Pattern
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A pattern was repeated design.
The surroundings of the non-world (PROSE: Games [+]Loading...{"page":"22","1":"Games (short story)"}) known as the Shadow Dimensions (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Loading...["The Curse of Fenric (TV story)"], etc.) were formed from bleak shifting patterns. When the Mandarin arrived in this location and began playing a game of four dimensional chess with the Entity, the board's pattern shifted several times during the opening gambit. (PROSE: Games [+]Loading...{"page":"22","1":"Games (short story)"})