Interdimensional Go-Club

The Interdimensional Go-Club is devoted to keeping things moving—literally. Our mission is to promote the spread of energy and awareness throughout all the points and nodes of existence itself.   Ambient consciousness must not stagnate at any point or series of points. If existence itself is just someone’s dream (is it yours?), the minds within the dream need to keep moving from one event point to another, expanding their perspectives and potentials. Stalling out in a conceptual echo chamber is asking for a philosophical infection. Get up and get going before it festers and infects everything around you, up to and including the Purideas themselves!  

If everyone’s on the same page, what happens to the rest of the books?

    Members of the Interdimensional Go Club may request assistance of any kind, so long as it applies to travel. This includes hotel recommendations and reservations; vehicle acquisition, towing or repair; maps and route planning; portal key acquisition, and much more. Trained diviners are on-hand to give you a heads-up about where you’re going and whether you might be better off taking the scenic route.   Members and non-members alike are invited to take advantage of the IGC’s handy service kiosks located throughout the Gri'x and other dimensions. An IGC representative is always present at these stations, and will cheerfully provide basic information and standard maps to anyone who requests them. Here one may also check or update one’s membership status, sign up for a new membership, and place requests for assistance. If help is required, the representative will contact another member in the vicinity with the appropriate skills.   The IGC does not accept Coin or other symbolic value. The operation of the Club is based strictly on trade of real, immediate goods and services. In return for all the many benefits the IGC offers, members agree to provide assistance to other members when a situation arises within one’s specified local radius and area(s) of expertise: for every instance in which one’s request for help is fulfilled, one is obliged to answer the call of another.   Members may, of course, choose to provide more services than they request. The greater your willingness to serve the Club, the more you get in return. In certain circumstances, the Club may grant a “grace” service call to those who have yet to balance their account, though this is discouraged.   Active members are obliged to act only within the parameters of their assignments. Further, personal arrangements beyond the scope of the official agreement are up to those involved, and the Club would prefer not to know about any of that.  

HISTORY:

  The Interdimensional Go-Club is a philosophical anomaly of the highest order: it is the only known instance of actual cooperation between the Fragmentists and the Synthates.   Quite some time ago, the story goes, two large contingents of these diametrically opposed groups got into an awful row when they all showed up at a GargleGrounds Coffee Shop in Crating on the same afternoon.   At first, the two groups huddled together in separate knots on either side of the café and did nothing more than give one another a lot of dark looks. But as the coffee flowed and caffeine levels rose, their respective conversations grew louder, and soon the debates began. Fingers were pointed. Strong words were shouted. Well thought-out diatribes and thoughtful criticisms were interrupted. Other customers were annoyed. Baristas were frightened. At one point, one of the Synthates was given one hell of a wedgie by a pair of Fragmentists determined to illustrate their point with a physical metaphor.   The heated debates lasted well into the night, long after the baristas should have been allowed to close up and go home to finish their schoolwork.   Finally, early the next morning, officers from the Bimp County Police Department arrived for their morning coffee and pastries. Sergeant Welpheena Deenie, who knew something about both philosophy and science and was in no mood for any of this nonsense before she’d even had her first cup of house blend, told the Fragmentists and the Synthates in no uncertain terms that if they wanted to see who was right, they were each going to have to find a way to prove it. And they’d damned well better find a place to do so that wasn't between her and her coffee.   The Fragmentists and the Synthates slunk out to the street, blinking the bright Gri’xian morning haze. Within ten minutes, they had agreed on an experiment that would, hopefully, settle the matter: what if all the conscious points in the Multiverse were moving away from each other until each point was alone in its own vast nothingness, but also headed toward a point at which each being’s collected experiences had broadened its perspectives so far that an individual mind could encompass the existential perspectives of other points, essentially merging them into one Being?   Thus was the Interdimensional Go-Club founded.   These days, the philosophical debate seems to have taken a back-seat in the Club’s day-to-day operations, what with all the paperwork and marketing campaigns, but legend has it that the original founders are still out there pouring over the data sets together (probably in another coffee shop—not GargleGrounds, though, as both groups have been summarily banned from all franchise locations), waiting to see which one is right.