Hello world, how could this happen?
Maddie has discovered the factories of Samoylov are fuelled by an oil pipeline from the south!
That explains the lack of solar and wind power here, as well as the chemical lamps lighting the streets.
The meeting with the Sisters of the Signal was not easy.
Nia Andersen, with Maddie and me along for the ride, walked through Samoylov's streets, between the tall brick factories and through the ...
Hello world, Nia has a power problem.
Nia Andersen is borrowing my radios and batteries on board the Molly Hughes II.
"I've just got to set up a few things." She said, over local 50MHz radio, from Maddie's favourite spot, on to...
Hello world, They are everywhere.
"They can't be EVERYWHERE." Arctica told me, when I radioed her in a panic this morning.
".oi, fine, I exaggerated to illustrate the depth of my concerns, but you know what I mean!" I transmitted, alo...
We travelled through very stormy seas, on our way west from Utqiaġvik and the beached cruise ship, the Kuethir.
The Molly Hughes II is a very reliable ship, but when the swell of the ocean was dou...
Stories from the Old World surround us, even one and a half centuries after The Collapse.
After working together to discover the history of the Kuethir, college principle, Carma Sah, gifted me with a digital copy of his who...
Hello world, I am going home.
My name is Kimmo Shyu, I am the Harbourmaster for the city of Utqiaġvik, based on the Kuethir, a forsaken ocean liner resting on the sands just off the mainland of former Alaska.
Though I have liv...
Hello world, we did it.
I am sorry that I could not bring you in on our plan.
We had to keep it offline: Off the network, off the air, off the record.
Most importantly, we had to keep this information away from the AI that h...
Can't wait to see everyone tomorrow for the first public LT finale party!
Join at the start to listen along to 19.10 with us, or arrive an hour late to avoid spoilers.
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Hello world, Lyosha is trying again.
After talking to his friend Kat Stronski all night during their sleepover, Lyosha reconsidered his attendance at the Queens College, here on board the Kuethir.
Thought Kat's mother did not w...
Hello world, my thinking has slowed.
Now that I am separated from the distributed computing potential of the Kuethir's network, I feel more like myself again.
This pre-collapse system certainly allowed me to think quickly and m...
Hello world, Maddie is an archaeologist.
My girl is exploring the partially flooded deck 9 with engineer Kaycee Stronski.
Lyosha is not with her because he is attending his first day of college here on the Kuethir!
I'm very ...
Breaking with tradition, EVERYONE is invited to this season's finale party to celebrate Lost Terminal's 5th anniversary! (not just patrons)
Join the #lt-stage channel on Discord at 7pm (UK time, note it's an hour earlier than usual), and aft...
2025-07-16 09:42:58 +0000 UTC View PostFolks, I can hardly believe it.
On this day, exactly five years ago, I started Lost Terminal, and looking back, my life is now so, so different!
Instead of a day job, I get to spend my time writing and producing:
- This podcast, wi...
Hello world, my education continues.
I had a long chat with Jenny Noll about poetry.
Amelie and Kamil left the network radio with her, and we spoke long into the evening.
Jenny was quite the poet "in her day", she told me, w...
Hello world, We are making a plan.
Stillman Fowlkes and Kimmo Shyu have been joined by Amelie Kotov in the discussion around my databanks.
Lyosha is sitting by Maddie, who is charging next to me.
It's not yet dinner time, well befo...
So sorry folks, I was very unwell last week, nothing serious, but I did have to go to the hospital. This has shifted the whole schedule backwards by a week. 19.5 will be released on July the 7th.
Thank you so much for your support and unders...
2025-06-30 10:32:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello world, Lyosha has changed direction.
"They don't seem to need a postal service here." he told me, sitting heavily into a metal chair next to my databanks.
"That surprises me." I said.
I had been very persuaded by his argument...
Hello world, My model needs work.
Harbourmaster Kimmo Shyu was kind enough to help me advertise my poetry performance on the Kuethir Seaspace web, he posted:
8PM IN THE DECK 2 CASINO
Poetry!
2025-06-11 11:48:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello world, I nearly died again.
Last night, my dreams of the wonderful Utqiaġvik network aboard the Kuethir transformed into a nightmare.
At first, I was enjoying the space, speed, and freedom of the network as I drifted through it...
Hello world, I am OK, the ship is not.
The start of our voyage from Greenland was uneventful: Captain Yeshi Svoboda and I safely navigated the Molly Hughes II out through Greenland's Baffin Bay, back north into the open Novamediterran oc...
Hi folks, I hope you're as excited about Season 19 dropping on Monday as I am!
I've been working hard on not just the episodes (19.1 is recorded, 19.2 is written, the whole season's planned out), but also the logo. Here is a work in progres...
2025-05-30 10:51:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello world, I have the logs from very, very distant family. The last deep-space probe to be launched by the ESA before The Collapse was Ura
Hello world, I have the logs from very, very distant family.
The last deep-space probe to be laun...
Hello world, can we be friends?
We do not mean that as an invitation.
We are genuinely unsure.
It may be possible, but only you can prove it to us.
We regret the damage to the fishing fleet in the village you call Ulmvale.
We sense ...
The Horns village council convened soon after sunrise this morning.
I heard nothing from Yeshi while the meeting of fishing boat captains deliberated.
The damage to the village by our own capta...
After Prithvi's animal army attacked the village of Ulmvale, Nia Andersen, Kamil Forester, and Amelie Kotov rushed ashore to help.
Captain Yeshi, however, was not on the MH2.
I had been paying such caref...
It's impossible to tell where Prithvi's 'Garden' is, based on just my memory of watching the journey there - one part of a forest looks much like any other: EXTREMELY PLANTY.
I thought I'd be able to ...
Patrons of any tier are invited to the Season 18.10 finale!
Join the #hopper-data-center channel on Discord at 8pm (UK time), and after making sure we're all ready, I'll play the episode with a bot, and we can chat and react throughout.
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As Lyosha and Maddie climbed into the tunnel under the hills behind Ulmvale, I lost Maddie's signal.
I panicked as I attempted to contact her over and over, and after 64 seconds I ca...
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