For I Have a Wonderful Story to Tell
Version 1.0
By Savestate
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The multiverse is pretty weird. There are a lot of worlds, a lot like our own, that just lack some essential concept. Untruth, algebra, taxation, cooking, love… these notions just don’t exist anywhere in the collective human psyche. And yet they are so similar. Down to the architectural styles. Well, we’re here to fix that. We can find and send you to a world that is missing an idea of your choice, let you introduce it to a whole planet of people who don’t even recognize they’re missing something. Whatever is responsible for this absurdity… we will surpass it.
Take these before you go. They’re called “clothes”. A lot of universes expect people to use them. There’s an instructional booklet.
Choose three.
Desperation
The particular concept these people lack is significantly more important to their society than it is to ours. If it affects a percentage of our population, it affects an overwhelming majority of theirs. If it is something we want, it is something they need.
Affinity
An unusually large portion of the population fits your own tastes. Not just for partners, for friends and companions of all kinds. An unusually large portion of the population finds you to fit their own tastes.
Welcome
The people here are naive, or innocent. They’ll welcome what you’re bringing with open arms and wondrous joy. There will be much fewer holdouts, much more rapid proliferation.
Exchange
It looks like they’ve figured out multiversal travel too. It’s a cluster of three copies of their own world, which made contact and started diverging just a few years ago. Trade and specialization is really kicking off.
Life
They evolved slightly differently? They’re healthier, more fit, and live longer. Not much stronger, but they experience so much less pain and exhaustion and weakness all through their lives. Their diets are needier than our own, however. Hybrid vigor tends to be the case when we interbreed with multiversal variants.
Union
A one world government! That’ll make things simpler!
Enclosure
Their entire society is contained within a geographical area no larger than the british isles. Despite this, they have more abundant natural resources and a more pleasant, healthy environment than we do. They have yet to leave their little paradise.
Absence
Oh… they’re missing two important ideas!
Pay Attention!
These are the blueprints and critical components for the multiversal conveyor. Don’t lose them!
Mysticism
They have some form of magic. We’ve noticed it before, but it’s not common. Secret words of power to invoke grand forces. We’ve measured disturbances in the world-boundary, when this magic is used.