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Karmanlinjen

by Izanasz

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Some people would complain about the endless cricketing of the junk here, but I liked it. It made it seem like there was life everywhere, even though you'd really rarely find any.

The old audio implant in my head was jammed and now it only ever hissed out garbled-up noises and tunes that folded up on themselves with the feedback of the surrounding scrap. But I didn't really mind. It didn't disturb my illusion of life, in fact it made it seem more real. Even, or maybe especially, in the high-density areas where there was so much feedback you could actually feel it in your bones and muscles. Like a strange thickening of air and pressure that both dulled and sharpened your senses.

To me, it was all a great, dramatic field recording, and I was the recording device that captured it all. Soaked it up and stored it for later use.

From most points of view, this wasn't much of a world. A sorry excuse for a junkyard, maybe, the whole city, the buildings, the people, the quality of life, just about everything really. No one ever spoke to you in a proper language, everyone just used a trans-communicator because it was just easier like that. And so all you were left with was semi-synthetic quasi-conversations. I chose to speak Fenskan, the language that emerged from the ruins of the bombed-out Scandinavian peninsula some three centuries ago. A peculiar amalgam of all the Fennoscandinavian languages. I always liked the sound of it, even though it was now a very old language, practically extinct save for a few factions scattered here and there.

Kutä brys', välmitä väli. Ondet låtstarudshistori ändå.

I really liked it here, though.

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released February 20, 2018

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"bald dude with identity issues made acid trip music and did not serve acid during the performance"
— unnamed friend of Ragnar's

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