The Windy Road: Resources

This page contains a list of miscellaneous resources related to the game.

The WindyRoad Yahoo Groups page

This is the link to the Windy Road mailing list, where most out-of-game stuff gets hashed out.

The Flowers of Our Designs

This page contains images of the plants and flowers used in the player characters' designs.

William Blake, "Jerusalem"

When Nezha's posthuman future was unwoven, the nodes of the computational substrate were destroyed in a pattern which encoded Blake's "Jerusalem":

And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?

And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic Mills?

Bring me my Bow of burning gold:
Bring me my Arrows of desire:
Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold?
Bring me my Chariot of fire.

I will not cease from Mental Fight,
Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand
Till we have built Jerusalem
In England's green & pleasant Land.

Don't gods with a sense of irony really tee you off?

Giorgio de Chirico

An Italian painter who founded the metaphysical school; he is one of the predecessors of the surrealists. The mythic world in this game is inspired by his paintings.

The World, The Flesh and the Devil

J.D. Bernal's 1929 The World, the Flesh, and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul is possibly the earliest transhumanist work ever written. This is listed here since it could serve as a potential point-of-contact between Alec and Nezha, and because the whole text is online.