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The Palace Of Badminton
Jul 15, ’09
7:57 PM
When one is larking around with ideas, the ideas sometimes take their own route to completion.
In my senior year of high school, I played badminton practically every morning before classes. My playing partner was one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever known. I couldn’t hope to equal him at math or science or language (though we were close at the latter). At badminton, however, we were perfectly matched.
Naturally, this meant we had to destroy each other.
We explored various methods — beginning with increasing the speed of return, the height of the net, the number of birdies in play — and escalating into a kind of Calvinball of baroque and convoluted rules which borrowed liberally from soccer and ping pong.
Such a development between skilled, competitive players is inevitable and, once experienced, ruinously addictive. To every pursuit which follows in life, one brings an insatiable desire for the worthy opponent — the singular being who will force you to get better.
Find that person and go start a happy feud.
Site 11: Tumble Home
Jun 17, ’09
3:22 AM
Stern view of the USS Macon (ZRS-5) becalmed before another canyon opening near Site 11 or Site 12 sometime in 1933. As previously stated, many documents related to the FORTUNE BLACK IDOL program are missing, encrypted using ciphers for which no decryption keys remain, or are misfiled. Most documents related to Site 11 fall into that category — perhaps purposefully, given the sensitive nature of the program. Fragmentary logs indicate Site 11 was given the code name TUMBLE HOME. We believe this reflects the extreme environmental conditions encountered there.
Site 11 – Tumble Home from Jon Fuller on Vimeo.
The Gated Key – Illustration
Jun 14, ’09
6:34 AM
The attached illustration recently turned up in the estate collection of a little known 20th century American artist. The illustration depicts a small junk-rigged sailboat passing between two sea stacks in a coastal area (possibly Thailand?). We note a distinct similarity between the central structure depicted in the Site 12 illustration titled “Kalopsian Abyss” and the far “sea stack” depicted here.
Both objects feature a ring structure which surrounds — but is disconnected from — a cylindrical object of approximately half the ring’s diameter. The TABLET RUBY DOOR program identified anomalous devices with this topology as “Gated Key” devices and recommends their immediate quarantine or demolition when discovered.
( Note: I returned to the speed painting of “The Gated Key” today to produce this larger, revised illustration. This took about 6 hours to complete. )
The Gated Key
Jun 12, ’09
1:44 PM
The attached illustration recently turned up in the estate collection of a little known 20th century American artist. The illustration depicts a small junk-rigged sailboat passing between two sea stacks in a coastal area (possibly Thailand?). We note a distinct similarity between the central structure depicted in the Site 12 illustration titled “Kalopsian Abyss” and the far “sea stack” depicted here.
Both objects feature a ring structure which surrounds — but is disconnected from — a cylindrical object of approximately half the ring’s diameter. The TABLET RUBY DOOR program identified anomalous devices with this topology as “Gated Key” devices and recommends their immediate quarantine or demolition when discovered.
The Gated Key from Jon Fuller on Vimeo.
Site 12: Kalopsian Abyss
Jun 10, ’09
11:55 AM
The second illustration related to the FORTUNE BLACK IDOL expedition’s discoveries at Site 12 (abbreviated record). The image is labeled ‘Kalopsian Abyss’ and depicts the interior of a vast cavern from a perspective high on one wall. A complex structure is suspended in the approximate center of the cavern. The expedition airship is tethered near the middle of the construct and provides a convenient measure of the construct’s immense scale.
There is enough evidence present in this image to tentatively classify the central construct a ‘gated key’ device as defined in TABLET RUBY DOOR. Given the scale of the artifact—and our conjectures regarding the origin and purpose of the other anomalies identified during FORTUNE BLACK IDOL —we strongly recommend the immediate quarantine (or demolition) of this construct.
Site 12 – Kalopsian Abyss from Jon Fuller on Vimeo.
Site 12: The Vacant Preception
Jun 9, ’09
11:49 PM
This is the first of two illustrations documenting the FORTUNE BLACK IDOL expedition’s discovery of Site 12. The first illustration is labelled ‘The Vacant Preception’ and appears to concern the interior of a cavern. The walls of the cavern are lined with structures. The design of the structures appears to be similar to those depicted in illustrations of other sites—most notably Sites 1, 2, and 16.
The airship of the expedition is not visible in the illustration. Given this, our historians believe this work was based on the view from the observation platform at the bow of the airship on its approach to the anomaly.