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normally experience them. Then, at least one of the characters far past to the distant future, creating a timeless state where
attempts to download a music video from a video-sharing site, it can operate without the necessity of any intermediaries. In
and instead downloads the video described above. this timeless state, cause and effect cease to have any meaning,
At least one of the characters needs to be an electronics as every event in the world occurs in one infinite instant. The
or chemistry professional or hobbyist who is comfortable blue light protects people from this timeless reality, creating
creating a custom-made gas-discharge lamp. The characters a bubble of linear time six yards in diameter. However, every-
also need to be people willing to consider acting on the advice thing beyond this radius remains a confusing whirl.
of downloaded internet videos about time travel. Several decades after creating the blue light, Dr. Girard
Blueprints realized how dangerous his superiors’ plans were. He at-
tempted to warn them, but none of them believed him. To
protect himself, he pretended to rethink his objections. The
If the characters do nothing, the auroras grow increasingly time-destroying mechanism was completed in 1932. It has
bright and everyone begins catching brief glimpses of phan- been gradually accumulating power since that time. As the
tom figures. Belief in ghosts soars across the world. These growing auroras reveal, it is beginning to activate. For more
“ghosts” become increasingly solid as the barriers between about Dr. Girard, see p. 241.
one time and another break down over the course of several Once the characters leave the time corridor, they find
weeks (the figures are not ghosts, but people bleeding through themselves walking out the door of a warehouse in Paris in
from other times). In small areas, time begins to spontane- the early evening on February 16, 1901. They are two miles
ously reverse itself for a few seconds. A shattered vase might from Dr. Girard’s laboratory, which is on the other side of
reassemble and rise off the floor to sit intact upon a table. the Seine from the warehouse and in a far nicer portion of
Eventually, the structure of linear time completely dissolves. town. To succeed, the characters must steal or destroy both
The device that caused this enables the God-Machine to the original blue light and Dr. Girard’s notes. Without these
collapse time, allowing it to entirely reformat reality from the notes he will not be able to successfully recreate the light.

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