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piper902020-05-14 08:09 am
wheyoftheadept) wrote in piper902020-05-14 08:09 am
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[Anon text, under the name "Quaestor."]
Hey. I can't be the only person who didn't give my full attention to the briefing when I got here; since some information has been recieved recently via a local source about what exactly the fuck is happening in this place, I thought I would compile what I learned here, and people could chime in? Just seems sensible to swap notes; not on our secret squirrel shit but in the general "what is happening and why is it happening to us?" sense.
Locked because my source wasn't supposed to be talking to me about some of these things.
In bullet points, what I've learned:
- this place had a war. It was bad.
- what made the war bad, is that they'd invented bombs that could unmake reality. The result of unmade reality is the Stuff
- they made these bombs by using something called "noospheric" technology
- Noosphere is a natural force, like gravity, in this corner of reality. This is less weird than you might think, 'cause it seems like a lot of us come from places that have a little extra something on top of ordinary physics
- It seems that there's some sort of "dna" or "genetic code" for reality, which tells matter how to behave and the forces that impact matter how to function. The noosphere is concerned with the control and regulation of this reality-dna.
- Use of the noosphere is what allowed the creation of the bombs that can unmake reality.
- In hindsight, probably a bad idea. But wait, there's more!
- The unmaker bombs don't destroy reality. They strip it of its "dna," reverting it back to raw potential stuff. Hence.... the Stuff.
- Reality, it turns out, doesn't like not knowing what it is. It will latch on to anything nearby that can tell it what it's supposed to be. When the nearest thing nearby is a thinking mind, shit can get extremely hairy.
- Basically, Stuff takes form based on the thoughts of those around it. Any being capable of thought can give it a template. This process is called "reification."
- With animals,what's created is usually just a bigger, nastier version of the animal; the animal's dream of what it might be.
- With metahumans (term local to my metaplane meaning 'anything intelligent enough to insist it's not an animal'), anything the mind can conceive of can come into being, from living things to architecture to freaky tech.
- This leads me to a curveball
- While a lot of what we are gonna see out there is going to be, well, most likely monstrous - to the point where we should assume danger unless explicitely demonstrated otherwise - there are full people being created by the Stuff.
- As in, 'intelligent, internal life, capable of reason' full-on people. Not ghosts, or really realistic toys, or echoes or dreams. Full people.
- They're called the New, and Jorg really wants to vivisect them. Just, so badly.
- Personally, I'm not down for letting them, if it comes up.
- Oh, and apparently Jorg is well-convinced we're not New but have memories because of reification or whatever, because otherwise we'd be in a lab somewhere. So at least we don't have to worry about the implications of that.
- They also don't, according to my source, actually understand how the Stuff gets us here, in any capacity. Or really anything about the noosphere except how to use it for unmaker bombs. What fun!
Sorry if this is old news or difficult to understand. I'm not great at organizing my thoughts, and I figured even if a lot of people know this already, this could be a place to start figuring out what this place's deal is. I have some experience being forcibly bounced around different realities, and the local rules and politics always end up more important than you'd think.
Sorry about the cat.
[So far, everything has gone smoothly, except. Right here, at the bottom. There's a little animated gif of a startled cartoon cat that keeps jumping and rolling backwards, in an endless loop. If she tries to delete it, the program crashes.]
Hey. I can't be the only person who didn't give my full attention to the briefing when I got here; since some information has been recieved recently via a local source about what exactly the fuck is happening in this place, I thought I would compile what I learned here, and people could chime in? Just seems sensible to swap notes; not on our secret squirrel shit but in the general "what is happening and why is it happening to us?" sense.
Locked because my source wasn't supposed to be talking to me about some of these things.
In bullet points, what I've learned:
- this place had a war. It was bad.
- what made the war bad, is that they'd invented bombs that could unmake reality. The result of unmade reality is the Stuff
- they made these bombs by using something called "noospheric" technology
- Noosphere is a natural force, like gravity, in this corner of reality. This is less weird than you might think, 'cause it seems like a lot of us come from places that have a little extra something on top of ordinary physics
- It seems that there's some sort of "dna" or "genetic code" for reality, which tells matter how to behave and the forces that impact matter how to function. The noosphere is concerned with the control and regulation of this reality-dna.
- Use of the noosphere is what allowed the creation of the bombs that can unmake reality.
- In hindsight, probably a bad idea. But wait, there's more!
- The unmaker bombs don't destroy reality. They strip it of its "dna," reverting it back to raw potential stuff. Hence.... the Stuff.
- Reality, it turns out, doesn't like not knowing what it is. It will latch on to anything nearby that can tell it what it's supposed to be. When the nearest thing nearby is a thinking mind, shit can get extremely hairy.
- Basically, Stuff takes form based on the thoughts of those around it. Any being capable of thought can give it a template. This process is called "reification."
- With animals,what's created is usually just a bigger, nastier version of the animal; the animal's dream of what it might be.
- With metahumans (term local to my metaplane meaning 'anything intelligent enough to insist it's not an animal'), anything the mind can conceive of can come into being, from living things to architecture to freaky tech.
- This leads me to a curveball
- While a lot of what we are gonna see out there is going to be, well, most likely monstrous - to the point where we should assume danger unless explicitely demonstrated otherwise - there are full people being created by the Stuff.
- As in, 'intelligent, internal life, capable of reason' full-on people. Not ghosts, or really realistic toys, or echoes or dreams. Full people.
- They're called the New, and Jorg really wants to vivisect them. Just, so badly.
- Personally, I'm not down for letting them, if it comes up.
- Oh, and apparently Jorg is well-convinced we're not New but have memories because of reification or whatever, because otherwise we'd be in a lab somewhere. So at least we don't have to worry about the implications of that.
- They also don't, according to my source, actually understand how the Stuff gets us here, in any capacity. Or really anything about the noosphere except how to use it for unmaker bombs. What fun!
Sorry if this is old news or difficult to understand. I'm not great at organizing my thoughts, and I figured even if a lot of people know this already, this could be a place to start figuring out what this place's deal is. I have some experience being forcibly bounced around different realities, and the local rules and politics always end up more important than you'd think.
Sorry about the cat.
[So far, everything has gone smoothly, except. Right here, at the bottom. There's a little animated gif of a startled cartoon cat that keeps jumping and rolling backwards, in an endless loop. If she tries to delete it, the program crashes.]