Agent! Do you feel more at home in some part of The Past than you do in the digital bustle of the Present Day? Is it increasingly difficult to step back through that Door, to leave the squalor of The Past behind for the sterile halls of The Lighthouse? If… Continue reading
WARNING: Um. Okay, look, I think this post is amusing. I am also a bit on the morbid side. Some people may possibly find this post upsetting? Maybe? Anyway, if you’re feeling kind of fragile, I’d read something else. Literally anything else on this site, for example. Or call again… Continue reading
Ah, Agent. I won’t introduce myself, if you understand me. No names, no pack drill. Also noticed my colleagues who are free with their identities tend to die by violence pretty smartly thereafter. Not a popular job, you understand. We’re the ones who will come for you, y’see. Oh, not… Continue reading
Personal Encounters, or, What To Do When You Meet Yourself by Candida Flowers We at Ops Scheduling do our best to ensure that you won’t have one of those awkward, face-to-face encounters with yourself. You know, you’re casually strolling along, minding your own business, somewhere in The Past, when you… Continue reading
Callum McZander, Outer Entity Expert She came to my office and asked me to do it. “We need an “O.” Write about the Outer Entities.” She said this casually. As if she was asking me to write of the joys of cat ownership. I examined her closely, looking for the… Continue reading
by Lucia Mapp, Cartographer One of the many confusing aspects of travel for Agents is the fact that most of The Past is utterly devoid of locational tagging. You scan a street with your iDictaBrain, and it just lays there, being a street, refusing to reply. It doesn’t say what… Continue reading
Excerpt from Lighthouse Rogues’ Gallery Makewar, Hugo General Notes Hugo Makewar is the first known time traveler. He is also on The Lighthouse’s Top Ten All-Time Biggest Threats To Temporal Stability list. No-one else has ever successfully traveled through time using Hugo Makewar’s device (where a successful journey is defined… Continue reading
by Sam Golightly, Head Janitor “People like a map of a place.” I told them and told them, and eventually they listened. That’s how I come to be addressing you now. They had their objections, of course. Never known a “they” that didn’t. “Oh, but Mr. Golightly!” They said. “How… Continue reading
Hello, fellow A-to-Zers! Um, we at Atherton’s Magic Vapour (and by “we,” what I mean is, “I”) apologize for the delay. L (a real L) is coming. But it probably won’t come before my local midnight. On the plus side: there will be maps! So stay tuned! Maps=Splendor, Total Excitement!… Continue reading
“Kin” And Other iDictaBrain Cults Or, The iDictaBrain Field Guide, Part II by Bynum Walker, Religio-Technological Historian Introduction The iDictaBrain has existed for almost a millennium. Even now, people get awfully excited about it. Think of the days before your 16th birthday. Remember how you felt, in those days before… Continue reading
