The catastrophe
Human experiments damaged reality at a quantum level. Instead of one clean universe, many branches now press, overlap, and contaminate each other.
World primer
Gentle Baby begins after quantum experiments fracture existence into many realities. Objects, phenomena, and creatures leak across branches, anomalous zones spread, and survival becomes physics, war, and doctrine at the same time.
Human experiments damaged reality at a quantum level. Instead of one clean universe, many branches now press, overlap, and contaminate each other.
You are a M.A.M.A.-created genetically modified child-warrior: small, fast to deploy, difficult to stop, and useful in places where normal soldiers cannot survive anomalous zones.
Collapsers enter another reality with a physical device built to sever the bond between branches. Coherents defend their own world and try to stop the collapse before the device finishes its work.
World
Quantum experiments fracture existence into many branches instead of one stable universe.
Leaks create anomalous zones. Local M.A.M.A. systems deploy engineered child-warrior cohorts, while Collapsers and Coherents fight over which branch remains coherent.
Missions should feel like small attempts to install, defend, disrupt, or survive a reality-severing device before one world disappears.