Seeds of Disaster: Sub-Index Cast=Weir Annadetcall

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"Go Direct to Ganj Dareh" &2
appearance
- a few shades darker than Harlan
- age less than 37
- brow=heavy
- eyes=deep-set dark-blue
- face
  - lips grainy
  - nose like a potato
- Foxfire: unassuming combination, yet oddly commanding
- hair=coarse, black, drawn back into a ponytail
- height=two heads taller than Foxfire
- hulking, brown-skinned man
- lips=full, grainy
- nose=lumpy, misshapen
- right-handed
- skin=rough, shiny, dirt-brown
- voice=heavy
arrived in Ganj Dareh in a 10-car train
behavior
- almost crossed his fingers
- decidedly irreligious
- gestures
  - to summon patience
    - squeezes eyes shut
    - strokes bridge of nose
- hears Pa's advice
  - Choke up on the axe handle, boy, and slow down!
- Pa's advice
- speech
botfly
- runs it for Phoebe
current home
- on Grissom
Dan-Colora
- bouts notwithstanding
- lash-punch
- recent sessions
- resume practicing his moves
- sessions in Ganj Dareh, all both of them
- shuffle-step right, away
- side-fist
- slap-parry
- the more difficult counter-move
degeneration of patterns
- = his target
  - recalled
- facing it now?
- in Ganj Dareh's drome
Die Gastarbeiter
- 4 clinics agree
- could be a problem
- described as a problem by Berl
- monitor impact
- posits gangs of ruffians &2 &3
- promise to them
  - recalled
- W remembers worrying
- why not W's clinic
duty demanded he pay attention
exertion
- ability to run flagged
- puffing from the exertion extended
faces a cusp
- at the drome
- sculptor image
first decision in enemy territory
Günter's advice
- RE delegating
- RE over-reacting
health management
his bowels
- a kink of intestine complained
- adding their twinges to the disharmony of blockage, inside and out
- curdling in his ~
- eel of nervousness
- grumped their agreement
- hadn't come down to where he needed to conduct meetings from a toilet
- hot, packed, muddy feeling
- like it was filling with hot mud
- marking time with a rhythm both muted and turgid
- panic grated ~
- unease stirred in ~
his clinic
- 1 contingency day added to his schedule
- behind schedule in opening at least 2 days
- dance class inside
- health-maintenance center
  - last 3 houses of house-row
  - problems repairing Patterns
- third house
- uses Ammaerln Rowhouse
- uses dance therapy
- Yoga for Beginners
his job
- threatened by overspending
his leadership style
- compared to Nurse Poplar's
- his people easily show their pleasure in front of him
his llevar
- beckoned, focused on the Knight of Elizabeth
- breaking the pattern of always working through it
- bugle calls turned off lest he disturb people around him
- bugled
  - "Boots&Saddles"=will-hear came thru &2 &3
  - "Boots&Saddles"=will-see came thru &2
  - "Call to Arms"
    - to bring his attention back to a will-hear
  - "Drill&March"
    - agent taking orders &2
  - "Fatigue Call"
    - agent working
  - "Recall"
    - agent trying again
  - panel Reminder on his llevar with those words in bright-yellow on a background of purple
- bulged
  - "To Arms", more elaborate Southern version
  - "To Arms"=alert for completion
- clip on his right hip
- clock for elapsed time
  - queried
  - started
- flat voice
- foilscreen
  - displayed list of directions
  - house-row plans
  - showing agent-for-connection
  - shows agent-for-connection already struggling with the interface
- function-keys
  - will-hear reserved for team-leaders
- glistening curves seemed to vibrate with tension as though holding in immense power
- hard-cased
- holoscreen &2 &3
  - hemispherical
  - house-row plans fanned out across ~
  - invoked
  - skewed to fit the narrow space
  - switch to ~ from foilscreen
  - twiddled with its appearance
- meeting deleted se from resources
- moving quickly to abort its agent-for-connection
- on his hip
  - hanging
- panel/Em-Deh reported that Günter was answering voice-only
- resumed control over its screen and dashed panels and icons across it
- shimmering and curvaceous
- told to respond by voice
- turned to it out of habit
- why he chose this form
his macready
- knocked out by Dain
- taken out by jDub
his new office
- its layout
his next future
- arrived in the abruptness of the next second
- as opaque and scary as ever
- can change, but only by present action
- countdown to bid message
- each second peeled away a layer from the future, but didn't make it any clearer
- Harlan held back the future
- in Ganj Dareh
- merges w/river metaphor
- more trouble
- pounding its surprising way into his present
- weighs on him, threatens to overwhelm everything planned
- When did it choose me?
- zhuhndí had bigger ideas and left room for me
his past life
- Dutch John Society for Passage in Nunavut
- grew up on Carpenter
- home he grew up in
- home
  - growing up on Carpenter
- never ridden a bicyle
- Pa gives first chance in adult life
- pulled to Grissom by Günter
- room-for-gathering at home
- seek a place in a larger world with more chances and things to study
- shepherded by Günter thru a couple of other positions where had more than earned his keep
- tactician of a combine selling ipê-wood in Chogar
- team-leader apprentice for one of the Con-Hominium's projects
his project
- extra plan stuff
- funding
- gets entire budget
- living role of anshin tactician for ??days?? now
his siblings
- Cristiana
- Jakob
his team
- count=5
- Dy Rouyvette
  - Counselor
  - definition
  - female
  - in scene
    - all &2
    - character &2
  - Name Source
- in will-see
- Lotche Balynerose
  - clinic's Nurse-in-Charge &2
  - definition
  - from Shepard
  - in scene
    - all &2 &3
    - character &2 &3
  - Muslim
  - Name Source
  - Nurse
  - pretend-whining
  - speech
    - Tawakalt ala Allah
  - working at other clinics that are opening today
- Melha Duvier-Oli
  - coordinator and alternate team-leader
  - definition
  - in scene
    - all &2 &3 &4 &5 &6
    - character &2 &3 &4 &5
    - mentioned
  - Name Source
- moving into Neighborhood Skeinswift
- Pietz Lilaina
  - definition
  - in scene
    - all &2 &3
    - character &2
    - character implied
  - lanky man
  - Name Source
  - Techniker
- Sier Tiaubelleisa
  - definition
  - in scene
    - all &2 &3 &4
    - character &2 &3
    - mentioned
  - leads other Nurses to drome
  - Name Source
  - Nurse
  - working at other clinics that are opening today
his tools
- depends on his ability with tools to define the world around him
- Em-Deh biggest part of his toolkit
- his watch
ignoring unrest in Ganj Dareh
- told to by advisors
- told to by Günter
in scene
- all &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7 &8 &9 &10 &11 &12 &13 &14 &15 &16 &17 &18 &19 &20 &21 &22 &23 &24 &25 &26 &27 &28 &29 &30 &31 &32 &33 &34 &35 &36
- character &2 &3
  - implied
- mentioned &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7
- not printed
  - PoV &2 &3 &4
- PoV &2 &3 &4 &5 &6 &7 &8 &9 &10 &11 &12 &13 &14 &15 &16 &17 &18 &19 &20 &21 &22
Intent to Bid for Contract to Provide Anshin Services
like any decision, it changed the course of his life and all lives affected by his
likes the color red
mentioned as BH's competition
mentioned in Frontmatter as PoV Character
metaphor=river
- plunges into a cavern
- symbolizes his combine
- symbolizes the project now
mindset
- a flow to this work
  - recall
- ambition=beat/coax world into submission to people
- awe for the responsibility he would face alone
- chain of motivations
- competing for this contract will just be the first in a long line of challenges
- day of surprises
  - Cognac
  - merciless with knowledge
  - would he able to synthesize it all?
- hadn't expected to win in Ganj Dareh
- how can I succeed without taking action?
- it was all working out
- lack of confidence
  - confidence seeped its quiet through him
  - fear of failure much larger than stage-fright normal
  - Günter's simple declaration of faith
  - hadn't expected to win in Ganj Dareh
  - hopes he knows what he's doing
  - How can Günter believe I'm ready for all this?
  - life's mentors say he did well
  - maybe Günter had been right last night
  - maybe he was ready for this tactician role, after all
  - new to this level of action
  - no' realizing this pattern stuff well
  - one last test before challenging Ganj Dareh
  - prickled his conscience with a tang of failure
  - Prokopowicz says Günter chose wisely
  - reminder on his llevar
  - reviewing his past
  - right about that answer?
  - right about that question!
  - right about that question?
  - self-blame for slow response to drome accident
  - sheer number in combine stirs unease
  - so easily whelmed
  - stuffs it away -- for now
  - vast synergy required
  - Will I forget how to take action?
- limits on his flexibility
- morass of demand and impotence
- premonition
  - Die Gastarbeiter could be a problem
  - unless this rash of traumas meant something
- prospect of a major change roils
- tells se stories
- thinking like a tactician
- thinking short-term would have to be its own reward
- traded sleep for preparation
- trying to believe in people of Popovich
- work through llevar
  - breaking the pattern
  - sometimes preferred
- worries unbecoming and silly
move to Direvnya Gatogrebok
Name Source
no BH combine do business w/him
Notice of Intent to Bid
Okra says they submitted a bid several days ago
patterns
- insight fills a chink in the why
- pursues them in house-row
pay what they want for freighters
peace management
- ignore challenges to it
- not supposed to get involved
- seeks advice from Lincoln Gerovitch Prokopowicz
- worried about it
practice as tactician
project plan
- phase=finalize proposal
- phase=opening clinics
- phase=running clinics
- phase=walkabout &2
- running on-time, on-budget
- Stage Three means action
- Stage Three
  - mentioned in can-feel
- stick to it and ignore chaos outside?
questions about third house
RE Okra
- O says W came to see him today
- The Tangent comprised W's entire chain of suppliers
RE Phoebe
- brush at Knight of Elizabeth
- co-öperate, with P setting tasks and priorities
- find a way to help her w/her problems?
- her combine's reputation
- offers her a job as consultant
- P asks them to treat-and-detain
- recognizes her, knows her past
- their literal brush mentioned
- what she doesn't know (re his constavles) won't hurt her
reasons he picked Skeinswift
regretted not keeping fit
rides kayak for recreation
screams, cries, moans, unlike anything Weir had ever known in life
strategy
- no hard sell
The Tangent
- agent yields little data
- anything they asked for, Okra could provide
- bound by his own honor and ambition to protect them
- demands to know their secrets
- describes his liaison
- excuse to find out more
- find out why they don't want strangers in their neighborhood
- going to come looking for that secret se
- hopes to keep the secret even longer
- keeps the secret of Our Circle
- maybe even more reliable because of their zeal
- obligation to protect re-iterated
- private Pattern Language &2
- protected their secret for now
- still fraught with secrets
- they need W's help
- understands them as zealots
- Weir wants to hire RoF as dayjobbers
- what is Okra hiding?
- why not gong-she?
- will keep protecting their secret
- working to clear up his ignorance & dependence
time management
under Günter's tutelage
violated Pattern of Management