Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)

by Robert Jackson Bennett

if I see something I’ll try to think of some way to warn you.”

Uhhhhh then that kinda makes you not a useful lokout

The entire place is a device that makes other devices…Wow.

the sudden pressure almost knocked her over. But she held on, walking

Good thing her powers are never a liability

“Ohhh my God,” said Berenice.

Why do we keep needing side characters to admire s

Then we attempted the exchange…and,

They killed a person

“The problem is with the shell itself,”

Lucjky lucky she came in njust at the right time to get some premium exposition

“Do you think we need to reexamine the other artifacts, sir?” “Absolutely not. It took a lot of work to move the trove out of the Mountain. I wouldn’t want to lead Ignacio or any other of these slippery bastards to it just because I wanted to check notes.”

???

Though it bore many strange sigils, it was not a true scrived device.

Ok so what activates the scrivings. Where to you hit run

There was something gruesomely clinical to it all. They did not depict some religious rite,

Lolz likeva crite wouldnt be gruesolme

I don’t know why he called it a shell, though—shells have something inside them, usually.”

She aint too bright

“I’m lost,” said Gregor. “Alphabets?”

Exposition plz

I get the impression it had something to do with this ritual—but I don’t understand any of that.” Gregor held up his hands. “We’re getting off track.

Lolllll dumb dumb dumb

I doubt if Ziani can be lured out of the Mountain with the original imperiat.

Blinks he used it in the slums once that we know of

specific Occidental myth. Probably the most famous one

That we never heard about

“He thought they were people?” said Gregor. “Like us?” This idea was utter nonsense to most Tevannis. To say that the hierophants were once men was akin to saying the sun used to be an orange, grown on a tree.

Lool that was not clear at all

The men built a god, and the god helped them become hierophants.

If they made it why woulod they need its help

“The favor bit,” said Sancia, looking her hard in the eye, “is you forget everything you ever heard about Clef. Ever.

Oopsie the web of ies

air fans

What other kind is there

Sancia thought she could detect a hint of wrath there, which she couldn’t blame her for.

Its fine as long as you mentally acknowledge it

“Any Candiano string from you is going to be outdated,” said Claudia. “You haven’t worked there in a decade.”

Ma'am They are planning to break into the candiano headquarters

It’s not comforting to think of Tomas Ziani trying to follow in such a thing’s footsteps.>

Thomas cant he has no coding skills

“I forgot you’d installed a flag.”

the plot made her

<Because it makes me remember the dark,> said Clef. <Where I was for so long.> <This isn’t the same.>

Jerk sancia

It’s not like there’s any law forbidding it. You just have to file papers with the Tevanni council.

Lol editors note

four forever, it seems.”

Optimistic they wont crush each otger

and their scrived devices failed.

Uh why didnt he think about that before

The Revenant of Dantua, they call him. That’s your decent man for you.

We dont know if he did anythuing bad? i mean aprtt from killing people as a mercenary before that

privileged shit,

Lol such realism in dialog

a deeply guilty look crossed Gregor’s face, and he turned to Sancia and opened his mouth

Oh onky he has to feel bad about using her

And Sancia’s dreams were filled with old

Fladhback time!

Either she or they had been sold before she could know them,

They sold her for drinking money lol

Some here will whisper of liberty—but you can’t be free if you aren’t alive.

He turned around and looked at the taverna. It was old and crumbling,

So he can describe it for the reader

He told her only what she needed to know.

Loolz a nice way to say lie

You thought he could change the rules for you.

Why is he the oe teling us

There was a soft hiss as Ofelia exhaled through her nose. “Yes,” she said softly. He stared at her. “It was. It was?” “Yes,” she said reluctantly. “Once.”

Note that she cgould easily lie and justify it as sparing hisz feelings but she doesnt

“You survived. As I knew you would, Gregor. As I know you always will.” “Why? Why this certainty?” Yet his mother could not answer. It seemed, for the first time, like Gregor had deeply wounded her. And curiously, he felt no regrets.

Fickish on his part. Also did she secretly make him imortal or summat

“Did…did she just say she’s out?”

Lol i ues theyre doing nanowrimo to

“Do to Tevanne what Tevanne has done to the entire rest of the world?”

Uh yes that would be wortth preventing

“This is a rich man’s fight,”

Ok ? I count one rich two meh and oone poor

burdened with secrets,

Girl no one is forcing you to lie. Thats all you

people all too willing to either kill her or put her in harm’s way.

Blinks. So like always? Oh sorry its fine for the poors to put each other in danger

<I want to get you out of this. I got you into

Nno thats kiind of on her

don’t think I have a lot of time left,

Ok

A guy who’s not afraid to die likely isn’t too torn up about getting other people killed. You might not want it, but it’s a responsibility you’re willing to accept,

I guess shes a ind reader now

We are doing this to ourselves. We have to change. We must change.” “This is just what people are,” said Sancia. “We’re animals. We only care about survival.”

Shes sich a hypocrite omg

“You think because you’ve suffered, you know? You think you know what it’s like to live in fear?”

Yes that is loiterally how experience works

All men and women alive, and all generations after, will live in fear just as you did. I am willing to fight and die to free them.

an interestijng counterpoint tothe woman who just wantedd to survive

“You’ve put everything at risk by lying to us!” “I don’t recall your ass sneaking onto a foundry,” said Sancia, “or getting up to hop in an underwater coffin. Seems this risk hasn’t been distributed fairly.”

Blinks how did that not risk them all getting caught. Or how is he resonsible for something she snjuck off and did on her own iniative and against their wishes

“I’m still hung up on this thing being a ‘he,’ ” said Gregor. “It…it is a key, yes? The key says it’s a him? Is that right?” “Can we not bother with the dumb shit, please?” said Sancia.

BITCH