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  1. Public Bookmark 4

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    Always the same thing, the same story, the same narration taunting them. Freedom is always out of their reach, but Timekeeper keeps trying.

    Unofficial prequel to Memories Buried Amidst Time.

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    24 Apr 2023

  2. Public Bookmark *

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    “The concept is simple, however. Two artifacts that complement each other in origin, magic type, and usage may, when combined, temporarily produce something greater than the sum of their parts. It’s a “hit or miss” phenomenon, as Link likes to call things. Artifacts are rarely built to be companionable, and when they are, it is often a matter of chance. But it is fun to think about, is it not? For example, a magical lens and, say, perhaps a portal, if companionable, may create a portal to a dimension between dimensions -- to a place that is both hypothetical and real at the same time. A lucid, living vision of the most sincere kind of lies.”

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    Legend had always been far more curious, intelligent, and mature than any of his reincarnations give him credit for. But when he finds that his Magic Mirror and Time's Lens of Truth fuse into an artifact that reveals each hero's worst nightmares and deepest traumas, one of Legend's defining characteristics overpowers the others.

    AKA: Where Legend can't keep his nose out of everyone else's nightmares and ends up creating a real-world nightmare for himself.

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    24 Mar 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 36

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    Stanley finds echo of himself known as the Narrator, and tears him from the fabric of the parable. As reluctant as the Narrator is to leave his life’s work, he follows Stanley to the escape pod and into the real world.

    Back in reality, Stanley decides it's time to shape his own story. At least, he hopes he's the one making it. Comforting lies soon become full-blown denial, as Stanley tries to imagine a life without the parable. The Narrator didn't mean to go off-script, but that is the nature of their balance.

    Questions go unanswered. Endings get messy. Fortunately, both Stanley and the Narrator learn that perfection is overrated.

    My take on an "escaping the parable" story.

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    12 Mar 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 40

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    A few months after Stanley and the Narrator have escaped the Parable, someone from Stanley's past comes bursting into their new life. Struggling to bear the weight of his newly-rediscovered family's expectations while keeping the Parable and the Narrator's true nature a secret, Stanley questions whether he wants to repair the ties to his past at all.

    To make matters worse, the Narrator is taken and put back in into the Parable alone. While attempting to rescue him, Stanley finds answers he wishes he didn't and ends up faced with one last terrible choice...

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    12 Mar 2023

  5. Public Bookmark 20

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    The Narrator has a job, a script to run and a protagonist to control. But Stanley makes him feel human, more than human. He makes him feel alive.

    And then Stanley disappeared. Countless days into solitude caused by the person the Narrator loved the most, only for him to disappear. An old acquaintance offers his services in order to secure Stanley's return, and even though the Narrator notices their crazed look and wide grin, there's nobody else to turn to.

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    11 Mar 2023