THE OTHERWORLDS, OVERALL

The year is 3001. Regret and despair is scattered across the Earth. Humans truly had ruined everything. The forests of the Earth are nearly gone. Most animals went extinct. Rich people still only care about themselves. But, the scientists had come up with a “morally correct solution” for saving Earth. Opening a portal to a new dimension. The labs had done this quite frantically and aimlessly, in a very big rush to save the world as it is falling apart. This dimension is called “The Otherworlds”. It is a pure paracosm. Many different creatures that have been created in humanity’s minds have become true.

- Scientists managed to open this portal with the help of psychics. This is why The
Otherworlds has many imaginary creatures.

- There is barely any science behind The Otherworlds.

There are 2 kinds of creatures. Paracosmic, and runoff. Think of it as a line. The paracosmic creatures are a small lump in the center, as the runoff creatures are the straight lines on the sides. Divide these parts and you’ll have more runoff creatures than paracosmic creatures.

The straws and stricks came first. The stricks got their name from being packed with many electrical wires in their bodies. The straws got their name from being very slim. The straws quickly descended into what we call “Runts” due to the fact nobody seemed to care about them. The stricks were taken care of very well.

After some time, the world had gone to chaos with these new creatures.​ The creatures had taken over earth entirely. They had taken many different plants from The Otherworlds to Earth to regain some things.

The humans had conversed with the creatures from The Otherworlds about their “god”. Their god is completely a robot, named “The Vaccine”. The Vaccine got its name from stopping any horrid things from happening to many creatures if they had paid attention to it, similar to a vaccine. The Vaccine thrived and flourished in a land where nobody knows any information about. It is solely unknown where it is.

Humans had attempted to move to the Otherworlds in order to escape Earth. This caused a war between the otherworlds and earth. They did not want humans in their world because they saw them as unintelligent beings. The Otherworlds had many more tactics and ideas in order to win the war. The humans were slow and confused. None of them won the war as the war died down entirely. The humans have earth for now.

Humans had slowly come back as they had made peace with the otherworlds. They made peace due to the fact that the older generations of creatures and living beings died off and the younger generations had understood each other and got along.

The humans and Otherworlds creatures had assisted each other in making The Otherworlds a better place. The portal from Earth to The Otherworlds has now been shut down and forbidden from everyone.

The animal people on the more Earthy side of the otherworlds built a land named “Whiskeroo Town”. Nobody exactly knows where that name came from. There is a highly protected area in Whiskeroo Town called “The Infinity Bunker”. The reason why the animal people adapted to the earthy side of The Otherworlds is because it is very alike to where they had originally adapted to on Earth.

The infinity bunker is an underground world where it attempts to replicate reality. There will be fake humans and creatures there too, called “simulators”. These creatures attempt to eat and consume any living thing in order to submerge them into the bunker for more ideas and possibilities. The infinity bunker is completely made out of this sentient colorful clay titled “Argilla Varia” which can turn into anything on its own. Nobody can use it for anything different as it can fight back and do what it desires.

fun fact: this is heavily based off of a dream i had!

The Compass Crew is a crew that explores and experiments on the infinity bunker. They get their name from them being able to navigate the infinity bunker perfectly and being able to work together as a team. They also got their name from the founder of the Compass Crew, William Compass. William Compass was a great man. He began the Compass Crew originally as a company who supports animals and finds them homes. But during the war, William Compass had died in the radius of a bomb drop. Nobody knew him until his passing. Another man found the name of the company perfect. Daryn Elliot. He took advantage of this name after the announcement of the Infinity Bunker’s existence to support those who get lost or stuck in the infinity bunker. Almost like advertisements stopping people from taking illegal substances, he put up many advertisements for this and helped build more walls and gates to stop people from going into the bunker. Behind all of this, Daryn had been lying about his care this entire time. For he did not care, he just yearned for money and riches.Daryn had a plan, though. Since nearly every living being knew about the Infinity Bunker, Daryn had built around the Infinity Bunker’s entrance and created a laboratory for that area. The place is highly redacted. After this, the advertisements and public service announcements had been put to an end. They simply acted as if the Infinity Bunker never existed.

RANDOM info:

- the names of daryn elliot and william compass have meaning within the story.

- William’s last name is very unique for no reason.

STAGES OF A SIMULATOR

First, the Infinity Bunker will make a conscious decision on what it wants to make. For example, we have a faux runt. The Argilla Varia will morph itself into some form of metal wires with uncoordinated joints and ends. Secondly, the wires will eventually inflate and turn into a flesh like material. And finally, the Argilla Varia stays in its original state, the clay like matter, and functions as a brain in any part of the simulator. On the other hand, if the Argilla Varia’s area of functionality is somewhere else besides the head, it will have that area as its main part of the body, using the rest of the body as other things such as limbs.

MORE ABOUT THE COMPASS CREW

After finally protecting and barricading the Infinity Bunker, the advertisements had been put to an end. The Infinity Bunker is now being contained in a laboratory.

MORE ABOUT SIMULATORS

Simulators will say unnerving things to humans to drive them insane and induce fear into their minds. They do not bother luring humans in to consume them as they are confused on what they should do.
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Some simulators can take the form of an amalgamation of objects. Often, some simulators that replicate living beings can have this feature with random objects connected to their body. They most of the time use these object parts as stuns and weapons against real living beings.

The way the infinity bunker was discovered by people occurred in the year 3012. People had noticed there was a strange trapdoor in the woods, untouched and buried away in the sticks and leaves. Some people went to investigate, but never came back from what was in there. Moving rooms, odd hostile creatures and critters, and many other things yet to be discovered.

After 3 years of the Compass Crew’s existence, people felt spite towards the Compass Crew and how they obscured the Infinity Bunker from everyone after it was well known. People began realizing that it was cruel of them to do so. On an incredibly uncoordinated day, a group of people formed to raid and riot the Compass Crew laboratory. Daryn Elliot had been frantically informed on the phone by one of his workers, causing him fear and panic. He knew that the Compass Crew team would lose since they are a mid development laboratory. The sentries of the Compass Crew had prepared themselves in many ways possible such as gathering medical supplies and gathering ammunition for their guns. The rioters charged towards the laboratory, causing a confused ruckus through the woods. The sentries had shot and killed many rioters who got too adjacent to the lab. As the riot died down and many people retreated, the Compass Crew had been left in panic and trepidation. They had decided it’s time to recruit more sentries and build more around the lab.

After some time, The Vaccine, god of The Otherworlds got exceedingly tired from all of the drama going on throughout the world. The Vaccine had created a new living being. His name was “Jonathan, The Gift Of God”. Jonathan was programmed to life. Made digitally, printed to reality with flesh and bone. Jonathan had been created with half of The Vaccine’s power, as it passed it down to him. He had descended from the skies gracefully, leaving absolutely nobody in shock after everything that has happened to this world. Jonathan had been commanded to look picturesque as he demolished the world. Although this, Jonathan had refused to do so. He wanted to bring joy to those alive for an unknown reason.

THE MALADY/DEATH

The Vaccine had gotten sick and ran down from giving up half of its power to create Jonathan. The Vaccine had an idea, though. The Vaccine had used the very last of its power to create another new SHAPESHIFTING being, “The Malady”. The Malady had been created more mindfully this time, resulting in The Malady becoming pure evil. The Vaccine’s demise had come. The Vaccine had slowly died down and disappeared from reality without a trace. Meaning that The Vaccine’s death did not have an impact on the world. The Malady was a cruel, inhumane, and agony inducing being. He wanted nothing else but for people to suffer. The Malady caused sickness to anyone who doesn’t worship him. This sickness causes strings to grow in any internal part of your body without any scientific reason. The Malady managed to create this sickness using telepathy and rage. The strings will be studied and tested on from victims as time goes on.

BACK TO THE RUNTS

After many, many years of runts being let down and left behind, runts had grown to be more intelligent. This is because runts had found ways to assist each other in unison as other creatures did not care. It’s almost like humanity in the beginning. They taught each other things, showed each other things, and interacted with each other in many ways. Runts had the idea of beginning a war against every other living creature, mostly aimed towards humans and stricks, but they knew that would only escalate things to a higher level. This caused runts to stay silent and isolated from other creatures.

JONATHAN’S JOURNEY

Jonathan’s intuition is telling him a relative of his was doing something horrid to other beings. He just feels it in his gut. He has the idea of spotting and confronting this relative of his, yet he has no idea on where they could be. He knows he has to find them one way or another, so he begins to walk aimlessly from where he had spawned. As he is walking, he decides to silently hide from other people and pedestrians. After a few hours of walking, he begins to think. “What could my relative possibly be? What are they doing that’s so bad? Should I really trust my gut?” Jonathan begins to feel frightened. But he knows he shouldn’t be as he knows he’s a gift from god. This causes him to wonder. “Why am I like this? Why can’t I be a normal being?” He ends his walking and shuts his eyes, sitting down on the ground and resting by a tree.After a good minute, he hesitantly opens his eyes to see another being, staring at him. This being almost had the same theme as Jonathan. She visually had the head of an eclipsed sun and a thick, midnight blue gown. Jonathan instantly feels hope, yet he is quite frightened. He jolts up from his resting state and looks down at her in fear. They say nothing. She continues to hold out her hand. Jonathan slowly but surely takes her hand, but as soon as he touches her hand, she begins to walk. Jonathan stumbles as he gets pulled by her, unknowing on what to say or do. “I know what you are looking for.” She says, sternly. Jonathan says, “If you really know, then tell me… Yeah.” There’s silence for a few seconds. She replies, “You’re looking for The Malady.”  “What is that?” “Something you are immune to.”Jonathan had no clue on how that was the name of his relative he was searching for… He assumes.“Wait… how did you know who I was looking for?” Jonathan asks.“I knew. As soon as I laid my eyes upon you, I just knew.” She says without any further context. “Oh, and my name is Eclipse. Nice meeting you.”

Jonathan gives her a weird look. “So you’re not going to tell me anything else-”

“Maybe in a little while.”“Okay. Also, my name is Jonathan.”

And from there on, they conquered by foot in one big straight line instead of how Jonathan was moving aimlessly. They had stopped to take some breaks as they moved along, still avoiding and being invisible to other creatures.

JONATHAN AND ECLIPSE’S JOURNEY

Jonathan still feels very strange around this random woman he just found in the woods. He doesn’t know much about her, so why is he letting her lead him through the woods? Who knows. Hah! Well on the other hand, they have been traveling for approximately 3 days so far. He is now beginning to trust Eclipse the more they converse. He’s beginning to like her by her philosophical and existential questions and more as he’s always been into that stuff. And today, they find a strange, vast, and dark cave in a mountain in their path. Eclipse just shrugs it off and walks into the cave. “Hey, hey! Don’t go in there!” Jonathan yells. He then lets go of her hand and jumps back. “Come on, we’ve literally traveled so far! Practically… Most of this world! We can’t get tired or hurt, we are both supernatural beings!” Supernatural beings… Huh. Jonathan was debating this in his mind for a while now, wondering where in the world he came from. He believes her though. She seems as if she’s been here longer than him if she knows all this information. “I didn’t know that-” “Just come in!” She yells. “...Fine.”Jonathan walks into the cave, terribly bothered. “Light up your head.” What? What could Eclipse possibly mean by this? Jonathan asks, “What do you mean…?” Eclipse replies with a sigh, “I guess you haven’t been here for long. Just… here. Just shut your eyes and think…” Eclipse puts her hands on Jonathan’s head, the world frantically sending him to a different state of reality. One of the spiritual realms which is the realm of where spirits meet beings in their dreams. Eclipse’s comforting hands had woken him up. In his mind, he can telepathically feel what he is supposed to do in order to… “light up his head”. He now knows that the universe is testing his strength by requesting him to find The Malady. He then snaps back to reality without any dramatic transition. He opens his eyes and looks back down at Eclipse. He stares at her for a few seconds with a shocked look on his face before he intentionally lights up his own head. He can now see in the darkness.

MEETING

As they find their way through the dark cave, Jonathan begins to feel a strange emotion. Something on the tip of his tongue that he cannot explain. It feels like fear, yet joy at the same time. He turns his head to the right, finding a strange stone door. He points at it. “That. That right there.” Jonathan says blankly. “I know. I was going to point it out too. Hah! The Malady is in there! Yes, in THERE!” Eclipse says. “Wait! Don’t go in yet-” Eclipse pushes the door open carelessly as if she has done this before. Nothing is to be seen there. Just stones and dust. “Where are they…?” Jonathan asks. Eclipse stutters yet speaks smoothly, “W-Well, they’re completely gone!” Both of their lights go out. A different light appears from the top of the cave. It’s very… Pink. Suddenly, strange tentacles pop out of where the light is coming from, and then The Malady plops down onto the ground from above. The Malady enthusiastically blurts out,  “Oh, hi!”. Jonathan knows they’re deceiving them with their faux joy. Eclipse turns to Jonathan swiftly and says, “Believe in yourself.” “What do you mean… by that…?” Jonathan gives her a strange look. Eclipse puts her gentle hands on his head once again and telepathically speaks, “Let The Malady shapeshift into a loved one you lost. Let them do anything similar to that. That’s when you strike.”

Jonathan nods. He hesitates to look at The Malady. The Malady’s predacious eyes and exposed ribcage is nothing Jonathan wants to see. He walks up to The Malady as their pupils dilate. Jonathan feels a strange pain in his windpipe and stomach as he begins to cough up these metal strings which he had never seen before. They shrivel up once they hit the ground which terribly disturbs Jonathan. Eclipse watches, knowing that Jonathan will win the battle. She’s witnessed this all before in similar situations, but along with the universe testing him, she will test him too. Jonathan dramatically falls to the ground as The Malady forms itself into a loved one he lost. The Vaccine. He had never seen The Vaccine before yet he already knew about them at the same time… no wonder why he was grieving so much over “nothing”. Jonathan gasps for air as he gets up, believing he might pass from asphyxiation. The Malady speaks saying, “Awesome! Awesome! Look! I’m your creator. Isn’t that cool?” Jonathan bluntly says, “No.” Looking up at The Malady, he manages to bash his head in, using his pointy metal-like representation of a glare. The Malady stays silent, and calmly collapses into a massive pile of pink sludge. Jonathan’s life flashes before his eyes. The only week ago when he had been created all comes back to him. He remembers everything, though. Why is his mind showing him all of this? Well, because there is more. He was once a pixel in a digital dimension, also known as The Vaccine’s consciousness. He met other pixels who had left him behind. He had feelings before he was created. He now remembers all those old memories he had lost. He then snaps back to reality again. His pain is now gone and the metal strings have dissolved into thin air. “You did it.” Eclipse says, behind him. Jonathan yells painfully, “Why didn’t you help me?! What is your… problem?!” Eclipse calmly replies with, “I’ve been around way longer than you. I know more. I knew you had to do this all by yourself as I was testing your bravery. Although we are supernatural beings, we weren’t given the exact answers on everything due to the fact that the universe also tests us in many ways. Just do the do.” Jonathan now understands everything completely… but still kind of confused on why she said “Just do the do.”.In the aftermath, Jonathan sits on top of the cave which The Malady had been in besides Eclipse. The world is revolving perfectly fine around them. The city lights in the night look quite picturesque, right?

THE LIBRARY ROOM

The Infinity bunker has recurring rooms since it is sentient. The infinity bunker contains a room which keeps changing, but sticks with the same theme. The library room. It has nothing but faux wooden floors, ceilings, and walls with shelves occupied with books. Each book is completely different. They all have nonsensical words and sentences which physically harms the human mind when read. The simulators in the library room are still the same as all the other simulators from different rooms, yet they have a higher chance of having a book attached to their anatomy. Using this, they can open their books and make survivors forcefully read the nonsensical words and sentences due to how they know that if you visually see something, you will automatically have thoughts about it. These forms of simulators are called “bookworms”. Also, many books and samples of books had been brought back for investigation in the laboratories, but it is still unknown how to prevent brain damage from reading the books.