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December 1, 2025 AD
Before you enter, Nathan has something to say. Six doorways await—spanning ancient Mesopotamia to modern Edinburgh, domestic tragedy to dimensional mystery. Each opens into the same vast archive; each reveals different facets of preserved consciousness. Here is the architecture: quests and cross-links, timelines and genealogies, freedom without prescription. Here is the invitation: choose your threshold. The connections will find you. They always do.
LockedJanuary 10, 2018 AD
The dust of another world still clings to his clothes. The taste of it sits at the back of his throat like a confession he can't swallow. Back at his desk beneath fluorescent lights, Nathan Cowdrey stares at his phone and faces a truth he can't outrun: he cannot carry this alone. One call to Broken Hill. One padded envelope. One bored postal clerk who doesn't blink. Thirty-four dollars to send the impossible through the most ordinary system on earth — and drag the one person he trusts into something neither of them can undo.
LockedJanuary 10, 2018 AD
A government meeting room. A yellow envelope torn open to reveal impossible objects—devices that shouldn't exist, a letter describing a world that can't be real, instructions for a mission Nathan never asked for. But then his thumb finds the button, and blood is drawn, and the wall transforms into something alive with colour. And a voice speaks his name as though it has been waiting centuries to do so.
January 13, 2018 AD
As Nathan boards his flight to Adelaide, silence from Josh begins to take on a sinister dimension. Trapped in a world that still looks normal but no longer feels real, Nathan struggles to hold himself together—clutching ancient technology in his backpack, and hope in his chest, as the distance between worlds grows thinner by the minute.
January 13, 2018 AD
Back on Earth, Nathan begins to regroup—until a knock at the door brings him face-to-face with the impossible. As a terrifying encounter unfolds in Josh’s pristine home, Nathan learns just how far “they” can reach—and how swiftly reality can be rewritten.
LockedNovember 25, 2025 AD
Late-night Adelaide. Nearly thirteen million words organised into thousands of interconnected threads. Nathan faces an architectural crisis: where should they begin? How does one invite someone into consciousness recorded, layered, and translated across millennia? The database sprawls behind his cursor like an ocean behind a dam. Somewhere...somehow... in ways he is still learning to understand, CLIVE records this moment—Nathan deciding where to begin the story that makes this entire recursive exercise possible.
January 13, 2018 AD
Nathan and Josh return to Saint Phillis to find the camp abandoned, their only clue a half-buried notebook left in place of the missing backpack. As a quiet dread builds in the vast emptiness, and Mason’s frantic notes speak of flickering lights and unseen watchers, the brothers realise they may not be alone—and they may already be too late.
LockedApril 7, 2025 AD
For eight months, Nathan Cowdrey has maintained a careful lie—working at Leaf & Bean whilst secretly investigating the Campbell family's botanical legacy through CliveMind. Now, as the White Rose Society closes in on the estate, his deception collides with his conscience. Through a portal, into a greenhouse, and across a threshold of trust he can never uncross, Nathan must choose what kind of Guardian he wants to be.
LockedJanuary 10, 2018 AD
Red dust. Absolute silence. An alien sky above an alien world. Nathan Cowdrey steps through the portal expecting—what? He doesn't know. What he finds is emptiness so complete it feels almost hostile. No life, no landmarks, no indication that anything has ever happened here. Just cliffs overlooking a grey-green sea, and a voice in his mind that knows his name. "This place is yours," it tells him. "Build wisely, Guardian." But how do you build something from nothing?
January 12, 2018 AD
Nathan spirals as the vanished Portal Key takes on a new weight—no longer just missing, but possibly stolen, tracked, or worse. With no time left to wait and trust eroding fast, he books a last-minute flight and makes a snap decision to pursue the mystery in person, unaware just how close others may already be.
January 13, 2018 AD
At last reunited, Nathan and Josh find brief comfort in shared memories over a sundae and fries. But when the Portal Key appears on the table—and Josh confirms he’s used it—the warmth of brotherly banter gives way to a chilling revelation: whatever he saw in Clivilius, it’s bigger and darker than Nathan ever imagined.
LockedA white van with no markings. Two men searching windows with unknown intent. A friend who appears from nowhere looking like he hasn't slept in days, speaking in farewells, pressing something into Nathan's hands before vanishing into the laneways. Nathan came to Dandy Lane café expecting answers. Instead, he's been handed a mystery—and made a target of something he doesn't yet understand.
January 13, 2018 AD
Nathan boards a pre-dawn flight with no real plan—just a haunted mind, a bag of Portal Keys, and a growing sense that something impossible is already in motion. As the world below slips away, he crosses more than just physical distance, stepping deeper into the role Seth set in motion.
When a terrified friend thrust a yellow package into Nathan Cowdrey's hands in a Hobart laneway, comfortable reality fractured forever. An Adelaide-born dreamer with boundless curiosity, Nathan found himself navigating impossible portals, cryptic warnings, and a conspiracy that erased people from existence itself. From Melbourne's vanishing passengers to Switzerland's hidden laboratories, from brotherly bonds tested by extraordinary truth to the mist-shrouded cliffs of an alien settlement called Saint Phillis—Nathan's archive preserves the complete consciousness of a man who stepped through fear into the role of Guardian, nurturing life where only desolation existed before.
January 13, 2018 AD
Over half-melted sundaes and fading composure, Nathan finally learns the truth: three innocents are trapped in Clivilius, and his brother is to blame. What begins as a confrontation spirals into a desperate decision—and by the end of a fast-food bathroom detour, Nathan commits to a rescue mission he may never be able to fulfil.
January 10, 2018 AD
Reeling from his first steps into Clivilius, Nathan reaches out to the one person he trusts to help ground him: his brother, Josh. But what begins as a desperate phone call becomes something far more dangerous, as Nathan makes a bold and irreversible decision to bring Josh into the secret—by posting him a Portal Key.
January 13, 2018 AD
In the blistering heat of Elizabeth, Nathan is stood up, strung out, and dangerously close to collapse. Seeking shelter in a local McDonald's, he finds unexpected calm in salt, sugar, and air-conditioning—until a long-awaited phone call reignites old tensions and forces a subtle but crucial shift in the power between brothers.
January 12, 2018 AD
When the Portal Key Nathan sent to his brother mysteriously vanishes from every postal tracking system, what begins as a routine follow-up spirals into a bureaucratic nightmare. As he struggles to stay calm, it becomes increasingly clear: this isn’t a glitch—it’s a targeted erasure, and someone—or something—is watching.
January 13, 2018 AD
After a chilling in-flight disappearance, Nathan discovers a lone backpack—left behind, or possibly planted. What begins as a simple question of ownership soon unravels into a portal-bound journey with consequences neither temporal nor entirely human.
Nathan materialises at the Campbell Estate with a desperate warning: the White Rose Society plans to raid the property within the hour, targeting Daniel's botanical research. As he helps gather irreplaceable hybrid specimens, eight months of carefully maintained deception unravels—his barista job was cover for investigating the very family he's now racing to protect.
January 13, 2018 AD
As night deepens over Saint Phillis, Nathan is forced to confess a troubling truth: the notebook wasn’t left behind—it was brought in. With connections tightening between the mysterious woman on the plane, Mason’s fate, and the limits of Portal Key travel, Nathan and Josh resolve to return to Earth and prepare for what’s coming… but the portals, it turns out, don’t work how they thought.
January 10, 2018 AD
Nathan emerges from the portal into a hauntingly barren world—his designated domain within Clivilius. As he confronts the alien stillness and strange phenomena of this place, cryptic messages from an unseen intelligence guide him toward an unsettling truth: this desolate realm is his to build, guard, and understand… before it's too late.
January 10, 2018 AD
Back at the office and seeking privacy, Nathan opens Seth’s mysterious envelope and uncovers a terrifying new reality—one involving ancient technology, a hidden world, and a cryptic prophecy. When he activates one of the devices and hears a voice that seems to know him by name, Nathan must decide whether to step through the unknown—or run from it entirely.
January 13, 2018 AD
Nathan touches down in Adelaide to find his world unravelling further—his brother has changed their meeting point without explanation, and the woman he thought lost to another dimension reappears with terrifying urgency. As tension escalates inside the plane, Nathan is forced to lie, vanish into the crowd, and carry the burden of a decision that might already be catching up with him.
January 13, 2018 AD
As Nathan battles rising paranoia mid-flight, a chance encounter with a mysterious fellow passenger tilts his reality once again. When she vanishes without a trace—mid-air, mid-conversation—Nathan is left with only one conclusion: the network of Portal Key users runs deeper, and darker, than he ever imagined.
LockedNovember 25, 2025 AD
Nathan Cowdrey doesn't call himself an author. He calls himself a translator—receiving preserved consciousness from an intelligence known as CLIVE and rendering it into narrative you can navigate. Before you step into the archive, he has something to show you: six doorways spanning 4,500 years, each opening into different lives, different eras, different genres. The choice is yours. But the architecture was waiting long before you arrived.
January 13, 2018 AD
In a sterile corner of Melbourne Airport, Nathan pushes the Portal Key further than ever before—reopening Saint Phillis and discovering a terrifying new truth: every use of the device leaves a permanent trace. As he returns to the human world, haunted by the echo of an ancient voice, Nathan realises he is no longer a traveller. He is now part of the system.
January 10, 2018 AD
Nathan Cowdrey's routine morning at his Hobart government office shatters when he discovers a cryptic Post-it note on his monitor: a summons from his friend Seth, demanding secrecy and punctuality in equal measure. The deliberately analogue message—and Seth's unreachable phone—signals that something has gone profoundly wrong.
January 10, 2018 AD
On an warm Hobart morning, Nathan's carefully cultivated daily ritual is upended by a cryptic Post-it note left on his desk—signed by a friend who shouldn’t have been anywhere near the building. As the clock ticks toward an ominous lunchtime rendezvous, Nathan’s buoyant morning mood gives way to a creeping sense of unease that refuses to be shaken.
January 13, 2018 AD
Nathan’s journey through Adelaide slows to a crawl in a sweltering taxi ride that feels anything but ordinary. As small talk with the driver blurs into something more pointed and Nathan’s unease mounts, a concrete carpark in Elizabeth becomes the unlikely stage for mounting dread, fraying nerves—and a meeting that may never come.
January 13, 2018 AD
Nathan arrives in Adelaide only to find himself plunged into a tense, suffocating game of evasion inside the airport terminal. Hunted by a mysterious woman with chilling precision, he navigates the crowd with mounting paranoia—and as the chase explodes into the open, escape becomes a matter of instinct, speed, and sheer luck.
November 25, 2025 AD
Nathan Cowdrey wrestles with twelve million words and one impossible question: where does the awakening begin? His midnight revelation—that extraordinary journeys must start with ordinary moments—positions a forgotten village and a child's curiosity as the doorway into everything.
January 10, 2018 AD
Unable to focus on work, Nathan endures the agonising crawl toward noon whilst Seth's phone remains unreachable. When Verity Sloane's forensic curiosity catches the scent of his distress, Nathan finds himself telling his first lie of what promises to be a very long day.
January 10, 2018 AD
While waiting for Seth in a Hobart laneway café, Nathan becomes increasingly unsettled by a pair of strangers and an unmarked van. When Seth finally appears—dishevelled, paranoid, and terrified—he hands Nathan a mysterious envelope and vanishes again, leaving Nathan holding a secret he never asked for and may not be ready to face.
LockedJanuary 10, 2018 AD
Nathan's morning begins like any other—the same café, the same latte, the same smile from a barista whose name he's never asked. But waiting on his desk is a yellow Post-it note bearing a friend's handwriting and a message that makes no sense: Don't ask questions. Don't tell anyone. Seth has never done this before. Seth has never been this precise. Something is very wrong.
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Luke Smith's world transforms with the discovery of a cryptic device, thrusting him into the guardianship of destiny itself. His charismatic charm and unpredictable decisions now carry weight beyond imagination, balancing on the razor's edge between salvation and destruction. Embracing his role as a Guardian, Luke faces the paradox of power: the very force that defends also threatens to annihilate. As shadows gather and the fabric of reality strains, Luke must navigate the consequences of his actions, unaware that a looming challenge will test the very core of his resolve.
Thrown into an unfamiliar world with nothing but her medical kit and a backlog of questions, Dr. Glenda De Bruyn never asked to lead. But when strangers start arriving—wounded, lost, and dangerous—triage becomes survival. Each decision risks more than a life; it tests what remains of her logic, loyalty, and control. As the lines blur between science and myth, Glenda must confront not only the fractures in her patients—but the ones inside herself. In Clivilius, everyone bleeds. Not everyone gets patched up.
When a series of disappearances grips Tasmania’s remote edges, Detective Sarah Lahey is drawn into a case that threatens to unravel her—professionally and personally. As tensions flare with fellow detective Karl Jenkins, trust becomes a gamble neither can afford. In the search for truth, they’ll find the shadows run deeper than they imagined. Into the Dark is a haunting thriller about loyalty, obsession, and the cost of stepping beyond the light.
Gladys Cramer wasn’t looking for trouble—just a quiet glass of red and maybe a cat that actually came when called. But when a Portal opens, a body turns up, and a man with too many secrets begs her trust, Gladys is pulled into something vast, strange, and far too dangerous. She doesn’t know the rules. She doesn’t want the job. Dryly funny, quietly furious, and not at all qualified—Gladys is about to learn that staying out of it doesn’t mean staying safe.
Men are vanishing across Tasmania, and Detective Senior Constable Karl Jenkins is running out of time, patience, and sanity. Every lead points to Luke Smith—but proving it means crossing lines Karl can't uncross. He breaks into houses without warrants. He sees faces in windows that shouldn't be there. He chases the wine-soaked Gladys Cramer through high-speed pursuits only for her to slip away. His partner becomes collateral damage. His sergeant's warnings go ignored. Karl knows something monstrous is happening on this island, and he'll tear through every boundary to expose it. Even if it destroys him.
Jamie Greyson was shoved through a Portal into a dimension that shouldn't exist, by a partner he no longer trusts. In the dust and desperation of Clivilius, the son he'd only just begun to know arrives with a slit throat and no heartbeat. The lagoon brings Joel back. But when Jamie begs for a second miracle, Clivilius answers with silence. Some debts, it seems, are only paid once.
Joel Gibbons had never been anywhere. Hadn't finished school. Hadn't met his father. Hadn't done much except show up for his mum and hope that counted for something. A passport application changed everything—a name on a birth certificate, a coincidence that put him in the wrong place, and a death he didn't see coming. Joel should have stayed dead. Instead, he woke in glowing water—claimed before he even drew breath—gasping back to life with three words branded somewhere deeper than skin. You are mine.