Line Camp

A temporary worker settlement along one of the Fold's energy lines — the glowing geometric traces that run through the terrain. Line Camp exists to study and maintain the lines, though no one is certain who built them or what they maintain. Workers report that dreams here are vivid, sequential, and disturbingly orderly. Within the Luminous Fold, this site is part of the gridded, measured landscape that radiates out from Lumina and the Central Fold. The Fold's clocks, roads, and institutions assume reality may be wholly described, and on this plateau they almost can — the Loosening and Time Instability are weakest here. The site answers, directly or indirectly, to one of the Seven Circles, and the Cartographic Society of Iterants keeps notes on every measurable thing that happens within sight of it.