Doomsday Pivot!

The city of Duluth, Minnesota, has been separated from Earth like someone took a giant cookie cutter and slammed it straight down from the sky. Everyone got a prompt on their phones and computers to pick a character class, and most of them are weird. Birds are flying in grid formation, wax is pooling out of a guy's fingers and onto the street, and there are accountants walking around with their heads on fire. And if that weren't enough to deal with, there are monsters in the dimension next door. Nat has a small company he started with his friends. When disaster hits, he figures that they're in an enviable position to do something about it. They're small, fast, scrappy, and willing to work themselves to the bone. They'd already been planning to take on larger companies with more resources, how much more difficult could alien demons from beyond be? What to expect: * Lots of fun, well thought out magic systems * Worldbuilding * Rational decision-making * Cool fight scenes * The author's barely disguised research project * High concept systems * Steady escalation * A digression on squirrel species * Vehicular manslaughter (but not like you think) * A 200mph fastball * Logistical quandaries * Strange and distant lands * Vehicular manslaughter (like you think) * A ziggurat that's far too large * A sudden but inevitable betrayal * Octopus-based recipes * Local politics AI disclosure: No AI was used to write this. Some AI was used to catch mechanical errors. See a full disclosure here.