Limbo World

## Limbo

Limbo world is a purgatory-like dimension which exists as one communal place for the dead of various dimensions. The entirety of Limbo is housed within a corpse which is surrounded by a substance called void. Limbos manifest as unique pocket dimensions which fit together to form a larger whole. Each Limbo is unique to a person in Limbo and usually is themed around that person's life or death. Limbos widely vary from person to person often changing drastically from Limbos set more in feasible reality and Limbos which are completely nonsensical. Each individual Limbo acts as its own "world" and as such, inhabitants are usually stuck unless they have an item which can tear holes into the fabric of reality binding and isolating each Limbo.

## History

Long, long before the events of the campaign, before time itself even existed, there was 'The Void'. An unimaginably large Eltrich like being that was essentially the embodiment of 'the end' of all things, including time and space. The Void absorbs anything that exists into itself, making it become 'one with The Void' or rather, nonexistent. It's unknown if whether or not The Void has intelligence, or even self-awareness, but one thing remains consistent with it, and it's that it seeks to bring about 'nonexistence' with reality itself, and when it has nothing to absorb, it enters a period of 'slumber' where it lies dormant until something or someone 'wakes' it up.

It is then during some point in time during The Voids period of pure nonexistence where The Incomprehensible forms. Which is an Eltrich being made up of literal chaos, representing everything that exists and can/will exist all at once. This being of pure chaos not only decided to form within The Void itself, but also decided to actively choose to agitate The Void by claiming it as it's home, basically setting up camp inside of it. With the combination of the incredibly bright light The Incomprehensible gave off, as well as it basically behaving like a really annoying roommate that doesn't pay rent, The Void 'woke' up. And The Void, now very, very angry, slaughtered The Incomprehensible by ripping both its physical body and soul to shreds. This failed to calm The Void down however, as the light of The Incomprehensible still remained, shining brightly, which caused The Void to be in a state of frenzy, at war with a being that couldn't seem to truly die.

And it's within this frenzied state, that The Void itself in a furious attempt to absorb the remaining pieces of The Incomprehensible, accidentally began combining with the chaos of The Incomprehensible, the chaos attaching itself to The Void like a parasite. Resulting in the torn soul of The Incomprehensible turned into 'soul fragments' or the lost, distant memories of the chaos being that take the shape of wisps. And the shredded physical body of the being turning into either 'Bells' which are a device used to travel through limbo, or thousands of different 'Limbo Aspects' which are very vague or minor representations of the different parts of The Incomprehensible that have been molded into physical beings with their own conscious and drive, essentially acting as their own person with free-will.

At this point, with The Void being in a frenzy, the Limbo Aspects, now being separate beings with their own motivations, began to argue among themselves. With half of the Limbo Aspects (the most relevant ones being Limbob, The Titian, The Fungus, and The Spider) believing that they should remain as themselves and allow The Void to completely consume The Incomprehensible, essentially embracing the inevitable. And the other half of the Limbo aspects (most relevant ones being Box, Twinkles, and Tom) believing in reforming The Incomprehensible and fighting against The Void that had put them in this situation in the first place. This conflict eventually resulted in an all-out war between the Limbo Aspects, with Box being the main driver for the war, being the one to initiate the battles and overall, just being an absolute menace.

This led to the anti-formation Limbo Aspects to approach The Void and offer a deal, in exchange for allowing the inevitable death of The Incomprehensible, The Void would trap Box within the center of it and quickly kill him off. The Void immediately agreed, and after a brief battle, Box was grabbed by The Void and trapped within the center of it, ending the war between the Limbo Aspects. Box however, refused to die, and would remain in the center of The Void, creating a plan to escape and reunite The Incomprehensible.

Much, much later, a man known as ‘Mr Funnyman’ fell into The Incomprehensible through a place called ‘The In-Between’ an area in Limbo where The Void and chaos have merged together equally, forming an area in which mortals can fall through after death.

Upon falling through the In-Between, Mr. Funnyman was greeted by the shredded corpse of The Incomprehensible, the being that he worshipped his entire life in the hopes of receiving power and knowledge. But before Mr. Funnyman could fall into despair, he was greeted by Box (who at the time had enough magical strength to contact people) through a message spell. The two talked, with Box explaining everything that happened to The Incomprehensible and himself, and Mr. Funnyman explaining how he was mortal and worshipped The Incomprehensible.

It was then when Box saw an opportunity to escape through Funnyman, and he offered him a deal/alliance, if Mr. Funnyman helped him escape, he would offer Mr. Funnyman magical power and knowledge. Funnyman eagerly accepted this deal, wanting nothing more than to achieve the things he prayed for his entire life.

Together they came up with a plan, they would gather two types of chaos. The first being ‘chaos essence’ the physical remains of The Incomprehensible that did not transform into anything. The second being ‘concentrated chaos’ (which is often also referred to as chaos essence) which is chaos that stems from the soul of The Incomprehensible, and as a result contained a fraction of The Incomprehensible's magical power. Mr. Funnyman and Box planned to use the chaos essence to heal The Incomprehensible's physical body, and the concentrated chaos to heal The Incomprehensible's soul.

Mr. Funnyman and Box collected the chaos essences easily, as the corpse of The Incomprehensible provided plenty of it. And they used the Soul Fragments, located within the Library, to gather concentrated chaos. However due to Box and Funnyman stealing the fragments as well as killing the librarian that guarded it, they were banned, cutting off their essential supply.

This meant the plan soon encountered a problem, there simply wasn’t enough concentrated chaos left, especially after the war between the Limbo Aspects. Mr. Funnyman however discovered a solution, after putting a bell around his wrist, he found it not only significantly boosted his magical and even physical power, it also transformed the chaos inside of the bell into concentrated chaos, due to the fact it tied itself to a mortal soul, essentially absorbing its power.

It was then Mr. Funnyman and Box both agreed, in order to bring back The Incomprehensible, they would have to gather more mortals with strong enough souls to attached bells to. So, Mr. Funnyman returned to the In-Between, using the god-like power Box gifted him to tear open a giant rift that connected to the mortal realm. This rift could not be closed, and anyone from any point in time could randomly fall into it after death.

After a short time, mortals from all over time began falling through the rift, their appearances changing as they fell into the chaos lake below the In-Between, gaining their ‘Limbo forms’. And their souls reacting to The Incomprehensible’s magic, forming their own pocket dimensions within The Incomprehensible itself, called “Limbos”.

These mortals began referring to their new home as “Limbo” which even the Limbo Aspects themselves adopted the name, meshed together Incomprehensible and Void now becoming “Limbo”. And as they continued to mesh together, creates made of both void and chaos emerged from the newly formed Limbos, creating critters known as “Limbo Creatures” which range in size, shape, and intelligence.

The mortals adapted to their new way of life, societies and cultures developing in the few limbos that could support life. And Mr. Funnyman and Box continued their plan, gather as much concreted chaos and chaos essence as they possibly could. However, Mr. Funnyman soon began to see the insanity of Box, with Mr. Funnyman soon realizing how ridiculous the plan they had come up with was, and that eventually The Void would just destroy everything they had try to repair. Mr. Funnyman expressed this to Box, who reacted violently, taking away the power he gave Mr. Funnyman by quite literally taking a portion of his soul. Mr. Funnyman fled and vowed to destroy Box at any given chance.

Box, now alone, sought out help through the now abundant mortals scattered about, forming teams of ‘adventurers’ to gather powerful bells for him, manipulating them by claiming that he will use the bells to ‘escape limbo’, a lie that Box himself began to believe as the years carried on.

Mr. Funnyman, upholding his vow, would frequently find and kill these teams to stop Box. He also began consuming chaos in order to maintain what little power he had left, and soon became dependent on it, if he stopped consuming chaos, he would quite literally die.

And after many years of bloodshed, aside from it all prominent limbos formed, the most important ones being “Atlantis” (and underwater French Revolutionary area limbo) the “Bug Limbo” (A 1920s Chicago type city run by bug people mafias) and “The City” (a huge plant covered city that houses the majority of limbos population). These limbos thrived in the chaos of Limbo.

However, despite all the good that was happening, Box and Mr. Funnyman continued to fight, and Mr. Funnyman continued to kill the teams Box sent out, regardless of innocence or ignorance the team may have.

But much later, Raka appeared in Limbo, and Mr. Funnyman first encountered Raka by answering them on his telephone. Mr. Funnyman pitied the abandoned and miserable child, and after seeing the condition they were in, took them in, creating a house for Raka and him to live in. Mr. Funnyman began taking care of Raka, and soon relearned what it meant to be human, what it meant to care for someone. And Mr. Funnyman decided he would no longer kill the teams that Box sent out. Instead deciding to persuade them to stop or just messing up their plans through silly pranks.

This decision would be crucial, as the newest team, consisting of Valor, Andrew, Antonia, Skelter, and Macintosh was put together.

## Fun Facts

- Box can shapeshift, and as such had multiple different forms for each team he interacted with. Most of these forms he took were actually the appearance of different team members that had died under his watch. Basically, stealing their identity.

- If the party had failed entirely, failing to give Box anything to further his plan, Box would've stolen Andrew's identity, simply because Andrew looks the friendliest.

- Mr. Funnyman's favorite book is Moby Dick

- While Mr. Funnyman and Rakas first conversation was mostly about Rakas current living situation, they also talked about rocks. And Raka asked Mr. Funnyman if he thought rocks made good friends. Mr. Funnyman didn't know what to respond.

## Gallery

The second 'section' of Limbo. Often referred to as 'The Chaos Lakes' With the five 'sub sections' within the lakes, starting from top to bottom. We have the beginning section, second two, The Void Holes, the sea monster section, and finally The City.The final 'section' of Limbo. Containing the main five 'final limbos' of Raka, The Library, Tiffany Hawk/Kennedy D Hexel, Atlantide, and Mr FunnymanThe first 'section' of Limbo, containing the many tinier Limbos that the party transverses through.The Limbo Board, the culmination of FH's insanity.Old concept art done long before the proper creation of the campaign. Contains Atlantides weapon/stat and the battle map for her fight.The Limbo Board, the culmination of FH's insanity. Now with Ib.The first draft of the first section of Limbo. Housed now scrapped Limbos.The second draft of the first section of limbo. Housed now scrapped Limbos.Old notes and concept art of Box and his original plans. He was originally planned to be mortal, before the creation of the Limbo Aspects were even thought of.Concept art and notes for a now scrapped Limbo called 'The Mall'. A limbo in which would've experimented with the players paranoia and willing to trust each other.Old concept art of Atlantis, the first draft of the map, which was re-worked shortly after.Concept art of Atlantide herself and her fighting style.Concept art of Atlantides castle. One of the few pieces of art carried to canon from this journal.Concept art of what the citizens of Atlantis would've looked like, plus a re-work of the Atlantis map.Old concept art of The Incomprehensible, along with a poem explaining the former lore of it.Multiple bits of mostly scrapped lore for Box, Mr Funnyman.The Animus alphabet, its missing a letter because W is an idiot. (Written by W)Old concept art of scrapped Chaos Lake plot. It contained a crew of Animus creatures that died by being eaten.Old art of The Incomprehensible. While The Incomprehensible doesn't have a true form, if it were to show itself in front of mortals it truly respected, they would see this.Extra scrapped art of The Incomprehensible