Revisit your film from the Midnight Moon
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From: A Starved Man with a Moving Camera
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The Cinematographer is happy to let you borrow his glim-lamp and his dark room for another screening.
Unlocked with A Film Reel from the Midnight Moon 7
Success
Silver flickers
Darkness; anticipation. And then: a screen aglow with images.
Description summary:
The second and third paragraphs change based on the lens and film emulsion used.
A Kinetocular Lens: | Second paragraph |
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Wide-Angle | The camera has captured a wide view of the Midnight Moon – inn, spire, and leviathan, all crowded around by black-enveloped airships. Paths from dock to inn to speared whale are marked by needles of candlelight, guiding smugglers and their bounties […] |
Telescopic | The camera has captured a vast face of stone, [...]. Few below have even heard of the insular isle of Visage, let alone [...] Flourishing-of-Years from this vantage. The camera scours it for the smaller peoples and lives that call it home. |
A Film Reel from the Midnight Moon | Third paragraph |
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Midnight Moon, Peligin | But it is the great corpse that dominates this frame, lit from below […] It throws its monumental shadow upwards, blanketing the inn […] threatening always to continue its midnight ascent. From the deep it rose, and […] it looks as though it has rising left to do. |
Midnight Moon, Violant | The view lingers where smuggled cargoes change hands. Crates glow […] brighter than the way-markers of the Candle-Men. Etiolated fingers clasp the black gloves of an airfarer […] The camera can see the marks each hand leaves on the other […] |
Midnight Moon, Cosmogone | A warm glow seeps out of the pub's half-open door like honey. The smugglers […] clasping each other by the arm and trading stories […] Above, a lone captain unmoors a handsome dirigible […] Everywhere the camera ranges, the scene is soaked in romance and adventure. |
Visage Below, Peligin | But all it finds are masks, ferocious and stark. Jackals, locusts, crocodiles: beasts gurn at the camera, […]. In the expressionless dark, the rituals the masked ones conduct are deep and shapeless, mere undulations within the Apis Temple. |
Visage Below, Violant | It alights on a young newcomer in the mask of a beaming frog, its face bright […] The camera focuses on her, and her uncertainty at her role. […] Her stumble as she enters the Library of Parts, where so many others have stumbled before her. |
Visage Below, Cosmogone | Torches transmute the waters of the Flooded Court to gold. Fires flicker across the isle of Visage, […] The serene gaze never falters, gazing ever-upwards […] a procession enters the colossal face's great stone ear, to remove their masks and open their hearts. |
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