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Death in SarasotaIn the cicada-bedecked summers
we'd climb pecan trees that cried
sliver-moon leaves while we shook branches,
my friend and I.

He wasn't on the swing set across the street;
I could tell because the leaves were falling
like I did through his attic ceiling
but I couldn't hear the rust creaking.

I found out next week he had drowned in
Lake Okeechobee
where a 19-foot gator was found;
he fell off the boat and his parents wouldn't
go in after him.

I did not cry; only grandma's death
could do that, and only five years afterward
when Christmas came around and
I realized I would never climb the pecan trees again
or eat the chili she

The Dragon of Krosen CountyBeatrice Margot and the Dragon of Krosen County
Adam J. Thaxton

Beatrice Margot was walking along County Road 17 in Krosen county in the kingdom of Charnra, somewhere between abandoned cities left dead and dry from the famine, with the sun in the sky and the humidity bearing down. She eyed the empty canteen in her right hand and cursed the half-eaten sandwich in her left. The meal was good, the sandwich had real lettuce, real meat, and came wrapped in a real plastic bag, even.

Frustrated, she eyed the overgrown rice paddies on either side of the road, then decided against refilling there. The last time, she had been sick for a few days,

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The Whispering Menby ~mr-author

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The Whispering Men are wear heavy leather flight jackets, have violet goggles that glow with an inner light, and wear gas masks attached to air tanks they carry on their backs, looking every bit like soldiers or airmen. They have weapons, but they are always simple, such as knives, billy clubs, and sidearm pistols. Whispering Men can appear wherever there is darkness. They try to “get” children they sense, and can't find children hiding under blankets, and can never appear in the line of sight of anyone who's passed their adulthood trials, which causes them to cease to exist just before entering the adult's field of vision.

Ikasa Spider believes they're antagonists created by the narrative, to serve as a metaphor for internal conflict.

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~KifkeyKrunchies Jul 20, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Narrative...

Narrativium. The soil is lousy with, the plants adapted to be reliant... even the animals use it in their own way.

But that the Narrative can create antagonists out of thin air, and so selectively fragile that adult perception nullifies them... that is truly remarkable.

~mr-author Jul 20, 2012

The narrative is what happens when enough metaphors create the memetic weight required to attach to a given human's activities and form out of them a pattern that has a conclusion of some sort that will create change in the local noosphere. People "in the know" can spot the archetypes as people around them take on roles, as well as the general patterns of narrative and change them slightly, "riding the wave" of the story they're creating. A side effect is that metaphors being emerging from the pattern to resist, and internal conflict can become external conflict as the metaphors take physical form.

Adults and children are actually quite different, spiritually speaking. In Aesca, adulthood is earned through conflict and tests provided by spiritual leaders. Children can see things adults can't, and vice-versa. Children also culturally get away with a lot of shit that nobody would tolerate adults doing... and vice-versa.

~KifkeyKrunchies Jul 20, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

So one can become genre-saavy... But in turn, the story becomes saavy of this knowledge and throw screwballs.

Hmm... Maybe that's what happened in OMS (and I apologize for mixing continuities). The David and Nancy thing formed as an external conflict to the Deltas saavy-ness.

Maybe.

~mr-author Jul 20, 2012

...well, in OMS, the narrative force is a little more sentient than Aesca's memetic momentum, which is kinda like gravity, except it obeys the Rule of Cool instead of the Law of Gravitation. So yeah...

In Aesca, the human power is their connection to all metaphors and their ability to interact completely with them. They're the race of magic, after all. Some races can only perceive partial or specific metaphors, like Sky People only able to see Thunder and Fire metaphors, or a Maize-Cutter that can only see primal or animalistic metaphors, or the Genesis ability to see... whatever the hell it is that they see. The ability to be genre-saavy is practically a defense mechanism, and results in most cultures being very heavily into storytelling and oral traditions, despite (or because of) technological advancements.

~KifkeyKrunchies Jul 20, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Thanks alot for that.

Humans as the magic race... Not a bad switch, seeing as we're usually the dullard muggles or the sweet-talkers flying by the seat of our pants.

~palaeorigamipete Jul 20, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

coolness!

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