Moira has imagination, but Corwin has….
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Moira’s library find links Gnosis College with a strange Southeast Asian beach.
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Professor Corwin faces an interrogation in his office.
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Digging deep in the library, Moira discovers a link between old art and modern science.
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Sometimes research involves not mad science, but obsolescent technology.
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Architecture kudos to those of you who can name the real-world library that the Gnosis College library is based on. Special pop-culture kudos to those of you who can tell us where in American popular culture most people have seen this library. And super-secret special art-awareness kudos to those of you who can spot a subtle not-real-world detail that Lon worked into the main illustration, and tell us its significance.
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The story starts innocently enough over a dining-hall breakfast, where Ashley Madder asks an insinuating question.
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We now move to the cover of Chapter Two of The Apsinthion Protocol where, as you can see from Lon Ryden’s splendid design, the mad science is kicking into high gear.
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Nanetta might feel blissful upon finally getting home, but her roommate Moira now seems worried about what might be going on.
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And thus ends Chapter One!
An academic lecture, at which some are not pleased, and others seem to have their minds on something other than the subject matter.
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The Nick Bostrom whom Professor Corwin mentions is a real world figure, by the way, and he actually does argue for at least the possibility that we might be living in a simulation.