Not down on any map
Welcome to a Halloween story with my police sims! It starts out with a murder case, and ends as… time travel? Or are things not as they seem? This chart shows the characters with their current life...
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The investigators gather around Sigstein.
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“Okay, I must confess I longed to make this speech for years”, the spellcaster admits, “but I didn’t expect I’d sit in a purple children’s desk chair while doing so, or that I’d be surrounded by cops.” He briefly considers, then reifies: “Or if cops were present in my idea of this scene, then I envisioned them bound and gagged. Maybe fishified.”
“Get to the point!” Tina snarls.
“Well, see, this “wishing rock” is the reason why I wanted to travel to Selvadorada six years ago. Why I broke into the museum, when you closed all escape routes for me.”
“I remember…” Hank slowly says. Indeed the memory of this particular case has never really faded for those involved in it. “We spotted you through a window, in the Selvadoradan section, holding a lump of clay.”
“You spotted that correctly. I had to check whether the clay blob perhaps was a World Stone. Turned out it wasn’t.”
“The World… Stone?”
“It’s a legend, old as magic itself, some would say. It certainly dates back to the height of Omiscan rule and therefore magical research. Maybe it has inspired the legend of the Philosopher’s Stone, too. It’s properties are peculiar, to say the least.”
“C’mon, you are dying to tell us, to tell anybody! Spit it out already!”
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“For starters”, Sigstein starts elaborating, “a World Stone is always the same, in every parallel universe, down to the molecular level. It cannot get affected by outside forces in any way, shape or form, up to and including the heat death of the universe! World Stones may very well be what the next universe is getting born from every time!!!”
“Hey! Don’t get carried away!”
“Yeah, sorry.” Sigstein chuckles. “The problem is, there is no contemporary research on World Stones, even the Omiscan texts that mention them are of a later era already, so all we have to go by is legends. Or urban myths, like Professor Ember owning one…”
“Professor MORGYN Ember? Is that feasible?”
“Now more than before. A single World Stone bends reality in vague ways. But when two are close by, then you can look into parallel universes. Three have the power to open portals. What happened to us hints at, hm, there being two and a half World Stones in Detroit?”
“Half of an indestructible rock? How’s that possible?”
“See? That’s the problem right there. We know nothing. Let’s just grab the bad boy and leave here, okay?”
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Sigstein may have claimed that he knows “nothing”, but his twin, Captain Connor Anderson, knows at least this: That the rock is evidence. And evidence is to get stored for up to ten years. If it proves to be no more danger, then it is to get returned to the owners, otherwise destroyed. With the Wishing Rock/World Stone there is little chance of either – it doesn’t stop being a danger and it cannot get destroyed.
So for the time being it will lay on a shelf in the DPD’s evidence archive…
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…to occasionally get taken out and studied right next door, in the department for paranormal investigations. First by Detroit’s small circle of researchers of the occult, later by the MIT and later still by researchers from all around the globe.
The World Stone is loathe to divulge its secrets though, and there doesn’t turn up another one. It appears that the rock was able to bring its owners’ imagination to life only this one night, the night before All Hallows’ Eve, when the walls between the walls are naturally thin. Maybe the curious bipeds have to wait for the next time that happens? That would be Halloween 2051…
THE END
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“Okay, I must confess I longed to make this speech for years”, the spellcaster admits, “but I didn’t expect I’d sit in a purple children’s desk chair while doing so, or that I’d be surrounded by cops.” He briefly considers, then reifies: “Or if cops were present in my idea of this scene, then I envisioned them bound and gagged. Maybe fishified.”
“Get to the point!” Tina snarls.
“Well, see, this “wishing rock” is the reason why I wanted to travel to Selvadorada six years ago. Why I broke into the museum, when you closed all escape routes for me.”
“I remember…” Hank slowly says. Indeed the memory of this particular case has never really faded for those involved in it. “We spotted you through a window, in the Selvadoradan section, holding a lump of clay.”
Spoiler
That happened during a murder mystery challenge. Sigstein had free will and played with clay while my investigators were chasing him. It looked as if he had stolen it from the exhibition.
“You spotted that correctly. I had to check whether the clay blob perhaps was a World Stone. Turned out it wasn’t.”
“The World… Stone?”
“It’s a legend, old as magic itself, some would say. It certainly dates back to the height of Omiscan rule and therefore magical research. Maybe it has inspired the legend of the Philosopher’s Stone, too. It’s properties are peculiar, to say the least.”
“C’mon, you are dying to tell us, to tell anybody! Spit it out already!”
https://abload.de/img/11.11.22_21-12-51wae5k.png
“For starters”, Sigstein starts elaborating, “a World Stone is always the same, in every parallel universe, down to the molecular level. It cannot get affected by outside forces in any way, shape or form, up to and including the heat death of the universe! World Stones may very well be what the next universe is getting born from every time!!!”
“Hey! Don’t get carried away!”
“Yeah, sorry.” Sigstein chuckles. “The problem is, there is no contemporary research on World Stones, even the Omiscan texts that mention them are of a later era already, so all we have to go by is legends. Or urban myths, like Professor Ember owning one…”
“Professor MORGYN Ember? Is that feasible?”
“Now more than before. A single World Stone bends reality in vague ways. But when two are close by, then you can look into parallel universes. Three have the power to open portals. What happened to us hints at, hm, there being two and a half World Stones in Detroit?”
“Half of an indestructible rock? How’s that possible?”
“See? That’s the problem right there. We know nothing. Let’s just grab the bad boy and leave here, okay?”
https://abload.de/img/12.11.22_02-18-32u3el1.png
Sigstein may have claimed that he knows “nothing”, but his twin, Captain Connor Anderson, knows at least this: That the rock is evidence. And evidence is to get stored for up to ten years. If it proves to be no more danger, then it is to get returned to the owners, otherwise destroyed. With the Wishing Rock/World Stone there is little chance of either – it doesn’t stop being a danger and it cannot get destroyed.
So for the time being it will lay on a shelf in the DPD’s evidence archive…
https://abload.de/img/12.11.22_02-10-47sefr0.png
…to occasionally get taken out and studied right next door, in the department for paranormal investigations. First by Detroit’s small circle of researchers of the occult, later by the MIT and later still by researchers from all around the globe.
Spoiler
Left to right: Jin Reed-Chen (Gavin’s and Tina’s Genius son), Lucy Klein (a seer), a smartspeaker that connects the department to the Institute for Paranormal Studies in Senbamachi led by Guidry, Morgyn Ember (aged to Adult), Sigstein Connor (Enchanter/Spellcaster) and The Garden Club Lady (the only permanent sage in this save, since I tend to accidently delete the other ones in my townie purges, Morgyn isn’t a sage in this reality)
The World Stone is loathe to divulge its secrets though, and there doesn’t turn up another one. It appears that the rock was able to bring its owners’ imagination to life only this one night, the night before All Hallows’ Eve, when the walls between the walls are naturally thin. Maybe the curious bipeds have to wait for the next time that happens? That would be Halloween 2051…
THE END
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