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Aug 08, 2026 Salme entries added: post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ Oh, absolutely. It's the same pattern as the stars visible if you look up from), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ Have you ever felt, in your life, like you were looking at something that didn), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ And as you turn the telescope, you keep seeing light lens around a point, twis), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ Any invocation, any information sent out questing towards it is swallowed, nev), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ The strand of gnosis fires off straight and true up into the sky, a bolt launc), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ It trails off higher and higher into the sky, to the point where it's almost o), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ -- and then it impacts something, in the sky, and -ceases to be-. It doesn't f), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ And the expanse contracts, here and there become, so very briefly, a single he), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ It is very, very confused, for a few moments - caught between facing in two di), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ She sees... nothing, at first. The emptiness of the Empty Space in the Sky. Bu), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ The fiend is quietly and politely glowing error-message red, but it's holding ), post by The Awoken Prince in From Which To Observe (: "Welcome back!" He's carefully inspecting the fiend, and that bell- huh, did h), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ You touch it, and it relays its flight data to you-- including, bafflingly, th), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ One vector, pointing straight at the annex. The other?), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ Points towards the space around which the Beast and Almachadta orbit.), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ In half of all possible worlds, it pointed towards the Empty Space. In the oth), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ Well, you can see the Empty Space from the Beast -- and the Awoken, and Salme ), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ Well, you can see the Empty Space from the Beast -- and the Awoken, and Salme ), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ You find... nothing. Nothing, in all of what you can see through the telescope) · added note: "--- --- With the pattern being ...", added note: "--- The Beast and Almachadta are orbiting something though. ", added note: "--- We prepared to send a fiend up from our inn on the Beast", added note: "--- Instead, we created a portal between the Beast and from ", added note: "-- --- When the fiend returns, this is the what we found out", added note: "--- If a gnosis-flare is sent directly through the mouth of ", added note: "--- Nothing that matches the signal of rakaznar can be sense" · deleted: post by The Awoken Prince in From Which To Observe (: "Welcome back!" He's carefully inspecting the fiend, and that bell- huh, did h), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ Well, you can see the Empty Space from the Beast -- and the Awoken, and Salme )
Aug 08, 2026 Salme entries added: post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ A smooth, almost perfectly featureless whitish orb, or so it seems. No craters), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ Just hanging in the air like the cueball from the pool table next door.), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ Anyways, the next moon... is as perfectly smooth and featureless as the last o), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ Maybe the moons that vanished were picked first because they had interesting c), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ Nothing there. Just a clear view of stars.), post by The Dragon in From Which To Observe (ꙮ The gnosis signature is... both oddly familiar, and slightly dodgy, and it's o) · added note: "--- We looked at each of the 5 remaining moons of the Beast", added note: "------ There was nothing there when we tried to look at the ", added note: "--- --- The gnosis signature of one of the moons"
Jul 12, 2026 Salme prolegomenon While Awa and I were on the Beast, we were able to use the telescope within the library annex and make several interesting discoveries. I've accessioned the memories here, though I've excised much of the trial-and-error. Coordinates are available upon request.
Jul 12, 2026 Salme entries added: post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ The thing about the constellations is that anyone, from any world, has seen t), post by The Awoken Prince in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (: "Let's start with the Soldier-and-Brother and the Golden Lion. I think once we), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ That principle which observes lovers reaching out towards each other over an u), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ It's Salme who notices the stars move. The tiniest, tiniest movement - the flu), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ It is not, of course, the case that the entirety of the vault of heaven moves ), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ Round, wreathed in burning gnosis and thick atmosphere, shards of metal and ro), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (tries to divine more details. Is it spheroid? How are the moons laid out? Are th), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ Is there any part of it which is not dark and strange? Could there be? Sunlit,), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ Vaguely, vaguely oblate, its moons laid out like a perfect little hemicircle f), post by The Awoken Prince in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (is easy to follow. He doesn't hide, always shining, even in complete nothingness), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ Well, that's strange, isn't it?), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ I described this as the day side of the Beast, and six full moons - and, looki), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ A second strange thing:), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ You immediately feel confident that, even were Salme to send up a flare, you c), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ The third strange thing: You do know precisely where to look. Your eye guides ), post by The Awoken Prince in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (emits a tenebrous streak of gnosis- a tracer round, fired between the moons and ), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (laughs a bit to herself, eye pressed to the scope, watching for the violent-blac), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ And she does, of course, see it, as I predicted.), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (, knowing that any flare would be hopeless, thinks of trying to send out a halo ), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ The Library does shine. You know it does, and you know it's beautiful. It is, ), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (thinks about light, thinks about sunlight. You did say sunlight at first, Silmät), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ If that were the case, then the moons would always appear utterly full looking), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ Some azimuthal distance away, but not too much away, another orb suspended in ), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ This one's marbled, swirling, green, swollen with Flourishing gnosis, with a f), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (: "I wonder if the dark spot is where the umbilical attaches."), post by The Awoken Prince in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (: "Hmm..." Or the hunger that is consuming it...), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ Something about it does feel like a plant's coloration, like the striations on), post by The Awoken Prince in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (: "Looks... delicious?"), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ ...a description I've been avoiding out of tact, but must corroborate.), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (: "Mmm," she acknowledges, but does not agree. Can they make sense of the red co), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ Like the adumbration, it feels like a natural property of whatever makes up th), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (laughs a little. "No. But we found it. And if it's ... on the same azimuthal the), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ Ah, Melpomene. The fire of her does sing to you, doesn't it? [Take Half]. But ), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ Are you capable of disbelieving in gravity?), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (laughs easily, certain. "Gravity is simply something which we allow to act upon ), post by The Awoken Prince in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (: "That's right. Gravity works, until it doesn't. A metal is solid, until it isn), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ And with the ascension, the controls of the telescope - no, the entire Observa), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ And, through the viewport, as it dips down precipitously, you see, almost imme), post by The Awoken Prince in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (: "I knew, I knew I would not be able to see you, but I knew you were there, in ), post by The Awoken Prince in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (: "Somehow, we are hidden. And somehow, is Samudra hidden behind us, behind the ), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ How do you mean? From your perspective, Samudra is 'down'.), post by The Awoken Prince in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (nods. Yeah, true. But 'down' is very relative. It's 'down' to us here, but would), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ Well... it's funny that you mention that.), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ You'd think that someone, from some perspective on the Beast, would be able to), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (: "And it's not a function of distance? If Almachadta was much larger, I think i), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ Hard to imagine 'distance' counting when faced with what seems, at least, to b), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (: "I mean I think we can infer something is very strange about all this and ... ), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ That would seem to be the case.), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ And-- you would know, if there were a trace of Radiance or Tenebrousness to fo), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ Wherever they are... they are without of any azimuth and elevation which the O), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ And you look up, and up, far past the familiar houses of the constellations, a), post by Salme, The Sword-Saint in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (: "Does the star have a name or a story?"), post by The Dragon in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (ꙮ Those of the Beast, who know the stars by name, may know. Or, perhaps, those o), post by The Awoken Prince in A Room With A Remarkably Specific Purpose (: "I think we have to do a little searching before unlocking that door.") · added note: "--- Awa was able to adjust the azimuth using the controls so", added note: "--- We did an experiment where we set the scope on our curre", added note: "--- We were also able to locate Almachadta", added note: "--- And then we were able to find Samudra as well", added note: "--- On being able to see one another in space", added note: "--- We were unable to find Mu or Valaïs", added note: "--- We did look up", added note: "--- On the library's location in the Empty Space in the Sky"