Welcome to Limbo

Kirby Shaw. Rock Star. Time Traveller. Action Hero.

But even a lone warrior from the post-apocolyptic future needs a place to hide out and lick his wounds. For Kirby, that place is Limbo, a small island in the vast sea of space and time, to which he himself is both the door and the only key.

But what, exactly is Limbo? Some have speculated that it's a single distended point in the Shadow Realm: a plane that lay a dimensional hair's breadth from our own. Others have postulated that it's a world that exists only inside Kirby's mind, a place constructed only from the substance of his thoughts. Still others believe it is a realm in our own universe, but parsecs from our own. But whatever it's true nature, Limbo remains Kirby's one last refuge from a hostile world gone mad.

While the essence of Limbo is not known, it's properties can be quantified. When Kirby first found Limbo, it contained nothing. A bubble of pure force some 46 meters across, surrounded by nothing but inky black void, and holding nothing but hard vacuum. The entry to this realm appears to be a point about 11.5 meters from the center of this sphere. Gravity in this bizarre world is a repulsive force, radiating outward from this point of entry, and making downward the same as outward.

In this strange, hostile realm, Kirby has managed to forge a small, self contained world for himself. Above is a sketch of an overhead view of the developed portion of Limbo, as seen from the Crow's Nest, a small structure (as shown in lower right) suspended around the point of entry, 28.5 meters from the ground below. The ground is formed by a large concrete bowl, filled with soil and curved to assure down is in fact directly down for any point on the surface. Construction is light, in general... The weather in Limbo is not a problem, especially since the very air was imported from the otherworld.

Directly below the Nest is a central Hub of conrete. Radiating outward from the Hub are three evenly spaced walkways, leading to the three different zones of Limbo. The first leads to the Workshop and Generator Shed, where the actual work in Limbo gets done. The second path leads to the Entertainment Center, because all work and no play makes Kirby a dull Action Hero. The third leads to the Kitchen, where food is stored, plumbing is plumbed, air is processed, and beer is enshrined. What more do you need?

The Crows Nest The Entertainment Center The Hub The Kitchen The Workshop and the Generator Shed

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