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Princess of Clouds to Archetypes, Gilek-Four – Your Move
The priest of the Unnamed, unidentifiable behind flowing night-purple robes and serene mask of polished silver, moved steadily through the market towards the statue of Valentia I. The crowd parted as...
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Trope-a-Day: Calvinball
Calvinball: An awful lot of games played in the Empire are like this from our perspective, by virtue of having been designed to satisfy the game-playing urges of people with, well, transhuman...
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Full Hab (1)
…a deck of playing cards, in the typical Imperial style used for ómith and for some sub-games of kírasseth, contains 96 cards. 72 of these make up the six suits of twelve cards each, each with its...
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Here’s the next six cards (previous): 7. THE EXECUTOR The executor sits behind his desk, a rack of scrolls at his left hand and a mechanical calculator to his right. He holds a stylus and wears AR...
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Here’s the next six cards (previous 1-6, 7-12). Only six more to go! 13. THE CITY The marble spires of the city pierce the heavens, roofed in gleaming gold and copper and silver, and tunnels below...
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And here, at last, are the final six cards (previous 1-6, 7-12, 13-18). 19. THE STAR A vacuum-suited herm kneels in the harsh red-tinged regolith of an unterraformed world, wearing the gauntlet of a...
View ArticleTrope-a-Day: Deep-Immersion Gaming
Deep-Immersion Gaming: Sort of an inevitable consequence when the standard gaming rig involves full-sensory virtual reality of such quality as to be indistinguishable from reality, except for necessary...
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