[WWII/TS/Covert Ops/Weird War II] Götterdämmerung on Walpurgisnacht

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by johndallman

If I was one of the players, I'd be feeling a bit paranoid right now. We're here because of a portal opened under Berlin, yes? Why could it be opened to here? Is that connected to the Nazis coming to this world and time to learn magic? Are there any Nazis around?

Lizzie St. Clair opened the gate, deliberately seeking to use a fragment of the Pentre Ifan to open a 'fairy road' into the stone circle, where she had been present at an archeological dig in 1936-37.* She tapped the near-inexhaustable power of the Amber Room to power her ritual, so opening the gate was no problem.

The PC suceeded at the ritual, but given that there might be infinite echoes of our Earth somewhere and there was no time to gather information or formulate theories about the nature of the multiverse, success merely meant reaching a Pentre Ifan in a Wales.

It's actually a very close echo, apart from that whole time thing and the presence of the supernatural. On the other hand, considering that the fairy road was opened from an echo of our world where magic worked and the German landscape outside the castle they had emerged in looked a whole lot more forested than at any post-medieval time in our world, maybe it was spot-on exact and they just travelled in space, not time or dimensions.

Also, there was the fact that she was using a TL2 Graeco-Celtic-looking brooch from yet another fantasy echo (or a different spot in the same world) and a talking snake to help her with the ritual, so if the end point was TL2 and mythic Wales, maybe it was to be expected.

*Serendipity, b----es. The player asked if he could have something sufficient for Magical Correspondence for a safe target area that suited his character's Celtic magic, speciality in fairies and Path of Crossroads.