1: Becoming Form-bound
You wake with a gasp, an exhalation of air that bursts forth. In this moment you truly cannot recall where you are. Are you in your ordinary bed, or a place at least known to you? Are you in a transient place - a hotel, or curled up in a car, plane, or train? Or perhaps you lie in a gutter, the rain water swilling about you? You don’t know.
A moment later you do know that your exhalation was a scream, you arms are clenched around your drawn-up legs, and you huddle in your fear. Fear of what? You don’t know, but intelligence provides a likely answer: a nightmare from the other side of the shadow of sleep. The thought comforts, and allows you to ignore that you still do not know where you are.
You don’t care. You are tired, an endless exhaustion that no mere sleep can slake. You feel the pull to surrender to slumber’s charms, to dismiss all this. Sleep summons, and you obey, straightening your body and lowering your head … onto … there is a question but your mind no longer cares. Your eyes close from darkness to darkness, and the shadow claims you once again.
Do not expect an apology, form-bound, for being startled. Necessity determines what is required: your attention, untrammelled by your conscious thought. If you know this, you have lived, and be thankful. Many have not.
Know that you are not special. You are not chosen in any way but by chance - not even whim or whimsy. But you will be a witness, for you are snared.
It may be that you will need a place to recall who is who and what is what. This is that place. It will fill as needed. Use it, or not, as you wish.
Dramatis Personae
Yourself A Witness
Lisan la Metemes Your Host
Forms: An Oval of light with a decorated edge for personal expression
A northern slavic female in early 21st-century clothes, below average height
Stharin’Ble la Metemes fra Den Mørke Hav per Ultima Lisan's Mentor
Forms: A perfect sapphire sphere
An older man with a heavily-lined face. A large nose protrudes from the face, and
grey-bushy eyebrows project overshadowed orbs. The simulacrum wears checkered blue and red shirt, unbuttoned at the collar, and crisp, clean cream trousers.
A woman dressed in fine, rich clothes
Arfin Class-companion of Lisan
Forms: A black human male, with a variety of garbs
Vosele Class-companion of Lisan
Forms: A methane-cloud
Keriam Class-companion of Lisan
Forms: A tall willowly humanoid - indeterminate gender
Three circles, each rotating on a different axis
Ghrim Class-companion of Lisan
Rosthi’Cvar la Saraoni fra Tordenvejret ab Hoste Maligno Master of Aspirants of the First Court
Forms: A large Polynesian male in a “top hat and tails” black suite.
Eshun Attendant of the Master of Aspirants
Forms: Slim, somewhat short, short black hair, flat oval face.
Osil’een la Halsinis med Hygge ab Hoste Maligno of the Silver Court
An acquaintance of Stharin'Ble.
'Owned' the world of Uraniun for Uruguay
Glossary
Contest - A formal game where one or more Players is being tested.
Family - Name given to groups of the Unbound. Each newly formed Unbound is assigned to a Family, and given a mentor. The mentor may change through the youth’s development, or not. More rarely, a youth may change Families.
House - Groupings of Unbound who all hold a similar set of ethics.
Interface - The matrix through which the Unbound Players interact with the game universes. It is something of a simplified overview. Actions decided by the player are thus translated into actions by the beings under the control of the interface.
Manifest - Taking a direct part on the world of matter, though there are different levels of manifestation.
Movement - Groupings of Unbound who are all aiming for a broadly similar declared goal - though this allows a very great deal of variation in approach. Very broadly analogous to your political parties or interest groups.
When next you wake you have had a deep and dreamless slumber, with no memory of night time fears or nightly noises. Only when you sleep do you remember.
A moment later you do know that your exhalation was a scream, you arms are clenched around your drawn-up legs, and you huddle in your fear. Fear of what? You don’t know, but intelligence provides a likely answer: a nightmare from the other side of the shadow of sleep. The thought comforts, and allows you to ignore that you still do not know where you are.
You don’t care. You are tired, an endless exhaustion that no mere sleep can slake. You feel the pull to surrender to slumber’s charms, to dismiss all this. Sleep summons, and you obey, straightening your body and lowering your head … onto … there is a question but your mind no longer cares. Your eyes close from darkness to darkness, and the shadow claims you once again.
Do not expect an apology, form-bound, for being startled. Necessity determines what is required: your attention, untrammelled by your conscious thought. If you know this, you have lived, and be thankful. Many have not.
Know that you are not special. You are not chosen in any way but by chance - not even whim or whimsy. But you will be a witness, for you are snared.
It may be that you will need a place to recall who is who and what is what. This is that place. It will fill as needed. Use it, or not, as you wish.
Dramatis Personae
Yourself A Witness
Lisan la Metemes Your Host
Forms: An Oval of light with a decorated edge for personal expression
A northern slavic female in early 21st-century clothes, below average height
Stharin’Ble la Metemes fra Den Mørke Hav per Ultima Lisan's Mentor
Forms: A perfect sapphire sphere
An older man with a heavily-lined face. A large nose protrudes from the face, and
grey-bushy eyebrows project overshadowed orbs. The simulacrum wears checkered blue and red shirt, unbuttoned at the collar, and crisp, clean cream trousers.
A woman dressed in fine, rich clothes
Arfin Class-companion of Lisan
Forms: A black human male, with a variety of garbs
Vosele Class-companion of Lisan
Forms: A methane-cloud
Keriam Class-companion of Lisan
Forms: A tall willowly humanoid - indeterminate gender
Three circles, each rotating on a different axis
Ghrim Class-companion of Lisan
Rosthi’Cvar la Saraoni fra Tordenvejret ab Hoste Maligno Master of Aspirants of the First Court
Forms: A large Polynesian male in a “top hat and tails” black suite.
Eshun Attendant of the Master of Aspirants
Forms: Slim, somewhat short, short black hair, flat oval face.
Osil’een la Halsinis med Hygge ab Hoste Maligno of the Silver Court
An acquaintance of Stharin'Ble.
'Owned' the world of Uraniun for Uruguay
Glossary
Contest - A formal game where one or more Players is being tested.
Family - Name given to groups of the Unbound. Each newly formed Unbound is assigned to a Family, and given a mentor. The mentor may change through the youth’s development, or not. More rarely, a youth may change Families.
House - Groupings of Unbound who all hold a similar set of ethics.
Interface - The matrix through which the Unbound Players interact with the game universes. It is something of a simplified overview. Actions decided by the player are thus translated into actions by the beings under the control of the interface.
Manifest - Taking a direct part on the world of matter, though there are different levels of manifestation.
Movement - Groupings of Unbound who are all aiming for a broadly similar declared goal - though this allows a very great deal of variation in approach. Very broadly analogous to your political parties or interest groups.
When next you wake you have had a deep and dreamless slumber, with no memory of night time fears or nightly noises. Only when you sleep do you remember.
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