The Consortium: The Grand HallNeth (November) 7, 4722: 5 pm The Grand Hall fills with bodies but not voices. The usual pre-meeting chatter is absent, replaced by tense silence and suspicious glances. Scholars eye their colleagues, wondering who knew, who helped, who can still be trusted. Professor Wriedt stands on the raised platform, diminished by […]
The Consortium: The Main LibraryNeth (November) 7, 4722: 11 am Professor Wriedt has gathered those she trusts in one of the library’s smaller reading rooms—a space normally reserved for examining fragile manuscripts. The door is locked, warded against eavesdropping with hasty but effective spells. Professor Ernst Kellerman sits heavily in a chair, still processing everything. […]
The Consortium: The Grand Corridor Neth (November) 7, 4722: 10:15 am Word spreads like wildfire through the Consortium’s halls. “—heard explosions from Wriedt’s office—” “—summoned creatures, shadow things that shouldn’t exist—” “—assassination attempt, they’re saying—” Dr. Wilhelm Kass emerges from the Planar Studies wing, his face pale. He clutches a leather case to his chest and […]
The Consortium: Prof. Wriedt’s Office Neth (November) 7, 4722: 10 am The remains of Kurayami—The Devouring Dark—dissolve into wisps of shadow that taste of nightmares and distant stars. Yugami no Kage—The Thing Between—collapses into geometric impossibility, its angles folding inward unti l nothing remains but scorched floor and the lingering smell of ozone and fear. Professor […]