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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8772257" data-attributes="member: 30538">* The World More Sorcerous has become the extreme past of Earth, roughly 150 million years ago. Hundreds of thousands of years in the future, one of humanity's descendant species, accompanied by other kindred, time travels there to start over.  Their civilization lasts at least an epoch, but all traces of it are destroyed by the Chicxulub impact, the wrath of the Xothi, and, you know, time.* The World Closer To Death has become the extreme future of Earth, roughly 250 million years in the future, settled by a different set of time travelers.* Tanelorn is located on an artificial island north of Bermuda. Under the leadership of Patricia MacMillan, the Warden, who has succeeded her vanished husband as Sherriff, Tanelorn is attempting to establish diplomatic relations with their new neighbors, most of whom are understandably concerned about the city full of superpowers who just appeared out of nowhere.* The Sprawl is located on the coast of the Magadan Oblast, due south of the former location of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butugychag" target="_blank">Butugychag</a>. As yet, its corporate overlords have not yet established diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation, but are reportedly in talks with the Empire of Korea.* Many of the heroes and villains of the World More Grim merge with their counterparts on the World Less Magical. (Exile, for example, has started dyeing her hair red, matching the natural hair color of the Goddamned Queen.)* One who doesn't is Renegade, who is reborn (slightly younger) as the artificially conceived child of Jora and Mong, arriving on Earth a few years after Jora and Roger were married and adopted by them.* Another who doesn't is Teddy Beauregarde, who is reborn (slightly younger) as Dr. Caulder's nephew, whom Robert Richmond has entrusted with the identity of Darkwing while he retires to pursue some research.* Connor Roberts is also reborn (much younger) and has just discovered his Power Prism.* Nike is no longer the Last Olympian; numerous Olympians of the World More Grim now reside on Ganymede, with most of them "remembering" having entered stasis and emerged only recently. (Prometheus is avoiding them, for now.) They are led by Nike's "aunt" Metis, who has vague memories of her existence as Pallas' aunt, and finds them extremely confusing. * The Eternal-rank Ascendants of the World More Grim (Merlin, the Dreamweaver, the Erlking, the Mnajimu and Mephistopheles) are now joined by Hierarchs (less powerful than those who existed in the World More Sorcerous), mostly from the World Less Magical. Teleute, as already mentioned, becomes the Hierarch of Entropy. Tiamat becomes the Hierarch of Matter. Kent Wildman becomes the Hierarch of Mind. Abraxas becomes the Hierarch of Power (this is a step down for him.) Exelion becomes the Hierarch of Time.* In addition, there is a group of young superheroes based out of Vancouver who seem to be the reincarnations of the Princesses of the Universe ...* Soon after the changeover, the Mnajimu is apparently killed in a way that interferes with his immortality, and is promptly replaced by a different, mysterious crimson-robed Ascendant of Time. It is likely that more Ascendants will arise in the future.* Daath and the Dark Side are currently leaderless; in the absence of Ananke, it is not even clear how a new leader can be chosen. The Last Men Standing and the Power Prism users are starting to reclaim conquered territory.* The biggest heroic casualty of the struggle was Megan Excalibur. On meeting her World More Grim counterpart, who was significantly more like a fictional character who had inspired her as a child, and learning that the other would be essentially destroyed by the universal merger, Sakura Megumi chose to sacrifice her life in battle so that Sakura Motoko would have a chance to go on living. It worked. Her last words were, <a href="https://www.animelyrics.com/anime/yohko/mhyfmoon.htm" target="_blank">"Empty things sometimes become useful."</a>* The biggest villainous casualty of the struggle was the Purple Haze, killed by Railgun after the latter determined that she was the one who had been conspiring against her. Railgun remains unaware that the Purple Haze was her daughter from a divergent timeline, and is still obsessed with destroying "the rest of the conspiracy".* Riverwind has received a power-up, making her as powerful as Iridescent, and developed the same regenerating life-force. She has not found any sign that the Vima exist in this new world, and is not sure what's going on here.* Trouble and Bravo have learned that Trouble is the original and Bravo is the clone. Bravo isn't taking this well.* The Discovery Company turned out to have been timenapped during the invasion, played a key role in the crisis, and have since started exploring the new multiverse, leaving it unclear if they will ever return to their original world.* The Primal Pattern are back.* The whereabouts and circumstances of Cerebron, Billie Zane and Jessica Drummond are mysteries.* So too has le Charme vanished without any explanation. Meanwhile, the Dreamdancer has claimed the Dreamfiend as her servant, but has not done anything to prevent his crimes.* Dancer was rescued from her fall by Jack Neutron.* And Armonia? As she recuperates in a back room of an orphanage in the Sprawl, she muses, "These days, you just never know who's going to die ... and who's going to live."</blockquote>

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