This site has a Tangent Universe

What happens inside

A clock appears under the site’s header and counts down in Frank’s format. For the first week nothing else changes, except that the site is no longer quite stable: images move like water. Then, following the book, water and metal arrive - the Artifact turns up on pages it has no business being on, and the odd paragraph has turned to water until you look at it directly. In the third week come the visions: Frank in the header in the small hours, doors that open through a wormhole, words that briefly read backwards. In the last week the copy is collapsing, and looks it.

Nothing is removed and nothing is broken. Every page stays readable, every link goes where it says, and a paragraph that has turned to water clears the moment you hover or focus it. The Tangent Universe is a mood, not a malfunction.

How it ends

When the clock reaches 00:00:00:00 the copy collapses. The page goes to water, then to white, and you are back on the primary site with nothing left of it - except one line, once, under the header: you dreamed something; you can’t remember what. The Manipulated Living wake the same way.

You can also leave at any time. Wake up is in the bar on every page. Waking by choice leaves no dream.

What is stored, and where

One entry in your browser’s local storage: when you entered, how many times you have visited the home page since the engine last fell, and whether you have a dream to be told. Nothing leaves your browser, nothing is sent to this site’s servers or anyone else’s, and search engines never enter. If your browser refuses storage, you simply stay in the Primary Universe.