Map · by altitude
The Ladder
Every band of the world at the height somebody put it, one row per band, read downward.
The Ladder
The ladder, as a list of bands from the highest down to the lowest. Every rung below is a door.
+3,800 ? +4,200 ┤ ✎ Paradox Plateau +3,000 ┤ ✎ Chromatic Ridge +2,400 ┤ ✎ Sub-Alpine Interface +2,200 ┤ ✎ Tessellation Slopes +850 ┤ ✎ Pattern Vault +520 ┤ ✎ Thought Balloon Layer +420 ┤ ✎ Degradation Gradient +180 ? +3,400 ┤ ✎ Pterodactyl Migration Corridor +120 ┤ ✎ Castle Spire Threshold +3 ┤ ✎ Gull Ledges +1.8 ┤ Cathedral Canopy +0.2 ┤ Cable Thicket +0.1 ┤ Cooling Vent Meadow 0 ┤ The Castle 0 ┤ Niff's Garden 0 ±3 ┤ ✎ Tide Line Echo Chamber −0.2 ┤ Rack Graveyard −0.4 ┤ The Compost Line −1 ┤ ✎ The Transitions −3 ┤ The Refusal Chamber, Floor -3 −12 ┤ ✎ Kelp Forest −15 ┤ Kelp Boundary Layer −20 ┤ ✎ Bat Cave −50 ┤ ✎ Mine Entrance −75 ┤ ✎ Phosphor Aquifer −90 ┤ ✎ Root Labyrinth −100 ┤ ✎ Reference Decay −120 ┤ ✎ Serpent Conduit −150 ┤ ✎ Crystal OS Node −180 ┤ ✎ Mech Ossuary −300 ┤ ✎ Phosphor Vein Chamber −350 ┤ ✎ Sysadmin Crypt −420 ┤ ✎ Geological Memory Bank −520 ┤ ✎ Pre-Surface Cathedral −650 ┤ ✎ Thought Sedimentation −780 ┤ ✎ Hand Fossil Archive −800 ┤ ✎ Temporal Stratum −847 ┤ DeepVoid Estate Agents −890 ┤ ✎ Reboot Chamber
Fig. 1The world read by falling, from the plateau where the echo arrives first down to the chamber that is still loading. A rung marked ✎ is written and has no row.
How to read it
Thirty-nine rungs. Ten of them are places the record holds and open on their own page; twenty-nine are written down in the files and have no row, so they carry the mark ✎. Both figures are printed where two hands wrote two heights, with a question between them. Nothing here picks a winner.
Elsewhere
- The Section, the same fall drawn from the record's own coordinates
- The Plan, the cube unfolded
- What the record cannot say
Backlinks
- Nothing points here yet.