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Du Vide 1 — 125 Fingers

Rome is falling. In a cistern beneath the palace of the last western emperor, the philosopher-advisor Avidius — attended by his two cats, Jupiter and Pluto — is challenged to a game by Du Vide, his former slave and a man his own family disowned for heresy. The game is Raumschach: chess in five cubed dimensions. The stakes are a set of proofs about whether the Void is truly nothing, or something worse. Du Vide 1 opens the Du Vide cycle , part of the 125 Fingers project — a longer work of philosophical weird fiction built around Raumschach, the five-cubed chess variant played and maintained by the International Raumschach Federation at raumschach.org, where the text, the game itself, and further installments can be found.

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