“Have you ever woken from a dream that felt shared… not remembered, but recognised?” Schmetterling When Mrs. Wilkerson Met Someone Else’s Nightmare Mrs. Wilkerson from accounting did not expect to spend her afternoon being chased through a dream by a clown that, quite distinctly, did not belong to her. She had no history with clowns. […]
The Bounty Hunter and the Pirate King
https://youtu.be/0BnUqH2tL38 Welcome, traveller.First Turning in the Red Dust is the second story in the Tales of Madane, a growing collection of sci-fi short stories exploring the deserts, ruins, and strange histories of the Madane Universe.This chapter follows Tang, a strong-headed bounty hunter who crash-lands on a forsaken desert world and crosses paths with Radok, a […]
Fabricator 7 Begins Her Tale
https://youtu.be/Nkm12oDOaj4 Welcome, traveller.“The Wanderer in the Dust” is the opening chapter of Tales of Madane, a growing collection of sci-fi short stories set in the sprawling Madane Universe — a world stitched together by ruins, echoes, and impossible technologies.This first tale follows Fabricator 7, a wandering storyteller prototype, one of the last machines still drifting […]
Wyrd Journeys – Where it all began
https://youtu.be/9Qyq8ZQZGC0 Wyrd Journeys: Flying the Five-Pointed Carpet So, you’ve just watched Schmetterling spin yarns about nightmare accountants and Dr. Etherstein mutter about “minimizing casualties.” But what, exactly, is a Wyrd Journey? In the Neural Game, a Journey is less like hiking and more like trying to fly a carpet that only exists if you keep […]
Character Highlight Mina – The Wanderer
Before there was Madane, before there was an empire, before there was even red hair — there was simply a girl standing in a desert. Alone, small against the horizon, in a world that seemed more question than answer. That girl became Mina. She was the spark that set the story into motion. From that […]