Tincture, A Weird West Trilogy

At sunset, the old gunslinger looked upon a fallen kingdom and found himself unimpressed. Music in Book 3, Chapter 19: Cullah - Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0) Crowander - Vanda's Blues (CC BY-NC 4.0) Monolog Rockstars - Two Years (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions - Floor Shine (CC BY-NC 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions - Floretin (CC BY-NC 4.0) Rain On Heavy Glass Allen Masterton - Project 5 Cory Gray - Follow The Trail (CC BY-NC 3.0) straget - the rain falls against the parasol (CC BY 3.0) Kai Engel - From Dreams to Melancholy (CC BY-NC 4.0) tim.khan - 019 denver airport (CC BY 3.0) Allen Masterton - Berceus BOPD - Grotesque (CC BY-NC 3.0) Timbre - remixes of 32985__hardpcm__alarm001 (CC BY-NC 3.0) Blue Dot Sessions - The Envelope (CC BY-NC 4.0) Kai Engel - Paranoia (CC BY-NC 4.0) Marcos H. Bolanos - The Sea (CC BY-NC 4.0) Podington Bear - Wren (CC BY-NC 3.0) Borrtex - There Is Always A Reason (CC BY-NC 4.0) Borrtex - Falling Into Presence (CC BY-NC 4.0) Podington Bear - Juliette (CC BY-SA 3.0) Podington Bear - Monday (CC BY-NC 3.0) Borrtex - Over Again (CC BY-NC 4.0) rambler52 - Pickup_Ford_62_Start_Idle (CC BY 3.0) klankbeeld - wood on mattress 001 (CC BY 3.0) Inspector J - Destruction, Wooden, A (CC BY 3.0) Podington Bear - Feldspar (CC BY-NC 3.0) Jamie Evans - Opening Doors (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) Scott Holmes Music - Escape (CC BY-NC 4.0) Kai Engel - Paranoia (CC BY-NC 4.0) Audionautics - Crowd Long (CC BY 3.0) InspectorJ - Crowd Screaming, A (CC BY 3.0) Scott Holmes Music - Discovery (CC BY-NC 4.0) Dexter Britain - Sleepless Nights (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Origamibiro - Flicker (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) Crowander - Black Trees (CC BY-NC 4.0) Crowander - Looking Back (CC BY-NC 4.0) My Bubba & Mi - Goodnight Heart (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) Crowander - I Found You (CC BY-NC 4.0) Scott Holmes Music - Uninvited (CC-BY-3.0) Dexter Britain - Lifted (CC BY-NC-SA) Dexter Britain - Transpire (CC BY-NC-SA) Allen Masterton - Iodine Crowander - Old Man's Tale (CC BY-NC 4.0)

In the dark and rainy parking lot of the diner, Tom and Noah pulled the collars of their jackets up over their ears. Mark did not seem to notice the rain. Music in Book 3, Chapter 17: Cullah - Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0) Rain On Heavy Glass Blue Dot Sessions - Remsen (CC BY-NC 4.0) Allen Masterton - Iodine Borrtex - Going Undercover (CC BY-NC 4.0) Marcos H. Bolanos - Suspects (CC BY-NC 4.0) poalopat - [AMBIENT] Desert Valley (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) Allen Masterton - Project 5 Blue Dot Sessions - Bliste (CC BY-NC 4.0) Borrtex - The Undertake (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Abranyah blinked through the rain, peering down both ends of the street, waiting for activity. Music in Book3, Chapter 15: Cullah - Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions - Bask VX (CC BY-NC 4.0) Guitar Drone 1 - Ghost Hunter (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) Podington Bear - Submerging Blue-Black (CC BY-NC 3.0) Podington Bear - Dark Water (CC BY-NC 3.0) The Rifleman - Day Of The Hunter (1960, clipped) Podington Bear - Satellite Bloom (CC BY-NC 3.0) Crowander - Prayer (CC BY-NC 4.0) Crowander - In The Sun (CC BY-NC 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions - Fog Interlude (CC BY-NC 4.0) Kai Engel - Rejecting the Sirens (CC BY-NC 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions - Big River Run (CC BY-NC 4.0)

In a sun dappled stretch of the Scar, endless as it had always been, a young woman found herself near done with what the dust had to offer. So goes folk in younger years—just aged enough to know and appreciate the finer and subsequent illuminations of ferment—yet still damn fool enough to know nothing else of nothing else. Music in Book 3, Chapter Thirteen: ​Cullah - Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0)​HarryHaaren - Acoustic Ambient (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) ambient-samurai - Scene Of Sunshine Filtering Through Foliage (CC BY 3.0) Zhalih - Firefly (CC BY-SA 3.0) Blue Dot Sessions - An Accumulation (CC BY-NC 4.0) ​Blue Dot Sessions - Diagram K (CC BY-SA 4.0) Guerrics - the new season (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) ​Scott Holmes - Black Jack (CC BY 4.0) ​Finn Perring - Ascension (Above The City) (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

Knucklebones stepped one leathery bare foot into the plastic pool, bright and faded colors both rippling under the liquid. Filth bloomed in arcs from his foot, dirt and barren clouding the chemicals. He wrinkled an ancient looking triangle that sat center on his face, and enshrouded by the giant round disc his hat made, and Knucklebones inhaled deeply. Music in Tincture: Book 3, Chapter Eleven: ​Cullah – Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0) Podington Bear – Submerging Blue-Black (CC BY-NC 3.0)Blue Dot Sessions – Floor Shine (CC BY-NC 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions – Slow Slow Sky (CC BY-NC 4.0) David Szesztay – First Step Inside (CC BY-NC 3.0) David Szesztay – Creepy Atmo (CC BY-NC 3.0) David Szesztay – Creepy Sirens (CC BY-NC 3.0) Podington Bear – Smolder (CC BY-NC 3.0) BOPD – New England Air (CC BY-NC 3.0) Origamibiro – Flicker (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) Genghis Attenborough – Clandon Chime (CC BY-NC 3.0) David Szesztay – Backward (CC BY-NC 3.0) Sergey Cheremisinov – Labyrinth (CC BY-4.0) Dexter Britain – Sleepless Nights (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

We are always starving. It sort of goes with the territory—this being hungry in every odd tick of the day. An empty belly and its degrees of unpleasantness is better than any watch or sundial, and no further calculations on mood need interject. Music in Tincture: Book 3, Chapter Nine: ​Cullah – Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0) ​Scott Holmes – Shimmer (CC BY-NC 4.0) Podington Bear – Swale (CC BY-NC 3.0) Podington Bear – Turquoise (CC BY-NC 3.0) Origamibiro – Flicker (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) Genghis Attenborough – Clandon Chime (CC BY-NC 3.0) ​Dexter Britain – Late Mornings Beginning (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Dexter Britain – Late Mornings (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Podington Bear – Monday (CC BY-NC 3.0) AVOIDANT – At First, the Separation from Your Body Was Harmful (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions – Cach (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Torches had never done Allgood much favor, but that they lit up a question or two in the good populace was useful. Two old branches lit the stench of thoroughfare just before the bar-house, the tips never extinguished thanks to some flammable green-black sludge the fiddle fingers had cooked up for otherwise pursuit. They stunk, and while most folk came to the bar house either by regular pre-dinner appointment or curiosity, they came all the same. Music in Tincture: Book 3, Chapter Seven: Cullah – Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0) Podington Bear – Nocturne Op 48 No 1 (CC BY-NC 3.0) Kai Engel – Moonlight Reprise (CC BY-NC 3.0) Blue Dot Sessions – Bliste (CC BY-SA 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions – Between Stones (CC BY-SA 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions – Gtks (CC BY-SA 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions – That River Wide (CC BY-SA 4.0) Will Bangs – You Make My Heart Sing So Loud (CC BY-NC 3.0) Blue Dot Sessions – Stillness (CC BY-NC 4.0) Mystified – Spooky Theme (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Sergey Cheremisinov – Back to Home (CC BY-NC 4.0)

An otherwise normal day in an otherwise normal life, time as it was. Tom had been fostering a general sense of unease for a while now, yet like a weird sort of depression, he had difficulty pinpointing its origin. Music in Tincture: Book 3, Chapter Five: Cullah – Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0) Podington Bear – Three Colors (CC BY-NC 3.0) Podington Bear – Submerging Blue-Black (CC BY-NC 3.0) David Szesztay – Snow (CC BY-NC 3.0) Podington Bear – Monday (CC BY-NC 3.0) Blue Dot Sessions – Gtks (CC BY-SA 4.0) Cory Gray – Terminal One (CC BY-NC 3.0) Blue Dot Sessions – At All Ends (CC BY-SA 4.0) Mystified – Spooky Theme (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) visualasylum – Radio Static (CC BY-3.0)

Rhamuel kept folks on a spectrum of his own design, the range beginning somewhere around "tolerate," and ending near "abject avoidance." Abranyah once asked where the disdain found its origination point, but the tanker would only reply, "Everyone seems to give me a reason." Music in Tincture: Book 3, Chapter Three: Cullah – Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions – The Envelope (CC BY-SA 4.0) David Szesztay – First Step Inside (CC BY-SA 3.0) David Szesztay – Cascet (CC BY-SA 3.0) Blue Dot Sessions – Lights Out (CC BY-SA 4.0) Kosta T – Whole Alone (CC BY-NC SA-4.0) David Szesztay – Plashes (CC BY-SA 3.0) Blue Dot Sessions – More Weather (CC BY-SA 4.0) David Szesztay – Wake Up (CC BY-SA 3.0) Origamibiro – Flicker (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) Genghis Attenborough – Clandon Chime (CC BY-NC 3.0) Cory Gray – Low Rollers (CC BY-SA 3.0) Blue Dot Sessions – Diagram K (CC BY-SA 4.0) Will Bangs – The First Person Awake (CC BY-SA 3.0) David Szesztay – Surreal 2 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Old splinters whistle. Everything across The Scar has aged long past the reek of decay, more so worn, faded, and abused by the transient miscellany that wandered through it over and over and over. There was a weird beauty when the too-bright day went purple as night prepared, no windows left to cover, no reason even if they remained. Music in Tincture: Book 3, Chapter One: Kai Engel – Paranoia (CC BY-NC 4.0) Audionautics – Crowd Long (CC BY 3.0) Kai Engel – Universe In Hands (CC BY-NC 4.0) Cullah – Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions – 3rd Chair (CC BY-NC 4.0) Kai Engel – January (CC BY-NC 4.0) Kai Engel – Morbid Imagination (CC BY-NC 4.0) Blue Dot Sessions – Between Stones (CC BY-SA 4.0) Will Bangs – I'm So Glad That You Exist (CC BY-NC 3.0) Sergey Cheremisinov – Back to Home (CC BY-NC 4.0) Origamibiro – Flicker (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US) Genghis Attenborough – Clandon Chime (CC BY-NC 3.0) Blue Dot Sessions – Bliste (CC BY-NC 4.0) Sergey Cheremisinov – Birds Walk Away (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Excerpted from: Revenants of War An Attempted Guide for Safe Warrant After The Whatever Much has been mired in speculation of the burnouts, most of it the mealy speech of a drunkard, or on occasion your humble author. People have actually visited the things, for Christ's sake. Their jagged profile out on the horizon is a curious thing for those of us who wander the scar. It's easy to get caught up in wondering where the places came from, who built them, and how far removed from those peoples we in the barren actually are. What happened to them might be the next question—the topic derived from a series of otherquestions that have yet to be answered in a culturally accepted way. Most simply agree, whatever. Music in Tincture: Book 2, Chapter Eighteen: Earsmack – So This Is How It Ends Marcus Fischer – Up Above The Hill Sky Spuntic – The Scene Podington Bear – Gauze Lee Rosevere – The Ambient Ukuele (radio edit) Allen Masterton – More Cowboy Conversations J Butler – Sundown Regis Victor – Le permis de conduire Intro music selected from: PrudHommes by Cobra (avec logo panthère)

Rachel stepped back into the church and spat on the floor. "Well we've got lights again, no thanks to you," she said. "In the movies when they siphon gas out of a car, they never throw up. Guess who learned a new thing today?" Music in Tincture: Book 2, Chapter Sixteen: Lee Rosevere – Gymnopédie No. 1 (Satie) Tortue Super Sonic – Film 1 Julien Mier – Ptarmigan Lee Rosevere – The AtticThe OO-Ray – Diplodocus Podington Bear – Constellation Vitus Von Degen – Countach Jared C. Balogh – Equal Value (Ode To A Squirrel) XYZR_KX – Fly Nevermore Eleanor – Invitation The OO-Ray – Oceans Apart Intro music selected from: PrudHommes by Cobra (avec logo panthère)

.2201 I met the most interesting man today. He sleeps at the fire while I write this, another few inches of bulk to my daily carry, but I find the exercise of keeping a journal cathartic. His name is Israfali. He has asked me to call him Fali, and we are very much alike in that we both are harnessed to a tank we know nothing about. We must've had the same tattoo artist, though. It is a damned similar thing, our markings. Music in Tincture: Book 2, Chapter Fourteen: Lee Rosevere – Pavane pour une infante défunte (Ravel) Tim Prebble – Tim Prebble Remix Muhmood – Studio Lee Rosevere – Thunder Storm – Vancouver, BC September 5 2013 Podington Bear – Forecasting Jahzzar – Part X Brian Joseph Davis – Track5 Muhmood – Finale Lee Rosevere – His first day without her Intro music selected from: PrudHommes by Cobra (avec logo panthère)