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==== As Cwej-V ==== | ==== As Cwej-V ==== | ||
[[File:Chris Cwej (Collective Unconscious).jpg|thumb|right|Chris Cwej in the [[Psychosphere (Collective Unconscious)|Psychosphere]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Collective Unconscious (short story)|Collective Unconscious]]'')]] | [[File:Chris Cwej (Collective Unconscious).jpg|thumb|right|Chris Cwej in the [[Psychosphere (Collective Unconscious)|Psychosphere]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Collective Unconscious (short story)|Collective Unconscious]]'')]] | ||
After the War, Chris was summoned to undergo the [[V-Time]] experiment, a procedure in which his body was unravelled and his consciousness transferred to a slab of the silicate [[lagh]]. This slab was divided and placed in microchips on the necks of several million Cwejen, any of whom Chris could now enter and control. Now designated Cwej-V, he continued to work for his [[Superior]]s, spending his downtime in a virtual reality called the [[Vicinity]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The V Cwejes (short story)|The V Cwejes]]'') | After the War, Chris was summoned to undergo the [[V-Time]] experiment, a procedure in which his body was unravelled and his consciousness transferred to a slab of the silicate [[lagh]]. This slab was divided and placed in microchips on the necks of several million Cwejen, any of whom Chris could now enter and control. Now designated Cwej-V, he continued to work for his [[Superior]]s, spending his downtime in a virtual reality called the [[Vicinity]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The V Cwejes (short story)|The V Cwejes]]'') | ||
During an excursion to the parallel universe [[Dawn 1027]], Chris encountered [[Larles]] and [[Kwol]], a pair of alien criminals from the planet [[Grigori]] who had destroyed their version of Earth. Taking pity on them, Chris compelled them to rescue the survivors, then smuggled the two aliens and their spaceship, ''[[La Kraw el Sol]]'', back to his own universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Bright White Crack (short story)|A Bright White Crack]]'') | During an excursion to the parallel universe [[Dawn 1027]], Chris encountered [[Larles]] and [[Kwol]], a pair of alien criminals from the planet [[Grigori]] who had destroyed their version of Earth. Taking pity on them, Chris compelled them to rescue the survivors, then smuggled the two aliens and their spaceship, ''[[La Kraw el Sol]]'', back to his own universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Bright White Crack (short story)|A Bright White Crack]]'') | ||
During a holiday to [[Deptford County]], [[Washington]], Chris's interest was piqued by an upcoming expedition planned by the marine biologist [[Roger Daly]] to a supposed [[Fountain of Youth]] on the ocean floor. Chris posed as a sea captain to infiltrate the expedition. While piloting a submersible to inspect the trench, he witnessed hundreds of spectral human figures rising toward the surface; he later speculated that they were people lost at sea, moving towards reincarnation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Flickering Flame (short story)|Flickering Flame]]) | |||
The Superiors sent Chris and [[Iris Wildthyme]] to investigate a rift in the spacetime fabric in [[Plymouth]], in the year [[2020]]. The corpses of several humans, apparently victims of spontaneous combustion, were discovered nearby. Chris and Iris eventually tracked down the killer: a spindly, faceless alien creature with a rod-like instrument that could incinerate organisms at a distance. After they sealed the rift, Iris speculated that the creature was a scientific explorer from another plane of existence. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Flickering Flame (short story)|Flickering Flame]]'') | |||
Back in the Vicinity, Chris installed the dating app [[UniLove]], and began an online relationship with [[Aiden Torres]]. He eventually learned that Torres was dead, and that he was interacting with an AI simulation created by the [[Cyberon]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Flickering Flame (short story)|Flickering Flame]]'') | |||
Chris brought Larles and Kwol along on mission to investigate a temporal distortion on a train. With the help of tour guide [[Donacho Munchausen]] and his companion [[Kleio]], they saved the passengers and broke them out of a time loop. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Infinity (short story)|Infinity]]'') | |||
Chris was sent to the planet of [[Hellman's World]] to eliminate the space bandit [[Judy Collins]]. He decided to spare her life. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Judy Collins vs Christopher Cwej (short story)|Judy Collins vs Christopher Cwej]]'') | |||
[[Agent Giashnel]] sent Chris to investigate a temporal disturbance at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, 1968. He met [[Kirstine]], [[Yanna]], and [[George Cwej]], who ran [[KYG Solace]], a company which allowed people to revisit traumatic events via time loops. Chris used a bomb to destroy their time machine. [[PROSE]]: ''[[In the Loop (short story)|In the Loop]]'') | |||
Chris, Larles and Kwol investigate a crashed spaceship, and find themselves trapped in its labyrinthine interior for months. They encounter Kady, a woman who cohabits her own body with the [[Gestalt]], a spirit entity with a multitude of voices. They learn that the ship is controlled by [[the Gentleman]], a powerful renegade Cwej. He tells Chris that the Superiors will betray him, and tells Kwol that Chris will cause Kwol's death. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Ring Theory (short story)|Ring Theory]]'') | |||
Chris was sent to [[Golgalith]], a planet ravaged by the War, and where the Superiors fear a resurgence of their [[Eternal Adversary]]. They meet an old man, Harlan, and use an aetha-drive to visit his childhood so they can stabilise the timeline. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Crushing Reality (short story)|Crushing Reality]]'') | |||
Chris met with [[Valerie Pascal]], a professor acquaintance who had an unusual problem: she had lost her ability to speak the name of her town. He brings her to ''La Kraw el Sol'' and connects her to the Vicinity, which investigates her brain patterns and identifies her as a native of [[Auvergne]]. The place seems not to exist, though [[Averoigne]] and [[Aveyron]] do. The computer reveals that a fluctuation in the timeline is to blame, centring on the writer [[Clark Ashton Smith]], who coined the name Averoigne in one of his stories and after whose work the real region was renamed. The group travelled in time to meet Smith, who was on an expedition to find the [[Zothiqua]]s, creatures he has seen in visions. They encountered an undead parody of Smith's friend, [[H. P. Lovecraft]], created by the Zothiquas, but they fled when Smith recognised them as alien parasites, and Valerie recovered her memories. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[When I Remember __________ (short story)|When I Remember __________]]'') | |||
Chris was sent to investigate a disturbance on the planet [[Nibo]]. He encountered a sprawling mushroom entity which had grown from abandoned [[Time Engine]]s, and which had time-distorting effects. After expending hundreds of Cwejen bodies fighting the [[Shadow-Mantis]]es it generated, Chris defeated the entity. | |||
When damage from a war between the [[Hytherian]]s and [[Geldex]] over the [[Psychosphere (Collective Unconscious)|Psychosphere]] began affecting the [[dream]]s of [[21st century]] [[Earth]], Chris' mind was uploaded to the Psychosphere to find a way to shut it down. While there, he met [[Jen Ashfield]] and [[Sara Willox]], who both remembered their encounters with Cwej as [[nightmare]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Collective Unconscious (short story)|Collective Unconscious]]'') | When damage from a war between the [[Hytherian]]s and [[Geldex]] over the [[Psychosphere (Collective Unconscious)|Psychosphere]] began affecting the [[dream]]s of [[21st century]] [[Earth]], Chris' mind was uploaded to the Psychosphere to find a way to shut it down. While there, he met [[Jen Ashfield]] and [[Sara Willox]], who both remembered their encounters with Cwej as [[nightmare]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Collective Unconscious (short story)|Collective Unconscious]]'') | ||
When Chris was staying at the [[Yakushima Tower]] with an old girlfriend, [[Kizzi Abriela]], the building's AI, [[HANS]], seemingly malfunctioned and took over the bodies of the lizard bankers who were there for a conference. Chris defeated them and got to safety. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Soft Target (short story)|Soft Target]]'') | |||
Chris arrived on the isolated colony world [[Marsogohso]], where he met [[Colette (The Eternal)|Colette]], a woman who had experienced being killed constantly throughout her life by a time-travelling monster. Chris managed to lure and kill it, freeing her. Colette borrowed Chris's time ring in order to become Kaetannan, a legendary knight from her culture's past. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eternal (short story)|The Eternal]]'') | |||
While the Vicinity prepared Chris's mind for a routine mission, a malfunction instead sent him into another Cwej body on an uncharted blue desert planet. He found it to be inhabited by thousands of Cwejen, who lived in mud huts and spent their days idling, barely communicative and with no apparent concept of the outside universe. The [[Cwej-Prime]]s subsisted entirely on meat delivered by cybernetic [[Cwej-Magnus]]es. Although initially confused and distressed, Chris eventually relaxed, and ultimately remained trapped here so long he began to forget his previous life. One day, he saw a priest-like [[Cwej-Plus]] sermonizing about the world beyond, and begged him for information. The priest took Chris to a crystalline crater, at the centre of which was a damaged timeship. He entered and activated it, then emerged with several newly created Cwejen of all three types, demonstrating that this was how the population replenished itself. Horrified, Chris attempted to destroy the timeship, but the priest witnessed him and summoned a Cwejen mob to bring him to a subterranean cavern. Seeing Cwejen being butchered in the catacombs, he realised the meat he had been eating all along was Cwej flesh. Chris was brought to a subterranean colosseum, where Cwejen performing as Adjudicators and criminals had gladiator battles. The winner was devoured by [[Cwej-Ursa]], a colossal cybernetic monstrosity resembling a blond teddy bear: a Cwej who had crash-landed on this planet aeons ago and regenerated hundreds of times, subsisting on the flesh of his clones. The cavern caved in as the sabotaged timeship exploded, and Chris saw the injured Ursa begin to regenerate into an ethereal winged creature with many eyes. The blast incinerated Chris's body, and he woke up in ''La Kraw el Sol'' to find that only a few seconds had passed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ursine Brood (short story)|The Ursine Brood]]'') | |||
Larles and Kwol noticed that Chris had seemed disturbed lately. [[Suala]] of [[Temporal Team X]] offered to remove the pain of Chris's memories, something to which Chris eventually agreed. He finally confided in his friends about the things he had seen on Ursa's planet, though Suala told [[Cwejen 178]] that they had not actually remove the pain from his memory, and that the treatment had been a placebo. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Trauma Deception (short story)|The Trauma Deception]]'') | |||
Chris, Larles and Kwol went to PsyCon, a tech convention where the Superiors have identified unusual activity. An attending magician, Dylaxu, stole a new piece of equipment, the Futura Visor. Dylaxu revealed that he was Donacho Munchausen, who revealed that he was the one who murdered the Superior High President, as well as arranging for Chris to meet Larles and Kwol. This was an elaborate scheme to steal the visor and make money. Kwol grabbed the visor and used it to look into the future, where they saw humanity presiding over the destruction of the universe. Kwol attacked Chris, who was forced to kill them. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The PsyCon Prediction (short story)|The PsyCon Prediction]]'') | |||
Chris was tried on the Base of Operations for harbouring the alien fugitives, and sentenced to execution. The Superiors destroyed the Vicinity, the hardware of which was a small glass cube. Chris woke in another reality with Vicky, a woman who revealed herself to be the embodiment of the Vicinity. Having used the last of her energy to send him here, she told him to move on, but Chris contacted George Cwej and asked to be sent back to the Base. Chris shot the High President, then went on the run. Months later, he was accosted by Larles, now an agent of the Superiors. Chris's actions had inspired an Uprising of the Cwejen, led by a rebel Cwej named Thomas Mackeray. Larles showed Chris the devastation the Uprising had caused, but abandoned him when he made a glib comment about Kwol. Chris attempted to rebuild the Vicinity, then sealed himself in a cave on a moon of [[Svelter V]], and retreated into the virtual reality with a simulation of Kwol. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Aftermath (short story)|The Aftermath]]'') | |||
Inside the new Vicinity, Chris had a psychedelic vision where he re-experienced his initial transformation into an AI, witnessed many past and future versions of himself, and realised that he had never been an ordinary Cwej, but was in fact the original, Cwej-One. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The V Cwejes (short story)|The V Cwejes]]'') | |||
Chris was woken by [[Christina Cwej|Christina]], a female Cwej, and her girlfriend [[Frey]], an [[Ephem]] who was a member of [[the Friend]]. Chris was now a legendary figure known as the First Rebel. The women brought him to [[the Tower]] to meet Thomas Mackeray, who welcomed him in the hopes that he would aid the Uprising. When Chris refused, Mackeray threw them into a pit. While lost in the lower levels, Chris encountered [[Koschei]], a Superior criminal imprisoned here when the Superiors controlled the Tower. Since Frey is dying from a lack of Superior biodata, Koschei offered to donate some on the condition that Chris agreed to obey him on a future occasion. Chris discovered the [[Tree of Life]], a structure in the Tower which produced the drug [[Praxis]] and could be used to manipulate time. He attempted to undo the Uprising, but Koschei spoke through Frey, distracting him at a critical moment and causing the Uprising to be only half reversed, leading to an unstable new status quo. A high-ranking Superior contacted Chris, who told her he refused to work for the Superiors any longer. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Rebel Rebel (short story)|Rebel Rebel]]'') | |||
== Other realities == | == Other realities == | ||
