Recap:
Anima's exploration division rediscovered Gamma, ((Correct me if I'm wrong)) but simultaneously received a warning from an unknown source that the crew who had just landed there would need rescuing. Star Lady sent a contingent of 3 chosen for their expertise, Uziel, Kuruno and Kantoku - a member of the Anima hive mind that included Aflae, Star Lady, Estella and himself.

They joined up with the crew who had returned to base and landed on Gamma near the earlier crew's landing site. They soon discovered that the entire planet was infested with a mindless Magem eating organism that begins life in a microscopic form and grows - seemingly without end as it mindlessly consumes Magem.

Unbeknownst to the group, Lugosi - a very smart human - had been wandering off to collect powerful Magus artifacts. One of his artifacts was a Jumper Bracelet that Kantoku wouldn't recognize but which would have given the entire crew the escape they needed if they had only been aware of its abilities.

The last survivor of Gamma - a man who had become completely Magem - sacrificed himself to kill the infestation of Magem-eaters. It didn't work. So while he was a ghost, he gained power by consuming the spirits of everyone he could find. Eventually he became powerful enough to challenge and consume the spirit of the planet itself, thus becoming Gamma.

As Gamma he created a curse to tear the minds of his enemies to shreds. But instead of dying, they simply became mindless Magem-eating machines.

Seeing that the people of this crew were spiritually powerful, he pulled them into a spirit-realm and tried to convince them to sacrifice themselves and fuel his power enough to overcome the now mindless Magem-eaters. They refused.

These are the people present at this time
-Lugosi who appears as a majestic wizard wielding an arsenal of power and cunning.
-Scott, a 40ft tall one eyed cyclops with powerful limbs and laser vision, wielding a trident and wearing only a loin cloth.
-Mal, 90 feet tall with 6 powerful arms (no legs) and giant wings made of water.
-Jazz, like Mal, but covered in spike Armour and weilding 70 foot long weapon arrays. The kind you'd expect to see on a battle spaceship.
-Uziel, a grand warrior of Void
-Kuruno, an extremely powerful cyborg alien with a brain the size of a planet

Mal stepped forward. It seems she is about to offer herself.

Kantoku said, "No, you're more a monster than they are. They likely didn't know they were consuming sentient life forms, and with you devouring their minds they never will have the chance. Come on let's return to our bodies... this situation is worse than I thought, maybe we can turn the teleportation devices into void marble devices and at least save other people from this monster..."

Gamma laughs, "You can't leave unless I let you leave."

Mal says, "Gamma, you are a human who has gained more power than you were made to have. That power has clouded your reason. How can destroying minds stop the Magem-eaters?"

Gamma says, "They are called Rulabs. I learned their names from their minds before I took their minds. I ... um..."

Lugosi pipes up, "If you are Gamma, then you are the one who killed our crew-mate with lightning, are you not?"

"I killed her."

Scott, Mal and Jazz all gasp.

Lugosi continues, "Why don't you use your power to kill them directly?"

Gamma remains silent.

Kuruno suddenly pipes up, "Yeah! The Rulabs are vulnerable at the joint between their lead head and their other segments. Presumably this pattern is the same regardless of their size. They are invulnerable to Magem related attacks but are vulnerable to kinetic attacks. If you lured them all to one location and bathed them in intense fire, wouldn't that kill them all?"

Gamma smiles evilly, "You are right!"

The entire crew finds themselves back on the floor of the chamber below the bubble.

"We need to act quickly. He will be distracted for a while with that, he's obviously gone mad we need to figure something out while he is distracted... If he can't leave the planet then the satellites must be activatable remotely."

In a fit of rage, Scott opens fire on the giant Magem crystal above him as he yells, "YOU SICK SUNNOFASOITH, THIS IS FOR LA PAZ! WHY DON'T YOU JUST FRAKIN DIE ALREADY, GAMMA?!". As chunks of the crystal fly off, the crystal begins rapidly increasing in size faster than the giant worm can consume it. It ignores Scott, and the extra chunks, continuing to feed off of the main crystal. Jazz puts her hand on Scott's shoulder, and Scott melts into tears.

Lugosi bows to Kantoku, and says, "Yeah... good luck with that." And he disappears. Uziel stares at the space where Lugosi was with deep thought.

Scott futilely shouts, "Traitor!" at the space where Lugosi stood a few moments ago.

The whole crew begins exiting as fast as they can.

Uziel ((who would honestly be alot further advanced in his magus abilities than the player was - I should've given him a higher starting stat due to his age)) says, "There is a massive buildup of void, dimension and time energies in the satellites above. We'll be teleporting any moment now."

Kurono says, "OhfrakfrakfrakfrakFRAK!!! We've got a massive buildup of Magem energy right over our heads, and I just gave Gamma the idea to lure the Rulabs here and kill them all with heat - and we're standing in a massive volcano."

Just then there is an earthquake, and massive shards of obsidian begin falling on the giant Rulab above them. It squeals with a sound like cold steel jaws crushing scrap metal as the first shard severs its head. Shard of obsidian after shard falls on it in just the right way to sever each new head, until the entire behemoth beast is reduced to only 5 orbs in length. Now that it is no longer feeding on the giant Magem crystal, its growth exponentially accelerates.

01:13, Today: Narrator, on behalf of Kantoku, rolled 18 using 5d6 with rolls of 1,2,4,5,6.  Scan the satellites
Kantoku's passive scanning reveals that all of the Rulabs are leaving the satellites as well as their bodies, and flying straight for the massive rapidly expanding crystal.

The party just makes it out of the chamber before the crystal fills the entire chamber that he giant worm had been in, and it continues expanding behind them (though more slowly).

On there way out "Has anyone got any ideas?  Because right now I'm still stuck with the only idea we can pull off in time is you guys trying to get to the ship, and hope it's healed enough to take off... and I try and make it to the Satellites before they teleport us, and Kurono uses the waren's relay or the ships coms to tell me how to reprogram them to marble the planet." The last thing he planed to do was just fly off and leave everyone behind. (He would only do that if it was 100% clear there was no saving anyone)

Suddenly a starship appears just beyond the satellites. Uziel hears in his mind, This is Padishah General Hoyt of the Ildeerian kingdom. We have prepared the Ragnarok protocol as advised. Is this an extraction or sterilization only?

The call of the void echoes in Uziel's soul as part of him longs for the silent sleep of death. Nevertheless he says, "Kantoku, everyone, I've found a way out. We're being extracted." He thinks back at Gen Hoyt, Extract us now!

A light shines on each one of them from the ship through the solid opaque ceiling of the corridor they're in and the whole group suddenly finds themselves onboard the starship in an observation bubble. Just then the volcano below erupts, spewing ash and lava over the Rulabs. A millisecond later, every visible star in the sky and more suddenly appears to go supernova, and planet sized laser precise beams of gamma radiation from every one of those stars focuses on the planet below, which becomes white hot almost immediately. Everyone hears the anguished voice of Gamma screaming in their heads as the entire planet ruptures and explodes. Before the explosion reaches them, the planet and it's satellites all disappear inside it's teleportation bubble, which shrinks away to nothing in the next millisecond.

A man dressed in an unusual star themed uniform addresses them, "I'm Padishah General Hoyt of the Ildeerian kingdom. We received Uziel's message and attempted to sterilize the planet with star fuelled gamma lasers, but the planet seems to have disappeared. Can anyone explain what happened?"

After that, "Where, when and in which Oner can we drop you folks off?"

Uses his Cartographer skills to plot out the locations of the stars that Gamma ray blasted Gamma... "Was anyone responsible for those stars? Or was that something/someone else?"

Thinks and adds "Also we need to be decontaminated, though I would like to contain some samples if thats possible."

General Hoyt responds, "You're in a dying universe with no lifeforms remaining. Everyone abandoned this Oner thousands of years ago. We caused the supernovae as part of the Ragnarok protocol. As for decontamination..."

General Hoyt has the staff from sickbay standing by. One of them scans the group with an electronic device and an image of one of the microscopic Rulabs appears on the screen with a list of properties below the image, as well as an image of Balur with an accompanying list. Seeing that Kantoku is 100% Balur, they assume the Rulab is the pest and 40 of them surround the group and begin chanting. After 40 minutes of chanting, they all stop at the same moment. The group is scanned again, and the tech announces, "All clear!"

Kuruno is fascinated by the advanced electronic equipment all around them, and follows one of the techs, chatting about the possibility of joining the crew. He's had enough of Balur and Rulab both.

General Hoyt asks, "So where & when & what Oner can we drop you folks off?"
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"Where you able to contain a sample of the organism?" He displayed or if able to interact with the tech, sent the data, of the stellar chartography for his home owner. "I am not sure what you would call it by I have a map of the space around the Nexus... you could drop me off there.......... or you could send me to the Comowe's universe on Auraluna." he sends that information too.

Doubble burns Analytic Spy to do a broad range scan of the universe to check the for sings of Balur in the univurse.... Figuring if Aflae has linked the dying of onwer 0 to Balur she would want to know if other univurses would be drying too.

Someone hands Kantoku a glass box with a Magem crystal inside and explains, "This box is highly durable. It's made from Magus-enhanced glass and the spells are designed to keep anything inside fully contained. The crystal in there can't grow any more, but it will act as a food supply for the pests inside & keep it alive. Eventually that pest will grow to be about 1" long, at which point the pest and crystal will reach equilibrium. By the way, what are these things?"

No need to burn Spy. The only Balur in this Oner is what is left behind by this group. This Oner is otherwise unaffected by Balur altogether. It's about to die by a big rip ((like our universe will eventually do according to current physics theories)).

The map of the space around Nexus is given to a tech who inputs the data into a terminal and announces, "Year 130,000ish, on the planet N3X-U5, sir."

General Hoyt commands, "Navigation, please take us to orbit at those coordinates."

A group of 7 people all wearing a golden band around their heads gather together in a circle and begin chanting in unison. After a few moments, the view outside the observation bubble changes to Nexus from orbit.

Uziel says, "I was never sure you guys even existed, but wow! That was impressive."

General Hoyt says, "You are prepared to join the crew?"

Uziel replies, "I knew the consequences of calling on you when I called. I'm under your command, sir."

"Good to hear, soldier. Report to basic."

Uziel leaves the room.

Just then an image of Gamma exploding appears filling the sky, it seems to be everywhere at once and visible in every direction. As quickly as it appears, it is gone.

"Huh... so the planet exploded mid-teleport as it was entering one of the Oners connected to this one at this time. That's significantly unlikely... Anyway, we can send you to the surface of that city if you like, or anywhere else really."

The remaining others all name the Portal closest to Anima's Nexus and one of the Navigation team members places a hand on their shoulder and one by one they disappear from the starship, leaving the Navigation crew behind.

((Since Kantoku is in charge, he could have told them where to go, so if he does, that's where they go instead.))

EDIT: Oh yes, Kantoku has rejoined the Hive-mind.
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"So it exploded.... everywhere?" That is odd.... "It wasn't impressive it was lucky... Time travelers? If you know Aflae tell her to her past self said she better not make a habit from stealing from her, and if she's going to do that she should pay her back in advance. This is Balur and a balur eating life form."

To the others. "We didn't find what we where looking for.... but we found something that may be more useful in the end, and Uziel signaling these guys saved who knows how many people from a mind eating crazy man.... so you more than deserve your pay, and extra hazard pay. I'll lead you to where you need to go..... It's a shame we lost all the data from the emergency warden though, all considered though we where lucky to get out of there at all...Lugosi is defiantly not getting payed."


What dose Aflae and friends know about Padishah General Hoyt or the Ildeerian kingdom?
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OOC: That sounds like a reference and an inside joke, but I'm missing it. Did Aflae steal something from her past or future self at some point? Was it the Jumper Bracelets in the wall safe we're talking about?

General Hoyt said, "Yes. The Ildeerian Empire was set up outside of the timeline of Oner 0, and cooperating with a nation of Wizards, we specialized in manipulation of time and space. We left psychic recorders in every Oner any Elf from Oner 0 in heritage would ever populate - at each Oner's big bang event so that the very fabric of space could be used to communicate a message to the Empire. We then programmed intuitive knowledge of a list of special requests and their consequences into the very first Elfs' genetic code, and ensured the list would remain through to the very last Elf of Oner 0 heritage ever alive. In times of extreme need, the appropriate request will rise to the surface of an Elf's mind and the Elf will feel compelled to make their request."


SFA, except that since they were all Elfs, they might check with any of their Elf contacts - especially those with extensive historical knowledge who may have lived extremely long times as the royals of Elfen societies.

(yah He's talking about the fact that multiple future selfs all came and stole a jumper bracelet.)

"So elf time knights? That must be a headach.... if you don't mind me asking how many times and by how many years has Balur altered time? My creator would like to know this I'm sure, she's quite peeved about the blue shift acceleration." Finding himself wanting to talk a little longer see's if one of the tree-golems will lead the others to where the need to go to get payed.

OOC: This entire conversation is happening before Kantoku arrives on the surface, while he is still onboard the ship. It's being ret-conned to that point in his personal history.


The mage who  handed Kantoku the cage says, "Oh, you're that Aflae/Aflan/whatever else repeating accidental time traveler. Yeah, they weren't her future or past selves directly, maybe its just your dialect and I misunderstood you, but each person who came before Aflae was created from a major history reset by that solid mana magic. Is that what this Balur is? Cool! I'll get to update the wiki! That room was protected from Balur's influence because of the Magem supression field on the island and around the entire planet which kept the inhabitants of Pskaena from being affected by Balur, and which was the reason so many recluse people chose to live there. After all, why would you associate with the Nexus people if they just used the parasite-of-Oners magic, Balur as their currency and you met the same only slightly different people, time and time again every couple thousand years while Balur just kept on gaining more and more territory across multiple Oners, resetting their histories as it infiltrated them. So anyway, Aflae is the last of her repetitions. Something happens in her timeline so that she never recurs again. Each previous version of Aflae eventually figured it out, and hid the bracelets in the exact place her subsequent self would most likely think to look once she knew to look. Theophili was itching to tell her, but congratulations, Kantoku! You'll make your momma proud, little one!"


"Ask Aflae to ask Azraile about Dr Who. That's basically us. As for the number of resets, I'm afraid that's just beyond our current knowledge in the wiki. There have been at least 3 spanning many thousands of years by your time. But there aren't many more afterward as far as we can tell. Who do you think altered the evolution of that virus that ended up wiping out all of life? We don't look at more history than we have to since it never changes, but we love it so much that we've mapped out the major points and whenever we go on assignment or into the timeline for any reason, we get to report whatever we discover on the wiki. Don't worry about the blue-shift. These events seem to be the deciding factor, and the calculated deathage of Oner 0 won't change after this (we think). Also, at the crunch of Oner 0, everyone was given ample warning and opportunity - right up to the moment after the last moment - to leave Oner 0 for one of the sanctuary Oners. Many of the people who remained are immortals, and come back once Oner 0 reforms and becomes inhabitable yet again. ..." He grimaces and nods, "Then comes the Nightmare age. But after that, it's all good!" smiling, "Theophili will be annoyed at me for that. That much is in the wiki already."

A short crewman wearing an Ildeerian uniform comes out, speaking with an irish accent and grinning ear to ear, "Yeah, show yer momma my image too, if you please."

After she's landed, the tree-golems gladly take over seeing to their needs. One of them had a premonition and had been observing everything it needed to see in order to do everything Kantoku would wish to be done.

He looks confused. "So several diffrent versions from diffrent balur created time lines ended up on the place where balur isn't affected causing the time lines to murge and over lap there and each one got the braclets, used them... destroyed a few of them... and put the ones back they didn't destroy when they where done with them when they found out others like them would be along?"  He cants his head to one side. "hu... well it supports we may end the war... if the war is over the anti-balur field may go down there. Though there has differently been more than 3 resets... there have been a few duzzon at least."  (I think they had a ROUGH estement of how off the time was ATLEAST... and a fair guess of how many damage crystals out there there might be from poking at the black market.... NO ONE was selling there luck crystals.... he shares this info)

"Aflae is funding epxiditions into other owners to find new habitable worlds to evacuate too. There searching for resources ofcorse, but she's earmarking worlds that can maintain a large population. I guess enough will be found by the time they are needed, I hope the infrastructures are set up by then."

Also scans the person and sends a picture to Aflae.
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Aflae recognizes the image as Yalfa the Leprechaun who pulled most of the people into the Sideways.

The Ildeerian Mage can answer a few more questions, but not much. When Balur rearranged the atoms to a previous iteration, new souls inhabit the remade people, and since their DNA and memories are the same but their souls are different, they're more like identical twins than anything else. But yes, they all got to the chamber first. Does Agle have a jumper bracelet? I forget. But if not, I'm trying to tell you she just has to want to find one and the first place she looks, she'll find it.

(Actualy after looking back other her's took all the bracelets, she had to buy them. lol.... Yah I think she has one that she bought.)

"I think this is going to give her a headache. I should go, I need to look into who Grolm is and see if he's alive."

OOC: Yes, they were all taken, but like Sooth said, Aflae isn't as selfish as she thinks she is, and people who are going to die, often try to do one last heroic thing. Aflae should look for the bracelets so she can find them. The Grolms is just the name of the planet with the floating islands. If you're looking for that floating island, check with the property office on the Grolms, as moving an entire floating island off of the Grolms and into Nexus would leave a paper trail even if it had been stolen. Kantoku would have enough access to information that he'd figure this out.

IC: "Good luck, fair bird!"

OOC Oh I thought it was at the nexus and then contact was lost with it.... not that it was in transit to the nexus and was lost.

After giving the criter sample over for Afle.... Then he will head to the Grolms property office with the soil sample to try and get more info.

OOC: I don't think this contradicts anything, but please let me know if you remember anything this might contradict. The actual history of the island (and this is more than Kantoku knows, but not too hard to deduce) is that it formed in the Grolms like all the floating islands there, then it was eventually obtained by Agarator and flown through a Portal into Nexus, and from Nexus it was moved to...)

IC:
Kantoku delivers the specimen to Aflae, and then goes to the property office on the Grolms with the soil sample. Because of his relation to the Anima corporation, the property office can give him a list of island transactions, and the minerals and agriculture department of the office identifies the soil as coming from island 62683. The particular island was sold to a "Mr. Agarator" for $5000 about 10 years prior to the events surrounding the Portal Waif, Scilick and Synthia. Someone suggests that Kantoku check with Nexus Customs for more information.

Once he goes to Nexus Customs, the Customs official says, "Oh, I think I could figure that out. Boy, they really don't pay me too well. I could use some extra funds."

"Oh, well I guess exstra wor-" silly nive burb thankfully is back in the hive mind.. "Wait is this a bribe? Are you asking for a bribe? ..... Is it not legal to get this information?"


If there is any implication that it is iligal he ask "What information are you allowed to give me on island 62683 or Mr. Agarator?"

The Customs officer says, "Yeah, you don't get it. Read my badge and look us up," he points to his badge that says, "Pinkerton Detective Agency Badge #29". Looking it up Kantoku sees that they are a private security company hired by various businesses in Nexus, as well as local governments within Nexus. ((Nexus is like Alpha, the City of a Thousand Planets, basically a steampunk/fantasy version of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEbPCb3scNI except with no centralized government. Its every group for themselves so long as collective peace is maintained))

Kantoku's options that I can see are to either pay him his bribe, or stealth his way in, scan for the files, and spy his access to them.



Pinkerton Detective Agency based on real-world these guys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...on_(detective_agency)

"Ah so it's not so much it's illegal, it's that you may lose your job.... I see, I suppose that is fine." If the price isn't to unreasonable he pays to get information on the island and any information they have on Agarator.

The Customs agent holds his finger up and retrieves a box with Agarator's name on it. He says, "Island 62683 was moved into the space above Nexus, but it was last spotted about ((the time that Uziel and Kuruno were hired to hunt for Gamma)) ago, and it hasn't been seen since - not that anyone's actively searching for it. This box fell off the island and nearly landed on a good citizen's head, but she turned it in to the PDA anyway, and we've been trying to return it to Agarator ever since. I'm willing to lose it if you're willing to take it off my hands."

He hands Kantoku a box with Agarator's name on it.

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Spoiler for what's inside: (Highlight or hover over the text to view)
No curses and no spells are on the box. Inside the box, Kantoku finds 18 fossil teeth.

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He scans them. >.>