The Book of Knots - Jags

Book of Knots - Chessboard Seven
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End Game
We see a long-running Wonderland Game as a series of discoveries
about the true, hidden nature of the universe, humanity’s role in it, and
ultimately (perhaps) humanity’s fate. Chessboard Seven is where the
buck stops and where all the mysteries are resolved and the questions
answered—it’s where the ultimate truths and final secrets lie.
This section describes what you’ve heard about Chessboard Seven, what
it’s like to visit and what you might find there. The next section describes
what it means in the game.
Caveat Lector
What follows are our answers. They don’t have to be your answers, in
your game; they’re what we used and there’s some consistency built
into them, but ultimately these are our designer notes and campaign
descriptions. Now that you’ve read JAGS Wonderland, it’s yours. Take
what you like from here and leave the rest of it.
Chessboard Seven
You typically won’t even hear of Chessboard Seven until you’ve been
in Wonderland for awhile, and you’ll probably hear about it long before
you ever go there. Even for Wonderland it’s remote: you have to go past
a lot of dangerous things to get there, and although they won’t openly
discuss it, a lot of the things between you and Chessboard Seven don’t
want you arriving.
We’ll get to actually going there in a minute: learning the basics about
Chessboard Seven is tough. Asking questions or evening bringing it up
in the wrong circles can get you killed.
Not in Polite Conversation (who knows what)
This section describes what you might have heard and where you
might have heard it. It also gives you the “conventional” wisdom about
Chessboard Seven as held by the Wonderland power-elite.
Finally, there is a good deal of knowledge to be had in books and files.
The Caretakers won’t talk about it (at least not publicly, and certainly not
with humans) but they are (and have been) interested in the Department
of Works for a long time. The Liebrary may have the whole story there
(including truths the Caretakers are unwilling to face) but it’s so hard to
parse the truth from the fiction, that secondary sources are often more
accessible.
The Caretakers
They almost never discuss Chessboard Seven or the Department of
Works. Anyone bringing it up is likely to be considered vulgar and rude.
Maybe even criminally rude. In many of the best households discussing
the “lower geographies” is a killing offense. They won’t cop to this, but
Chessboard Seven and the Department of Works makes them intensely
uncomfortable – partially because of their history with it (the automated