Brief Overview of NUM Lore

The goal of this page is to briefly explain the lore and events of Num to assist new members.

## Setting

NUM takes place in an interesting land, filled with all types of number and numberless, such as nomads, raiders, ordinary citizens, and mad scientists. You can find a map of the land here. The southwest of the continent houses most of the numbered people, whereas the east is inhabited mostly by nomadic Numberless, with The Lucky Club being the only domain settling there. As far as the writer can tell, the Seven Seas is not one giant subcontinent, but rather an archipelago.

## Timeline of Events

Let's start just before the negative invasion. The whole of NUM was under relative peace, with merely meme wars taking place, mostly between the Lucky Club and Seven Seas. Suddenly, a user by the name of u/negativewizard joined the sub, and commented on the number assignment thread, "It appears I already have a number." To which the Number God replied, "It appears you do." Cue insanity breaking out. How did this man already have a number? And why was it NEGATIVE? They claimed to be from another dimension, where negative numbers resided. They couldn't multiply together, for it would be positive. And they had just been united under one banner, by this wizard. Looking for more territory to conquer, they came here. You can read it in more detail in the wiki page, can't write it here or the page would be too long. The wizard soon began changing his number, and recruiting positive numbers as followers. As he got closer to zero, his power grew, until he formed a massive portal roughly near the center of the continent. Did I mention the wizard stole a prototype anti-B E A N from the Scientists, making him even more powerful? The Scientists frantically organized a team to develop a weapon to fend off the invaders, making the *i*-bomb. The bomb was designed to destabilize the portal using the power of a square rooted negative number, and it worked. It knocked the forming portal off course, so much so it lead to another universe. Flairwars. A collaboration event began between the two, until a week later, when the portal destabilized fully and closed. NUM celebrated, capturing the wizard and throwing him in a special jail cell that negated his power. It was peaceful for a long time, and 801 even built a system called the R-chive, composed of Z-Logs that everyone contributed. However, that peace would soon collapse, as off in another plane, a relativity barrier preventing those in that plane from visiting other planes of reality was cracked by the *i*-bomb, and would soon be shattered as the Scientists produced crazier and crazier experiments, advancing faster than anyone else. They built a massive B E A N Collider, which spanned miles and miles, and could perform mathematical operations on the properties of the B E A Ns. One of the Elite Scientists (who are 72, 994, 693, 747, and 558) had the bright idea of performing a square root operation on a more stable (but still very unstable) anti-B E A N. Running on an endless desire for knowledge and technology, the rest of the Elites loved this idea, but didn't know how horrible of a mistake it would turn out to be. The collider had several critical failures in the process of making the *i*-bean, destroying it. The first failure was successfully patched up by 693 and 558, but not before another failure popped up. The two ran over to fix the issue, but the destroyed segment was leaking copious amounts of a strange cyan tar, which acted like grey goo in a sense: It consumed absolutely everything, converting it into corrupted versions of the original object, including living things. 558 and 693 frantically tried to get out of there to put the facility on lockdown, but 693 accidentally locked 558 in with the tar whilst trying to get the door sealed. 558 was consumed by the tar. 693, presuming them dead, ran off to lock down the lab. Meanwhile, another failure sprung up, this time successfully dealt with by 72, or so he thought. He had discovered that fire was very effective against the tar, but not before getting hit by a single drop of the tar. He burned off what he could see, and thought nothing of it. He told 693 about that, and despite his concerns, 693 decided to start using fire on the leaking tar. While he was dealing with it, he too got hit by a single drop, that he didn't even notice. Everyone (minus 558, as he was presumed dead) was evacuated to the site's emergency shelter. They were all in one spot. It couldn't have been more perfect. 558 came in through the door, though he seemed... Different. He wasn't 558, rather he was 558i, corrupted by the tar. Classical "I'm gonna kill you all" evil villain talk, and the remaining elites put on a previously secret armor, made out of Plotium. The armor was supposed to be immune to all attacks besides those predicted by Fate, but it failed. 72 doubled over in pain, and 693, recognizing the effects, frantically built a containment chamber around 72. But as soon as he finished it, he soon doubled over too. He stumbled out of the shelter trying to put himself in containment, but inevitably failed. He came back into the shelter as 693i, and the three corrupted numbers began lobbing the cyan tar at the remaining elites. They were contained for a few weeks by a special field made of Plotium that allowed real numbers to pass, but would lock Imaginary numbers inside. However, that field eventually failed, when 558 completed the Trials of Zero, and was revealed to have been possessed by 558i this whole time. 558i became 0 + 558 + 558i, legendarily powerful, sparking the beginning of the Imaginary Invasion. After about a week of chaos, 994i and 558i went insane with power, going on a rampage. 558i used the power of zero to summon tons of rifts that would allow imaginary numbers to flow in and take over the realm, and recreate it. The Number God realized that the positive realm was falling apart, and stepped in. He took on the form of C, instead of Z, and banished the imaginaries from the positive world, marking the end of the invasion around April 1st.

And now, we have reached the present day. If there was something I missed or got wrong, please update this article accordingly.