This portal into a new timeline, is held open wide by something... by you are not sure... The Tar covered monstrosities of the Deep Spawn have melted into pools of darkness and splashes of shadow, but their wounds still remain The Deep boils and flows below on a sea of endless night in the rift.
Much has changed your understanding of the Deep; and before you it is retreating, sowing the rift shut slowly with igneous rock that splashes upward through the hole in spacetime. A bleeding cut in the world and the ichorous scab of the Deep; its clot. You realize the true gravity of your situation, the rift is closing, and the Deep is retreating... uncharacteristic of the entity. Through your experience the Deep has always broken upon the world like a wave, as if it's sole purpose was to simply wear at the edges of reality; a wave of chaos and death. But the Speaker from this timeline had seemed to possess an unparalleled control of it's properties, whereas the old Speaker had been merely a puppet; and Once it had retrieved what it wanted in the form of the Dark Child B'nehpkaaxe, it had fled.
[quote]"Curiouser and curiouser"
- Lewis Carroll [/quote]
[i]The implications of this fact could be a sign that now is the time to act...[/i]
You receive an emergency wide-band communication; It's the IDRD. The Interdimensional Deep Raider Detachment Headquarters of Offtopic, a new Resident on a once abandoned plot of real estate in the city, they inform anyone who is listening that they come in peace. They are an alliance of Soldiers, Guardians, Knights and Rogues from the far corners of a hundred documented realities in time and space. They have come to aid your world in their struggle against the Deep and all eldritch entities, in their own realities they have either defeated, are at war with or have known defeat by, the Deep. They are experienced warriors and brilliant scientists, strategists, aid workers, trainers and teachers, and they are inviting the Deep Raiders of Offtopic to join their ranks.
As the wound continues to cascade and harden along the edges of the rift you are faced with a choice.
A. If you are a former Deep Raider, Veteran or Recruit, it might be wise to report to your own Raider HQ,
B. A newcomer to the story might approach the enigmatic and severe white building that now stands in a once quiet corner of the ruined city.
C. Someone who is disinterested, might ignore it.
D. >*
The Choice is yours...
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B time