Scarlet Thread
I will help you escape if you return the favor.
I hate fandoms normally. I especially hate fandoms with canon characters. But I had a dream last night of a game that I haven't played in years, and now I think I'll explode if I don't do it.
The game, if you couldn't tell by the title, is Chrono Trigger.
If you know little to nothing about the game, but a fantasy time travel roleplay interests you, skip down to Plot 3.
Beware spoilers ahead.
The ultimate villain Lavos is a creature that sleeps in the core of the earth until it arises a devourer of history. And I always wondered in the back of my mind why it allowed the heroes to even exist. Why it sent them through time instead of killing them the first time, or even the second? This is explained away as the action of an unseen Entity, one of knowledge and power who wants their quest to succeed. But there are just too many coincidences, clise calls, downright miracles. Who, or what, is the Entity?
And why is there no Lavos at the End of Time?
It is said that Lavos devoured many worlds before. The sun stone, moon stone, and dream stone supposedly came from these worlds. The gate key. The princess' necklace. The mysterious crests. Things that should not exist come from planets, from whole timelines, that no longer exist. Or maybe they do, we just never see them.
And why is there no Lavos at the End of Time?
It is said that Lavos devoured many worlds before. The sun stone, moon stone, and dream stone supposedly came from these worlds. The gate key. The princess' necklace. The mysterious crests. Things that should not exist come from planets, from whole timelines, that no longer exist. Or maybe they do, we just never see them.
Alright, enough rambling. You came here for a plot, right? Good. Here it comes.
Plot 1: Two characters (We each play one, and we can discuss which two) are the only ones left after a failed attempt to kill Lavos. Maybe their friends are scattered across time, or maybe they are dead. They don't even remember how they got back to the End of Time. There was only ever one Chrono Trigger, and it has already been used. It seems impossible now. The only hope is that they learned things about Lavos from the battle. His weakness. How he heals. How he attacks using their own memories, somehow.
The Entity it seems has given them one more chance. Do they look for the others, knowing that with each passing moment (time is not linear, but an outward spiral) Lavos grows stronger? Or do they face it head on, by themselves?
Plot 2: A human, a real human, from modern day Earth, is brought to the End of time via a wormhole which unlike the beams of light immediately closes. He or she (your character or mine) knows exactly where they are and immediately begins to freak out. Because they've played this game before. Many times, actually.
"Ah, you are finally here," says the old man. And he introduces the person to the others as the Entity. "The one who has had control from the beginning finally graces us with their presence here at the end of time." He laughs because he is the only one who gets the joke. He is the only one who knows who you are. But at the same time, he isn't lying...
Plot 3: You are a normal person living your normal life, and one day you come across a weird necklace. You pick it up and since it looks like it has been there for a very long time, you decide to take it to be appraised. There's a local antique store that seems like it has been there forever. The weird old man who works there - he gave you his name once but it was strange and you don't like to admit that you forgot it - refuses to answer your questions, but he does offer to buy it for whatever price you can name. Something tells you not to sell it though. Later as you're on your way home, you see something... extremely strange. A blue marble, floating in midair. You touch it. The next thing you know, you are flat on the ground in the middle of a forest. Things only get stranger from there. Somehow, you are in a different world. A world of talking monsters and magical technology. A world that is doomed without your help. Even though you haven't the slightest clue what the heck is going on.
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