I'm still trying to figure out general information about the whatever-you-call-it-verse as a whole. A lot of it, for obvious reasons, is inconsistent. I mean, take the Event. As far as I know, Twister's the only individual known to have interacted with it. And almost every story has its own means for travel between universes. Twister used magic, I believe, with botched demon summonings involved, Douglas Sangnoir has his magegift, the cast of The Number of the Beast used...er, whatever-the-technique-was-called...and I can't think of ANY story that's used the caveat mentioned in Sailor Moon Expanded, involving travelers taking on traits from the universes they go to.
Not to mention that any coherent theory also has to take into account differing laws of physics, the flow of information - what exists as a story where - and, possibly most importantly, the free will of a writer. Along with the stuff 1/0 mentions about the nature of creation and fictionality, particularly toward the end. Plus, it can't be any system that would theoretically allow you or me to leave this universe and enter another one on the map, because there are no nonfictional records of any such thing occurring. This should go without saying, but I think the World-as-Myth novels claimed that such a thing would be possible, and the logical extension of that idea is this.
I'd also like to see a map of INDIVIDUAL universes in the continuum. For instance, as of part III of Twisted Path, I've seen three universes so far. Call them Real-T, Ranma-T, and BGC-T. Drunkard's Walk features a different one in each Step, not counting Doug's home universe. And so forth.
...Wow. I am such a dork.
Pronounced "shy guy."
Not to mention that any coherent theory also has to take into account differing laws of physics, the flow of information - what exists as a story where - and, possibly most importantly, the free will of a writer. Along with the stuff 1/0 mentions about the nature of creation and fictionality, particularly toward the end. Plus, it can't be any system that would theoretically allow you or me to leave this universe and enter another one on the map, because there are no nonfictional records of any such thing occurring. This should go without saying, but I think the World-as-Myth novels claimed that such a thing would be possible, and the logical extension of that idea is this.
I'd also like to see a map of INDIVIDUAL universes in the continuum. For instance, as of part III of Twisted Path, I've seen three universes so far. Call them Real-T, Ranma-T, and BGC-T. Drunkard's Walk features a different one in each Step, not counting Doug's home universe. And so forth.
...Wow. I am such a dork.
Pronounced "shy guy."