their interview with [[Leal Leraphon]], their first day of work at Crystal Palace, and their work under her replacement, and his replacement also. Finally, they speak of their final day working at Crystal Palace, how they will be taken away, and eventually placed in a museum and forgotten.

Also mentioned other accounts of the First Day of Guaranteed Events, all of which have been lost, and an account that was later revealed to be fabricated.

== Cast ==
* [[Austin Walker]] (GM)

===Other Characters===
* "[[Jace Rethal|The Doctor]]"
* [[Renna Rose]]
* [[Tanner Indiana]]
* [[Leal Leraphon]]
* [[Figure A]]
* [[Appendal B. Maxim]]

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