Act 10: Deathless_Quiet and Antagonism

Act 10: Deathless

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> Webster was much possessed by death

> And saw the skull beneath the skin;

> And breastless creatures under ground

> Leaned backward with a lipless grin.

-T. S. Elliot, “Whispers of Immortality” (1918)

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1
Prologue – αποκάλυψις
2
Act 1: Biblichor
3
1: Required Reading
4
2: Censory Deprivation
5
3: The Plains of Simple Truth
6
4: The Hotel of Kallie Formica
7
5: Propheteering
8
6: Caught Red-Handed
9
7: A Void Dance
10
Interval I: Γαια
11
Interval II: Investigative Journalism
12
Act 2: Exegesis
13
8: Stuff and Nonsense
14
9: Æthers and Shipping
15
10: The Plains of Hard Fact
16
11: Would, for the Tree
17
12: Omniphidiance
18
13: For the Original Story was One With Pictures In
19
14: Age of Flame
20
15: Laboratory Magic
21
16: Dramattical
22
17: Dreams and Visions
23
18: Carpalithos
24
19: Mostly Humanless
25
20: The Rain, In Plain, Falls Mainly On The Train
26
21: Conversational Mortality
27
22: Indicies
28
Interval III – A Pleasant Chat
29
Interval IV – In Which Red Does Something Dumb (Again)
30
Interval V – Five Fathoms Deep, Beyond Their Eyes
31
Act 3: Carnivale
32
23: Fortunes Told, Pals Read
33
24: The Greatest Show, Unearthly
34
25: Fate or Flight
35
26: Carnivorous Carnival
36
27: Heath Robinson’s Quoits
37
28: Blurred Suckers
38
29: Haemoholics Anonymous
39
30: Regroup and Recoup
40
31: ReQuesting
41
32: Good Cop, Bad Carp
42
Interval VI – Hollowed Hall
43
Interval VII – Shelf Life
44
Act 4: Conspirator
45
33: Magic and Mayhem
46
34: Light Reading
47
35: Melville Morbidity
48
36: Coiled Impression
49
37: Haunting Houses, as in Houses That Haunt
50
38: A Pedestrian Sanctum
51
39: Much Walk About Nothing
52
40: A Handy Chat
53
41: Reticulatopolis
54
42: City Scarper
55
43: Chasing Pavements, as in Pavements That Chase
56
44: Last of House Triskelion
57
45: Recriminations and Reintroductions
58
46: War and Trees
59
47: Magi Babble of Magibabble
60
48: The Red Right Hand, It Plots and Schemes
61
49: Can It See Me In My Dreams?
62
Interval VIII – Never Open This Box
63
Interval IX – Deathless
64
Interval X – The Smell of Storms
65
Act 5: Penumbral
66
50: For the Serpent was more crafty than the other beasts
67
51: There’s a Snake in My Book
68
52: Panic Is Probably Warranted
69
53: Oh God, Not You Again
70
54: The White and the Grey
71
55: Script Seraph
72
56: Like a Patient Etherised Upon A Table
73
57: Ozone Odours
74
58: Let’s Go (Land)
75
59: Train the Body, Train the Mind
76
60: Second Meetings
77
61: Axiomatic
78
62: Another Pillar For The Roof Of The World
79
63: Lingua Frogger
80
Interval XI – Form and Function
81
Interval XII – Ashes to Ashes
82
Act 6: Arboreal
83
64: Safe Arbour
84
65: Something Cold, Something Dark, Something Borrowed, Something Red
85
66: Smogland Morning
86
67: Marsh Madness
87
68: Frog Family
88
69: Prophetic Fallacy
89
70: To Serve Their Turn
90
71: Into the Deep
91
72: Aquatics and Architecture
92
73: Bathyscape Getaway
93
74: A Series of Tubes
94
75: Answers and Questions
95
76: Red Spells in the Morning
96
77: Pneumatics
97
78: Upper Warrens of the Stormwall
98
79: Ghost Ferry Be Travel You?
99
80: Kickstart My Ride’s Heart
100
81: Goblin Engineering! Duck!
101
Interval XIII – Quite A Long Time Ago
102
Interval XIV – Starless Dark
103
Interval XV – What’s Left Behind
104
Act 7: Philosophage
105
82: A Return To The Unfamiliar
106
Intermission ١ – An Ecolography
107
83: Confectiomancy
108
Intermission ٢ – Given Form
109
84: Darkness, Dread & Secrets
110
Intermission ٣ – Aidrailomon
111
85: Wyrms In The Brain
112
Intermission ٤ – The Song of Singularity
113
86: Bring not violence to the Moment of Peace
114
Intermission ٥ – DID YOU SEE THE DARKNESS DREAM?
115
87: The Downside To Getting In Big Heroic Fights
116
88: Draco Delenda Est
117
89: The Affairs Of Dragon Hunters
118
90: Mineral Exposits
119
91: Back To Foyer
120
92: Edificibilities
121
93: Ouroboros, Youroboros
122
94: Deep in the Roots
123
95: Let’s Go Sail A Ship
124
Interval XVI – To Seek, Mayhaps To Find
125
Interval XVII – Music of the Spheres
126
Act 8: Adroit
127
96: HC SVNT MONSTRUMS
128
97: Tread Quietly Toward The Tower
129
98: And Yet The Spire Hungers
130
99: Think Like Yourself
131
100: Up, Down and Around
132
101: Greeting Party
133
102: Nobody’s Home
134
103: The Heights, like a Reptile, Are Scaled
135
104: Waxen Walls
136
105: Stop Meeting Yourself
137
106: Sinister Doppelgänger
138
107: It’s A Boat Time
139
108: Al Dente
140
Interval XVIII: Avast, Me Hearties
141
Interval XIX – Filtration, Infiltration
142
Act 9: Mandibular
143
109: Up the Teeth Without A Paddle
144
110: Charondolier
145
111: Toothplaced
146
112: Keep of the Hunters
147
113: Hitting the Books, Hitting the Wyrms
148
114: Chart the STARs
149
115: Subplots Collide
150
116: High Speed Boat Chase
151
117: Alive in the Water
152
118: Theseus’ Dinghy
153
119: The Calm Before −
154
Interval XX – Wait, not that storm, a different storm
155
Interval XXI – Dramatic Irony
156
Act 10: Deathless
157
120: −The Storm
158
121: Perspectual Shift
159
122: The Pinions of the Spine
160
123: There Might Be Frying Pans And Fire Involved
161
124: Flight Scene
162
125: Occupationally Hazardous
163
126: Blunder in the Dark
164
127: The Meta-Force of Metaphors
165
128: Darker, Deeper
166
129: Boxes in the Basement
167
130: Escape from Murder-Dungeon
168
131: Reunion Picnic
169
132: Gang Together
170
133: Dead Roads
171
134: Through Mictlan
172
135: Revolving Library Door
173
Interval XXII – Who Goes There?
174
Interval XXIII – A Matter of Tim
175
Act 11: Earth
176
136: From Foyer to Atrium
177
137: Threshold
178
138: Imprint on the World
179
139: Forgetting
180
140: Dampire
181
141: House, but not Home
182
142: Courtesy Call
183
143: Don’t Acknowledge It
184
144: The Labyrinth of STAR
185
145: Ariadne’s Nightmare
186
146: Full Circle By Half
187
147: Waking from Empty Sleep
188
148: Unremarkable Remarks
189
149: Contractual Catastrophe
190
150: Interrupt – Shapes Underground
191
151: Pyrologos

Act 10: Deathless

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