Foundryside (The Founders Trilogy, #1)

by Robert Jackson Bennett

Asking permission before you do something is really, really important, you see? Right? Right?> <I said I was sorry! But I had to tell them about you!

the most selfish protag ever

“Marduri believed there was reality and a world under it that made reality function.

“Once I was alive just as you all are…but then, during the lost minute, they took me out of me…and they put me in…in here.

I mean duh keep up

“Occidental sigils—the sigillums of God Himself—can’t be used by anything that has been born or shall die. So what do you do? You take a person and turn them into something deathless—something that is not really born, and never will truly die. You do it during the world’s lost hour, when the rules aren’t enforced. That gives you access to untold permissions and privileges! Reality will happily follow the instructions of the tool you’ve created—because, in a way, it genuinely believes the tool is God Himself!”

“I’ve been trapped in here for…for forever,” said Clef faintly. “I’ve outlived the people who made me. I spent so long in the dark…all because they needed a tool to do a job. It’s not human sacrifice—it’s worse.”

hugging Sancia’s body close as Clef wept.

lol why is clef so much more interesting

I find you…refreshingly uncontained.”

That must mean shes hot i guess

How the hell do I get myself into these situations?>

Ooooo by lying and stealing that was easy

Then she saw the Mountain.

Lol where was it hiding

The thing was lit up brighter than a magnesium torch,

Lolllll how did cshe not notice that

lived and worked and toiled.

Quick! What does work mean

the sound of so many scrivings hit her,

Lool theyv waited for the exposition

<Words…Words, I hear,> boomed the old man’s voice.

Lol what if tribuno is uhhhnot alive. I guess he has ctol be for them to nab his blood tho

The idea was simply mad.

Girl wut

who was dressed as a functionary.

Lol how manytimes will they saythat

<What is Presence’s nature?> asked the voice—the Mountain, she supposed. <No one has ever spoken to me directly…Is Presence a…a hierophant? Must provide verity.>

I bkinda feel sorry for the mountain being snubbed by these two not gonna lie. It soynds lonely

<We want to go up,> said Clef. <Clef!> she said, shocked.

Cledf is the brains of this operation

<Is your nature one of the Old Ones?> whispered the Mountain. <You must tell me. You must…It is one of my rules. Location of such is my Purpose.> They ignored him

WHY wjat do they lose bhy saying sorry mate but no w're just frens

She was getting the impression that the Mountain was not really hostile to them at all. Rather, it was like the thing was lonely, hungry for someone to talk to,

U dont say

<That’s insane! The hierophants are all dead!> <Untrue,> said the Mountain. <Death cannot be the state of hierophants. This was determined, per Tribuno’s research.

Tribuno built me to attract them, like a moth to flame…>

Uhhh how i im wonderin

He’s basically scrived a chunk of reality

Reality omes in chunks?

He wanted to show off to them, prove he could do things that they could do—produce

Ok checks out

I have to get to Orso. I have to tell him everything’s gone wrong.

Getting captured in 3 2 1

some small voice inside him spoke up—Did you just see movement? There, out of the corner of your eye? Is someone following you? He ignored it. He just needed to get out, to get out.

very efficient to literally ignore xwhat your eyesxare telling you

Dolorspina venom, she thought, groaning. So that’s what that feels like…

Lolllls will she think oh damn i used it on a lotta people

All those scrivers who thought we’d never see a scrived human—yet I’m the one to find one!

Haha that is a weird coincidence he keeps lucking into shit

What could be so valuable that the Occidentals had made a device solely for locking it away?

Their god duh we know this

“That’s her?” He laughed and ran to the imperiat. “How…how amazing!”

Ohhhh san nis the most speshul macguffin evah

started cutting off her toes and asking her hard questions.” A chill ran through Sancia’s body. I’ve got to get away from this sadistic little shit. “So, she’s

I like how shes low key surprised

“You said we needed Occidental items to complete the alphabet. That only then could

As ypu knkow bob we mkust exposit for the protag

it only identifies Occidental scrivings.

Is shut down all the normal ones too tho

“I think she is an anomaly in two manners,

Oh yeah on the money

Why would not one, but two incredibly unlikely things be achieved at once?”

Thats qactuallt nor weird

“At that time, we only knew the imperiat was a weapon.

Omg the expositlion

“Since you dumb idiots knocked down half the houses in Foundryside, and killed God knows how many people.”

Lol san is an arsonist

accidental miracle—this girl.”

Blechhhh

with why that plantation burned.”

Oh yeah she arsonedx the plantation too lol i think that time the slaves escaped tho vat least

they said she was the best.

They say shes the best. Shes a legend

if the plantation scrivers were using Tribuno’s instructions…then they were using sigils we already have, since we have Tribuno’s notes.” “Possibly,” said Enrico. “But—like I said, Tribuno

Lol editors note

He paused, staring at her. But Sancia took no notice of him.

Lolz pov skew

It would be an outrageous lie,

Lolll trying to convince us thats unusual for her

both looked tired and bored. Sancia herself felt little better:

Lool shes bored?

heard you the first time!> The warmth in her head receded. <Then why did you not respond?> <Probably because I don’t know how to answer a scrumming disembodied voice!>

Blonks. She just cdid respond

<I am process that was created by the Makers to help analyze, contextualize, and assemble low-level commands. I did their thinking for them.>

To make toys from the bones of creation—a mad and dangerous practice.

So vague

you can edit the scrivings of my shackles!> <Possible,> said Valeria. <This will exhaust me, however. I will be unable to assist after this endeavor.

Lollll editor be lpike cool she can edit anything then

I’ve wanted this for so, so long. And you’re saying—for sure—that you can give it to me? Right now?>

Uhhh sus

Should have destroyed you.> A

But sancia is speshul

Imperiat was made to control weapons. Items. Objects. Which you think yourself to be.>

Her flaw isz she just doesnht love herself blechhhh what about the othyer slaves who died then huh