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  • #2218
    TracyTracy
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      Decimus Spurius rubbed his eyes and scratched his head, befuddled. He’d been dreaming of Antonia Ludicrus, his sweetheart, and at first in the dream they were strolling along the beautiful beach at Baelo Claudia, upwind of the garum pots. But then they were inside some kind of building, and Antonia was pressing little black squares with numerals on each one, but they were strange numerals the like of which he’d never seen, interspersed with a few familiar ones. She leaned over the greyish black slab, frowning, glancing up occasionally to a brilliant square light placed in front of her on the table.

      Decimus sighed. The dream made no sense at all, but he was filled with longing to see Antonia again. It had been months since he’d seen her, and he hated Saltum , hated that he’d been reposted so many days walk from her.

      #2212
      ÉricÉric
      Keymaster

        A sudden message popped into the bathtub.
        Opening the capsule, it was obvious it came from the future, as the color code was unmistakable.

        Well Fall is officially here now. Time to get down to business. How would up to 3k extra a week fit into your life? We have alot of fun doing it and you can to. Call the number below to hear how you can get onboard.

        The last part was more intriguing. Probably a code.

        Lester’s ex-wife keeps the milk cold. Batman316 is a nugget.

        He rose from the bubble of now cold goat milk bath for his sensitive skin, and dried his muscular body.
        For this mission, he probably would have to get onto those old generation portals. He always had a spare pants for those missions, as only bio material could travel though. He sure didn’t want his pants to disintegrate in the heat of the action.

        #2211

        Oh bugger this Harvey pestered against his pinhole third eye monocle which had just fallen again in his tea.

        He’d developed a strange case of telepathy myopia —which he had hoped to alleviate with the monocle— that prevented him to hear the thoughts of the others when they weren’t as close enough a distance.

        Doc Limure, a strange fellow, had diagnosed him when he had told about the strange symptoms and advised him to carry the pinhole monocle for awhile. But it wasn’t really practical at all to maintain before his eye; he had to keep his telekinesis in check, and as soon as he let his thoughts drift away, the thing would fall.
        He started to wonder if Dr Limure had not made some practical joke on him.

        #2210

        It all kept getting stranger and stranger to Harvey —or aliener and aliener, he would have been tempted to say.
        Maybe that was because of the ash blue giant aliens he’d made contact with recently. They were nice though; slender body and ample slow movements, but despite all feelings of eeriness, they appeared to be kind and loving beings. Of course, when he had told the others about it, all they had wanted to know was how many boobies they had, and whether their appendices were proportionate to their heights. Harvey couldn’t help but roll his third eye (he was tempted to wink it at first, but remembered how he failed to convey anything like this, people not knowing whether he was winking or simply blinking…).

        Funny thing was that now he was getting distorted and disrupted (or so he thought) communications even in broad daylight.

        The last one, when he was reading Grips, his favorite newspaper’s headlines on the newsstand went like:

        Home energy merely start, cave created answer
        Zhaana, Mlle friend within, needed hidden face
        view Leormn somehow warm smiled whole week

        Yesterday, after having being woken up by the squealing little piglets during the storm, he’d loitered around the neighbourhood in search for sleep, and found himself wanting to declaim nonsensical words about a girl gloogloo-dancing under the sun of Androoloosie (that’s the name he got, from some distant parallel reality).
        Perhaps he should make some podcasts out of this, they may well be the sign of a vastly intelligent design the code of which some erudite researchers could crack up thanks to his contribution.

        Yeah… crack up… They would…

        #2209
        F LoveF Love
        Participant

          Ann Tattler groaned. Perhaps listening wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. The latest novel was degenerating rapidly into trivial nonsense, in large part thanks to the collaborative writing efforts of her publisher, and the cleaner, Daisy. It was hard keeping quiet when confronted with such an outpouring of nonsensical rubbish.

          She wondered despondently whether even the erudite Eremurus Lemon would be able to help her this time. She opened his latest book, “How to Sing Like a Bird in Fifty Three Relatively Easy Lessons” at random.

          Take advantage of the Beast’s sleep to have some.

          Of course! Duh! How could she have doubted Lemon. Didn’t he always come through? She should be taking advantage of this time of silence! While her inner noisy beast was sleeping she should be having some.

          But some what?

          #2207

          Harvey was pretty disappointed; he would have preferred a cute pygmy hippo rather than the squealing little litter of pigglets. Granted, he would have had to change the bathtub to an Olympic sized pool, but rather that than having to build a barn for elephants.

          The silver lining was that the elephants were water-hosing the pig’s pooh outside very efficiently.

          #2200

          “Hey, Asp” Phildendron was still chuckling at her sister Aspidistra’s reaction to the piglet news “Why don’t you make a deal with Lavender, tell her you’ll only accept the piglet if it comes with a years supply of that DMT stuff.”

          “So I can share it will you, Phil?” Asp raised an eyebrow. “I don’t like haggling though, you know what I’m like. Looking a gift horse in the mouth and all that, no accidents and all the rest of it. I mean, I must be creating this piglet gift myself, and acceptance is key, is it not?”

          “Acceptance doesn’t mean literally accepting gifts of piglets, silly!”

          “Well what DOES it mean then?”

          “It means accepting that everything is fine, whatever you choose ~ whether you say yes to the pig, or no to the pig, you’re supposed to accept that it’s the perfect choice.”

          “Well how the devil is a person to know which is the right choice then?”

          “Well that’s just it, it doesn’t matter which choice you make. Not only that, it’s not a case of just one choice, either.”

          “So what you’re trying to tell me, which sounds like absolute nonsense, is that if I choose to accept the pig gift now, I would have to choose tomorrow that I accepted the pig gift today, otherwise I would be choosing…..” Asp’s voice trailed off as she lost her thread.

          “Yes! And not just once tomorrow, but in every moment you would have to choose that you chose the pig gift ~ otherwise you’d be choosing that you didn’t accept the pig ~ and that would be a choice too.”

          “Oh don’t be silly, Phil, with so many choices to make in each moment you wouldn’t ever be finished choosing before it was the next moment, then you’d have to start choosing again ~ You’d never get anything done!”

          #2198
          TracyTracy
          Participant

            “You can laugh Philodendron, but what on earth am I going to do with a piglet?”

            #2195

            Speaking of sex? Lavender’s ears perked up. Oh X! He was speaking of X. Now SHE was mishearing … or mis-mindreading to be more accurate. Pity, sex sounded more interesting than all this X business. She did wish Harvey wouldn’t call her Lavy, for obvious reasons, she would have thought. No wonder in the 6 years they had been friends she hadn’t told him her name.

            Speaking of names … do you think Essence is a good name for a pig? she asked, hoping to get Harvey off the rather boring subject of procrastination. She would speak of X later, maybe … if she had time.

            Maybe I should let Aspidistra name the pig?

            Harvey wasn’t paying attention. He was balancing the waiter on his nose.

            You know I might have to go through the portal if the bridge to Asgard has crumbled, Lavender mused, to no-one in particular.

            #2193

            Oh! That’s right! that’s what I meant to tell you .. she exclaimed.

            What? … oh and what IS your name, anyway? asked Harvey. We are such close friends, I sort of feel I should call you something.

            Lavender ..funny, I thought you knew that .. well anyway, I forgot to mention, when they asked me what breed I would like for Essence I asked for a piglet. I asked for one with black and white stripes to take after Col. They are so cute aren’t they, and smart too! I hope Aspidistra likes pigs though …

            #2192

            Harvey was thinking if anything had escaped his friend’s keen eye for details…
            She was so good at it that his attempt was only futile and hopeless.

            He gave a distracted look at the menu of the restaurant.
            He’d kept getting the strangest reads recently by “mis-understanding” other people’s words, in an entirely bizarre yet funny and enlightening way. Like when his friend talked about Bifrost, he first thought she was talking about getting roasted beef.

            Speaking of which, the menu was saying (so he first read)

            “pig bed wonder
            hairy expect reason liked universe
            behind certain Tina doctor busy light individual”

            “Oh, egg Benedict for starters” she said, “sounds just great”
            “What? Why did I read ‘pig bed something?’” he muttered to himself.
            “Pig?… Did you just say ‘pig’? I am sure that is a synch… can’t remember what though… Piggy I have to remember”

            Harvey noticed that he had seen pigs recently as well. The first occurrence was after a crappy condition, about recycling pigs’ waste to make gas; and the other was about a pig feeding piglets on the road.

            #2190
            ÉricÉric
            Keymaster

              Col had been in the business of intergalactic sleuthing and profiling for many years now and his tall broad stature and kind, poised black face was well known all around. They used to call him “the Zebra”, not so much because he made black and white statements —he was very nuanced— but because of his unusualness and knack for blending himself in questions.
              As a matter of fact, he’s made himself quite a reputation of a highly skilled professional, with no one up to par for finding clues and solving mysteries.

              Col Umbro’s motto was “all you have to do is to ask the right questions, in the right order.”
              Of course, he wouldn’t tell which way was the “right” one and which was not. But one thing was sure enough, most people completely overlooked the last part of the sentence.

              And that was what he intended to teach to his next assignment. A distant focus of his essence in mid-shift. For the moment, dream projections were the easiest and safest way to catch their attention, because they were not accustomed to a shifted state enough to pay attention to more physical projections.

              It was hilarious to see that most of the enthusiastic ones were waiting for unexpected events to come and rapture them in awe. Sillies… For one, “unexpected” shouldn’t be so… expected.
              Besides, most of the time, (most of the now) people were simply blind to the facts not in alignment with their allowance for disbelief. A pink elephant, say… They had grown so blasé that should they even see it standing in from of them, that they would probably then dismiss its appearance as another miracle of genetics (or debasement thereof)…
              So, reaching them would actually require quite a tactful and sly approach. Qualities he possessed enough.

              “Who’s this new person appearing disguised in a pseudonym?” His assignment was wondering.

              They had forgotten rule number one. Nothing is hidden from you. Granted, a pseudonym is a mask, but the choice of the mask is revealing enough of a clue.
              Then, you had to ask the questions in the right order. “Who is it?” should be the last of them all. Same with all the “how’s”. “What and why” where more important questions to consider.
              Once you got the “what”, the who is so self-evident, that it would not even retain the slightest of interests…

              He had found a nice slot, just after an entertaining equilibristics dream show. Making a dream for his assignment would be fun. And probably even more fun as she was the most impossible subject who wouldn’t remember dreams at all! He would have to use a proxy dreamer. Someone close enough to her. He knew exactly who to choose…

              #2188
              ÉricÉric
              Keymaster

                The transitory times were hectic, to say the least, though it did not always appear as such for everyone involved.

                For focuses, still living at the helm of the Shipft, riding the turbulent waves of change, it was a very delicate period.
                The last wave had propelled them very far in a short time, and they had rejoiced that their promised new land was in sight. Finally.

                But little did they know that the land in question was only still a reflection of the old. They had created it to let themselves rest, and spew out their stress, their anger and frustration, while behind the curtains the activity was intense with the careful and barely noticed moving of props.

                Sometimes, the riders of wave had glimpses of that movement. But it still felt as if they were left on their own. Most of the activity seemed to have shifted to other grounds, and that was a ground they didn’t realize they had access to already.

                Like the rainbow Bifröst leading to Asgard, all these bridges between the realms would soon start to crumble. It wouldn’t be possible to have one foot here and another there, not any longer.
                Choices will be made.
                They are being made.

                And then, the Circle of power, the one Ring will be melt into a burning core of ‘lova’, and the Shite will be healed and shifted. (well, tentatively heehee)

                #2187
                Jib
                Participant

                  “The fellowship didn’t know it was possible…”

                  What was possible?

                  “The fellowship didn’t know it was possible that the publication be suspended for a moment.”

                  What does that mean? Where and who am I?

                  “A new babe essence… at least in this particular blink.”

                  #2186
                  ÉricÉric
                  Keymaster

                    “Speaking of infinite details,” said Björn who was watching a circus program with a muscular looking man who balancing his contortionist partner who was attempting to balance plants on her face.

                    “What?” said Iris who was already dozing on the couch.

                    “Sorry dear, I was just talking to myself, have nice dreams”, he said, stroking gently her freckled face.

                    He continued in his head, slightly dozing off himself.

                    “One two, one two. Testing the acoustics… Sounds good.”

                    “Funny how these thoughts come in and out… It occurred to me something funny.”

                    :fleuron:

                    “Can you add a plush toy in your dream?”
                    “Oh sure darling. What kind of?”
                    “A baby aardvark”

                    :fleuron:

                    Björn wasn’t very comfortable yet, he started to toss and turn until he realized he was seated on Iris’ plush aardvark. He fondly placed the little soft thing in Iris’ arms and returned to his thoughts.

                    “There, it’s inserted…”
                    “Now, your reality can be viewed to some extent as the most complex, yet the most simple of assemblage. You may liken it if you will to a room with mirrors (*). Ancient Indian mystics have spoken of Indra’s net where droplets of waters are each reflecting all of the other ones; these are the same images.
                    It is not new information to you, the fact that you are seeing your reflection in your world, or that it is a sort of illusion reflecting you, but this is not the point we want to highlight here.

                    Consider that the room in which you are is reflected an infinite amount of times in every direction. In a sense, they are all the same. They are you. Now, we come to the interesting part. You may very well decide to explore the room next to you with its shining details, by going through one of these mirrors. Some individuals quite enjoy such explorations, they call it past or future or even probabilities, other dimensions etc. And by moving into the next room, it becomes their present.

                    You now realize that you have not really moved, since all rooms reflect only you. And you may want to continue in the direction you are exploring and go into more rooms. It’s alright. But some individuals realize that all rooms are equivalent, and that from where you stand, you can view the point you wish to explore in one part of the mirrors reflections. This is being present. You shift your attention, and expand your vision of the tiny part, rather than moving towards it with great efforts.

                    Now, when you are dreaming, the very nature of dreams is the same. It gives you a whole fractal hologram to ponder. You may get carried away by wanting to remember all the tiny details, because in doing so, what you are doing is simply opening rooms upon rooms upon rooms. And more details will be created for you! Or you can simply realize that the details are all contained within your feeling of being present, and standing in the middle of one of these rooms, and not one of them is more important than the next.

                    Connect to your feeling, and all the natural movements of your explorations will be automagically connected. And we bid you a nice fractal dream exploration.”

                    #2185
                    TracyTracy
                    Participant

                      The fact of the matter, if indeed there was a such a thing as a fact, was that Elizabeth needed to sort out her probable selves. They were constantly overlapping and it was causing a great deal of confusion. She decided to reinvent herself completely, starting with a new name.

                      She sat quietly chain smoking as she pondered possible names.

                      ‘Just choose a short one this time, one that’s easy to write. It really doesn’t matter what name you choose, but in the interests of ease, just make it short.’

                      Ann sat quietly chainsmoking, wondering where to start.

                      ‘Perhaps you should go back to bed’.

                      Ann sighed, feeling tired and disillusioned at the unexpected changes. It felt like too much effort to start afresh, as if the disruptions and changes everywhere were permeating her own private sanctuary, and stray random thoughts now had no easy path towards release, that they would be bogged down and hampered with new details, and new explanations.

                      ‘You don’t have to write anything.’

                      But there was so much to say!

                      ‘Try listening instead’.

                      #2182

                      Of course Aspidistra’s qualities, although unique, were not particularly useful when it came to gaining paid employment. She lamented this fact at some length to her best friend Dick Tator. Dick did his best to console the distraught Aspidistra, even offering to teach her to speak in a more posh accent, but to no avail. She was inconsolable.

                      I am going to hell in a handbasket! she cried. I am completely unemployable! Will I sink to the lowest level of society? To a world without money or moral obligation?

                      It seemed decidedly odd to Dick that his friend believed that she created the very heavens, yet could not create a job for herself.

                      What is it you would love to do above all else, dear Aspidistra? asked Dick gently. For he was a kind hearted soul, deep down.

                      Without hesitation Aspidistra replied, I would like to sing songs! songs of joy! songs that make people dance!

                      #1831

                      In reply to: Synchronicity

                      ÉricÉric
                      Keymaster
                        #2173

                        In reply to: Closing up

                        ÉricÉric
                        Keymaster

                          Ahaha, and I just notice the random quote change:

                          Dr Bronklehampton just put the finishing touch on his last work of art.

                          #97
                          ÉricÉric
                          Keymaster

                            As we see some syncs about “ten” and “X”, it occurred to me that “X” is for “close” too.
                            So closing the “Circle of Eights” thread sounded more and more like the thing to do.
                            To me, to close is not the same as to end; like a program, you can re-run it later, or like a book reopen it. Stories can be inserted again; and for one, the Jorid explorations of Georges and Salome will continue too.

                            It’s not a close down, it’s a close up; a new breath for inspiration, and a new breadth for ideas.

                            X is closer than you think, but also a promise of a fresh start :)
                            Feel free to dive in first :)

                            Cheers,
                            Your friendly Sumafreak

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