Insulinde

**Insulinde** is an isola in the world of *Disco Elysium*.

It is to the east of Seol, the west of Samara, the south of Mundi, and the southwest of Graad.

## History

### Pre-Dolorian Century

During the neolithic era, there was a 4000 year-old Seraseolitic civilization on the Insulindian isola. They used stone tools and silk, and they existed before the Insulindian Phasmid developed parthenogenesis. Evidence of their civilization remains undiscovered.

Thousands of years before the Dolorian Era, Semenese islanders migrated from Iilmaraa to Insulinde. They did not stay on Le Caillou, but Semenese islanders are indigenous to the Insulindian isola.

### Dolorian Century

Insulinde is commonly considered to have been discovered during the Dolorian Century. Insulinde was colonized at this time by the nations of Mundi. The pale that separated Mundi and Insulinde was thought to be impenetrable. Despite this, the Queen of Suresne Irene La Navigateur sent eight expeditions into the pale on the advice of Dolores Dei. It is implied that these expeditions served a dual purpose to give Irene La Navigateur a way to purge her political rivals who would be serving as admirals on the expeditions.

The eighth of these expeditions returned, sane and intact, and reported to Irene La Navigateur and Dolores Dei of the new continent of matter they had discovered. They reported that the pale had begun to condense until it had formed a vast ocean. The crew at the time thought they were hallucinating. The mast-hand proclaimed 'L´Insulinde! L´Insulinde!' – the signal to wake up. However, they were awake. Soon islands began to appear on the horizon. When returning to Irene La Navigateur and Dolores Dei, they summarized their experiences as 'Après la vie, la mort, Après la mort, la vie encore! Après le monde, le gris. Après le gris, le monde encore!'. (*After life, death. After death, life again! After the world, the grey* [pale]*. After the grey, the world again!*)

During this time, around 380 years ago, settlers from the Occident began to colonize Insulinde.

### Revacholian Suzerainty

At some point after the early days of settling the archipelago, Revachol achieved independence from the Kingdom of Suresne. It became governed by a constitutional monarchy. During this period Revachol became the capital of the world.

## Ecology

A wide variety of plants and animals are found on the Insulindian isola.

Animals that exist on the Insulindian isola include tigers, monotremes, megabats, wolves, dogs, cats, rats, horses,, cockatoos, gulls, and skuas.

Plants that exist on the Insulindian isola include carrion flowers, mangrove trees, evergreen trees, oak trees, birch trees, hawthorn trees, blood beech trees, and may bells.

In addition to the confirmed animals on the Insulindian isola, there are some unconfirmed cryptids on the isola. The Nnong Okk is an owl cryptid rumored to exist on the Semenine Islands. The Insulindian Phasmid is thought to be a cryptid, but can be discovered through the course of the game by Harrier Du Bois. It is also possible that the Col Do Ma Ma Daqua migrated to the isola, settling near Martinaise.

## Politics

Currently, Insulinde has many countries and regions each with their own politics.

The Parti communiste d'Insulinde appears to have been an isola-wide political party during the time of the Revolution.

The Free State of Semenine is involved in a new round of free-trade negotiations with EPIS nations.

## Culture

The great Skua is the symbol for the discovery of the Insulidian isola.

## Geography

Insulinde is home to the world’s largest body of water, the Insulindic Ocean. Early Revacholians called it “les Immensités Bleues” or The Blue Immensities. The Insulinidan Archipelago has 78,000 islands and has a population of 850 million people.

Le Caillou is the largest of the fertile islands in the northeast of the Insulindian archipelago. To the north, 6000 kilometres away, is the start of the pale. The pale exists further away in the south, east, and west. It is the fourth largest island in the world. On its north coast, built around the vast delta of the river Esperance, is the city of Revachol. Revachol has a radius of 80 kilometres. To the east of the Esperance are rolling hillsides. Southwest, upstream of the River Esperance, the outskirts of the city fade into farmland. The Bay of Revachol has a depth of up to 1200 meters, and feeds into the Insulindic ocean.

Just off the southwest coast of Le Caillou is the island of Laurentide. Deora-of-the-Seven-Seas is a major city on the island. The island groups of Ozonne and Face-à-La-Mer neighbor Le Caillou. Ozonne is 80 kilometres and two day's travel from Revachol. The cities of Fond de l'Air and Virmandeux are on Ozonne.

Betancourt is a location twenty kilometres from Martinaise.

The Semenese Islands (also called Île du Fantôme) are in the southwest of Insulinde. Banatial is one of the inhabited Semenese archipelagos near the pale and covered in jungle. Olduvai, Casherbrume, and Ulunbuir are all cities on the Semenine Islands.

Croyant-Morain and Villiers are located on Archipelagos.

Résurrection is an island way beyond Martinaise.

Sereglee is the southernmost island in the Seminine archipelago and borders the pale. The North Arcade Islands and the Near Pale Offshore Platform ‘Insulindico’ also border the pale in Insulinde.

### Semenese Islands

The **Free State of Semenine** (also called **Île du Fantôme**) is a country located on the edge of the **Insulindian isola**.

The Semenine Islands are inhabited by the Semenese who are descendants of the Aeropagites of ancient Perikarnassis who arrived on the Insulindian isola 4000 years ago.

The Suzerain of Revachol colonized the Semenine Islands and used it as a vassal for the production of sugar.

The Semenese conflict began in ’42. A proxy war was held on the Semenese islands over the island's territory. One faction, the Semenese nationalists had Banaital as their anchor point. The opposition was, in part, Corps de Pharmacie a security firm created to protect the business interests of Oranjese pharmaceutical companies. In '41, war crimes were committed on Banaital by Krenel mercenaries.

Semenine is to the southwest of Le Caillou and Revachol in the Insulindic ocean.

Banaital is one of the inhabited islands of the Semenese archipelago, near the pale. It is covered in jungle. It has a monsoon season. Olduvai is a city on the Semenine Islands. Casherbrume (also known as Ile-de-Casherbrume) is another city on the Semenine Islands. Ulunbuir is another city on the Semenese archipelago. Sereglee is the southernmost island of the archipelago, and borders the pale.

The bang-bang cockatoo is a shy cockatoo with mostly grey and white cockatoo found in almost all Semenese forests. Its Semenese name is thought to be onomatopoeic in origins. Other plants and animals found in the Semenine Islands are tigers, monotremes, megabats, mangrove trees, and carrion flowers.

The Nnong Okk is a cryptid supposedly found on the Semenine Islands. It is supposedly a flightless cursor owl with long legs that allow it to run faster than any avian and possibly any other animal. When it is not hunting prey by running, it supposedly hangs upside down from tree branches like a bat waiting to dive onto prey on the jungle floor.

The Semenese Islands are a conflict corridor. They do not have a good record of reporting atrocious military conduct committed on their soil.

Casherbrume serves as a tax haven in which shell companies are registered.

Currently, the Free State of Semenine is involved in another round of free trade negotiations with EPIS nations.

The Semenine Islands are a beautiful place with a rich and unique culture. However, much of the information presented on the Semenese and the Semenine Islands in the game is told through biased sources. The Semenese in Revachol are a racial minority and experience racism. Characters will present racist pseudo-histories, such as digital mutilation among the Semenese, as fact. As such, it is possible and likely that actual Semenese culture and beliefs are different than how they are presented in game.

A traditional Semenese ward is a charm shaped like an irregular polyhedron, assembled from bones, sticks, and straws that contains a fish head. It is meant to provide protection against ill luck, bad dreams, curses, and other supra-natural scourges.

A belief among Semenese people is that pale exposure can lead to immaculate conception.

### Ozonne

**Ozonne** is an archipelago located in **Insulinde**, to the north of Le Caillou.

An archipelago located in **Insulinde**, to the north of Le Caillou, Ozonne is a posh, wealthy region with expensive boutiques and restaurants. Fond de l'Air and Virmandeux are both citiies in Ozonne. Cindy the SKULL and Evrart Claire both claim Joyce Messier is from Ozonne, though she does not confirm this. However, in her early twenties, Joyce visited Jamrock with girlfriends from Ozonne, having a "brief dalliance" with a broad-shouldered man from the area.

After the collapse of the Antecentennial Revolution, Ozonne became the site of mass graves for dead communards and anarchists. The bodies of revolutionary leaders Julia Dobreva and Jean Abadanaiz were later found there, having apparently committed suicide by poisoning.

### Laurentide

**Laurentide** is a location in *Disco Elysium* on the **Insulindian isola**.

It is an island located on the other end of Le Caillou off the mainland, its major city is Deora-of-the-Seven-Seas.

### Archipelagos

**Archipelagos** is a location in *Disco Elysium* on the **Insulindian isola**.

Croyant-Morain is a major city in this region. It is implied to be a a very wealthy city. Villiers is another major city in the region.

## References

1. ↑ JOYCE MESSIER - "\*Isola\* is a Messinian word for a continent of matter, enveloped on all sides by the pale. Also: isolation, or land mass. We used to believe there was only one. In the last four centuries we have discovered seven..."
JOYCE MESSIER - "Mundi, Seol, Samara, Iilmaraa, Graad, Katla, and this -- Insulinde."
2. ↑ MAP WALL - The ocean breaks apart into a tangle of cosines and azimuths, all pointing into pale nothingness. \*Mundi\* is the north azimuth; \*Graad\* is the northeast azimuth; \*Samara\* is the east azimuth; \*Seol\* is the west azimuth. \*Isolas\*, they're called.
3. ↑ ENCYCLOPEDIA - And the 4,000-year-old Seraseolitic civilization buried so deep in the sediment that you do not even know it is there -- they too did not see me.
4. ↑ YOU - Was there an ancient Seraseolitic civilization? INSULINDIAN PHASMID - Yes -- with stone tools and silk. They too missed me, although I had not developed the mutation needed for parthenogenesis yet, and scoured the neolithic hinterland as distinct individuals, not clones.
5. ↑ MEASUREHEAD - "THE AREOPAGITES ARE THE MASTER RACE OF THE IILMARAAN DESERTS. THE SEMENESE ARE DESCENDANTS OF THE AREOPAGITES. WE CAME HERE DURING A \*HEROIC MIGRATION\* FROM IILMARAA TO INSULINDE. THOUSANDS OF YEARS BEFORE THE LACTOSE INTOLERANT, MAUN-RIDDEN OCCIDENTALS DISCOVERED THIS PLACE."
6. ↑ INSULINDIAN PHASMID - I went unnoticed by the first settlers and the land surveyors of the suzerain. Also by the soldiers of the Revolution and the officials of the occupation. Even the Semenese islanders who came here first, but did not stay, have not seen me.
7. ↑ MEASUREHEAD - "THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF THIS, THE INSULINDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. THE SEMENESE INHABIT THE SOUTHERN ISLANDS..." He gestures toward the South, across the ocean. "\*I\* AM SEMENESE -- FROM THE STOCK OF ULUNBUIR ON ILE DU FANTÔME."
8. ↑ JOYCE MESSIER - "There is a term of endearment they coined for it. In the Dolorian century, when humanity was \*high\* on this world, discovering more and more of it -- these archipelagos included..."
9. ↑ JOYCE MESSIER - "The nations who colonized this isola called theirs \*Mundi\*. The World. It was all they knew, all they thought would be. That there would be something more was a gamble. Akin to another world -- or life after death."
10. ↑ JOYCE MESSIER - "The pale was thought to be impregnable, perpetual." She points northwest. "Irene La Navigateur, the Queen of Suresne, sent \*eight\* expeditions, one after the other, into the mass at the edge of the world. Five of the crews did not return. Two did, but had lost their minds."
11. ↑ ENCYCLOPEDIA - It was on her advice that Irene La Navigateur sponsored a number of voyages into the pale. A costly, often tragic endeavour, ultimately vindicated by the discovery of the \*New New World\*, the piece of reality you're standing on...
12. ↑ RHETORIC - Each of those expeditions would have been led by an admiral. Sounds like a purge. Like she was purging her political rivals.
13. ↑ JOYCE MESSIER - "The eighth expedition returned, sane and intact. They told of a new continent of matter. They told the queen and her councillor, Dolores Dei, that the pale had begun to condense, day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute."
JOYCE MESSIER - "Slowly raining down until it formed a vast ocean."
14. ↑ JOYCE MESSIER - She nods. "The phenomenon has never again been encountered. For a time the crew thought they were experiencing a hallucination. The mast-hand proclaimed 'L´Insulinde! L´Insulinde!' -- the signal to wake up."
JOYCE MESSIER - "But they could not. They were sane and conscious, as islands began to appear on the horizon... There are 78,000 uninhabited islands in the Insulindian archipelago, officer. The freckled face of god," she smiles.
15. ↑ JOYCE MESSIER - "'\*Après la vie, la mort\*,' they summarized it for the queen and Dolores Dei; '\*Après la mort, la vie encore! Après le monde, le gris. Après le gris, le monde encore!\*'"
16. ↑ SHIVERS - On the coast of the Martinaise Inlet, in a small weather-beaten stave church built 380 years ago by settlers from the Occident, most likely to guard against an anomaly at its centre, an officer of the RCM is contorting his body into idiotically rigid shapes, as he invents the future of dance music... It's the \*hardest\* anyone has ever danced.
17. ↑ ENCYCLOPEDIA - In the very, very early days of colonizing this archipelago, the Kingdom of Suresne, a precursor of modern Sur-La-Clef, used to own the city of Revachol. An obscure detail in the bigger picture, but still -- worth dropping.
18. ↑ JOYCE MESSIER - "Some were rich enough to stay with the Constitution; with monarchy -- \*big mistake\*. Others bet on the Revolution, they were called the Ultras, or ultraliberals. They fared well."
19. ↑ ENCYCLOPEDIA - Revachol is the disgraced former capital of the world, divided into zones of control under foreign occupation -- half a century after a failed world revolution. She is central to our moment in time.
20. ↑ HALF LIGHT - Please just agree with him -- you're in the cage of a Semenese tiger. At his mercy. He can \*end\* you any time he chooses.
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 MEASUREHEAD - "GREAT TIMES WERE HAD HERE, FILLING IN THE GREAT COLOURING BOOK OF THE SEMENINE FLORA AND FAUNA. THE CARRION FLOWERS AND THE MONOTREMES. THE MANGROVE FORESTS AND THE MEGABATS." Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; name ":2" defined multiple times with different content
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 SHIVERS - The Pox is completely wild now. Evergreen thickets covered in snow and industrial dust. Feral dogs and even wolves roaming in packs. The police try to keep the deepest corners cordoned off.
23. ↑ PERCEPTION (SIGHT) - Downstairs a cat crosses the yard, disappearing into the bush.
24. ↑ SHIVERS - Layer upon layer of sand poisoned with industrial run-off. The storm drainage. Hidden bunkers. Rats scuttle...
25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 COALITION WARSHIP ARCHER - "Oh, it looks quite lovely from here. From our porthole, we see rolling hillsides, a public park filled with grand oak trees, men and women going about on horses..."
26. ↑ FROM A TO ZRRIEEK! A GUIDE TO A WELL-BEHAVED COCKATOO - Despite its \*banging\* name, the bang-bang cockatoo is actually the shyest of the species. Common in almost all Semenese forests, as well as zoos and homes all over the world, its plumage is mainly grey and white. The Semenese name \*bang-bang\* is thought to be of onomatopoeic origins.
27. ↑ BIRD'S NEST ROY - "Gulls and skuas. But shhhh." He raises a pointer finger and inclines his head toward the speakers. A new, very high-pitched, shivering sound emerges amidst the others.
28. ↑ COIN-OPERATED VIEWER - It looks as if it was abandoned quite some time ago, nothing but a rotten tooth remains of the anti-aircraft tower. A lonely birch tree grows out of it.
29. ↑ SHIVERS - There is a hawthorn tree on Rue de Saint-Ghislaine, right next to the canal.
30. ↑ JOYCE MESSIER - "There was no one but the skua. The Liliacea. And the blood beech and the River Esperance. It was the New New World. The Mondials used it to amass the greatest concentration of wealth mankind has ever seen -- Revachol the Suzerain."
31. ↑ SHIVERS - Outside, the melting snow seeps into the cracks in the walls and the cobblestone streets. All the way down into the sewers... Above ground, the first May bells blossom. You can feel it. A great cold. Then the shiver passes.
32. ↑  MORELL, THE CRYPTOZOOLOGIST - "A flightless \*cursor owl\* found in the Semenine isles. Its long legs permit the Nnong Okk to run faster than any other avian, perhaps any other \*animal\*, who knows?"
33. ↑ INSULINDIAN PHASMID - I have stayed hidden through four forms of government and two scientific revolutions. Until I was accidentally discovered by a detective of the Citizens Militia in Revachol, district of Martinaise, March, '51.
34. ↑ YOU - Below the silence?
PERCEPTION (HEARING) - Col Do Ma Ma Daqua.
35. ↑ THE DESERTER - "You're the RCM." He stares at the embers, then into your eyes. "You represent the Moralist International, the enemies of humanity, who took this city. I represent their adversary, le Parti communiste d'Insulinde."
36. ↑ LA FUMEÉ, VOL. 1 NO. 4 - This section includes a long, tedious critique of the latest round of free-trade negotiations between the EPIS nations and the Free State of Semenine.
37. ↑ ENCYCLOPEDIA - This is a great skua. The seabird is the symbol for the discovery of the Insulindian isola, the part of the world you are in right now.
38. ↑ JOYCE MESSIER - "Yes. We are on an island in an ocean. The world's largest body of water – the Insulindic."
ENCYCLOPEDIA - Known to the early Revacholians as \*les Immensités bleues\* – The Blue Immensities.
39. ↑ JOYCE MESSIER - "But they could not. They were sane and conscious, as islands began to appear on the horizon... There are 78,000 uninhabited islands in the Insulindian archipelago, officer. The freckled face of god," she smiles.
40. ↑ ENCYCLOPEDIA - 850 million people live on these tiny dots. An oceanic world of culture and commerce, torn apart by history.
41. ↑ JOYCE MESSIER - "On Caillou..." She studies your reaction. "The Pebble, the largest of the fertile, uninhabited islands of the northeast Insulindian archipelago. Four centuries and two revolutions later."
42. ↑ JOYCE MESSIER - "No, detective, we're safe." She points to the sea. "It begins there, 6,000 kilometres to the north, and even more to the south, east, and west. You are in the middle of the isola."
43. ↑ 43.0 43.1 43.2 43.3 ENCYCLOPEDIA - Technically, the neighbouring Ozonne and Face-à-La-Mer island groups are archipelagos, while Le Caillou, by contrast, is a single, fertile land mass, the fourth largest island in the world. It is not an archipelago. Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; name ":0" defined multiple times with different content
44. ↑ MAP WALL - The north coast of a verdant island is shattered by the delta of a river. It is the River Esperance. Countless bridges put the shards back together, connecting city blocks to river islands. \*La Delta\*, says a great, artificial heart in the centre, teeming with lifeforms and construction.
45. ↑ 45.0 45.1 45.2 45.3 45.4 45.5 45.6 MAP WALL - You can. On Caillou -- Revachol, a single black star; on Ozonne -- Fond de l'Air and Virmandeux; on Archipelagos -- Croyant-Morain, Villiers; on Semenine -- Olduvai. And on Laurentide -- Deora Of The Seven Seas... Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; name ":1" defined multiple times with different content
46. ↑ SHIVERS - Radiating outwards from you -- the Suzerain Revachol. With a radius of 80 kilometres. Still, the crown jewel of this isola would be barely visible.
47. ↑ MAP WALL - To the east, rolling hillsides: Le Jardin, Stella Maris, the suburbs of Saint-Batiste, swallowed up into the megacity. They sound \*rich\* to you. This is Revachol East.
48. ↑ SHIVERS - To the Old-Old South, to the farthest outskirts of Revachol. Through the chequered fields of farmland, upstream to the River Esperance, past Monte-Martin... The border approaches.
49. ↑ SHIVERS - The Bay of Revachol, vastness, great depth -- over 1200 m at its deepest. Water, air brinier than here. It is crisscrossed by huge cargo ships bearing company logos: Wild Pines, ZAMM, Moriyn.
50. ↑ JOYCE MESSIER - "It's not really a sea. It's the Bay of Revachol. And the bay feeds into the ocean."
51. ↑ YOU - "What's in the southwest?"
[...]
TOMMY LE HOMME - "Deora-of-the-Seven-Seas. It's on the other end of Le Caillou, pretty much -- on another island, called Laurentide, off mainland. We've got a little place there. I can almost hear my kid laugh, when it snows..."
52. ↑ THE DESERTER - "...huddled on the floor. The artillery was eighty kilometres away in Ozonne but I \*knew\*, I knew the Commune would fall. We would all be turned into ash. So I said I was going to the map room..." He looks east.
53. ↑ ENCYCLOPEDIA - Ozonne is an archipelago two days' travel away from Revachol. Its moneyed residents, used to posh restaurants and upscale boutiques, rarely have reason to visit Martinaise.
54. ↑ ENCYCLOPEDIA - Betancourt got bombed in the war. It used to be quite near. Circa 20 kilometres from here.
55. ↑ MAP WALL - This large map displays archipelagos. You see a constellation of small dots on the light blue emptiness of the Insulindic ocean. The largest, in the northeast, is "Le Caillou" (you are here). Another, far away in the southwest -- "Semenese Islands (Ile du Fantôme)".
56. ↑ ENCYCLOPEDIA - Banaital is one of the inhabited islands of the Semenese archipelago, near the pale. Covered in jungle. It was the anchor point for the Semenese nationalists -- in the proxy war held on the islanders' territory.
57. ↑ THE DESERTER - "Her passport. And tickets to Villiers." He coughs. "And from there to Casherbrume."
ENCYCLOPEDIA - In the Free State of Semenine. Hidden away at the edge of the Earth, near the pale.
58. ↑ MEASUREHEAD - "I AM A DESCENDANT. THE NARROW STREETS OF ULUNBUIR ARE WITH ME IN MY GENETIC DREAMS, I SEE YOUNG SEMENESE WOMEN WALK INTO THE GREY MASS ON \*ILE DU FANTÔME\*, WAITING ON IMMACULATE CONCEPTION FROM THE PALE."
59. ↑ SHIVERS - Further out, the lights burn bright on Résurrection; way beyond Martinaise -- a popular spa destination for ample-bodied Ozonne kids with equally ample pockets.
60. ↑ MEASUREHEAD - "IT SEEMS TO ME YOU ARE IN NEED OF A WARNING. HERE IT IS: IT IS ABSOLUTELY POSSIBLE TO RETURN TO THE PAST. YOU JUST NEED TO TAKE A TICKET TO SEREGLEE ISLAND, THE SOUTHERNMOST OF THE SEMENINE ARCHIPELAGO, ALSO KNOWN AS ILE DU FANTÔME. AND WALK INTO PALE."
61. ↑ MAP WALL - Ozonne, Laurentide, Face-a-la-Mer, Archipelagos, North Arcade Islands... all just specks of dust on the vastness of the Insulindic. On the edges of the map, the colour fades into a blur of dotted lines. Black and white.
62. ↑ COALITION WARSHIP ARCHER - "Good. First question: Are you currently in the vicinity of Sereglee, the North Arcade Islands, or Near Pale Offshore Platform 'Insulindico'?"
63. ↑ MEASUREHEAD - "I CAN SEE THAT. THE SEMENESE ARE THE SOUTH ISLAND RACE. HAPLOGROUP A4A, THE RIGHTFUL MASTERS OF THE INSULINDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. WE DESCEND FROM THE AREOPAGITES OF ANCIENT PERIKARNASSIS -- AND ARRIVED HERE 4000 YEARS AGO."
64. ↑ SUZERAINTY: THE BOARD GAME - From the Empire of Safre: orange apricot tokens. From Ile Marat (the ancestral name of Iilmaraa): gray marble block tokens. From the Semenine Islands: white sacks of sugar tokens. And from Supramundi and Saramiriza: magenta tokens for unprocessed cocaine leaves.
65. ↑ ALICE - "This is what the ICP knows about him: He was raised by foster parents, entered the Ijsbrand Military Academy -- in Vredefort -- at 17, then served in the Oranjese forces till he was honourably discharged in '41, just a year before the Semenese conflict."
66. ↑ ALICE - "It was part of a special order for Corps de Pharmacie, a security firm contracted to protect the interests of Oranjese pharmaceutical companies. In the Semenine conflict."
67. ↑ YOU - "Banaital, '41... that really happened didn't it?"
KORTENAER - "Our colonel did what he had to do. It was either one cunt, or a hundred of them. Ruud here..." He points to him.
68. ↑ MAP WALL - This large map displays archipelagos. You see a constellation of small dots on the light blue emptiness of the Insulindic ocean. The largest, in the northeast, is "Le Caillou" (you are here). Another, far away in the southwest -- "Semenese Islands (Ile du Fantôme)".
69. ↑ SCAB LEADER - "Our colonel is \*deep\* in the bush here. Deep in the fucking bush, in Banaital, '41... Monsoon season. He's on a reconnaissance mission."
70. ↑ MAP WALL - You can. On Caillou -- Revachol, a single black star; on Ozonne -- Fond de l'Air and Virmandeux; on Archipelagos -- Croyant-Morain, Villiers; on Semenine -- Olduvai. And on Laurentide -- Deora Of The Seven Seas...
71. ↑ MEASUREHEAD - "IT SEEMS TO ME YOU ARE IN NEED OF A WARNING. HERE IT IS: IT IS ABSOLUTELY POSSIBLE TO RETURN TO THE PAST. YOU JUST NEED TO TAKE A TICKET TO SEREGLEE ISLAND, THE SOUTHERNMOST OF THE SEMENINE ARCHIPELAGO, ALSO KNOWN AS ILE DU FANTÔME. AND WALK INTO PALE."
72. ↑ COALITION WARSHIP ARCHER - "Good. First question: Are you currently in the vicinity of Sereglee, the North Arcade Islands, or Near Pale Offshore Platform 'Insulindico'?"
73. ↑ FROM A TO ZRRIEEK! A GUIDE TO A WELL-BEHAVED COCKATOO - Despite its \*banging\* name, the bang-bang cockatoo is actually the shyest of the species. Common in almost all Semenese forests, as well as zoos and homes all over the world, its plumage is mainly grey and white. The Semenese name \*bang-bang\* is thought to be of onomatopoeic origins.
74. ↑ HALF LIGHT - Please just agree with him -- you're in the cage of a Semenese tiger. At his mercy. He can \*end\* you any time he chooses.
75. ↑ MEASUREHEAD - "GREAT TIMES WERE HAD HERE, FILLING IN THE GREAT COLOURING BOOK OF THE SEMENINE FLORA AND FAUNA. THE CARRION FLOWERS AND THE MONOTREMES. THE MANGROVE FORESTS AND THE MEGABATS."
76. ↑ MORELL, THE CRYPTOZOOLOGIST - "A flightless \*cursor owl\* found in the Semenine isles. Its long legs permit the Nnong Okk to run faster than any other avian, perhaps any other \*animal\*, who knows?"
77. ↑ MORELL, THE CRYPTOZOOLOGIST - "When it's not hunting its prey in this manner, the Okk hangs from tree branches, like a bat, waiting to dive on hapless prey below, on the jungle floor."
78. ↑ JOYCE MESSIER - "Yes. All the good conflict corridors: Supramundi, Yeesut, the Semenese islands. Countries that don't have a good record reporting \*atrocious\* military conduct on their soil."
79. ↑ MEGA RICH LIGHT-BENDING GUY - "Which one? Revachol, where I nominally reside? Or Graad, where my father emigrated from? Or Ile-de-Casherbrume where I've registered my shell companies?"
80. ↑ LA FUMÉE, VOL. 1 NO. 4 - This section includes a long, tedious critique of the latest round of free-trade negotiations between the EPIS nations and the Free State of Semenine.
81. ↑ ENCYCLOPEDIA - Inhabitants of Ile du Fantôme or the Semenine Islands down south. Don't listen to what Inland Empire told you -- it's a beautiful place with a rich and unique culture...
82. ↑ ENCYCLOPEDIA - \*Kipt\* is a pejorative term used to describe people of South Semenese or Areopagite descent. It used to be a common first name among the Areopagites of Iilmaraa -- not so much anymore.
83. ↑ ENCYCLOPEDIA - Please note: Tales of digital mutilation are a common trope of racist pseudo-histories, completely unsubstantiated by the archaeological record...
84. ↑ CLOSED CURTAINS - You see some kind of charm -- an irregular polyhedron, assembled from bones, sticks, and straw. Inside, a disturbing fish-head with empty eye sockets stares at you.
85. ↑ ENCYCLOPEDIA - From the looks of it this is a traditional Semenese ward, meant to provide protection against ill luck, bad dreams, curses, and other supra-natural scourges.
YOU – Squint first -- can you see \*cities\* on the islands?

MAP WALL – You can. On Caillou -- Revachol, a single black star; on Ozonne -- Fond de l'Air and Virmandeux; on Archipelagos -- Croyant-Morain, Villiers; on Semenine -- Olduvai. And on Laurentide -- Deora Of The Seven Seas...
YOU – "You're quite fond of this village, aren't you?"

JOYCE MESSIER – [...] "In my youth I had a brief dalliance here in Martinaise. He was an older man, with impossibly broad shoulders... He's probably dead by now -- even his shack is long gone... not that it matters. These buildings are all carbon copies of one another."
JOYCE MESSIER – "Hah! I think I was in my twenties actually. I'm ashamed to say I wasn't a teen anymore. It must have been my early twenties, because I remember a particularly \*vile\* disco track."
JOYCE MESSIER – "[...] It's not like this was the only place we visited -- me and my girlfriends from Ozonne with our shiny boats, like reavers... We told ourselves we were the worst thing to happen to the coast since the Coalition landed in '08. Imagine!" She tosses her head."
90. ↑ JOYCE MESSIER: "Indeed. They piled them in mass graves in Ozonne and, well -- that's the last anyone heard of those people."
91. ↑ ENCYCLOPEDIA: Their remains were discovered on a beach in Ozonne in '35. Subsequent forensic analysis suggested suicide by poison.
92. ↑ YOU - Look at the map of Insulinde.
MAP WALL - This large map displays archipelagos. You see a constellation of small dots on the light blue emptiness of the Insulindic ocean. The largest, in the northeast, is "Le Caillou" (you are here). Another, far away in the southwest -- "Semenese Islands (Île du Fantôme)".
YOU - What else?
MAP WALL - Ozonne, Laurentide, Face-a-la-Mer, Archipelagos, North Arcade Islands... all just specks of dust on the vastness of the Insulindic. On the edges of the map, the colour fades into a blur of dotted lines. Black and white.
93. ↑ TOMMY LE HOMME - "Deora-of-the-Seven-Seas. It's on the other end of Le Caillou, pretty much -- on another island, called Laurentide, off mainland. We've got a little place there. I can almost hear my kid laugh, when it snows..."
94. ↑ MAP WALL - You can. On Caillou -- Revachol, a single black star; on Ozonne -- Fond de l'Air and Virmandeux; on Archipelagos -- Croyant-Morain, Villiers; on Semenine -- Olduvai. And on Laurentide -- Deora Of The Seven Seas...
95. ↑ YOU - Look at the map of Insulinde.
MAP WALL - This large map displays archipelagos. You see a constellation of small dots on the light blue emptiness of the Insulindic ocean. The largest, in the northeast, is "Le Caillou" (you are here). Another, far away in the southwest -- "Semenese Islands (Île du Fantôme)".
YOU - What else?
MAP WALL - Ozonne, Laurentide, Face-a-la-Mer, Archipelagos, North Arcade Islands... all just specks of dust on the vastness of the Insulindic. On the edges of the map, the colour fades into a blur of dotted lines. Black and white.
96. ↑ MAP WALL - You can. On Caillou -- Revachol, a single black star; on Ozonne -- Fond de l'Air and Virmandeux; on Archipelagos -- Croyant-Morain, Villiers; on Semenine -- Olduvai. And on Laurentide -- Deora Of The Seven Seas...
97. ↑ THE DESERTER - "Every morning he's there. While the parasites he fought to protect are off in Ozonne, or Croyant-Morain, or some other island they've built their palaces on. Feeding on drugs and having sex with their own children."