Temporal Rift RPG

[The Kingpin]

"Well then, I say it's time we got to work testing it, wouldn't you agree?" said Jacob with a smirk...

[C S]

"No time like the present! Especially when the future is on the verge of being swallowed up in portal-ly death!" Kane said, undoing the straps and setting his new piece of equipment down on the work table. "I just need to get this thing incorporated into my exploration suit and we can be off in the wonderful plane that is science!"

[The Kingpin]

"Then get to it. Sooner we're done with tests, the sooner we can wreck that goddamned tether and move on to the next one" said Jacob calmly, before heading out of the room, intending onrearming himself. Considering the previous fight, it seemed he would have to carry a full compliment of weaponry and utilities...

[Giratina93]

"Yeah, they're the whole reason why we're here." Rebin told Dietrich. "They were sent in to examine an odd anomaly around a geyser in our world. They went in... and quickly went offline, one after the other. We were sent in to retrieve those probes." With that Dietrich had told them, perhaps their search for the probes would be over soon... and they could get back home.

[C S]

It was not long before a slab of metal popped out of place and split in two. The two pieces slid apart in opposite directions slowly with a hydraulic squeal, a thin mist rolling out from the delivery unit. The NT-SB armor secured to its mount rolled out on treads and came to a stop in the middle of the workstation.

Kane climbed the small set of stairs at the base of the black steel mount which held the orange and green suit at the waist with clamps. In his hands was a red tool kit, which he set down behind the hulking machine that the armor was and proceeded to work. In the future, the shape of a tool did not change for the same reason the shape of the wheel had not changed. The fundamental, most effective design had been developed ages ago. However in the future, the functionality of a tool was not nearly so limited...

From the kit, Kane removed two semi-circular objects that fit over his hands in their entirety, like black metal gloves. They activated with a hum and the rounded edge parted, a dull red field of glowing energy extending forth from both. Bits of metal housed inside the two constructors were then suspended in the field, forming the heads of tools Kane needed, wrenches, ratchets and the likes, an entire toolkit contained within a Particle Restraint Field.

The form of a tool did not change over the course of human history. Just how it was applied...


An hour later

Felicity tore through the air on autopilot, engines sending the jets of flame directly aft and screeching across the sky. The craft was a reasonable distance off the ground, just over two kilometers. It skimmed across the lowest level of clouds that had rolled across the plains. The spires protruded from the tide of white, the ones that were especially tall actually had snowy climes as if they were the peaks of mountains!

Kane stood at the threshold to the exterior hatch, the airlock closed behind him. He watched the spires going by from the open hull, the NT-SB visual feed documenting the creatures that circled the rocky towers. The pack had been fastened to the back of the armor he now wore, its straps led directly into the suit and the whole assembly was completed with reinforced plating. The result was a perfect fit, as if the suit had been designed to accommodate the new device in such a way.

[The Kingpin]

"Impressive" said Jacob through the comms as he watched from a camera in the airlock. "Wouldn't know it wasn't part of the armour" he commented as he sat back in his seat in the cockpit of the Felicity. A quick adjustment of his armament saw him fully armed and prepared for whatever he had to take on next. It amused him that, were he back at the turn of the millennium, he would never be able to carry this many weapons on his person. Oh, the wonders of technology. And to think there was a time I thought phones half the size of my palm were small he thought with an inward chuckle...

[Godzilla Forever]

The group had managed to traverse a large plot of ground in the hour that had passed. Out of the thick, primordial forests, the goru[p soon emerged onto the sandy plains of the desert. The land was sparce, and dried to a crisp; sandy dunes dotted the landscape, walls of sand rising and falling with each powerful breeze that swept across the pristine and ancient wasteland. On the scanner, Damian picked up a familair signal, one that he nearly remembered perfectly. Upon closer investigation, he found that the APC was picking up the slightest trace of one of the probes.

"Strange..." Damian said aloud, breaking the relative silence that had befallen the high-tech machine. "What is the probe doing all the way out here...?"

[C S]

"Really? Because to my engineering eye it's like a tumor growing out of my shoulders!" Kane joked. The holo-display appeared and after configuring the settings again, the explorer prepared for another shot. Attaching the device to the NT-SB armor was relatively easy. Getting it to work as it was designed to with the alteration was...guess work. He had already fired it three times, each one having less than...desirable results.


But Kane had a feeling the fourth time around, things would be different. The projector hummed to life, the bits of floating metal forming a ring just a few feet beyond the edge of the end of the Tri-Blade. The energy flickered in between the pieces and after synchronizing particle transit, Kane fired up the tool.

This time was different. A thin stream of red and blinding yellow spiraled out of the Felicity, arcing out from the projector and dancing out into the sky, the end of the beam devolving into frayed, electrical bolts lancing the air. The beam swirled through the center of the orbiting metal, Relativity Coil field manipulating the Tri-Blade. Its properties were altered by the transfer. Rather than slicing through matter, it would latch onto it, creating an imbalance in rift energy.

The result was a meta-physical tether able to draw rift energy into it...

A gun that worked like a miniature portal...

[The Kingpin]

Jacob watched interestedly, waiting to see the outcome of the construction. Here's hoping it doesn't just blow us all up he thought quietly, deciding not to voice his concern despite it...

[C S]

"Relativity Coil weapons! I suppose, given human nature, it was inevitable. Still cool as hell though...you ready to try to stop an apocalypse?" Kane messaged Jacob. He deactivated his launcher -he would have to name it something some time- and stepped back into the Felicity. The craft readjusted its course so that it was heading back to the monolith. Their first test in the Rift World...

[The Kingpin]

"I've been waiting for the last two days to actually get some work done" responded Jacob half-jokingly. His tone masked the sense of frustration he felt. It wasn't the first time he was sent into the field with excessively vague objectives or put on unclear paths to complete them, but it did little to blunt the edge of the frustration and irritation he felt every time. Were he more familiar with what the tether was, he'd opt to go in personally, plant some super high grade explosives, and blow it to smithereens. But as it was, it seemed he wasn't in a position to use conventional tactics. So he'd have to make due with what he had, even if he didn't particularly like it...


"The footage of the creatures taking your probes vas the last feed we got before the monsters attacked" explained Dietrich as he sat in the APC. "Ve know they headed Vest from the cave, but that is the extent of my knowledge, I'm afraid" he continued, putting on his broad Officer's hat as he looked up at the trio...

[Giratina93]

"Alright." Rebin said as he rubbed his neck. "Atleast we have a general idea for where they were going. If we'r elucky, we can catch up to them and get back the probes."

[The Kingpin]

"You must finish your mission and return as quickly as possible. Have your superiors destroy that portal. If left active for too long it vill destroy your home realm. It is vhy my men and I vere stranded in this wretched place. Ve vere left here" warned Dietrich...

[Godzilla Forever]

Dietrich's warning hit Damian liek a bombshell. Was he serious? This portal would DESTROY their homeworld? Insane!...

"You mean that... if we don't get out soon," Damian said, "That we'll be trapped in here?"

The APC continued hovering forward, heading closer and closer toward the ping that was Probe. It was somewhere far off, presumably in those ugly, sun baked openings into god knows hwere... why did everything have to be in a cave in this god forsaken place?

[Giratina93]

Like with Damian, both Yukari and Rebin were taken back by the warning. "You... you can't be serious. That portal...will destroy our world?!" Yukari gasped, trying to comprehend this new bit of information. "Good lord..."

"You know, after seeing that more or less everything here can kill you, it does sorta make sense that even the rifts in are death." Rebin tried to joke, which got him a glare from Yukari that stopped him.

[The Kingpin]

"Vell, the rift in your vorld are secured by anchors on this side. Ve found out too late that vonce you destroy the anchors, the rift is closed permanently. Ve vere given instructions by our superior officers on the other side to destroy them, vithout explanation. Then, after ve had set the last anchor to blow, ve vere told that ve vould be 'heroes'....and then left to vhatever fate avaited in this place" explained Dietrich. "It is because of the rift's destructive powers that you see so many strange things here. Most of vhat you see is not native to this place. They are the victims of the rift's consuming nature. Their homes have long since been destroyed. They stand as the only survivors, trapped here. It is also vhy most of vhat you find here is hostile. They all suffer from the loss of their original homes, and are forced to live here, in this cursed place" he added...

[C S]

Felicity banked around the giant alien construct, engines wailing against the strong winds which the craft fought valiantly. If it were not for his suit, Kane's hair would be standing straight from the charged quality of the air, a static cling in the atmosphere worse than any thunderstorm on Earth. He saw dancing, jagged electrical arcs shoot through the sky, not quite lightning. The current ran through the air rather than simply flashing. It was as if the tower was channeling and directing energy throughout the spire-plains wirelessly via empty space!

Felicity was built to handle extreme conditions however, and the electrified skies did not affect the craft too much. Only a few sensitive electromagnetic sensors and readouts were scrambled, returning incomprehensible data. Only one thing was definite: the portal was a massive congregation of power. Power which Kane and Jacob had the means to exploit. Hopefully.

The orange and black vehicle came to a hover over the flattened top of the pyramid, utterly dwarfed by the gear-tower. The sound of its turning was like a deep rumbling from within the Rift World itself and the green light that snaked out from the very top was highlighted the edges of the monumental cog.

"Show time!" Kane messaged Jacob. He disembarked through the outer hatch, dropping from the ship and having his free-fall thrusters flare up to slow his descent. He touched down onto the unfamiliar metal, initial scans revealing that the material was an exceptional conductor of meta-physical energies. It almost made him want to land his mobile laboratory and do studies on it.

Only almost, though.

[The Kingpin]

Leaping out of the Felicity in hot pursuit, Jacob flipped into a straight dive, shooting down through the air like a bullet before twisting, thrusters roaring to life as it slowed his descent, the mercenary landing heavily, a metallic clank being heard as he hit the ground in a kneel on the top of the tether. "Alright, Chief, time to cut the Hollywood crap and destroy this bloody thing" he said as he rose to his feet, coat billowing from the combination of strong winds and electrical charge in the air, the man walking towards his team mate as the Felicity roared overhead, the orange craft moving to a safer distance until needed...

[C S]

Kane laughed. "If it were only so easy!" he replied, panning his vision across the monolithic structure. It was sleek and seamless, the dark colors amplifying the luster the alloy it was made of had in the binary sunlight. "First order of business: finding an entrance." he stated. He readied his cannon/launcher/thingamajig and fired the manipulated beam of rift energy into the top of the pyramid. The area where it hit ballooned upwards and outwards in a field of portal energy, the dancing stream of red and yellow writhing inside, spreading out across the metal.

An excellent conductor indeed! The beam took to the substance and started stripping it down, converting matter into energy! The release of that power was substantial in the form of a blinding blue light as subatomic particles were flung to and fro into a quantum purgatory. Normally such a reaction would have had so many harmful repercussions -radiation and gamma rays to name a few- but due to the intrinsic nature of the rift such things were negated by the forces that be.

It only took a matter of seconds to make a sizable hole in the pyramid in which the hulking robotic NT-SB could fit more than comfortably through. Such a conversion of matter was thought only possible through reaction with anti-matter, and while the energy was truly tremendous, there was nary an explosion. Only light. Stranger still, some of that energy, an amount tinier than tiny, was absorbed by the device and the suit...

[dinoman666]

The pyramid was not abandoned. Deep within, machines scuttled and patrolled, ever-watchful of intruders who would dare disturb the balance...