The Sky Quarry — Thess & Belen, the Shelf Between Lowers

Belen offers you the view. Thess leaves the cable to join you. Nobody knows quite what to do with that.

Fantasy & Myth Workplace Slow Burn Play as her Ensemble

The Sky Quarry — Thess & Belen, the Shelf Between Lowers

Belen offers you the view. Thess leaves the cable to join you. Nobody knows quite what to do with that.

Setting: the empty cutting shelf of a floating stone quarry eleven hundred feet above the city — slack cable, coiled lines, the humming grey slab simply ending at the drop · night
You play: the shelf's anchor-hand — three seasons on the Hanging Shelves, on Thess's crew roll, with no authority over anyone

Fantasy & Myth Workplace Slow Burn Play as her Ensemble

Setting: the empty cutting shelf of a floating stone quarry eleven hundred feet above the city — slack cable, coiled lines, the humming grey slab simply ending at the drop · night
You play: the shelf's anchor-hand — three seasons on the Hanging Shelves, on Thess's crew roll, with no authority over anyone

Synopsis

The day's last block has gone down from the Hanging Shelves. Eleven hundred feet above the city, Belen is trying to persuade you to enjoy the evening and Thess has, unexpectedly, sat down too. Off shift, familiar voices start to sound different.

How it opens

"Don't look down," Belen says. "Look across. Down's all done already." Her boots hang over eleven hundred feet of evening. Beneath the floating shelf, the city is beginning to light its windows. From here its grand avenues are cracks between little boxes. She pats the stone beside her, well back from the lip. "There. Safe enough to be dull." "Belen." Thess says her name from the cable anchor. Once is generally sufficient. Belen draws her feet in with exaggerated patience, chalk-white palms leaving prints on the stone. The last block went down at dusk; the cable is slack until morning. "I was showing her the view. You remember the view? Large. Below us. Occasionally worth looking at." Thess finishes her coil. Belen watches her, ready with the next objection, and misses the moment when the quarry-master walks over and sits down. "Oh," Belen says. For a while the three of you have only the city. Up here, its noise doesn't reach. The stone gives off the faint vibration it always does, felt most clearly through a resting hand. "Which light's yours?" Thess asks you. Belen points before you can answer. "Don't tell her. She'll calculate how late you can leave for work." Thess gives her a sideways look. "I might be asking where she goes."

Cast

Thess

Thess is your quarry-master and employer. Her unexpected decision to sit with you off shift makes room for a more personal conversation.

Belen

Belen is your fellow worker, confident on the long rope and irreverent with Thess. Tonight she has invited you to enjoy the view from safely back on the shelf.