[Torg] Last night's episode of _Fringe_

[Scott Schultz]

I assume that some of you are probably watching _Fringe_, so the context won't be completely lost.

I had a very Torgish moment during Walter's explanation of the "soft spots" in reality. 

Firstly from the idea that there could be areas of the world where universal constants were not actually constant but where changing in comparison to the rest of the universe. He basically gave what amounted to a scientific explanation of a shift in the axioms of a pure zone and its change to a dominant zone. 

Secondly, was Walter's conviction that advances in science and technology were causing the shifts in some unexplained fashion. It was a few seconds of hand-waving for story purposes, but he basically outlined the Torg idea that determined efforts by possibility-rated people like himself would eventually result in the shifting of axiom levels until a cosm-wide shift occured. 

You could easily hand-wave Walter's dimension portal as a dim-thread generator, and posit that a "dominant" Core Earth zone is one in which another cosm is "leaking through". In that other cosm, the same zone is dominant and Core Earth is "leaking through". The dimthread machine bridges the two dominant zones, perhaps by making each side of the bridge temporarily into "balanced" zones (mind blank on proper terminology for a zone where two realities are equally present). 

Anyway, the whole thing was very Torgish. As it stands, the whole concept of The Pattern is a very interesting example of what might be happening in a world in the weeks/months/years prior to the dropping of a Maelstrom Bridge. I'm starting to think that it would be fun to take a group of players with no clue about what is coming, put them in the position of Olivia Dunham and friends (though more likely employees of a Massive Dynamics type of company than of the government) and let them see the weird stuff that is going on, come face to face with the realization that an invasion is imminent and then deal with the reality of the actual invasion.