Somewhere, in a desert swept by violent winds, stands on a top of a dune a person dressed with a torn black coat, observing silently a nightly sky, devoid of any star.
STORY
RECALL V1
Desert
desert : (the young man) wakes up in the sand, in the middle of a desert, he walks across the dust aimlessly
Village
village : (he) arrives in a village / small town with houses made of colored mud and stud bricks lost in the desert
inhabitants : seemingly abandoned at first, the village appears inhabited by young kids
skatepark : theres a skatepark where a group of kids with skateboards doing stunts
survivors : the boys pretend to be survivors from the desert
storms : they warn him (the young man) not to wander away, because the village is surrounded by storms, and they are unable to leave, the storm never stops, and they are doomed to live here
winds : for an unknow reason the young man feels as if called by the winds
depart : the young man prepares to leave the village
pendant : when a child gives him a pendant, some kind of lucky charm, to protect him from the storm
Storm
storm : the young man finds himself within the sand storm,
se retrouve au milieu de la tempete de sable, advancing in the dunes, as if guided by a force unknown; he walks for hours, before collapsing exhausted
flight : for no apparent reason the young man takes off from the ground, as if carried by the winds, and flies across the desert and the storm, like a fighter plane
tornado : in the heart of the storm can be seen the rims of gigantic tornado, sweeping dunes like a cyclone sized dust devil
cyclone : (he) enters the massive wall of twisting dust, and ends up in the very middle of the cyclone, in the eye of the storm
Eye
plain : (he) lands in the middle of calm sandy plain, under a clear sky, as dark as the night
ark : (he) gazes into the sky and sees a celestial object, an ark shaped like a gigantic eye of scrap metal
flight : (he) then takes flight again, and flies to the sky like a rocket, and heads straight into this floaring ark / iron eye
limbo : no one knows what happened to the young lad
RECALL V2
Story : A young man from the ashen waste explores a ruined village, emprisoned within a sand storm, or a time loop.
Desert
Desert : in the middle of an immense desert, swept by a sand storm, with dust as far as the eye can see
Traveler : we can see a young man wearing a torn black coat, with the face cloaked against the sand
Village
Village : he arrives in a abandonned village in the middle of the desert, the young man explores this village devastated by the gusts of sand
Paintings : village with some kinds of graffitis / symbols painted on the walls
Survivors : theres only a small bunch of people still present in this village
Storm : apparently this storm ravages the village since forever, dragging it on the verge of destruction
Menace : the village is on the brink of destruction, soon engulfed by the sands that these deadly winds carry with them
Leave : each time they try to leave the village, they wake up at their starting point,
Loop : as if they never leaved, or if an unexplicable force kept them inside the village
Tempête
Flight : the young man leans on the ground and with an impulse takes flight, then flies toward the desert to dive into the storm
Tornado : he finds himself in the heart of the sand storm, and faces a gigantic tornado or dust devil
Winds : the young man resist the fury of winds, before entering the raging twister, crossing its wall of dust
Eye
Eye : the young man ends up in the center of the cyclone, where the sky is clear, a nightly sky, where he can see an object in the sky
Ark : some kind of fiery artificial moon, like a scrap machine of glowing red metal, hanged in the sky
Halo : surrounded by a diffuse halo of fire, like a dying sun
RECALL V3
fall : the ark of scrap can be seen falling to the ground, like a fiery meteor heading straight for the sand village
NOTES
TITLES
- The Ashen Storm / The Storm of Ash / The Storm of Ashes
- The Sand Storm / The Sand Hurricane / The Sand Cyclone
- The Storm Desert / The Sand Village
- 054 / Meander 054 / 03#054 : memo / old index
CHARAS / TRAVELER
Traveler / Wanderer : the desert traveler; Sand Wanderer
form : young man wearing a torn long black coat
form : young man wearing a torn black coat, with the face cloaked against the sands
power : with apparently the ability to fly a high speed in the air
CHARAS / SURVIVORS
Survivors : a small bunch of people still present in this village
Children : the sand children ; kinds hanging around the village
form : dressed in worn / sand stained outfits
skates : some use skateboards to travel across the town
gang : some are troublemakers gang
Marauders : the sand marauders ; some dangerous gang
– weapons : armed dudes, some using combat skateboards, (skateboards ?) equiped with guns / machine guns
– origin : adults of the village ? would have turned completely nuts ? corroded by the sands
LOCAS / VILLAGE
Village : desert village, village of the desert, village within the storm, marauders’ lair
desert : village / abandoned village within the desert, surrouned by a sea of sand
abandonned : abandoned village; at first the village seems abandoned; or no current inhabitant is actually from the village
cyclone : abandoned village in the heart of a immense sand cyclone, in the desert
graffitis : village with graffiti on the walls, colored buildings, with strange symbols painted here and there
skaters : and some dudes skateboarding
Skatepark : gathering place for skaters, or for the kids gang
Pharmacy / Clinic : only building still in one piece, where survivors take care of the wounded
V2
Village / Sand Village / Abandonned Village : ruined village in the desert, within the storm
Storm : vilalge in the storm, village devastated by the gusts of sand
Paintings : village with some graffiti / symbols painted on the walls
Survivors : theres only a small bunch of people still present in this village
Base / Bunker : abandoned base, some ancient bunker used as shelter when the massive storms cover the village
LOCAS / DESERT
Desert : storm desert, desert of storms, sandstorm desert ; dream desert / desert of the dream
form : immense desert of sand / sea of sand as far as the eye can see
form : immense desert of sand swept by the winds, within a storm
Storm / Cyclone : sand storm, dust storm, dust devil, dust tornado, sand cyclone
storm : immense endless storm within the desert, ravaging the village
tornado : tornado in the heart of the storm, like a gigantic dust devil
Ark : sky ark, ark of scrap; space ark
form : some celestial ark, like a gigantic eye made of scrap metal
base : large space base in demise hanged in the sky, as if wating its fall
fall : in the sky the space ark can be seen falling
V2
Desert / Desert of Memory : immense desert of sand, dotted with ancient ruins
Storm : sand storm; storm ravaging the village since an eternity
Tornado : sand tornado or dust devil in the heart of the storm
Eye : eye of the storm ; calm plain of sand; with a clear nightly sky
Ark : some kind of fiery artificial moon in the sky
Winds / Waves : as if generating ardent winds / waves of fire in the atmospheres, like a faulty artificial sun
Storm : this machine would the the origin of the sand storm bellow
THEORIES / INTERPRETATIONS / EXPLANATIONS
- Ark / Construction : “(someone) plans to built a space ark” ; piece of uneplained text
- Demo / Simulation : “like in the middle of a demo” ; cryptic phrase found in the original text
LINKS / CONNEXIONS
- Wanderer / Voyager : the sand wanderer would be the Voyager of Meanders
- Sand Wanderer / Aeon ? : note : link with Aeon’s past and the Meanders Tales
- Ashen Village / Aeon ? : home place of Aeon
- Ark of Winds / Morpheus ? : note : link with Project Morpheus / Ark Morpheus ?
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