|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- CARNE'S MOISTURE DETECTION FRIEND--CUP 23--"THE SOLVENT IJSANE" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  Carne's Moisture Detection Friend  ||  -------> (Cup SRcm023, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ***THE SOLVENT IJSANE*** Story Treatment by Donamin Roostal The top of a skyscraper. People live and work there. There are a number of Screws, of great power. When a very powerful microphone is placed by the Screws, sounds can be heard. The Screws respond to various colors of light. Violet/indigo light produces a harmonious sound, other frequencies produce a discordant sound, especially red/orange. Each Screw is maintained by a single person. The Solvent Ijsane is a liquid which is the only means to destroy the Screws. The only Solvent Ijsane is also in the place called The Solvent Ijsane. The exact nature of the Ijsane Screws is not known. Each of the Ijsane Agents is autonomous... each maintains his or her Screw. This arrangement is meant to prevent any one Agent from gaining the ultimate power of the Ijsane Screws. By analyzing the sound from the Screws, the Agents can determine whether or not all the Screws are at The Solvent Ijsane. The Agents seek to obtain all of the Screws. Once they have all the Screws, with the means to destroy them, the Agents will have a great power--a power, defining the nature of which is another of their goals. Combining two or more of the Screws, touching them to one another, produces more complex sounds. Every individual Screw is miked 24 hours a day, and recordings of the sounds they produce are stored in a central computer. The Screws came into existence after the death of Fox. The Agents know that the Screws are related to the death of Fox. Fox was the Primal Entity whose purpose was to end the universe. With Fox dead, the universe no longer had a definite end. The Screws therefore relate to the end of the universe, but the Agents are not sure how. There were four Original Ijsane Agents. Their quest took 150 years, and in that time they obtained five Screws, plus the Solvent. At 150 years in the future, the Agents transmitted information to the present as to the whereabouts of the five Screws and the Solvent, referring in the transmission to their imminent demise. At the present, a few weeks after the death of Fox, the transmission was received by an individual who, along with four associates, founded The Solvent Ijsane on the upper floors of a skyscraper. They then located the five Screws and the Solvent. Each New Ijsane Agent has a single Screw in his or her quarters. The Solvent is stored in a central location in The Solvent Ijsane. The New Ijsane Agents seek to find the rest of the Screws, but they have no way of knowing how many more there are--only that they will know when they have all the Screws. -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----