The Curated Guide to Hellsborough and The Dark Peak
Your Guide to navigating Hellsborough and The Dark Peak by Pip Rippon.
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They’re made of stone. Pumice. When you look at them, the first thing I thought of was a QR code. They are, I guess, of sorts. But they’re more than that, they’re like poetry. Think of a road sign in the off-world, they’re like that – lexical symbols with no spoken referent. They’re hieroglyphics, with meaning.
What are they about? The junction, mostly.
66 million year ago, no roads existed, so what was there to do? It was just the gushing Loxley cutting its way through the limestone scarp.
But as the two worlds developed – independently – yet forever and inherently linked, and as bridges and roads were built over the river, and then those roads became a crossroads, Milting realised that a centre of liminality was forming. Had formed.
It was called the junction. The most powerful source of liminality in existence.
Even though the two worlds could be transgressed easily and had been for eons, the dark of the murk, the antimatter of Hellsborough was seeping into the off-world – your world – and Milting stepped up foreseeing the dangers of massive leakage from one side to the other – dark matter from Hellsborough leaking back into the off-world and visa-versa. The light and the dark cannot ever mix, to do so is certain destruction, this much Milting knew well.
Milting used the semagrams of the junction to conceive The Hinge.
The Hinge. First time I’ve mentioned it. The Hinge is that place, that plank length gap between Hellsborough and the off-world.
Milting were the creators, and the observers and the curators of the after, after the aftermath.
Milting locked the portal – The Hinge – so that it should never be breached. That lock was never meant to be opened. Milting knew what would happen if it did.
Dark matter is also known as antimatter. Subatomic particle that have the opposite electrical charge to the matter in the off-world. Its electrons carry a positive charge, the off-world a negative. And conversely, its protons are negative and the off-world’s are positive. The dark matter of Hellsborough is a mirror image of the off-world’s matter.
When matter and antimatter come into contact, it results in a catastrophic release of energy. Total and abject annihilation.
Cross-over from the off-world to Hellsborough has long been expected, but not witnessed. In fact, it is commonplace and the off-world is “infected” by many things from Hellsborough and The Dark Peak, and of course, over the eons, the portal has been breached.
The portal is leaky, I’m sure I haven’t helped with that, sorry about that. I’m not sure it’s doing my general health any good at all either.
I have documented everything I understand – a number of possible ways that The Hinge can be accessed, there may be more. In summary, they are:
- semagrams
- quantum manipulation
- rockcrust
- download
- simulation
Some of these methods are tried and tested, some just supposition, but when you do make it through The Hinge, going from the off-world in, what do you see?