Chapter 2: Magus Meets the "Old Man"
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1158 BC
The Ice Age
Searching for Schala...
Somewhere in the cold flows of history, a man styled Magus flies over the ice of this particular time period. He has only one goal in mind...finding his sister, Schala. Unfortunately for him, finding someone in an Ice Age, and someone who may be dead, to boot, is pretty tough.
"Schala?" Called Magus for the 92nd time that morning. "Schala? Nope, guess she isn't near the Eastern Seaboard. (sighs) It's hopeless. Say, what's that? Is that her, out there in the distance?"
Flying faster and faster, Magus held on to the reins of sanity as he flew. "It's SCHALA! No, wait, It's a PINEAPPLE! No, wait it's the EPOCH! No, wait...hey, it is the Epoch."
Looking up, Magus realized that he really WAS looking at the Epoch. The sudden jolt brought him out of his temporary insanity. Glancing wariy over the machine, he found a note which read:
Magus,
If you are reading this, then history has changed, between 500 and 1500 AD. Take the Epoch, go to the End of Time and ask the Old Man what happened. Maybe you can stop it! Please, Magus, don't just use the Epoch to find Schala. Please, change history!
-Lucca
Magus writhed in thought momentarily. "On the one hand," he thought, "I have the Epoch, and can try again to save Schala's life...Or, I can rewrite history and fix yet another problem..... Well, Lucca," He thought, "You saved my life more than once. Maybe I should save yours. But, as soon as this ends, I shall take the Epoch as payment!"
Leaping into the Epoch, Magus activated the time needle and set it to "End of Time". In a flash uncommon to the Epoch, the Time Gate activated. The Epoch seemed to be hurrying, as if it had a strange knowledge of the task to come.
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End of Time
End of Time Street
Meeting with the Old Man
The Epoch exited, as it always did, on the steps of the mystic End of Time. This area was at the edge of reality, domain of the mysterious old man Magus hoped could fill him in on this latest disaster. As he lept over the ridge of the Epoch and up the unethereal steps, Magus could feel almost...a change in the air. "But that's impossible." He thought to himself, "How could ANY change have effect...here?"
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1158 BC
The Ice Age
Searching for Schala...
Somewhere in the cold flows of history, a man styled Magus flies over the ice of this particular time period. He has only one goal in mind...finding his sister, Schala. Unfortunately for him, finding someone in an Ice Age, and someone who may be dead, to boot, is pretty tough.
"Schala?" Called Magus for the 92nd time that morning. "Schala? Nope, guess she isn't near the Eastern Seaboard. (sighs) It's hopeless. Say, what's that? Is that her, out there in the distance?"
Flying faster and faster, Magus held on to the reins of sanity as he flew. "It's SCHALA! No, wait, It's a PINEAPPLE! No, wait it's the EPOCH! No, wait...hey, it is the Epoch."
Looking up, Magus realized that he really WAS looking at the Epoch. The sudden jolt brought him out of his temporary insanity. Glancing wariy over the machine, he found a note which read:
Magus,
If you are reading this, then history has changed, between 500 and 1500 AD. Take the Epoch, go to the End of Time and ask the Old Man what happened. Maybe you can stop it! Please, Magus, don't just use the Epoch to find Schala. Please, change history!
-Lucca
Magus writhed in thought momentarily. "On the one hand," he thought, "I have the Epoch, and can try again to save Schala's life...Or, I can rewrite history and fix yet another problem..... Well, Lucca," He thought, "You saved my life more than once. Maybe I should save yours. But, as soon as this ends, I shall take the Epoch as payment!"
Leaping into the Epoch, Magus activated the time needle and set it to "End of Time". In a flash uncommon to the Epoch, the Time Gate activated. The Epoch seemed to be hurrying, as if it had a strange knowledge of the task to come.
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End of Time
End of Time Street
Meeting with the Old Man
The Epoch exited, as it always did, on the steps of the mystic End of Time. This area was at the edge of reality, domain of the mysterious old man Magus hoped could fill him in on this latest disaster. As he lept over the ridge of the Epoch and up the unethereal steps, Magus could feel almost...a change in the air. "But that's impossible." He thought to himself, "How could ANY change have effect...here?"
