Picasso's Nightmare

**Picasso's Nightmare** is a little-explored realm close to the entrance of Corridoria that has had multiple expeditions by TAOCEAR, although due to it's surreal nature precaution has been taken against isolated explorers taking journeys into the realm alone.

## Description

Picasso's Nightmare is a realm that not only defies the laws of physics but also fundamental laws of perspective and causality, resulting in a realm where the farther away from an object you are, the closer it appears, until a "flipping point" is reached where the object will seem to turn upside down. and once more recede according to the typical laws of perspective. Due to this it can be very disorienting to beginner explorers. Within this realm are creatures that do not exist in a fixed form, but instead shift and melt into invisible walls and surfaces, at times extending the shadow of a thousand spiny ridges as they crawl across peculiar angles and spaces unseen to the naked eye.

An unexplained peculiarity is that explorers recently emerging from Picasso's Nightmare speak in rhyme and describe what they saw only through a regularly metered verse. This has been observed in other surrealistic dimensions such as The Needleworks and Streamerworld, thought to be an innate reaction of the human brain to construct order in the chaotic worlds of these surrealistic realms.

One such poem was recorded by an explorer who traveled into Picasso's Nightmare on 13 August 1990:

"Spiny spokes and tiny folks,
Winding ropes in winding routes;
Tracing out a twine-ly house,
For the spokes that crawl throughout;
These ropes, they weave tapestries,
For homes, of these majesties,
The ones, who feed leisurely,
They roam, godly centipedes"
After more poetry was collected it was gathered that Picasso's Nightmare is occupied by a race of small human-like figures who serve a species of centipede thought to occupy the fourth-dimension, crawling between their dimension and the third-dimension to pick off the humanoids which are tied up and offered as sacrifices to the centipedes. Despite their preference for this meal, explorers have remained unharmed, albeit with reports of "an itchy feeling" accompanied by flickers of many thin lines coming close to them. It is believed these are the legs of the centipedes momentarily flashing into the third-dimension before retreating to the vast space from which they hail.

**Name:** Picasso's Nightmare
**Path:** R3 (72 feet from entrance)
**Status:** Surreal, *Unknown Safety Level*
**First Expedition:** 13 August 1990
**Time Differential:** 1.0016

**ℂ𝕆ℝℝ𝕀𝔻𝕆ℝ𝕀𝔸**

**Artifacts** 4-Kallisti • MMC-OB6 camera (Operating Manual) • Oneir.OS • Starspeak

**TAOCEAR** *Overseers* Henry G. Gordon (1990 - 1993) • Mary Cindworth (1993 - 2020) • Marvin Levin (2020)
*Charting* Expeditions • List of Dimensions • Map

**Miscellaneous** *Corridoria Unlocked*

```
             █                The Final Realm
             ^
             ^  •
          █  █  █             The 300 Mile Outpost
         █████████
          █  █  █             Cloverworld
             ^  •
             ^

```

```
              █
             ███•              Aqueous
              █
           █  █  █
          █████████
           █  █  █
              █
             ███
              █
     █        █        █
   •███      ███      ███      The Meadows
  •  █        █        █
  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █    The Bilbous Plane
•███████████████████████████   The Garden
  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █  █    The Needleworks, A 1920s Museum
  •  █        █        █  •
    ███     •███•     ███      Stickerworld, The Tower
     █        █        █       The Omega Beach, YggdraCole
     •        █        •
            •███•              The Glassworks, **Picasso's Nightmare**
           •  █  •
           █  █  █             Oneiros INC., Penultimate Forest
         •█████████•           The Hill's Pockets, Streamerworld
           █  █  █             A Verde Planet, The Woodworks
           •  █  •
            •███•              Koiworld, Mirrorworld
              █                Entrance

```

```
   █ = Aquatic            • = Safe
   █ = Celestial          • = Quasi-Safe
   █ = Structural         • = Dangerous
   █ = Surreal            • = *Unknown*
   █ = Terrestial
   █ = *Unknown*

```