The Beyond

# The Beyond - Time's Final Destination

## Basic Details

`Survival Difficulty - **5/5**; The Beyond is everyone and everything's final destination. Time is frozen… and it's only a matter of time before it resets.`

`Entropy - **5/5**; Unstable, disorienting, and manipulating — this area has lost its sense of time and even reality itself.`

`Entities - **1/5**; Humans do not belong here. You have been warned. This is a free area for the [REDACTED].`

## Description

Nothing in this level can move. **The Beyond**, as described by the Clocksmith, is simply the inside of a black hole, an area of space-time where the laws of physics cease to exist, containing motionless entities, humans, and objects that have lived their 24-hour lifespan in The Temporal Shop.

This… however, is only part of the story.

It's a tunnel — a wormhole — to somewhere, if anywhere. While one lays there motionless, streaks of neon lights can be seen all around, zooming through the landscape. Disorienting light flashes happen constantly, signaling the entry of another object or living being into The Beyond, which appears suddenly with little explanation. Time has frozen for everything but light itself.

Eventually, The Beyond will become unable to fit any more objects; it will reach maximum capacity every month (in Earth-time according to a witness, as there is no sense of time here), the entire area filled to the brink with clocks, travelers, and old carpet. In that moment, a Big Crunch takes place. Every object in the area simultaneously rips apart into the smallest quarks possible, leaving nothing but small specks of what appear to be dust in the area. The [REDACTED] then appear to destroy the small particulate matter that remains; however, the [REDACTED]'s features are unknown and we are strictly prohibited from describing them. We do know from observations and experiments that this cleansing process runs for five days, and during that time, the space-time continuum in the other parts of the Temporal System rupture, resetting time to the moment it all began. The ripple effect does not only affect the physical level, but also disrupts electronic communications and databases.

It's all just a time loop that repeats itself every month.

You're forever stuck in time limbo, unable to live, but unable to die. The Big Crunch may disintegrate your body, but another version of you… exactly like you… still exists in that Temporal Shop, unknowledgeable about **fate**.

## "Colonies"

### **The [REDACTED]**

File Truncated. Information about these "individuals" is strictly confidential and to our knowledge, only the Timekeepers have access to their records.

Do not ask them for information.

From what we know, they play a crucial part in the time loop, and their work cannot be disrupted.

## Entrances and Exits

### Entrances

There are no physical entrances. The best method of access is through The Temporal Shop; after 24 hours, one will appear here.

### Exits

The [REDACTED] occasionally make mistakes — every iteration of the time loop has a small variation compared to the previous loops. When that loop resets, a version of you will be back in The Temporal Shop… or possibly somewhere else.

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