Conversation 1203: WHIRLING F2 / DREAM 4

Dream in which you are the world-detector.

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Column definitions:
  • ID: a numerical index for the entry within this conversation.
  • Character: the character speaking or acting.
  • Dialogue: prose containing spoken dialogue and other description.
  • Conditions: logical checks governing this entry appearing or occurring.
  • Links: entries that might follow this one, depending on conditions and player choice. Most links are internal to this conversation, external links to other conversations are marked with the format (conversation ID, entry ID).
ID Character Dialogue Conditions Links
0 None
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1 None
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2 Ancient Reptilian Brain Thoughts, baby. A million little lights in the dark. You're one fine instrument, brother -- all those faces and all those names, all that laughter and screaming and scheming around... Every corner and every street...
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3 Limbic System Recorded in you. Forever. On ferrotape.
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4 Ancient Reptilian Brain On and on it goes, for untold hours. At the disco where you first asked her to dance. Rising -- rising! -- above the dark curvature. The great wingspan of sleep, studded with stars.
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5 You Spinning on empty.
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6 You Spinning in eternity.
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7 You Spinning, spinning... tell me, am I dreaming?
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8 Ancient Reptilian Brain No. You're spinning tapes at the discotheque. The great, unceasing disco of the mind. The flash! The bang! The endless *learning* experience.
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9 Limbic System Behold, there are *millions* of them down there. The first time. The last time. The smoke in her mouth, the potted flowers, the faces: turning, changing.
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10 You *What* is it?
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11 Ancient Reptilian Brain It's the *world*, Harry-boy. And you're *made* of it. Every day you're out there you make more of yourself from it. I'm afraid you can't be *unmade* now.
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12 You The rain, the snow... I don't want to. It's beautiful.
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13 Ancient Reptilian Brain You can never forget this shit.
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14 You The colours. The voices.
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15 You The endless visions. Erase them.
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16 Limbic System Beautiful? It's *stuck* on loop... whirling, spitting out words and images.
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17 Limbic System It's not possible anymore. It's *stuck* on loop... Whirling, spitting out words and images.
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18 Limbic System All *stuck* on loop... Whirling, spitting out words and images.
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19 Ancient Reptilian Brain You're the son of the World again. Harrister -- a ceaseless agent picking up litter and old newspapers, collecting your little bubble gum wrappers and idiotic picture post cards. Meaningless, meaningless keepsakes.
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20 Limbic System Reading your awful letters and *recalling* things, aren't you? The endless names of the world... An address book, you are. The map of a city.
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21 You That's right. I *am* an agent of the world.
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22 You But what if I want to be the agent of nothing?
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23 Ancient Reptilian Brain You'll go insane if you keep going like this. One more day and you'll be in the loonie bin. I just know you will. And for what, brother-man?
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24 Ancient Reptilian Brain It's too late. You're not *made* of nothing anymore, you're something now, Harry. I tried to drown you in the black water but you re-emerged. Kicking and screaming. Running. And for what?
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25 Limbic System Solving your little crossword puzzles? Doing your tasks, crossing names off your lists? Trying to become some sort of world-detector... It won't make it *okay*. It won't put smoke back in her mouth...
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26 Limbic System Beep-beep-beep! The alarm is ringing, Harry. The disco circus goes on and on! You barely slept three hours last night.
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27 Volition You can do it. It's nothing. Do it for the city. Go.
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28 Shivers Do it for the wind.
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29 Logic Do it for the picture puzzle. Put it all together. Solve the world. One conversation at a time.
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30 You [Open your eyes.]
31 You Feel the pillow under your cheek.
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32 You Why?
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33 Limbic System Coz only love can break your heart...
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34 None
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35 None IsTHCPresent("communist") or IsTHCPresent("moralist") or IsTHCPresent("ultraliberal") or IsTHCPresent("revacholian_nationhood")
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36 None (IsTHCPresent("communist") or IsTHCPresent("moralist") or IsTHCPresent("ultraliberal") or IsTHCPresent("revacholian_nationhood")) == false
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37 None
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38 You I can't give up. I have to keep going, for Revachol... [Pursue thought.] IsTHCPresent("revacholian_nationhood")
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39 You I'm building communism for all. This time we won't fail... [Pursue thought.] IsTHCPresent("communist")
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40 You I'm just looking out for my economic self-interest... [Pursue thought.] IsTHCPresent("ultraliberal")
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41 You We're making progress. Measured, steady progress... [Pursue thought.] IsTHCPresent("moralist")
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42 Limbic System There he goes again. He's a real political animal, our Harry. He still doesn't see that it's the world that's changing *him*...
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43 Rhetoric For the working class.
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44 None
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45 None IsTHCPresent("communist")
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46 None (IsTHCPresent("communist")) == false
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47 None
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48 None IsTHCPresent("ultraliberal")
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49 None (IsTHCPresent("ultraliberal")) == false
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50 None
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51 None IsTHCPresent("moralist")
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52 None (IsTHCPresent("moralist")) == false
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53 None
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54 None IsTHCPresent("revacholian_nationhood")
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55 None (IsTHCPresent("revacholian_nationhood")) == false
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56 Empathy For the greater good.
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57 Savoir Faire For the money, baby.
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58 Endurance For Revachol. Always and only Revachol.
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59 None
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60 You Forget politics. I'll never sleep if I keep on like this. Variable["whirling.upd_tried_cancel"] == false
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61 Ancient Reptilian Brain Are you sure? You could be closing the door on a brilliant and *special* future for yourself.
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62 You You're right. It's time to get political.
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63 You Yes, I'm sure. I am very boring and *apolitical* and sleepy. [Ignore thought.]
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64 Ancient Reptilian Brain He's got no idea what he's in for.
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65 None
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66 None
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67 Ancient Reptilian Brain I knew you couldn't resist. So now you're gonna change the world, but how?
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68 None
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69 Limbic System Did you hear that? He's renouncing politics. He's *strictly business* now.
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70 Ancient Reptilian Brain Just another thoughtless vessel ploughing the grey seas of the everyday.
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