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Dirty Laundry

from The Legend of Kopesh​-​Ra by drummis

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Chapter 14: Dirty Laundry

Months after his discovery, Kopesh is sitting by the stream with a charming and handsome woman of Dream City, discussing the qualities of the Valley life and contrasting them with the perfection of the Dream City. Walking to a nearby river, glittering gold as it flows through banks of fleecy lavender, he stares down into the golden water and sees a pattern of stones. He instantly recognizes the pattern as a visual representation of Πβ. He is physically knocked backward by the force of the realization, as an entire lifetime of memories floods back into his consciousness. Dome City. The Dregs. The Cutoff. The Occupational and Civic Reinvestment Facility. The Church. The Dome Wall. The Jungle. The Dream-City. The Beast, Lo-Sàfah. With the last memory, Kopesh realizes who he is: not Kopesh, but Kopesh-RA!

Feeling embarrassed for the ignorance imposed upon him by his self-imposed exile, Kopesh-Ra surveys the damage. Months of time past. No matter. His material artifacts – the bio-memetic skin suit, his walking stick– lost. No matter. Time and artifact can be replaced, rearranged to aid a further will: to reach the Dream City. That is what is important. That is the task that lay before him. But he fears the obstacle as well. The Beast waits in the darkness at the side of the path, ever lurking, ever waiting.

Kopesh-Ra reveals his secret to the ladies of his court and requests their help. The ladies, with charm and gold, procure for Kopesh-Ra the finest of replacements for his lost artifacts. His new bio-memetic suit is custom made by the finest tailors of the Valley, fitting tight and able to channel his energy with much greater force. It feels to Kopesh-Ra as if some strange form of magic emanates from the suit. And, to add to his travelling accoutrement, his ladies provide him with a shield, but no ordinary shield: it is a Shield of the Dream Master, a mental shield allowing for one to become impervious to the disastrous lines of thought through which dreams often lead. After all, unlike Kopesh-Ra, the ladies are aware that lucid dreaming is a condition one must attain in order to enter the Dream City.

Bidding farewell to his sweet ladies and travelling into the jungle, it begins raining. The river flows to his left as Kopesh-Ra follows the path, occasionally encountering a strange bird still attracted to him, only to wave it away, intent on his journey and watchful at the sides of the path. At the juncture in the path where, many months ago, he undertook his Sisyphean task, he again begins to sense a malevolent, invisible presence. This time, however, when the presence approaches to collide with him, Kopesh-Ra raises the Shield of the Dream Master. Colliding with it, the invisible Beast at once becomes visible, its full horror exposed immediately to Kopesh-Ra. The unexpected collision of these powerful elements creates a warp in space and time, with each of them being dragged into a Void, a black gate into the unknown that seems to open in the ground. Dragged down into the oblivion, Kopesh-Ra and The Beast enter the Void.

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from The Legend of Kopesh​-​Ra, track released December 8, 2012

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drummis New York

drummIs is an improvisational electronic musician. Most of what you hear on this site is played live in one track. Tools include the trapKAT MIDI controller, TD-5 drum brain, electric bass guitar, the RC-50 Looper, ME-25 effects, guitars, an iPad with too many apps, and a squeaky octopus. Located in upstate New York, he goes by Kurt Reymers, and is otherwise occupied as a professor of sociology. ... more

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