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................ To understand what happened, it really helps to understand exactly what a scratch is. When John severely damaged the Beat Mesa on your planet, and sent it off to Skaia to release its temporal energy there, you could view it as a kind of "request." We were asking Skaia to change everything at a fundamental level, and we gave it the energy to do so. But Skaia is a very passive entity. It only "knows" and "sees," but it never quite "acts." When it is asked to change everything, there is only so much it has control over. In fact, it has control over exactly one thing. The defense portals. It can decide to send important meteors to different points in time than originally planned, thus creating alternate realities. Offshoots of promise, rather than futility. And it turns out the most important meteors of all tend to be the ones delivering the young players to their planet. So all it has to do to change everything is tweak their destination times a bit. All internally-prompted changes in the post-scratch universe are decided entirely by this modest adjustment to the parameters. It's a very simple concept, actually. Yet the consequences are dramatic. It results in not only a hard reset for the session, but a partial reset for the universe too, due to the many causal entanglements between a session and its originating universe. what do you mean tweak the destination times where did they get sent to A variety of different time periods. The simplest way to way to look at it is to picture the original destinations of our two groups of four ecto-babies... And switch them. what Though this is just a slight oversimplification. While it's roughly true, Skaia had some peculiar whims this time.
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