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The Rogue Scholar

27 Mar 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 5 Part 1 Rei Carlotta shelved another volume. It was unusual for people to prefer physical books these days. The majority of the actual books seldom moved off the shelves of the Ashram Conservatorium. The only reason physical copies existed a...

The Rogue Scholar

18 Mar 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 4   Shaper Journal 1.008 Hierarch 1 entry 0058--Shaper Naturo Seti It occurs to me that the only order man has every truly known in recorded history on the Earth is the example which nature has set. When man eventually succeeded in freeing hi...

The Rogue Scholar

11 Mar 2022 9 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 3 Part II The court decision involving Pitt Preserve was a landmark case. Mr. Prizer did not admit to fraud. The court could not accuse him of fraud, because the holonosphere had proven itself to be a real thing. When the organization that re...

The Rogue Scholar

4 Mar 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 3 Part I Sal Grimone had a serious problem. He glanced nervously through his programming interface. It had not worked. It should have worked. He checked the code again. Everything was as it was supposed to be. The object invocation was correc...

The Rogue Scholar

24 Feb 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 2 Shaper Journal 1.004 Hierarch 1 entry 0042--Shaper Naturo Seti Protean science has dissolved all we knew about civilization with wide-sweeping changes among all fields. The realization that reality is but a hologram as backed by our science...

The Rogue Scholar

17 Feb 2022 23 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

Chapter 1 The hiss of the plasmoid cutter was soothing. When Uzine Braten had been young, his parents had indicated this would be the position he would hold. His father had been a Uniter on Line 2, Block B. The job description on a Uniter indicated t...

Absolution of the Blue Rose

6 Jul 2021 8 minute read 0 comments Jbschirtzinger

The Hymn to Galvach was not coming as smoothly as Idela had hoped. She remembered all the words and the notes, but the cadence was troubling. Every word counted, and every beat mattered. The trope was just as important. Why could she not remember it?...