User blog comment:Exotoro/Planning for "Binary Time"/@comment-1598577-20140928163930

BINARY PSA 2014 i just wanted to explain what the binary and coins are for everyone else. stories gotta line up and all.

the coins are other-worldly artifacts, coming from Anti-Space portals. the coins are massive - not continent massive, but about the size of a football stadium. each coin has a unique maze carved into it, with a mysterious lab maintained in the center, containing experiments involving the coins and ways to stop their corruption of the universe.

binary is formed as a result of the coins - think of it as the raw skeleton of the universe. if you took away all laws of reality, all matter, all that was, you'd get a hole in the Mysteriousverse composed of binary. binary is quick to spread, and acts not only as a hole, but as a powerful mutagen. any being exposed to binary will devolve into a pixel-esque form, allowing them to see another property of binary more clearly - the slips.

slips are binary hallways between universes, formed when any two universes corrupted by binary connect. while this allows binary to spread faster, it also acts as a safe and easy passageway between universes. any being passing through a slip is automatically devolved due to the massive amount of binary, explaining things like Pac-Man and the 8-bit Ronan - both alternate versions of Ronan and Pac-Man, perhaps with different fates in Ronan's case, who came from universes with binary corruption.

hope this helps anyone who wants to work on future updates!