Mess of Warps
The Mess was once an infamous set of interconnected Puzzlebox habitats, which stood out from the rest of the 'Box by being a tightly-packed chaotic tangle of opposing ideologies and aesthetics who nonetheless seemed to value their tense, chaotic connections... until they broke apart. And yet, even fractured, scattered, and mostly-lost, the Warps still seem to exert an outsized influence on the other realms of the Puzzlebox, largely because their weirdness brought about its rebirth, and is now embedded far and wide within it.
Even scattered, the Warps are still known by their old names and polarities, and Puzzleboxer exist that you absolutely will know a piece of a Warp when you see it. There are countless ways to divide and characterize the six warps, the following list simply uses the masses of their namesake quarks to provide an ordering.
- Downwarp - Castoff ruins from a cyberpunk metropolis, beset by entropy but held together by tribes of artists and mystics
- Upwarp - A perfectly-symmetrical technocratic metropolis devoted to the best impulses of science and rationalism
- Charmwarp - A high-saturation fantasyland of whimsical creatures buoyed aloft by exuberant ambition
- Strangewarp - A twisted reflection of an elegant city, filled with all those things that most folks would rather not think about.
- Bottomwarp - An endless autonomous street festival full of partiers whose only taboo is shame itself
- Topwarp - A patchwork landscape of arcane order, inhabited by beings dedicated to personal excellence and utmost discretion
