A - The Balfour Conspiracy
PROGRESSION: First steps of Chadt in the Imaginary Plane ROMANCE: First time Chadt feels that way, humanizing Tian
Tian's arc — The Fracture (we → I): | Phase | Chs | Pronoun | State | |-------|-----|---------|-------| | Collective | 1-3 | we | Efficient, protocol-driven. Chadt is an assignment. | | Crack | 4-6 | we → slips to I | Notices Chadt's face, voice, hesitations. "I find myself returning to that frequency." | | Fracture | 7-8 | I | First conscious "I." Climax is not a kiss — it's Tian becoming someone. |
Chadt's arc — System Bait-and-Switch: | Phase | Chs | View of Tian | State | |-------|-----|-------------|-------| | Interface | 1-2 | Tutorial NPC, impersonal system | Disoriented, skeptical | | Person | 3-5 | Has preferences, gets nervous, makes jokes | Starts noticing the cracks | | Unnameable | 6-8 | Someone he looks forward to seeing | Waking life feels duller. The dream is home. |
Prologue
[A0] 0
[A1] The Postman Show Episode 0
First dream, Nov 2
[A2] 1 - Awakening at Number One
[A3] The Postman Show Episode 1
Second dream, Oct 31
[A4] 2 - Breakfast at Athena's
[A5] The Postman Show Episode 2
[A6] 3 - The Balfour Confrontation
[A7] The Postman Show Episode 3
[pms3.md] [pms3_notes.md]
[A8] 4 - Hermes
The Payload seems redeemed, but Chadt insists. They meet George Cecil Jones / Hermes — Crowley's old partner, now a tired civil servant at Somerset House. Jones spent a decade trying to summon his Holy Guardian Angel. When he sees Chadt and Tian, he recognizes them as angels/messengers — his brain involuntarily gematria-locks onto their names. He runs. Chooses his daughter and the train schedule over the supernatural life. First crack in Tian's cool facade — genuinely moved by Jones's choice. Chadt sees what the Imaginary costs people.
[A9] The Postman Show Episode 4
"a twist immediately? They want to really hook the viewers dont they" Gossip about crowleys senpai and gematria
[A10] 5 - The Exiled
[A11] The Postman Show Episode 5
[A12] 6 - TBD
They investigate David Lloyd George.
Battle with David Lloyd George — follow the thread that exiled Montagu,
Close the Redemption — trace the thread that exiled Montagu.
- Find the Weizmann trail: Weizmann's acetone process (converts starch from maize/horse chestnuts into acetone, butanol, ethanol for cordite propellant).
Find the Weizmann trail in Ministry of Munitions — Chaim Weizmann's acetone process for cordite propellant.
"Oh I found the original source, and it's in the past. Chadt wakes up. End of dream 2 (dream 1 is chapter 1)."
[A13] The Postman Show Episode 6
Back to WWF style about DLG montagu vs DLG prognostics
Third dream, 7 february 1917
[A14] 7 - The Garden Party At The End of the Thread
[A15] The Postman Show Episode 7
[A16] 8 - TBD
7 February 1917 — Arrival in February 1917.
Chill, MB grab actual food lmao.
Garden party — Sykes at Moses Gaster house.
193 Maida Vale, London, W9 https://youtu.be/vLIBZ1Fewco?t=1500
Battle against Sykes.
chaim weizmann relies on herbert samuel help
probably a 2 parter finale for the first arc
ending = chadt thought he certainly nevert felt that way about anyone before
[A17] The Postman Show Episode 8
Now that the true culprit is found, we do a price is right/judge judy episode on his ass
[A18] Balfour letter (primary source)
B - The Melanchon Disappearance
PROGRESSION: Manipulating the Imaginary with speech ROMANCE: Chadt carries Tian through a tough time
Prologue
[B0] 0^2
would be a good time for a little bit of second person magic, maybe a new ability for the progression freaks.
chapter 0.0 or 0^2 or 0_a i genuinely dont know if we want to start back with a show "our next arc takes us..." or if its chadt waking up in tangiers right after the balfour arc. it feels a bit gauche tbh but i dont want to break established symmetry
about the power of eloquence think of how georges m will transport them words can move you etc
[B1] The Postman Show Episode 0100
act 1 scene 0 Introduces a new arc
In the new arc, we learn the stakes from Tian POV maybe like when theres an actual risk they lose tian reveals how bad it is
research/melanchon/latest_state.md
The second arc is French police deleting document and tian flipping out about real stakes mb
First dream, Oct 1956
[B2] 9 - A Void
PTT holdover, octobre 1956, bureau PTT a tangiers
they have to find a rapport de service in the archive
RAPPORT DE SERVICE N° 47/PTT/55
its missing
Were still mapping the imaginary plane It's like first mapping the earth but now we map time too
ok so we basically need to start with them appearing when the 56 circulaire was being put in application like chapter 1 they arrive they get their bearings they manage to go to the location of the order, they discuss a bit why the algorithm picks this time and place, the imprecision of imaginary plane, how the imperial core is much more mapped than the rest, and the chapter ends with them learning that the document has been disappeared
La révélation — le carton arrive. Il est vide. Ou il y a juste une fiche : "Transféré au S.G. le 12/09/55. Accusé non retourné."
[B3] The Postman Show Episode 0101
act 1 scene 1 mostly precision about historiography: what do we know for sure, what are we making up. The document is likely but no trace remain discuss about like deleting history, deleting people, etc... - La circulaire de tri de février 1956 demandait aux chefs de corps de trier leurs archives avant le départ
[B4] 10 - Tian Panics
tangiers PTT, octobre 1956
Tian completely freaks out because he thinks all is lost, chadt tries his best to calm him, we get some local food and chill they decide to investigate mb the author is still in charge of the station lets go talk to the director whats his name "georges melanchon"
[B5] The Postman Show Episode 0102
Georges melanchon bio
[B6] 11 - Georges Melanchon
tangiers PTT, octobre 1956
they find meet contront george melanchon he brings them through his life georges invites them at home to discuss in neutral territory tells his version of events (massacre of oued zeb, someone cut the coms, army overreacted) we meet baby jean luc georges start speaking and the force of his voice is mesmerizing and brings them back to
[B8] 12 - The nightmare at Oued Zem
tangiers PTT, 20 Août 1955
The events of oued zeb from the PTT POV
they can close it kinda like balfour but chadt is unsatisfied in the end they understand that they need to go up to the source of the telegram and confront franchi
Second dream, August 20, 1955
[B10] 13 - Franchi's order
battle against franchi casablanca 1955 oued zem events from army POV
[B12] 14 - The Newsreel
post battle "its all well" "my university wont be happy if we dont have a payload" "how about a news reel" see how its portrayed from the other side
[B13] The Postman Show
[B14] Primary source : the news reel
C - Orwell in China
D - Jesus in Palestine
E - The True Story of Robinson Crusoe
F - Joan of arc ?
New spell: something about controlling where you go
at first you fill a bit of details, some colors in the negative space between the words of the text. but soon a whole world hid within the unsaid mesmerizing fractal details