build it to fall If you’re going to do it again
ASCENT ENGINE — manuscript Mon Jul 27 2026 · Eastern --- # Notes Toward an Ascent *A play in 7 scenes* **CHARACTERS:** Sennar Vale (Creator / Trickster), Ijeoma Rho (Sage / Hero), Anselm Corr (Destroyer), Lian Marou (Lover), Teoma Vess (Magician), Sault Vane (Creator, inflated — the Perfectionist) *The structure ascends. Three axes at the start, seven at the end, or one seen from far enough away. Nothing that can be measured on one level survives to the next.* --- ## ACT ONE ### SCENE I [THE THREE-CELL. Three axes, no more. The structure has begun to lose the load it was built to carry. The envelope is decay.] [Sennar Vale releases the last support and does not reach to catch it.] **SENNAR VALE** What I make is the only part of me that counts. You're standing in it. **ANSELM CORR** Then let it lose the load. That's the only time a structure tells the truth. [The controlled demolition — Sennar Vale and Anselm Corr prove each other's limit; each is the exact wall the other w...