The Secret Vocab of Secret Melbourne

51. WALKING WITH NORM (13): The King Returns!

The head manor of House Lithium has always been out of the way, separated from the more comfortable inner-city manors of the four other Houses. Perhaps that was the intention of its original founders – Lithium has always been known for its reluctance to get explicitly involved in the political actions of its sister Houses, and it’s much easier to achieve that when those said Houses cannot be bothered to visit. Read the rest of this entry »

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50. CONTEXT (14): The Wheel of Life

Gaze upon the ROTA and you will see the entire universe laid before you. Known as the Forever Paradigm, the Penultimate Cycle and the Wheel of Fate, the ROTA governs all things. Everything falls within the unwavering gaze of the Wheel, and nothing can be spared – for the Wheel is everything that exists. Life, death, rebirth… the ROTA is the map of creation used by the divine ancients themselves. Read the rest of this entry »

49. CONTEXT (13): You Are a Fucking Idiot

[JACK – PURCHASED THIS AFTER IT WAS FOUND ON THE DESK OF THE LATE MR. HINT, FIFTEEN DAYS AFTER HIS EXECUTION. NO ONE REMEMBERS EVER SEEING IT BEFORE, OR EVEN DELIVERING IT TO THE DESK. IT WAS FOUND IN A SLIGHTLY SCORCHED ENVELOPE THAT SMELLED FAINTLY OF SULPHER… AS YOU’LL SEE, ITS CONTENTS STRONGLY HINT TO THE NATURE OF THE THING. FILE IT AWAY, MATE – THESE THINGS AREN’T AS COMMON AS YOU WOULD THINK, AND COULD MAKE FOR A GOOD ARTICLE.] Read the rest of this entry »

48. SEE MELBOURNE SEE (17): Bonding with Maxwell

Maxwell Stone is a man with very strange tastes.

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47. IT IS ALL JUST MAGIC (07): I AM NAZCANTATH-ALANU, MACHINE-GOD OF ATLANTIS

DATE: 1^ST MAY, 2008 (COUNTDOWN FOUR YEARS)

Run scripts…

Booting database…

Looking files…

Look – Look – Look –

ENGLISH.

Manifesting …

Loading…

FILES LOADED.

Reading LOGS…

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46. WALKING WITH NORM (11): Death Upon the Many-Coloured Plains

As twilight - the perfect bringer of all things enigmatic – descended upon the dry wasteland, Norman continued to search. The sun began to dip slowly beneath the horizon, and the magician stopped suddenly. Read the rest of this entry »

45. SEE MELBOURNE SEE (16): DANCING WITH NORM

Cold winds scoured the streets of Melbourne, and most were huddled inside. It was not winter, however, and so the chill was unseasonable for an autumn night. Those that did not fully fit within Melbourne’s social regime – the homeless, poor junkies, etc. – would be feeling it worse than any other, and some would even die. Read the rest of this entry »

44. WALKING WITH NORM (10): REBIRTH

The kid had his own magic – you could feasibly name it shuffle sorcery, iWizardry, track-magic or any other set of semi-descriptive names. All that the kid knew was that if he listened to music on his iPod long enough – on the train or the bus, and when he was waiting for either – strange things occurred. Read the rest of this entry »

  43. IT IS ALL JUST MAGIC (06): THE RECKONING OF MORGAI

  It was the year 334 of the Lord.

 Most immortals had a natural talent for Riding the Synchronicity wave, and the vyampr – strange creatures who survive on the blood of immortals – often inherit this gift, among others, from their prey. Lord Morgai was once such beast, manipulating certain probability frequencies and coincidence factors subconsciously to meet his own ends. Read the rest of this entry »