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
“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
by Tipton Plimsol, Jeeves, Guild of Valets and Ladies’ Maids Good morning, sir (or, as the case may be, madam). Tea? Toast? Morning Pick-Me-Up? No? Very good, sir. Then, with your permission, I shall introduce myself and my guild. I am Plimsol, the Jeeves of the Guild of Valets and… Continue reading
Or, The iDictaBrain Field Guide, Part I by Meridian Gosp, Tech Support Ah, the mighty iDictaBrain! From the moment it is embedded prenatally in our still-developing skulls, to the moment it is switched on at the ceremony marking our entrance into adulthood at 16, to the moment it is archived… Continue reading
by “Wilgefortis,” faceless head of Emergency Ops It will happen to you someday, Agent. You’ll go on Monitor mission after Monitor mission. Possibly, you will start to feel a little bit complacent about not being dead yet. The constant, gnawing fear will lessen its grip upon your heart. And then… Continue reading
by Mimi Nutter, on one of her saner days Ah, Agent. Hello. I’m not usually allowed to interface with Agents. Admin says I upset them. They seem to object to my eminently practical additional limbs and the fact that I never blink. They say I am off-putting. Silly, of course,… Continue reading
