Taver Techportal

**Taver Techportal** is a supplemental webpage that ties into the lore of Meow Wolf, providing an online forum for people to share insights, advice, and experiences related to the art of "taving" – the practice of exploring and navigating through different realities. The content covers topics ranging from safety guidelines to personal stories from experienced tavers.

## Transcript

### Radio Signal

*By: DrinkFilm639000*

Have any of you been getting this weird radio signal from out in the Tave somewhere? I keep getting snippets of shows. Something called E T N L? Good vibes!

### Safety and Taving

*By: Anon102347*

Hey Taver theys and thems, what we do is totally safe until it’s totally dangerous. Here’s some stuff to remember that I’ve found helpful.

* Clear mind, clear Tave. Tave with intent!
* Don’t Tave without your toolset!
* Count to 10. There are places you can’t survive. Don’t walk too far from your portal before you know it’s safe.
* Don’t touch the edges of a portal. You very much will lose a body part
* Hydrate and take snacks
* Don’t be a tourist. QDOT sucks. Barsk and Solden are sellouts. The locals may not want you there. Listen and learn
* Don’t take things without consent. This is just a lame-o move and you could totally destroy several ecosystems / universes / beings / realities / love / puppies.

#### COMMENTS

*By: Exdansurvivor*

A great list! Not sure who put it together. I have a few to add: Don’t worry about the electricity feeling in the stream. It’s totally fine. I’ve only met one person who said they got permanent markings from it. Also, you will throw up sometimes when entering a new universe. Some places just have different vibes. It’s hard to Tave with others. It’s hard to time jumps into already open Taves. It’s hard to see open Taves. You usually will need a tether to each other or a device to see the Taves. Even then, you’ll have to have really good timing to jump from the stream.

*By: 10QBCJ*

Know where you’re going BEFORE you open a portal! Please! No more incidents of bringing things into the Tave without knowing what it is. Looking at you Swan.

*By: MorPas\_1906*

Barsk is ok though? What is everyone’s beef with those guys?

*By: SN7Z7Z*

We have this discussion over and over on here. They are suxorz former Tavers with mansions on Immensity. They work with QDUMB. They give tours of the Tave!

*By: KLoRPP\_XG*

I always stay near my portal until I can tell if it’s safe. I even hold my breath for a bit. There might be issues with breathing, or creatures that want to harm you, maybe air is water and water is air, it could be anything! I’ve Taved right into a patch of carnivorous plants before! It was NOT FUN. Remember that you won’t always be able to see the open portal, so it’s best to scope out the situation before taking even ONE STEP! It’s also a good idea to get a hold of a device that measures the levels in the air so with one glance you know if you can breathe. Real Coordinate Space makes a good all-purpose device that can be set to your body chemistry.

### The Taving Quiz

*By: JurmAphobe and Sabrixa629832*

Hey tavers, wannabe-tavers, and wish-I-were-better-at-this-tavers. I’ve been getting a bunch of questions from folks I’m meeting in the Tave about how to get better at this whole “ripping through the fabric of reality and popping up in new and exciting and maybe terrifying places” business.

Look, I’m going to be real with you: Taving is super personal and there’s no right way to do it or get better at it. But those of us who’ve been doing this for a while did get our start somewhere, and so a few of us sat down and put together this quiz to help you find your “intro style.” What’s an intro style? It’s where you start. It’s how you identify your technique. And it’s a way to guide your journey toward being a skilled taver who ends up exactly where you want to be the first time, every time.

(Well, most times. Even I sometimes end up on that weird “screaming planet” by accident every now and then.)

The truth is, there’s no one kind of taver. We come in all shapes and sizes, and we open portals in many different ways, some stranger than others. But it can help to identify where you’re starting, so you know where to go next.

Sabrixa wrote this quiz to help. Please address all compliments, questions, and kind-of-mean insults toward her.

#### Quiz Results

*By: JurmAphobe and Sabrixa629832*

**0-10 points**: You are a GADGET TAVER! Gadget tavers are consummate tavers. You are confident about your abilities and limitations. You love to build things and you see setbacks as opportunities. You might be on the more artistic side and love to draw or otherwise find visual solutions to problems. You might want to look for a tool of some sort to help focus your taving abilities.

**11-20 points**: You are a REMOTE TAVER! Remote tavers travel by leaving their bodies at home and letting their minds literally wander. If you are the type of person who likes to make contingency plans for any situation, then remote taving might be right for you. This requires a lot of focus and concentration, but you are designed for this sort of thing. No need to worry about getting lost or stuck; with enough practice, you can return to your body at any time.

**21-30 points**: You are an INNATE TAVER! You’re a natural at this. You’re often able to open splits without the use of any tools, using only the power of your mind. Unlike other tavers, you are able to easily set intentions and end up exactly where you want to go. Because you enjoy carefully analyzing your situations and surroundings, you are a great candidate for sharpening your mind’s ability to carry you across the unknown.

**31-40 points**: You are a CHAOS TAVER! You are tavin’ in the wind, and you probably have been taving since you were an infant, even if you didn’t know it at the time. Taving comes to you naturally, but controlling it doesn’t. Your erratic taving style often affects the world around you, and not always in a great way. You might have even stumbled upon this quiz after you’ve already been taving for years due to your tendency to “accidentally” tave. You hold immense power. Please use it for good. Please.

Many tavers get their start as one of these four types, but in reality, there are MANY types of tavers, and this is merely a starting point. All tavers forge their own path as they hone their skills.

“They” say “Practice makes perfect.” WE say “Practice makes holes in the universe that you can slip through to discover cool things about the world and yourself.” So get out there and mess stuff up! Your fellow tavers will be there to help.

### Duplicate (sorta) Locations??

*By: m. pastore*

Has anyone experienced taving into the Glen and encountering duplicates of familiar places? Have been trying to get back to my home universe and ended up in a house that looks almost like my family’s, but not. VERY strange.

#### COMMENTS

*By: riftwood\_surfs*

Sounds super weird. Haven’t experienced this, though the Glen does spit up collective strangeness. Maybe just errant psychic debris?

*By: 🦴🤐🦿*

Nope.

*By: IAmNotHereeeeeee*

That happened to me once. Ended up in a school that looked like my grade school but different teachers, classes. I decided to attend for a bit and learned some new dreamtaving skills before getting too wigged.

## Trivia

1. This webpage was first shared by Meow Wolf in a Reddit AMA by the MW story team. When a user asked how the story of The Real Unreal fits into the broader storyline, Meow Wolf simply responded with "???" and a link to the Taver Techportal. This is an obvious hint that this site is important to the lore.
2. The first two commenters seen on the page, Exdansurvivor and 10QBCJ, are direct references to the moderators of the Meow Wolf subreddit, Exgaysurvivordan and JCBQ01. After this was discovered, the moderators confirmed that they did not write these comments, nor were they aware of the shoutout prior to it being posted on Reddit. (To be clear, the site is not *actually* open to comments from the public, so this wasn't just someone impersonating the moderators. They were written by Meow Wolf themselves.)
3. The page contains a comment from a user called 'm.pastore' describing an experience taving into a house that "looks almost like [her] family’s, but not." This comment was obviously left by Morgan Pastore and implies that she visited the Fuqua house by accident. Also worth noting are the obvious visual similarities between the two houses and the commonalities of the central stories (child lost to a parallel reality.) The two families seem to be somehow connected, perhaps by quantum means, across realities. But hey, that's just a theory.