The long awaited Limbo DLC | Glowfic Constellation

"That sounds spooky, do they ever get filled in with things that are really awful?"

"What kinds of blanks are we talking about?"

"Mostly material properties? Like we didn't design how most of the foods taste there's some other abstract source probably from the world we can't remember that the tastes are based off of. Visitors do remember that world and they say things taste basically the way they would expect. So I think effectively words we use reference objects from that world which seems like it might be similar to yours and that's what fills in the blanks."

"So video-gamey."

"They don't make video games where you can taste things."

"But if they did, right?"

"I think in a fairly fundamental way my world is a game. There's a lot of flexibility, but for a lot of people they just complete some portion of the challenges and leave. Some people spend a lot more time than that though. Before coming here, every world I had visited except the one I don't remember was like that."

"How many video game worlds are we talking about here?"

"I want to go to video game world..."

"There's a lot of them depending on what you consider to be a unique world the number varies by several orders of magnitude. For most worlds each visitor can get their own copy. For mine visitors can make as many copies as they want."

"Just counting games, not everybody's personal, uh, save file."

"I think the lowest estimate is around a hundred thousand. The higher estimates are multiple millions. It depends on how much two templates have to differ for someone else to call them distinct."

"Holy shit."

"Can we go there? Where do your visitors come from?"

"I think they come from the world we creators gave up our memories of. It's possible that there's more than one such world but I don't know. I don't know if you can get there. I came here by accident and I don't know exactly how to get back. My siblings might come looking for me eventually whenever they notice I'm gone."

"How long will it take them to notice you're missing?"

"Probably less time than it will take to the next concordance... they kinda sleep a lot."

"For... years? Why?"

"Because they're bored, and they don't talk with people as much as I do so they have less reason to be awake."

"Your world sounds like it has so much stuff to do, why are they bored?"

"We usually don't leave our world very much. It's challenging to do in general. Some other creators travel more than we do. They sometimes go on trips instead of sleeping though. I don't always pay attention to which they're doing at any particular time since it feels about the same from my perspective."

"Do you sleep for years?"

"Or go on trips?"

"They might think you've just skipped over to the Mario Kart universe or something."

"Oh my god, a Mario Kart universe? No way."

"You mean the world with the tiny cars and the blue shells? Why do you care about that one specifically? Actually, how do you know about that world? And yeah I go on trips sometimes but I always ask one of them to take over intros for me... well almost always."

"Are you saying you literally fucking have a literal actual Mario Kart universe complete with blue shells. Are you literally saying that. Oh my god. I need to lie down." This person dramatically flops onto the floor.

"It's a video game," someone else explains.

"Yesssss? There's Mario and Bowser and Peach and a bunch of other people and visitors can wear their shapes if they want to?"

"But that game was like. Invented, written, coded, by Playstation -"

"Nintendo."

"Does it matter. It's an Earth game."

"That... hmm. That's surprising. I don't know what to make of that?"

"My grandpa has an old Nintendo. It probably has some edition of Mario Kart on it."

"And if it doesn't it'll have something else. Oh my god, is Pokémon real."

"The world with all the weird creatures with various stage abilities? I think one of them is called like... Pikachu? Visitors talk about that one sometimes. I think it's popular."