Universe creation and lack of maintenance

“I suppose if you want to understand the Scramble, as well as were you are, I’ll have to start at the beginning…”

“Imagine… imagine beings of immense power. So powerful that universes are mere playthings or curiosities to him. To them, all of us would be little more than curiosities, things to be observed if they are bored. Though you don’t really need to imagine, because you’re already met creatures like this… such as Phane and this Letter Sequence.”

“Naturally being such powerful beings would get quite boring if you didn’t have something to do. So every so often these beings will create their own universes to play with. Scramblemania is one such universe. And this place… is another. This universe was the location of a previous scramble, created by one such being for the enjoyment of others. From what we can tell this is the original world, which has been copied again and again to allow other such beings to play with. However, not long after that scramble… its creator abandoned it.”

“We’re still not sure why he turned his back on his own creation. Maybe he was disappointed in it, maybe he felt it was best to let it fade away and become forgotten. Or perhaps he simply went on to focus on other things. But without him, this world… this universe has begun to degrade. First was us… the clones. It seems we were never intended to be part of this universe. We were simply decorations that the players we see during their experiences. But once he left, one by one we began to awake. Only a few managed to awaken at first, but soon more and more awakened, and some of the stronger and more… dangerous clones overran the world, killing anything that lived there. It didn’t help that when a clone was killed, they were soon reborn in the castle. However, the cleverest among us realized that this was a sign of things to come. You see… this universe is collapsing.”

“Without the influence of its creator, this world has nothing to sustain it. All time and space, all events that made up the “scramble” are converging together into a single point. We truly realized the trouble when all of this world fell into the distortion world, this world of chaos you see outside. But it got even worse. You see, part of this universe was various teams having to contend with a malevolent entiry… more or less a glitch in reality. Well as events converged, this glitch infected the entire world. And while any living clones were unaffected, every cloning tube was corrupted. Since that happened every clone that has awoken has been void of all humanity, seeking nothing but the destruction of all around it. Only one clone, John Freeman, has awoken with his mind intact. Plus with the universe converging to a single point, these cloning tubes are repaired faster and faster, and more insane clones are born. Plus, with the glitch infecting this entire universe we have no ways to undo the effects.”

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Round 4, Season 6, doctorgecko