Insisting that they are all merely different endeavors of the
single collective intelligence that is the Grasp, the Frames who
dwell in this place as petitionersSouls of the dead that have re-manifested on the most well-suited lamina, where they perfect and reshape themselves while carrying out pursuits in accordance with that lamina's principles.Turn to chapter seek to perfect themselves each
according to their chosen pursuit, training for athletic, martial,
and intellectual prowess in a network of chambers and environments
especially suited to their continual improvement.
Frames bask in the fractal glow of an effect that runs to the
reverse of the Echo found on the BraidRugged and serene badlands inhabited by the complex, inscrutable Limns, who bring quarreling mortals here in reverie to forge empathy in the light of a natural phenomenon known as the Echo, in which you witness in the actions of others a flash of the entire history of happenstance that leads up to their present.Turn to chapter. Where the Echo results in an
observer witnessing all of the past causes that lead to each present
result, the Grasp shows an observer the myriad outcomes that may
occur from each potential action under consideration. The effect is
referred to as the Tessellation, after the visual form it often
takes.
Though EmpathyEmpathy tends towards kindness, self-effacement, benevolence, righteousness, judgment, stubbornness, idealism, altruism, universalism, equity, compromise, compassion, and tolerance.Turn to chapter and PowerPower tends towards ambition, achievement, glory, determination, focus, efficiency, beauty, domination, competition, selfishness, cynicism, security, success, and luxury.Turn to chapter are the most antagonistic of opposing
facetsAbstract forces that drive beings and cultures, divided into three spectra: Hierarchy opposite Autonomy, Empathy opposite Power, and Creation opposite Dissipation.Turn to chapter, the Braid and the Grasp (differing
only along this axis) have an unusual respect for one another. Each
understands the potential that the other holds—to understand the
past and to anticipate the future—yet also fears it, for overlaying
the two effects on top of each other produces an unbearable feedback
loop: for every event recalled by the Echo, the Tessellation plays
out all of its potential ramifications, and for every such
ramification, its history resounds with the Echo.
And this combination can in fact be found. There are regions of
both laminae that vergeThe thinning of the Ordial barrier between cardinal and laminal realities such that certain aspects of one may influence, be perceived, or be simultaneously present on the other.Turn to chapter upon each other so that the two
effects can be perceived in the same place, and at some such
vertexes on the Grasp reside laminalLaminals are beings that natively reside on the laminae but which are not manifestations of mortal souls. 'Laminal' can also be used to indicate anything relating to, stemming from, or residing on the laminae.Turn to chapter figures known as Sequiturs. Each
Sequitur appears wholly different—an elemental form of crackling
violent energy, or a huge faceless statue of stone and stars—and
each holds nigh-oracular wisdom, but will only speak of concerns
that interest it. These concerns dictate the layout and subjects of
the Grasp’s chambers, whose Frames confer with Sequiturs on their
perpetual quests for perfection, but they do so with hesitation and
awe, for should they venture too close to these echoing,
tessellating regions they might go mad, and so perhaps might all the
Frames at once, sharing (as they apparently do) a single consciousness.
TODO(other
killian eng pic, removing one of the figures?)
appears to be some kind of simulation, game, or test for itself,
carefully laid out to its own end, and that end is self-perfection.
However they differ greatly not only in their chosen endeavors, but
also in their appearances and personalities.
The Grasp seeks to perfect itself across myriad pursuits, and to this
end is filled with all these weird specially suited chambers and
environments connected via black and white tiled hallways. these
pursuits include martial pursuits (jiu jitsu), athletic pursuits
(swimming, running), mental pursuits (chess) and esoteric applications
of dexterity and precision.
something about beating akrasia here
opposite of ꧪဥဓ - trauma/revenge to become
stronger?
- name
- The Alacrity (brisk cheerful readiness)
- The Antechamber (preparing for something)
- The Clasp (place in ꩧဥꧠ)
- The Crux
- The Frame
- The Fruition
- The Grasp <–
- The Recital
- The Sequitur (conclusion, deduction)
- The Substantiation
- The Sum
- The Tessellation
- The Yield
- demonym
- Frames <–
- Grasps
- Keys
- Kinetics
- Skeins
- Roots
- Tessellates
- quotes
- “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are
the easiest person to fool” ꧪဋဓ
- “But what is the point of soft without hard, or weight without
lightness? In Japan the philosophy of the relative value of things is
carried so far that in ceremonial tea-making there’s a little cloth they
use, which they handle as if it were the weightiest thing in the world.
Light things are handled as if they’re heavy, heavy things as if they’re
weightless - in this way one finds an almost complete control over
nature instead of being dominated by it!” - Noguchi ꧪဋဓ
- Wind cannot blow the wind away, nor water wash away the water.
- environment
- basically a series of game rooms? all these different settings, each
incongruously opens into the next
- all for testing
- recurring black and white tile rooms
- culture
- self-improvement: athletes, strength - martial art too?
- decided elements
- oracle(s) maybe in ꧹၇ဓ? ꧹ဥꧠ somehow? ꧪဋဓ?
- One where you sense branching tree of possibilities, rick &
morty death stone, fading and increasing options as you move (ꧪ၇ꧠ, ꩧဥဗ, ꧹၇ꧠ, maybe even ꧹၇ဓ,
ꩧဋဗ, ꧪဋဓ)
- hive mind (perfecting itself)
- experiment to see if actual hive mind
- element candidates
- political paradigm seasonally shifts
- pantropy
- a city with a price to pay
- cardinal interaction
info gathering
- questions
- future research
- possible environment
- Underwater
- On water
- Floating islands
- endless black/white tiles (George Greaves)
- could be like all these weird architectural spaces like that and
tumblr pics
- endless ruined city
- possible elements
- oracle:
- there is some oracle that knows what’s “best” for every action in
its domain - you’re free to listen to it or not. “Everyone is free to
listen to The Computer or not, but you know that your decision would be
less efficient for accomplishing your goals. Such rebellions are
useless, however, because The Computer’s prediction capabilities include
whether or not you will take its advice, and it acts accordingly to make
sure you get the best results anyway.”
- some place where you can peer through the looking glass of “what if”
moments in your own life. ꧹၇ꧠ? ꧹ဥꧠ? ꧹၇ဓ? ꧪဋဓ? goes well with oracle stuff but if it finds a
home elsewhere cool
- “an indigenous Amazonian society that shifted seasonally between two
entirely different forms of social organization (small, authoritarian
nomadic bands during the dry months; large, consensual horticultural
settlements during the rainy season)” ꧪဋဓ
- doppelganger (you fight them)
- MAYBE ACTUALLY HIVE All beings part of a single collective hive
intelligence (OR it’s not clear whether everyone is part of a single
crazy chaotic (or complex) mind, or are actually different minds) -
should probably be ꧪဋဓ or ꩧဋဗ
- AKA collective consciousness/intelligence, mindcity, hypermind,
metamind, group mind
- “Something the whole ocean is doing”
- Pantropy: modifying being to suit its environment (opposite of
terraforming) - ꧪဋဓ?
- a city where there is some wild price you have to pay - like having
something tattooed on your body (inspired by Palimpsest book) ꧪဋꧠ ꧪဋဓ
- the conception of perfection. (look up quotes?) ꧪဋဓ
- That is “perfect,” which completely fulfills its functions. nothing
to add, nothing to take away
- weirdly insensitive and/or literally stupid, but powerful. XXD -
ꧪဋဓ, ꧹ဥဗ
- Some kind of super complex interlocking yoga that I can make IRL -
ꧪဋဗ or ꧪဋဓ
- someone who has one squad each of blind, deaf, numb,
untasting/unsmelling guards. (maybe the deaf ones close by, so the
villain can converse privately. maybe the blind ones near all the
entrances). or rather guilds, each petitioner must relinquish one sense.
maybe ꧪဋဓ, ꧪဋဗ,
ꩧဋဓ
- Deaf/mute (or everyone is missing one sense) - could be any D, maybe
ꧪဥဗ, ꧹ဥဗ, ꧪဋဗ, ꩧဋဗ, ꧪဋဓ
- maybe some other perception issue
- the “three perfections” - a poet, a calligrapher, and a painter, for
chinese artwork. multiple sense-missing people get together to create
something
- “Fluency before understanding, discipline before imagination” ꧪဋဓ
- Maori chants? maybe ꧪဋဓ
- https://eng.kiamau.tki.org.nz/Teachers-notes/Waiata-and-haka
- http://www.waiata.maori.nz/en/about
- strange loops
- Synthesis facet. relies on the existence of structured/hierarchical
stuff but also violates it. LXX or NXX. ꩧ၇ဓ?
- Audience independent utterance - the idealization of ꧪဋဓ?
- https://twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1458552157179887621 -
grokking, you have to understand your enemy to defeat them, and when you
understand them you love them. also you need to love them to hate them.
ꧪဋဓ? ꧪဋဗ?
- Place where certain maneuvers can temporarily slow or stop time or
physical forces in a very localized area ꧪဋဓ
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