Hi all, quick update, I want to progress a bit more on my previous idea which is close to starting pre-alpha testing. Please see [Visual Novel] Revelation A.D. - A SciFi Experience Of The End Of Man - Off-Topic - Epic Developer Community Forums accordingly. Below is another Edge Of Forever plotline for your perusal.
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Kiziro approached Site 457 with caution. The culture shock of Pandora Base was bad enough, now he had to trudge all the way to the “meteor impact” with only a band of sled dogs as company. The silver lining was the winter-hazmat suit which offered reasonable warmth - at least the engineers had got that right. The Site was still about 5 miles away and the dogs were making good time. He leaned back slightly in the sled and reflected on his journeys around the world. Although a buddhist by birth, after living in Australia for several years he discovered the Western adulteration (yet possible enhancement) of the religion.
The “New Age”, liberally peppered with fundamental Christianity, was flimsy, yet contained many interesting truths. Such as the nature of “shooting stars” and “meteors”. He now believed, no, knew, that meteors were literally angels falling from heaven. The stars, wandering stars, host of heaven, whatever was previously described in Biblical culture… it was about the Descent. And Site 457 was a possible Descent location. ~What~ descended was the question - one he was supposed to investigate and report back - after physical and spiritual quarantine on Pandora Base.
“Look, there are two kinds of Descents. Those that reach the Earth and those that burn-up on entry.”, Ramirez had explained. “The angels that “kept not their first estate” decide to take physical form and directly enter the physical realm that humans inhabit. Those that make it are the supposed asteroids that reach the ground - those that don’t are removed somewhere between the heavens and the earth and are then “bound in chains” until the Judgement. The so-called meteor rocks are simply new compounds or particles formed when the angel impacts the soil, completes its transformation and then proceeds to whatever it intends to do.”
Kiziro felt a chill as he recalled Ramirez’s warning - “In any case, never forget. These aren’t the good guys.”
To be continued…