I’m not going to pretend to know what day or time you’ll be getting this post. The portal has not settled down yet, so its effects on time are getting more and more…emphatic. Don’t worry, it won’t be much longer. I’ve had a stern talk with the portal, so it will be reigning itself in very soon.
However, the stories are quite used to it now. In fact, they’re enjoying themselves. They’ve been synchronizing clocks, running around different areas, and then comparing all the different times. Then they laugh, reset the clocks, and do it all again.
By the way, if you would like a glimpse of the new world, you can find one. Somewhere in the Mansion, one of the stories already has a link to the new world. If you pay attention, when you find this specific story, you will get the briefest glimpse of what is to come.
How is that possible, you say? How can there already be a link to a world which doesn’t have a portal yet?
Stories have a way of doing things. We may need to wait for portals to open, but a story with a connection to a world doesn’t need to wait for such a thing, if they so choose.
Anyway, go see if you can find the story. If you have already been through the Mansion, you can probably guess which of the stories are most likely to be connected to this new world, so you shouldn’t be wandering around for too long.
Out of curiosity, when did this post get to you?