Before the day the hunger arrived, before this crisis, before Wonderland, before the time

sick town and the crystal lab, before races and trains and moon bases and gauntlets, before

the beach and the sizzling and the roost. Before everything I've told you, there was a journey

beyond imagination. Seven explorers lost their home to the same force that threatens us now.

Their impossible trajectory carried them between wild, desolate, beautiful, deadly worlds where they

faced terrible hardships and experienced immeasurable joy. They lived and died and loved and in the end

forgot. It's time to remember. It's time to go back to where our story truly started because only

then can we prepare for how it is. It's the adventure zone.

I finished this elective little slice of turkey while you begin, Griffin. Let me take a

moment to begin. I've been stressing this episode for two months about this episode and you are

ready?

We open up on a promotional video that is being projected onto a large screen and we hear

a woman's voice say, everything begins and I mean that quite literally with the light of creation.

Imagine the power to realize anything your mind can conceive of on any scale and then imagine

that power given tangible form. It's not the being that created our existence but it may very

well be the tool that that being used. It's the paintbrush that illustrated the very first tree.

It's the yardstick that told the stars where to hang in the night sky.

Somehow the light of creation ended up in a place where it probably was not intended to go.

Our world. The very world that it helped to shape. A year ago the Institute of Plainer Research and

Exploration, the world's premier collective of bright minds and adventurous spirits,

recovered the light of creation. And in this past year we've made immeasurable advancements

in the fields of science and arcana, all culminating in tomorrow's unprecedented voyage.

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