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[edit] April 24, 4:05am

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.