Cover for Cycle 1.
The backstory of Project Maldevaran and the Demon used as its subject.
A Doll appeals to have her name changed.
A young Jacques thinking about normal things (he's normal).
How will Bread, and all variations of the aforementioned obtain a Soul? Assistance may come from unlikely benefactors…
The Media and the Herald discuss Project Maldevaran.
Tea parties call for impeccable manners, which heads of the state Jacques and Media are true exemplars of.
Media shapeshifts right before the jeepney arrives, off-screen.
Alien Computer Ghost Universes 101.
(It's wholly necessary.)
Jacques continues his streak of being normal by dedicating his life to his parasocial radio blorbo.
Jacques and Media meet in person for the first time. Normality ensues.
An introduction to Maldevara's most efficient politicians, who win the prestigious title of being the Most Efficient the best way possible: by default!
Have you ever even met a nice receptionist?
The Reception's feelings about Media and Jacques.
An eye for the artistic is a Marginal's bread and milk.
The Reception takes Jacques on a tour of the closed Gallery.
Bon and Bien throughout the years, and a glimpse somewhere somewhen else.
Anthony talks to an Angel.
The tour has gone awry! Modern art sucks!!!
The Reception has a theory on what's up. What's happening. What's the buzz. What's the news. The hypothesis, the H1 and Ha, the truth, the illustration of the truth, an assumption, an educated guess, a guesstimate, an estimated assumption, a presumption, which is like an assumption except with evidence, which makes it a hypothesis, which is funny, because you don't call anybody "assumptious", you call them "presumptuous", when they crawl out of the woodwork to spout whatever nonsense they be spouting, or maybe you do say assumptious, who am I to assume, really, "assuming" or "assumptive" might be more common, and even then, the Reception's probably got a little more confidence than that, in their theory.
The Curator's got a paint chip on her shoulder as the Media confronts her (politely).
The beginning of a dream.
A personal audience with the High Judge and the opportunity to listen to his philosophical ramblings is usually a privilege the Media wouldn't let just anybody have. Be grateful!
A whole holiday where you can show your affinity for evil monsters? Waouh! The High Judge's choice of costume being "innocent and helpless girl that gets eaten by a beast" has no particular significance.
The chemicals in the water are turning the aliens funky.
Do magic AI voices dream of supranatural electric sheep?
The Valent Times.
A boy sleeps.
A sound reverberates.
Bien writes a 400k slowburn lovers to enemies choose not to warn AU.
A gift for you.
The antagonist makes his formal introduction. The VILLAIN. The main CHARACTER. With supreme amounts of AGENCY, like all other main CHARACTERS.
Ava regales a tale from a long, long time ago… insofar that time is a feasible thing to measure.
In the time it took it to sing that musical number, you'd have thunk Mirasol would have fought back, right? Well, this video is an analogy. A personification, if you will. A tangible and artistic representation of what was in Reality an artistic battle. It's a metaphor. It's symbolism. Literary deconstruction may only work if you're James Joyce, and I may not be James Joyce, but
Bien isn't really getting this.
Bien wakes up in an unfamiliar place.
Bon talks to their son.
Reading further and further...
it exists
Media leaves to resolve the Annotation's anomalies. This has not been a fun anniversary.
A nostalgic memory of Bien's attempts to bake cookies with his father.
In the haziness of the water, everything seems familiar.
Dreams are often thought of as surreal, but is that the quality of a dream itself, or the assessment made relative to the nature of Reality? Is a dream nonsensical from the vantage point of the entities that have never lived anywhere else?
The Death of the Curator's World.
Jacques goes to the supermarket for the first time and has a grocery trip filled with flawless logic and appropriate reactions of proportionate severity. Media's there too, I guess.
Media takes full advantage of his Valentine's gift.
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At the end of each update, there will be these options:
This returns you to the last Chapter. | This returns you to the Home page. | This continues to the next Chapter. |
These options progress through the Chapters only. Everything else is found thoughout the Chapters through hyperlinks in the text, panels, etc. The story is non-linear so there is no 'strict' reading order (but some orders will make sense quicker than others). The recommended reading order is to read everything in the order they are linked/appear in. If you find that the Sideline/Altline stories break the pacing for you, you may prefer to put them off for later after reading the Mainline first.
The Sideline and Altline can also be skimmed or skipped, but this is not recommended. If you are really adamant on avoiding them, you are recommended to at least watch Music Videos and to click around the place if you find are stuck at any point in the story. BreadAVOTA has interactive elements, and you will sometimes need to dig around to progress the story.
If you're really not up for gallivanting around all dischronologicalwise timeways, you can view links to all Mainline and Sideline updates in the intended order here at the Archive.
Well, you don't have to keep repeating yourself {here}, I already told you what the magic word
is. You do know (where) you're supposed to say it, tak?
Proszę, I'll make this easier for you.
... :)
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