8i98oy presents:
Hubworld: Steam:
After Solstice
PROLOGUE
(Music: The Legendary Hero - LOZ:WW)
This is but only one tale of which people speak…
Long ago, there existed a world unlike yours or mine, for this world was made entirely of code, this land was divided into three sections, The Barrens, The Glen, and The Refuge, for quite a while, this land only knew peace.
Until one day, the sun had died, and darkness befell the land as the people of the three sectors tried to manage to survive without it, using the one of the land's most useful resources, phosphor, giving way to other sources of light, such as lanterns, or energy generators for the various robots they had created for their world.
But then, the land started to fall apart and corrupt at the seems, starting in The Refuge and spreading all the way to The Barrens. Anyone who dared to touch the corruption would be subject to horrid effects.
But a prophecy came to fruition, that one day a messiah and its God would awaken in a dark house, and find a new sun, and they would travel through their land to place the new sun into The Tower, the location of the previous sun.
The people did indeed believe it, but alas, time passed on and the corruption only got worse and worse, consuming more of the land. But then, when all hope had died, and the hour of doom seemed at hand…
The messiah arrived, with not one, but two separate gods! Through many a day and night, they successfully completed their mission and delivered the new sun to The Tower, bringing light back to the land.
The more timid of the gods, Quinn, was worried for the journey through The Barrens, but came out much more brave in the end. The more experienced god, Saimona, had been through this world before, and guided Quinn through in her own cryptic, but still helpful way.
They had not only saved the sun, they had also discovered the 3 catalysts to saving both this world and sending Niko back to her homeworld, Proto, Cedric, and Rue.
Alas, their mission truly completed, they all went back to their regular lives, the tale of Niko, Quinn and Saimona was passed down through generations until it became legend… But one day, Niko had missed her two friends, so she send a heartfelt message to the both of them, using a cassette tape and with help from The World Machine.
The message had made it to the two of them, they we're truly touched by the words Niko spoke, they then hatched a plan to make it to Niko's homeworld to see her once again.
However… during that time, a horrid army of darkness, known as The Listeners had caught on to Niko's hidden power of contacting and interacting with other worlds, and devised a plan to capture her and take this power for themselves…
Their leader, a witch of pure evil, Zaphara Naxxramis, successfully managed to create a plan devilish enough to capture Niko, her next order to her troops, was to simply wait…
Like a guard-dog, they awaited their time to attack Niko's village, then the day came when a wind began to blow over her village, The great evil that had hidden itself from her world crept forth from the depths of pure darkness, eager to gain Niko's power…
What became of Niko's village? None who remain know.
The memory of the messiah and the two gods vanished, but their legend survived on the wind's breath, soon, Quinn and Saimona after months of tinkering and crafting, managed to create a teleporter capable of transporting them to Niko's homeworld. They went to bed that night, eager to see Niko again in the morning. . .
Then, that same night. Quinn had a dream…