Wednesday, January 18, 2012

the Dvaud.

Aldvar Ehunoevec was born on the 7th day of the 15th month of the 32nd year past the Cohembrium of Palmonstil in Yehursehto, north of Canahai and west of the Urun river. Now, in the 24 million years that span the History of Tehktoris, Ehunoevec might have been just another salanquin riding the currents of time, except for the bimonthly encounters he had with the Dvaud. For some reason that escapes most holonomers of Tehktoris, the Dvaud found Ehunoevec extremely interesting.

Who are the Dvaud? The Dvaud are are species of post-etherealized beings who are rhombent in this filament of spacetime. They exist on neutrinos and muons and red quarks in a very circumscribed fashion, and may, by application of impression on various subatomic particles in the nervous system, produce perception of their presence. They have historically taken a hands off approach to interfacing with the societies of the ramshackle, and the last entity they took interest in was Mhutigue Pahahao Corzo-Bfauthyrre, 35 million years ago, a selestossind of the Yozari parlance. We know that the Dvaud exist. We know that their interest can be piqued, but it is rare for it to be, and the conditions and personages that interest the Dvaud are scant in time and sparsely separated in space. From Mhutigue's diaries, we know that the Dvaud are interested in something they call "the elephrosmic acaulept", which is apparently not a one-dimensional concept. Mhutigue goes into great detail defining what one-dimensional concepts are, ones that are associated with paths, or homotopies between paths, or homotopy groups, or sequences of instructions, or programs, or data structures, and makes a great deal of emphasis that the elephrosmic acaulept isn't one of them.

Aldvar's diaries and data entries (written in Kalkari minor) also speak of the elephrosmic acaulept. The Dvaud (via Aldvar) express concern about the umarity (?) and the phosmence (?) and the fluorence (?) of the local sculpting. They say that they aren't aware of any other major transclusions except the crystalline one, and are pleased with the event shuffling, but say that the distressed terminus doesn't appear to merit any bivouacking, and because of that, the epochal spline might have to be renewed post-haste. The Dvaud say that the anticipated Leuxis occurred as scheduled, and that the Mononguly was appraised in full, and that (barring their own crypticity), all records are publically available. One oddity though, one of the last entries in Aldvar's diaries, written a few months before he died of thuonic charagosis, said "the feud transcripted last by Mhutigue between this polity and the Transquilaterals has been satisfactorily resolved as of 10Mya: emphasis: Ascarthenvalwar and Uathwaru may transculpt to Wahataraung without impediment!"

Monday, January 16, 2012

qwek?

The genocide at Sargumdo that occurred between the 9th of Ussuary and the 19th of Fomtember of the Yalhai was secretly monitored by the Beljunu-Tiemdolo organization and their findings were released in real time over several major intergalactic data trunks. The use of Yal-4 devices was prohibited under the Treaty of Kiunbu, and their use by the Aschtutl-Gerafirminade was widely percieved as being a war-crime of major proportions.

The Aschtutl-Gerafirminade are a species of lambda calculus compilers which live on the hypercontrollers of gravity-modifiers and convert large sequences of lambda calculus source code into a ternary executables which are then deployed via the hypercontroller to the gravity-modifier, allowing for custom high-specificity spacetime curvature tensor sculpting to allow rapid transit between orbital substations and faster-than-halo orbit traversals of solar systems and whatnot. The Beljunu-Tiemdolo report found:

The Aschtutl-Gerafirminade's governance determined the necessity of deploying a Yal-4 device of moderate yield in the stratosphere of Sargumdo. The Yal-4 device detonated at 0:19:22 pcfl on the 9th. The Yal-4 device released search-and-replace bits of exotic matter into the ecosystem of Sargumdo with the following instruction sequence:
day 1: convert all atoms of iron into nickel
day 2: disrupt all pi bonds
day 3: convert all atoms of sulfur into rhenium
day 4: replace all down quarks in neutrons of Boron with strange quarks
END

The obvious effect of the Yal-4 device was the complete elimination of all biologicals on Sargumdo. The  Mlonsivo Group has been pattern-locking and impounding hypercontrollers that contain Aschtutl-Gerafirminade firmware with the intent of determining which Aschtutl-Gerafirminade were responsible and what exactly was their reasoning. At the time of the genocide, there was a Wrieskiethke research lab on the north polar region -- the Wrieskiethke are postbiologicals with type qfr2 quantum foam bodies and  weren't recognizable to the search-and-replace bits of the Yal-4 device -- but they managed to create roving recognizers of exotic matter capable of filtering out the search-and-replace bits, which is fortunate because they managed to save some of Sargumdo's ecosystem. Fortunately, for the sentient, pre-sapient Chakthe civilization that had some dealings with the Wrieskiethke, the Mhalangra's research satellite was able to take a planck-verity octoscopic quantum image of it and dump it to the local portion of the metanet before the first wave of changes happened. Some Vlyssanghai engineers may be able to give them quantum foam bodies before too long.

The jurisdiction for the prosecution of those individuals of the Aschtutl-Gerafirminade is a little unclear.  Beljunu-Tiemdolo's editorialist, Surglonois Toer-Gassilganar says that the authority to prosecute lies solely with the GDXU-3 echelon of the eigenghourssaag in this tier (18/3f) of the Grand Congress for Symbolic Life, whose representative is Gal-(hyhecto):/bin/interface and who is working with the Mlonsivo group. Hyhecto sez: "Although we have not been able to identify the causation functionals nor the beta reductions that were responsible for some subset of the Aschtutl-Gerafirminade engaging in unprovoked war crimes, we believe that we have a candidate subset of the Aschtutl-Gerafirminade who were a party to those decision streams and beta reductions. Candidate punitions involving delinking the higher executable code from the experiential/sensorial interfaces and then assigning the at-fault Aschtutl-Gerafirminade to some low level contritiogenic periodic task farming situation are already being discussed, amongst other, less transparent methods.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

the curse of the silent magnetometers

The interminable diapause lends the interests asway, like a bird in error, or a mechanical parakeet which disemulates terminal malfunction by emitting fake smoke and/or other parts such as gears or capacitors when moving in an intentionally uncoordinated and unelegant fashion while at the same time maintaining perfect control over the performance. Oh, Avalwaud, whatever did we accept in those parfait-days of yore, what improprieties were accepted upon our behalf and did insist that our recompense what insanity might have been substituted by the horologies of our afterantecedants and priorforbears: if we were such fools, Avalwaud, did we not engineer our own ignomies after the Fall of Ravalbrakh? Did our lieutenants and minordomos did not make the apparition at the internal syllogistic debacle, an entombed meristem, a diseased publick beadle of disaffected nature and disagreeable character, who, disgraced, degraded, and disabused of the notion that the commonweal support magnetostriction and muon ales imposed a rather stentorian program of self-exile to beyond the Tratgarad Peninsula on the Islands of the Yakdog, oh, alas, what a pointless eversion, a peripatetic diversion, an indubitable periphrasis not worthy of our magneteers, such as might be found on a contemporary saturday morning cartoon programme on any of the major television channels in these days. Assigned did it such to tell whatever fearless enterasty did reconduct my passage to the end lands, an imporpoise to telamon mine own disaccomplishment, a ruse, perhaps, like foxglove, or the netherteal gantry haulks lining the edges of the cantilever machines which surround the Swamps of Scersion, whose paint is long since chipped and cracked as the sport of swamp diving has long since fallen from favor and the nations youth entertains brain-squishing and nine dimensional tiddly-winks as popular diversionary pastimes these days, too modern, too attention starved in the torrents of information. Alas, I cannot answer.

fjord rainforests

Chuytehc-Irrhague is on the border of the Telmunkpu and Garstil-Enteramakhtot, thalvent to the Tursvek Diondarskog and moggy of the Prelcipthai Archipelago. With many fjords and a rainforest in between them, the stratigraphy is rather bizarre, with tall trees and epiphytes and an insect populated fjord floor. Various seven legged arthropods with a variety of fungal parasites and a variety of aggressive native lichens make up the lower rungs of the food chain, while alactathyres and harruraqs are the local apex predators, one mammalian, the other a reptile. Deeper inland of Chuytehc-Irrhague the rainforest continues, with the mostly coastal pachquai trees making way for esmarado and muncippequine trees, and by the mountainous region the rainforest has dithered away to conifers, mostly balbrussia pines and a few struce trees.

Chuytehc-Irrhague used to, oh, about fifty thousand years ago, be inhabited by the agrarian Pahuaxtls, but they migrated to Terhedec and became the modern Pahuatl civilization. Occasionally Bersidoque and Palchiparian traders will come down an fell a muncippequine tree because the wood is especially valued in Bersidoque and Palchiparia amongst the violin makers -- but they come by extremely rarely nowadays. Most of the persistent inhabitants of Chuytehc-Irrhague are Kelpsiphunque ascetics who live on stalargo berries and muncippequine bark and are eagerly chasing the trophy of achieving the mind states of naphelvara and piristifoy for reasons mostly opaque to anyone not a Kelsiphunque ascetic. But they are really good observers: biopherecists were dumb to the moestril migration until the ascetics pointed out that the motile lichen moved back and forth from the seaside rainforest to the mountain conifers every seven months. They pointed out that the ant colonies on the northwest coasts of the fjords were deciduous and all died out every three months, though the ant colonies on the other coasts of the fjords were perpetual. They pointed out that the malypbtaria moths appeared to have three sexes, which completely baffled the entomologists.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Wollorongoa

Wollorongoa (not to be confused with Wollongong) seraphs high on the Orbillid shelfwhorl, one throntear niombent from the Wahrveigue and twelve throntears athalvent from the ursal edge of the Chorektheon fissure. It is mostly populated by Errhengyves, with a scattering of the Paltisporeyids and Numenokhs.  Polity governance is done by wheatstraw and gantry, and is post-agalmic. They see a seasonly tide of itinerant Uchualb and Malstoq traders coming to and fro Wollorongoa from Salchem and Mveurhale, mostly bearing rinewind and unrefined jalactite. The Orbillid shelfwhorl is cantered enough from the plains of the Altahyra probability shelf that you can 'see' most of Ayarghu as well as the Maharnep promontory extending into the Sea of Fragility.

The great explorer Uratunque Cossoyargill Bahaptai remarked that Wollorongoa is at a trifurcation, and that those who arboresce trifurcatorily will, necessarily make handhold and foodhold on this trifurcation must necessarily dance on all the shelves which orbit it: "Cos there's a reason it's called a Shelfwhorl: Ayarghu is gesswards, Uthygru is understumbled, Calaha-Tunskelor is sugglum, and Altahyra is niombent, but that changes. In a nahambe, Ayarghu will be overstumbled, Uthygru will be fosswards, Cahala-Tunskelor will be noggline, and Altahyra will be triombent. Probability shelves whorl around here, so it's the Orbillid shelfwhorl. The process is cyclic, and it requires around ∛17 nahambes for each cycle (I remind you that a nahambe is a measure of transcendental time!)."

Saturday, January 07, 2012

message to the ethers

Message begins:

Low context density tensor forecast data was not recieved, emphatic, please denote further desiderata in at least v0.4 rhodoscopic encoding prior to broadcast pounce. Interrogative: did Cezelick recover anything interesting from the Umid archives, and I don't mean anything like hygrochemical diffractions or burragily loaves, but metagraphomes and/or dischordant symbologies as would have been employed by the Umid vice-regents during the Ascivilent epoch? Emphatic: the next time that the subsidiary Cone is within range of Varfullus, have them radio exchange the last valid set of kryptagons before the compromise -- I think the stellation number was 180.491 and the offset was 20, and I don't care if their decrypts have been smashed already, I just need them in each other's datapools for a postnumerary validation void that will have had to been done at Jaldarjive.

Secondly, if any of the ponnears have caught on the grid, please, please make sure that you cancel them from the pool. They may not have much effect on your daily operations, but they mean that I have to manually cancel large sections of the datapool once you dump, and that reduces the chances of finding valid exit points that are behaving provably chaotic: once I have one of those, I can disconnect the lattice gantries from the mains, and the sooner you can get to free-running.

Finally, there is a remote chance that the Planaqtil Corrohesmids may decide to migrate to Alyfiminai, if you recieve any confirmatory data bursts that you can validate against their kryptagons, you are instructed at once to make haste to Susqlehersepria. It's a two-off, but if we can manage to trade at least a coupling stent with them, I may be able to shorten your journey by a matter of decades.

Message ends. Kryptagon 140, signature 0xFEEDBAAC

tidaiyedemisteboyu, (n)

A certain grotesqueness is carried by things that are empty (sunyata) and that have been pulled and pushed beyond their capacity to be real. It is like the uncanny valley, but not for living being, but for things. For instance, the fake computers emplaced at various office furniture stores possess tidaiyedemisteboyou. A small piece of molded wet cardboard in a certain light. A piece of crushed clay. It is, some say, more terrifying and/or horrifying than the authentically dead: a simulacra of the real. Merely deferring to avidya for the classification of imaginaries leads one to mistakenly classify all imaginaries as avidya: this is a mistake. One should be able to tell which imaginaries are worthy of a proper Wick rotation, and those that aren't.

Reward the ability to distinguish between imaginaries worthy of realization: that process of realization is the creative spark, from the ability to create those imaginaries that are substanceless, or painful, or diseased, or corrupt in character, with a rubbery and oily visage to them. The first possess a vibrancy to them, an odor, something that impinges the nascent senses. The second terrify: the mind that intentionally births the second repeatedly bears watching, and frequently it is useful to distance oneself from that sort of mind. On the other hand, the mind that is good and adept at the first bears proximity: they sparkle and fluoresce.

transstructioneer's foxtrot

Luito Calpistaro looked through the box of components and grumbled. "These are all wrong! This is a B to Q converter with hafnium bridging. And that's a swerveristor, not a polyociter! The ganning edges on these inverser valves are stobbed, not ridged! We're going to be stuck here!"

Almey Saihalvge looked at Luito and said "shh, don't tell anyone", to which Luito responded with a questioning look. Almey replied "watch"

Almey picked up the B to Q converter and asked "what sort do we need?" Luito replied "an A to D converter with lutetium bridging" Almey looked at the converter, rotated it around in her hands. The next thing she did set Luito's eyes open and his face agog. She changed it. The condyles and foliances of the converter melted, recrystallized, reformed in a dance that was gnawing on his perceptories. "What's next?" Almey asked. Luito handed her the swerveristor. Almey again manipulated it, drawing it out, and Luito could not believe what he was seeing. The flanging strokes of the swerveristor swung around, and another two leads were produced. Almey set the polyociter down and started fixing the ganning edges on the inverser valves. Afterwards Luito asked her, pointedly "how, how did you do that?"

Almey looked at him gravely. "You can't tell. They're not ready for it. They're too busy destroying or colonizing or monopolizing or ensuring that their genome-mates have access to the best resources for their offspring. Drop something like this in the mix and those barbarian empire builders and maintainers would just spread to places where they don't belong. I've seen it happen before. Just be thankful that we're not going to be stuck here until we run out of oxygen and power"

Friday, January 06, 2012

Codex Seraphinianus and the Appillericinians

Contemporary hyperographers often lament Luigi Serafini's poor coverage of the Appillericinians, the culture whose script is displayed on the Rosetta Stone page. Numenal inhabitants of La Arth often consider the French page to be more important, though that is probably ascribable to cosmocentrist undercurrents in most Earthican hyperographers at present.

In the Blovast reckoning, the Appillericinians are twelve orbifolds cantered, one orbifold reduced in distance from the Seraphinian Culture in location, and are removed from them one and a half chronoms timewise. The famous cultural anthropologist Melephio Ausgroyoehe did a survey on early Abolminine era pottery shards from around the Hozt and Calstique settlements along the Euphysme river, when sea trade between earlier Appillericinian and Seraphinian cultures was at its height.

It should be noted that the technology of two-legs, or synthetic bipeds was invented by the Appillericinians but was met with moral outrage upon its release. It is not clear when the method of making two-legs devised by the Appillericinians reached the Seraphinian culture: what is clear is how eagerly the Seraphinian culture took them up, producing viscous slime garbage attendants, umbrellas, gondolier-lanterns, tiger-exploders, and diplomats!

A word on the Appillericinian language ("Sholoque" or "Cortonastry"): whereas Seraphinian ("Coehstyl" or "Slinaqk" depending on which linguist you talk to) is based on the notion of visual arbitrage, that is, emplacing a high amount of semantic currency in the shapes of the filiform letters, Appillericinian is based on the sounds of the letters: the Appillericinians were gifted with the facility of being able to determine the lowest bass note one of their letters would emit if made of metal and struck. It is thus unsurprising that the Codex Appillericinianus is unavailable this far west of the Athalbuq divide.

Famous Appillericinians include Hohotok Kazaregue, Gungustiblimo Thmunturre, Balir Salaquayhil, Talaiq Cshumnete, Barger Yalgril.

Monday, January 02, 2012

unexpected consequences of time travel, no. 3102: the births page.

Auk-110, The month of Cressuary, the year of our Gourarud Shading 192,221C

New Strottafoyle Gabberbrain: Births Page (Section A, page 15-17)

Today the following people will be born:

Tahalxinake Taratvonnib Mahahualxu 192,221C-192,442B
Daughter of Cahalxun Voratminnib Mahahualxu and
Thalkinaske Manakannab Mahahualxu (nee Ztuyinxulxu).

Tahalxinake will write the books Thaud, Upper Highland Prozbenzics, will edit the New Phoaob Courier for 13 years, be the first person to climb Mount Attanteho in the Barvmulgruagu Prefecture, will invent a the first trettling gullip rated in the EHz range. She will be remembered for her lifelong battle with a variety of nearly undiagnosable and asymptomatic skin diseases, and her indomitable courage in dealing with the backlash of the Orteustry Debacle.

Stattabaker Carbassong Tuhungpe Markarakansai 192,221C-192,248C
Son of Vahalasmer Turkursmuk Tuhungpe Markarakansai and
Bettalamie Shalganauk Vospungbenabe Markarakansai (nee Reuxgers)

Stattabaker will be a short lived, generally despicable sort of person. He'll get into Dozouk and palagiss running on the Henoy frontier. He doesn't live roundly enough to make it into the B stratum, and will end up dying as a result of a kalvpok attack in the Brastil Wilterlands. He will be somewhat notable for daughter, for he will be  the father of Halmangra Surgultanab Mahangpe Keskiriadu, the famous arzauggist and author of the Plonsive Manifesto.

Uchietu Dzulgthe 192,221C-192,891R
Daughter of Ahassiete Dzulgthe and
Guriendi Dzulgthe (nee Tzolgthuetu)

Uchietu will, in fourty years time, be the author of a surprising mathematical theory, one which will revolutionize the field of postsymbolic transcomputation. History will record that it is called "pansynthechroid decomposition". She will attain the degree of Xa.Q. at the University of New Oxuld in 23 years time. She will marry Asfayadme Sappeangules, but theirs is not a happy partnership, owing to the massive intellectual disputes which will break out in 50 years time about cossigue functors, one of the technical devices that will be used in the pansynthechroid decomposition. (Amusingly, in 193,384X, her distant descendant, Urhietu Paveangalib will show that the relationship ending disagreement about cossigue functors will probably be excusable on both Uchietu and Asfayadme's parts owing to the slippery and bizarrely deceptive nature of the pansynthechroid construction as will be exposited by Marmuller and Yorasht in the Zohines Seminaire, 193,241S, which will have wouldn't been* unavailable to Uchietu and Asfayadme)

* [technically this is the "future unjunctoid intersal qualtive tense", see Dan Streetmentioner]

Sunday, January 01, 2012

alternative teleport methods.

Bervgenelau, the hesitant one, the one with the metallic beard and the eyes that cut rhodium like butter asked "how does this teleport system work?" Galvirrahue, the respectful one with the orange hair and three ears sparkled "it disassembles the molecules and atoms and then reassembles them at the remote location".

Bervgenelau, the cautious one with the metal fork and the knitted squid scarf said "then we cannot use it. I suppose it thinks equivalent isotopes can be swapped as long as the resultant quantum state matches the initial one during the dematerialization?" Galvirrahue, the one with the tired nose, respondeth: "well, yes, it doesn't care... why can't we use it?"

Bervgenelau, the harried sunstumbler, the one with the aging neck and he who falsely misrepresented a skin disease for a noble purpose, replied "because everything here is quark-tagged. And the postbiologicals that we are carrying, the Ichiuthya, have quantum foam bodies which are at a much higher resolution than mere baryonic matter. Your matter pattern compositers will barf on them."

Galvirrahue, he who toasted bread on the pale moonlight, replied "what do you have in mind?"

Bervgenelau, the indigo carrier of the astral chalice, responded: "An alternate teleport system I know of, that I can implement here without much fuss, involves complicated changes of local projective space, overlapping three NST-frames, the current one, the target one, and a temporary one. We can't overlap the remote and local NST-frames in one go, because the turbidity would be unsatisfactorily high, but if we make a temporary NST-frame, we can shift the materials and postbiologicals from one to the other and the other to the target (or vice-versa) without mishap. "

Galvirrahue, insulter of asteroids, said: "what is an NST-frame?"

Bervgenelau, the second filament of toast not digested by the Celery Deity, said "um,..."

Delphyneus' Geograffe (around the Puttgown Archipelago Galaxy)

The Puttgown Archipelago Galaxy is one of a few galaxies between the Iraschau hypercluster and the Straits of Gelvmeneor. It is accompanied by five satellite galaxies: The Major Orpfeos Cloud, the Minor Orpfeos Cloud, The Gescicudius Cloud, Kertetheron, and the Smear of Hohlthaum. It is abundant with precontact hominids, most of whose radio bubbles have not yet interacted.

Notable inhabitants (biologicals):
The Naheorskrene are responsible for a lot of high level energy arbitrage in Puttgown. The Dratayan and the Behisculines both originate from Puttgown, but have been migrating to Kertetheron. Hominid species include the Yovust, the Smeyer, the Bravalith, the Corminules, the Quayvai, the Eschbertelly, the Cansybijibu, the Moramora, and the Kerfahuni: only the Smeyer and the Cansybijibu have been around long enough for radio contact to be established. Nonhominids include the Tisthiristu, the Cthectyly, the Bauraz, the Kaalnav, and others.
(postbiologicals): Jalanaiques, Betherprines, Malathquirs, Hatharquines, Zalhygues, Pessonquils, Gehenthars, but most of them are currently in the progress of discovering thronteareal travel and are migrating away from Iraschau about four gigathrontears triombent to the Hexastyl on the Uthygru Probability Shelf. (Puttgown itself, en aggregate, is about two nanothrontears from the Curvugrum Escarpment, athay of Boromissith, and thelbent of Birionabily Promontory). The Pessonquils and the Betherprines are, on the other hand, arborescing trifurcatorily to the transstratum 1-3-Theuleuvirib, since the Bahavanghress Conurbation and the Syryzygeon of Anthulptis along with the major metropolitan thoroughfares of Kafsepily and Anhyridoque are extremely inviting.

Saturday, December 31, 2011

evacuation to Ahissior

The tent city at Ahissior mostly contained Sahallangke refugees from Parabst and Meromuffin, worlds that had since been evaporated by the unexpected induced supernova of their lightcandle, Shoregears, due to the uncontrolled sun-dive of an exotic matter freighter.

It is worth noting that the Sahallangke would have survived the supernova with no loss of life -- they use a variation of the quantum foam bodies that the Vlyssanghai used, not as sophisticated as the Pund mind you, but still better than raw biological bodies. But, the induced supernova would have completely destroyed the ecosystems of Parabst and Meromuffin, and nobody really wants to live in a lifeless place (although there are some entities whose personalities seem to thrive on sterility)

The dispatch of emergency precise targeted tonnage engines to Parabst and Meromuffin was organized by a few Pund engineers who were experienced with that sort of thing. PTTEs are known to little finicky, and it takes a lot of work to get a million of them to land at-will in a lattice on some remote body with large thronteareal separation between the launch point and the destination. Aruguheksne Caltombinim Axilliorwelwei, the "Ad Hoc PTTE General Engineer" of the Shoregears Reclamation Project (that's what they called themselves), has this to say about landing lattices of PTTEs:

ACA: "The real difficulty here is not remotely landing a tonnage engine. We've known how to do that for the last ten billion years or so, and to do so reliably and precisely. The problem is that of auto-diffraction. Tonnage engines without sentient occupants are known to autodiffract, and large numbers of tonnage engines moving together increases the probability of autodiffraction by several orders of magnitude. We have solved this problem by aggressively breeding and genetic engineering many variants of the palahyla, scurugussit, and gahearalloge lichen species, and applying a diversity of variants
to every surface of the tonnage engine's interior that could possibly support them. We've had one or two autodiffractions -- as opposed to the many that would be the case in a target population of 100,000 PTTEs, which demonstrates the success of our methods"

Galthasseroy Gruss-Povilchrotte, the ad-hoc Sahallangke 'leader' has this to say about the evacuation:

"Sure, we weren't pleased about leaving our homes, and we're not as, uh, ridiculous as the Pund would be about it, but we've only been using these bodies for a pretty short time and we're still smoothing out the internal relationships between post-Sagahanta and post-Vlyssanghai. I've talked with Aruguheksne about this: he says that they just would have stood and watched the induced supernova destroy the ecosystem of the world, because, they say "someone's got to observe everything". I guess I really don't understand the Pund perspective. Sure, we all got out in time, and still have extrusion records on our home architectures, so we'll be able to regrow everything in a matter of minutes when we find a suitable environment. Aruguheksne recommends the Sussulfunister Highlands, which is a recent volcanism geographical region of Sormeus, two throntears from here. I have to admit, though, I don't understand the thronteareal geography or topology, which seems to be a bizarre combination of every geographic feature possible, including higher dimensional ones. For instance, globular clusters, probability shelves, tectonic plates, rivers of water and or neutrinos are all mentioned in the same breath, as if there is a continuous gradation between them all.

I've talked with my compatriots about this, and we're not entirely happy about the  Sussulfunister Highlands, not because it sounds like a horrendous places -- the holoeos of it that Aruguheksne have provided seem to indicate that it's a pleasant, if unforgiving place rich in basalt and feldspar and geothermal energy surfaces -- but that we're having difficulty understanding exactly where Sormeus is in relation to the rest of our cosmology. When I asked Aruguheksne, he said "well, it's one twenty four millionth of a throntear from the Schilliringope Gulfwall, four gigathrontears from Scultum, two throntears from the Gyre of Golfgrease, and about a kilothrasmere from the center of the Puttgown Archipelago galaxy in the Constellation of Juruljinoa, The Pthactylismer.", but we were unclear if this was a planetary surface, or some other kind of surface. Aruguheksne seemed to indicate that Sormeus had been around a long time (three billion years!), so wasn't going anywere anytime soon. Puttgown is not anticipated to be involved in any galactic collisions for at least another five hundred million years."

Salhylahemangbe Gohosconse Ailahekorhiyun, one of the more notorious commentators of late on the Barreptro Fingum Mhotobierredge Analysis Conglomerate has this to say about the whole affair:

"Everyone has praised the rapidity of the response of the rescue team, but there have been few questions raised about the Pfthertegue exotic matter freighter. The Pfthertegue are notorious for being body-nativists and they've got a well developed postrelativistic economy spanning the Haltermanive Arm. They aren't a monoculture, but they're taking their sweet time diversifying, probably due to badly engineered large scale communication networks on their homeworld. The dominant belief system of the Pfthertegue endorses both body nativism and biological quadritaxy, so the recent Sahallangke colonizations in this part of spacetime are not likely to generate a favorable reaction in the minds of the energy resource arbitrators of the Pfthertegue. It is possible that the freighter was deliberately programmed to crash into Shoregears. There is no legal framework for prosecuting the Pfthertegue, if it can be demonstrated that the responsibility for the crash was theirs. A Pfthertegue dissident group, the Curriers of Morrast, has without evidence, assumed this to be the case, and have been broadcasting apologies in the Shoregears system for the past week or so.

Julnuirinnib Liorilla-po-Gsyerre, the spokesbeing for the Curriers of Morrast has laid blame on the Council of Tasaiu, the governing body of the Pfthertegue, saying that "We regret the actions of our dominant mimetocrats and energy arbitrators. It is obvious to us that the Shoregears debacle was a result of the discontent and bigotry which is rampant in our civilization against postbiological species. We believe that Tylneiriffike Scillgotthe-vu-Nsothe is the most likely entity to have been responsible for the sundive, so, as an act of specietal contrition, we will voluntarily decrypt several flomes of his communication and put it up on local data networks accessible to the Sahallangke refugees" "

Monday, December 19, 2011

living inhabitants of Sculym and the Oddlands

Sculym is twelve throntears arctangential from the Bridge of Inverse Mumbles, and one escarpment over the throbbing Gios Thyrry Anastomosis on the Ayarghu Probability Shelf. Sculym and the Oddlands are a curious zone of nonsentient organisms. The biopherecist L. Azifthreoy Pahaerel wrote this summary for the Vaveuslin Encyclopedium:

Sculym's stratigraphy consists of microkarst with calcine inclusions, along with various tectonic irregularities where Ayarghu is subducting under the Storgossil plate. The deep layers consist of congealed event plumes and other ethereal geographies, including chance-inclusions and coincidence tektites which have densities in between the ethereal and the material and thus tend to float to the Ahovovicic discontinuity, the separation between the ethereal and the material. Folding and extrusion are common, as the ethereal geography places extreme stresses on the material stratigraphy: things forced from one side to the other generally have chemically implausible structures: Helium dioxide crystals, neon germanate, argon trisulfide, as well as complex hyperbolic fluorinated boron heterostructures.

The yasdroghy (Hylofiesma arbuthnotensis) is probably the most abundant microfauna and tends to colonize coincidence-tektites that are far displaced on the material side of Sculym. Pahaerel says that genetic testing of the yasdroghy reveals that a single stranded RNA virus from the Bolrerino tree (LK120, strain f, substrains 30a,b,q)  made it this far outweird from the Sculkexor Peninsula on Baxon.
Also abundant are moerlids (Ujurulia stalcontii, Ujurulia halverfordium, Ujurulia palhapsina), which occupy the upper ethereal and sporulate on the down quark of the neutron of deuterium atoms in the plenum D2O of the symboplasts of the ethereal/material spanning Bithelvaria trees (Alocqpuod salvinestorii). the D2O is absorbed in above ground (material) root systems of the Bithelvaria trees which are diffuse assemblages of gnarled woven buckyfiber and then transported down through the interface into the Bithelvaria tree's ethereal anatomy. There the moerlid spores hatch into juvenile moerlids, evanescent filter feeders more than a kilothrontear in diameter which feed on the neutrino refringences of implausible events and live for many a conquil. (spongylls and moerlids are an example of convergent evolution, and Pahaerel says that spongylls usually get better publicity). Old moerlids -- ones that are in the final, reproductive phase of life migrate above the border and intentionally snag themselves on Bithelvaria root systems, and then deposit their spores on the aforementioned neutrons.

There are a variety of undistinguished tuspid megafauna in the Oddlands, the varscrique (Belpulungu frisparior) -- a nine legged herbivore which feeds on the hanging moss (Urusquizon tortenkely) which lives on the Bithelvaria trees, the phelmonate and aphelmonate barachtys (respectively: Zorquilo varispardium and Zorquilo allombens) -- tripedal, axisymmetric insectivores, most likely got loose from a tonnage engine at some point when barachtys were popular with the merchant class of Isiktaq and Mulmulktaq. Recognizable by both their transparence and iridity, the barachtys move awkwardly and eat slow moving insects (three legs does not make a stable locomotion strategy make). There are insect species -- the navwol (Helquirasse galifordium), -- think of the navwol as a cockroach-butterfly with bright green wings and equal to the cockroach in terms of being a disease bearer, the sculfrelesk (Agatalor gehenscens) -- which is a six-winged dragonfly with mothlike coloration and opaque wings.

The most exotic organism which lives this far trifurcatory to the Maalwulf divide is probably the whalgrofovea (Acherolaster syllegria) . One of the things naturalists found in the first surveys of Sculym were solid cubes of erbium that didn't seem to tarnish in air. These erbium cubes possessed a strange geological buoyancy: they would all float (slowly, over many months) to float to the surface. They didn't seem to tarnish and the chemists tasks with analyzing them could not find a chemical reason that they were immune from tarnish. The biopherecists then used diffractive quark spectroscopy and demonstrated that the virtual pions on 167Er and 162Er were the ends of long ethereal filamentous processes.

The solid erbium cubes of the whalgrofovea are eggs. Like the moerlids, the whalgrofovea have a bicameral reproductive cycle: the eggs of a whalgrofoveon are layed at the material/ethereal interface and float upwards toward the surface of the Oddlands. When one hatches, the virtual pions are drawn into the ethereal, and most of the mass energy is released: the added effect of this is the pion is turned real and withdrawn from the egg, meaning that any interactions which involved the pion cannot complete appropriately, and the cube is more or less instantly transmuted to holmium. The whalgrofoveon lives in 30THz event sheaves (most of them triombent to the Ayarghu Shelf) and its size is measured in picothrontears and it lives for, on average, 12 and a half million years.

Once hatched, the eggshells become food for pitscarves (Olortheugis mahathekelia) , a high frequency (though not ethereal) organism that lives in the mountains of Sculym and the Oddlands, They overnight in the bases of mountains, and spend the day moving between different mountains at 2/3rds the speed of light. Their feeding mechanism involves the total conversion of holmium (and only holmium atoms) into (nearly) energy, but their main waste product consists of FM radio emissions (which tend to sound like either French or Byrthistu philosophically wanking depending on the season, French in the summer, Byrthistu in the winter)

Sunday, December 18, 2011

uggherio wulzenthorem

Carruthers, General (REPORT):

The new Sinyan 3 porrogoly modules continue to outflob the old Sinyan 2 buggers by gasps as large as a mosquito: if the heptachroid had been mustard-ready, my litotes would be trampled, but I suppose one cannot minister to an inverted squirrel. Oh alabaster speleothems and other disregarded canasta sessions bedecked with liquid tinsel and the congress of the disabused: if Arnathaude and Melgemerave had spent at least eight hours considering the requisitional parameters then we might have made it out of this mudpit in two weeks instead of five, but proper protocols must be adhered to: not for some slavish adoration of the law, but because they are here to protect us from physical situations that are inimical to the process of living: an uncapped gespyon slot has incredible transtructive potential, and one need not have one's body transfigured into a number of grapefruit by transplosion. And even if it was suggested that our druthers were unsorted and out of order, at least we were certifiably unprepared for an encounter with a Droythelegm and a Pnyctoid.

Thursday, December 15, 2011

um, I didn't catch what you just said. Could you repeat that mumbling please?

Pheoboyms of 1/3rd, list:
Abstract: The following individuals have ascended to Da 3, and are no longer required to carry a Fthay:

Cerello T'noyam
Arthulbusmer Kercoggins
Vua Culo
Zaroasler Gal'Huin
Movom Martam


Pheoboyms of 1/2, list:
Abstract: The following individuals have ascended to Da 2, and are no longer required at straking rituals:

Rungile Thelestory
Arapaunec Cosidiorigua
Glufnesspoy Gesterjey
Nua Coropia

Pheoboyms of 1/1, list
Abstracct: The following individuals have ascended to Da 1, and are liberated from the ramshackle:

Gelsentua Dorpisaro
Tlymentheron Aduargru

General notes for this month: We've been having problems with the valve-trumpets, and Goss Vorvensby says that as soon as we get the next consignment of raw materials, she may be able to fashion the right valve grease. Organics are shipping at discounted costs, so when the plaza has the intermaterials  bazaar on the fifth, be sure to pick up any creams, vapors, crystals, gases, and/or any exotiques you may need. Rumor has it that squares will be forbidden to those confined to the ramshackle for the next two weeks. Hxohua Corporation may occupy a Prendergast shortly, so make sure you have all your parameterization forms in. Happy Vnoonking!

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

thralskrake and araspongbyllib

Thralskrake, the Epeyungspid from Eyagot dropped the helical gnoove-knife on the ground, and it shattered. Araspongbyllib, the Pund observer nodded assent. "Has it really been that long?" questioned Thralskrake. Araspongbyllib spoke "It has been roughly fourteen million conques since the Elusqeo conflict. I managed to have myself sealed in a cube of sold iridium for the first eight million conques. For the past six million or so I have been checking out the local phrenomes: there are some suggestive local conceptual hierarchies that indicates that we are on the waxing cycle of mylirstid migration. I didn't know that mylirstids came farther than the Augzayle gulfshelf, but as we are a measure or two from Silosset, and their are abundant mylirstids in torpor, the chances are we have hit on one of the substrata of the Augzayle, which means, that if I understand the stratigraphy of this area correctly, we may be able to find a tunnel plume to Boriogomia, which as it stands is still on the Minor Reticulation."

Thralskrake's eyes lit up: "So there's a chance we can return to Zohore?"
Araspongbyllib continued: "Mind you, we're pretty deep into Augzayle. This far into a gulfshelf and there are undoubtedly going to be Accidents, Reparations, and Defenestrations. My Heptant is a little off, but as long as we ride westerly for a while we might avoid them. We may have to drop a level or two to find a tunnel plume easily. If we are where I think we are, and the map update I just caught is valid -- it authenticates but I don't know if the signature is forged."
Thralskrake asked: "were you able to recover the CGC blade stash?"
Araspongbyllib sunk: "No. That worries me. I think we may need to find that before we even think about traversing to Zohore. There are living things here that are capable of using one of those that have no business, and if the stash's containment is damaged there could be all sorts of nastiness"

Saturday, December 10, 2011

war machines

Colonel Shalgrussiadge and the Ninth Division of the Fusiliers were having a raucous time celebrating their destruction of the two Ghusmoygne-Albrassago Engines-of-Devastation that the Kerveley Republic had been planning to deploy on the Shelflands. The Fusiliers had been armed with hatchets and kidney-brossages, really inefficient and pathetic weapons, but Private Stapleton had discovered that the joints of each Engine-of-Devastation were soluble in a weak solution of acetic acid and an ammonia-copper sulfate mixture, making the process of dismantling the Engines-of-Devastation much easier, because the fusiliers could basically just cut the seams by streaming the solution down them. Shalgrussiadge's blue handlebar moustache glinted in the twilight as he took a swig of eight year old sloss-whisky: incapacitating the Kerveley Republic's war machine had taken way too long. Shalgrussiadge thought to himself "dammit, I'm a turnip farmer!" as the sloss-whisky burn coruscated in the back of his throat.

Ghusmoygne-Albrassago would probably be subject to prosecution by the Interconsortium: both the manufacture of the Engines-of-Destruction and the (mind-busting) sale to the Kerveley Republic are blatantly unethical, for the Engines-of-Destruction are very difficult to beat into ploughshares. Shalgrussiadge considered Aratulgo Consipher, the Kerveleyan field marshal who was probably responsible for their field deployment. What a bastard. Probably would get at least two centuries in the bismuth mines for this, if the Lenientists didn't get a hold of his case.

Friday, November 18, 2011

immateria medica

Polquff Corporation has steadfastly advocated Maltriximub XD (cerephasmine HCL) for the treatment of polyacrylosis in Cherethryggs, but Drs. Eirtheyck Sagdwa and Karmayall Gleiss say that the procedures under which Maltriximub XD was tested employed an accidental synergy between cerephasmine and one of the excipients, a low molecular weight peptide from the Yissurogue tree generally thought to be decomposed to component peptide residues in the stomachs of the Cherethryggs, which reacts with cerephasmine to form yissurogin cerephasmide, which is cleaved into oxorin (glucuronidated in the Cherethrygg liver and completely eradicated from the system) and yissurophasmine, which is a stronger agonist of the D-32 receptor than cerephasmine. In fact, traditional Cherethrygg remedies for polyacrylosis usually employ Yissurogue bark and cerephal snail slime, but they only get cerephamine from the snail slime, and thus the yissurogin cerephamine which forms is only a weak agonist for the D-32 receptor, but strong enough to have measurable therapeutic value. Regrettably for Polquff, and victoriously for the Cherethryggs, cerephasmine is not under patent. However, as strong an agonist for the D-32 receptor as yissurophasmine is, any reasonable polyacrylosis therapy should include all three corners of Van Wylthoff's triangle: the D-32 receptor (cerephasmine, yissurophasmine, yissurophamine), blocking the kliadotropin pathway by inhibiting synthesis of galioganol (which is usually accomplished by low doses of tereschyllin or pereschyllin), and preventing low width S receptor decoupling which can either be done by dietary changes (restricting the consumption of the "scar" and "burn" foods and encouraging the production of the "ice" and "steam" foods in the traditional Cherethrygg dietary classification) or by monthly injections of taramifub or gloxoflast.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

chances and demarcations

Skulgrave and Lymphwrist looked into the horizon, into the patina of dreams that would reflect their mutual alienation. This far into the Hinterpast everything was fragile and glassy: the slightest touch could send huge tracts of chance-alliteratives crashing into each other, releasing enormous amounts of energy which would flood down the centuries and disrupt already transposed event plumes. Skulgrave and Lymphwrist easily darted between the interstices that lay between the smallest motes. Armed with portable coincidence torches they would apply the minutest quantities of heat to the glassy edifice, subtly rearranging its structure: very subtly, so that the ricocheting modified event plumes would be altered, or would contain alliterative propagations not originally encountered in the event plume: sometimes historywrights would consult Skulgrave and Lymphwrist, asking how much it would cost for their services. The historywright Covilgeor of the Anxual Conurbation yeffreous of Grotterdrome once paid Skulgrave and Lymphwrist in chances and demarcations for the most minutest of energies applied to the event plume of the Tyjmeor Continent, resulting in the Aluptry of the Carvargra before the Shelschesser of Cragnou.