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Hi. Can someone please explain to me what's happening right now? Seriously, like explain it like I'm a child because I don't understand anything about this.

Thanks.

( LOOP TWO: TIMELINE AND CHAT )

( LOOP TWO VOID CHAT )

It isn’t just that every clock in Dunwall Tower strikes the hour at once; they do, but that’s only the beginning. Every clock in Karl’s Bay begins aggressively ringing. Every computer on Talos I begins to beep. They come together to form a resonant sound that shakes through the Void and brings time to a grinding halt. Everyone is frozen in place, and then…they’re gone. You are gone, reduced to nought but existential dread and the terrible knowledge that this is not over.

But you do rematerialize: back in a room at Dunwall Tower, where people just as frozen in place as you are look not the least concerned. They look exactly as they did when you began this fiasco. The Empress stands once more at the front of the Receiving Hall. A shady character once more attempts to gather information from private rooms in the palace. A guard has a smoke on the roof.

“Hahaaaaaaaaaa stuck back at the beginning again!” a voice somewhere beyond you crows. It’s him again: Aleksis Dorsey. The cackling asshole of the Void. You didn’t turn around, but somehow you’re looking at him now, standing right in front of you with a face that cries out from under its wolf mask to be punched. “That’s right, bitches, you just got LOOPED! And I didn’t even have to kill you! Don’t get me wrong, I do want to kill you, and I will, but me? I’ve got eternity. I can sit here and watch you guys fuck around and find out for a millennium, while everyone you know in Vallo? They’re all gonna get old and die and IF you manage to get back no one will be left who loves you, except probably no one did anyway, because you all SUCK. No matter what, I WIN! That’s the Dorsey way, baby! All I ever DO is–”

Abruptly, he looks startled, and then vanishes, only to be replaced by another figure: your old friend Daud, looking nothing so much as annoyed.

“Worse than the void-damned beeping,” Daud mutters, then addresses you properly. “He’s right about the Loop, though, and his immortality. You have…less time. I can’t keep the tools or the space here forever, and you’ll have a much harder time finding the Twin-Bladed Knife in the vast expanse of the Void than you will on one space station, not to mention getting to the Heart of the Void to do something with it.”

There’s more gray in his hair than there was yesterday. Is that even real, or merely a manifestation of how old he feels?

“You have to finish him, for good this time. You have to destroy every piece of him that he’s split and scattered. And you have to get out. Otherwise there’s no going home for any of us.”

The Void warps, and Daud vanishes. You can move again, the flow of time resumes, and the rest of the partygoers at Dunwall Tower remain blissfully unaware of anything that’s happened. Time for another Loop.

Can I interest anyone in some wine? I've opened too many bottles and have consumed absolutely none of them. They'll go to waste, and that will only be salt in the wound.

( A first home was a new and exciting chapter )

( Loop Three Timeline and Chat )

It isn’t just that every clock in Dunwall Tower strikes the hour at once; they do, but that’s only the beginning. Every clock in Karl’s Bay begins aggressively ringing. Every computer on Talos I begins to beep. They come together to form a resonant sound that shakes through the Void and brings time to a grinding halt. Everyone is frozen in place, and then…they’re gone. You are gone, reduced to nought but existential dread and the terrible knowledge that this is not over.

But you rematerialize…somewhere else. Your own tiny scrap of the Void, a little island of rock where it’s just you and your phone.

Somewhere beyond, all around, you hear a voice: it’s Daud again.

“I’m buying you a little time between the Loops. It won’t last forever. Use your talk-box to sort things out while you’ve got it.”

((OOC: You have from now until Loop Three starts to use the Loop Three Chat for planning, plotting, admonitions, and high-fives.))