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[week 4] Nightmares and nightmares
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capital_assetI have some updates.
One: Using Insight tells me that the Orthopractic Councils on the Hecatite homeworld who approved the Aratta project do not actually understand it, which is... unsurprising. It does raise the question of how much of it they'd approve of if they did understand it, but I don't have the answer to that.
Second, I have two prophetic nightmares to report. The first was of Aratta Skyhook, with metal screaming and thrumming as its orbit decayed and gravity and momentum began to rip it apart. Outside the station a hulking ship encrusted with irregular domes and spires exchanged plasma fire with almond-shaped ceramic vessels - Gorgon crafts - and pointed cylindrical craft with flanged engines, which I believe are slightly outdated human vessels. I'm not sure who I was supposed to be in the dream, but I was definitely on Aratta itself, and I remember saying to myself, "We're winning," while being simultaneously full of dread at the thought of that victory.
The second nightmare featured Grant alone in a forest of dark trees, which were murmuring and creaking and shifting ever closer to him. As they reached for him, he pulled back, repeating a mantra to himself:
"I can do this on my own. I can do this on my own. I can do this on my own."
At that point, he tripped over a tree-route; before the woods closed around him, I caught a glimpse of a starless, flickering indigo-neon sky, which I'm almost certain was in Questing Country.
My Questing Sense, incidentally, is pointing me towards Backstage.
Another thing: there is a common thread to the increasingly strong human and Gorgon nightmares, and that is classic xenophobia, to the point where some of these nightmares will turn on each other. Fear and hatred of Hecatites, however, is conspicuous by its absence, which makes sense if the Gorgons and humans on Aratta are unconsciously absorbing Hecatite propaganda.
As for Aratta itself, unrest has been growing. I don't know how many of you have been there this week for the protests or heard about the Adiaphoron being subjected to a Praxic Audit - in essence, an exam where affirmative proof must be presented that their way of life is not harmful to the social good. But as an update to that, all of the Synthetics who were there for the protest - all 2,119 of them - have been "asked" to report for maintenance diagnostics and "antivirus upgrades." Further, the Conditioned Diaphoron has been informed that they are also to be subjected to a Praxic Audit, which... honestly isn't a surprise either, given how things have been going, but is ominous nonetheless.
One: Using Insight tells me that the Orthopractic Councils on the Hecatite homeworld who approved the Aratta project do not actually understand it, which is... unsurprising. It does raise the question of how much of it they'd approve of if they did understand it, but I don't have the answer to that.
Second, I have two prophetic nightmares to report. The first was of Aratta Skyhook, with metal screaming and thrumming as its orbit decayed and gravity and momentum began to rip it apart. Outside the station a hulking ship encrusted with irregular domes and spires exchanged plasma fire with almond-shaped ceramic vessels - Gorgon crafts - and pointed cylindrical craft with flanged engines, which I believe are slightly outdated human vessels. I'm not sure who I was supposed to be in the dream, but I was definitely on Aratta itself, and I remember saying to myself, "We're winning," while being simultaneously full of dread at the thought of that victory.
The second nightmare featured Grant alone in a forest of dark trees, which were murmuring and creaking and shifting ever closer to him. As they reached for him, he pulled back, repeating a mantra to himself:
"I can do this on my own. I can do this on my own. I can do this on my own."
At that point, he tripped over a tree-route; before the woods closed around him, I caught a glimpse of a starless, flickering indigo-neon sky, which I'm almost certain was in Questing Country.
My Questing Sense, incidentally, is pointing me towards Backstage.
Another thing: there is a common thread to the increasingly strong human and Gorgon nightmares, and that is classic xenophobia, to the point where some of these nightmares will turn on each other. Fear and hatred of Hecatites, however, is conspicuous by its absence, which makes sense if the Gorgons and humans on Aratta are unconsciously absorbing Hecatite propaganda.
As for Aratta itself, unrest has been growing. I don't know how many of you have been there this week for the protests or heard about the Adiaphoron being subjected to a Praxic Audit - in essence, an exam where affirmative proof must be presented that their way of life is not harmful to the social good. But as an update to that, all of the Synthetics who were there for the protest - all 2,119 of them - have been "asked" to report for maintenance diagnostics and "antivirus upgrades." Further, the Conditioned Diaphoron has been informed that they are also to be subjected to a Praxic Audit, which... honestly isn't a surprise either, given how things have been going, but is ominous nonetheless.
