Doctor Jessup's First Letter
Dear demon,
If you are reading this, then I am dead. That is to say, I have died in the branch of the time track that you now find yourself. I can assure you that I survive the drow pogrom in other tracks, yet I die in others. I wonder, which death did you witness? Did I die by fire? Did I burn for 18 days? Or was my life extinguished like an afterthought by a drow arrow?
As you approach the awful truth of Darkmanse, you may hear phrases such as “caught in the flow (or the push)” or “stuck in the green” or “I was going FAST.” These refer to some of the decades-later aftereffects of their force-field work. The experiment, needless to say, was a complete success.
I attest to you that Schrödinger’s cat is real. The cat is at the same time alive as well as dead—or should I say at the same “times,” in the plural? There is the cosmos and there is the multiverse. But the multiverse is itself a refracting prism—and the key to it all is the time track. Schrödinger was right. The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and consistent histories is a wondrous and terrifying reality.
Every event in life is a branch point. Divergent outcomes—the cat is alive, the cat is dead—are equally real. They exist simultaneously as branches of the time track.
I have stood on a rooftop in the city of Pittsburgh in the minutes before the “Advent” of Megadeath. Even as I write this, demon, the b-52 stratofortresses are flying. They are always flying. That is the great and terrible mystery of DARKMANSE.
Be warned: someone will befriend you and your friends in Cumorah. DO NOT TRUST THEM. They are an agent of the Archivist. Until we meet:
See you in time,
Doctor Jessup
If you are reading this, then I am dead. That is to say, I have died in the branch of the time track that you now find yourself. I can assure you that I survive the drow pogrom in other tracks, yet I die in others. I wonder, which death did you witness? Did I die by fire? Did I burn for 18 days? Or was my life extinguished like an afterthought by a drow arrow?
As you approach the awful truth of Darkmanse, you may hear phrases such as “caught in the flow (or the push)” or “stuck in the green” or “I was going FAST.” These refer to some of the decades-later aftereffects of their force-field work. The experiment, needless to say, was a complete success.
I attest to you that Schrödinger’s cat is real. The cat is at the same time alive as well as dead—or should I say at the same “times,” in the plural? There is the cosmos and there is the multiverse. But the multiverse is itself a refracting prism—and the key to it all is the time track. Schrödinger was right. The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and consistent histories is a wondrous and terrifying reality.
Every event in life is a branch point. Divergent outcomes—the cat is alive, the cat is dead—are equally real. They exist simultaneously as branches of the time track.
I have stood on a rooftop in the city of Pittsburgh in the minutes before the “Advent” of Megadeath. Even as I write this, demon, the b-52 stratofortresses are flying. They are always flying. That is the great and terrible mystery of DARKMANSE.
Be warned: someone will befriend you and your friends in Cumorah. DO NOT TRUST THEM. They are an agent of the Archivist. Until we meet:
See you in time,
Doctor Jessup
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