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In the [[Boulevard of Alternate Brutalities]], a fussy bald man flits through a carousel of accidental deaths throughout history, such as a tragedy in an operating theater, or a wreck at a race course. He looks for small pleasures such as food and a broadsheet newspaper as things go wrong around him. For a few hours a day, he's allowed to rest in a normal bedroom before a naked [[Faction Paradox]] member comes to wake him up. | In the [[Boulevard of Alternate Brutalities]], a fussy bald man flits through a carousel of accidental deaths throughout history, such as a tragedy in an operating theater, or a wreck at a race course. He looks for small pleasures such as food and a broadsheet newspaper as things go wrong around him. For a few hours a day, he's allowed to rest in a normal bedroom before a naked [[Faction Paradox]] member comes to wake him up. | ||
Earlier, in the [[Eleven-Day Empire]], Faction Paradox are putting "Anon" on trial. A group of Faction members had decided to reverse engineer the premise of [[Conceptual entity|conceptual entities]] - instead of taking physical entities and reducing them to concepts, they would giving physical form to things that had only ever been concepts so they could be used as weapons. The court labels this group "idiots". The group had created the bald man, couldn't tell what to use him for, and released him into the Empire with Cousin [[Bran]] as his guardian. The bald man found the Empire's existence ridiculous and wished there was normal sunlight instead of the eternal red skies. One day, to the Faction's horror, sunlight broke through, and afterwards normal people from 18th century London begin appearing. | Earlier, in the [[Eleven-Day Empire]], Faction Paradox are putting "Anon" on trial. A group of Faction members had decided to reverse engineer the premise of [[Conceptual entity|conceptual entities]] - instead of taking physical entities and reducing them to concepts, they would giving physical form to things that had only ever been concepts so they could be used as weapons. The court labels this group "idiots". The group had created the bald man, couldn't tell what to use him for, and released him into the Empire with Cousin [[Bran (A Reasonable Man)|Bran]] as his guardian. The bald man found the Empire's existence ridiculous and wished there was normal sunlight instead of the eternal red skies. One day, to the Faction's horror, sunlight broke through, and afterwards normal people from 18th century London begin appearing. | ||
Faction Paradox discovered that the [[Gregorian Compact]] was failing due to basic logic and reason saying it shouldn't exist, and it's failing because of the bald man: the embodiment of the English legal principle of the [[Man on the Clapham Omnibus (concept)|Man on the Clapham Omnibus]], the concept of how a reasonable man would react to a situation. As the Man and Bran watch, [[Vauxhall Building]] dissolves and causes Faction researchers to fall to their deaths onto an 18th century garden that has newly appeared. Bran drags the Man away from the disaster to give the [[Loa]] a chance to seal the breach. However, the entire Empire is starting to collapse and revert to historical London. Bran arrests the Man with the same statement "you are not obliged to say anything" used by police in popular culture, placing him in [[Newgate Prison|Newgate Gaol]]. The man tried to escape as the Empire's version of Newgate dissolved around him, but instead simply ran directly into a court hearing prepared for him. | Faction Paradox discovered that the [[Gregorian Compact]] was failing due to basic logic and reason saying it shouldn't exist, and it's failing because of the bald man: the embodiment of the English legal principle of the [[Man on the Clapham Omnibus (concept)|Man on the Clapham Omnibus]], the concept of how a reasonable man would react to a situation. As the Man and Bran watch, [[Vauxhall Building]] dissolves and causes Faction researchers to fall to their deaths onto an 18th century garden that has newly appeared. Bran drags the Man away from the disaster to give the [[Loa]] a chance to seal the breach. However, the entire Empire is starting to collapse and revert to historical London. Bran arrests the Man with the same statement "you are not obliged to say anything" used by police in popular culture, placing him in [[Newgate Prison|Newgate Gaol]]. The man tried to escape as the Empire's version of Newgate dissolved around him, but instead simply ran directly into a court hearing prepared for him. | ||
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== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* [[ | * The [[Man on the Clapham Omnibus]] | ||
* Cousin [[Bran (A Reasonable Man)|Bran]] | * Cousin [[Bran (A Reasonable Man)|Bran]] | ||
