Airs of Parabola/Tables

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Dream Exploration failures

Airs	Fluff Text
1 - 19	[…] flagstones become a staircase […] and below you is a valley […] a bubbling hot spring of broth. Beside the broth-spring is a man in a chef's uniform who invites you to be clothed in dumpling-dough and bob in the soup […] You lose track of time […]
20 - 39	[…] You are getting smaller as you walk, so that […] becomes a sort of labyrinth […] Then they widen even further […] and you are traveling at the bottom of the crevasse […] A little longer […] and you are walking again in Parabola.
40 - 59	[…] tired of walking on your legs, so you grow arms in their place. The sensation of walking on your hands is a pleasant one[…] […] you become self-conscious about your leg-arms, because they do not fit very well in your clothes[…] So you grow your feet again.
60 - 79	You stroll through a forest that comes up to your knees. Sometimes your footstep frightens a miniature stag.
80 - 89	You fight your way through jungle so thick that you can see no more than a few feet ahead. The leaves are always in your face and the vines always underfoot.
90 - 94	You walk for a very long time: so long, in fact, that you begin to walk in your own footsteps over again. They grow deeper and deeper each time you pass this way.
95 - 98	You pass through a valley of ash. At the far end, a few trees are slowly un-burning, forming themselves out of charcoal stumps. It is terribly cold.
99 - 100	You walk across a desert floor. In the middle of nowhere is a vast pile of top hats. Those at the bottom of the pile look worn and out of fashion. It takes a long time to walk past the hats, and new ones continue to rain from the sky.

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This text is used in the result of both Arrive at an Oneiromantic Revelation and Construe your Parabolan Parable into Oneiromantic Revelations.

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Airs of Parabola	Third paragraph
1 - 18	the Chessboard is one of many game-boards in Parabola. There are other games: some skill, some chance, some of daring and bluff. There are other kingdoms, and some of these do not consider it merit when they prevail, but only Fortune.
20 - 28	devils hunt now in the Forgotten Quarter. Time was when their silver hunting-horns rang out over Parabola instead […] Perhaps that is even where they got a taste for the sport – though one can't be sure.
32 - 49	there are dreamers who have slept for centuries, holding fast their corner of Parabola, in the dream-company of spouses and children long since passed into dust: a private Waswood for a singular past. But when they wake, Parabola will wash all clean.
50 - 66	there are pyramids and ziggurats […] There are cenotes[…], and hanging gardens, and ball-courts, all thriving as though newly built.[…] these districts conceal themselves from Londoners, so that you will not commit the effrontery of finding them antique.
70 - 88	spiders dream in Parabola, whole citadels of silk. If you could find that place, you could walk in those same palaces, though you would soon lose your way.
91 - 96	even Polythreme has dreams. Sometimes, its resting denizens will shed a sentient harpsichord or a disgruntled tuba into some adjacent sleeper's field.

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Airs of Parabola	Third paragraph
1 - 18	the Chessboard is one of many game-boards in Parabola. There are other games; there are other kingdoms, waging their wars not as chess but as poker or roulette; gathering their dead with a croupier's hook.
20 - 28	devils hunt now in the Forgotten Quarter. Time was […] their silver hunting-horns rang out over Parabola instead, and devils played the Nightmare's part. How many Surface dreamers […] woke sweating and eager to tithe to their church?
32 - 49	there are dreamers who have slept for centuries, holding fast their corner of Parabola, so that an inhabitant there might almost fancy they lived in the Is. Families of Fingerkings are born and nest there, and grow old in that facsimile of Being.
50 - 66	there are pyramids and ziggurats in Parabola, and mound-cities: abandoned long ago when their inhabitants decided that the life of a city was unhealthy and unkind.
70 - 88	spiders dream in Parabola. In the thick webbing of their dreams, every sort of succulent insect is caught and lies ready to eat. Every larger animal is also an insect: […] all dreamed with faceted eyes and sweetly fluid bodies.
91 - 96	even Polythreme has dreams. Sometimes, the screaming can be heard in other nightmares far away.