La Ville [de la] Vague Vapeur

Owner/Operator, Existential Dreadnaught, Generous Asshole ( This is a blog about a vapor universe, stay tuned for text posts )

[nacharyzewell]

What’s Going On Here

You’ve reached a blog for Nachary Zewell, one character from Vague Vapeur, a collaborative storytelling project. Other character-blogs include those for Tuwile de Ville (@tuwileallthewhile) and for Jamero Kretty (@jamerokretty). Follow along as these characters reveal themselves spontaneously, fill in gaps of the storyline where necessary, and appear in original works of art.

[aaronwynia]

[zacharonipizza]

The hole in the ground which leads to the sky.

[nacharyzewell]

Kapnopolis provides a digitized sky even for the sewers of the Troll Party’s undercity. (Sometimes the potholes represent a broken line in the code of the infrastructure.)

[the-thiiird]

[cyfiware]

[areahappenings-blog]

Area woman, outraged that we only have one moon, decides she’s over this planet.

-@diaphoramagazine (via areahappenings)

[my-crippling-depression]

[kidmograph]

[nacharyzewell]

“Postal pigeon en route,” Nachary says to @tuwileallthewhile. “I propose the message will read, ‘Time to get your shit together.’”

“How do you know?” Tuwile asks.

“I’m a cloud drifting backwards in hyperspace,” Nachary replies.

“That’s nonsense,” she says. “But what I meant was, ‘Don’t Paramancers know what’s better left unknown?’”

“I don’t even know what we do anymore,” he answers. “I just know we can’t keep drifting like this.”

[pixel8or]

[jamerokretty-blog]

Je marrow and Nachary visit the retrofuture discoteque.

[nacharyzewell]

“I wasted a fortune gambling on retro-futures,” Nachary complains–though he dances his ass off anyway, trying to perform some kind of mating display for the various fem-identifying specimens.

[depresion-quotes]

-C

[a-na5]

[vaporwavevibes]

[corruptionasart]

[modempunk]

There are five rows with maybe twenty tubes in each row.

[pikachuyumm-blog]

[kushandwizdom]

1. Take risk 2. Expect the worst 3. Do everything you can

Clkroar (via kushandwizdom)

  (via kushandwizdom)

[tuwileallthewhile]

Tuwile steps into the data storm, barely recognizable through the bent data. “Rain may put out a smoke, but glitches can’t”.

[zacharonipizza]

“Crooked rain?” asks Nachary, eyes glistening as he watches Tuwile through the window: he always became sentimental to remember his origins as a hyper-cloud. “Crooked rain leaves a desert in the lee.”

Looking outside, he strummed his beard, and imagined the desert emerging beyond the mist.

[nacharyzewell]

Suddenly, Nachary’s gone; or rather, his body disappears, and leaving behind a 2D shadow stretching off a holographic ghost. His mind streams his timeline in Planck units all out-of-sequence, progressing neither forward nor backward, but awkwardly (every instant of his existence constellated in the pattern of the Awk, the wandering star which guides Planesdrifters’ world-lines) and while his holo-ghost ripples behind the bar at la Ville, echoing the glitch-rain’s irregular pitter-patter, the Paramancer’s mind either:

1. Guesses his past, attempting to discern what circumstances led him to become the Provocation Department’s first deserter;

or, 2. Remembers his future as a draft-dodger from the Interstellar Knights-Errant at the beginning of the Second Pastry War, and how this escape into hyperspace led the Death Master to meet the Dream Keeper in the desert emerging in the rain’s distant lee.

[tuwileallthewhile]

Tuwile finishes her ciggabacco just as Kapnopolis’s rain-scanners activate its street-sweepers, sending them on a patrol to correct the glitch.

[kidmograph]

[nacharyzewell]

“Postal pigeon en route,” Nachary says to @tuwileallthewhile. “I propose the message will read, ‘Time to get your shit together.’”

“How do you know?” Tuwile asks.

“I’m a cloud drifting backwards in hyperspace,” Nachary replies.

“That’s nonsense,” she says. “But what I meant was, 'Don’t Paramancers know what’s better left unknown?’”

“I don’t even know what we do anymore,” he answers. “I just know we can’t keep drifting like this.”

[broken-porcelain-dolls]

[nacharyzewell]

Interrogation tactics of the Uni-Bureaucracy enforcement divisions.