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The Abyss presents its first journal, Cenotaphium: Cinerairi Tabularium a monthly release from The Abyss. This

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Cinerairi Tabularium is the first Cenotaphium in an ongoing, monthly journal from The Abyss, whose content

is derived completely on submission. Unlike the sourcebooks, Cenotaphium is a collective of player and

gamemaster ideas presented in magazine form for your personal use.

This Issue would not be possible without Erik Growen’s valuable help in allowing us use the collected archives

from the old Target Kult Forum board and other sources. His compiling and presentation to us of these

collected works allowed us to present these past thoughts and ideas on Kult in one book. Its place as Issue 0 is to

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All future issues of Cenotaphium are on submission basis through The Abyss site in e-mail to the co-ordinators.

Art, poetry, and literature will be featured in coming issues.

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A Briefer History of Time or History isn't like it used to be

Introduction

The illusion is breaking, gradually we are seeing past the mundane world and into the darkness of Metropolis. There is,

however, no time in Metropolis (or indeed Metropolis time certainly works differently to our time) so what is causing the

illusion to break down as time progresses through our world? This is an attempted explanation of the contradiction and

some ideas about the new nature of time.

A New Angle

It is possible to consider that the illusion isn't only now breaking down, rather it is breaking down at a constant rate

throughout all periods of history, we no longer have the old past which was thoroughly enshrouded by illusion, all our

pasts are infected. We have proof of this, which can be readilly accepted by society: history has changed, and we all know

it. If you allow your mind to think, you will realise that in the past history was always more sentimental. In the past, we

remember the middle ages being knights in shining armour atop a white stallion, now days we call this fantasy and

recognise instead the squaller in which people lived. Possibly we simply know more and do not romanticise, more

probably we are allowing ourself to see the changing world and time in its full glory - we meerly rationalise the changes

thus preserving a portion of our personal illusion. It is possibly better to consider that while takes place in our world, the

illusion has broken just that bit further, making shadows just that bit darker.

Time in Metropolis

There is no time, as we know it, within Metropolis. That said, there is still cause and effect. One thing still follows

another, hands on clocks still move, sand still falls through an hourglass. The problem is that time is no longer consistant

in the same way that the dimentions of space seem somewhat wrong. Just as you could pass due north for several yards

and move several miles to the south, it is just as possible for time to do the same sort of flips, just because a watch starts

moving backwards doesn't mean cause will follow effect, sand will still fall under the weight of whatever Metropolis's

equivalent of gravity is although there is no reason to think the size of the pile of sand will increase - we have to think in

non-euclidean terms here folks.

The Cross Over

Something my games have already had to handle is the problem of someone in an area where the illusion is breaking

comparing times with someone outside the area. This is easily solved by use of the illusion as a means of control.

"I had seen the watch moving backwards with my own eyes. There was no reason why, as a jeweler I could tell that the

mechanism was working, the laws of physics were blatently being defied, although I could not figure which laws, things were just

plain odd. I had to solve this enigma before my mind totally fell into the mists of insanity - I reached for my portable phone and

called my mother.

"Naturally my mother was somewhat bemused by her son phoning her and asking the time, but she was more than happy to

humour me - then again she has noticed my gradual descent into oblivion and may well be following the advice of the shrink she

sent me to, no matter. I set my watch to 6:32 as she instructed and waited, how long for it seems somewhat impossible to tell

"When my watch reached 6:15 I telephoned my mother again, she seemed somewhat suprised to hear from me again so quickly. I

asked here, relieved that I had found the problem surrounded only me, the time. I only begam to scream as she told me in that

matter of fact voice it was 17 minutes since I last phoned her, exactly 6:15 pm"

In this situation the illusion is breaking for the author while his mother remains firmly within it. Time will move the

same way at a break in the illusion as it does within the illusion, the difference is that there is no illusion to make us

rationalise or obscure impossibilities from our minds. The mother correctly reports the time within the illusion both times,

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however her clouded mind fails to notice that it is now earlier than it was several minutes ago. We enter the world of non-

euclidean chronology. Had the author managed to explain to his mother what was going on, he would possibly bring

about the breakdown of her illusion. My suggestion for such a situation would be to make an ego roll. If the roll is failed,

the character in the illusion is unable to comprehend what the hell the person within the crack is talking about - things

seem perfectly normal within the illusion. If the roll is successful, but the effect is less than 10 the character will notice the

weirdness of the situation - a rationalist will rationalise it and a new age pagan will call it weird. An effect of greater than

10 will cause a rip in the illusion for the character, your players won't mind being responsible for the phone going dead

and their mothers body found stuffed as if by a professional taxidermist

and covered in arcane runes next time they visit her. Honest.

The Magic of Time

We now have to consider how this new view of time affects magic related to it. We must now forget about previous

definitions of time and consider that spells relate directly to time as we perceive it now. See through Time & Space will

only allow you to see time and space as it was in our chronology, not as it was before the illusion split (thus we see plague

ridden villages not camelot). There is no way to contact 'previous' realities without manipulating reality directly.

A question about death.

"B.P. Suverkropp": bastiaan@HAWAII.EDU

Nicole Reichen: reichen0@SMAIL.UNI-KOELN.DE

David Edelhaug: david.edelhaug@HIT.UIB.NO

Liam le: liam_skyter@YAHOO.COM

Jason Thompson: jason@SONIC.NET

Nicolas Stampf: stampf@MAIL.DOTCOM.FR

If you are visiting Metropolis as a normal, unawakened human, and you get killed (99.9% chance of that, if you believe

the sourcebook), what happens? Death is an illusion, but you are not in the Illusion anymore!

Our group came to Metropolis and one of our group-members (Peter) was killed by another group-member (Alex). That

happened, because he was possessed and we therefor saw a traitor in him. When he was killed whatever possessed him

went to Alex and possessed him. Finally Alex became control over it, because he was given an amulet. He was able to give

Peters wounds to the other players or creatures around and Peter was alive again. Peter has some secret knowledge now

(specified by the GM). So there is still an illusion. (But all the characters are new characters. Perhaps it is different, if you

play with an old one).

Death in Metropolis

1. The nice way. The player wakes up in the illusion, maybe in his own bed, remembering horrible nightmares, but

nothing from metropolis. ( he maybe gets a new disadvantage, nightmare or something else.)

2. The person becomes a ghost, either returned to the illusion or in metropolis. Maybe when he is quite mad and unable

to remember or when his ghost is destroyed in some other way he can return to the cycle.

3. The persons death could be handled the same way as if he had died in the illusion, maybe some lictors arrange some

false evidence of a suicide or something like that?

When my players go to Metropolis and "die" there, I just let them wake up "hours" later, with all wounds open, losing

blood and wandering in pain, trapped inside their bodies until madness really fuck them up.

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