Trans: Emeris thinks about the future, growth, and sustainability.
Trans: Emeris asks the Guardian, as a space-faring being, about alternatives to pyronox (structurally sound? thermally conductive?) and ether (energy dense? capable of industrial use? relatively non-toxic to fauna and flora?).
Trans: Emeris asks Lin - 'what's the deal with you making ether?'
Trans: Emeris indicates that, rough and crude though its new station may be, it is still willing to serve the Legion, whether as a cog in the machine, or through its own inspiration.
Trans: Emeris indicates two companions - friends? lovers? a stand-in for all people - limned in inspiration. Together they reach - through tangled-yet-ordered paths - for something that grows free and transcendent.
Trans: From the wreckage of the Guardian and the Mother, something transcendent, bearing all manner of fruits, may be born.
Trans: Emeris asks Kallidion about how peace negotiations with the Guardian are going. Both sides are powerful, but the deindustrialisation of the Legion and others is a lot to ask. Do you have any ideas about how we could negotiate this better?
Trans: Excerpt, indicating the Voice still whispering in the PCs' dreams.
Trans: a working symbol for the horn-crowned Varia Kalliana, and the six-winged Guardian.
Trans: Emeris considers the balance of power and resources.
Trans: Emeris is keen to hear anything that anyone has to say about the Guardian's doctrine.
Trans: Emeris asks what we know about what the Guardian and Mother wanted.
Trans: Emeris indicates to Ziruna that it will use ether to commune with the mother; if it is subverted in some way, it has sent her all its wisdom.
Trans: Emeris indicates to Tel what the Voice has told it - all the whispers in its dreams, the connection between Mother and Guardian, and joy/coexistence of the current inhabitants of Thyslann.
Trans: Emeris indicates to Ziruna that its plan will either get it killed by the Guardian or subverted - in which case, she should distribute what it knows. Or maybe - just maybe - Emeris will learn something.
Trans: Emeris asks a variety of Labyrinth-dwellers about the Guardian. What's her location? What does she desire? What principles does she operate under? What is she made of? What questions haven't I asked, that I should?
Trans: Emeris tries to persuade Tel that we're all part of the plan - a greater whole made up of individuals, illumined by the spark of inspiration, the Mother still whispering to us.
Trans: Emeris indicates the nature of its utopian vision - a greater, self-sustaining body of people and the things they create.
Trans: Emeris asks Miyel if they can feel their soul again.
Trans: Emeris asks Miyel if they can feel their soul again.
Trans: Emeris asks Miyel how they're doing - better, given the colour?
Trans: Emeris asks - 'what's the deal with the Hall of Mirrors? Is it guarded? Should we be afraid?'
Trans: Emeris indicates the way the gem console probably distribuyes hot (fire) and cold (congelation of water) air throughout the Labyrinth's various rooms, such as the singing sands and Fort Primus. It considers whether there might be an aridity (calcination + dirt) and humidity (solution of dirt) room as well.
Trans: Emeris indicates that, while individual Legion members may fall, their society binds them together into a unitary, mutually supportive whole.
Trans: Brown. A semantically vacant block of colour.
Trans: Black. A semantically vacant block of colour.
Trans: Red. A semantically vacant block of colour.
Trans: Emeris presents an SMPTE Test Card - a colour-based calibration test pattern, aiming to support Miyel in recalibrating themselves given their existential woes.
Trans: Emeris attempts to invite the Legion PCs to chat about their feelings. I honestly can't remember exactly what the little annotations meant for each character.
Trans: Emeris is scared and anxious about the increasing militarisation of the Labyrinth, but also excited about growing industrialisation and the social transformations that might emerge.
Trans: Are you sad (Ode to Joy, minor key), or happy (Ode to Joy, major key)?
Trans: No, I haven't found anything new; just but a lot of industrial resources. What about you, BB?
Trans: this is the continuous casting process for metal. Not only is it producing high-quality metal, but it is also recursively increasing its own precision and quality.
Trans: Emeris is safe - the self-sustaining growth of the Legion's beating industrial heart, and the inspiration that drives it (inspired by the Mother), will protect it. What about you, Heida? Are the Collective resilient against external threats?
Trans: I'm happy to work together!
Trans: She who Lights the Fire, She who stokes the Flame, and She who smothers the Flame, as a fractal being.
Trans: what insights could consuming ether teach me?
Trans: I have questions, but will these be dispelled by imbibing ether? I'll bide my tongue until then.
Trans: I'm interested in venting/circulation through the Labyrinth. Are you aware of - or have you seen - anything circulating air or water?
Trans: I saw the Mother of All. Where would she lead me?
Trans: do you agree to cooperate?
Trans: do you think that the different forms of life came from elsewhere, and were let out from the Labyrinth, or were they gathered from Thyslann into the Labyrinth? In short - are we dealing with an ark ship or a seed vault?
Trans: do you know anyone with a good organised/organising mind?
Trans: I'm sad and anxious at the growth of military violence.
Trans: this is the continuous casting process for metal. Not only is it producing high-quality metal, but it is also recursively increasing its own precision and quality. This also might be the basis to produce greater social progress/utopianism. To do this, I'll need to find someone with a good organising skill.
Trans: Heida's entirely official passport to travel in Legion lands.
Trans: Lin, I'm impressed with the fact that you've managed to unlock the mysteries of life, and that the pace of your research ever increases. But what's at the heart/at the end of this?
Trans: No, it's my pleasure! I don't need payment - the making of it, the inspiration, it is own thing.
Trans: tell me about your alchemical work!
Trans: Hello Aperius. I'm interested in any Northern resources - fuel, materials of particular hardness/structural strength, or anything energetically interesting.
Trans: hi Tornis. How do you feel about mass production - and, especially, machines that make more machines - as a route for social progress?
Trans: I'm sad that political instability is going to lead to greater violence, and vice versa.
Trans: What sort of sword would you like, Xiaowen - stabbing? Slashing? What kind of material?
Trans: Lin - how do you feel about collaborating in future?
Trans: Emeris thinks about the future - about building a future utopia. It includes all the 'iconic' characters (the ones from the species pages), and is built on a foundation of broken weapons. The tower reaches into an unrecognisable, blinding sky.
Trans: I agree! Collaboration will lead to great results!
Trans: purifying raw ore leads to refined metal and slag; but if the slag is refined by amalgamation, it yields strange blue-ish flakes. What are these?
Trans: I favour ploughshares and peace, rather than swords and war. We can pursue this through greater exploration. This will lead to utopian social outcomes.
Trans: Emeris can offer the following services to any expedition: repairing gear, alchemical support, and magically dismissing barriers and falling rocks. It's not interested in flora and fauna, so much as materials encountered in the Labyrinth.
Trans: Emeris is happy (Ode to Joy!)
Trans: Would Miyel and Lin be happy to work together with Emeris, to further the studies of natural phenomena?
Trans: Emeris, a creature cultivated from the lands of the Labyrinth, is a creature of the Thirteen Legion. It's interested in hearing the good news from Heida and the Collective!
Trans: Emeris is interested in the extraction of raw materials, and their conversion into potential social progress!
Trans: No, I can understand you just fine.
Trans: Emeris plans to build a utopia for all - although we don't know what it will look like at its peak.
Trans: Emeris is interested in collaborating on an expedition underground. What about you?
Trans: Emeris is interested in sending out a smaller consignment of processed industrial metals as an initial trade deal exchanging food for industrial metals at scale.
Trans: Emeris expresses interest in whether or not Lasya has any interesting and rare materials, or materials that might lead to unexpected/unknown results.
Trans: Emeris plans to build a utopia for all - although we don't know what it will look like at its peak. This will be built by melting down the Crown of Horns - a symbol of old authority - and swords - a symbol of old power.
Trans: We can trade for structural industrial resources - what would you exchange for these.
Trans: I'm not interested in military or destructive purposes; my interests in industrial metals are solely based on what will grow or emerge from their extraction. Is that what you were asking, Heida?
Trans: Not at all! Emeris would like to give metal to the alchemist.
Trans: Yes! Trade with the above ground world will allow us to learn more about it.
Trans: Emeris asks Heida if she'd be willing to assist with some sort of resource recovery investigation in the Labyrinth.
Trans: Emeris asks if surface trade would be desirable.
Trans: Emeris considers complexity in conversation with Lin.
Trans: Emeris asks about knowledge of the world below.
Trans: Emeris offers mineral resources; could this be the beginning of a wonderful collaboration?
These are the emails from Labyrinth. If you’ve found this from my work, and have no idea what they are – these are the pictographic/painting-based communications from an online RPG run by some friends.
