Interstice

Originally posted on MSPA by Anomaly.

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After a brief squabble, Svedberg is able to read the contents of the paper uninterrupted. Strangely, it seems to be written (or typed) in his own language (though no stranger than the fact that everyone can understand everyone else's language anyway).

YELLOWED PAPER

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SpoilerTo whomever finds themselves in this place:

I must be brief. I do not know who any of you are, what you are, what your motivations may be. I do not know if you will be able to cooperate. But you must try.

The place you stand in now is what remains of the Interstice. An experiment by my associates and myself. Our own pocket universe, stitched together from fragments taken from across the multiverse. For many years it held together - the population of the Interstice once numbered in the thousands, people willingly taken from a vast number of universes. We thought we had created a perfect utopia. We thought ourselves the gods of this land - for we held as much power over it as any god could.

We were wrong to think so.

Look over the ocean. Do you see the blackness? The floating bits that remain of a once-great mountain range? This blackness surrounds us now. 13% of the Interstice remains unconsumed. I do not - cannot - know what is out there, what is happening. I am the only one left. My associates have been lost in that darkness. I will soon meet the same fate.

Unless, that is, the six of you are able to stop this corruption. I wish I could tell you more, but time is short. My control station is the only one that remains, and this force of corruption is slowly approaching it. I am almost out of power - if I cannot restart my station's stabilizers, all hope is lost.

I have time to say no more. Hurry to the control station in Sector 16. I am sorry to say that this is roughly two days away from your current location. I had no control over where you materialized - you seem to be in a low-corruption area right now. I have attached a map - it is on the back of this paper. The map will update to show your location accurately. Please hurry.

The message is unsigned. There is definitely a map on the back though.

MAP

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