(Discovery Park) The King's Man

[Kelreth]

As Winter tries to access Isaac's phone he realizes that the phone is dead. How long had the blond man been here? The young man chuckles. "Because we're bugs next to them. They Won ages ago." A snort follows.

"No war? No proxies? What world do you live in? You think the On High cause every problem? Cause every shit show? No that's humanity front and center." One of the tears rolls down the man's cheek into the grass. "Because they've already won! Why fight them? I want to live. Please let me live. I don't want to be in here anymore." There's a moment were it looks like the man would struggle against Knot but instead he just exhales and looks into the grass.

Across from the gathering of Awakened Minds the crack between trees flashes a purple light and audibly rips open to be person sized.

A glimpse through the portal

If any mage approaches the portal bleeding purple light they will see purples skies over an obsidian black beach. Beautiful rich rays of gold and green sunlight shine across the beach. Highlighting a lonely flat rock near the portal with a lonely long-haired man sitting cross legged watching the "sun" rise. To either side of the rock and man the beach reaches on as far as the eye can see. Even without stepping across you can tell that this isn't the planet you are from.

  2 suxx to resist Intim, 1 suxx to resist Lies

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2018-09-05 19:32:56		Isaac rolls 4 to Lies (10 Again)		2, 2, 10, 2, 7		1 success
2018-09-05 19:31:34		Isaac rolls 4 to No Intim? (10 Again)		6, 4, 10, 8, 6		2 successes

[Kelreth]

For a moment Time stands still. The flash of purple flooding minds as everyone present sees black sand under rays of a glorious gold and iridescent green sunrise. Then a dark haired man sitting cross-legged watching the sun rise, light glistening off of Atlantean carved into the stone he sits on. Another flash of light and Isaaac is on his feet. Then... What If?

Mages move and mages run. One stands ready to defend what seems like the way out. One works to close the portal for good. A flash of beautiful purple and gold and green flashes from the portal across the glade. As the flash fades what ifs flash before the Pentacle mages’ eyes. A what if where Isaac is caught, fights back and dies. His soul sucked into the stone pillar at the center of the glade. A what if where all three mages run into the portal bleeding purple and never return. A what if where three mages come back out, blond replaced for dark dark brown as Langdon comes out with haunted eyes. A what if where Isaac makes it into the portal first and then it snaps shut. A what if where all of the mages study the pillar and offer up some of the supernal to escape. A what if where Isaac is restrained against the pillar by hands and a knife runs across his neck. Blood and Soul seeping into the stone.

Then suddenly Weavebreaker finds her fellow Pentacles around her as the portal falls into itself before disappearing, knots of Prime wrapping tightly around the spot where it had been. A quick look around tells Banshee that the ghost of the man, surely Isaac, is nowhere to be seen. In fact the man himself is gone. Knot can see that the Time itself has resumed what passes for its normal flow. As the portal falls into itself Sand can see a glimpse of Isaac leaning against the pillar with a sad smile on his face as the purple light floods the glade. And Winter , well the Seer, obviously a Seer, is nowhere to be found. Thankfully?

Langdon sits on the ground at Weavebreaker’s feet. Blinking heavily in the afternoon light.

Starting to wrap this up as it was going to readily crack two months. I am sorry that it went for too long and I would rather bring this to a close than let it languish. That being said the thread is not closed. Something strange just happened after all...

[Knot]

"What in the fuck was that?"

Knot's head... didn't exactly hurt, but it for fucking sure felt overfull and ready to burst with multiple timelines crammed in it.

"I blame you Langdon." Knot kicks the other man's shoe. "Did I offend you? Why did you do this to me?"

He puts out a hand to help Langdon up.

[Banshee]

Reeling, her eyes dart around.

"Issac isn't dead anymore." she says, even as Knot rounds on Langdon. Safe and sound. "Or....perhaps he is," the rapidly flashing images of his many paths towards Death, "...I cannot see his shifting spectre any longer."

What had happened? Where did the purple curled portal lead to? What happened to the Seer?

....where had Langdon disappeared to, and why?

[Sand]

Stand still. Don’t move. Observe first. Evaluate second. React third.

N/M.

External forces at play render process and procedure null and void.

”If you do not know ...” The words implied concerned. The tone did not.

A sad smile. Purple light.

+: Langdon is back!

[Winter]

"So the kid was doomed without appeal, uh?", somehow there's a tinge of sadness in his tone.
"The time ritual the Seers performed, might be that it's finally cracking under its weight? First the insects, now this", he searched his pockets, wondering whether the Seer's phone was still there.

"Good to see you're all in one piece", looking at Langdon.

[Weavebreaker]

With their appearance and the phenomena's disappearance, Weavebreaker halted her work. The white lines she was tracing, grew blurry and vanished.

"Welcome back?" Weavebreaker offered them, with a slight shrug. She really didn't know what had happened, but it seemed that they found a way to resolve it all.

Weavebreaker let the phantasmal rope dissipated back into nothingness.

"Glad you are all ok."

[Langdon]

A jolt far greater than the kick to his shoe runs through Langdon at the kick. The man speaks slowly after several moments. "I... blame me? Well I guess.. what day is it?" Langdon accepts Knot's hand and slowly gets to his feet looking at Banshee in confusion. "Isaac?" Then a look at Sand and her unspoken statement.

Several blinks pass as Langdon tries to figure out what Winter is going for. "I don't know if that was the Seers, or if it was it is from before their inception. That stone pillar was covered in Atlantean. Volumes of it. I spent..hours? there? I think? Thanks." A shadow of a smile plays across the Moros's face.

"I am too. I had given up on the other side. I couldn't get back through. Couldn't reach you all. Sympathy just didn't exist. All I had was that sunrise...it felt endless." A shiver runs through Landgon as he remembers the gold and the green. Endless black sand against a dark ocean. "I ah. ya. What day is it?"

Winter does find the missing Seers phone

[Winter]

"You did send something back, at the Circle", he says looking at the Seer's phone, "it wasn't all for naught, I guess", he consigns it back to the safety of his pocket, meaning to analyze it at a later time. "Even though, to think everything might have been unmade or lost in time", the Guardian frowned perplexed.
The man looks around, scanning for a trace of residual resonance.

  3 successes

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2018-09-25 11:27:13		Winter rolls 6 to perception (Wits + Composure) (10 Again)		2, 8, 9, 3, 3, 10, 6		3 successes

Date		Action		Roll		Result
2018-09-25 11:27:13		Winter rolls 6 to perception (Wits + Composure) (10 Again)		2, 8, 9, 3, 3, 10, 6		3 successes

Supernal Vision - Conj Mind 1 (Pot1), Gain Occult (2) (Pot4), -1 Mana,

[Langdon]

"My note? Ya I wanted to be sure that someone knew where I was. Well where I started. The crack didn't look right, the other side was clear and had trees in it. Just seemed like a good precaution?" The Mystagogue shrugs as he looks at the sorted mages. At them.

"Sooo... I'm guessing it was weird in there for you all right? That light never changed." Langdon shakes his head. Eternal light or an eternal sunrise over black. Neither were pleasant.