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I'm honestly surprised that no one noticed all the way back in Turquoise Serpent Club (specifically Box-Bound Ruler) that a certain man with a black cloak and white mask was supplying a strange silvery substance (aka. quicksilver/mercury) to the human Perez to grind into a pigment and transporting it all across Europe and the US. Then once the mice Perezes took control of the club, the stranger suddenly took the recipe for the pigment and practically vanished from the face of the earth, as well as coinciding with that particular mine collapsing and cutting off that supply in the first place... In Lorentz's mind, she assumes that it was Manus' work to create the pigment for the revival ritual sometime after the 10th Storm (from 1962 to 1929), but my little Aleph-obsessed brain immediately jumped to the conclusion that Merlin had a hand with the whole operation; whether he was even aware of its eventual consequences or doing everything in his power to deny it all like a certain river in Egypt.

Firstly, the 1900's were part of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920); a time of internal war, hardships, and eventual artistic boom that Merlin seems weirdly particular about just when he was ranting to Paracelsus after the Uqbar phone call. Then he also complains to Zahir about how Laplace are "textbook sociopaths" despite being far more scientific in their research (except Lorentz for obvious reasons), meanwhile he's cutting up prisoners like they're a science experiment to cure the so-called "disease of the mind"...Did you know that the lobotomy was popular around the time to cure the mentally insane or help with deep sleep? Case in point, I'm all for Merlin being alive around that time until he got sucked into that entire mess in Ushuaia; trying to hold onto his individuality despite a certain someone trying to drill it into his head that they're all Aleph now, so they should just let go of their personal strife and return to the calmness of the Depths. Mind you, Aleph only mentioned "Merlin" being created in 1977 pre-4th Storm (in Folie's The Mask in the Mirror), so it could both be an instance of the era syncing up on top of Merlin trying to prove his own form of transcendence with the tools and knowledge he already has.

Now for the importance of mercury (especially with Enigma's new lab partner in First and Last Principles), it's an extremely important component in alchemy as one of three components of the Tria Prima: Mercury/Mind, Sulfur/Soul, and Salt/Body. Of course, while certain paint-savvy characters consider it to be silver since that was a prevalent material to mine at the time, it indirectly leads to the Awakening of the mice Perezes, Lady in the Lake, and even Muriel's whole scheme to revive Therasita by capturing/preserving memory and "reviving" the dead in a controlled environment. It's the reason why Musae III, Ludwig and/or Laplace as a whole just decide to slap a big glob of the stuff into the Toybox as a Storm simulator without knowing how volatile it is; which Enigma then takes the core for himself and named it Shannon (both for the utter whiplash in his Morning Bond dialogue and as an anglicized version of an Irish goddess of water, purity, and knowledge). Going back to Comala Prison; while Aleph is more of the alchemy man of the group (Para actually being more of an author given his many literary references and possible cameo in Cristallo's A Dream in Stained Glass), how else would Merlin use such a powerful arcane material? Well, as a pigment, it is a pretty good sealant to prevent water damage in an enclosed environment (or a possible reference of a certain sealant from a 1947 paint company); and while the arcanists inside have their sparks of inspiration, they still gets some pretty dangerous bouts of madness that Merlin then feels obligated to "fix" as the temporary warden of Comala. Rinse and repeat until Recoleta and the Foundation (ie. Vertin and Sonneto) stroll in to "ruin" all his hard work. And while Aleph himself is eventually secured in the Foundation in the Changeless Room, it seems that the mercury poisoning is starting to show itself in more telling signs that he just brushed off as symptoms of his hyperthymesia or his reflections of the prison fire...Then the disc burner in Vertin's War Room breaks down, and we all know whose been pretty superstitious about these kind of "omens".

Now I just want Aleph (moreso Merlin) getting the worst of both worlds now that he's stuck in the lair of these textbook sociopaths and possibly getting recognized on sight by the Perez family since they and Lady in the Lake are in the Suitcase for now...Or you know, holding a personal vendetta against the newest Laplace director for using "Shannon" as a personal lab partner and an indirect link to a certain living alarm clock :).

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we all rely on the microphysics of power or whatever

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I went to see Evanescence in concert today

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I lost to Aleph and technically I did want another copy of him because his P1 is really good so... let's go???

Gonna try again for Ramona.

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"Recoleta" Book Club ✒

While I'm slowly puttering along 3.4's Pre-Storm Protocol, imagine my surprise with Marcus' tutorial through the Toybox and found this little nugget of dialogue:

Even if it took a bit of digging to find the actual The Idealist since it connects to either a poem/literature website, a 2014 book by Nina Munk, and finally landing on a 1950 page in the New York Times, the whiplash I got was pretty real (even if the conversation ends just as quickly as an Assistant recruit)...And then the (toy) pieces began to pile up on Aleph and co. interacting with the Toybox in less-than-subtle ways now outside a mysterious red phone booth, the linguistic breakdown, and a couple thought experiments on the side.

So that got me thinking about the potential timeline for the simulations and when Aleph was officially put in Foundation custody. Given X's direct confirmation that this P-SP likely happened a couple days after 2.8 Paradise Regained, well after Vereinsamt, and is a couple months before Long Long Way and Campaign's Tale (definitely trying to give Vertin a breather/cope with losing her mom to the 10th Storm)...Then I look at Gnomon's timeline, albeit still in-progress with Spring Unending mentioning 1996 and Heron’s time likely being 1596, and immediately remember that Time Travel is a perfectly balanced trope and will definitely not melt a person's brain with a chronological gaming experience :)

Other than that, it also brings out a another side conflict with Ludwig and the Aleph(s) on top of ticking off another box on my theory of The Depths + Zahir hijacking Laplace’s less-understood tech to figure out how their collective minds work under a microscope (among other funny hijinks in the earlier Storm Protocols if you read between the lines). Cause how else is the LSCC supposed to know about this strange human's connection to a mini Storm simulation box? Besides Lorentz aka. "Enigmatically Enigmatic Girl" of course, and I'm sure it's going to be a ride once Serpent Club gets released on Global since she wanted to avoid Argentina with a thousand-yard pole after her little conversation with Aleph.

And yes, even if it somewhat sucks that their psychoanalysis warzone is stuck on the sideline, and neither of them figuring out they're in the same building now, the fact they went down the mindset of "I want to pick apart your brain and find out what the fuck is wrong with you?? And I'm going to do it in the most unethical way possible, even if it's in a simulated environment, and make it everyone else's problem...Platonically, of course!" is extra hilarious if Adler is actually the third wheel in all of this and completely unaware of this "playground" cat-fight. After all, he's mainly pissed with Ulrich freaking out about the toy pieces being more efficient Laplace employees (ie. Stripping away an arcanist's eccentricities and making them act more machine-like than the ferrofluid himself) and Ludwig creating a "universal language movement" through the power of Proteus (which also has theological backing from Carl Jung, alchemy, and the Collective Unconsciousness theory); he's still grieving Greta and trying to be a unofficial uncle-figure to Marcus for obvious reasons... Typical Laplace office drama here :)

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You wrote a post about Alephsys last year, and I wanted you to know it helped me massively! I'm writing a paper on plural representations and your analysis of the alters and their afflatus really spoke to me :>

Oh wow, thanks for that and good luck on your paper!!

While that post was initially made as a secret teaser to Reveries and before Wailing Whirls released on global, it also adds another layer to the AlephSys since it could connect to how his alters affect him passive/actively with their given Afflatus and/or "arcane skills"...Plus finally figuring out that Knotted Thought's phases also line up to when each of Aleph's alters were first created (which was majorly hinted at in The Answering Machine and the couple lines in Folie), so that could be something to look into system dynamics and how they might effect someone in the long-term.

Other than that, extra good luck with your studies and hopefully a great summer break too!

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