Skeletal Dictionary

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int1
in which future prophesies are alluded to, glyph'x steps in, and the moebiod tarot structure is first presented.

int2
in which Cohen doubts the validity of the tarot structure but still wonders at it's possibility to win access to unearthly realms.

Cohen | "win access to unearthly realms"

int2b
in which the form and general location of the machine is given, and the search for the island is directly expressed

uncharted tropical/desert isle | The Machine

int3
in which courtney and cohen hire richard to lead them to the island in exchange for giving him the island after they claim the machine (ah, the arrogance of youth); cohen attempts to figure out the tarot structure, and a general raiders of the lost ark vibe seeps in.

the Edge of the Map | Richard (later named Richard Pryce) | Courtney | the Serenade | the Circle

int3b
in which harvey wonders at his reality and rraby and laurel dream of each other.

int4
in which dbauler gathers troops for his child and small animal army, jimmy cheerios monitors cohen and courtney's progress from free station julia, and total war is declared via the Baulertech Amalgamated Jihad.

int5
in which it is revealed that dbauler is being puppeted by forces beyond his ken through the use of messages planted by pol pot, the mandatory naps program is exposed as a slush fund for covert military ops, and InfiniTek first rears its head.

int6
in which heather appears just long enough to get herself kiled, louise appears and alludes to her having control over ongoing situations, and the first of many clash of the titans references appears.

the Hope Button | Heather the Antagonist | Louise (later name Louise Camus)

int7
in which courtney hits the hope button enough times to short out all of free station julia, processor of hope button transmissions. meanwhile, the child pirate army takes over richard's ship and he begins the drowning process.

the Panic Button | Hope control system

int8
in which pirate training deomnstrated by jimmy's brother ray falls flat on its face, cohen yanks the bugging device which further spins free station julia into a sucking vortex of panicked turmoil, and dbauler trusts in providence to guide his actions.

Ray

int9
in which dbauler revelas his official fatwah as to apoc, memory decay, planned nostalgia, and InfiniTek as the target of all jihad actions.

rez (aka free agent .rez, Heath Michael Rezabek) | appropriation | "the human project"

int10
in which the escape pod aboard free station julia is taken by a yet-unidentified person, leaving the crew to an apparent death as the satellite crashes into the earth. meanwhile, back on the boat, richard's ship is blown to shit by the f.s.j. escape pod, which courtney, cohen and the children go to investigate.

the escape pod

int11
in which [something] enters the escape pod from the ocean.

the protagonist she | Melody

int14
in which Walter (not to be confused with Walther) first makes mention of the potential of Ext., Dbauler puts Bomberman on the trail of the Harlem Globetrotters, and Fishboy swears revenge on humanity and promptly disappears from the narrative.

int15
in which Walther appears, misdescribes the Guild, describes an odd scene on the escape pod, posits a deity need/lack but does not define the boundaries in which this need/lack exists.

Guild for Preservation, Promotion & Protection of Narrative Linearity & Unity (GPPPNLU) | Walther

int16
in which the connections between InfiniTek and Free Station Julia become even more eldrich, the Sea of Scrytch theory is first introduced, Charlene Wormwood's evil past hijinx are laid out, and Courtney surfaces from the ocean after visiting the escape pod, map to the island in hand.

int17
in which the protagonist She surveys Courtney and Cohen and makes her escape from the boat by moonlight, only to return by dawn.

inta1
Dimension of Clogged Arteries
Michael Anson Finnegan (Aqaraza)

inta2
World Scrytch Association (WSA)

int18
in which the protagonist She is questioned by Cohen, just like when she was questioned by Jimmy Cheerios, and we're left with more questions than answers, to no one's suprise.

the Concrescence War

int19
in which the protagonist She is questioned by Courtney and we end up reeeeeeally confused.

int20
in which InfiniTek is forced to hire second-rate armies (including the KISS army) to stage total war, certain people get really uppity about finding the (already found) escape pod, the first mentions of narrative disease are alluded to, and the Darren Bauler Child and Small Animal Army are officially announced AWOL.

Holy See of Antioch | Tierra del Fuego | the KISS Army | Gerald Huyssens | the Letter

int21
in which Meadowlark Johnson becomes the first to make it to the island, eagerly awaiting his chance to meet KISS, nearly opening the letter.

int22
in which Cal the child navigator is introduced and assists the passage of Courtney and Cohen to the island, also known as SOPOPOPAPOPIOPOLIS, while on the island Meadowlark Johnson blows his fool head off.

Cal

int23
in which the distinction between Meadowlark Johnson, recently deceased Interlace character, and Meadowlark Lemon, still living ex-Harlem Globetrotter turned evangelist, is made clear.

Meadowlark Lemon

int24
in which dbauler steps into chapter 29 of _Lullabye for Thunderstorms_ in order to plant one of the Letters (replacing an entirely different letter from Melody) in Scotto's mailbox, is caught by Scotto in the process, and does a kinda half-assed job of explaining what is soon to come.

Scotto

int25
in which Horror: Scotto, head of InfiniTek; Antares, double agent, dBauler, mad disinformation specialist. Redefinition of KISS Army.

int26
in which the World Scrytch Association tries a totally harebrained method of removing scrytch from history, which leads to the sorts of discontinuities which make even newly-appointed InfiniTek CEO Scotto Moore's plan to eliminate Heath Michael Rezabek seem downright reasonable, at first.

int27
in which rraby ponders multiple Scottoes, multiple .Rezes, and the clearing of the timeline.

int29
in which the logs from the Free Station Julia irc server show clearly the multiple forces at work using the satellite as a hub, including Job the Wonder Computer, PowerSpike!, and a glyph-X node. what this means is still unclear.

int30
in which Aquaraza states his opinions with regard to recent developments.

int31
in which PowerSpike lays apparent the moeboid structure of the tarot to Aquaraza.

int31a [alien skinned]
in which the She recieves a letter from someone alluding to certain alternate universes.

int31a2
in which Walther revealed as opposed to Scotto(s) & InfiniTek, working w//for/or... dBauler. Hints of a seamy side for Walther, hints there are a small # of words running his life.

int31b
in which one of the alternate aquarazi, 2aquaraza3, hallucinates heavily.

int32
in which dbauler posts the entry and moral codes for the Sea of Scrytch.

Contiuity Police | scrytch codes

int33
in which the protagonist She makes her escape from the bowels of the pirate ship, her past is explored in greater detail (linking her to the name Louise), and the effects of the WSA's reverse engineering plan begin to manifest in violent ways.

Island of Dance | reverse appropriation

int34
in which free agent .rez reads of the alternate history of Scrytch, displaced from humanity by force or by intent, while Louise and rraby ponder their recieveing a Letter.

Terciera | Dictionary of the Khazars | Ityl-Atys

int35
in which the Free Station Julia TV Guide makes clear that the inhabitants of the satellite were shown specially-designed programs for reasons unclear.

Dimension of Sheer Dementia

int36
in which dbauler[91] is used as a host for certain memetic diseases given him by Loyola Jehova and Jezebel Decibel; meanwhile in Present Day dbauler[97] meets dbauler[91], who gives him a Letter; db[97] explains his recent fetish for underage hookers and shares drinks in the exact same bar at the exact same time Cohen is gunned down in chapter one of _Voices_, and a whole mess of new characters are introduced.

int37
in which Aquaraza discovers and ignores his tangential relationship to reality, having been removed by other processes, and utilizes Job to further those ends.

int38
in which CNN reports on multiple Scottoes, attacks on dbauler by Abel and Baker, .Rez's fading from reality, the process of PowerSpike's scrytch virus, and the mysterious fates of Gerald Huyssens and Meadowlark Johnson, seemingly dead in a plane crash.

int39
in which rraby and Louise attempt to explain to .Rez the nature of his condition.

int40
in which .Rez is given file copies of iota, along with an envelope containing the final copy of IOTA, which is to be given to Aquaraza, it's true owner and the only person who can read the full-copy and remain sane.

O'onymh | the shedhim | the 'ajikhazi | the Inquisition of Aqaraza

int41
in which the antagonism between scrytch and apoc is made clear as a struggle which has lasted for eons under other names.

scrytch as a foreign agent, antigen to apoc | apoc | resistance to closure = avoidance of apoc | CRYPTOSTASIS | seed-kyrnyl

int42
in which the history linking Dbauler and the All-Nite Killers (Abel and Baker), who were the cause of Jimmy Cheerios' death and the instigators of the apoc meme into Dbauler's memory.

int43
in which the explanation of the creation of skeleton keys and ghost traps leads to the disappearance of Dbauler.

int44
in which the first explanation of apoc is given.

int45
in which Abel and Baker discover they ahve been reanimated, discuss Kali, and drive while intoxicated.

int46
in which the forgetting-disease, symptom of scrytch-attempts and (later-named) v23 is labeled as a'pox. a'pox is forgetting as attack on apoc-destruction and is a label for multiple forms, including the later-labeled Un and Auete. disease versus disease.

int47
a re-iteration of IOTA; an abbreviation of the rescue of Scotto from InfiniTek by the protagonist She; an explanation of the parallels between _Lullabye for Thunderstorms_ and Interlace; a day saved by Scotto's massive tolerance of hallucinogenic drugs; the distinction between Aquaraza and .Rez fades from view; Scotto shoots .Rez; Louise and the She, doppelgangers, attack each other.

Fall-out/Infamous Meltdown | timeline fuckedupedness

int48
Preston Heights

int49
in which Charlie Moonrock returns to The Ranch, a building filled with InfiniTek escapees who had been given pre-birth doses of Eidetamine, the inverse (we're hesitant to say 'cure' here) of V23.

Charlie Moonrock | the Ranch | InfiniteK psiCops | TopNotch | Eidetamine

int51
Preston Heights as birthplace of UMP
17 resigned agents
UMP packet #17 missing
1 agent dead

int52
in which Walther wigs out tailing Scotto, General Zeus T Brracetool sets the secret agent work schedule, hints of Walther's parents & children. More hints of ruling words, more wigging out.

erotic ouija | secret agent work hours | Gen. Zeus T. Brracetool

int53
Aurora

int54
Amy (aka Freer)
Mirror
spigot
reorganization of the scrytch mythology
.rez is dead
device for eigenstate hopping
Scotto shoots Louise and Richard Raby
Aurora appears

int55
Job hacked, glyph'X on island
Scotto reported dead

int56
stinky yardcat
fado player

int57
Kingsuk
Pres
Anti-Pres
Ana
Fast Eddie Satan
The World's Most Depressing Circus

int59
the WSA Board
UMP as unholy intersection between InfiniTek and WSA
"old-school WSA uber-myth of the UMP"

int60
exo-authorial intervention
NEXUS-Chicago

int61
Seven Dogeater

int62
Walther reveals a little backstory.

MicroSoft | Clare Boothe Luce | Josie & William Lehmann | William Slade

int63
dbauler receives letter #15

int64
Scotto's dream
U2 song 'Satan'
ShamanBot
[erto]
[nick]
Strayer Wood Theatre
Anglea Toomsen
Abby
Ben
DJ Shadow's "Endtroducing"
John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness"
timeline bleedover from fictional existence to actual existence
Datura

int65
the story of U2's "Satan"

int67
"Into the Heart" by Niall Stokes

int68
Mt. Rainier
FTF
Alki, Alki Beach
Taylor
dreamstatic
"The Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson
definition of tangent
"The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon
Harold Budd & Hector Zazou's "Glyph"
Rob Brezsny
Faulkner's premise about truth, fiction, and journalism

int69
defintion of Eidetamine
Peace Dividend
pre-interlace scrytch as wildcard

int70
"Dhalgren" by Samuel Delany
Quake2 for the Quake Literary Guild
Fringeware list
dbauler's initial re-reading of scrytch (1996)

int72
PSYCHOdeGRADABLE
United Association of Interdimensionary Travelers (UAIT)
symbol on Courtney's forehead
exam of Courtney & her vision of scrytch
scrytch as formulaic pablum
ruins of Ityl-Atys
City of Lost Dreams
reconstruction of the scrytch universe

int73
kali priestess
the angel
Cohen as Hugo Montero

int75
description of glyph'X
description of the Machine
definition of the shedhim

int77
solsalva refugios
Xero appears at a Tibetan cybercafe

int78
Nurse Spiralarm
Space Station Brighton
Ann Tarrys

int79
Chief Dances-With-Tar-On-His-Shoe
Hobbes Villanueva
Gabriel

int80
Kingsuk & Pres removed from storyline

int82
Tower of Babel
SilverGold keycards
scrytch - AVTR-VSSL

int83
dreamhunters
remote agent moskimous

int85
Walther goes to the Island of Dance, which he misnames. Turns out to have been an information-source for 1 Heath Michael Rezabek, continues his exploration of despair.

City of Crossed Streams

int86
junkgarden/psychic theater/apoc
dr. daniel foss
Diane O'Rourke
"Stroker Ace" dialogue as wisdom
the Masters

int87
Nasreen Tathagata
TopNotch
Julie Justice
Little Joey Downer
Luxo Maglite
"memento mori"

int88
Burroughs Way, Unit Seven
Police Constable Clobber
Sargeant Savage
X-Squad
Alice

int89
nihil; un; aeute

int91
oo'mbe gembe
Auron
Riven
TCI

int92
New Year's Ad Hoc Weenie Roast
scrytch - shuffle

int93
koans
temporal lope epilepsy
eigenstatic aesthetics
fibrillation
dissonance
mike gourlay

int94
Nude Modeling For All petition
Norman Mailer
fatwa
"bring me the head of Scotto Moore!"
pookah
ER
Carter

int95
generic scrytch protagonist
city of archetype

int96
in which Horror/What's This? Brracetool & Scotto conspiring? A Guild alliance w/ MicroSoft? Conspiracy collides w/ conspiracy & paranoia, unreined, rains & reigns.

int97
aun mae'hallaun es. kanallaenh moia, aeute-un damaen un, oeunst est.

int98
SS Brighton
Kevin (xero-2323)
Coelacanth Scientists
scrytch flanger
eidetic telepathic transmissions
Sgt. Clobber receives transmissions
Sharon (xero-2525)--Correction Agent for the Timeline Enforcement Agency
Kings Cross, London
Planet NMyoo-Nyoo
McFlannery
Big Daddy Rocket Launcher
timeline violations
Neon Death Ray

int100
in which dbauler reminisces on youth and bruce springsteen, speculates on a location of the machine, intimates destructive mayhem to come

int101
in which the show "bring me the head of scotto moore!" produces the heads of david byrne, increasing the willings to $27.00.

int102
in which the victorian hat factory is leveled on the beach with the help pf salsalvan refigios, the She slips a Scotto a phial of unknown content and leaves the remainder by the punchbowl for the beach party in progress. a visit to the post office produces a package and suicide note from from antares. the stinky yardcat from shows up on the beach.

int103
in which in an intercepted irc conversation with yara, scotto, and pfly, dbauler communicates initial confusion, but by the end of the log, all participants demonstrate the ability to parse plot and background knowledge from the thread so far, and hint and wondrous things not yet wound on interlace's spool ..

UAIT | Harry Hamlin | definition of 'pookah'

int104
in which there is an illustration of skeleton key, by Xero.

Cuma Indians of Panama

int105
in which harry hamlin produces, for "bring me the head of scotto moore!", the head of scotto moore, which commences to make claims of soul transmigration and thus call into question the personality inhabiting itself.

the undead talking voodoo head of scotto moore | dbauler's house of evil bad majyk

int106
in which um, me [cris] muttering something about having some html done & asking about midi.. should this be here?

int107
in which um, me [cris] muttering about the irclog and feeling left out, clarifying the suicide of antares prevented her from leaving the portugese island via flying carpet

int108
in which rez offers perspective on various subjects brought up in the irc log (int103), including the nature of the machine, the multiplicity o' rezness, manifested somewhat in the the neer to be fully explained recursive identity of auroura, glyph'X, Organiz & InOrganix, UMP, WSA ..

sigil | Abandoned Architecture | the machine called 'saves9' | Organiz/InOrganix | the heat-death of the universe

int109
in which there is further clarification of hmr rez

blu

int110
in which the She meets w/two sandcastlers, making a machine, but before they can explain the third effect of the machine she is stunned and they are killed by raygun blast from the dunes. the dying boy gives the She a pouch containing three dice.

sandcastlers (deceased)

int111
in which there is a memo re cuna.

int112
in which there is a correction re: Walther vs Walter.

int113
in which essay by seven dogeater re: big fat penis, multiple FSJs, power vaccum @InfiniTek, KISS army, impending mass suicide of the Worlds Most Depressing Circus, Pookah, Barbara, the possibly not head of scotto moore, and a reccomendation to watch the keys and the envelopes, for they who hold them will end up on the island and approach the machine -- "Whoever steps to the machine, and with whichever key, will decide everything.

int114
in which the story of auroura coming into her sigil, and the envelope and IOTA.

Aurora has Letter #13 & shoebox of IOTA part 7 | key shaped amulet

int116
A little Brracetool backstory, & the assignment of a new Guild Team to 1 dBauler. Reasons are given. Hints of Guild involvement w/ the UMP.

int119
shedhim/l'lulh
malkuth the robot body
the machine

int122
True-Names

int130
Professor Xander Moonrock
the Scrytchnomicon, Book 6--The Persian Rug Diaries

int132
Ext
Maya
WIZ+

int135
Harmony
23 Little Sisters

int136
temple prostitutes
flipper

int138
Walther surrenders to despair, egged on by the disappearance of Scotto & the reappearance of his own memory. He kills himself atmospherically, w/ 1 last pop-culture reference.

int141
Jenna
Cardinal Bob
Project Archangel
His Holiness the Pope

int42
Stumpy & Sally the loyal lab rats
organic material recompositor
missing blue glass bead

int143
The rescued Walther spills the beans to Scotto & the protagonist she, who recruit him successfully. Looking behind the curtain makes a point of itself.

int149
Glamour Esque
Strawberry Row
the Glamour Poole
Dr. Nicholas Solitude, author of The Epidemiology of Scrytch--An Aesthetic Plague
Inherent Mist on the Wall of God
Jeremy Young
Ezekiel

int152
Randolph Carter
Accidental Communications From the Human Heart
.WISE account sig

int153
Law of Accidental Communications from the Human Heart

int158
Walther remote views the new Guild Team, & we hear abt EXCCKALNTFOT. All Guild associates share a birthday. The she fishes for information, but fails to get it from the nottoocoherent Walther.

Natasha Henstridge

int161
trichothecene mycotoxins
free stations angellica and sylvia
faked transmissions of old tv/radio shows
revenge (the secret history of aeute)

int163
Bethany Medical

int168
Sarah Mossiman
Abbadon

int169
Mankato, Minnesota

int171
Jimmy removed from Pookah

int172
Jamie
Pete the Mailman

int173
'aji

int174
Mayor of SOPOP...

int178
lojban
"traces"
'ajikhazi

int179
angel
black pearl
cobalt glass bead
hugo montero
mastarde

int180
Walther flips out a little, sends nasty email. The Guild Team lands on the island. dBauler doesn't remember Walther.

int181
"narrative breakdown"
"imponderable iadic conjunctions"
Dead Area Entertainments
the Colony
Harry the Dairyman
Journal of Speculative Disease

int183
Backstory! & Brracetool's been driven mad, then catatonic. While mad, he sent some email which is also backstory.

int187
Dissention amongst the Guild ranks?

int198
Richter-Goldberg
Baulernetica Products

int206
Eight Cardinal Rules of Scrytch--#6

int207
"noise more important than form"

int210
The Abandoned Hospital Ship by V. Serin

int211
Varelse-Zakavish Pathological Systemic Disequilibrium Syndrome (AKA [v23])
Harvey
WSA's Department of Continuity and Laminar Flow
Dr Babamique
Dr Bennett
Dr Varelse
Dr Wang
Dr Zakavish
Dr Zeigler

int212
Poly-Substance Abuse Patterns as Possible Trigger for Reptilian Externalisation in Second Generation Eidetamine Test Subjects

int213
Dr. Cornell

int256
freaktastic
masdlkjeflkdekkslekrjf.com
slut4883

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