http://www.principiainfecta.com/ A slow river of world-building by glimpse and omission; ideas in the raw to be used and improved upon at your leisure. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ Copyright 2010 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:35:28 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss In the grand tradition of striving to achieve goals that are neither straightforward nor likely to be completed, allow me to offer you the first and opening part of a little thing I call Sibellus Noir: Sibellus. City without end, layered hive of mankind, asylum for billions struck ignorant and mad by its walls. I've been gone a long time, to far, sickened places. Long enough for me to forget - if I had wanted to. Long enough for a generation of newborns to be crippled, struck dumb, made sinners. But the City has its hooks into me, just as... http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2010/02/sibellus_noir.php http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2010/02/sibellus_noir.php Lore of the Principia Infecta Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:35:28 -0800 Some forms of insanity resist easy categorization, producing strange symptoms and stranger actions. Here we have one such result, a story game called The Logic of Tales and Dreams - a game that does not in fact exist. The Logic of Tales and Dreams is free and creative commons licensed: download it and do with it as you will. Download the web-quality PDF (1.6M) Download the print-quality PDF (7.2M)... http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2009/12/released_the_lo.php http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2009/12/released_the_lo.php Lore of the Principia Infecta Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:37:59 -0800 http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2009/08/amaxathroth_the.php http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2009/08/amaxathroth_the.php Lore of the Principia Infecta Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:42:40 -0800 Amaxathroth is seated in his tomb, waiting. Not for you or I, for we are less than the swirling motes to his unblinking gaze. His heart is blackened by the ages, and his contempt of mankind complete and utter. Yet his words remain, scribed across countless lifetimes, and hoarded by those who come to regret their greed for such. But know this now: as the toil of building the Later Blue Tome of Amaxathroth the Cursed now winds to a close, I, your humble translator, offer you a second preview of the words of Amaxathroth as a bookend to the... http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2009/07/another_glimpse.php http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2009/07/another_glimpse.php Lore of the Principia Infecta Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:49:39 -0800 That shuddering beneath the earth is the beast waking from its long slumber. Mayhaps to roam and ravage, mayhaps to merely look about with bleary eyes before settling back to sleep as though dead. Whatever the future holds for Principia Infecta, it will soon include a published manuscript, a tome of writings. I, your humble scribe, have moved to assemble artists and piece together the Later Blue Tome of Amaxathroth the Cursed. It is a sword and sorcery mini-supplement for Ron Edwards' Sorcerer, a bitter and fragmented glance at a lustful and decayed aeon. Sorcery, demons, and vile rogues! Take... http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2009/06/that_shuddering.php http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2009/06/that_shuddering.php Lore of the Principia Infecta Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:42:51 -0800 [Manse vox-record :: signo temporis 3.626.804 M41 Cenatio Viridis :: Seven Hall Manse :: Hive Voltis :: Scintilla Adept-Militant Grambald] So there I was, scratch-taped to some crumbled tribrace the wrong way up at the lowest end of the vertway crush, right where it came out at the undervault top, and looking like some glint hanging from the cathedra dome. Had a hanger brace for the long-las, rething waiting for the cutting to start way down below. Drip, drip, drip from all the hive filthwater that flows downaways. Rething mess it was, like all the big vertways down to the... http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/cultrixpancreat.php http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/cultrixpancreat.php Warpcraft Spilled From Noble Hive Spires Wed, 26 Mar 2008 19:22:49 -0800 [Vox-record, servitor auscultavus :: signo temporis 3.003.806 M41 Armorium Alpha :: Ordo Missio Fortress :: Hive Voltis :: Scintilla Adept-Militant Bothe Ume] God-Emperor, I don't know what to take up the Travodius for this one. Here, you look at what came down the pict-line ... no, start at the back - the Master of Actions always puts the worst of it at the back. The Inquisitor gave his blessing, put us out as ancillary to the Missio, got Jonus to work on what he does best, and said to use our discretion. So we're it, along with squad beta-1 and... http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/hunting_xenos_a.php http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/hunting_xenos_a.php Corruption Within House Klave Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:23:02 -0800 [Autocodicillus of Savant Pius Missen :: signo temporis 6.900.805 M41 Chapel Silencia :: Grim Light :: Empyreal Route Adept-Militant Tisella Ivanesta] There you are. You can't hide from me behind shelves and old tomes. I don't know why the Lady Matulite hasn't had this is all put to the pyre and cleared for better use - she doesn't seem to value it much, judging from the dust in the vaultways. Whilst you have been lurking away here, doing little of any good, I have accomplished something of value at least. I admit I had thought this was the Inquisitor's way... http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/early_discoveri.php http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/early_discoveri.php Corruption Within House Klave Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:17:39 -0800 [Voxslate :: signo temporis 3.815.805 M41 Ocular Celestrum Dexter :: Ordo Missio Fortress :: Hive Voltis :: Scintilla Master-Correlation Ambrise Larrel] I must apologise for the last minute change of agenda. Correlator-Assignate Bartu brought this to my attention yesterday, and its significance by the Metrica Compositus exceeds that of the planned examination of echoes from the Shrine Iridius Heresy. Interrogator Randt, Adept Ume, I will forgive you an early departure; I do not believe this matter to be of as great an interest to your associates. If I can draw your attention to the silversheaf. It is a servitor transcript... http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/remnants_of_an.php http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/remnants_of_an.php Corruption Within House Klave Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:03:36 -0800 [Manse vox-record :: signo temporis 3.269.801 M41 Armorium :: Seven Hall Manse :: Hive Voltis :: Scintilla Adept-Militant Grambald] What's the straight on this one, then? Another rething high-caste with the brainworms from the warp? Give it here - can't las holes in the rether if I don't know what he looks like. Le'see, just you and me on this one, down into the underhive and find this latest rething scum. Suppose the Inquisitor don't think so much of this sinner, or reth, maybe he thinks we're the silver now after that last bloody throw down. So's his own blood... http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/hunting_scion_t.php http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/hunting_scion_t.php Warpcraft Spilled From Noble Hive Spires Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:42:22 -0800 [Memoria mechanicus :: servitor calvaria b-i-12t :: signo temporis 3.261.801 M41 Gilded Reception :: Seven Hall Manse :: Hive Voltis :: Scintilla Inquisitor-Minor Conestus Jonquad] Thank you, but this is not a social occasion. Your "shabby, elusive little heretic" of the Wintersun Feasts two years past has come to light once more, and I have need of your knowledge with regard to the Pancreator cult. You are aware of the disturbance reported a day ago by the Lux Astropathica? Whatever the source, it left a warp-taint in the Trall spires. The second Black company took one of the vat-cloistered as... http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/the_pancreators.php http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/the_pancreators.php Warpcraft Spilled From Noble Hive Spires Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:28:58 -0800 [Transcriptus vocis peculiaris :: signo temporis 3.412.799 M41 Indexarum Hereticae :: Ordo Missio Fortress :: Hive Voltis :: Scintilla Master-Indexus Folm Wardeque] Ah, hmm. Pancreatrix, the, Pancreas of Saint Tineval, Miracles of. Ah! Pancreator, Adorants of. No, a moment. Ah! Pancreator, Order of. There, the Principia Summaris crystal for this entry, and there, the data thief socket. You are, ah, fortunate indeed. Too little archaodata is so, ah, convenienced by the tech priests of our period. Though. Hmm. I ponder that these Adorants might not be one and the same. Hmm. A persistant heresy if so. Look, ah, it is... http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/vile_echoes_of.php http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/vile_echoes_of.php Warpcraft Spilled From Noble Hive Spires Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:16:11 -0800 [Adnotamentum vocis :: signo temporis 6.050.813 M41 Savant Jonus Toll] The one story Grambald never told us was of how he rose from the least of the faithful, from that blackened and violent obscurity amidst Hive Voltis' low habs, to serve the God-Emperor's Ordos. He came into the service of Hrald Belsepan long before I, in those early years when grand old Inquisitor Tor still cast his gaze upon Scintilla. As the design of the Via Sinister became clear these past years, Inquisitor Belsepan came to consider Grambald an instrument of the God-Emperor's will, albeit arraigned in a manner fit... http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/adeptmilitant_g.php http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/adeptmilitant_g.php In Memorium Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:31:58 -0800 [tabula anima sub 6 :: servitor transcriptus 23.1.b :: signo temporis 4.261.805 M41 Transceptus Capitis :: Ordo Missio Fortress :: Hive Voltis :: Scintilla] Continuance, tabula sub 5. G: Adept-Militant Grambald R: Inquisitor Lammis Ru-Tariy G: He was a good man, and let's forget the rest. But reth, we're not here so's I can catch up on your happenstance this past year. Where was I? R: Captain-Designate E, the "rething bastard." G: Rething bastard. See that? See my hand? Servos twitchin' like they want a jug of tranc every time I think about him. That's why I let you distract... http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/a_sharing_of_kn.php http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/a_sharing_of_kn.php The Silence of Griddish Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:56:41 -0800 [Voxslate :: signo temporis 3.317.806 M41 Capsa scientia of Savant Jonus Toll Savant Jonus Toll] Hesh, you say? Yes, the Principia of that Ordos action still languishes unfinished. Our good Inquisitor Belsepan requests we do well by posterity, but Inquisitors yet to be are undemanding in comparison to those presently within these hive-fortress walls. In my defense, slow exchanges with Tech-Adept Rudenos of the Nordus Manufactory Slab are necessary to fill the many gaps in our librarum, and our knowledge of the secrets of the Mechanicus. This conversation has taken years, and continues yet; I have become more proficient in... http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/in_building_a_p.php http://www.principiainfecta.com/archives/2008/03/in_building_a_p.php Machine Coven of the Lathes Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:23:34 -0800