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Mimesis
Online from Polish Developer Tannhauser Gate, is a role-playing
game which transports you to a world where the borders between
reality and illusion do not exist. An unimaginable catastrophe
on a cosmic scale transformed this world, playing havoc with
the natural order of things, twisting everything, even time
itself, wiping out civilisation as we know it. For the Universe
itself, everything changed and nothing changed - a new order
was established, one where entropy rules, without intelligent
beings working to hold it back. The beings who survived the
catastrophe have tried to rebuild their world, each in their
own way. They once again want to enforce on the natural chaos
their order, their ways - authority, money, prejudice, cruelty
and conviction of their own superiority. Once again, they
are showing the unlimited ability of intelligent races to
adapt and survive. The forgotten civilisation is waking up
and slowly but surely emerging as the "new" civilisation
- and how similar it is to the old one.
This is a transcript of the observations of a Sentinel Dehas
Core, a group of immobile Sentinels whose responsibility is
to monitor everything occurring in their territory - Greyspire.
They are following the movements of a former smuggler who
is suspected of having had something to do with the closure
of the access fields, Greyspire's only practical link with
the rest of the world...
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Dehas Scan***020156921905***SDC2
Subject (#7^^89 - Heylan; previous charges: E-trapper smuggling;
last being to pass through access fields before closure) located
on Saderton Plaza - circling, obviously looking for some\thing/one.
Starhold Model 7 (Biochrome) armour damaged, as if after impact
- note staining and fluid leakage.
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Update:***__2034__
Subject enters Hotel, books room.
Update:
Remains there all night. |
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Dehas Scan***030156920756***SDC3
Subject leaving hotel on Saderton Plaza. Starhold Model
7 (Biochrome) armour as yet unrepaired. Armed and prepared
for something (Weapon: Ceremonial Rall Axe {copy - not
original model}). |
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Dehas Scan***030156920819***SDC3
Subject encounters \add new subject\#73^^502: Jereii
- no record\ Jereii; agitated, runs up to Subject Heylan;
armed (Weapon: Stoneskin Axe); Stoneskin Tors armour.
Indicates that Jereii is (ex-)sixth house military. Subject
Heylan not known to have such contacts. \update\
Conversation proceeds: Larger meeting planned; have to
put X in water - comprehension? None \subroute SDC5 to
analyse\. No indication of threat to peace - ignore\monitor\act?
Monitor... |
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Dehas Scan***030156920906***SDC3
Subjects Heylan and Jereii meet with other \subroute _
SDC5\, leave city walls
|||BREAK
Disturbance - Priority alarm - ongoing fight - threat
level analysis.... |
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Dehas Scan***030156920906***SDCF
On bridge 17 (centre sections damaged and fallen into
river - damage: storm\not our concern\) two Hirudon subjects
engaged in combat. Aggressor: Subject #23^^345 (Rorat;
repeat offender in this area: sentence: death\updated
record on armour: Stolen Rage Exoskel.). Tries to force
other off bridge, has already injured same. Self have
no units in the vicinity, and they are too far away for
the Inhibitor Impulse to take affect. Monitor and register
battle. |
Update:***___0909___
Aggressor forces other to pay, leaves. Other shaken, injured.
Reduce sentence on Subject Rorat? No. Let the Hirudon
understand that they are not above self's law.
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Dehas Scan***030156921130***SDC1
Subject Rorat moving away from city. Deprioritize and
monitor.
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Dehas Scan***030156921246***SDC6
Scan successful - Subject Heylan found. \Update intervening
time\Left city, committed no registered crime, returned,
met with Subject |Counsellor| #3^^1 (Tesser - Nominated
Counsellor to Governor Ceyan, wears Ceremonial Tay. Is
not leading group - position fourth from front, left side
\query for future\does this mean the same for Hirudon
as for self?\query\has Subject |Counsellor| Tesser resigned
function?
None of the group betray any sign of intended violence/crime/misdemeanor
- step up observation\continue at current level\ignore?
Continue. |
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Dehas Scan***030156921300***SDC6
Group leaving city. No set order of march. \conclusion
to query\Hirudon do not behave as self. Order not significant.
Self pleased - Subject |Counsellor| Tesser has always
proved helpful to self, not as inflexible as Humans. |
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Dehas Scan***030156921530***SDC6
Group approaching bridge. Approaching river. Feeling of
apprehension among group - close to target. Still no conclusion
on X. |
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Dehas Scan***030156921535..1622***SDC6
Group separates, watch as Subject Heylan approaches water
of river, later lake, at various points, kneels near shore,
allows dust to fall from hand to water, other subjects
emit sound \classify\hum\ emote\classify\sorrow\.
Self to Self...is that not a plant from Selfhaven?...is
that not a YeerGale?
Self to Self...such thoughts are for Self that move and
patrol, not for self that monitor. Sisterwehave amorenoble
causeresponsibility.
Sisteryouallow thesorrow ofour chargestoaffect you. |
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From the journal of Heylan of the fifth
house:
The evening has drawn in, and the air is cold. Sharp,
as my colleague Tel Jackson would have said. He has passed
to the next world now, and his memory has been left lying
on the surface of the waters. As befits one like him,
of noble soul, his memory is honoured. I shall miss his
easy changes of mood, so unlike ours - the way he could
calm down as easily as my temper is lost. Now I return,
to the place where he was lost, and again wonder why I
could not feel that something was wrong with the access
field, and how he knew to push me forward and save my
life... |
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