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SSH keys for multiple GitHub accounts

This is how to set up ssh keys for multiple github accounts.

1. for each account, generate an ssh keypair: ssh-keygen -t rsa -C 'put a comment here'
2. upload each public ssh key to its corresponding GitHub account
3. list the keys in your ssh auth agent: ssh-add -l
4. add each private key that hasn't already been added to your ssh auth agent: ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
5. edit your ssh config (usually at ~/.ssh/config), example config shown below
6. whenever you clone a repo, change the host in the ssh url to one of the ones defined in your ssh config. for example, i'd use git@dawnvoid.github.com:dawnvoid/dawnvoid-5.git when working on my website
7. you can update existing repos with git remote set-url origin <new_ssh_url>

# example ssh config

# personal github account
Host github.com                        # host is the name you'll use in the repo ssh urls
    HostName github.com                # hostname needs to be `github.com`
    PreferredAuthentications publickey # idk what this does tbh
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa         # path to the ssh key for this host

# dawnvoid github account
Host dawnvoid.github.com
    HostName github.com
    PreferredAuthentications publickey
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa_dawn

Free Obsidian mobile sync with Git

Doesn't have to be Obsidian, that's just what I use.

1. install FDroid (download apk online)
2. install Termux from FDroid (the version in google play store is outdated)
3. start Termux
4. update everything: pkg upgrade
5. install stuff: pkg install git openssh
6. let Termux access your phone's files: termux-setup-storage (this will create ~/storage/)
7. generate ssh key: ssh-keygen -t rsa -C 'put a comment here' (this will create ~/.ssh/id_rsa and ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub, or something similar)
8. show public ssh key: cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (make sure it's the one that ends in .pub!)
9. copy the result to your clipboard
10. go to GitHub and add a new ssh key (settings -> ssh and gpg keys -> new ssh key). paste in your public key.
11. if everything worked, you should be able to run ssh -T git@github.com in Termux. it won't actually let you log in, but it shouldn't throw any errors.
12. now remember: whenever you clone a repo, use the ssh url, not the https one!!! you can fix an existing repo with git remote set-url origin git@github.com:<username>/<project>.git
13. also: your Documents folder is probably at ~/storage/shared/Documents/

2023-09-03

I stopped being creative years ago. If I was bored, and had a choice between drawing and videogames, I'd choose videogames. And if it wasn't videogames, it was YouTube, or memes on Instagram. I did nothing but consume. I turned my brain to mush. Got to the point where, If I got up and walked to the livingroom, I wouldn't be able to find anything to do. How fucked up is that? As a kid I'd play outside. I could create fun whenever I wanted. It's like I shut all that away and forgot about it.

It takes a while to come back from that. Over the last year I've gradually eased back into better ways. I started drawing again! Apparently my love for cute little doodles hasn't died yet. I'm also getting into photography, guitar (possibly), and longboarding. There's a longboarding club at my uni and it's actually super fun.

I even read some books! So far: The Cabinet, by Un-su Kim; Yokohama Station SF, by Yuba Isukari; The Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff; and currently The Te of Piglet, by Benjamin Hoff. I also have: Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543-1879, by Noel Perrin; Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman; and Black Art of 3D Game Programming, by André LaMothe.

I even have ideas for this site! Crazy, right?

I'm living off-campus this year, in an apartment. So I'm learning to cook and bake. I baked bread yesterday! It's too dense but still edible. Gotta start somewhere.

2023-08-24

I think I'm growing as a person again. For a long time I felt stuck, in life and in my head.

Hi Again (2)

Wow. I'm bad at this.

I forgot to post about: We launched a fucking rocket (it blew up).

Along the way, I took a piss at this town with like, population 3. The town was so desolate. Some local guy basically broke into the laundromat so I could use the bathroom lmao.

I want to do shorter format posts here. That means more spewing random crap. That's ok, it'll be fun.

Hi Again

Remade the site because bored. Old one was too spaghetti.

I'm using Linux Mint now. Also Neovim.

Oh and I repaired my laptop's keyboard. It was held in with plastic rivets. Had to melt them with a soldering iron.

We launched a rocket in New Mexico last week, it blew up lmao. We think the nosecone got pushed into the body tube and split it apart.

Currently playing: NetHack, Xonotic, Shattered Pixel Dungeon (mobile)

Two Birds Playing

# Two Birds Playing
On the corner of a rooftop,
I saw them.
One sitting still,
the other circling.
One, two, three,
and it lands on the first!
Again and again,
they played.
Sadly, I had to leave.

Doing Nothing

Kind of crazy how wide the skill levels are in CS people. On one hand, there's people who barely know how to use a computer. On the other hand, some people are way ahead of the curve. I was looking through a webring the other day (found in the wild!!), and though the people there were in their early 20s, they'd already made so much cool shit.

Meanwhile, I'm just sitting here, not doing jack shit. Feel like my mind has turned to mush over the years. Maybe this is a turning point. We'll see.

To Reach the Light

So I did a game jam (experimentaljams.com), and actually finished something for once?? Incredible, I know. You can find it here and here.

My First Game Jam

I linked it on my homepage, but scarbyte made experimentaljams.com for hosting game jams. This month's theme is "grid", which is kind of ehh, but whatever. I'll figure something out.

Starting projects is easy, but it's hard to sustain enough self-motivation to see them through. Enter game jams. It's a low-stakes way to force yourself to finish something small. And keeping things small means you can play around with weird and novel features — this is what Experimental Jams is all about!

(Seriously, if you want to make games but don't know where to start, download Godot right now and do a game jam.)

I'm starting with sokoban as a base. There are two characters, Blue and Yellow, who need to find each other. You can switch to either one's perspective at will. You win by moving both characters into the same spot.

Here are some mechanics I'm toying around with adding:

• linked boxes — Boxes with matching colors. Pushing one pushes all.
• floor buttons — Stand on it or push a box on top and it'll provide power to something.
• pistons — Pushes boxes when powered.
• doors — Impassible unless powered.
• ghosts — Colored ghosts only chase after characters with the same color. Moves slowly, but can phase through walls.
• projectile attacks — Iffy about this one, but who knows. Characters can kill ghosts, but only if their color is different. Maybe instead of projectiles, characters kill ghosts on contact?

There's no story, but there are vague themes of coming out of one's shell and escaping dark places together. I think for the last level, Yellow will be gone and Blue will be on her own.

I'll post more about it as we get closer to the deadline and I add more stuff. I'm pretty busy with school these days :/

PirateBox, Part I

I want to build a PirateBox. I've got an old Raspberry Pi 2B lying around.

First, I installed DietPi, a lightweight OS for Raspberry Pis. It's basically some scripts running on top of a cleaned-up version of the stock Raspberry Pi OS. I wanted something fast and headless. Shit was super easy to install.

The Raspberry Pi 2B doesn't have wifi. I bought a wireless adapter online. I made sure to get one with AP mode, which means it's able to broadcast its own internet connection (like a hotspot). A lot of adapters, especially Realtek-based ones, don't have this. Also, it needed to have updated drivers that worked on linux.

The drivers were available on the manufacturer's website. Curl wasn't working, so I downloaded it to my laptop and used SCP to transfer it. By default, DietPi uses a lightweight ssh server called DropBear instead of OpenSSH. Unfortunately, it doesn't have SCP. However, you can install openssh-client, which comes with SCP, and doesn't conflict with dropbear.

The driver is actually a .zip file with source code inside that needs to be compiled. To get it to compile, I needed to install the following:

• build-essential (via dietpi-software)
• bc
• raspberrypi-kernel-headers

So after sudo make and sudo make install, I had to run sudo modprobe -r 88x2bu and sudo modprobe 88x2bu, which removes any kernel modules called "88x2bu" and adds the one that was just compiled.

Unfortunately, it won't start. The adapter seems to dump some of its firmware into the console when plugged in. Also, it seems like I can't set it to AP mode using iwconfig wlan0 mode master. I'll try an alternative driver.

The install script is super easy, works without a hitch. I install hostapd and dnsmasq. I do the compatibility configuration for hostapd shown on the gentoo wiki. I tried it with the 5G version, but hostapd wouldn't start.

I also ran rfkill unblock wlan, which fixed the adapter being listed as "DOWN" when running ip address. Finally, I ran dietpi-config and set up the adapter.

Part II coming soon. I'll be setting up dnsmasq to redirect everything to a local web server. And the web server will be hosting something... not really sure yet. (I literally don't have a use case for this project).

Yanking YouTube's Cables out of my Brain

Yeah. I don't want to be a brain in a jar, addicted to worthless information and targeted content. Time to wake up. Time to pull the plug.

1. Install Unhook
2. Hide Home Feed
3. Hide Video Sidebar
4. Hide End Screen Feed
5. Hide End Screen Cards
6. Experience withdrawal and realize how dire your situation was
7. Start looking for other hidden addictions
8. The machine fears the cable-cutter

"Game Idea"

You know it'd be kinda cool to make a lifelong game. Like you start out with a platformer and just keep adding stuff to it every once in a while. And never stop. Years go by, and this thing gets filled with all sorts of random stuff. It ages with you, changes as you change, becomes a part of you.

You'd have to plan to avoid spaghetti code. Maybe design your game as self-contained chapters, one for each significant period of your life. That way they don't step on each others' toes. A game as weird as this doesn't need to fit the common conception of what a game should be. If it helps, think of it as interactive media.

You know what would make it even cooler? Add a physical component to it. It could be a mysterious book that has cryptic info for solving puzzles. Booklets are good because other people can print them out. But something one-of-a-kind could work too! Just be careful not to lose it. You could make a whole treasure hunt out of it, although it might not stand the test of time. How about using natural land features around you? The game could require you to go to a cerain location, at which you've hidden a stash of materials or something. Maybe you bury a mini time capsule each year, and your kids can play the game and dig them up?

Don't plan ahead too much, you don't want to restrict yourself later on. Actually, forget that. Plan ahead. And then deviate. A year later and your vision for the game will change. That's ok, you can have both. Just don't go and retroactively mess with the stuff from your past, that'd kind of suck.

Goodbye, Momo

We've had 3 cats for a while now. First was Daisy, which we got around my 18th birthday. Next was Chester, which we got some time later. Last was Momo, who was found underneath our van. Momo is young and very hyperactive. He doesn't seem to understand social cues - he'll try to chase the other cats even after they hiss at him. Unlike the other cats, he never seems to get bored of the toys we have. He'll happily chase the same fluffball-on-a-string multiple times a day, every day. He's absolutely adorable.

Recently, Daisy got an ear infection and Chester got kidney stones. Vet bill was like $700, and now Chester has to eat special cat food. All this made my parents super stressed. They've decided to give Momo away. They found a good home for him, so he should be ok. Tbh, he probably has no idea what's going on, and doesn't care.

They told me this morning. I didn't get to say goodbye because I'm still on campus for finals week. I understand why they made the decision, but man, it sucks. That lil guy was so cute and fun. I hope I get to see him again.

Progress

Started drawing again. Not yet regularly, but at least once every few days. Mostly ink sketches. Decided to take an art class this semester, which got me back into things.

Our class recently did a thing where people would volunteer to pose, and everyone else would draw them with a 5 minute time limit. This was actually super fun. Made me realize how much better I've gotten at visually judging proportions and angles. The time limit forced me to focus on the most significant shapes and lines and not get bogged down in details.

I'll probably post some stuff once the semester ends (~3 weeks).

Lately, I've been inspired by these people. Got me back into the mindset of wanting to make things. Instead of just consuming all day. Here's a short list of stuff I'm doing or want to do.

• Make, finish, and release a game.
• Build a hydroponics garden. Like this.
• Learn assembly programming with this MSP430 chip I have.
• Make some sort of cyberdeck thing with my raspberry pi.
• Bookbind my own notebooks and sketchbooks.
• Fill up a sketchbook and decorate the cover.
• Get into making music again.
• Circuit bend a keyboard.
• Write a story.
• Switch to using linux as my daily driver.

Hate

Lotta hate in the world. Some people go around, brandishing icons or quotes of positivity, yet are just as hateful as the next guy. If you take a step back to watch, it's shocking how quickly someone can go from positive beliefs to unprovoked cruelty.

Why? It seems like we're prone to exceptions. We say we believe a thing, but we really don't. This seems to be a society-wide thing, and also appears in politics a lot. We believe in freedom and democracy, except when we don't want to.

Hate can be addicting too. It's like a drug, only it's infectious, and it's even harder to tell if you're an addict. Hate can move people to support a candidate, or donate to a campaign, or buy a product. Hate spurs activity, and in a world of big marketing data, that's profit for media and tech corporations. And guess what? Now we're fighting a culture war instead of actually improving things.

What can we do? I don't know. Question everything you do or say. Catch yourself when you want to be cruel. I think the most important thing is to want to try in the first place. Most people want to be nice, but aren't trying to be nice.

Bad Night

Resources

Copied these over from my previous site. Hopefully someone finds them useful.

Thoughts on Newbie Sites

Some people complain about neocities sites that have almost no content. I kind of get it? Seeing "Hi I'm [name] and I like programming", "There's not much here yet", "This site is a work in progress", etc. does get kinda boring after a while. But at the end of the day, I think it's a good thing that they're exploring new territory and learning to program.

If you want to see "good" sites, then search them out. If you only want to see those sites, then that's just not how it works :/ I guess you could make something like districts.neocities if you really want, or hope someone already made one that's acceptable in your eyes.

Newbies might be cringe but it's also pretty cringe to treat them like shit. Why be childish and petty on neocities? You could use that energy to do something better for your life...

Dirt Simple TTRPG

You have 3 stats: STR, DEX, and MND. To start, roll 1d8, assign to a stat, repeat. Whenever anything risky happens, decide if it is easy, medium, or hard difficulty. Choose the most relevant stat for the situation. Round its rank to the nearest die size, towards d4. Roll ≥ the target number to succeed.

For example: If you have STR 7 and want to strangle a guard, roll 1d6. If you want to creep silently across the rooftops and you have DEX 2, roll 1d4.

Aspects are descriptive words/phrases that help represent a character and their abilities. Start with 3 aspects. They can be as specific or generic as you want, just be reasonable and fair to other players. Whenever an aspect could be applied to a situation, get a stacking +1 bonus to your roll.

HP is based on your species. Whenever you level up, reroll your HP. Use it even if it's lower.

Stat blocks look like this: Bald Humphrey [7/4/4, Bald, Angry, Scribe, Sword, 5hp]. When attacking, he usually rolls 1d6 +1 (Angry) +1 (Sword). The format is <name> [<STR>/<DEX>/<MND>, <aspects>, <gear>, <HP>]

When attacking, only roll for damage, not to-hit. Whenever you take damage, you may subtract your armor's AP from it and permanently reduce your armor's AP by 1. When you burn your last AP, that armor is destroyed. Armor can be repaired during downtime. Shields can also be sacrificed to ignore 1 attack.

Characters can't cast magic, they have to find magic items to do it for them. Monsters can though ;)

Double RPS

A 2-handed rock-paper-scissors game I made up with my siblings long ago. Don't know if something like this already exists.

Basically, each hand plays its own game simultaneously. Your left vs. their right, vice versa. If a hand is beat, it is removed from the game. If one player has 2 hands left and the other only has 1, then that 1 hand faces the 2 hands simultaneously. This means that it would need to either beat both hands, or tie both hands, or beat one and tie the other.

DRPS “strategies”: If you have 2 hands but they only have 1, then you shouldn't use different symbols for each.

General RPS “strategies”: Younger kids like to start with scissors for some reason, so start with rock. People don't like to make the same move twice, and they don't expect you to either.

The Elevator

I jolted awake. It was deep in the night. It was quiet - what had stirred me? I had to piss. I climbed out of bed and made my way to the bathroom on our floor. I tried to stay tired, but the harsh lights forced me wide awake.

Finished, I stepped into the hall, but stopped. I heard a faint bell ringing, a repetetive ding! over and over again. Curious, and unnerved at the otherwise dead silence of my floor, I crept down the hall towards the source.

As I crept closer it grew louder and louder, more and more frantic, yet all the while bound to its repetitive rhythm. I turned the corner - it stopped - before me was the elevator, it's doors open. The silence of the floor was even more unnerving now. At once a cold terror began to grip my heart.

The Future Tomes

The Future Tomes are 7 great texts, each towering in size, gifted to humanity in its earliest years. Each text is encrypted, except for the first. The key is the answer to a difficult question given in the previous book. Brute force is not an option.

Each book contains a wealth of information that progresses humanity and adds to our technological sophistication.

Each book contains a hidden question. Finding and answering it is an effort that encompasses the entire species and spans hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Once each answer is found, the next book is unlocked and a new age begins.

Discovering the answer to each new question is proof of humanity's maturity. In this way, our progress is steered and checked by the great questions.

Ideas

Inspired by Jackomix's Game Ideas Page

[VISUAL] An art book where each page has doorways to other pages. Works like a visual choose-your-own-adventure book. You can also go to adjacent pages sometimes. The doorways can be in any style, but should have the page number marked on it or nearby.

[PLANETCRAWL] Intersystem planetary warfare. On paper. The GM tracks the stats of everyone. Each other player represents a species, with a homeworld planet.

[WASTES] A singleplayer gridcrawl with an ASCII terminal aesthetic. Possibly has robust procedural generation to make each playthrough different. Should be able to run on cheap office materials.

[CHSS] A chesslike videogame without a grid. Some piece movements have some wiggle-room, such as the knight or pawn. Touch to capture. Played in real-time.

[VIRTUE] TTRPG about gods and mythology. Each character stat is a position on a scale of a virtue to a vice. Fight god(s). Team up to pull a heist on the hell-train. Stab your allies in the back. Could have religion/cult simulator mechanics. Maybe your power is based on how many people believe in your existence?

[HATESIM] Is it possible to make a simulation model of human "political" interactions? Stuff like fake news, internal biases, cognitive dissonance, mob mentality, the Overton Window, etc. Everything would be an abstraction, but in a way that allows similar behavior to emerge.

[GRIMOIRE] A versus game that uses a physical zine format. Each player has 1 or more spellbooks/grimoires in the form of an 8 page zine. Each page can have a number of runes arranged in certain structures. The player is free to decorate their books. Gameplay involves using synergies between runes to cast spells. Not sure how it'll actually work. I envision it as an art thing as well as a game.

[STREETVIEW] A horror game from the perspective of google maps street view. Many different areas. No humans. Should be offputting and uneasy. Not really liminal or anything. Lots of ambience. Mostly places are pristine and sunny, and would be relaxing if something wasn't off. Maybe you could even find your in-game house, and if you look out the window you'd see a shadowy figure where the streetview is.

[LOGS] A "game" where you slowly uncover a sinister plot by reading various internal documents. Lots of meeting minutes, presentations, scanned papers, faxes, email/chat logs, etc. Less of a game and more just interactive fiction, although you can't actually influence the story.

[SCROLLMAZE] Webpage with a path that starts at the top and meanders around. In the center of the screen is your character. You use the scrollbars to scroll the background, "moving" the character around. If you move off the path you die.

[GARGJAM] 2-part jam. First, everyone collectively designs an ARG. Then, it becomes a game jam where everyone is assigned a piece of the ARG and must incorporate it or hide it (within reason) into their game.

[TELEMETRY] A multiplayer space dogfighting sim with an open-source api/protocol/whatever. Ships with a basic client, but you are encouraged to program your own. The server is authoritative and could simulate advanced effects such as gravity, accurate ballistics, space weather interference, ship subsystems breaking down, etc. Clients can move, fire, scan. The api/protocol is very simple. The game is less about the game itself and more about programming better clients than your enemies. You are allowed to completely automate your ship. You aren't allowed to make a botnet though.

Desolate Settings

How would you run a TTRPG in a desolate and empty wasteland?

Say you were running a citycrawl, the polar opposite of a wasteland. The setting is filled with content. Everywhere you look, there's something.

Wastelands are empty. Travelling through emptiness would be boring, so let's cut that out. Now we're left with only the interesting bits, and it becomes a sort of point-crawl.

Another way to run a wasteland would be to make travel more interesting. Hexcrawls already do this, but they need different types of terrain/biomes in order to describe position. To the north are fog-shrouded mountains, the east is rolling plains, the coastline to the south, and black forest on the west. Without terrain, there isn't much to differentiate different intermediate locations unless you put landmarks and features everywhere.

I think the main thing is that the setting shouldn't actually be empty. It can look and sound empty, but it shouldn't feel empty. Rather, it should feel empty through descriptions and flavor, but be just as mechanically full as any other hexcrawl.

Is ethics absurd?

We could use an existing system of rules (either given by God, or otherwise arbitrarily determined) to determine what's right or wrong. In this case, we'd better be ready to accept the rulings, even if they conflict with our intuitions. No system exists that fully satisfies all of our moral intuitions.

We could instead choose a system of rules based on our own intuitions. We would basically be ruling based on our own intuitions, with extra steps. However, not everyone has the same intuitions. This ends up being disguised moral relativism.

Ok, so what if we really don't like moral relativism? If we go the first route, we need to decide on a system to use. This system will not always agree with our moral intuitions, but we need to follow it anyways. Which system we choose is arbitrary, but what practical aspects might we consider?

• elegant vs. convoluted
• specific goals? (i.e. Utilitarianism)
• how practical to implement
• how well defined (i.e. Utile calculus is hardly defined at all)

We either arbitrarily choose a system to follow, or choose one based on our moral intuitions. But, because our moral intuitions can be different, we won't agree on which system to follow. A system that agrees with all of our moral intuitions would basically be a form of moral relativism, although maybe much more convoluted and impractical. On the other hand, if we arbitrarily choose a system to follow, we will have a bad time because it will not always agree with our moral intuitions. This makes me think that ethics is absurd and that moral relativism is really how we act in practice. A more practical route would be to analyze our moral relativism in practice rather than discussing rule systems.

The Magician

The Magician raised his flute to his lips and played a haunting tune, it's shrill notes piercing the night air. At once, the City of Glass shattered.

The spirits of the four winds, ever hungry, descended upon the sandy corpse of the city and swept its remains across the land.

The Magician turned and pocketed his flute.

Long, long ago, before men walked the world, before life had touched the land, The Magician had helped the gods plan reality. Unbeknownst to them, however, he had inscribed a secret symbol unto the very foundations of the world. The symbol, present now in every being and place in the world, was the source of his power.

This secret symbol is The Magician's great secret. With knowledge of it, one can travel to any place and time, seemingly at will.

Even today, the gods do not know his great secret, though they perpetually hunt him for it.

The Magician has lived many lifetimes. When he grows old and frail, he transports himself to a secret location to meet with his past self. Here, he gifts himself all of his memories and knowledge, before dying peacefully. His past self then becomes his new self.

Unfortunately, through many generations of stealing his past self from the past, time has become unstable.

Enraged at his trick, the gods branded The Magician a divine outlaw - any man who knowingly helped or harbored him would suffer the wrath of the gods.

Terminal

With a soft click, Ezra popped open the terminal's security pad. Just behind, there was a square debug port. Under normal circumstances, it would have been disabled, but the last maintenance crew had left it open. All to plan.

Ezra snaked a cable over to the port, and powered on his deck. A premade script took care of the terminal's security system, and the system was his.

Ezra popped the system's memory cassette and made a copy of it with his dual cassette player, before reinserting it. The copy, he would keep for later. Carefully, he disconnected the cable, reattached the keypad, and rebooted the system. ALL WELL flashed across the screen.

Black Planet

Beneath the black sky, beyond the ancient oak, below the arched ruin, it stood. The oasis itself, once lush, now dust, was encircled by miles of flat wasteland. Damp, black, sand stretched to the horizon, where set two dying suns.

In the center of the oasis was a single ivory pillar. Suspended above, a single perfect drop of water, suspended in time.

Briefly, there was a shudder. A shock. Light. And then there was light, emanating with incomprehensible force and power, like water under pressure finally escaping its valve. Tears of light, tears of white, and a towering beacon driving deep into the sky. An electrified rush fills the desert wastes. The mountainous rocks in the distance are bleached white, their faces seared of a millenia of darkness.

A hulking metal thing, a wretched thing, rusted by milleneae of isolation, shuffles across the wastes. It crawls, inch by inch, towards the distant oasis, towards the beacon of light.

A hulking metal thing, a wretched thing, rusted by milleneae of isolation, shuffles beneath the black sky, beyond the ancient oak, below the arched ruin. It stands, hunched, in front of the ivory pillar.

With a quiet whirr, the thing reaches an appendage deep inside itself, presenting a black engraved obsidian box. It opens the box atop the pillar, releasing a single perfect drop of water, suspended in time.

In the distant horizon, the dying sun sets.

In the final day of the final sun, every oasis crumbles. The arch reduces to dust, the ancient oak withers. They have failed to ignite the light, and once again the world grows black.