After a restful? night on the weary plane that is Time Spiral Dominaria, you wake up to see if you can actually find scum without running afoul of state-based effects.
Or, at least, most of you do. Kinetic seems to have gone missing overnight. Where could he be? Time to send out search parties (a couple of
Raven Familiars, donated by a friendly blue mage).
After a bit of time and fruitless searching, you manage to find Kinetic. It's not safe or easy - he's wound up right by one of the time rifts. Why would a dragon have come over here?
Then, some of you begin to realize that Kinetic wasn't an ordinary dragon...
Who was Kinetic?
Well, Timmy just peed his pants, because Kinetic was
.
But wait! There's no way that Nicol Bolas would ever help anyone out, much less you! And there's no way he would ever limit his desire for domination to just one plane! So he must be scum!
But if he was not group scum... what happened to his kill? And, perhaps more importantly, who killed him?
You have barely had time to contemplate these mysteries when another time rift opens by your camp. Most of you are able to dodge its strange effects. Budja, however, cannot. He is pulled into the rift, perhaps never to return to this plane.
But Budja apparently wasn't the only person pulled into the rift, as something... someone... emerges from it.
She is a young woman, wearing the clothes of a vastly different world - a headdress, a robe. One of her languages is difficult to understand, but luckily for you she can also speak in yours. (Those among you still knowledgeable about other planes recognize that these signs make it likely that this woman hails from Kamigawa.)
She calls herself Azusa, or else Debonair Danny DePietro. She claims to have been beset by images of a handsome nature mage, who she has never met but cannot stop dreaming of. She had searched her home seeking this man (among other things), but could not find him.
Or can she? She looks up to see Benmage, who calls himself Baru... and sees the man she has been looking for. And he, apparently, reciprocates; he claims his dreams have been beset by her image for some time.
You decide shortly thereafter that there's no point in asking the happy couple to continue to participate in current events - even if they were a threat, they're now too busy to threaten anyone for a while. For once, it seems the tale of Star-Crossed Lovers has a happy ending.
However, the tale of the rifts is not open. A second rift opens at the edge of camp and pulls Benmage and Debonair Danny DePietro out of Dominaria. In exchange, it leaves a new visitor.
He calls himself Papa Zito. Maybe he can be your ally?
1) Kinetic, Nicol Bolas, Nicol Bolas (modified Serial Killer), Destroyed N1
3) Benmage, Baru, Fist of Krosa, Star-Crossed Lover, Fulfilled His Win Condition and Left the Game, N1
30) Debonair Danny DePietro, Azusa, Lost but Seeking, Star-Crossed Lover, Fulfilled His Win Condition and Left the Game, N1
5) Budja is now in forbiddanlight's subgame (Kamigawa)
26) Papa Zito is now in Tarhalindur's subgame (Time Spiral).
Day 2 will begin momentarily.