untraceable audio

[maskormods]

[Without warning, a transmission appears on the imPort network. It has no ID or other identifier.]

—nyone there? Can anyone hear this? Shouldn't be here have to try but I'm dead if they find out, I'm dead anyway because it's all gone wrong—

[Several panicked breaths, and then several longer ones, forced.]

She's coming. The organization wanted power because why should you all be the only ones who have it, we wanted to break through to other worlds and this was they way—if Atropos was summoned here, she'd shatter the barriers, walls would become doors, but that's not happening, everything's just falling apart.

I've tried to call it off, this experiment's a failure, we'll do something else but the others won't listen. They've glimpsed something beyond and it did things to them...or maybe they're just that committed. Maybe I'm the weak one. I don't know.

Listen. LISTEN. She's going to come, the process has already begun. Can't be stopped. Calculations say she'll arrive on the full moon and if she's alone, god help us all. But if you can summon her sisters, they'll bring her here with them, and there'll be balance. Vulnerability. No guarantee.

Don't know how. Don't know if it's possible. But you're heroes right? Do something. PLE—

[The transmission cuts off abruptly. The speaker will not make any replies, although imPorts can speak to each other.]

Comments

[callmevision]

If they are as the Three Fates of legend, then Clotho would be the third sister.

Any details could be of help.

And as far as summoning her, I believe people got messages recently, before my arrival. And when solved, they spoke of summoning sisters.

[ Doom. ]

[heartstings]

Oh right, Greek myth. [Possibly reality back home.] But this isn't a myth. They're real beings or were. I'm not sure what happened to Lachesis after she sent us away.

The puzzle everyone got just before I arrived is clearly the clue. Summoning them sounds like a bad idea...but what else do we have?

[callmevision]

I do not know of anything else. If this universe is out of balance, then perhaps putting it into balance, despite the danger, is the only choice to fix it.

[ Which sounds... bad. But also, as she said, what else do they have? ]

[heartstings]

This is really one of those rock-and-a-hard-place sitches.

[She sighs, shaking her head as she rubs the side of her face.]

[callmevision]

It seems so.

I have confidence that we will succeed.

[heartstings]

For all our sake, I hope so.

[callmevision]

Me too. Me too.