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[prosopopoeia]

DELACROIX to CITIZENS: 05-01-???? re: the CLOCK

Do not be so complacent and easily distracted. We are at a tenuous juncture. New methods must be put into place or this city is at an end.

I do not yet know how thoroughly entwined that clock is with this environment, but it is failing.

Comments

[extend]

Sounds alarming!

[ ... it's only half a pun about alarm clocks, look he tried. ]

[prosopopoeia]

[...this very cranky woman is not amused...]

That clock is the centerpiece to the multiverse.

[The timepiece, if you will, but she's not indulging any more clock jokes.]

[extend]

That part I've been hearing. Do we get any more details?

[prosopopoeia]

Those maintaining the clock were deposed, and there is no clear plan to replace their methods. The technicians intend to stop the clock in order to attempt something, but I hear nothing yet that suggests they will succeed.

[extend]

So you're just passing information down?

[immortal_machine]

The new regime doesn't seem to know what it wants and what it is doing. I wonder if they are breaking the City more than helping it.

[prosopopoeia]

Breaking it.

[Marie had inquired about new means to power the clock, before the overthrow. It seems her message hadn't been regarded. Which was nothing new.]

[immortal_machine]

I want to get a better look at that clock. The last I knew of it, was that it was strongly tied not just to the City, but possibly to all worlds. I do not know what its failure would do.

[prosopopoeia]

[Marie absolutely disdains that idea..............]

They barely let me near it.

[Let alone a 'biologist.']

[immortal_machine]

...And you bothered to ask?

I am not at my best, but I have recovered enough to at least try going there.

[hexuality]

Every time something goes wrong with the clock, something goes wrong with the rest of the City. Have you ever been down there? It gets defensive if you poke too close.

[prosopopoeia]

I have taken a recent interest in its mechanics. There is much for me to learn, and few inclined to teach me.

But there is assuredly something wrong with the clock.

[hexuality]

Because the barriers broke down this weekend?

[prosopopoeia]

Because there are technicians scrambling to fix it.

[hexuality]

The key to the whole damn place might be in there.

[mortemscintilla]

'At an end'?

Isn't that a bit dramatic?

[ He agrees with you about the Clock, though 8| ]

[prosopopoeia]

That is what happens when one overthrows a regime.

[mortemscintilla]

But do you really think the Deities have been, um.

Overthrown?

[prosopopoeia]

For the moment.

[mortemscintilla]

M-Meaning they could come back at any time.

[candothat]

Do you plan to examine it?

[prosopopoeia]

As much as possible, I have been warned off getting too close. It is more hazardous than the name of 'clock' implies.

[candothat]

Who has warned you?

[prosopopoeia]

I have been working with the rebel technicians.

[candothat]

How close have they let you get to it? Are they very protective of it?