HOUSETRAPPED - COSMOLOGY OF THE MEDIUM

So!

Now that you know baaaaasically everything there is to know about Derse and Prospit

Where are they like

Located

Relative to the rest of the games structures

Basically, this

That is

The Medium, as drawn by chalk and oil on the walls and floor of a lil dude's fallout bunker.

Over here is Prospit

A golden lunar object hovering in the center of Skaia

Below it is the Battlefield

Then you've got the player's Lands

Slash planets

Will get to that later

And then past the Veil is Derse

Allll the way on the other side.

What is, the Veil!

The veil is a ring of meteors surrounding the whole like

Blue sky area

As represented by the chalk drawings.

This is what it actually looks like

And here's a different diagram I found.

I'm gonna admit something real quick

I have

This whole time

Been confusing The Medium with The Incipisphere

Mostly because one word has cool relevance to like, theater and performance and art

And the other fucking sucks

I'll say what Hussie meant by those terms

And then ignore them from here on.

So, I thought that The Medium was the Place You Go When Youre Inside The Game

Turns out

No

That's the Incipisphere

The Medium (edited)

Is only the stuff inside the ring of meteors, it's only what's inside the veil

I

Don't like that, because it's just, kinda weird!

So

I'm just gonna

Pretend the whole things the medium.

And that there's The Veil but it's just a ring

Anyway

The veil is important because it's got meteors on it.

And these meteors are important for two main reasons

One, they're autogenerated by the game and contain a lot of labs and shit, that are useful for doing a lot of the game mechanics stuff. Cloning and the like. NPCs also use the meteors for cloning, not just the players. Exiles are sent to the meteors.

Exile Stations are buried inside of meteors.

Which (edited)

I'll get to

Later.

But the thing to know is that

The carapscian bearer of a fully-prototyped ring

Can begin The Reckoning.

Usually that means bringing the meteors in the veil down, as well as activating the insanely deadly Red Miles attack

And because, holy shit that's a lot of meteors, the game "defends" you from these by placing portals alll around the Veil, that only activate during the Reckoning.

Most of these meteors go through these portals and never hit the Battlefield, meaning you're safe! Yay!

Except that, they've gotta go somewhere.

Skaia, like, the entity, has them, uh

Pelt your home planet?

Causing its total annihilation?

Which is

Fun.

For you.

And so you might be wondering

Well

That fucking sucks

Can't we just stop the meteors from launching

Or like

Blow them up first or something

Blow them up!!! Are you crazy! There are innocent babies on those meteors what are you talking about how cruel are you

Uh huh. Why would I care about a couple babies over preventing the destruction of the earth

Because

Dear reader

The baby

Is you

TO BE CONTINUED IN CLONINGGGGGGGGG