Solari: Episode 10 - Prelude Part 3
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is the sound of Worlds Beyond Number.
It's been about six to seven weeks in total, and it's right about time for Ayasa to throw her semi-monthly birthday party.
Yes, exactly. Yes.
Yes.
I don't think I arrive with anyone, but I extend the invitation to all of my business contacts as well. I want them to know that they are welcome at any of the soirees that I would be in attendance at and will be in the future at the park. Including the Minerva company or no? Yes, I think so. I think Alvin would enjoy a birthday party. I think that this particular birthday party has a sort of a masquerade theme. But of course, you must still be in your birthday suit.
Evening falls. The lower floors of Telegen.
What is the setting and theme of Ayasa's masquerade birthday party?
Every parlor, every alcove, every bit that isn't just the entry lobby, even the front courtyard has been turned into a decadent, neoterran ode to history so ancient and so removed. The origin of humanity on a planet called Earth 10,000 years ago? Is that even real? And ages before that, there were cultures that walked around under a single yellow sun, surrounded by grapes and gardens and arched colonnades. A decadence that you have never known, but that culturally the history of all people of the diaspora across space still remember enough to reach for, has been evoked here in draped and gauzy linens and laces and masks and not very much else at all.
I wait to be fashionably late, of course.
Mm-hmm.
When I show up, I am wearing a mask styled as the domino masks of traditional Venus, Venus it's called perhaps.
I think that's right.
I think that sounds right. It is styled in that manner, but it has a reflective, almost camouflage quality to it. Tiny fiber optic screens on it allow it to shimmer and sparkle in hues of blue, teal, and gold, yellow. There's a headpiece that matches and a shimmering curtain, gauzy and translucent, that drapes my body.
Happy birthday!
As you say it and lift your arms, the pose is matched across the room by Ayasa, who is wearing a massive... Unfortunately, it's a Marie Antoinette style, like, pompadour wig. Not everyone is very good at history. And again, 10,000 years ago... is so long. It's compressed.
It's much like a renaissance fair.
We hit horny rent fair levels of just mushing everything together. So she's got like a bright pink, very French powdered wig on with like sort of hot pink highlights inside of the curls. And there's a bunch of like floral bits and grapes pinned onto it everywhere. She's got a pair of fairy wings on. You can't see how or where they are attached to her body. Love it. She does good work. And she is wearing a similar gauzy fabric. And it's just draped over each boob and a little curtain over her cash and prizes. And the rest of the bits are in the wind. Happy birthday to me. Hi, thank you so much for making it. I don't often turn age.
And that is something worth celebrating. I couldn't agree more. Okay, quick question.
As she's walking through and like the two of you are saying hi to all of the sort of like artisans of Telegen, a couple of people have come off world from other big hubs that you know of, that you've done collaboration sessions with. Anyone that could scrounge together a bit of Orm even though it hasn't been publicly released yet managed to find their way on world for this party specifically and you can hear pockets of people talking and every now and then and a bit of green. And you can hear the excitement moving through your circles specifically, even as those circles are encircled themselves, enveloped like valences of attention by local celebrities and people who have found through luck or scheming their ways into one of IASA's famous birthday parties.
And dotted throughout I'll say every 15 or 16th person is wearing the same like black soapstone animal mask and a little like black leather belt around their waist with like a short black linen skirt kind of covering their lower situation.
Yeah.
A little bit of modesty. It's giving Egyptian.
Egyptian, sure.
But there's something interesting about the frequency of this styling and the fact that it's clear by virtue of where the pockets of these people are, that they're not like hired security that are in like a security version of a costume.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:03–1:24
2
What is the setting and theme of Ayasa's masquerade birthday party?
1:24–29:30
3
Why are mysterious black‑masked figures handing out shots at the party?
29:30–1:03:53
4
How does Chi Tanka discover danger and attempt to shut the party down?
1:03:53–1:42:31
5
What does Tesker Parsons demand and how does Chi react in his office?
1:42:31–1:51:09