The Book of Knots - Jags

The Magicians understood there was something deeper (and something
darker) beyond the ken of mundane reality. The Government, for all its
fail-safes and firewalls was shot through with Infection almost from first
direct contact.
And, of course, Wonderland and its inhabitants are aware of us. They
can look through those mirrors from the reverse-side any time they like.
Their spies are always hiding just out of view where we can’t see them,
peeking around when we’re looking away and making plans.
Chapter 3: Project Puritan
Project Puritan was created when Project Pilgrim was shut down:
someone in the government—someone with influence and vision—
feared that the Infection had survived. They were right. Now Puritan
exists as an arm of the Secret Service. On the books it exists to handle
so-called “emergent threats of a hypothetical nature to the national
psyche and infrastructure.” Closer to the bone, it exists to combat the
forces of Wonderland.
Chapter 4: The Community of Magicians
There has always been some traffic into Wonderland. The human mind is
capable of reaching through the barrier between Chessboards and pulling
back perceptions, insights, and madness. In the past, this was done
with arcane knowledge and occult practices and so today, although in a
much evolved form, The Community exists. As the walls of reality have
become thinner and thinner so to have the risks of such studies become
greater and greater.
Chapter 5: The Department of Works
Chessboard Seven is all but inaccessible to the world at large. The
Caretakers cannot access it. The Linear Maze can take you there—if you
can navigate it—but it tends to Moebius Loop back on itself and become
more barred doors than open windows when you try to go that deep.
But there, in the depths of reality is the machinery that creates the world.
If things are falling apart, that might be where someone—maybe the
right someone—can put it back together.
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Book of Knots - Introduction