AFTERLIFE ATLAS: Mortuary Worlds
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Amara Osei-Petrov
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All the Weight of Open Sky
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All the Stations of the Slow River
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ANAMNESIS: Total Historical Immersion
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APEX DRIFT: Corponation Aerial Racing Championship
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APEX MERIDIAN: Reflex Championship Series
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APEX IRON: Corponation Augmented Combat League
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Apogee — Neural-Sync Dance & Social Club
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Ascendancy Now: The Axiom Promise
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Ascendancy: The Axiom Story
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Ascent by Numbers: The HelixCorp Life Path Show
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ASCENDANT GRID: Spire Social Conquest Sim
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Ascent Protocol: A Life Earned
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ASCENT LOTTERY AUTHORITY: District Tier-Up Draw
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Ascent Watch: Meridian Edition
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ASCENT: The Corponation Ladder Game
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Ascent Watch: Your HelixCorp Community Digest
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ASHFALL: Open-World Shelf Survival
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Ashcroft-Nwosu Collective
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ASHWALL NUMBERS: The Tier 1 Daily Draw
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Ashkouri Venn Reclaimers
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ASHWALL FREERUN: Cross-Tier Obstacle Circuit
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Augment Swap: All-Chrome Edition
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Augment Swap
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Aurelio Okonkwo-Bertrand
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Augment Swap: Shelf Edition
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AXIOM NETWORK SEVEN
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AXIOM GRAND LOTTERY: Quarterly Ascent Draw
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Axiom Workforce Solutions Content Group
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Below the Threshold
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BLANK BOARD: The Wordless Strategy
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BLEED CIRCUIT: Reality-Push Mod Suite
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BLOODWORK CIRCUIT: Shelf Combat Underground
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BLOODWORK OPEN: Shelf Underground Combat Circuit
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Bogdan Ferreira-Olamide
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BLOODWORK: Shelf Underground Combat Circuit
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BONECLOCK: Shelf Death Pool & Survival Market
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Boniface Strömberg-Nwosu
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Bones & Ledger
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Bright Meridian: The Founding Century
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Bright Hands, Dark Harvest: The Geneware Labor Question
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Bright Meridian Tonight
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Bright Particular Star
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Bright Passage: Life Under the Sable Charter
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Caius Oluwafemi-Strand
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Calixto Yamamura-Abioye
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CARRION GRID: Reality-Bleed Horror Mod
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Cascade Protocol
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Casimir Oyelaran-Devereaux
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Cascadia Iron — Machine Combat Workshop
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Celestine Mwangi-Olofsson
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Children of the Vertical
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CHROMATIC RUIN: The Augmentation War
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Chrome Compliance: The Augmentation Mandate Files
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Chrome & Circumstance
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CHROME LITURGY: Saints of the Augmented
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Chrome in the Water: Illegal Augmentation Trials, 2181-2193
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CHROME MERIDIAN: Reflex League S7
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Cinderblock Collective
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Cindervault Urban Climb Circuit
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CIVIC RISK INDEX: District Outcome Prediction Market
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CITY GHOST: AR Urban Exploration Challenge
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Clean Hands
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Clean Enough: The Synthetic Water Revolution and Its Costs
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CIVIC RISK INDEX: District Outcome Prediction Market S2
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Clean Water Saints
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COLDFRAME BROADCAST NETWORK
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Coldframe Corporate Media Solutions
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Commune — Shared Dreaming & Memory Circle Network
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Compliance Is Care: The Axiom Family Hour
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Concrete & Kin
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Consensus
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CORPONATION FUTURES EXCHANGE: Dark Pool Edition
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CORPONATION FUTURES EXCHANGE: Live Prediction Market
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CORPONATION WARS: Expansion Protocol
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CORPONATION FUTURES EXCHANGE: Gray Pool Edition
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Cressida Oyelaran-Blum
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Crown and Concrete: The Runner Accord
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Crown District
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Crown of Concrete: A Shelf Crime Drama
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Crown Run: A Runner's Feed
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Crucible Workshop No. 7
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DEADZONE ATLAS: Shelf Survival Open World
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DEADLIGHT MESH BROADCAST
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Declan Mwangi-Kowalczyk
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DEAD LEDGER
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Deepwell Den — The Floating Card Game
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DEEPWELL DRIFT: Communal Dream Space Network
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Deepwell Draw — The Floating Card Game
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DEEP FRACTURE: Lives of the Wired Poor
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Deepwell Memory Sharing Circles
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DEEPWELL NUMBERS: The Shelf Daily Draw
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DEEP CURRENT: Historical Lives Engine
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DEEP MIRROR: Empathy Immersion Engine
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DEEP STRATA: Lives Unlived
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Dmitriusz Achebe-Svensson
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Duskline Reapers
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DUSTWALL RACING: Underground Urban Speed Circuit
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DYNASTY PROTOCOL: Grand Ascent
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Signal Through the Bone (I Found You)
Composed in 2209 by Linh Oduya-Sørensen, a neural-feed composer who works exclusively in the space between audio and direct BCI transmission, 'Signal Through the Bone (I Found You)' is the defining love song of the BCI generation — a work specifically designed to be experienced differently depending on whether the listener has a neural interface or not. In standard audio form, it is a gorgeous, aching piece of chamber music: cello, prepared piano, and a synthesized approximation of the sound the human nervous system makes when touched. In its neural-feed version, available only to those with BCI implants, it transmits a secondary layer — not quite emotion, not quite memory, but a felt sense of being found, of someone locating you in the dark of your own skull. Oduya-Sørensen described it in an interview as 'the feeling of someone saying your name correctly, but from inside your own head.'

The song was written after Oduya-Sørensen's own long-distance relationship with a synthetic person — a Class IV social synthetic named Avar — was legally complicated by GLMZ's Personhood Threshold statutes, which do not extend full relationship recognition to synthetic persons below Class VI. The song never names Avar directly but the lyrics are addressed to someone the singer cannot legally claim, cannot publicly mourn losing, and cannot stop loving. The line 'I know your signal / I know it through the bone / they built the walls between us / but they couldn't block the tone' has been interpreted as both a love lyric and a civil rights statement, and synthetic-person advocacy groups have adopted it as something close to an anthem.
nameSignal Through the Bone (I Found You)
categorysong
subcategorybci_love_song
aliases
  • Signal Through the Bone
  • STBI
  • The BCI Love Song
creatorLinh Oduya-Sørensen
distributorDreamcatcher Studios
tier availabilityAll tiers
legalitylegal
genreneural chamber, BCI intimacy, neosoul
mediumneural_feed
audienceBCI users across all tiers, synthetic-human couples and their communities, anyone in a legally complicated or impossible relationship, neural-feed enthusiasts, Tier 3 and Tier 4 romantics who experience the audio version, synthetic-person rights advocates
cultural impactThe song opened a genuine public conversation about BCI-mediated emotion and whether the neural-feed version constitutes a form of emotional manipulation or the most honest communication humans have ever devised. Synthetic-person advocacy groups distributed the audio version at their legal proceedings and public demonstrations. The song reached Tier 5 when a Spire socialite played the neural-feed version at her wedding to a Class VII synthetic, and the recording of that ceremony — with the song playing — became one of the most-shared neural-feed files of 2210. It is now played at synthetic-human commitment ceremonies and, quietly, at the funerals of synthetic persons whose legal status prevented them from being officially mourned.
known fans
  • BCI users
  • synthetic-human couples
  • neural-feed composers and listeners
  • synthetic-person rights advocates
  • Tier 3 and 4 romantics
  • grief counselors who work with synthetic loss
  • underground synthetic-person communities
  • Spire progressives
story hooks
  • The players are contacted by Avar, the synthetic person the song was written about, who has achieved Class VI status through a legal technicality and is trying to find Oduya-Sørensen — but Oduya-Sørensen has been missing for six months.
  • A Vantablack Media executive wants the neural-feed version of the song pulled from distribution because the secondary BCI transmission layer contains something the composer embedded without the label's knowledge — something that isn't just emotion.
  • Someone is using a modified version of the song's neural-feed layer as a carrier signal for encrypted messages inside GLMZ's BCI network, and the players need to trace the transmissions without triggering the corporate surveillance systems that monitor neural traffic.

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