Only Thing Worth Looting
Key art
Synopsis
In a world where everything is broken, he is annoyingly unbroken. Rain on ash, cars that will not start, a street already taken apart. She looks up. He looks down.
Two marauders, and two machines that came with them: a scorpion at her calf, a brass bull with a bright eye at his hip. Between the gold fire and the rust, the only thing worth stealing is each other.
Extended sequence
Other figures further down the road are armed and late.
The two in the middle are not shopping. The loot is the person still standing.
Figures in the frame
A woman with long black hair and black armour, the scorpion level with her knee.
A broad man in plated black and gold, the brass bull beside him, unbroken on purpose.
Codex fragment
Rain on ash. Cars that will not start. A scorpion at her calf, a brass bull at his hip: two machines that came with the marauders.
The fragment is Only Thing Worth Looting.
Sound of Imagination
Unbroken is the street after the looting. The fire stays. He does not crack, and the piece refuses to congratulate him.
The page is Unbroken.
The Craft
The still is the ruined street, the scorpion, the brass bull, two people who are not shopping.
Showcase
Two small androids, a scorpion and a bull, turned toward each other instead of the street.
The object is The Pair of Machines.
Filed
Pocket Cinema · Two Signs
Scorpio and Taurus in a street that has already been looted. The short is what they keep instead.
After the frame
Mark · keep · letter
Released rooms keep a mark from one to five, a keep on this device, and letters that stay with the page after the feed has moved on. Only Thing Worth Looting is ready.
Letters under the frame
The Archivist · held
Filed in the archive. The page does not expire.