It was dark at first…and painful. The Wanderer wasn't certain where he was, but quickly realized that he was still in the cockpit of his ship. “One too many glasses of whiskey,” he thought to himself, his head throbbing. “Have to stop drinking and warping…a dangerous practice.” Slowly he started to be able to see, the light just starting to form at the edges of a great orb that he could see out of the clear glass of his cockpit. It was a massive planet, and he had been floating in its dark side for gods only knew how long. His ship was dead, with no apparent power, and the light of this system's sun (whatever system he was in) was just now starting to show itself as he and the planet rotated in space. He watched as the planet began to reveal itself, and as it was exposed by the light, he knew immediately that he wasn't in the same dimension from whence he had started this journey. The physics of the planet and its geography were all wrong; they twisted in his eyes and made his brain hurt even worse than the hangover from the cheap whiskey. But he couldn't look away…as the light grew brighter, he stared in rapt attention until he felt something start to give in his mind…as if a giant hand was pushing against his thoughts, trying to get him to relax and just embrace the weirdness. With an almost physical tearing sensation, he felt the last vestiges of his sense of self slip away, and in that moment he knew that he had found a sort of wonderland, a place of madness but also of joy. It was transforming him…making him into something other, and he felt…good about it. Stronger. More solid and real, at least in this place, even as his consciousness bled away. His headache vanished and all at once all the panels of his ship came back alight, and then, with a static jolt, he came back to himself. He shook himself fully awake and in that moment he knew, to the core of his being, that this wonderland wanted him to explore it…to make it his own…to make it a part of him, even as he had become a part of it. “Let's do this,” he said to himself as he fired up his engines, ready to start wandering. “Let's see what we can see.”