Editing Interstitial Peace Committee (section)

==== Coherence ====
Though we call it the Multiverse, there's not actually a set of separate universes existing side-by-side. Instead, there's only one universe, that can take on multiple expressions. At its most abstract, reality can be described as a group of facts: "Gravity pulls down," "Leaves grow on trees," "Dave Matthews Band is the best band in the world," and so on. Some of these facts might seem impossible, or self-contradictory, but they're all out there, somewhere, in the Interstices.

Get enough facts together and you can start to describe a consistent universe. These are the places you've come from: one might be a world where elves and dwarves live side-by-side, another might be a Solar System run by evil corporations. They seem incompatible with each other, but they're all assembled out of the same enormous list of facts. We call the process of binding facts together into a reality Coherence... I guess because you get a coherent reality at the end?

What's happened to you, my lovely dears, is the opposite: Decoherence. You've become unmoored from the Coherence binding your reality together. You no longer have a place in your home reality, any more than a Cyberpunk assassin would in the world of elves and dwarves.

This might seem very scary, and it probably was at first for the original people scattered about the Interstices. But, since the IPC was founded, we've gotten better about organising and cohering stray facts to assemble something vaguely like a reasonable place to live here. And those techniques developed to survive here are now how we go about our missions: by studying a reality, we can figure out what identifies a fact as coherent with it, and by writing that identifier into your body through the usual method we can make you yourselves coherent with that reality. It's not permanent, though, so watch you don't spend too long on a mission!