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Book of Knots - Chessboard Seven 124 each note is a universe, each chord a law of nature, every melody a meaning for something’s life. This is flowery language but no one has come up with anything more fitting. The transmitters are called the Canons because they are seen as the defining source for, well, everything else: the objective reality at the bottom of the universe. Implications: Cracks In The Universe Some people say that the walls that protect Chessboard Zero are crumbling—that as more people become Infected the “real world” gets weaker and weaker. Some say that the Caretakers are “chipping away” and eventually will take it down. They may be right: no one, not even the Caretakers themselves, are sure. But there’s some other options. It is theorized that if someone could understand and control the Department of Works and harness the symphony of the great array of Canons… or even repair it—they could reinstate the walls of reality. Perhaps they could erase the Caretakers or even remake them in their own images. Some people believe that the secrets to Chessboard Seven reside in the Liebrary and that the knots of truth and lies exist to protect that terrible reality. Some people believe that the reason the Department of Works manifests itself to humans as human-built machines is because mankind can, eventually master it. Perhaps the Caretakers know this—and maybe that’s why they are afraid of it. Getting There and Getting Back Getting to Chessboard Seven requires traveling extensively in the Linear Maze. From the lowest levels of Wonderland (Chessboards 5 and 6) this takes about a week of walking. It can take months; and the way is dangerous (most of the “well known paths” are guarded or trapped by the Caretakers who don’t want anyone poking around). There are secret trails known to only a very few people and since the Linear Maze shifts constantly, there are always pathways and portals opening and closing; spend enough time looking (a lifetime?) and you might get lucky. Getting back means finding a random opening to the Linear Maze on Chessboard Seven or going through one of the seven well known Gates – semi-permanent gateways that are controlled by the Caretakers and are constantly under threat of assault from the Deconstructionists. Think of these as remote outposts at the edge of the Roman Empire – the things dispatched there are all but cut-off from their masters, in a very strange world, indeed, and in terrible peril.
What you might find there Chessboard Seven is an empty place with a palpable sense of being long-forgotten and almost used-up. There are great open plains, endless deserts and badlands, and even a few placid seas, but rather than being full of promise, it feels used up—abandoned, and deserted. It is not uninhabited – there are plants, animals, and strange, primitive civilizations, but unlike life elsewhere (or, in the case of the Caretakers, life-like things), the native flora and fauna of Chessboard Seven absolutely lack ambition or curiosity. They are stolid, polite, ignorant, and passive. They don’t even seem to (particularly) fear death or pain – their senses of the world are dull and remote. The only things of any real interest are the machines – the derelict factories and processing plants, the miles and miles of train track and twisted train-yards, the refineries and finally (most distant) the Cannons themselves. The Department of Works feels very much like a puzzle with many (important) pieces missing; many of those who have spent lifetimes studying it have quit, convinced that whatever secrets it once held, they are now inaccessible. Clearly it has lasted billions of years, but it has been failing for billions of years and it’s failing, still. There may treasures to be found and insights to be gained by exploring Chessboard Seven – a properly skilled and equipped expedition might, for example, be able to learn secrets about the physical universe, the true cosmology of creation, or the nature of time, itself, by a careful study of the machines of the Department of Works. And (perhaps), in the most inaccessible places, there might be things worth stealing – but overwhelmingly the study of the Department of Works raises more questions than answers. The Secret History of the End of the Universe In canonical JAGS Wonderland the secret at the end of the universe is not that humanity is doomed – it is that humanity’s victory (and the obsolescence and annihilation of the Caretakers) is inevitable. When someone realizes this – really understands it – they’ll know the purpose of the Department of Works (and that it was obvious the whole time), and they’ll do what needs to be done: they’ll turn it off. And when they do that, the Universe ends. Here’s our explanation: The Awful Truth The awful truth that the Caretakers cannot face, and that humankind is yet ignorant of, is that Creation is, indeed meant for man. The primal universe – a chaotic blizzard of “all” and “nothing” was far too unstable 125 Book of Knots - Chessboard Seven
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