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[undyingcrow]

In light of recent events, I believe we're past due for more information gathering.

First, I'd like to discuss the tower we encountered last month. There were... interesting messages scrawled across its surface, which I thankfully wrote down before its destruction.

They read:

"This remnant-

Carved from [...] First Impact Remains [...]

Meant to be left alone. The Tears used it in their ritual-

Now it's out of control, changing everything it can"

The Convoy Database regards the Silver Tears as effectively the antithesis of the Steel Wardens. Reverent to the moon and its "blessings" (the transformations). I've no doubt they're the ones behind the scattered shrines we encountered some months prior...

And, obviously, we're well acquainted with those wretched Wardens, with their hypocritical obsession with "purging" this world of monsters.

The words "First Impact" stick out to me as significant. I actually spoke with Blake-san about it as well, and she encountered similar mentions of an impact in scavenged books that had a great deal of information scrubbed clean.

There is clearly something that one of the factions does not want us to discover. Given my previous findings, we know that something of significance was broken in two, that the moon goddess suffers in anguish, and a ritual failed, with us as replacement participants to "share her pain" and "put the ritual right."

But now, thanks to that sagebrush, some of us have been gifted with visions, and I believe that if we share our findings, we can come closer to the truth.

In my case, I witnessed a woman dispatching a monster before turning to panicked civilians and murdering one of them in cold blood. Presumably, she went on to kill the rest of them, but the vision ended there.

For the sake of this post, I believe the most pertinent information is:

• Where you had the vision.
• The description of the vision...

An optional detail:

• The object that sparked the vision.

Mine was in the battleground, and the vision came as I tried ripping the sword from a fallen cyborg's hand.

Comments

[undyingcrow]

Ah.

Your brother did mention aliens, but I can't recall of the time travel element came up.

[purplexing]

There is unfortunately a bit of time continuity-breaking nonsense. We were warned about the aliens, by someone who was sent by our little brother's future iteration. Or I suppose an iteration because we've created a bifurcated time branch in which we have successfully thwarted the alien invasion.

[undyingcrow]

So, rather than rewriting the future, it's more of a split timeline scenario.

Fascinating...

[purplexing]

Potentially. It's not like we have the means to confirm it.

[undyingcrow]

Then it's more of a hypothetical.

Still, I must admit, time travel scenarios are a fascinating puzzle. Living through one must have been rather revelatory.

[purplexing]

Yes. We could possibly already have several different timelines just from the absence of one person, although maybe by that point it wouldn't have made a difference with things being so bad. But we also don't know if fixing things for the future would change events enough that that person would stop existing. Since he's still with us and hasn't simply vanished or something, it probably makes more sense for the split timeline route.

Having someone come from the future to find you to warn you that aliens were going to come and more or less destroy everything you knew is pretty eye-opening.

[undyingcrow]

So did he stay with you in the end?

[Come to think of it, if his future was so terrible, perhaps that's not such an awful outcome. He can live in a more pleasant reality, free of the hardships the aliens must have brought.]

Still, I agree. It certainly sounds eye-opening.

[purplexing]

Temporarily until we were able to help him set up somewhere else. The sewers aren't for everyone.