True Immortals

Stephen — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:44:12 +0000

This blog began as the story of our investigations into a remarkable natural phenomenon: that there are people in the world who do not age. But that discovery has now been superceded by a far greater fact. ___ A highly infectious, gene altering retrovirus has been released into the world: an Immortality Plague

ObservingAll — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:49:27 +0000

So that it may be a permanent historical record, the site is now closed to new posts. However, comments remain open. If you wish to contact the authors of this blog, leave a comment anywhere on the blog, and it shall be noticed.

Capstone and Conclusion

ObservingAll — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:45:21 +0000

Conclusion of the Chronicles of the Immortality Project

Choices

Multiple-Authors — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:11:08 +0000

Here we see the reverberations of many choices: Oxadrenals choosing Francine as his scientist and Menniss as his bounty hunter. Francine choosing to create the second virus. And the Eldest choosing to extend her protection to the one person in these narratives who entered accidentally. — SB & KT, writing for Francine Narrative 9. The [...]

Francine

Multiple-Authors — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:40:15 +0000

In these two updates, we first step back in time to the period of Francine’s manic episode. Having had time to interview her, we can now fill in some important details that the cameras and microphones didn’t show. Then we return to the moment in the Safe Room when Mennis heard Francine calling to him. [...]

The Holocaust

Multiple-Authors — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 19:04:14 +0000

We have no comments to make on this horror, other than that, amazingly, it is not the last word. — SB & KT, writing for Richard Menniss Narrative 9. The Invasion 5. The Holocaust

Alexandros vs. Baehl

Multiple-Authors — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:16:58 +0000

We have now posted a description of the confrontation between Alexandros and Baehl/Oxadrenals. (We had briefly posted this and the next one earlier, but withdrew them for further editing.) — SB & KT, writing for Richard Menniss Narrative 9. The Invasion 4. Alexandros vs. Baehl

Note from the Ghostwriters for Richard Menniss

Multiple-Authors — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 14:29:03 +0000

Because it is now safe to do so, we have added back some detail previously suppressed about how and where Menniss built his safe room. This information is gathered in a page titled “Safe Room,” and can be found as a link off of the page titled “Gunfire.” We will also soon publish, in the [...]

Narrative 9: The Invasion

ObservingAll — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:00:19 +0000

This narrative is currently being written. Updates will appear automatically every 2 – 4 hours here: Narrative 9. The Invasion

Invasion Plan Activated

ObservingAll — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:00:20 +0000

The expected invasion of the Underground is now beginning. Oxadrenals has requested that his own author privileges be revoked. Richard Menniss will take over narration via the two safely hidden ghostwriters assigned to him. Please expect approximately a 12 – 18 hour delay before the first installment appears, in order to allow for prudent time [...]

Some Serious Sangfroid

Oxadrenals — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:45:15 +0000

It takes some serious sangfroid for me to just go ahead and post this, even if I do say so myself. This is the final installment of the Asclepion,written by two of my ghostwriters, “SB” and “KT.” They put it in first person, but it’s actually made up out of what the camera and microphones [...]

Outside Now

Janice — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:37:03 +0000

Here’s my last bits. I’m outside now. Amazing how much brighter the sun is than a lamp! Probably won’t hear from me for awhile. I’m off to meet Blair, and I’ll be just a tiny bit busy for a while. Narrative 8. The Asclepion 12. Riot Weather 13. Booster

Weirdness All Around

Janice — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:01:29 +0000

It’s not just Lemon. There’s weirdness all around. — Janice Narrative 8. The Asclepion 10. The Mask Fetish

A Little Nuts

Janice — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:03:07 +0000

OK, what I just saw Lemon doing really weirded me out. I mean, I get it. But it’s a little nuts. — Janice Narrative 8. The Asclepion 10. A Little Nuts

Overdosing on Gratitude?

Janice — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:57:20 +0000

OK, what Kate wrote in her comment got me thinking. She’s right. This really might be too much for Francine. Not sure what to do. — Janice Narrative 8. The Asclepion 9. Too Much for Her?

resurrection, Day 2

Janice — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:30:54 +0000

It’s resurrection day 2, and the place is lighting up with gratitude rays. Even Francine is taking it in. — Janice Narrative 8. The Asclepion 8. Gratitude Rays

So intensely beautiful.

Oxadrenals — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:36:49 +0000

The latest update by Janice is so intensely beautiful I’m reproducing most of it here: ____________________ Rembrandt’s paintings don’t just show faces. They bring out what’s behind the face; they show thoughts and feelings; they show souls. Other painters do that too, but I think Rembrandt’s the best, especially for old people. And Leyla was [...]

Need A Rembrandt

Janice — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:59:49 +0000

Tried my best with this one, but really you’d need Rembrandt to show what it was like. Or Krzysztof Kieslowski. Since they’re both dead, all I can offer is words. And just mine, too. Shakespeare’s as scarce these days as all the others. — Janice Narrative 8. The Asclepion 7. The Hexagon of Life

Author Privileges Denied

ObservingAll — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:53:06 +0000

Author privileges for Stephen, Kate, Flyss and Strattera: DENIED — ObservingAll

Convincing Her

Janice — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:35:57 +0000

Hi everyone. Baehl is too busy for a bit, so he asked me to step in. A little tender since it’s my own words I’m announcing but hell with that. Actually, this one is just news. The next update I’m posting is taking me a while to write because it’s more than that. Or trying [...]

Author Privileges Given to Janice

ObservingAll — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:26:38 +0000

Author privileges given to Janice. — ObservingAll

Live Blogging Immortality

Oxadrenals — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:58:30 +0000

FYI, The Asclepion is almost real time now. Live blogging immortality! In case bad stuff happens, I got two writers stashed away safe, and they’ll keep writing (maybe working with raw stuff from Menniss or even Francine.) Why am I so sanguine about the bad stuff? Why don’t I freak like Menniss did? Because of [...]

The Scar

Oxadrenals — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:29:22 +0000

No comment needed on this update I don’t think. Which ordinarily wouldn’t hold me back a second. But I’m smiling too wide to get any words out. Face is being seriously stretched. — Ox Narrative 8. The Asclepion 5. The Scar on My Knee

Rumblings

Oxadrenals — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:19:33 +0000

Rumblings about the blog authors being set free. I’ll let you know more when I do. Crossing my fingers and toes, and eyes too! — Ox

What Kind of Shivering?

Oxadrenals — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:06:06 +0000

And here’s just a wee bit cheerier one written by Janice. — Ox Narrative 8. The Asclepion 4. What Kind of Shivering?

Narrative 8

Oxadrenals — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:51:05 +0000

It starts from Richard Menniss’ point of view. Really, he pretty much wrote these parts himself. I just tidied a little. Actually, he wrote most of Narrative 4 too and his parts of Narrative 6, only he didn’t know he was writing a narrative. You see, he got in a confessing mood after he realized [...]

Saul reminding me of Bob (but a heck of a lot more polite)

Oxadrenals — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:30:39 +0000

Here’s the part I had in mind when I said that Saul said things that reminded me of things Bob’s said. The world of mortals carries the choice. Or rather, shall make the choice, and in only one way. For if you stop it here, which you can do, they shall reach it elsewhere. They’re [...]

The Asclepion

Oxadrenals — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:56:16 +0000

Since, amazingly, I’m still around, we’re starting the next — and probably the last — narrative. I’m calling it “The Asclepion.” Which (for those lots of you who don’t know ancient Greek and those few who don’t know how to Google) refers to a healing temple. There will be lots of authors for this part, [...]

Invisible Words on an Invisible Scripture

Oxadrenals — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:17:03 +0000

It was on a knife’s edge for a minute. Francine and Lemon had been talking about using a retrovirus to put immortality genes in someone’s DNA. The Eldest overheard them, and said this: I have had myself taught about this DNA. I have learned of these words inscribed on a scripture hidden deep within the [...]

Exciting parts coming

Oxadrenals — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:11:52 +0000

I seem to be still around. Surprising. You’d think the Illuminati would be more on the ball. Well, as long as I’m here I’m going to comment. Can’t help. My nature. The parts going up tomorrow are pretty darn exciting. I really ought to parcel them out over a couple of days, but, naah. I’m [...]

Waiting is Not an Option

ObservingAll — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:22:26 +0000

Narrative 7. The Hospice 16. Waiting is not an Option

The sensible thing

Oxadrenals — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:01:49 +0000

Yeah, the sensible thing to do is years of animal testing. But when someone’s about to die, how does waiting help them? And that’s not to mention the invasion by people in pretty uniforms that might happen any day now. — Ox

And Then it Happened

ObservingAll — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:52:09 +0000

Narrative 7. The Hospice 15. And then it happened

Reaching October 7th

Oxadrenals — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 18:45:44 +0000

The narrative is now up to October 7th 2010. That’s a day that should go down in history as Big. In real life, it’s October 10th and we’ve already tested it. — Ox

Socrates and the Eldest

ObservingAll — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 13:21:26 +0000

Narrative 7. The Hospice 14. Socrates and The Eldest

October 3rd, 2010

Oxadrenals — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 02:12:27 +0000

The update going up tomorrow morning is special. For one thing, it has a discussion straight from Saul’s mouth about the friendship between Socrates and The Eldest. For another, this blog gets mentioned. Also, it covers several months and brings the narrative right up to October 3rd, 2010. Remember what happened then? — Ox

Two updates

ObservingAll — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:01:23 +0000

Narrative 7. The Hospice 12. My Saviour: and just when I was starting to like her for herself 13. Meet the Sequencing Clock

A Signpost

Oxadrenals — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 04:06:46 +0000

I know it’s going to be hard to keep track of the time frame with the narratives zooming up toward the present while the present itself keeps moseying along at its usual slow-poke rate of one day per day. Here’s a sign post: Today, Janice asked me, “What kind of shivering do you have to [...]

Dr. Lemon

Oxadrenals — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 02:19:39 +0000

Narrative 7. The Hospice 11. Dr. Lemon

Would you now agree I did the right thing?

Oxadrenals — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:55:47 +0000

Remember when Stephen revealed that I’d been fooling all of you about who the Bounty Hunter really is, but that I was justified in the deception? At which Flyss got furious, and then still more so when Kate admitted that she knew too? But now I can explain myself: If Flyss had followed the real Bounty [...]

Hexagons

ObservingAll — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:14:17 +0000

Narrative 7. The Hospice 10. Hexagons

What Happened on October 7th, 2010

ObservingAll — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:10:02 +0000

As per Oxadrenal’s instructions, I shall rapidly post the seven short installments that will bring you up to date with what happened on October 7th, 2010. — ObservingAll

Not protecting us anymore

Oxadrenals — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 03:00:48 +0000

Remember that little finger I said was keeping me safe? Well, she isn’t keeping me safe anymore. She’s stepped away right when things are craziest, the way she likes to. She hasn’t said no, she hasn’t said yes. She’s letting chance decide. As is her way. The only thing protecting us now is that the [...]

Approaching the Present

Oxadrenals — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:46:10 +0000

Three new installments posted. Janice is now entering the Immortality Project. This is all still past tense — last winter. But in about six more installments you’ll reach the present tense. And it’s a tense time for me, I can tell you. Not only can I, but I will. Only, not just now, because someone [...]

Two new installments

Saul — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:58:05 +0000

Without taking pleasure in it, I note that stories like these make it difficult to hold onto a belief that the mind is distinct from the brain. Let me hasten to assure you, I find philosophical materialism distasteful. But I progressively have been forced into it. — Saul Narrative 7. The Hospice 5. A Regular [...]

Recording my protest

Saul — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:08:17 +0000

I wish also to lodge here my protest at the kidnapping of the creators of this “blog” by Soraya and her servants. Though I am confident they have not inflicted bodily harm on our friends, the loss of liberty is a great harm in itself. Here, as elsewhere, the behavior of the Illuminati has not [...]

Memory and Mortality

Saul — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:18:18 +0000

Greetings friends. I have read your kind words about the partially “auto” and thoroughly biographical narrative The Hafeem Saul. I thank you. I appear here now at the request of Janice, who has asked me to comment on the most recently released issue of The Hospice. She is concerned that it might seem irrelevant or petty, [...]

Author Privileges Granted to Saul

ObservingAll — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:16:55 +0000

I have granted author privileges to Saul. — ObservingAll

Sonata

Oxadrenals — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:42:28 +0000

Another post up. And in case any of you say, “What does all this private stuff about Janice have to do with immortality?” I have a ready answer for you. From Janice herself. Because I’m saying all kinds of brilliant stuff, full of allegories and shit? Or maybe you just want to get to know [...]

The Hospice

Oxadrenals — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:13:01 +0000

Most of Narrative the 7th is already written, but I’m going to dribble it out slowly because I need to do some tricky things with Time. Like not post about the Present in the Present and give things away to certain folks. True, most of it Happened in the Past, but it’s going to catch [...]