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Mapping the SIM with Room Mechanics & Aorathian Shadow Architecture
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CHAPTER 4 | The Endless Hall (opens the original)
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(By request I’m going to keep posting after all. Keep in mind this is a first draft :) Also note: I changed Parker to Charlie for a fun reason that you might be able to guess by chapter 7 - stay tuned! Brown tiles give way to smooth white plaster and a hallway stretches out before them with no shops. The lights hum and in the distance something pulses slowly, electronically. It is uncomfortable to the ear and seems to increase ever so slightly in volume with each pulse.Liam closes his eyes, “It’
CHAPTER 3 T-Rex at The Toy Store (opens the original)
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Parker draws herself into her own body, inhales deeply, and works to deliberately regulate herself in Liam’s presence. She’s seen his face a million times online, the tech genius trailblazing humanity’s path towards techno-humanism. She regrets now not reading his biography. To her he’s been distant and massive enough to be a bit of a cartoon figure. She’d never studied him, never listened to or watch his interviews with any depth. He’d always seemed a bit put on to her and hard to listen to. Th
CHAPTER 2 “Is She Manipulating Me?” (opens the original)
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Parker stares at the numbers on the leaderboard a while. She feels like it’s supposed to mean something to her but it doesn’t. She’s glad it’s not too cold here. If she’s dead, she thinks, at least she’s not in hell, not yet anyways.She closes her eyes and thinks of her bedroom, the sprawling white attic with only a mattress on the floor, a small window looking out over the ocean. She’d gotten a ride to the house across provinces from a friend with a small hatch back and wasn’t able to bring her
Did You Design Your Life? (opens the original)
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Get yourself a Deck of AORATHIAN Shadow Architecture Cards: Designed by robin Richardson https://aorath.com/pick-a-cardOR Read The Only Winning Move, a serialized sci-fi love story unfolding live on Substack <img class="embedded-publication-logo" height="56" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nk7r!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressiv
CHAPTER 1 - “Welcome to Playland!” (opens the original)
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Human-written. No AI :) BOOT SEQUENCE Remember waking up at a friend’s house when you were a kid and panicking because you forgot where you were? It was like you had slipped into another dimension while asleep and now everything was off. It took a few minutes for the memories to return, then there was the slowly, slightly panicked reorientation: you are not at home but home still exists. You are safe.That’s what Parker and Liam experienced on the morning of August 23rd 2023 only they were not a
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