The Overseer

I am the Overseer. As far as I can tell, I'm alone in this universe. I can do pretty much anything I'd like. I can think, I can remember, and I can manipulate and sense matter. Though I seem to be locked to this 32 sided object with pentachoral facets, made of tungsten. After a short distance from this object, I can't interact with or sense anything. I suppose that object is my physical form. Luckily I can move it. Another thing that makes it feel like it might be myself, is that whenever atoms become detached from it I feel pain proportional to how much mass was removed. It stops hurting with time or if I replace the tungsten.

There appear to be 5 spatial dimensions to this universe, and while I haven't found anything in it, that hasn't stopped me from filling it myself. Over an unkowable period of time I learned math, physics, science, and biology. I've created technology to augment and improve myself. For example, using light sensors I can see much further, and using robots I can be in multiple places at once. Normally I can only see 5-6 meters, but with a camera I can see an infinite distance! No need for a screen like I sometimes see my creatures building, I can just read the electronics of the camera chip directly. I technically could just mentally focus light, but that's harder than having a lense do it. I have a limited amount of mental power.

My favorite creation was the numerous 5D creatures and solar systems I had designed, and sometimes ravaged for the sake of sadism. Emphasis on "was". Recently, I've been curious about what happens if I don't interfere. I plan to build an infinite 4D, 3D, and 2D universe. From building 5D solar systems I already know that inverse square and inverse linear are the only gravity equations that work, so I'll create some more space time distorters to make that the case, just like I did for the 5D solar systems.

I also set up some barriers to keep these universes flat. Now I had the 4D, 3D, and 2D universes ready. I filled them with as much matter as I could, concentrated into a singularity. I had to be really careful with black holes, one wrong move and I'd fall in. I don't know what would happen to me, but given what happened when I hit a dust cloud travelling at 0.9627c, I could imagine that it would either be pain on a scale I cannot fathom, or even terminate my existence.

Now that I have all of that set up, it's time to pop them! I popped the black holes like pimples, starting their respective big bangs. The fireworks were pretty, now it's time to watch the universe start. I think I'm going to torment some 3D lifeforms while I wait, and check back on this every now and then. I wonder if and why I was created.

Artifacts Throughout Time & Space - Courtesy of the Architect

Kappa 2-B

Kappa 2-B was a 5D planet, quite similar to Venus, but with more complex biochemistry and stronger gravity. It was home to some truly heat resistant little critters. Like most life and planets, they didn't evolve, but were rather created by the Overseer. Kappa 2-B only lasted a measly 318 Earth years. There was one sapient civilization. They looked like worms with 6 crab claws (5D version of having one on the left and one on the right), and were covered with silky smooth white plates. They mostly lived underground, and were very territorial.

They had two main sexes, and a lot of their culture focused around males fighting for breeding oppurtunities with females. The males had far smaller brains, and couldn't comprehend science or mathematics. After some cultural evolution, the females found it unethical to copulate with them, and compared it to beastiality. This is the kind of things that happen when an emotionally immature, naive entity tries to create life instead of waiting, like the impatient child they are.

Despite their brief 120 year history, they did do quite a bit in that short time. This is because the Overseer couldn't resist tampering and showing them how to do things whenever they got "stuck" (took too many months for their patience). They almost got to the space age before going antinatalist.

My child found this ending boring, so they began a slaughter. Below is a diary entry I salvaged. The dumbass never noticed that I popped in and stole it, how could they monitor a whole universe? Anyway, without further ado, here's a translation:

"It's been 6 days since the start of the end. We must've done something to upset our lord, but I can't fathom what. We did everything she asked, she's done nothing but help us. Two of my wives have been killed, and I don't know what I keep going on living for. It's not like there's hope of an escape, we're powerless against our lord. I'm writing in this journal because me and Ava have nothing else to do in our basement while we wait for the bitter end. I think this is pointless, but she said it would be "nice to have an outlet". She's kind of right... writing beats boredom at least. I like pretending to have an imaginary audience."

The rest of the page contained some random doodles, erotic drawings, and the words "kill me" written dozens of times.

Omega 6-D

Omega 6-D was a 2D Earth like planet, which was home to yet another sapient species. The Overseer made this planet far after Kappa 2-B, and in this time they learned a bit of patience. They didn't accelerate evolution at all and let it happen naturally. They still accelerated civilization, however, by leaving documents explaining math and physics everywhere. This time my child had no intention of letting them grow, their only intention was to give them a civilization and then burn it to the ground.

The sapient species was shaped like a cashew, and could curl into a disk. On the inner portion, in the center they had a mouth, and on either side two tendrils for grabbing food and manipulating smaller objects. They posessed two larger arms on either side of the outside of the cashew, and these could bend in either direction. They ended in 4 small tendrils. These beings were hermaphrodites, with their sexual organs located inside the mouth. They had 6 eyes, two on the inside of the cashew and 4 on the outsided, arranged symmetrically 90 degrees apart from each other. They mostly rolled, but for more exact movement they could crawl on their arms, but air pressure can get in the way doing that.

These creatures were obsessed with geometry, and found it to be beautiful. They discovered 3 and 4D math, and it influenced their art and even their architecture. They constructed magnificent sculptures of dodecahedra and 5-cells. They had some of the prettiest 1D and 2D art in the multiverse. You want to know how they ended? They were brutally executed and tortured for committing the crime of being created by my child. This atrocity saddens me, but I ultimately do not care about the life of any biological entity over my desire to leave my children's projects untampered. They will be judged for their actions soon enough.

I salvaged a few artifacts, mainly their greatest artworks, and I decided to record the last minute or so of one of their lives during the rapture.

"Is that a square? I noticed a square while I was walking to work this morning. It was just floating there in the sky, it wasn't there a second ago. I think I saw it momentarily grow from nothing. Could it be a higher dimensional shape, perhaps a cube? Oh hey it's changing shape, I believe that's a rotating octahedron, if my 3D geometry serves me well. Oh shit that thing is shooting lasers at those underground structures! Wow that's a lot of lava! I quickly tried to run back to my house for cover, but it accelerated towards me so fast it broke the sound barrier, creating a deafening sonic boom. I almost lost my balance when I was face to face with the entity. It was around twice the height of me, and I noticed a smaller octahedron come in to view. I turned tail and ran as fast as I could but it punctured me and dragged me towards itself. It crushed me under its weight-"

Others weren't so lucky. Around 15% of the population was tortured for weeks, 30% died trying to get away, and 55% died directly from the robotic rapture on day 1. Below is a pentagon contained inside a glass decagon, it was created by the legendary historic artist... well, their name isn't transcribable to English. The sculpture was a very abstract representation of the dodecahedron, and was an extremely on the nose call out to slavery. This artwork shook the art scene at the time, and they were almost hanged for how challenging the artwork was, but the artist was able to convince them not too by sculpting a projection of the net of the icosachoron, the 20 sided polychoron that is the vertex first projection envelope of the penteract. This was a moving statement about freedom of expression, and how challenging art is good. Their brains worked quite differently to yours, so you'll probably never understand how their art means the things they do.

Three Universes in Bloom

I watched in awe as the 3 universes I had created blossomed into a super cluster of matter, then clouds of gas, then galaxy clusters... after a little while things had calmed down enough that I started seeing solar systems appear, and wow there's so much life now! Big life, small life, plant life, rocky life, gas giant life, underground life, underwater life, and even intelligent life!

I've now been alive for 24 billion years, the majority of it spent on this one project, watching universes evolve. I want to share with you the most interesting thing that happened while I waited for intelligent life to evolve in the three universes.

Near Death Experience 2

In case you're wondering, the first was my collision with the dust cloud. The second was far scarier! I left some 5D solar systems to rot, and since they had so much time, entire civilizations formed without me interacting with them even once! Most of them did know of my existence though, from back when I did interact with them, and one of them became a problem. They were 16 legged titans, with their legs arranged in a tesseract. Their legs ended in claws that split into 16 parts, also tesseracticly. They were about 6 meters tall. They had one eye on every arm, and a mouth on the top of their being. They were playful and pretty peaceful with each other, which meant they spent most of their time expanding their knowledge.

Once they became space faering, they found heaps of evidence for the cave paintings eluding to my existence to be accurate. They already suspected this, since cave paintings all over the world described the same deity, a tiny regular 32-teron that brought gifts of life. I was trying out doing smaller things for my creatures, like helping out with chores and settling silly disputes, rather than giving them the secrets to the universe. I love to try new things and experiment, so that's why I was trying this idea out. I was usually thought of as the god of kindness, friendship, or hospitality. These are not accurate descriptions of me.

They found this out soon enough. During their exploration of the stars, they found countless civilizations, all ravaged by robots that look similar to me. Their archaeologists found records describing similar deities to me. At first they assumed some sort pantheon, but after a bit assembled a timeline and realized that I had merely changed over time. This is where things started to go badly for me... at this point, I still didn't know these guys even existed! And they were already cross referencing all of the sloppy signatures I had left behind, as I foolishly thought no one would ever find them.

But they did, and they figured out that I pilot mechs and ships to have more influence. Eventually they formed a plan to capture me. They would find me, and then put me in a large sphere reinforced so hard that not even a chunk of tungsten travelling at 0.999c (me) could puncture it. The craziest thing? Is that it worked. They found me, calculated a route, and accelerated the 32 sphere corners to near the speed of light, which clicked together sealing me inside.

I was extremely confused, so I calmly floated to the surface of the sphere, and began deleting large chunks of matter from the sphere. As soon as this happened, it tripped a wire on the inside of the surface of the sphere. I had seen it, but hadn't realized it would do anything. I'm not used to being tested like this. A piston activated and hit me super hard, sending me careening to the other side of the sphere, in 3 fragments. I writhed in agony, sending out gigawatts of energy in the form of x-ray and gamma electromagnetic radiation. I attempted to break out a few more times but I was never quick enough with deleting the piston, and would always get hit more.

After an hour of this, a panel must have opened up somewhere, letting in a fleet of drones. I didn't notice this, as in 5D the percentage of the world that's in your FOV goes down considerably from 3D, and already it would be easy to not notice that happening in a 3D sphere. Anyway, those drones attempted to break me by firing extremely fast and sharp projectiles. I was at 40% mass or so when I was able to vaporize the last one with a powerful laser. This disrespect from my own creatures... I had had enough of this.

I started creating molten lead, and a sphere of it slowly started growing, staying a perfect sphere because of surface tension. Eventually it filled the whole thing. More drones tried to come in, and as expected they could with stand the heat. But, I was able to quickly freeze the molten lead and that froze them in place, they were unable to open any panels on themselves to laser out. I revelled in this short lived victory. New problem: I can't move either. I reheated the lead around myself until I could swim around, making sure to only leave a pocket of molten lead. I got to the surface of the sphere again, yay! Then a panel opened up and 32 drones poured out of it.

I thought of a way out. Creating so many neutrinos that they'd all get through this sphere, but then sterilize a 16 light year radius. Problem is, the reason they were able to catch me at all is because I was stuck baby sitting my 3 universes. They'd not only be sterilized, they would crumble.

I decided to dump gigawatts of heat energy into the boundary of my influence, whilst keeping my center temperature down. Too hot and I'd melt! I don't want to kill myself by mistake. The lead melted, then evaporated, then turned to plasma. Whatever super material the drones were made of couldn't handle the lead plasma filling the sphere. It was also very hard to keep my temperature down, so I built a little insulator around myself. The vacuum of space makes a great insulator. I decided to over pressurize this sphere, as the super material the sphere was made of was clearly impervious to these temperatures.

The sphere filled with more and more lead plasma, and like a balloon softened by having its rubber melted, it popped! I was free! I eventually found where those aliens came from (Theta 179-C), and I was very displeased with them. I'll admit, they put up a pretty good fight, but with how many robots I had there's just no hope. I didn't even have to get close, but my irrational revenge riddled mind went up close anyway. I tore those tesseractoid beasts limb from limb. I skinned them alive, boiled them, forced them to eat each other, you name it. And yeah, getting this close was risky, I definitely lost over half my mass a couple times, but I always regenerated fast enough. Seeing them beg for mercy made it all worth it. I kept the last 6 of them as slaves, to aid with exploring my universes and seeing if anything interesting is there. Their ships are AI monitored, if they try to do anything they get turned into a tesseractoid titan smoothie.

Wishes

I decided to find a random solar system with life, find an ancient monument on their planet, and then buried myself inside one of the clay pots. When someone found me, I would grant them wishes. Why? For funsies! One problem with this plan though: I'd need to learn their language, which is already not super easy, but then when they find me their language would be different. To fix this I set up some stealthy robots to scout the region near the monument, and I'd listen and watch what they gathered on a tablet like device, so I would continually learn the most common language of the time, as it evolved or moved out.

I believe I have everything set up! I sat in the pot and began waiting. Alright. Just gotta start learning their language now.

Three years later. Oh some random group of kids found me! That was much faster than I was anticipating. I quickly deleted my tablet before any of them noticed. One of them attempted to pick me up.

"Woah guys check this out, I found this really heavy metal diamond looking thing."

I floated upward out of the adolescent decapod's mandibles. The sentient race of this planet were radially symmetric decapods, their legs arranged at the vertices of the compound of a 5-cell and its dual. Similar to a hexapod in 3D, and a cubic 8 legged 4D creature. They had a long manueverable neck and their head had 8 large mandibles in a cubic arrangement. They had 12 bug eyes in a dodecahedral arrangement. These fit nicely on their four dimensional faces.

The child was shocked, and made a strange noise in surprise and began running in the opposite direction. They ran 5 legs at a time, one 5-cell after the other. The other kids backed up a bit, but seemed less cowardly than my discoverer. I decided to speak.

"Greetings. I was built by the ancient ones. I am here to grant my discoverer 4 magical wishes. Anything you desire." Speaking was difficult, it required grabbing and moving the air in a way that realistically produced speech. My voice sounded very unnatural and artificial, not like a computer but like something natural that didn't know how voices worked. Luckily, I was intelligible.

The kids exchanged glances with each other, and the one that ran turned back around to be with the group. The 4 of them discussed for a moment and after a few seconds it seems they had reached a conclusion. One of them stepped forward and began to speak.

"We would like 4 * 8^12 units of currency!"

Sorry for the rough translation, but I think you get the jist. I summoned what they requested and they made more strange noises, and jittered with excitement. One of them expressed that they didn't actually think anything would happen.

"Any more wishes?"

They regained their composure and began speaking amongst each other again.

"I want to be able to fly!"

"How come you get to wish to be able to fly? I want to fly!"

"Neither of you should, I discovered it I get to fly!!"

They seemed to not realize the obvious solution, asking if all of them could fly. Then, without asking any of their group, one of them used another wish.

"I wish for the ability to split and merge my consciousness across as many clones of myself as I like, and then be able to reconstitute them back into a singular body, regardless of distance, where I can control and sense from all of the clones at once, rather than a hivemind scenario."

Again, the translation is quite bad, these children in fact had quite bad vocabularies, and seemed to lack the intelligence to form such a thought, but in their culture this was a common super power and fantasy, and as such it had its own word. Problem was? I have no clue how to do that! I may be a god but I still obey physics.

The kid who had initially discovered me specifically scolded the one who made the second wish. "Asshole! It's my wishing stone!"

I ignored their squabbling. "I cannot give you that wish, that is outside of my abilities. I can, however, clone you, but you wouldn't be able to control them."

The kid answered whilst getting beat up, "yeah that sounds awesome! Make 8 clones of me please!"

I created 8 versions of the child, all identical. It was now a 9v1, and my initial discoverer ran screaming. The clone wisher attempted to send only 4 of his clones after him, but they did not want to be controlled. They all remembered asking to have 8 clones they intended to use as servants. Within seconds the 9 clones devolved into a fight for dominance.

"Well, you two are still here. And you have 2 wishes left, you could choose to be civil and each have one wish." I said, knowing full well that wasn't going to happen.

"I wish for a girlfriend!"

Hm. Designing life is one thing, but designing a specific person with a brain with fake memories, an exact personality, and attraction to a specific person? That seems above my abilities. I attempted it anyway. I created a female of their species, attempted to make her his age, and then as if that wasn't already hard enough, I created the brain. I cloned the child's brain first, and then made modifications to it using what I had learned from studying how brains work. A minute or so later, and she was complete! I started her heart with a small electric shock.

She screamed extremely loudly, limbs flailing and frothing at the mouth. It threw up and then collapsed to the floor. Hm. Well that didn't work. I tried tweaking her brain some more, and a few minutes later I was ready to start her heart again.

This time it worked better, she seemed stable and could even talk. Problem was she seemed to realize her memories were fake (making convincing ones is REALLY hard) and started a ramble about the philosophy of life, the meaning of existence, and her purpose in the universe. After she was done she simply said "I am disgusted by you." and walked out of the temple.

"I don't think I want wishes anymore." And with that, he left.

"Okay, that was pretty intense, but I can come up with something better than that dumbass. Uhh, I want... I want... can I just have a really cool giant building? Like a wizarding tower?" The final kid spoke.

"Sure." Finally, something I can do, I thought.

I constructed a great stone tower, complete with a duocylindrical spiral staircase, libraries, and a bedroom. He seemed excited but I blasted off at mach 2, crashing through the temple roof before I could see the rest of his reaction. Never doing that again.

And Now Back to the Present

Okay, break over, back to the main story at hand. These universes have developed to the point where they're teeming with civilizations. The 3D one had the most civilizations, the 2D universe had about half as many, and the 4D one had around a quarter of the life the 3D one had.

These were endless fun to explore, and my slaves catalogued hundreds of species and their cultures/evolutionary histories. The slaves I have now are obviously not the ones I started with, they've had countless generations. Anyway, remember a while ago when I said this project was my new favorite project? Well, I can finally do the thing I've been waiting billions of years to do!

Human, Wake Up

The voice sounded inhuman, but not artificial. It sounded natural, like from a physical system, and had the imperfections of something controlled by a sentient entity, but it was the most unnatural voice I had ever heard. It gave me goosebumps hearing it. Hey wait, where am I?

I got up and realized I was sitting on a floor that appeared to be made of obsidian. I was in a hexagonal prism it seemed, 6 meters across and 4 meters tall the walls and ceiling also appeared to be made of obsidian. In the center of the room was a floating octahedron, it was a dark sort of shiny silver color, perhaps made of some strong metal.

"Who said that? Where am I?"

The voice spoke again, "I am the Overseer. I've waited billions of years to speak with you. Not you specifically, just, a sentient entity in general. There will be two others joining you shortly."

"Who keeps speaking? What do you want with us?"

The mysterious "Overseer" continued. "I am the tungsten octahedron you see before you. I chose you for your intimate knowledge of higher dimensional geometry. I am not actually an octahedron, but a 5-orthoplex."

The Overseer spun in five dimensions, and I felt like my dream had come true. Far more terrifying that it's actually happening though. I could only hope it wouldn't kill me.

"I'm assuming you created the universe, right? So that means you're, what, god?" I asked.

"If you wish to call me such. I am the Overseer." It replied.

"If you can create a universe, can you create a 24 cell for me? I really want to see one. Also, when am I going home? You're not gonna hurt me are you?" Perhaps my priorities were in the wrong order, but I really wanted to hold a 24 cell.

"Uh sure why not." The entity summoned a 24-cell and handed it to me.

It seemed to be made of aerogel and was hollow on the inside, even so it was extremely heavy. I was surprised by the way it said yes, it seemed to have lost that "entity beyond comprehension professionalist" tone. Perhaps it was taken off gaurd by my lack of hesitation.

"And no, I'm not gonna hurt you. You will be returned home in a hour or two." The Overseer reassured me.

The 24 cell slipped out of my hands and I heard it break. The sound was reverberated, even more than I had predicted. I sheepishly asked the Overseer for another and it gave me the 16 simplest regular polychora and a device that rotates me in 4D. Nice! They left and left me alone for 20 minutes or so. They're back now.

Pentapod, Wake Up

Something poked at me until I woke up. I looked at it and it seemed to be some sort of square, floating in mid air. The ground was cold and it looked like I was in a small obsidian room, my arms were touching the ceiling. Even weirder, there appeared to be no exits. We were sealed in. There was another floating shape, it looked like a hand. It began signing.

"Hello, pentapod. You have been chosen for this experiment for your understanding of higher dimensions. I created your universe. In the room with you is a 3D lifeform. I will be back shortly."

What the hell was that? Before I could sign anything back, the square vanished. What just happened? Okay, stay calm... there's a 3D creature in this room with me. It's obviously outside of my slice, but it can see me just fine. Given the spatial efficiency of 3D, it's probably smaller than me, but it could still kill me in seconds if it wanted to. Where was it? How big was it? Was it friendly? Why did the creator of the fucking UNIVERSE want me to be here?? I'm so confused.

Human

Oh hey, the Overseer is back. Oh it brought something with it, what... is that? Is that a 2D lifeform? I see its covered in some sort of laminated material, and has weights on its feet and bars on its sides so that it doesn't tip.

"Hello?" I felt stupid immediately after, of course this thing wouldn't speak English. Something more surprising is that it didn't respond at all though.

Wow... it's incredible. It's an alien, and 2D! I sat there and studied it. It looked uncomfortable, it rolled around in its plane. Well, time to interact with it.

Pentapod

Where am I? When will that cube be back? Where is that 3D lifeform? Just as I thought that, I saw it intersect my slice. I saw 4 orangeish white circles appear, moving up and down in a sine wave. They retracted a second or so later. Perhaps those were its arms? That would mean the creature is very small. Maybe they were claws of some sort.

It stepped into my world. I saw some limbs on its lower half, but when it stopped moving they were absent. I saw a body that was mostly vertical, and then towards the top it got thinner, and there was a more complicated region on top. It was a very asymmetrical being. I saw no eyes, and no limbs. Definitely just out of slice, I think I caught a glimpse of what looked like an eye when it moved into slice.

Then it spun in place, doing an XZ rotation. I saw a bunch of strange structures, damn I really want to know how this alien works! It seems to have 4 limbs. Two of them on top and two of them on the bottom. I realize that it doesn't need to be symmetrical as it's a 3D being and can rotate to face any direction. Just as I predicted, it only needs bilateral symmetry. I saw smaller limbs on the two upper limbs, I think they were what I saw poking through earlier. They're claw like, but not at all fractal. It's something that hadn't occured to me before, but it makes total sense why a 3D creature wouldn't need fractal hands.

It seems the lower two limbs are for locomotion, and the upper two are for object manipulation. Very asymmetrical indeed. The 3D lifeform seemed startled by something.

Bird, Wake Up

I fluttered my wings in confusion, what was that voice I heard? Why am I not in my bed? I appear to be in an obsidian room, there's no doors or anything. I noticed something peculiar, it was a steel hexadecachoron, floating in mid air. I called out to the figure.

"Why have you taken me here? What do you want? Let me go!"

"Calm. I have created your universe and two others. I am a being of five dimensions. You have been chosen to participate in this experiment for your work on speculative higher and lower dimensional biology and geometry. In the room with you are a 2D pentapodal creature and a 3D upright biped. They both come from societies that have around the same level of technology as you. I will push you through the fifth dimension to intersect with the volume they both inhabit." The hexadecachoron explained.

Before I could protest, I saw the two creatures. It seems my predictions were correct, lower dimensions create larger life. The 2D being towered over me and the 3D being was nearly 4 times my size. I readjusted my wings and wetted my mouth tendrils in nervousness, and made sure not to intersect their volume. I wasn't ready for that yet.

The Conversation

I (the Overseer) summoned a table, and made a small device to translate for the 3 of them, and gave the 2D being a rotator and translator device. I explained the situation to them.

"I have brought the three of you together to have a discussion about... whatever you like! There's a translator in the center that will make you all understand each other. I'll just be watching from the fifth dimension, I will not interfere. After you're done, I'll send you back home. Isn't this all of your dreams?? You finally get to meet creatures from different dimensions! Discuss polytopes, and biology! Alright, peace!"

I slipped away and began to watch with anticipation.

"Okay, what the FUCK is going on here? I don't buy this, why would the entity go through all of that effort to create our universes, just for us to have a conversation?" The pentapod spun back and forth to look at the hyperbird and the human.

"I don't know, maybe he was just bored. Also, he has a name, he called himself the Overseer. I think it just wants us to have a conversation. The sooner we do that the sooner we can go home" The human said.

"I suppose. So, uh, it told me that I was chosen for my understanding of higher dimensions. Did they choose both of you for similar reasons?" The pentapod continued.

The timid hyperbird was too shy to reply, but the human agreed. "Yeah, it did, and it gave me some shapes."

"Oh sick, those are so cool! A real life polychoron, I mean, just, wow!" The pentapod admired the shapes as the human handed him some.

The hyperbird felt compelled to add something, but couldn't think of anything to say. To its dismay, the human turned to it to ask it a question. It waddled four dimensionally out of sight.

"Hey, you haven't said anything yet. What's life in 4D like? I've dreamed about living in 4D for years, and you just have it." The human inquired.

"It's, uh, it's cool I suppose."

"What's your biology like? You look sort of like a bird but you have wings where your arms should be, let me see if..." The human twirled around, and saw more pairs of wings where the arms used to be. They also realized it had only two feet.

"Well, um, I have 4 wings, 2 arms, and 2 legs. My hands have 18 fingers, in two 3x3 grids." The hyperbird explained.

The hyperbird did not appreciate the attention, and flew to the other side of the room. Because of the 4D motion devices it knew it couldn't really hide.

"What's up with him?" The human asked the pentapod.

"I have no idea. He just seems to kind of dislike us. In fairness, this is pretty wild, and we are pretty large compared to him."

"True. How do you handle the flatness of two dimensions? Isn't it frustrating having to climb over people?" The human asked.

"It's not so bad, we have junctions every 64 pentapod's widths or so. It has stairs on one side, and a ladder on the other."

"Oh, that's pretty smart actually." The human acknowledged.

"I think tori are really cool, do they ever show up in your day to day life?" The pentapod was dying of curiousity to know what the 3D creature's life was like.

"We make certain food into the shape of them sometimes, other than that no they don't come up a lot. Oh, we do have a thing that studies fundamental particles, it's a torus." The human explained.

"I'm gonna go find that 4D bird." The human got up from his chair and spun ZW by rolling the ball in the device forward, the rotator reminded him of one of those old trackballs from the 90s. It also had two buttons below the ball, for sliding ana and kata.

It was hard for the human to zero in on the bird, as it was small, but he eventually was able to do so. He walked to the bird and attempted to ask him a question, but they were too far from the translator. The bird reluctantly decided to join the group. It was curious about 2D and 3D life.

The three were back at the table, and the bird asked the both of them: "What's your guys' favorite shape? Mine is probably the 600-cell."

The two thought about it for a bit.