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writing post-self qoheleth fiction scifi outline novel

The basic structure is in two threads: the plot from Qoheleth intertwined with the plot from Exocortices, with the shared theme of memory and forgetting. Dear can't forget RJ, RJ can't forget information while lost. The lost lead to tech required for uploading.

Includes appendix about both threads.

Cast

Thread 1

Plot 1:

Plot 2:

Thread 2

General outline

Todo

Order and status

Check when edited

  1. Epigraph --- Ecclesiastes 3:15
  2. Act I
    • Chapter: RJ 001 --- Rehearsal night
    • Chapter: RJ 002 --- Crown Pub with Sasha
    • Chapter: Ioan 001 --- First message from Dear
    • Chapter: RJ 003 --- going to sleep
    • Chapter: Carter 001-a --- Carter learns of RJ
    • Chapter: RJ 004-a --- Dress rehearsal
    • Chapter: Carter 001-b --- gets a hunch on the train
    • Chapter: Ioan 002 --- Ioan meets Dear
    • Chapter: RJ 004-b --- RJ gets lost
  3. Act II
    • Chapter: Carter 002 --- Sanders vs Carter, Carter's space
    • Chapter: RJ 005-a --- Investigating auditorium
    • Chapter: Ioan 003-a --- AES message, the puzzle begins
    • Chapter: RJ 005-b --- There's a mic
    • Chapter: Ioan 003-b --- Ioan decrypts the message, sends Dear a letter
    • Chapter: Carter 003 --- Neutrois patient, spoiled by tabloid
    • Chapter: RJ 006 --- Finding microphone, making notes
    • Chapter: Qoheleth 001 --- Spying on Dear and Ioan
    • Chapter: Carter 004 --- Planning to visit Johansson
    • Chapter: RJ 007 --- Sleeping in the auditorium
    • Chapter: Qoheleth 001 --- archive
    • Chapter: Carter 005 --- Pub with Johansson
    • Chapter: RJ 008 --- clothing from school
    • Chapter: Ioan 003-c - trying to figure out archive with Dear, gets in, finds pgpkey. Frustration at another encryption method, discussing diff between exocortex and archive.
    • Chapter: RJ 009 --- Home is unlocked
    • Chapter: Carter 006 --- Carter dreams of shadows
    • Chapter: Ioan 003-d --- Moves in with Dear, who is upset that no one else seems to be taking this quite so seriously
    • Chapter: RJ 010 --- No water, no coffee, dreamlike books
    • Chapter: Ioan 004 --- Ioan working, Dear's in a good mood
    • Chapter: Sasha 001 --- Sasha meets with Caitlin
    • Chapter: Ioan 005 --- Talking with Dear, learning of Qoheleth being an Odist
    • Chapter: RJ 011 --- RJ visits implant clinic, travel skips
    • Chapter: Carter 007 --- Carter gets smacked down, has to let folks go, contacts Sasha
    • Chapter: Qoheleth 002 --- Qoheleth's signifier
    • Chapter: RJ 012 --- RJ at the clinic, discovering ey don't need ACLs in a lucid dream.
    • Chapter: Ioan 006 --- Back at home with Dear, Qoheleth messages (split)
    • Chapter: Sasha 002 --- things are moving quickly
    • Chapter: RJ 013 --- struggling with numbness, trying to learn to manipulate the dream, memories.
    • Chapter: Carter 008 --- At work, viewing everyone with suspicion, DDR votes changing
    • Chapter: Ioan 006-b --- Story of gathering Odists, perhaps flashback to/story from Dear about clade's formation?
    • Chapter: Carter 009 --- Carter calls out, Prakash warns, works with Sasha and Debarre, Sasha gets lost, seen by Carter gives hint to mirror rig
    • Chapter: RJ 014 --- explores memory instead of will, finds deck in eir exo, then way more, struggling to forget
    • Chapter: Carter 010 --- Messages Caitlin and Johansson, heads to RJ, threatened by mooks
    • Chapter: RJ 015 --- deduces meaning of getting loss
  4. Act III
    • Chapter: Ioan 007 --- Mustering the Odists
    • Chapter: Carter 011 --- makes it to RJ, gets mirror rig in place, gets attacked, Caitlin fights mooks while Carter dives in.
    • Chapter: Qoheleth 004 --- Qoheleth is patient
    • Chapter: RJ 016 --- going crazy, bending world to eir whim.
    • Chapter: Ioan 008 --- Ready to head out
    • Chapter: Carter 012 RJ surprised to see Carter there, resists leaving as the sudden aspect of something not being in control is a shock
    • Chapter: Qoheleth 005 --- Qoheleth gets Dear's ping
    • Chapter: Sasha 003 --- endless field of dandelions, then suddenly Debarre, pulled back, brought up to speed on what Carter learned about how to rescue lost and the conspiracy
    • Chapter: Ioan 009 --- Qoheleth gives his speech, is assassinated
    • Chapter: Qoheleth 006 --- Assassinated
    • Chapter: Sasha 004 --- Sasha and Debarre publish evidence, Carter passes to Prakash, spreads like wildfire
    • Chapter: Ioan 010 --- Wrapping up with Dear, Serene, Praiseworthy
  5. Denouement
    • Chapter: Sasha --- Sasha at/after funeral, learn she's Michel Hadje
    • Chapter: Carter 013 --- retrospective: Sanders in jail, Prakash back to RB working on upload tech using info about exo mirroring, Carter praised for saving the lost and exposing plot
    • Chapter: RJ 017 --- Ode in letter/suicide note to Sasha
    • Chapter: Ioan 011 --- Ioan merges, begins to write, (sends Dear a sensorium message on a whim asking if ey might send a long-lived fork to stay with em to write. Codrin Balan, perhaps? Or Codruţ? From Romanian codru, 'woods'. Maybe asks Dear how this works. Ioan from John re bible, names important)
    • Chapter: Qian Guowei --- Gets next assignment
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