Wonderland - Jags

an Episode? You see all your friends Shadows
and you think “Everyone has lost their mind!” On
Chessboard Zero (reality) they see your Reflection
walk in—and them? They think: “He’s losin’ his
bleedin’ mind.” It’s insidious that way.
There’s a Lot More.
That’s enough for now.
The Eight Chessboards
(Real Quick)
This is a brief overview to put the rest of the section
in perspective. Following the mechanics chapters,
there is a very in-depth look at each level and
what its specific rules are. If you have questions
that aren’t answered in the one-paragraph descriptions,
look there for the answers.
The world has eight levels—like the eight ranks of
a chessboard. We start counting at Zero and Chessboard
Zero is the real world. Look around you.
Yeah. That one.
Chessboard Zero
It’s a nice place. Good neighborhood. Decent
schools. Law abiding, if you know what I mean (as
in, the laws of physics).
It’s cozy.
But it has a problem: there are all these trap doors
and steep staircases and cracks in it. There are all
kinds of places you could fall through. There are
places where things can come up.
If you get Infected with Wonderland then, from
time to time, it just opens right up underneath you,
and you fall. You could fall all the way down.
Let’s take a really quick tour—we’ll get more
involved later.
Promise.
The same scene from Zero down to
Three ...
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