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Void Mechanics: Void Sects

I’d just like to preface by saying that void is just a massive cluster fuck that’s gone through so many shifts in what it does. This is the most recent and probably the most stable way that it works. I’m not sure if it’ll be the final way that this will work because I’ve said that before and I have officially lost track of how many times I’ve just done it over so whatever.

So void powers have been separated into three different sects, each sect being a different category as to how void manipulates the world. They lack proper titles as of now but the essential way that it works is that one detaches space, one alters spatial properties, and another bends space. For now, I’ll just give a brief explanation on each.

Detaching space affects things in a way that makes them less linked to reality. Take the Schrodinger’s Cat experiment for instance. Something could exist or not exist when you aren’t observing it. Say you were able to change that probability and make it so something could not exist more often. That’s detachment, making things exist less because with void, that works on a slider gradient. On one end is total existence, on the other end is never existing in the first place.

Altering space is one of those things that seems very loose and probably shouldn’t work. With the fact space is synonymous with reality in this world, it means that altering space is really altering properties of reality limited only to making things not exist. What does this entail? Well imagine if a book sucked you into a new pocket world or if a laptop let you hack properties of the world. Essentially, you change something in the world to make it more magical while only able to barely touch the other elements. No clocks that make timelines visible because that’s a time thing, not a void thing.

Bending space is a more utility based thing. You can’t just erase something and you can’t make something less realistic so what’s left? Casually bending space into itself or finding a way to splinter it without making a break. I’ll have a video and more details in the later explanation but for now, think folding space into itself and occasionally making tears.

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Time Mechanics Explanation

Time in this world is strange as it not only has been made around dealing with various time travel shenanigans, but also has been given a metaphysical realm to grow. Now, timelines are strange things in this world with two types existing. The Temporal Sun or main timeline that works to keep events flowing in a stable way on the universal scale and the personal timeline that does so for who or whatever it is within. Anything made within the main timeline has one and cannot have it removed.

Now what is a timeline? A timeline in the conceptual sense would technically be called timelines as it accounts for the thing that keeps track of each and every event that has happened or will happen in time. It has the alpha timeline which dictates the main path that your actions will lead to and the various splinter lines that go based on missteps or things that go against how you normally go. The difference between the two in this sense is very hard to explain as no one really can judge what is the alpha and what isn’t simply based on the events unless they’ve already lived it. Now accounting for the metaphysical sense makes things a bit more strange but easier to handle. Imagine you had a single seed. This is the starting point in time. It grows a root stem with a bunch of tiny little root extensions splitting off from it. The stem is the alpha and the smaller ones are the splinters. Now imagine that stem with a seemingly infinite amount of splinters covering it up and going all over the place into a massive ball with instances of splinters growing into or through each other. That’s the metaphysical sense of this thing. Easier to find the alpha because you know what it is. Downside is, it’s congested and near impossible to actually get to or track. Splinters don’t exactly have any indication as to what each event is on the inside so that’s also a bit of a shot in the darkness.

Timelines aren’t meant to be simple or set in stone. The alpha sometimes twists around within a timeline as well as the splinters sometimes joining with the alpha making the timeline just the alpha. Something with that is a constant and only exists in the alpha timeline, free from most to all time bullshit. But the main thing is that time is not something that you can casually tamper with or track. The time is meant to be a mystery and a world on its own. I like to imagine that time travelers are explorers mapping out their personal timeline world things. Sometimes they find that golden alpha they’ve been searching for and sometimes they end up royally screwed over in the process. Time is unpredictable. We’ve never really read the future truly, just made some really good guesses.

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HEY I NEED YOUR HELP

go ask abysmal-wolf about synchronous, his webcomic

he’s been working on that shit for FIVE YEARS and he’s convinced that it doesn’t even matter and that it’s dumb

p l e a s e  i need you to help him it breaks my heart to see him like this

encourage him, ask him questions, offer him praise

PLEASE

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