CHAPTER ONE: Welcome to Gatecrasher!
What Is Gatecrasher?
Gatecrasher is a lighthearted, high-tech, high-fantasy
role-playing game set in a damaged universe.
CHAPTER ONE: Welcome to Gatecrasher!
What Is Gatecrasher?
Gatecrasher is a lighthearted, high-tech, high-fantasy
role-playing game set in a damaged universe.
To help new players orient themselves, here’s a brief
history of the Gatecrasher universe.
Long ago, two black holes began orbiting one another.
The resulting breach in the space-time continuum
allowed energies from a parallel universe to seep into
ours. This energy, unfettered by anything so puny as relativity,
swept from one end of the cosmos to the other.
Humans labeled the alien energy “magic.” Some learned
to harness it, never guessing that magic was alien to the
very fabric of their world.
Then the black holes swallowed each other. The warp
closed. The magical stars faded like disrupted dreams.
Creatures that relied on magic died out.
One human wizard refused to surrender his magic.
Kelorinthol the Incredible, a magician of considerable
power, designed an interdimensional Gate to the magical
universe. His design excluded magical energies that
would affect the material used to carve the Gate — raw
magic would eventually destroy the Gate otherwise.
Kelorinthol decided to use a substance rare on Earth, so
magic-proof objects would be difficult to craft.
The wizard went into space in search of a suitable
material, and found a large iridium deposit under
Ganymede’s ice sheets. Kelorinthol’s power was running
too low to look much farther. The mage engraved his
Gate in the deposit with a magical flame, the last magic
that would ever affect a piece of iridium.
Kelorinthol’s life-support spell faded seconds before
he finished casting his Create Really Big Inter dimensional
Gate spell. Air cascaded from his nose and mouth and
frost coated his skin as he made the final gesture. He
stumbled into the Gate, mouthing the command to
open the portal. With the Gate’s power he could restore
his vacuum-ruined body, and take his place as the most
powerful wizard in the universe.
But the wizard’s frantic mouthings produced not even
a faint whisper. Sound cannot travel in a vacuum.
Kelorinthol died, a failure.
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