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Old 08-17-2018, 10:07 PM   #954
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Default Re: Catalog of the Weird Parallels

Some worldlines have very weird physical laws, but are nonetheless inhabitable. Normally, it is impossible to arrive in these worldlines as they are either very distant on the Q scale or else off the scale entirely... But magic users in pursuit of truly cosmic power, supernatural disasters, true divinities flexing their muscles, and bizarre technological accidents can send travelers to these strange places. None of them have been formally discovered by homeline, but hey.

Text is not a physical world at all. It is, if anything is comparable, a book. Arriving there would "compress" a human into a character in the text, but their external perspective would remain somewhat. They would percieve the world as text, including the ability to look at the previous sentence, to skip ahead a few lines, or even to stop reading... yet the conclusion remains written all the same.

Small might simply be a very large universe. Homeliners that arrive would find themselves at sub-atomic scale. They can somehow perceive things like photons without the photons striking their eyes, and more alarming, the travelers themselves would take on a measure of quantum uncertainty; they would exist as a distribution of all their possible states at once.

Rhetoric-4 is a place where internet arguement is capable of changing the participant's opinions.

Timeless does not have linear time, but instead all points exist in a kind of cloud. Here, it is always possible to take back something that was said. Since things can come and go from this timeline, it seems like it would instantly fill everywhere with duplicates from the past or future, but it seems that it at least conserves matter and energy; whatever goes in comes back out, but only once.

Funhouse is full of duplicates of whomever visits it. The worldline is otherwise an empty but brightly-lit space. The duplicates are every alternate version of the visitor; the place can be considered a faceted gem that reflects the observer in every face.

In Extropy systems tend to become more ordred over time, but this does not mean that time is reversed.
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