Before diving into anything specific, let’s take a look at the world as a whole and some of its many moving pieces. Here’s a glossary:<\/p>\n
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A Short Dictionary of Acronyms and Names<\/p>\n
To help you navigate the things that are corporate, but not exactly human<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n DR \u2013 Death Report.<\/em> A document that describes one’s circumstances of death.<\/p>\n NBC \u2013 Necropolis Border Control.<\/em> Those men in black suits that usher your soul beyond the curtain. They’re called excorporators<\/em>, but this is hard to pronounce.<\/p>\n DFA (or FA) \u2013 Department of Fated Authority.<\/em>Ministers who predict the time and place of one’s death.<\/p>\n RKC \u2013 Record of Karmic Conduct.<\/em> The deeds of one’s life are recorded here, with questionable accuracy.<\/p>\n KK \u2013 Kali Kustoms.<\/em> The biggest retail chain in Necropolis, and Kali Konglomerate<\/em>, its parent.<\/p>\n NU \u2013 Necromancers’ Union.<\/em> Red-hooded gentlemen who make sure that the cogs keep turning.<\/p>\n The Tower \u2013 This is where the nobles decide which way the cogs shall turn.<\/p>\n Info Brokers \u2013 Those can, for a price, point you to the people of power.<\/p>\n Afterdeath, Inc. \u2013 After death, one needs to pay off their loans.<\/p>\n Black House \u2013 The government.<\/p>\n Hasty Hermes \u2013 Tells us what the government does, sometimes.<\/p>\n Charons \u2013 Charge more than their namesake.<\/p>\n Golden Promenade \u2013 It’s where your soul goes on vacation.<\/p>\n Afterlife Providers \u2013 If you want to go on vacation, you need a ticket first.<\/p>\n Waxworks \u2013 Making sure the dead don’t die prematurely.<\/p>\n Promenade District in South East, Siren’s Call above it, the Hook further North, Golgotha to the West, Old Golgotha a little further, Psychameron in the heart, Sabatica in the darkness, and others besides \u2013 the parts making up the body.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With this exposition out of the way, let’s break this book down piece by piece, starting with Franz Kafka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before diving into anything specific, let’s take a look at the world as a whole and some of its many moving pieces. Here’s a glossary: A Short Dictionary of Acronyms and Names To help you navigate the things that are corporate, but not exactly human DR \u2013 Death Report. A document that describes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/peterwynd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}