It's coming... I Feel it...
In some way, Everybody feels it... It's the
reason of all the madness flooding the streets,
growing bigger every minute it passes...But I...
I can feel it as a hand on my shoulder... and just
like it, I can't see its owner face for it is
swallowed in the shadows behind me... But I know it's
there... Beyond every doubt or hope... And soon it
will be close enough to embrace... or devour...all of
us...
So, now, before I lose the last resemblance of sanity
which allows me to write these words down and to gather
my knowledges in a still understandable shape, I must
tell... Doesn't matter to whom... But you must
know...
I'm just one among many who belong to the City...
I'm one like many others... But it's been a while
since, may I be damned, I took on a bad habit... I
started asking myself Questions... and writing
down everything I can find out about Her...
About the City...
I wanna talk about Her... about
the City... about EcatombCheriArk... For
it is a unique and mistyc place, where many threads
chaotically criss-cross in a fabric of dreams... or
nightmares... This city stands on the edge of dreams,
fantasy, horror, Heaven and Hell: it deserves sombody
who could talk about Her... 'Cause it's not
just any city... 'Cause this city has a Duty... 'Cause
she is just One of a Kind... 'Cause here, Science,
Steel, Magic, Spirits and Business mix in a drink with
an intriguing taste... Albeit perhaps a deadly one...
I Must talk about Her... I Want
to talk about EcatombCheriArk... So that
nothing is forgotten, so that I may understand if
there is a Sense... 'Cause nobody else is doing it...
Maybe because they don't want anybody to do that...Who?...
Nowdays there are too many to count... Corporatives,
Corrupted Members of the Government, Megalomanic
Sorcerers, Lords of the Ether, Zealot Priests of
Terrible Gods who Own Everything, Despotic Leaders of
young Street Gangs... But if you live here... In EcatombCheriArk...
You know who they are... They hang around you every
day ... Them, or what they have Built... or Stolen...
I want you to know... So that you can be ready, when
it comes the Time... This is my Legacy, I leave it to
the Other Desperados like me, those who survive
inside Her, looking for another answer, or just
another pumped up Night... Beacuse I know many of you
curse Her... She is their nightmare... She
was mine too... But we were wrong...This is no
Hell... This is a Bulwark... The Last Bulwark
we have left... Against what?
...It's just back there... Still in the Shadows... But
soon... Soon you will know you need this Bulwark too...
You'll need to Know It... And Love It... And
you'll need to learn how to Dance with Her to glean
her beauty in full... But be careful for... "The
City wears a bladed dress at night..." |