Crack Between Worlds

Interesting Fact: ‘Inescapable’ is a cursed word. No one knows who created the jinx, but the facts are undeniable to even the most skeptical scholars. Inescapable prisons see far more breakouts than the low-security penitentiaries designed to hold tax-evaders and jay-walkers. Inescapable death is an oxymoron, as death itself is often considered an escape. Inescapable magical-dampening shackles are...

Interesting Fact: Like cars and restaurants, the Michelle Tire Company is charged with rating prisons. Many people think the Super Super Super Max prisons were awarded their supers based on the security measures in place. While it is true that triple super prisons have extensive security measures, these penetentaries are actually rated on the quality of their food. Mito and Rob chase Dolly’s track...

Interesting Fact: Percival is the second most evil name throughout the history of Universe-7. The first is a tie between Agffjfkip and Mary-Jane. Onomatologists don't know why some names tend to be more common among villains, but the phenomenon is hard to refute. One popular theory suggests that the names themselves attract evil like some sort of moral magnet. Another theory claims that anyon...

Interesting Fact: Villainette de Eville singlehandedly reduced the carbon footprint of an entire planet. She accomplished this by turning every life-form into carbon munching slugs.  Villainette de Eville’s passion for the environment didn’t stop there. Over the course of her reign of terror, she’s turned factories into dragon-guarded castles, private planes into irritable swans, and locked 33 uns...

Interesting Fact: Marriage counseling is illegal in 37 universes. After the Czar of the Interdimensional Travel Bureau caught her son-in-law in bed with a Neo-Noctorian, she began Mothers Against Awful Marriages. MAAM became one of the most successful legislative campaigns in multiversal history.  MAAM pushed through several important laws, but are most known for their stance on marriage counselin...

Interesting Fact: Every business has  attempted to sell the necessities of life, but the Pendulum Corporation is the only one in humanoid history to bottle an emotion.  Doctors prescribed Pendulum Brand Hope to millions of humanoids over the course of the corporation’s existence. Rumors of tax fraud brought imperial attention to the multi-trillion dollar company. After a lucrative twenty-year care...

Interesting Fact: Mobsters are an invasive species. Like pigeons, the mafia can be found across the multiverse. Unlike pigeons, these mobsters tend to be vaguely Italian, even on planets where there is no Italy.  A close relative of this species is known as the Bratva. These mobsters are Russian adjacent and have an instinctual fondness for vodka, despite the scarcity of potatoes after 4500 Univer...

Interesting fact: Love is Timeless is the longest running show on the CBW Channel. This gameshow features a bachelor and three time-displaced singles. If chosen, they will be allowed to live in the decade of their date.  This gameshow was ultimately halted by the Galactic Police Force, when allegations of kidnapping arose. Allegedly, many of the contestants did not wish to leave their time, as the...

Interesting Fact: The second Gnomish civil war on Earth-3 raged for 1241 standard days. Given the average gnome life span of ninety days, this equates to over 13 life spans and is proportionately the longest war of any species weighing less than eight ounces.  From the chaos, Ganock Ganock cut through the pretenders and claimed the throne of the Gnomish Gnom. He ushered in the Gnomish Golden Age,...

Interesting fact: Disaster tourism is a pressing issue in Universe 256. According to the Inter-Dimensional Travel Bureau, Harriet Pottery’s battle with The Sorceress Who Shall Not Be Named has drawn over 10,000 curious time-hoppers. This makes it one of the most watched re-watched epic battles in history.  The ecological side effects were/will be devastating. Tourists camped out in the Enchanted N...

Interesting fact: Chickens are strongly attracted to the color red. While chicken intelligence can vary across the multiverse, most species see red more vividly than other colors. This became a major problem when the Inter-Planetary Avian Beakball League began accepting chickens.  After the Great Scarlet Riot, all red uniforms were banned. This did not stop the chickens from swarming their goalie...

Interesting fact: The Yuletide Massacre had long-lasting consequences in Neo-Noctoria and the second Glundark Empire. Over 6000 avid literature enthusiasts disappeared one Christmas morning. This devastating tragedy led to a backlash against literacy, librarians, and the written word.  In the century after the Yuletide Massacre, storytelling was seen as immensely unlucky. All fairytales, fables, a...

Interesting Fact: Tayla Quick, the beloved singer, song-writer and musician from Universe 56, holds the record for most consecutive chart-topping albums. During her twenty year career, she released thirty-seven albums, which encompassed 592 songs.  Tayla Quick has won awards in a multitude of categories, including country, cyber-rock, and synth folk. This has garnered passionate fans from all corn...

Interesting fact: Geese are psychopaths. Breed, home planet, and reality make no difference. Geese lack the capacity for empathy and altruism. While they are capable of functioning within flocks, this pro-social behavior can only be maintained if there is a foreign enemy to plot against.  Some biologists argue that all bird brains are too underdeveloped for the human concept of empathy, however th...

Interesting fact: The descent of Orpheus into the underworld has been widely dispersed amongst the multiverse, but it has only happened in one reality. Anthropologists are uncertain as to is how this story has spread, but its proliferation is undeniable.  The tale of Orpheus and his legendary love for Eurydice has transcended myth and vocal tradition. It has been retold through opera, stage plays,...

Interesting Fact: Pumpkins are psychic. Dr. Jackol Antern first discovered this in 4482, Universe 6, but it has since been corroborated among scientists across the multiverse. All pumpkins larger than a humanoid thumb are psychic. Botanists have yet to discover why pumpkins develop psychic abilities, especially given the utter normality of the vines themselves. The most popular theory suggests the...

Interesting Fact:  Only 33 truly apocalyptic events have occurred in the known multiverse. Commonly imagined causes like nuclear fallout, flesh-eating bacteria, and atmospheric removal are not as efficient at destroying worlds as most beings believe. Aside from obliterating a planet into chunks the size of ping-pong balls, it's nearly impossible to wipe out all life on a given world. Scientis...

Interesting Fact: 40% of dragons are vegetarians, and a further 8% claim to be pescatarians. The Inter-dimensional Society for Dragon Welfare conducted this survey, and no other studies have been concluded. Biologists, archaeologists, and other naysaying elitists refuse to continue research in this area, despite 'strong doubts' about the honesty of this study. Allegedly, there were conce...

Interesting Fact: The inter-dimensional travel bureau has no origin. They have always existed, or possibly never existed at all. Anthropologists theorize the ITDB may have begun as the Mothers Against Time Travel Movement, but historians call that laughable. Anthropologists then called the historians 'cute.' Hostilities escalated when the historians levied accusations of grave-robbing. T...

Interesting Fact: Of all the locations in the multiverse, Ireland varies most from reality to reality. While countries like England and China tend to have commonalities with their counterparts, the Emerald Isle tends to be drastically different. Mainstays like accent, technological advancement, and culture rarely have any similarities to other Irelands. This phenomenon is also seen in Wales, Basqu...

Interesting Fact: Necromancers hate reanimation. It is written in the bylaws of the Necromancy Guild and in the oath all junior necromancers must swear. The exact reason has been lost to time, but it might have something to do with the reanimators undercutting prices. When handling the dead, you get what you pay for. Any fool with sufficient lightning and formaldehyde can reanimate a corpse. It ta...

Interesting Fact: Windermere War College was originally founded by the Villain Association, a secretive guild dedicated to the elevation of evil and the scheming of plots both impressive and classy.  As the VA rose to prominence in the multiverse, the quality of heroes, protagonists, and chosen ones consistently fell. To rectify this imbalance, the VA created a training school for any 16-22 year o...

Interesting fact: pom-pons were invented in either 803 AD or 1932 depending on the universe in question. Originally used to intimidate opposing sports teams, cheerleaders would often use the fluttery texture to conceal weapons such as knives, maces, and small battle axes. During the game, cheerleaders would rustle their pom-poms, warning the opposition of what was to come. At the start of halftime...

Interesting Fact: Stick bugs are carnivorous. This fact is less interesting on planets where stick bugs remain smaller than the average hand. In the towering purple forests of an uninhabited planet in Universe 11, this fact is positively fascinating. As reporters Mito and Dolly grieve the death of their co-worker, they are forced to welcome the newest edition to the CBW Channel, Rob Skythrust. Joi...