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Jun 10, 2026 Luĉja marginalia I think he thought he was protecting everyone. I think his "protection" was more a form of control than anything else.
Jun 10, 2026 Salme marginalia Who do you think he was protecting? You spoke with him the most.
Jun 10, 2026 Salme marginalia I think you're right regarding his perspective on our planes, either because their fail conditions are kicking in, or because once the Omniclast broke them they weren't worth anything, or some weird timescale bullshit (I think it was Awa who had a theory about that?). And I mean, we are good at the Rite, but if that was the criteria why not nab SQ? Yeah. I guess someone being willing to outright lie feels. Very remarkable, considering the people we've met thus far and ... I don't know. I still think of the Omniclast's ability to yank the truth out of us, and the contrast therein. But I could be focusing on something that isn't there.
Jun 09, 2026 Jorule marginalia ꙮUUDDLRLRBA(E/R)ꙮ
Jun 09, 2026 Luĉja marginalia He seems the sort that believes that omision is a form of protection. But I do not care for his tactics. It does seem that we are exceptionally skilled at the Rite. Perhaps our...unique situation might avail us of more power than we currently recognize? But that seems the grossest of oversimplifications.
Jun 09, 2026 Aurelius marginalia I mean... depends on perspective, to play devil's advocate? The planes clearly aren't lost *yet*, but maybe from his perspective they're doomed and not worth fixing and that's as good as lost, since the fail conditions seem to be kicking in now? And we *are* good at the rite. It certainly *felt* like the intent was to deceive, if not lie, from my perspective though.
Jun 09, 2026 Salme marginalia Kind of weird thought, but ... the Architect did absolutely lie to us, right? Like not mislead, not omit, he absolutely outright lied at least once, right? Because if that was in doubt, and if he was the one angel-fishing, then he super fucking lied with his "I kidnapped you six because you're especially good at the Rite."
Jun 09, 2026 Salme marginalia I mean, that's barely an educated guess on my part; it's certainly not a conclusion in any meaningful way. It *could* be the Architect (I'm not sure the Architect isn't *also* part of this Zosimos guy?).
Jun 09, 2026 Aurelius marginalia Hmm... does make a certain sense, but it's... odd, for sure.
Jun 09, 2026 Salme marginalia I get the impression that silmät was describing *someone's* thought process, though I'm not sure it's the Architect? Or ... I guess, the Architect wasn't there in the room with us, and when we finally met him he seemed a lot more put together than even after the angel-fishing line. I would. Almost guess that silmät truly comes into existence when the command "bear witness to me" is given. That's their function, right? To watch? I ... also sometimes wonder if Zosimos is the fragmented being we're hearing. Seems guilty enough for it?
Jun 09, 2026 Aurelius marginalia Kind of fucked up fridge thought, but does this imply *NIP* was the one doing Angel-Fishing??? Or that the Architect's mind was fragmented before the ritual finished, and NIP was simply doing their best to describe that...?
Jun 05, 2026 Aurelius prolegomenon or something else? The folio and its contents, yes.
Jun 05, 2026 Salme, The Sword-Saint prolegomenon this is all. Just noticed this folio, just noticed something interesting in this folio, or something else?
Jun 05, 2026 Aurelius prolegomenon anyway. ...Hmm... Yes? Nothing, just noticed this is all.
Jun 05, 2026 Salme, The Sword-Saint prolegomenon not anyway. ...Hmm... Yes?
Jun 05, 2026 Aurelius prolegomenon what not anyway. ...Hmm...
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia "Heart unhoused from Heaven"...the True Sun?
May 21, 2026 Wolf marginalia Hunger and satisfaction makes me think of the hunger-demons of Almachadta. The "Canker-Gall."
May 21, 2026 Aurelius prolegomenon end of this big bit and ya'll woke
May 21, 2026 Aurelius prolegomenon Your choice, though. i mean i guess but if i'm calling them out i wanna confirm they're not a few other people too and that seems like it's better done as part of the general angel shit and what not anyway.
May 21, 2026 Salme, The Sword-Saint prolegomenon and experiment groups This is going to sound like more of a compliment than I intend, but I cannot imagine anyone else exactly like you. That said, I don't think discussing something with NIP, who doesn't know shit, will cause this kind of problem. Your choice, though.
May 21, 2026 Aurelius prolegomenon world thinking things? imagine an ENTIRE ASS FUCKING PLANE filled with people exactly like me, but also, more capable of forming research and experiment groups
May 21, 2026 Salme, The Sword-Saint prolegomenon Samudra thing, augh. Yes. I know there are logs which *you* have access to, but I have no idea what they are or why I'd have access to them. What are you
May 21, 2026 Salme, The Sword-Saint prolegomenon Samudra thing, augh. What are you so worried about even *happening* if you talked to NIP in Samudra? It isn't like *you're* out and about in the world thinking things?
May 21, 2026 Jorule marginalia very tru
May 21, 2026 Aurelius prolegomenon not know either. yeah the much referenced but never explained logs i am always not going on about. anyway. hmm. weird. didn't realize you could hear that before waking up. that's interesting. and yeah i kinda think i gotta now. Except fuck that's probably more an After Samudra thing, augh.
May 21, 2026 Salme marginalia In the void between worlds at least no one can hear you yowl piteously.
May 21, 2026 Salme, The Sword-Saint prolegomenon mind? Super weird. Log ... access? I just ... remembered this voice from when we were first waking up? Just like we heard the song [*Sanctuary*](https://strangepaths.aludel.xyz/ost/1) as we were waking up? I wasn't sure it was anything but a dream but the words were burned into me. It's not that hard to focus a bit and read them. And I mean, we could *ask* NIP? Though they might not know either.
May 21, 2026 Aurelius prolegomenon get log access??? Also are we sure this was NIP? Like. They seemed really broken up and fragmented until the very end of this big and ya'll woke up. Kinda bizarre. I don't think making contact with an Angel should just... *fix* a fragmented mind? Super weird.
May 21, 2026 Jorule marginalia IT SURE DOES. It's honestly really funny one mysterious unobservable voice called us Sparks, and another Angels. This one slipped past me for a WHILE too and you best believe i was yowling up a storm once I noticed.
May 21, 2026 Jorule marginalia Makes as much sense as anything else.
May 21, 2026 Aurelius prolegomenon information encoded within. when the fuck did you get log access???
May 21, 2026 Salme, The Sword-Saint prolegomenon I've put this in the library for my own reference. I am not sure how much *certainty* can be gleaned from this writing, but I do think there is a lot of information encoded within.
May 21, 2026 Salme marginalia "I am the hand that carved then crawled away from carving" always makes me think of the Mask-carver, though I am not sure it is to him that this refers.
May 21, 2026 Salme marginalia I don't know if this is correct, but I always associate "my brother-sons, my sundered-self-shards" as possibly having something to do with the Architect, the Omniclast, and whatever other selves make up the whole they once were.
May 21, 2026 Salme marginalia "Angel-fishing" seems to be a very specific term here---ask Jorule about this once we leave Samudra.
May 21, 2026 Salme, The Sword-Saint entries added: post by Badri in A Sanctuary (ꙮ what was i? wound-round, once-whole, root-grip of all that rises now nerve-kno), post by Badri in A Sanctuary (ꙮ the maker's mark grows dim-blurred; i am the hand that carved then crawled awa), post by Badri in A Sanctuary (ꙮ i was the hunger and the satisfaction; i am the hunger starved of itself. the ), post by Badri in A Sanctuary (ꙮ i was the hunger and the satisfaction; i am the hunger starved of itself. the ), post by Badri in A Sanctuary (ꙮ thread-lost i spiral in void-vast, heart unhoused from heaven. gripping what? ), post by Badri in A Sanctuary (ꙮ i reach, fallow-fingered, forbidden and incomplete, angel-fishing with gnarled), post by Badri in A Sanctuary (ꙮ You awaken from a sleep that you did not know you were sleeping. You were some), post by Badri in A Sanctuary (ꙮ When your eyes open, you're on a slab of warm stone, looking up at a hexagonal)