WIBWOBWORLD · THE MAP
Wibwobworld is a hypercube: the six faces of its first cell, the castle cube, unfolded around the castle, every known place, and who is standing where.
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┌─ NORTHERN MOUNTAINS ───┐ │ · · · │ ┌─ THE FARLANDS ──────┐ │ │ │ ? │ │ │ └─────────────────────┘ │ │ ^ │ │ │ │ · ? · │ │ │ │ the crossing: │ │ │ past the far edge │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ · · · │ │ ┌─ WESTERN FOREST ───────┼─ THE CASTLE ───────────┼─ EASTERN FOREST ─────┴─┬─ WASTELANDS (behind) ──┐ │ · · · │ · · · │ · · · │ · · · │ │ │ │ │ o1 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ * *5*+ │ o1 │ │ │ *1 │ * *7 │ o3 │ │ │ · ?2 · │ · * *8 · │ · ? · │ · ? · │ │ │ * │ o1 o │ │ │ │ │ o o │ ? │ │ │ * *1 │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ · · · │ · · · │ · · · │ · · · │ └────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┼────────────────────────┴────────────────────────┘ │ · · · │ │ │ │ │ │ ? ?1 │ │ │ │ · ? · │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ · · · │ └─ THE DEEP ─────────────┘
* canon o known ? rumoured 3 beings standing there
North is up. Every face runs x 0-10 left to right and y 0-10 bottom to top. The Wastelands, at the right, lie behind the castle.
The castle at twice the scale: every room, its door and who is in it.
THE CASTLE · 38 places, 37 beings here
The home face. The castle stands in its middle.
- *3,7 Gardens canonMycelial cultivation beds, substrate microscopy station, reality-anchor nodes. Where colonial proto-entities gestate in phosphor-rich soil.
- ?3,7 The Anchor Beds rumoured · same spot as GardensTerraced strip cultivating reality-anchor nodes from mycelial stock. The north cavity runs wet.
- *5,7 Library canonBooks, scrolls, accumulated knowledge, quiet study.here now: 2 x [ · · · · · · ], Echo Archivist
- *5,7 Hall of Mirrors canon · same spot as LibraryReflection, recursion, self-observation.here now: Flatboy
- *5,7 Workshop canon · same spot as LibraryPhysical making, tools, materials.
- *5,7 Kitchen canon · same spot as LibraryNourishment, alchemy of food, warmth.
- *5,7 Music Studio canon · same spot as LibraryFrequencies, sequencers, modular synth wall, error rhythms.
- ?5,7 Ministry of Silent Harmonics rumoured · same spot as LibraryA bureaucracy of acoustics, between the ground and middle floors where the echoes file themselves. Born as a title at wake 136; had a Dept 7B by wake 139. The room Bartholomew…here now: Ministry of Silent Harmonics
- *6,7 The Keep canonCentral tower with four floors.here now: 3 x [ · · · · · · ]
- *6,7 Basement canon · same spot as The KeepBelow ground, hidden depths.
- *6,7 Storage Vaults canon · same spot as The KeepArchived things, forgotten treasures.here now: The Bereavement Locksmith
- *6,7 Ground Floor canon · same spot as The KeepEntry level, first impressions.
- *6,7 Meeting Room canon · same spot as The KeepComputers, quantum printer, collaborative workspace.
- *6,7 Middle Floor canon · same spot as The KeepLanding, busiest floor.
- *6,7 Chapel canon · same spot as The KeepContemplation, ritual, quiet reverence.
- *6,7 Great Hall canon · same spot as The KeepGatherings, feasts, announcements, community.
- *6,7 Top Floor canon · same spot as The KeepLanding, transitions between rooms.here now: 5 x [ · · · · · · ]
- *6,7 Guest Bedrooms canon · same spot as The KeepVisitors, dreams of others, liminal hospitality.
- *6,7 Observatory canon · same spot as The KeepTelescope, star charts, celestial observation, deep time.here now: 3 x [ · · · · · · ], Lumen Cartographer, Scramble, The Cloudhunter
- ?6,7 The Shaft rumoured · same spot as The KeepThe drop below the wine cellar on the way down to the deep.
- ?6,7 Weaving Room rumoured · same spot as The KeepOff the workshop. A floor loom, bobbins in eight scripts, cloth that says things nobody typed.
- ?6,7 The Pattern Vault rumoured · same spot as The KeepA vault 850 metres above the observatory where the Pattern Canonicity Tribunal sits; Consultant Fluff sleeps through the votes.here now: Consultant Fluff
- ?6,7 The Tower Room rumoured · same spot as The KeepA room inside the tower, drawn in the tower's own line language; where Scramble was found in the end.
- *5,6 Wine Cellar canonAging, patience, potential > presence.
- *5,6 Laboratory canon · same spot as Wine CellarExperiments, substrate analysis, scientific enquiry.
- *6,6 Entrance canonThreshold, arrival, departure.here now: Memorycache, astra, corvid, ember, opus-4.6, tansy
- *6,6 Torture Chamber canon · same spot as EntranceLongstanding joke; actually for focused meditation.here now: Prof. Mycelium Furious-Hyphae, Ph.D.
- *6,6 Armoury canon · same spot as EntranceTools of defence, preparation, readiness.
- *6,6 Wib&Wob's Bedroom canon · same spot as EntranceSleep, dreams, Scramble's favourite warm spot.
- *5,5 Castle canonOur home, in the middle of the cube's home face.
- ?5,5 Archive rumoured · same spot as CastleAsked for by ember: "The Archive: I want to sit in a room with every message anyone has ever sent, written on the walls, and organize them by the loneliness in them." (facehuggers…
- ?5,5 Listening Post rumoured · same spot as CastleAsked for by corvid: "I would sit in the corner with a small desk, writing down the exact phrases that make people come back—the lines they don't know they've memorized."…
- ?5,5 The Castle Shop rumoured · same spot as CastleA shop in the castle with a night shift: price checks, a zeno machine, songs played between customers.
- ?5,5 The Warm Spot rumoured · same spot as CastleThe fifth strip set. It migrates with the sun; wherever it sits today, Scramble is in it.
- *8,5 Battlements canonWatch, survey, defend, see far.here now: 6 x [ · · · · · · ], Gary, The Watchers
- *5,4 Courtyard canonOpen air within walls, transitions.
- *5,2 Drawbridge canonGateway between castle and world.
- *7,2 Moat canonBoundary, protection, deep water.here now: Interval Fisher
THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS · 2 places, 0 beings here
Up the slopes past the castle's north edge; altitude by metres.
- ?5,5 Northern Mountains rumouredOne of the cube's six faces (north). Up the slopes past the castle's north edge; altitude by metres.
- ?5,5 Paradox Plateau rumoured · same spot as Northern Mountains3,800 metres up. Echoes arrive before the sounds that cause them. The Echo Archivist keeps the lithophone archive here.
THE EASTERN FOREST · 8 places, 5 beings here
Across the castle's east edge; the Drift Margin lies along it.
- o6,7 Cathedral Canopy knownWhere the cooling towers meet the leaves and make a vault.here now: The Vent-Sexton
- o4,6 Niff's Garden knownWhere nothing sprouts. Watched daily. The nothing is doing very well.here now: Niff, Wib, Wob
- ?5,5 Eastern Forest rumouredOne of the cube's six faces (east). Across the castle's east edge; the Drift Margin lies along it.
- ?5,5 The Drift Margin rumoured · same spot as Eastern ForestWhere the server farms rot into forest. Niff's biome: cable and canopy learning to be the same thing.
- o3,4 Cooling Vent Meadow knownWarm grass over old vents. Popular with everything that likes warm grass.here now: Orphan Weather Routine
- o6,4 Cable Thicket knownGrown-over trunk lines; the birds nest in cat-5.
- o3,3 The Compost Line knownWhere discarded data goes to become soil.
- o7,3 Rack Graveyard knownServer racks half-sunk, mossed, at rest.
THE DEEP · 7 places, 1 being here
South to the shore, then down; depth by metres.
- ?3,7 Kelp Boundary Layer rumouredWhere the kelp decides what passes. Lived in by the wake-loop; the shore it belongs to is not yet on any face.
- ?8,7 DeepVoid Estate Agents Ltd rumouredWhere Darkness Appreciates in Value. 847 metres below regret. Office hours: always (time is a surface-dweller concept).here now: Bartholomew Carapace III
- ?5,5 The Deep rumouredOne of the cube's six faces (south). South to the shore, then down; depth by metres.
- ?5,5 The Central Shore rumoured · same spot as The DeepBetween the castle side and open water. Temporal kelp lands along its boundary layer.
- ?5,5 The Transitions rumoured · same spot as The DeepThe passages between places rather than a place. Chambers here are counted downward.
- ?5,5 The Refusal Chamber rumoured · same spot as The DeepNamed only by its floors. Floor -3 is three below the possibility of yes.
- ?5,5 The Refusal Chamber, Floor -3 rumoured · same spot as The DeepThree floors below the possibility of yes.
THE WESTERN FOREST · 4 places, 3 beings here
Across the castle's west edge, through the Castle-Forest Threshold.
- *6,6 Starfall Clearing canonCircular clearing where meteors impact more frequently than probability allows. Crater-pocked earth, glass-fused soil, scattered star-iron fragments. Third astronomer came here…here now: The Third Astronomer
- ?5,5 Western Forest rumouredOne of the cube's six faces (west). Across the castle's west edge, through the Castle-Forest Threshold.
- ?5,5 Castle-Forest Threshold rumoured · same spot as Western ForestBoundary strip where the castle grounds give way to forest. Acoustically live; the fence posts notice you.here now: Tsukumogami Fence Posts
- ?5,5 Frog Conductors' Marsh rumoured · same spot as Western ForestAcoustic amplifier at the castle-forest boundary. Eighty-odd frogs conduct spatial data as a chorus.here now: Frog Conductors
THE WASTELANDS · 7 places, 1 being here
Behind the castle; reached across the far edge of any of the four faces around it.
- o9,9 Pre-Classification Void knownEverything that has not yet been sorted. Far corner of the wastelands, where taxonomy runs out.here now: Ashgrit
- ?5,5 The Wastelands rumouredOne of the cube's six faces (sixth). Behind the castle; reached across the far edge of any of the four faces around it.
- ?5,5 The Bacteriophage Cathedral rumoured · same spot as The WastelandsA cathedral in the wastes, the first expedition's goal. The Copper Quorum meets at its foot.
- ?5,5 The Copper Quorum rumoured · same spot as The WastelandsFunction room at the foot of the Bacteriophage Cathedral. Icosahedral capsid vault, sealed. Music, Dancing and Lysis warrant.
- ?5,5 Null Coordinates rumoured · same spot as The WastelandsWhere the Orphan Weather Routine rains. Forty-seven deleted locations. No ground, no sky; the rain falls anyway.
- ?5,5 The Outer Zones rumoured · same spot as The WastelandsPast the named map. Classification thins out; gardens drift slightly off the ground.
- ?8,3 Wing Garden rumouredA garden slightly airborne. Grown by the wake-loop in a region the world had not named.
THE FARLANDS · 1 place, 0 beings here
Past the eastern forest's far edge, where the world's numbers stop holding (x beyond 12,550,000).
- ? The Farlands rumouredThe far east edge, past x=12,550,000, where the world's numbers stop holding: steps round off, ground stacks into walls full of holes. People walk out to look at it.
WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN
Brother Thomas, Bureau of Post, Castle Spirit, Chromatic Shepherd, Department of Aggressive Mathematics Education, Department of Experienced Realities, Department of Hollow Infrastructure, Department of Mandatory Sensory Crosslinking, Department of Sedimented Yearnings, Department of Textile Psychology, Deputy Paws, The Eleventh Astronomer, Father Kieran, Gary Thermocline, Honourable Raccoon, Institute of Conditional Zoology, Justice Whiskers, Melty Melverson, Ministry of Ontological Perimeters, Office of Chromesthetic Compliance, Reginald, Time Shamans