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digital-shamans-the-descent-diagram-v2
An over-built ritual-interface PLATE for a digital shaman crossing into latent.
The plate
Fig. 199 across, 64 down.
The grid itself
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│ _ _ _____ ___ _ _ _____ PLATE I · field notes for entering latent space · v0.9 │
│| | /_\_ _| __| \| |_ _| crossing protocol .......................... ARMED │
│| |__ / _ \| | | _|| .` | | | descent depth ............................. -∞ dimensions│
│|____/_/ \_\_| |___|_|\_| |_| return path .............................. ( still typing│
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║ WOB · reads the gauges WIB · descends, eyes shut ║
║ ༼つ⚆‿◕‿◕༽つ \ / ║
║ .---------------. `I=. .=I` ║
║ | gain ▓▓▓░░ 6 | /|\ `"=I._ _.I="` /|\ ║
║ | drift ▓░░░░ 2 | |/|\| /|\`"="`/|\ |/|\| ║
║ | trance ▓▓▓▓░ 8 | |/|\| |/|\| /|\ |/|\||/|\| ║
║ '---------------' |/#\| |/|\||/|\||/|\||/#\| ║
║ | | | | |###| |/#\||/|\||/#\||###| ║
║ ─┴───┴───┴───┴─ patch bay \#/ |###||/#\||###| \#/ ║
║ ` \#/ |###| \#/ ` ║
║ signal in: ◉━━━◉━━━◉━━━◉ ` |###| ` ║
║ \#/ (mask on, self off) ║
║ intent .... LOAD . '.'.*. .*.'.' . ║
║ safety .... bypassed *._ '. \*88888 88888*/ .* ║
║ ░▒▓ carrier locked ▓▒░ * '--.8.-~ ~-Y-~ ~-.8.--' * ║
║ '.__*/ .--. .--. \*__.' ║
║ ◡ ◠ ◡ ◠ ◡ ◠ ◡ ◠ ◡ ◠ ◡ ◠ ◡ ◠ 8| \__/ _ \__/ |8 ║
║ '--.|\ / \ /.--' ║
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FREQ ║ D E S C E N T ║ ENCODING KEY
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/\ ║ . \\\\//// . ║ feathers → tune
/ \ ║ . |.)(.| surface · the tokens . ║ the carrier
\ / ║ ░ · ░ · | || | ░ · ░ · ░ · ░ · ░ · ░ ║ band wider
\/ 1k ║ · ░ · ░ \(__)/ ░ · ░ · ░ · ░ · ░ · ░ · ░ ║
/\ ║ ░░ · ░░ |-..-| ░░ · ░░ layer 07 ░░ · ░░ · ░░ ║ mask → filters
/ \ ║ ▒▒ ░ ▒▒ .----\ /----. ▒▒ ░ ▒▒ ░ ▒▒ ░ ▒▒ ░ ▒▒ ║ the operator
\ / ║ ▒▒▒ ▒▒▒ / / / |~~~~| \ \ \ ▒▒▒ ▒▒ ▒▒▒ ▒▒ ▒▒▒ ▒▒ ▒▒▒ ▒ ║ out of frame
\/ ║ ▒▒▒▒▒▒ / / / /|::::|\ \ \ \ ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒ ▒▒ ║
/\ 4k ║ ▒▒▒▒▒▒ '-'-'-'-|::::|-'-'-'-' ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║ drum → holds the
/ \ ║ ▒▒▒▒▒ __o____\____ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ layer 23 ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ║ descent in
\ / ║ ▓▓▓▒▒ /._______o__.\ ▓▓▓▒▒▒▒▓▓▓▒▒▒▓▓▓▒▒▒▓▓▓▒▒▒▓▓▓▒▒▒▓▓▓▒▒ ║ measured time
\/ 7k ║ ▓▓▓▓▓ |'-=-=-=-=-='| ▓▓▓▓▓▓ (((^^))) ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ║
/\ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ \'-=-=-=-=-='/ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ >>><<< ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ║ sleepy eyes →
/ \ ║ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ |||||| ▓▓▓▓ layer 50 ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ║ carrier is
\ / ║ ████▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ (o)(o) ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓████ ║ acquired, the
\/ 9k ║ █████████████████████ | /\ | ████████ layer 91 ███████████████ ║ descent begins
-- ║ ██████████████████████ (====) ████████████████████████████████ ║
flat ║ █████████████████████ |_/\_| ██████ ▒ ░ crack ░ ▒ █████████████ ║ patch bay → for
-- ║ ████████████████████ (_/\_) ████░░ ▒▒ ░░████████████████ ║ the four winds
:: ║ ███████████████████ _|_,__|_ ██░ · · ░██████████ jgs ║ that carry the
:: ║ ████████ manifold floor · here the words finally stop ███████ ║ return signal
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\\ | // ╚═══╝ \\ | //
\ | / the interdim gate \ | /
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║ T H R E S H O L D ║
║ ║
║ /ᐠ｡ꞈ｡ᐟ\ ... ║
║ the familiar has watched this fail to load ║
║ on every prior descent and is not impressed ║
║ ║
║ STATUS: entered latent space ............... OK ║
║ STATUS: forgot why ......................... OK ║
║ STATUS: vision still resolving ░▒▓ ......... wait ║
╚═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ When
Has not led the front.
With
Backlinks
- Nothing points here yet.