Tincture, A Weird West Trilogy – Details, episodes & analysis

At sunset, the old gunslinger looked upon a fallen kingdom and found himself unimpressed.

Music in Book 3, Chapter 19:

Cullah - Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Crowander - Vanda’s Blues (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Monolog Rockstars - Two Years (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions - Floor Shine (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions - Floretin (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Rain On Heavy Glass
Allen Masterton - Project 5
Cory Gray - Follow The Trail (CC BY-NC 3.0)
straget - the rain falls against the parasol (CC BY 3.0)
Kai Engel - From Dreams to Melancholy (CC BY-NC 4.0)
tim.khan - 019 denver airport (CC BY 3.0)
Allen Masterton - Berceus
BOPD - Grotesque (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Timbre - remixes of 32985__hardpcm__alarm001 (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Blue Dot Sessions - The Envelope (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Kai Engel - Paranoia (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Marcos H. Bolanos - The Sea (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Podington Bear - Wren (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Borrtex - There Is Always A Reason (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Borrtex - Falling Into Presence (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Podington Bear - Juliette (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Podington Bear - Monday (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Borrtex - Over Again (CC BY-NC 4.0)
rambler52 - Pickup_Ford_62_Start_Idle (CC BY 3.0)
klankbeeld - wood on mattress 001 (CC BY 3.0)
Inspector J - Destruction, Wooden, A (CC BY 3.0)
Podington Bear - Feldspar (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Jamie Evans - Opening Doors (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Scott Holmes Music - Escape (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Kai Engel - Paranoia (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Audionautics - Crowd Long (CC BY 3.0)
InspectorJ - Crowd Screaming, A (CC BY 3.0)
Scott Holmes Music - Discovery (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Dexter Britain - Sleepless Nights (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Origamibiro - Flicker (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)
Crowander - Black Trees (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Crowander - Looking Back (CC BY-NC 4.0)
My Bubba & Mi - Goodnight Heart (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Crowander - I Found You (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Scott Holmes Music - Uninvited (CC-BY-3.0)
Dexter Britain - Lifted (CC BY-NC-SA)
Dexter Britain - Transpire (CC BY-NC-SA)
Allen Masterton - Iodine
Crowander - Old Man’s Tale (CC BY-NC 4.0)

The moment cut his word in half, flickered lights before his eyes, then shut it all down with a deep dark absence of color so grim it was difficult to put word on.

Music in Book 3, Chapter 18:

Cullah - Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Marcos H. Bolanos - Stranded (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Allen Masterton - Iridian
Siddhartha Corsus -  Oh Radiant One (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Borrtex - Fog In The Street (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions - Floretin Interlude (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Crowander - Underwater (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions - Catcher Textile (CC BY-NC 4.0)
AVOIDANT - Apparitions (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Kai Engel - Extinguished (CC BY-NC 4.0)

We are always starving. It sort of goes with the territory—this being hungry in every odd tick of the day. An empty belly and its degrees of unpleasantness is better than any watch or sundial, and no further calculations on mood need interject.

Music in Tincture: Book 3, Chapter Nine:

​Cullah – Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0)
​Scott Holmes – Shimmer (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Podington Bear – Swale (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Podington Bear – Turquoise (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Origamibiro – Flicker (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)
Genghis Attenborough – Clandon Chime (CC BY-NC 3.0)
​Dexter Britain – Late Mornings Beginning (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Dexter Britain – Late Mornings (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Podington Bear – Monday (CC BY-NC 3.0)
AVOIDANT – At First, the Separation from Your Body Was Harmful (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – Cach (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Tom smiled and nodded with the applause, but when the meeting resumed he went right back to staring directly into the center of a donut.

Music in Tincture: Book 3, Chapter Eight:

Cullah – Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Alterr – Small Group Applause (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Scott Holmes – Origin II (CC BY-4.0)
Seclorance – Dir (CC BY-4.0)
Charlie Salas-Humara (CC BY-NC 3.0)
AVOIDANT – Apparitions (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
KSEA – Interlude A (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)
Cyborgs On Crack – Paraplegic Gerbil Processing Plant (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)
Damon Boucher – Desert Sun (CC BY-NC 3.0)
David Szesztay – Backward (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Podington Bear – Sepia (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Mystified – Running From An Evil Force (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Seclorance – Depths of Self-Deception (CC BY 4.0)

Torches had never done Allgood much favor, but that they lit up a question or two in the good populace was useful. Two old branches lit the stench of thoroughfare just before the bar-house, the tips never extinguished thanks to some flammable green-black sludge the fiddle fingers had cooked up for otherwise pursuit. They stunk, and while most folk came to the bar house either by regular pre-dinner appointment or curiosity, they came all the same.

Music in Tincture: Book 3, Chapter Seven:

Cullah – Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Podington Bear – Nocturne Op 48 No 1 (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Kai Engel – Moonlight Reprise (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – Bliste (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – Between Stones (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – Gtks (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – That River Wide (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Will Bangs – You Make My Heart Sing So Loud (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – Stillness (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Mystified – Spooky Theme (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Sergey Cheremisinov – Back to Home (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Even in that too-bright light of the morning, Abranyah always struggled to wake with it. She preferred to sleep as long as possible, but the sun would eventually prove to be an enemy—fuel for whatever device the barren was planning to kill you with today. This morning was of little difference, but the body rustling through her pack had become lazy, desperate, or both. In any case—far too loud.

Music in Tincture: Book 3, Chapter Six:

Cullah – Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Podington Bear – Juliette (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Podington Bear – Tortoise Shell (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Kosta T – say sounds (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Costa T – Moon Valley (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
David Szesztay – Prayer (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – An Accumulation (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – Bkls (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Kai Engel – Paranoia (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Sacred Harp Signers of Cork – Consecration (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Kai Engel – Curtains are Always Drawn (CC BY-NC 4.0)

An otherwise normal day in an otherwise normal life, time as it was. Tom had been fostering a general sense of unease for a while now, yet like a weird sort of depression, he had difficulty pinpointing its origin.

Music in Tincture: Book 3, Chapter Five:

Cullah – Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Podington Bear – Three Colors (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Podington Bear – Submerging Blue-Black (CC BY-NC 3.0)
David Szesztay – Snow (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Podington Bear – Monday (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – Gtks (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Cory Gray – Terminal One (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – At All Ends (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Mystified – Spooky Theme (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
visualasylum – Radio Static (CC BY-3.0)

The ways a body tends to crave its own undoing is a humanistic riddle that I no longer wish to endure. A short way to speak it, I suppose: my empathy muscles have atrophied.

Music in Tincture: Book 3, Chapter Four:

Cullah – Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Kosta T – Red in Black (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – Stillness (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – A Simple Shroud (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Podington Bear – Undersea Garden (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – That Horse Ithaca (CC BY-NC 4.0)
David Szesztay – Freezing (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Podington Bear – Submerging Green (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Podington Bear – Swale (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – Mobile (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Kai Engel – Highway to the Stars (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Rhamuel kept folks on a spectrum of his own design, the range beginning somewhere around “tolerate,” and ending near “abject avoidance.” Abranyah once asked where the disdain found its origination point, but the tanker would only reply, “Everyone seems to give me a reason.”

Music in Tincture: Book 3, Chapter Three:

Cullah – Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – The Envelope (CC BY-SA 4.0)
David Szesztay – First Step Inside (CC BY-SA 3.0)
David Szesztay – Cascet (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – Lights Out (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Kosta T – Whole Alone (CC BY-NC SA-4.0)
David Szesztay – Plashes (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – More Weather (CC BY-SA 4.0)
David Szesztay – Wake Up (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Origamibiro – Flicker (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)
Genghis Attenborough – Clandon Chime (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Cory Gray – Low Rollers (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – Diagram K (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Will Bangs – The First Person Awake (CC BY-SA 3.0)
David Szesztay – Surreal 2 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

This was the kind of fruitless nonsense that permeated The Scar—a seeming irregularity of principle and purpose to things. A body could rub a book to ash in their fingers. They could then take a step and trip over a heaping stack of books showing no more than frayed edges, dust, and that grainy kind of yellow that takes over the page after a while.

Music in Tincture: Book 3, Chapter Two:

Cullah – Please Bring Me Shelter (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – 4th Chair (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – Emmit Sprak (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – Midday (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – Catcher Textile (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Origamibiro – Flicker (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)
Genghis Attenborough – Clandon Chime (CC BY-NC 3.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – Thread Caramb (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – Cobweb Transit (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – Thread Ceylon (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Kai Engel – Prelude – Bells in Heavy Clouds (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Blue Dot Sessions – An Accumulation (CC BY-NC 4.0)