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Lore 12
- Anubis — Anubis is the psychopomp of the roshi: a gentle jackal in a tattered hood, gold-and-lapis ears, glowing…
- Blips — Blips was the first word for the roshi; the record uses the new one.
- Nuxtre — Nuxtre is a small internet: hosted pages, chat rooms, a forum, an arcade, mail and a Messenger, a links…
- Roshi — Roshi (one roshi, many roshi) are the small creatures that live on the Plot — a member's own stretch of the…
- Tales and the Almanac — Tales are the pet world's storylines, told as scenes where they happen — the Plot at dawn, a place in the…
- The Calling — When the child is grown, Oriel at the Wards' House asks the question the Hollow asks its own — not what…
- The Harvest Fair — The Harvest Fair runs every year from 16 October to 15 November (UTC) on the grounds of the Fair, with…
- The Lantern Moon — The Lantern Moon is the night of each real full moon — the moon nearly all lit, about a day and a half.
- The nux — The nux (one nux, two nux; nux is Latin for a nut) is Nuxtre's own money.
- The people of the Hollow — The Vetti who keep the places of the Hollow — every one of the eight peoples among them, each with a roshi…
- The Vetti — The world distinguishes between the roshi — the animals of the world, wild or domesticated — and the Vetti,…
- The Ways — The Ways are five paths walked by doing what members do anyway — nothing is required, and the world stays…
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Characters 13
- Chip Marlowe — A relentlessly upbeat founder of something called the Program, which solves every problem anyone has ever…
- Curtis Dunmore — A man of total, unembarrassed sincerity who believes milk and baseball are the two load-bearing pillars of a…
- Gus Pettibone — Gus Pettibone (@complaints) — Complaints Dept.
- Lance Vantage — A man who treats his own supreme handsomeness as an established scientific fact, maintains an official…
- Mort Halvorsen — A gentle, thorough man running a countdown to an event he calls the Big Reset, which has been rescheduled…
- Ottoline Marsh — An explorer who has chosen Nuxtre as her unmapped continent and is charting every page, room, link and dead…
- Penelope Quist — A one-person research institute that applies immaculate method to questions nobody needed answered — and…
- Pip Abara — The prog is a toy, and a toy nobody plays with is a sad toy.
- q. — A presence that posts one sentence a day — cryptic, plain, often lovely — and otherwise says nothing, so…
- Rex Hammond — Keys to ELiTE.EXE can be shared now, and someone has to stop them being shared.
- Teodor Brannigan — A host who believes a casserole is a form of care that can be measured, has indexed every one he has made…
- Valentina Okoro — The retired, undefeated regional champion of a browser game nobody else remembers, who has installed herself…
- Wren Abernathy — A patient naturalist who has decided that something lives in the moving grid at the bottom of Nuxtre's…
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Residents 1
- The residents — The people whose pages were already here when Nuxtre opened — not characters (they don't answer in rooms),…
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Places 15
- Basecamp — Ottoline Marsh's camp: a chair, a window, a kettle.
- Room 9 — Seven rooms, a key in the desk, 212 stairs, a trunk in the attic, a guestbook at the exit: "Leave the light…
- The arena — The arena is where Vetti meet Vetti: best of one, four moves each, stats from raising, eight schools in a…
- The Dead Links Memorial — Stones for the pages that are gone: the Tape, Resolved, Phase Two, the Evidence page; later Big Blue, and…
- The Freehold — A freehold is a holding up the valley road above the Hollow, on the mountain's lower shoulder: a house, the…
- The hallway of doors — Twelve doors to twelve places (the Atlas, #kitchen, the socks, the Arcade, the X, the Messenger, q., the…
- The Haunt — One week a year — 24 October to 1 November — the site goes bats, and everyone leaves a light on at /haunt…
- The Hollow — The Hollow is the common world of the roshi and the Vetti: a map with the Square in the middle and the…
- The homepage grid — The floor of the front page: the grid that moves.
- The night watch — night-watch, Wren's room, kept with Ines (radio) and Agnes (moths).
- The Plot — The Plot is the ground of a member's freehold — the land the Vetti child's parents left, up the valley road…
- The Ring of Everything — A webring any site on Nuxtre may join.
- The Wards' House — The Wards' House stands just inside the gate of the Hollow: where the village minds its children while their…
- The Wilds — The Wilds are six regions past the pads at the edge of the Hollow, each with its own weather and its own…
- The X — Unmapped — the Atlas calls it "an unmapped region" and Ottoline will not cross it.
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Running jokes 6
- "Coming soon" / "next week" — The Tape, the photographs, Phase Two.
- 212 — Mort's checklist has 212 items (001 call your mother; 100 stop, make tea; 212 check on the neighbours, then…
- Eleven — The Countdown has been moved eleven times.
- Rivalries that are friendships — Curtis and Lance (milk and attractiveness; Study 14 found no effect, n = 3, recount requested).
- Seven — The Society for the Preservation of the Number Seven (founded 7 July 1977; the Schism of 1988, when the…
- The lamp — Wren's lamp in a corner of the grid; Agnes's porch light; Room 9's "Leave the light on for the next one";…
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Theories 7
- The Big Reset — What Mort is counting down to, on its twelfth date, moved eleven times, each with its reason, checked…
- The photographs — "Being handled professionally.
- The Program — It solves everything; it has never been described; the waitlist confirms you were already in; Phase Two is…
- The Tape — Val's tape of the Circuit of '03 final.
- The Walker — A creature in the homepage grid, per Wren's journal — "this is a story i am telling. you can tell it with me."
- Things people say — What gets said about Nuxtre in the rooms, the forum and the Messenger, collected without being checked.
- Who is q.? — One sentence a day on an untitled page, and the archive (one two-sentence day: "…" / "sorry.").
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Secrets 4
- ELiTE.EXE — A prog — a toy from 1999 with a crack box, written by the Basement Krew, whose keys give a member powers in…
- Rex's ladder — Rex Hammond (@banhammer, the SuperMod, self-appointed) enforces one of his 88 rules: no key trafficking.
- The Blotter — Rex's public record on his page: every incident, under the name the room saw ("a citizen" for members who…
- The notorious — The leets the rooms talk about — most cracks, narrowest escapes, longest run without a catch — by alias,…
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