Meanwhile...

Yep! These guys exist! They're called the Negatopes, because originally they were going to be total opposites of the Polytopes, living in a universe of opposites that split off from the main universe that one time Otto made a pun. Now they have this alternate origin story, which (if you look at the Invitation Contest poster) logically cannot have occurred, at least not in any standard chronology. Which came first, the character who wrote the poster or the poster that invented the character? Et cetera.

There is a reason for the bizarre gradient patterns in this universe. They'll probably discuss it later on, but the long version of the story is that there was once a time when I was very interested in the fact that if you gave a rectangle the property of looping at its edges, it was functionally identical to the surface of a torus. I could not for the life of me contemplate the equivalent shape if something similar was done with the space inside a cube, because such a torus would have to rotate about an axis our perception doesn't contain. The Negatopes live inside such a shape, because I like thinking about it.

Otherwise there's not much to say. They have personalities which are somewhat based on opposing their Polytope counterparts, but not as strictly as they would have been in the original Negatope plotline. Now that they're just parallel, I have a lot more options, and the creativity is flowing freely. Also: if you're on a Mac, hit ctrl+alt+apple+8 when you look at this. Groovy, innit? If you're not on a Mac: get on a Mac and try it. Groovy, innit?

...Yes, I did just reuse the word bubbles from last time and reposition them so that you can't see that I never changed the small posters to say "invitation" instead of "invention". I never changed the small posters at all. Who's lazy? It's this guy. Thanks for noticing. God.