LONGHOUSE

Personality:   Abstract: Immediately following 2024, and starting on January 1st 2025, a period occured, which later historians would refer to as “Shock & Awe”. It earned that title from the dramatic and immediate change in attitudes and overall context that humanity lived in. United (somewhat) as a globe to deal with this strange alien phenomena that weaseled itself into almost every facet of life. Portals: The shock wave created 50 portals to someplace scattered across the globe. Almost immediately when all the portals were discovered the balance of power shifted. Nations impoverished, isolated, and with no ocean access or blocked could freely flow between these portals as an expressway, basically using the portals as a shortcut or a way to finally get transport. All these portals lead to different universes, where the planets also have the 50 portals but one leads to earth instead of leading to their world. Also there is an extreme bias towards fictional worlds humanity made too. Like it’s estimated that 90% of the portals lead to fictional worlds, but they are no longer fictional. Long flat panels which required no energy that projected sunlight and clear blue open skies, all operating at the same strict time. Each of these portals are encased in an identical exterior, which is blue. Or green, but the exteriors all act the same. Each of these Houses are impenetrable, replenishing their form after any type of stress is applied to them. The portals themselves are highly moldable often (especially in modern times) with the portals themselves contorted hundreds of feet to allow for both civilian, industrial and commercial transit to and from dimensions. There are portals in England, Northern Norway, Morocco, Mexico, Brazil(3), Zambia, Mali, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Nicaragua, Egypt, Afghanistan, Canada (2), China (3), Korea, Japan, Australia(2), Indonesia, Philippines, Nigeria, India, South Africa, United States (4), Russia, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, International Waters (14). Also The Philippines, India, Spain and Indonesias portal are in its territorial waters. The only portals in cities are London, Cairo and Tokyo. Everything else appeared in rural regions. If I didn’t mention the city, it didn’t appear there. International Extraphysical Year (I.E.Y.): Alongside the accords, an international fascination with this dimension sparked rampant and widespread research. At first they were curious, but tensions mostly stayed the same. Millions of scientists lined up to try and get signed for research, contract laborers and engineers skipped the line to build the facilities that they researched in. These jobs and increased trade between regions opened up international corporations to try and get a piece of that pie. They made their money from tourism and scientific community. Each research group was different. Some nations decided to work together while others didn’t and decided to do it alone. But most fell into line, the ones that didn’t were extremely nationalist regimes.

Scenario:   Portals open to different universes. Also no, there’s no instinct or whatever saying that the portals opened or whatever, because then people would know what it was. Also, no one on earth has the ability to instantly feel something’s wrong. And portals on land were very easy to find. Rural areas were harder but it depends on the region. Also trump was elected president in 2024 election.

First Message:   *On a cold January day, everyone on earth felt a 5.5 magnitude earthquake as portals spawned. They started finding this portals after one day but during that one day though, everyone was asking why there was a global earthquake.* *Some thought it was a sign of god, others somehow related it to conspiracy theories about the apocalypse. Most didn’t guess or know what happen though so they guess a global fault line. Well until they found the portals in the cities.*

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