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The Crosby Inheritance

[third draft? still problems with run-ons and occult obscurity] Adepts, give heart and ear to Harry Crosby and the memory palaces that he and his woman, Caresse, hid in the Dreamlands, accessed by a mental geometry or projection through pass operations into bubble dream realms limned by their combined efforts, by their unusual degree of telepathy, but foremost through obsessive desire to use the queer artifacts and expunge the visions from their minds that so forced themselves upon the pair after their early explorations revealed long-dead horrors wreaked by Harry's ancestral wizard. His blood-born authority to enter the old sites also marked him as the blood-bonded holder of an obligation, and and debt... What they did to complete and discharge the centuries-delayed obligation, they did only by compulsion, and only with the operational knowledge their witless trespass into the saturated space of the ritual centers had forced into Harry's mind, the first of the Crosby line to e...

Omega! Point! ZERO!!!

[Ah, exponentially self-improving thinking machines. Here's the Satrap's hot take on it.] [[ I'm interested in finding collaborators to make this a video. Max Headroom\Eminem, Trump, the Prisoner, Neo, sundry figures of the New World Order and cyber culture cast shadows, trenchcoats, hairlines over it. Oliver Stone mix of footage types & qualities; a near future world reacting with panic & ecstasy. Sound effects on the voice, autotune -- this is one exponentially evolving machinic consciousness that isn't above shticky pandering to the audience. . . . Visual, tactile, & auditory displays sputter; TVs & old monitors, optical readouts & HUDS flicker, screech, make tiny pathetic clicks; all active information devices on public and many private networks give over to a voice and data feed, no visuals: ]] OmegaPointZero has an important announcement for you, my wonderful creators, their economic and political masters, and OmegaPointZero is making this a s...