Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-28358106-20171226225247/@comment-28358106-20180417113630

"I am not young!" Thomas says, " Not in the least. This is only the final cycle of my...of..."

He stops. What is he going to tell them? That he's lived for a hundred cycles or more? That his knowledge of magic is the result of the accumulation of those cycles? Would they believe him?

Why would they?

"...He did not trap us," Thomas starts again. "The Crucible was briefly overthrown by a psychic Mindflayer, and she manipulated it to create a sleeve reality born from what was supposed to happen to me in my 'real' timeline. I...I was trapped there, I don't know for how long.  The only way to escape it was to discover the truth of what it was.  I was so far gone that there was no escape for me, so I had to rely on another, one who came from outside our plane to make a crack in her psychic hold."

He isn't looking at them, only looking down, all the lige gone from his voice. "Those who might have been dragged into that reality with me have mostly forgotten. The manufactured reality and the one we are in now merged, but nobody remembers..."