Adventure∾ iᴎ Noralanᶑ

Figure 1. A tryp'At hermaphrodite.

This blog page (below) has Part 4 of my Decade in Review (DiR, see Part 1). All of the blog posts in this series have titles that contain unusual characters. This blog post is called "Adventure∾ iᴎ Noralanᶑ" because my science fiction story "Rylla the Agonist" includes the line "...my mind was still off in Noraland." At the time of Rylla's arrival in Arizona, the Editor has recently been visited by Nora Stone (A.K.A. Nora Adamanta), an Interventionist agent who is now trapped on Earth because the teleportation equipment at Observer Base is no longer functioning.

Rylla is the grand-daughter of the Editor and after discovering his blog, she travels from her home in Australia to Arizona so that she can help the Editor investigate the Secret History of Humanity; how the human species was designed and created by aliens. At the time when Rylla arrives in Arizona, all of the tryp'At (Figure 1) were recently forced to depart from Observer Base. 

Figure 2. Image generated by Whisk.

 the Editor is fascinated by the tryp'At as a telepathic human variant and he suspects that he is biologically a tryp'At, although he was disguised as a normal human male of Earth, placed on Earth and given the task of informing Earthlings about the Secret History of Humanity.

However, Rylla has previously had some of her memories erased by Maria Green, and the Editor begins to question the wisdom of continuing to publicize the Secret History of Humanity. The Editor begins to wonder if he should hand over to Rylla the responsibility of continuing his task of telling Secret History of Humanity, but do so while making sure that Rylla is not further harassed by Maria Green.

 Claude Sonnet 4. In this DiR, I am using AI tools to update some of my old story illustrations. The original version of Figure 2 is at the bottom of the "Mind Clone" blog post. I got help from Claude for the text prompt that was used by Whisk to generated Figure 2.

Gunta College

Back in 2014, I introduced the idea of the Editor having attended the Triversity. In a blog post Jan. 21, 2019 called "Exocycle" is a new science fiction story about Interventionist plans aimed at making sure that the Editor would meet Gohrlay after graduating from college.

In "Exocycle" it is explicitly stated that the Editor is tryp'At and that his path through college life is being carefully guide by tyrp'At agents (Elizabeth Smith and Tonya) who are stationed on Earth. Through human history, Elizabeth has previously played other roles such as Princess Luri during the Etruscan Intervention.

Figure 3. Updated by Mr. Wombo.

 February 2019. Part 2 of Rylla the Agonist was included in a February 2019  blog post called "Gift Clone". The Editor wants to experiment with nicotine as a potential way of boosting Rylla's telepathic abilities, a technique that he had previously used to increase his own capacity to use the Bimanoid Interface. Two Interventionist agents arrive and carry out Rylla's telepathic brain boost. Also, both Rylla and Zeta are artificially implanted with embryos that will grow up to be part of Earth's Mind Clone Network. The Editor learns that tryp'At have an "blastipositor" that they can use to implant early blastula stage embryos inside unsuspecting Earthlings (see Figure 3).

The original version of Figure 3 from 2019 is in shown in "Gift Clone". Figure 3 is a composite image that combines part of a new WOMBO Dream-generated image with part of the original image from 2019.

Figure 4. Updated by Mr. Wombo.

Part 3 of Rylla the Agonist was included in a blog post called "On and On", set at the time when Rylla and Zeta are seven months into their pregnancies (see Figure 4). Zeta is sixty years old, but she has long made use of medical nanites to keep her body youthful.

 The Mind Clone Network. The Editor learns that Nora is also pregnant. With the help of the fetal mind clone that will become her daughter Tyhry, Zeta has developed a strong telepathic connection to the Editor. Similarly, Rylla has a good telepathic connection to Georgy at Observer Base. At Observer Base, Georgy has access to vast amounts of historical information, so the research of the Editor and Rylla into the Secret History of Humanity begins to advance quite rapidly. 

Rylla begins to write an account of how a replicoid copy a female analogue of Jack Vance from the Ekcolir Reality followed the life of Jack London, much as how Zeta had been telepathically linked to the Editor.

Figure 5. Updated by Mr. Wombo.

"The Zal Intervention" could be viewed as Part 4 of the story Rylla the Agonist, but it is the story of a copy of Grean the Kac'hin who is sent back in time to 1895, just before the arrival of the Final Reality. The story was written down by Rylla, but its contents become known in the Final Reality because of the discovery of a version of the story at the Writers Block. That original version of the story was written by Deomede.

In Part 1 of the The Zal Intervention, the copy of Grean known as Zal prevents and Interventionist agent from turning Jack London into a science fiction story teller. In Part 2, Zal is guided on her mission in 1895 by hints provided by infites that were given to her by her future self. Zal had been instructed where to find money inside an Oakland house, but then Mahasvin appears with additional money and also provides Zal with portable Reality Viewing technology that Zal will need during her mission on Earth. Mahasvin informs Zal that while on Earth she must give birth to a tryp'At baby who will be needed in the Final Reality.

Figure 6. Updated by Mr. Wombo.

In Part 3, of The Zal Intervention, Zal collects Asterothrope and Ek'col gene patterns from two Earthlings who had inherited those alien genes from Ekcolir and Trysta. Zal gathers these alien gene patterns from two Earthlings that she meets in San Fransisco. Along with some of her own Kac'hin gene patterns, the artificial genome of Zal's daughter is constructed and implanted in her uterus. Zal also provides a child to the two Earthlings who were the source of the Asterothrope and Ek'col genes.

The image in Figure 5 hints at the role the Zal plays in ending World War II in Europe. The image in Figure 6 is a remnant from Deep Time attesting to the fact that Jack London wrote science fiction stories in the Buld Reality.

Figure 7. Updated by Whisk.

 Spindle of Necessity. In Part 4, of The Zal Intervention, Zal is in Europe where she is told that her actions on Earth are helping build up the temporal energy that is needed to bring into existence the Final Reality. Mahasvin informs Zal that, "You will prevent a man named Hulsmeyer from developing radar-jamming technology. That will shorten the second world war and allow it to end in 1945." Eventually, a descendant of Zal ("Vendela Pekkanen") became Rylla's mother, passing along her alien-derived gene patterns.

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Zal is also told by Mahasvin that due to her actions on Earth, Isaac Asimov of the Final Reality will be prevented from writing a science fiction story called "Psionic Escape" (see Figure 7). That will allow the Editor to be the first to publish a story about how hierions and sedrons can make possible fantastic technologies for teleportation and interstellar space travel.

  Sessily Trilogy. Starting on a March 15, 2019 blog page called "The Case of the Arlesheim Elf" is the first part of what I call "Sessily Trilogy". The titular "elf" is an alien visitor to Earth. Isaac Asimov and Thomas work to help a Preland who is stranded on Earth. Thomas ends up with a woman named Cecilie who is a copy of the Jack Vance character Sessily Veder.

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At the start of April in 2019, I had reached 10 years of existence for the wikifiction blog and I reviewed those ten years and I made a six minute video summary (see Decade in Blogging).

Part 4 of Rylla the Agonist was included in a blog post called "Nemesis". On that same blog page is a story within a story, "Clandestine Destiny" as told by Nora Stone. That story is an account of one of Nora's Interventionist missions on Earth, when she tried to bring technology for paper making to the Roman Empire. During her time spent bringing new technology to the Romans, Nora met a pek who was responsible for "replacing" the Etruscan Empire (which dominated Europe in the Ekcolir Reality) with the Roman Empire of the Final Reality.

Figure 8. Mind clones; image source

 Telepathy. At the end of April 2019 in a blog post called "The Mind Clone Network" I used the image that is shown to the right to illustrate the sub-networks of the Mind Clone Network. A mind clone is a human being who shares one structurally identical cerebral hemisphere with someone else. As shown in Figure 8, Rylla, Georgy and Stacy form the MC1 mind clone network. Because they are both tryp'At, Rylla and the Editor share a weak telepathic connection when they are physically in close proximity. Zeta and her clone sister, Yōd, are shown as being part of the MC2 mind clone network. Notice that the daughter of Zeta is shown as "Tihri", which would later be changed to "Tyhry". While Zeta is pregnant with Tyhry and with the help of the Tyhry fetus, Zeta is able to develop a telepathic connection to the Editor.

Figure 9. Verella prefers the name Rylla.

The June 1, 2019 blog post called "Nereid Loop" is mostly thoughts of the Editor as he contemplates the possibility that Rylla will write a book about mind clones (see Figure 9). He speculates about the possibility of a "Nereids-produced-humans-produced-Nereids time loop" in which humans of the far future play a role in producing the Nereids who in turn play a role in crafting the human species.

Zeta Gohrlay

The July 1, 2019 blog post called "Temptation of the Replicoid" in which the editor has a discussion with Zeta, Nora and Rylla which involves the idea that Eustacia (Stacy) wants to learn how to re-activate the teleportation equipment at Observer Base, a goal that is not realized until 20 years later (see "D*").

The Editor begins to have dreams that allow him to link telepathically to Yōd who is inside the Asimov Reality Simulation. He speculates that Yōd is also pregnant and gestating another mind clone. 

Figure 10. Rylla being observed by a Kac'hin.
Updated by Mr. Wombo.

Also in July 2019 was a new story called "LaCy" about a replicoid. The story is not set on Earth and it involves the time when Grean the Kac'hin (see Figure 10) was being trained to lead a mission that would return Observer Base to the control of the alien Huaoshy. LaCy is part of alien experiments aimed at understanding replicoid technology as it had been developed by the positronic robots of Earth. The Kac'hin are a telepathic human variant that was designed and artificially evolved by the Huaoshy to infiltrate Observer Base and take control of the Eternity time travel equipment that had been developed by positronic robots.

Parthney on Hemmal

Back in 2012, I began work on the novel Exode, which included an account of how an Interventionist agent (Parthney) grew up on a distant exoplanet (Hemmal) before arriving on Earth. Eventually, Exode was positioned as the fourth of five novels that was to be the Editor's account of the Secret History of Humanity.

Figure 11. Descendants of Ekcolir and Deomede.

Then, before I could write a story about Parthney's arrival on Earth, my attention shifted to a later Reality of Deep Time in which Deomede gave rise to a completely different group of Interventionists on Earth (see Figure 11). For years I had fun writing stories about Ivory Fersoni who was able to provide the Editor with much useful information about past Realities.

Figure 12. Image source.

Finally, in July 2019, I wrote "Earth: Day 1", a 25,000 word science fiction story about Parthney's mission to Earth in the Ekcolir Reality. For that story, I imagined that Parthney was the last of a series of Interventionist agents (see Figure 12) who were all clones of Thomas. Working with each of these Interventionists including Parthney, there was always an assistant such as Betty.

West side entrance for Parthey Mansion.

As described in Part 2 of "Earth: Day 1", while Parthney is on Earth, Thomas is living in New York. It is also mentioned that there are "control nanites" used by Interventionists that can activate the teleportation equipment on Earth, hidden inside Parthey Mansion.

Betty is an artificial life-form composed of femtobots. When Parthney arrives on Earth, only his femtozoan is teleported to Earth from Klyz, being placed inside the body of an Earthling who is known as George, a man who has human weaknesses such as motion sickness.

The field teleportation of Hana,
in the Ekcolir Reality. (source)

In Part 3 of "Earth: Day 1", Betty meets Thomas in New Amsterdam. With the help of advanced Fru'wu nanites, Parthney is able to complete his mission and teleport Hana to the Galactic Core. Hana was the birth mother of Hilde, an Interventionist agent with Asterothrope gene patterns who plays a special role on Earth, trying to develop a sedron-based source of energy that can replace Earth's dependence on solar power collected in outer space.

As depicted in the Exode Saga, the Ekcolir Reality was disposed of and the climate catastrophe of that Reality eventually did not get solved by Interventionists.

Figure 13. Wendy on Earth. Updated by Mr. Wombo.

It was in a blog post called "A Vance Theory" that I first introduced a character called Wendy. Wendy is depicted as helping Thomas develop the science fiction genre in the Ekcolir Reality. Wendy is what I would later label as being a "probot", a type of femtobot replicoid of a positronic robot. The image that is shown in Figure 13 is an AI-updated version of the original story illustration from 2019.

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In a blog post dated August 9, 2019 and called "The Bicephalid Intervention", there is a short science fiction story called "The Qua Intervention" in which Zal returns as an Interventionist agent who plays an important role in altering the science fiction story writing of both Philip Dick and Jack Vance.

The image that is shown to the right in Figure 14 was meant to depict an Interventionist agent named Qua who carried out her mission in California with the assistance of Zal.

Figure 15. Wendy and Araminta Smade.

 In a blog post dated August 17, 2019 and called "contriVance 2019" I began a seven part science fiction story about Wendy's adventures inside the Asimov Reality Simulator. The first part is called Reality Simulation and it depicts Wendy as being given a research mission inside the Asimov Reality Simulation. These adventures of Wendy are Jack Vance fan-fiction and Wendy has to investigate some unanswered questions about Vance's novel Star King. The illustration in Figure 15 was made using Whisk and WOMBO Dream

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Also in August of 2019 was the science fiction story "The Power of Pause" which showed Yōd and Azynov at work inside the Asimov Reality Simulation. That story included two characters from the Jack Vance novel Wyst: 'Glisten' and Jantiff. The title of the story comes from the idea that R. Nyrtia can "pause" the Simulation and meet with her agent R. Oliveene Nhevrix. "The Power of Pause" mentions the alien Kerub on the planet Yerophet, which would be be a topic for further investigation in 2020.

In October 2019 the blog post called "The Phari Network" had a long discussion between Rylla and the Editor concerning the Asimov Reality and efforts to create telepathic humans. Also discussed is the forming Mind Clone Network and the fact that Rylla, Zeta and Nora are all past their due dates for giving birth.

Figure 16. Mu Gohrlay by Whisk.

In November 2019 was the story "Mu Gohrlay" which described the Editor's first day at the Triversity. The Editor briefly meets one of the Gohrlay clones on that day, but he is not allowed to remember that until 40 years later.

The image that is shown in Figure 16 is a depiction of Mu Gohrlay that was generated by Whisk. I asked that she be sitting on the bed, but both Whisk and Leonardo had trouble generating an image with a woman on a bed. Leonardo completely refused to generate such an image.

Book 2 of the Lost World trilogy

Also in November was "A Phari Tale", a story that begins with Stacy telling a story to her son Amiante. Later, other mind clones enter the story and there is discussion by Rylla and the Editor of the fact that Mary Godwin was able to visit the planet Ver'la in the Galactic Core. Ver'la was a water world that once resided in the Solar System and was the home to aquatic Nereids.

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In 2019, after a three year delay, came Part 2 of  Fru'wu: Our Alien Prometheus. Georgy and Colleen investigate the idea that a copy of Mary Godwin ended up at the Writers Block, inside the Hierion Domain. Colleen is able to enter into a simulation of the Ekcolir Reality and meet Mary and John Vance. Mary shares what she knows about the Nereids.

In "The Last Mind Clone" I introduced the idea that Rylla's daughter Marda would give birth to Brak, who would have full telepathic abilities and an ability to send information back through time to the Editor from the future. It is also mentioned that Marda's daughter Llyndella would become famous on Earth for discovering sedronic matter.

Figure 17. image source

At the end of 2019 I wrote a seven part story called "The Lakum Intervention". At the end of the story, Lakum is able to assure Georgy that she (Lakum) is a tryp'At hermaphrodite. After Lakum's work in the Solar System is complete, Colleen and Lakum "retire" to Alastor Cluster (see Figure 17).

In a blog post dated December 14, 2019 and titled "Backdoor", there were two story fragments. One called  "Alastrid Telepathy" depicted Zeta as making use of her daughter Tihri as a node of the Mind Clone Network so that Zeta could communicate with Yōd who was inside the Asimov Reality Simulation. Yōd tells Zeta that Lakum is on the planet Triskelion in Alastor Cluster (see Figure 18). Also in is a science fiction story chapter called "Sherylyn" which is simultaneously Part 4 of The Lakum Intervention and Part 1 of The Yerophet Experiment, which I continued in 2020.

Figure 18. Updated by Mr. Wombo.

In "The Behgi Braid" Zeta tells the Editor, "Your original tryp'At name was tih'Ri, but you were never allowed to use it." Zeta has named her daughter "Tihri".

I'm thinking of "Roz, Dani and Nyky" as being either 1) a part of the Rylla the Agonist series of stories, 2) part of the "The Lakum Intervention" or 3) part of the stories about the Mind Clone Network. The story includes an account of the arrival of Yōd at Observer Base, at the time when the Bimanoid Interface 2.0 was activated. Yōd has a challenge facing her: finding Azynov inside the Asimov Reality Simulation.

Right at the end of 2019 was "The Ekcolir Intervention" which describes Rylla's attempt to make sense of the complexity of the Ekcolir Reality (see Figure 19, below).

Figure 19. Rylla's diagram of Earth's Reality Chain. (source)

Next: Part 5 of my Decade in Review.

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