Multiversal Office - Revision history

Ununnilium at 23:33, 24 May 2025

2025-05-24T23:33:29Z

Ununnilium at 02:05, 1 May 2023

2023-05-01T02:05:08Z

Ununnilium at 19:15, 30 April 2023

2023-04-30T19:15:40Z

Jeanne Morningstar v3 at 02:49, 28 March 2022

2022-03-28T02:49:33Z

Nilly2 at 22:42, 14 November 2021

2021-11-14T22:42:32Z

71.182.134.52 at 18:10, 29 August 2019

2019-08-29T18:10:44Z

Ununnilium at 05:33, 26 January 2019

2019-01-26T05:33:11Z

Ununnilium: Created page with "The '''Multiversal Office''' is a plane of pure bureaucracy, an inter-world structure that has a '''Universal Office''' in each of many different universes. == History == Tw..."

2019-01-26T05:32:46Z

Created page with "The '''Multiversal Office''' is a plane of pure bureaucracy, an inter-world structure that has a '''Universal Office''' in each of many different universes. == History == Tw..."

New page

The '''Multiversal Office''' is a plane of pure bureaucracy, an inter-world structure that has a '''Universal Office''' in each of many different universes.

== History ==

Twenty years before ''[[Wrath of the Administrator]]'', a man who would become [[The Netromancer]] found a door into the Universal Office of the [[Looniverse]] and plotted to use it to control the world. The [[Net.Trenchcoat Brigade]] formed in response to this, and one of them found [[Xeroxes]], an old god who, it was claimed, created the Office, and had him shut it down.

While exploring the [[Astral Plane]], [[Constellation]], [[Particle Man]] and [[Sig.Lad]] accidentally shifted into the Multiversal Office. They found that the [[Looniverse]]'s Universal Office had been destroyed, and left – right before workers came to put a new Universal Office in its place.

Not long after, [[Acton Lord]] discovered the Office, and schemed to take its power for his own. Controlling it through proxies, he extended his corrupting tendrils across realities, and trapped the [[Secret Dvanders]] in a Pocket Bureaucracy. But when he went to finally face them, Sig.Lad slew him with the [[Sword of Sig]] and the power of Arthurian literature. The Sword was thrust into a monitor, its stabilizing powers keeping the Looniverse's office intact but dormant.

The [[ASH]] universe had had contact with the Multiversal Office before, but in 1998, a Barrier went up cutting that world off from outside influences. Decades later, the Barrier weakened, and in 2026, the links reopened. Members of the Academy of Super-Heroes investigated the situation; with no one actively trying to control the Office, it was a subtly dangerous environment, but seemed to have only a small effect outside of its own confines.

== Attributes ==

The existence of a Universal Office seems to be mostly benign, though it can passively increase bureaucracy levels anywhere a link to it exists. However, the power of the Office may be used to plunge a world into a completely bureaucratized state, where massive stacks of paperwork are required for even the simplest tasks. As well, the Office itself can be a trap for the unwary; it creates a hunger for doing paperwork, and can drain the life force of those who seek to use its power, for good or for ill.

One of the ways the Office defends itself is with '''Pocket Bureaucracies''', self-contained mini-universes where those who are sucked in are slotted into predetermined roles in an endless, self-sustaining office.

The Office seems to contain intelligent beings who are native to that world. Intelligent mannequins populated at least one Pocket Bureaucracy, and [[Deathstocker]] styled himself as "Defender of the Pocket Bureaucracy". [[ASH]]'s Universal Office had a seemingly-autonomous "Human Resource", who was tasked with interacting with humans when proper procedure was insufficient.

== Awards ==

In 2010, the Multiversal Office won [[RACCies Favorite Villain/Antagonist]].

== Appearances ==

* [[Wrath of the Administrator]]
* [[Bad Forms]]
* [[ASH]] #107-109
* [[RACCies]] Ceremony 2010
* [[Ultimate Mercenary (series)|Ultimate Mercenary]] #7

[[Category:Bureaucracy]]
[[Category:Plot Devices]]
[[Category:Cosmology]]
[[Category:Universes]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 23:33, 24 May 2025
Line 22:		Line 22:

	The Office seems to contain intelligent beings who are native to that world. Intelligent mannequins populated at least one Pocket Bureaucracy, and [[Deathstocker]] styled himself as "Defender of the Pocket Bureaucracy". [[ASH]]'s Universal Office had a seemingly-autonomous "Human Resource", who was tasked with interacting with humans when proper procedure was insufficient.		The Office seems to contain intelligent beings who are native to that world. Intelligent mannequins populated at least one Pocket Bureaucracy, and [[Deathstocker]] styled himself as "Defender of the Pocket Bureaucracy". [[ASH]]'s Universal Office had a seemingly-autonomous "Human Resource", who was tasked with interacting with humans when proper procedure was insufficient.
		+
		+	<[[Burak Racey]]>

	== Awards ==		== Awards ==

@@ Line 35: / Line 35: @@
 * [[Ultimate Mercenary (series)|Ultimate Mercenary]] #7
 * [[Another LNH Title? Really?]] #4
-* [[Leadership Cry.sig: Net.ropolis 2023]] #1, 9
+* [[Leadership Cry.sig: Net.ropolis 2023]]
 [[Category:Bureaucracy]]

@@ Line 12: / Line 12: @@
 Meanwhile in the [[Looniverse]], [[Library Lad]] took over its Universal Office, hoping to turn it into a beneficial stabilizing influence. Drawing on the mythical narrative power surrounding the Sword of Sig, he declared that the one worthy to draw the sword from the terminal would be worthy to command it...
 == Attributes ==
@@ Line 33: / Line 35: @@
 * [[Ultimate Mercenary (series)|Ultimate Mercenary]] #7
 * [[Another LNH Title? Really?]] #4
 [[Category:Bureaucracy]]

← Older revision		Revision as of 02:49, 28 March 2022
Line 10:		Line 10:

	The [[ASH]] universe had had contact with the Multiversal Office before, but in 1998, a Barrier went up cutting that world off from outside influences. Decades later, the Barrier weakened, and in 2026, the links reopened. Members of the Academy of Super-Heroes investigated the situation; with no one actively trying to control the Office, it was a subtly dangerous environment, but seemed to have only a small effect outside of its own confines.		The [[ASH]] universe had had contact with the Multiversal Office before, but in 1998, a Barrier went up cutting that world off from outside influences. Decades later, the Barrier weakened, and in 2026, the links reopened. Members of the Academy of Super-Heroes investigated the situation; with no one actively trying to control the Office, it was a subtly dangerous environment, but seemed to have only a small effect outside of its own confines.
		+
		+	Meanwhile in the [[Looniverse]], [[Library Lad]] took over its Universal Office, hoping to turn it into a beneficial stabilizing influence. Drawing on the mythical narrative power surrounding the Sword of Sig, he declared that the one worthy to draw the sword from the terminal would be worthy to command it...

	== Attributes ==		== Attributes ==

@@ Line 27: / Line 27: @@
 * [[Wrath of the Administrator]]
 * [[Bad Forms]]
-* [[ASH]] #107-109
+* [[ASH]] #107-109, 122-123
 * [[RACCies]] Ceremony 2010
 * [[Ultimate Mercenary (series)|Ultimate Mercenary]] #7

@@ Line 21: / Line 21: @@
 == Awards ==
-In 2010, the Multiversal Office won [[RACCies Favorite Villain/Antagonist]].
+In 2010, the Multiversal Office won [[RACCies:Favorite Villain/Antagonist]].
 == Appearances ==