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- We finally know what's so scary about neopangaea.
- We found Chapter 21 of the Lost Ring Codex in Melbourne! And you guys are so fast, we already have a translation. Check it out below. (Download the big, pretty version in Esperanto on the omphaputer.)
- Let's make a pact. No more new catastrophes. Let's NOT let that happen. I don't want me or any of my parallel selves or YOU or any of YOUR parallel selves to live through what the Codex describes.
- So maybe it's time to start practicing our synchronizing labyrinths. The run graph on the omphaputer is looking dangerously close to the elastic limit of the multiverse.
- It might take a couple weeks to organize ourselves. So how is May 10/11 for everyone? How many countries and time zones can we synchronize?
- Chapter 21
- Visions
- We know the wonders which the ancient oracles saw with their omphaloi, during those first days of multiversal communication.
- We know, that the ancient Olympiad was created in order to celebrate these wonders – honouring the many, and uniting the worlds in a spirit of unity.
- But we also know the terrible things, which the ancient oracles saw with their omphaloi.
- We know, that the agonothetai designed many of the traditions of the ancient Olimpiado not only to celebrate - but also to be careful. They tried to prevent the hugest terrible thing from occurring in their own world.
- And we know which terrible events can still occur today, when the worlds fail to keep and honour these great traditions.
- The First Catastrophe and the New Catastrophe
- In 500 BC and in 1815 AD, the worlds finished.
- First the oracles, and then the scientists watched with their omphaloi. They watched the end of other worlds.
- Great fires burnt. The earth was shaken. Seas leapt out of their ways. Everything collapsed – and was then pulled again into totally new shapes.
- Pangaea, the form from which all differences came, returned but this time in a new form. Neopangaea. The oracles and the scientists watched these things – the changes revealed before their own eyes.
- And after the great destruction, a strange mix of survivors roamed in a single continent surrounded by a single sea. They wandered, seemingly for ages, until few survivors remained that mostly differences collapsed again (?), and Neopangaea was a single world once again.
- The Ancient Greeks tried to intervene
- For centuries, the ancient Olimpiad guarded our world and those from our alliances – nevertheless, few knew their true aim.
- Even while functioning secretly, they succeeded. And the First Catastrophe did not happen again – not for a very long time.
- Afterwards, with the repression of the ancient Olympics by the Roman Empire across many worlds, the multiverse sufferred on account of a dangerous quick wave of new worlds. The worlds were constantly a majority, and without any great co-operative aspiration for resoring the co-ordination of the worlds.
- As a result, already by the early 19th century all but a few thousand worlds were destroyed, and the surviving worlds were mostly severely damaged.
- This was the new catastrophe.
- The agonothetai across the many worlds tried again to intervene. That helped, but there were too many important worlds still not part of the circle of allied worlds.
- In fact, Micha has visions with our own temporary omphaloi, he informs us that changes still happen – however still not at the scale of the first or the new catastrophe.
- We’re staying for a time – but not for long. We are firmly decided to prevent the catastrophe happening again.
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