The Third Journal

Pages 229+230

DIPPER'S JOURNAL

My Travels

So I embarked on a 30-year adventure- a perilous journey through the multiverse to learn what I could about Bill in the hope of defeating him. In the process, I had many experiences that my younger self might have described as "swashbuckling" if not for the constant nausea that accompanies dimension-hopping! It feels almost as though I lived 100 different lives in those dimensions. I traveled with bandits, learned to speak 13 languages, got in a fistfight with a talking chair, and got tattoos with a tribe of octopus-armed warrior piglets

WHY DID I GET THIS TATTOO?

(These tattoos rank among my most serious regrets. Let's just say I wear this turtleneck for a reason.) I studied ancient texts, compared notes with scholars, dined with monsters, and was briefly made king of the Star Dimension, until a man with Orion on his back showed up and I lost my status.

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Thanks to my quick wit (and dimensional translator), I was able to talk my way into and out of food and shelter- although a number of dimensions consider me an outlaw to this day. Ironically, in the multiverse I'm just as wanted as Mabel! But my crimes had a noble purpose: I only stole supplies to work on my Quantum Destabilizer, which proved to be one of the most difficult inventions I've ever worked on. To fully chronicle my adventures would take 10 volumes, but here's a catalog of some of the most outlandish dimensions I saw....