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Welcome to Nerd Base Iota, visitor. A place where boundaries of our dull, grey reality grow thin, allowing us to glimpse beyond their veil. New realities become close, within arm's reach. Each containing a story of its own.

Humanity has always sought a way to escape from everyday reality. That is how stories came to be - and ever since the first piece of fiction was conceived, a feedback loop kept the cycle going. Fairy tales and legends inspired future generations to write down stories of their own - and they in turn became a fertile soil for new creators to grow upon.

I plan to dedicate this blog to stories I consider worthy of sharing - those discovered in the vast multiverse born from our collective creativity, as well as ones I want to add to this infinite, evergrowing collection, one way or another.

What else is to be said? Welcome to Nerd Base Iota - and I hope you will stay for at least a while!

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