No. 29 - C.I.B. Field Report: Arelune / Preliminary Assessment
CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE BUREAU
CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE BUREAU
Field Report: Arelune / Preliminary Assessment
Document Code: CIB–ARL–01 / Story-Sensitive Edition
Redaction Level: ███ Controlled Disclosure ███
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Prepared For:
Trans-Temporal Postal Service (TTPS) / Meridian Desk 4
Archive Obscura, Arelune Cabinet
Filed By:
Miss Theodora Lamm, Senior Field Correspondent, C.I.B.
(with observational annotations by The Curator)
Status:
Results pending.
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1. Overview
Arelune, along the indeterminate coastline between France and Italy, operates as both a physical town and a metaphysical hinge-space. Witnesses describe its atmosphere as quietly aware, and the C.I.B. confirms Arelune functions as a node-world: a place where timelines converge, diverge, and sometimes rewrite themselves under cover of ordinary life.
The town displays consistent phenomena including:
arrival sensations preceding actual arrival
déjà vu without prior experience
streets that rearrange according to mood or memory
conversations recalled by one participant but not the other
Such effects are stable, repeatable, and non-pathological.
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2. Cultural and Physical Properties
Arelune’s layout follows emotional geometry, not municipal logic. Visitors report:
stairways shifting in steepness depending on intention
cafés that remain open until a question is resolved
doors that appear only when needed, never twice in the same place
The old harbor is home to the Listener’s Mist, which exhibits acoustic anomalies.
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(Details withheld to avoid revealing a future narrative turning.)
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3. Known Anomalies
3.1 Temporal Echoes
Shadow-forms of individuals appear offset by a few seconds, representing intention rather than memory.
3.2 Narrative Bleed-Through
Writers stationed in Arelune receive phrases, scenes, or names in their notebooks that they did not consciously write, but which later correspond to future narrative events across distant storylines.
3.3 The Lighthouse Interval
Every third evening, the lighthouse rotates its beam upward, illuminating the air itself. The Curator has determined this is a story-beacon associated with ██████████████████████████████████.
(Names withheld.)
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4. Significant Figures
4.1 The Keeper
Name: ██████████████████
Role: Stabilizing agent connected to Arelune’s earliest dream-layer. Appears consistently in photographs without measurable aging.
4.2 Notable Intersections
The following figures have documented ties to Arelune:
Dashiell Exquisite
Yuki Exquisite-Okabe
Touchon, in Oneironautic capacity
Οὔτις, catalogued as Witness Zero
Additional identifications withheld by Curatorial order.
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5. Story-Sensitive Material (Redacted)
The following have been redacted to protect narrative integrity:
The origin point of Arelune’s temporal distortion
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6. Preliminary Conclusion
Arelune functions not as a setting but as a threshold phenomenon—a dreaming city situated at a seam. Its purpose appears to be relational rather than geographical, opening only to those whose narrative roles require its influence.
The C.I.B. recommends:
TTPS seal validation on all Arelune-related documents
avoidance of fixed interpretations
and ongoing cross-temporal monitoring.
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