OK. So I’m now sitting in the dark with my back against a crumbling building, armed with a stolen kitchen knife, listening to a grinding rumble somewhere in the near distance and hoping it stays there.
Something went seriously wrong.
I was on my way to the Bazaar, could hear its chaos in fact, when I took [...]
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2009
2009
I have a headache.
One of those headaches that slowly eats its way through your brain until its right behind your eyes.
Oracle will tell me nothing. I’ve begged, pleaded, threatened, cajoled, and attempted to bribe with what little cash I have in my pockets (turns out, it’s worthless here). Nothing will budge her from her answer.
“All [...]
2009
I had made it out the door and down a rickety set of stairs when Oracle came walking around the side of, what I’ll loosely call, a building. She smiled at me and shoved a steaming cup into my hands, then, urging me to follow, started walking.
She didn’t even bother to ask where I’d been [...]
2009
Oracle lives in a hovel.
Then again, so does everyone else in this place.
In fact, from what I remember of it, Tropolis seems to be entirely made of corrugated tin, rotten planks, and whatever discarded building materials could be nailed together to create a…surprisingly less oppressive picture than it sounds. Of course, I’ve also been beaten [...]
2009
It stinks here.
I mean really stinks–make you want to retch kind of stink. It’s the sort of stink you back away from, and no matter how tightly you clamp your hand over your nose and mouth, it still wriggles its way in, takes up residence in the back of your throat, starts a family and [...]
2009
I had 45 seconds of freedom.
Ms Freaky was talking to what I can only describe as the receptionist, showing her two little notebooks, getting them stamped, and peeling back the bandage on her wrist to show the woman what was underneath.
I probably should have bolted then, but by the time I’d convinced myself that jumping [...]
2009
So I have a crazy hot stalker-girl. It’s not as cool as it sounds.
Oh, and I’m supposed to call her ‘Oracle’. And apparently we’re on a freight train, which would explain the sliding wall/door thing, but not the freaky decor. It did make me less panic-y when the room jerked and chugged into movement knowing [...]
2009
The wall…moved.
The Wall. Freakin’. Moved.
It just…slid open. I guess that’s why there are no doors here. Or, doors in the traditional sense, at least; who needs them when the bloody walls open and close?
I couldn’t see for sure what was on the other side; too little light and too much steam, and, well, I was [...]
2009
I’m sitting in…some sort of waiting room. I have no idea where it is. Or how I got here.
I think it’s a waiting room, anyway. There are a lot of chairs, and artwork made from…I don’t know, I think it’s trash…hanging on the walls. There are bits and scraps of magazines laying around on some [...]
2009
Picture a fancy restaurant–candle-light, hoverng waiters, crisp white linen, muted conversation, gourmet food. The whole deal.
Now change that picture a bit– smoking candles, mismatched dishes, junk yard furniture, scraps of dirty rags. Rotting food. Fine dining with bums.
This was Train 705.
I was shown to the Fat Man’s table; I can only assume he’s some bigwig [...]

