» Fri Aug 02, 2013 1:57 pm Professor Taoiseach
University of Gwylim
Dearest Taoiseach,
My most profound apologies for the abruptness and length of pause in my correspondence; I was called urgently away from our debate on a matter of great academic importance. My field work in the Dwemer ruin of Rkund, which is south of Riften if you are not familiar, has unturned a find of some importance. Some months ago, my workers excavated the remains of what we believe to have been the facility's primary meeting hall. Unfortunately, extensive Falmeri presence necessitated suspension of further efforts (although it does indicate that extensive segments of the city survived the mountain's collapse), but the diggers were able to extract several unique items before being forced to seal off the excavation. Chief among these items were a series of personal Dwemeri notebooks of a type hitherto unknown to modern archaeology.
Since our last meeting, the restoration and translation of these notebooks has been my occupation; a most timely occurrence, for if you will recall you had only just challenged me to find an example of Dwemeri society and personal life. I must not claim all the credit, however; my colleague Aranur in the Orrery at Firsthold has been instrumental in the dating of the text's entries. The Dwemer employed an absolute system of reckoning based on the confluence of astronomical conditions. Employment of the orrery (after calibration past the un-times of the Marukhati according to the ancient records) has allowed me to approximate a conversion of the Dwemeri dates given herein to our Imperial reckoning. Likewise, I should not have been able to complete the translation at all without your insights into the Dwemer language.
The enclosed document is what was known as an epithalamium. Epithalamia were a matrimonial practice of the Aldmeri (early Merethic period). In Dwemer society, a child past a certain age was expected to maintain a notebook written expressly for the purpose of being read by the child's future spouse or civic partner. These notebooks, or epithalamia, recorded everything a Dwemer wished their spouse to know about their lives, and were also used for a sort of 'social science;' that is, to record the status of an individual's relationships and to elucidate solutions to interpersonal problems. On the eve of a Dwemer's wedding, an abstract of the entire epithalamium was written and placed at the beginning of the document, after which the entire notebook (or set of notebooks, as you will see) was presented to the Dwemer's spouse in exchange for the spouse's own notes. As you will no doubt see, these documents were considered sublimely private, to be read only by one's spouse, and unpermitted perusal was a serious offence.
We do not possess, unfortunately, the entire set of this particular Dwemer's epithalamium, but I have translated the first notebook and provided both translation and a copy of the original for your perusal. Translations of the rest of the notebooks are still in progress; you will receive them shortly. Until then, enjoy the first entries of the https://www.dropbox.com/s/s0lcnr43zl570tl/EpithalamiumNull.pdf.
I hope all is well in Gwylim, and that you are as safe and cozy as you have ever been.
All my love,
Dinmenel
Intrepid Investigator
School of Thoughts and Calculations
Alinor
[For your convenience, but really you should click the link.]
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ABSTRACT
Goodbye, Unknown.
Thendr blazes against the black; 17th degree, 33rd azimuth. Mhara weeps across the waves; 0th degree, 2nd azimuth. Nirn inflects negatives beneath me, and Magnus inverts dilation. I look out from the ports of Vogram, from Vogram the port of all your unknown conception, and I write a goodbye you will never read. This is the night we wed, Unknown. This is the night I end. 1E 700
For most of my endurance, I thought that this abstract would be a joyous thing. I thought that I would write it in the relief of the openness for which we always longed. Instead I am unsure even to whom I write. But no, no; nothing is the only necessity. I write to the Unknown, as I have done all my life.
As I will now. Soon I will be unconscious to absence. But for these few minutes, an abstract duration, I will continue to stare into the void beneath the skin of all existence. I will continue to stare into you, for these few minutes. And although that is all I have ever done, I admit that I have not always done so fully. To refuse this acknowledgement is to ignore absence. I read now my own words and think what an ignorant fool I was, in my ommissions and obfuscations, my ridiculous fear of being known and then my burning passion for that very thing. Both were absurd; it is not possible. There is only nothing to know.
But now - now I go different. Now my hypnopompic bones are folded beneath the earth and my drowned wombs seed subconsciousness. Now I disrobe of disidentity and open to you; now I sheathe myself in the sigil I drew across the stars that I may see you for your edge and forget your aching emptiness. Now I begin the experiment I planned upon the Pneumatect's hypnagogia.
I have never been as dissatisfied as I am in this moment; I have never been as real as I am in this moment. My goal is yours, though you do not observe it, as it is the goal of all but the weeping earth. Only the acolytes of the tangled tower take consolation in the presence of absence; all else seek the death of dissatisfaction. I go now into perfect Satisfaction, which is fundamental death, and I go purposed to determine the stability of that erasure. I become unconscious of absence that I might be waked.
Tomorrow the incompatible will be combined. I have seen it. I will not see it. I leave this as the last subseries of my dissatisfaction. When the streams of our cognizance short on the unconsciousness of amnesia, this will persist, sole remnant of our wedding.
But you will never know me, Unknown. There is nothing to know. The epithalamia were never more than delusory chimes of comfort. Thus is this absence applicable. I will never read your epithalamium, Unknown. All that you have given me is your absence.
Goodbye, Unknown.
Khurakhem Arimatha Kthumach
SURPRISE MOTHER
SURPRISE MOTHER
Salutations to the Unknown from Jhunal's seventh degree (33rd azimuth), Akhat's thirteenth degree (729th azimuth), and Mhara's initial degree(0th azimuth). Nirn is rotating at three quarters median and Magnus is 94% dilated. My name is Arimatha, of the family Kthumach, clan Khurakhem. You know that already of course, but I am not used to keeping this sort of notebook or to writing to someone I have not yet met. This introduction is a tool for my own acclimation. Thus, hello to you, Unknown. ME1750
The Mother Zhemeara explained that this notebook is for record of the status of my social relationships and the repair of any malfunctions that might occur in those, but also to allow you, Unknown, to understand me. Therefore I cannot take notes here as I normally would; the function of this document is largely communicative, and must be created with that foremost in mind. This means that I will have to use more words, but the Mother says that this will allow my understanding of the social mechanisms surrounding me to mature and will help me to correct their malfunctions.
Obviously, effectiveness requires that I establish myself in your mind, Unknown. Therefore read this: as I wrote, I am of the family Kthumach, of clan Khurakhem. I live in the Free-Hold Rkund, which is a 7/12 composition, and have endured ten years. My Mother is Zhemeara Bthungmaz, and my father is Rethuch Kthumach. They are our hold's lead agricultural engineers. I study plant physiology, phytospirituality, hydrodynamics, pathological biology, mythical mineralogy, soil aetheria, and mathematics by the Mother Zhemeara, contained production structures, agricultural engineering, automated environmental techniques and conventions, and transtemporal history by the Father Rethuch, linguistics, psychosomatics, aetherial arcana, cosmological phenomena, and astral techniques by the Wife of my Father's 2nd Brother, the Uncle Inkungngk Kthumach, who is first deputy of the farm automata. The Aunt Ereatha, of the Amkhengz Clan-Hold Nchuand-Zel, is our Cosmological Influentionist.
I am scheduled to leave for my first fosterage 52 days from this morning. I will apprentice with the family Mulzenketh of clan Khurakhem in the Deep-Hold FalZhardum Din.
My favorite beer is Amschend Kriek and my favorite machine is the sigil stamp. My favorite subjects are mythical mineralogy and sigil engineering, but I only have a Juvenile General subscription for that. My favorite number is 0. That is an introduction and now I have to fertilize the fungus fields, so I will get used to the idea of you more at a later date.
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 16th degree of Kynrt (956th azimuth) and 94th degree of Jhunal (432nd azimuth). Nirn is rotating at nine eighths median and Magnus is 76% dilated. ME1750
Thirty-four days ago I arrived in the 3/8 of Deep-Hold FalZhardum Din and began my fosterage with the family Mulzenketh. The Mulzenketh are the hold's pathological biologists and list sixteen members. My studies here are more rigorous but otherwise identical to my previous tutoring, save for the addition of political science. I do not approve of the addition.
My duties in the hold (aside from study) are limited. My primary job is to track, regulate, and optimize the growth curves of the hold's cash cells. I did not do this at home, but it is not much of an expansion.
I have identified two potential friendship candidates. The first is of family Bthundz, which is the obsolete pathological biology family of the hold, and the second is of family Trunmethn, who are the hold's sigil engineers.
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 23rd degree of Jhunal (56th azimuth) and the 54th degree of Thendr (652nd azimuth). Nirn is rotating at median and Magnus is 87% dilated. ME1749
Well Unknown, I have secured a Friend. She is called Meirinth, of family Trunmethn here in the Deep-Hold. She has endured 9 more years than I and is currently fostered to family Klondrak, who are esteemed tonal architects among the clan - I mean the clan Khurakhem, my clan, but perhaps not yours. She has inky black hair and fuzz on her chin and she is highly praised by the architects for her promising talent. She invited me to a Trunmethn feast and I talked all evening with her Father about the advancements in sigil fundamentalism the Trunmethn have made in the last five decades. I inquired about a fosterage with the family Trunmethn after this but the Father declined.
My studies are fascinating but stifling; none of my tutors have an interest in abiological maintenance.
That's all of me for now Unknown.
Arimatha Kthumach
Addendum: I neglected to mention that I also acquired Brunfath Bthundz as a secondary Friend. We study together every day.
Salutations to the Unknown from the 343rd degree of Jhunal (52nd azimuth) and the 66th degree of Kynrt (908th azimuth). Nirn is rotating at twelve elevenths median and Magnus is at 66% dilation. ME1738
Today Foster-Father Earnyz informed me that Father Rethuch has arranged my second fosterage with family Tolnach, who are hydrodynamicists in Clan-Hold Nchuand-Zel.
Father Rethuch is not always known for his right judgement.
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 60th degree of Thendr (817th azimuth) and the 8th degree of Akhat (13th azimuth). Nirn is rotating at nine eighths median and Magnus is 99% dilated. ME1728
I might just hate the womer you wed, Unknown, if you're a hydrodynamicist. The best that can be said for this fosterage is that it requires much polydimensional arithmetic and tangential mathematics; in everything else it is dull to an extreme. Hydrodynamics are so... so... satisfying. There is an aerodynamicist subsect of the family Tolnach in Bthardamz; at least with them I could work with the pneumatects and their automata.
I have not secured any Friends here due to incompatibility of interests, but I still send beats to Meirinth Trunmethn and Brunfath Bthundz every thirty days, as is prudent for the maintaintenance of acquaintance. Brunfath Bthundz is faithful in his rhythmograms to me, but Meirinth has too much work and study to contact often, given her demanding fosterage with the lattice mechanics of Bthuand. Brunfath Bthundz has embarked upon recreational fermentation; it is also common in this hold.
We have mastered the technique of frozen relay in bone beats and converse privately in this way.
That's all of me for now Unknown.
Arimatha Kthumach.
419th degree of Jhunal; 27th degree of Mhara. Nirn at seven fifths median; Magnus dilated to 76%. ME1720
Unknown: Ninety days of progress in Trunmethn fosterage; Father Rethuch secured by special dispensation of Father Earnyz' Trunmethn ideoplasmic tariff. Family indubitably publishing revolutionary investigations soon. Current occupation limited to maintenance of sigil element manipulation engine and tutoring limited, but clandestine Trunmethn archive access grants sufficient data for intellectual progression in the discipline. Principle of sigil engineering of course understood since Rkund (since expulsion?), but here they push beyond simple supraconscious macrosymbolic mythic imprintation and into the true fundamental metaphorical/physical elements of resonance. Feel sure that irreducible symbol (universal reference) must be ultimate goal, but how close? Ridiculous investigation regardless; the ring is the self-evident answer.
Brunfath Bthundz at fosterage with family Hurankhur at Raldbthar; acquired second Brother one year past. Name: Urkhaz Bthundz, still at nurse here in Deep-Hold FalZhardum Din. Mother terminated in initiation.
Meirinth auto-nullified social obligation upon Kherakah matriculation.
Arimatha Kthumach
524th degree of Akhat; 27th degree of Kynrt. Nirn at six fifteenths median; Magnus dilated to 94%. ME1706
Unknown: Lone year remaining in the Deep-Hold before return to Rkund for auto-evaluation of fosterage and determination of group applications.
Recent responsibility restriction grating; discovery of archive access ill-received. Tedium now, but Urkhaz Bthundz and Bzentin Mzark occupy and alleviate a modicum of tension. Urkhaz bereft of fosterage due to deficient family status, but questions correctly and sees. Bzentin precocious prodigy, but scornful of fosterage practice. Scornful of most, save Urkhaz and potentially myself; prefers our private study to guidance of family elders. Particularly syncretically skilled.
Kherakah regretted application.
Arimatha Kthumach
223rd degree of Rkhet; 27th degree of Jhunal. Nirn at median; Magnus dilated to 49%. ME1703
Unknown: Father-Rethuch's logic deteriorates; insistence upon familial necessity despite limpid evidence of divergent interest. Rkund hunkers.
Inquiry beat to Thuanach of family Bthurmatheng at Arkngthand, Mzanthuang of Kharhung at Arkngthamz, Varnak of Thungaldch at Mzinchaleft, and as a failsafe to the Free-Hold Bethamez, west of Vvardenfell, which has been without a sigil engineer for some decades. Each of my primary selections includes an experienced group of sigil engineers. The Foster-Father Earnyz declined reference.
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 256th degree of Rkhet (388th azimuth) and the 406th degree of Akhat (622nd azimuth). Nirn is at seven nineths median and Magnus is dilated to 79%. ME1701
Congratulate me, Unknown, because I finally managed to repair the daedron containment fields of the sigil stamp observation chamber and reprime the aetherial accumulation disks. An absurd repair; the metallurgists here are utterly ignorant to the basic components of sigil engineering, and the Bethamez Organizing Principle didn't have the sense to request the proper design broadcast nodes. I had to ping them myself to even wake the automata to the malfuctions. Apparently the hold simply swallowed the energy deficit and resorted to conventional mechanics even on rate-limiting processes once the observation chamber had leaked below the threshold of supraconsciousness. It is generally a sub-standard hold, however; it seems to have been composed of 4/7, but maintenance has allowed the meter to slip differentially across the hold. It is extremely grating.
Bzentin Mzark made contact yesterday; he has obtained special admission to the Academy at Kherakah and finagled Urkhaz in as well. Offered for me, but it is too late for that, Unknown. Admission at their age is preposterous, but Bzentin will outwit most instructors. Brunfath is well; still competing with the alchemical engineers in recreational fermentation. Says he worries Urkhaz is falling to poor logic and experimenting upon himself with extracts of psychotropic fungi.
That's all of me for now, Unknown.
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 132nd degree of Mhara (379th azimuth) and the 447th degree of Thendr (543rd azimuth). Nirn is rotating at seven sixths median and Magnus is at 86% dilation. ME1692
The Free-Hold generates insufficient work, Unknown; Governing Principle Bthuand has put me on split appointment as coordinator of automated repair. This is suitable to me, for ubiquitous are the potentials I see for sigil application. The Hold's production and processing systems are decrepit and obsolete, predating the development of cyclical mutual utilization design philiosophy; the place rifes with rate-limitations prime for elimination. The primary barrier is the threshold of supraconsciousness, of course. Miniaturization of sigil modules is simple - and vital for use as processor components - but inducing observation for imprintation at such a small scale is problematic. Daedron containment fields are completely impractical, but perhaps an aetherial impulse from a charged morpholith. Or better, periodic impulsive discharge in a morpholithic incarceration circuit...
That's all of me for now, Unknown.
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 793rd degree of Rkhet (23rd azimuth) and the 611th degree of Mhara (650th azimuth). Nirn is rotating at ten nineths median and Magnus is 80% dilated. ME1687
Urthemz Ngarkur Bthangmund questioned extensively after examination of fully renovated smelter. Fixated most on the animunculic resonance and control crystals I fixed to the latest mercurial sigil synthesis sphere models. They were inactive, of course, currently on steam impetus and manual formulation, present only for future development. Ngarkur Bthangmund inquired whether I had experience with enchanting automata directives and I replied negatively, but shared something of that vector's ruminations. Subsequently Ngarkur extended invitation to join his group in the Free-Hold, which investigates the fundamentals of automata motivation and perception.
I accepted immediately - there is no other group of any esteem in the hold - but only this evening learned at mugs with Colhengrun that Ngarkur studied with Urkhaz' and Bzentin's tutor, the famed Polymath.
That's all of me for now, Unknown.
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 741st degree of Jhunal (973rd azimuth) and the 9th degree of Kynrt (335th azimuth). Nirn is rotating at twenty elevenths median and Magnus is 95% dilated. ME1685
Urkhaz and Bzentin have many words for me about their studies; Kherakah is a demanding facility, even for them. They have acquired two Friends of similar ability.
That's all of me for now, Unknown.
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 347th degree of Thendr (774th azimuth) and the 893rd degree of Akhat (235th azimuth). Nirn is rotating at five eights median and Magnus is 78% dilated. ME1679
At conference in the 5/9 of Kemel-Ze today, Unknown, with Ngarkur and team. The Deep-Hold's alchemical engineers synthesized seven exclusive formulations for the event; the best is malted with yam and Vvardenfell gruit. Braised boar and skrill briast blood pudding are the main solid-state sustenance, and in formidable supply.
Khurakhem Meirinth Trunmethn is here with the rest of her family for presentation of Meirinth Trunmethn's first innovation: 'Miniaturized Configurable Sigillic Possibility Imprintation Modules,' which garnered some acclaim and rendered the nearly complete draft in my satchel moot. Of course her cubes do not have the capacity for automation and her technique for supraconscious induction (tonal lattice mediated epiphany preparation) is both over-complex and inefficient, but the concept is still near enough to invalidate my own work for publication. The automated element will have to be completed first.
Beneficially, Ngarkur was nearby during the presentation to run a consolation function on me. I think we have begun to add new modules of mutual expectation, Unknown.
That's all of me for now, Unknown.
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 35th degree of Kynrt (45th azimuth) and the 195th degree of Mhara (212th azimuth). Nirn is rotating at seven fifteenths median and Magnus is 79% dilated. ME1673
Dramatic developments today, Unknown. Reverberations from Bzentin this morning communicated that Urkhaz has been discontinued from the Academy at Kherakah for transgressional experimentation and prohibited mental transmutations. Pilei finally had their consequence for the damn fool.
He must have proven his intellectual merit, though, because Bzentin reports further that the Polymath resigned in protest of the decision, leaving all his students and technicians at the Academy. Urkhaz is to continue with him at his new location; Bzentin declined inclusion due to diversion of interests.
Ngarkur came later with further information. The Polymath sent a rhythmogram to all his associates indicating urgent interest in acquiring promising researchers for his new group. Ngarkur held my fingers as a courting signal as he informed me that he submitted my unpublished work on sigil stamp miniaturization as application for the position. In one year, he says I may be working with Radac Arkngthemz, the Polymath.
I am not hopeful, but it is a satisfactory courting gift.
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 373rd degree of Kynrt (645th azimuth) and the 893rd degree of Thendr (904th azimuth). Nirn is rotating at seventeen twentieths median and Magnus is dilated to 100%. ME1672
Unknown, Unknown, I have been accepted! Radac arrived in the hold today, unannounced, though Urthemz Ngarkur Bthangmund was informed of the plan and facilitated the surprise. The two of them actually descended upon me while I was in the bowels of the Stamp, installing the mid-capacity automated observation chamber and grimed all over in oil. He hummed me his greeting, tugged his peyot, and promptly seated himself on a pipe to examine every aspect of my education.
My temporal perception warped under his swift barrage of frowns, grunts, and muttered harmony hymns, interrupted with ejaculated inquiries into the intricacies of every subseries of investigation, from mythical mathematics to metallurgy to complex meter without regard for logical progression; of course I realized immediately the calculation: determine the minimum of my intellectual ability - but it must have been five hours before he pronounced my understanding adequate. produced my draft from inside his robes, and tore it in half.
Too difficult to understand, he said, with Ngarkur Bthangmund grinning behind, and proceeded to deride the orthodox demand for incomprehensibility in presentation of research. At the conclusion of the tirade he stood, pulled me up, kissed both my cheeks, and announced that he accepted my application. That is how it happened, Unknown, as unorthodox as it is, but I understand if you doubt; I doubt also.
We embark for Kemel-Ze this evening; Urkhaz and the rest of Radac's new group await us there.
The Polymath, Unknown! The Polymath!
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 271st degree of Jhunal (425th azimuth) and the 621st degree of Dbluh (763rd azimuth). Nirn is rotating at sixteen nineths median and Magnus is 85% dilated. ME1672
Embraced in the 5/9 tala of Deep-Hold Kemel-Ze once more, Unknown! Radac and I arrived by zeppelin this morning and met the Governing Principle at the docks. Introductions to the rest of the group pending, and first meeting this evening.
My quarters are in a sublimely beautiful 7/12 subharmony, and - oh, Urkhaz is here, Unknown, and with an impressively full beard.
That's all of me for now.
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 930th degree of Mhara (42nd azimuth) and the 680th degree of Akhat (784th azimuth). Nirn is rotating at nine fourths median and Magnus is 69% dilated. ME1671
I am uncertain how to evaluate this data. First, Radac displayed repeated facial communication signals of dissatisfaction during my impromptu examination. Second, he accepted me to his group. Third, he has tasked me with a particularly challenging initial project. Fourth, he expects all his students to attempt similarly difficult endeavors. Fifth, he encouraged me to assist the others wherever my knowledge and sigil skills would be beneficial. Sixth, he has repeatedly said that investigation is a collective effort and facilitated strongly by synergistic conjunction of talent. Does he esteem me especially, or am I one among many?
The project with which he has challenged me focuses on the fundamentals of animunculic generation. More specifically, I am to define and quantify the symbolic basis of creation and anti-creation by generating a sigil which replicates the established tonal procedure and then dissecting its symbolic elements. This will have the dual benefit of producing a machine which requires only a finite amount of energy for the animunculic generation instead of the repeated inputs of the tonal method, and of elucidating the fundamentals of the process. I am currently designing a prototype.
Received a social status report from Ngarkur Bthangmund.
That's all of me for now, Unknown.
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 854th degree of Jhunal (911th azimuth) and the 16th degree of Rkhet (201st azimuth). Nirn is rotating at median and Magnus is 92% dilated. ME1668
Urkhaz loitered in my office again this evening, Unknown. I am curious as to how he accomplishes any progress on his own projects while repeatedly manifesting himself in my office, or laboratory, or research Stamp of an evening. Considering, this behavior began after the night, approximately 32 days past, in which we met without schedule at mugs. I shared something of my thoughts on further sigil miniaturization that night, if my memories are accurate.
I lose productivity when he is present, but it is... enjoyable to talk with him. He is a very intense and interesting mer, and very interested in my ruminations - primarily those on miniaturization, if his skilled conversational machinations are not merely a cover for another purpose. He did display signals of genuine interest when I shared the problem of supraconscious induction - the scalability of the sigils themselves far exceeds that of the mechanisms of aetherial saturation, and thus further miniaturization will require new induction techniques - but he displays much more tension in them than he has in the past. Perhaps he has chronic project anxiety. Several nervous tics, most notable a propensity to pace and obsessively examine and reposition my possessions.
That's all of me for now, Unknown.
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 373rd degree of Dbluh (619th azimuth) and the 840th degree of Jhunal (111th azimuth). Nirn is rotating at nine tenths median and Magnus is 81% dilated. ME1665
Inquired as to the nature and status of Urkhaz' project during his visit this evening. Scale reductions show evidence of trending; Urkhaz too has been percolating the problem of miniaturization, in the context of automata design, one of his major planes of interest. More problematic than my own, perhaps, if only for the quantity of systems to be scaled.
I've constructed and tested several more animunculic generation sigils, but they have proven as ineffective as the initial. Perhaps I am approaching this ineffectively in some manner... perhaps an increase in sigil fundamentalism would increase effectiveness.
That's all of me for now.
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 144th degree of Jhunal (310th azimuth) and the 421st degree of Akhat (833rd azimuth). Nirn is rotating at three quarters median and Magnus is 93% dilated. ME1664
Latest sigil design still ineffective, but at least Radac is handy with emotional manipulation techniques and was nearby to stem my overflow of frustration. The facility of emotional engineering from mentor to mentee is widely acknowledged, but not so many realize, as Radac has through centuries of experience, that sincerity amplifies its effectiveness several fold. He is not only a nearly unparalleled researcher but also a truly caring mer.
Urkhaz still in Deep-Hold FalZhardum Din with Bzentin and, according to their reports, Meirinth Trunmenthn, for the examination of Khurkhem's Council candidates. Approximately 6 months remaining in this sojourn. A daughter of agricultural engineers is too simplistic to effect a sufficient challenge for any potential Council member; perhaps especially if she is so domestically rebellious as to study sigil engineering. Meirinth only qualified due to her tonal work, despite its superfluousness to her designs. Damn political scientists.
I perceive an odd shallowness in the 7/12 of my office in the past three months, espcially past the vespor melody shift. I checked the mechana, but everything is functioning adequately. Nevertheless, I still intuit the absence of a beat. Must be psychosomatic concentration disorder; I'll spend more time at mugs.
That's all of me for now, Unknown.
Arimath Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 74th degree of Thendr (97th azimuth) and the 98th degree of Mhara (280th azimuth). Nirn is rotating at eleven twelfths median and Magnus is 100% dilated. ME1663
Received formal marital proposition from Urthemz Ngarkur Bthangmund today, Unknown. Perhaps that is who you are? Will have to consider the full twenty-five, but he is now Principle of a highly esteemed group in Mzinchaleft under the Cosmograph, and he pledged a tidy brooch puzzle of divine detritus. A fair offer.
That's all of me for now.
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 327th degree of Dbluh (480th azimuth) and the 569th degree of Thendr (587th azimuth). Nirn is rotating at five fourths median and Magnus is 74% dilated. ME1662
My unacknowledged element placed me in Urkhaz' office after mugs, where we committed osculation.
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Unknown from the 911th degree of Mhara (973rd azimuth) and the 85th degree of Dbluh (119th azimuth). Nirn is rotating at eight sevenths median and Magnus is 97% dilated. ME1662
No more resistance, Unknown, because last night I learned the sense of simplicity from internal combustion, from the heat engine we jigged between us, the classic design; four-stroke cycle and reciprocal, length over-slickened for the friction of undersquare. A single-step assembly, but the svck stroke rubbed off rotation to the neural armature, which the squeeze induced through the crankspines' stator field coils into an alternating gyrational current, setting the piston rings aflutter on the bang and leading to polyphonic moan-tones and tensile contraction of the cylinder walls during the blow, and so on and so forth like that in fluid 1/1, pounding torque and tension through the prismatic joints of the drive shaft until the flywheel's resistance released and it all inflected forward on an oscillation froth of oil and squealing steam, sloping down at last to an equilibrium of lubricated limbs sigil-shaping the residual thrusts of piston-pumped void.
Yes, one exhaustion of our engine drove that sense in deep, but this morning I think more clearly and conclude that a three replicate minimum is a right standard for many relevant reasons.
You've got all of me now, Urkhaz.
Arimatha Kthumach
Salutations to the Known from the 214th degree of Thendr (351st azimuth) and the 380th degree of Akhat (467th azimuth). Nirn is rotating at five fourths median and Magnus is 68% dilated. ME1661
Regardless of the consequences to my career, I intend to make a proposal to you, Urkhaz Bthundz. You are healthy, intelligent, determined, and possess mental and physical proclivities compatible to my own. You have convinced me of delay's merit at this stage, but I expect swift action once your real work has dispelled the social stratum's focus on your juvenile foibles from the other clans.
I could not wait to decline Ngarkur, however; his proposal had already aged too long for that. He accepted my declension with grace, but I intuit that his personal schematics will require significant redesign.
That's all of me for now, Urkhaz.
Arimatha Kthumach
