A Guide to#

Your Reality Neighbourhood#

For the Curious Trans-Reality Traveller#

In general, reality neighbourhood refers to the realities immediately neighbouring your home reality. The number of realities in your neighbourhood varies over long temporal ranges but is typically 5,000 to 10,000.

Neighbouring realities are the easiest to shift into. You may find, however, that repeatedly shifting through the same spatiotemporal regions may cause semiotic drift and/or drift saturation.

Remember: YOU are responsible for your ætiological footprints.

The spatiotemporal regions where reality edges touch or intersect are known as trans-reality boundaries. Boundaries are commonly found throughout all realities, and are readily perceptible to trans-reality beings; single-reality beings are rarely able to perceive boundaries, though they can perceive the side-effects of boundary crossing.

When a being crosses a boundary, an ætiological wave propagates from the crossing point into both realities. This wave travels through spacetime, causing events to happen; most events are on the atomic level and have no lasting effects, but some are macroscopic and readily visible even to single-reality beings. As the nature of events is essentially random, there is a strong likelihood of a negative outcome. It is therefore essential to take precautions to minimise your ætiological footprint, especially when crossing repeatedly between different realities.

Bentley’s home reality just so happens to be the same one as *gestures broadly* so the reality neighbourhood for Bentley and everyone else comprises all the other realities touching this one.

That’s handy, isn’t it?