1.11-Caves of Lumaworth

Get the Soundtrack ⁠here⁠: [Transcript]It came that time to jump the rim. Finishing our business on Palathora, we told the Lorewalker we were going to the Fulcrum Diode in orbit round Termer Kai. Busy body like them make sure everyone knows where we ain’t going.Ayin patrol the diodes, figuring humanoids will go in or out of one sooner or later. Frozen in crystalline sapient solution means we can’t run away either. Why I was lucky to find that cave on the eight hundred and first moon of Lumaworth IV. Experiment gone wrong, or so they say, couple million years ago. Left the gas giant with a core of almost pure radium. Dark side swirls with luminant clouds. Cult of Omrot inhabited the moons for nearly six-hundred thousands years, finding portents in the radioactive clouds at night. But nobody’s seen them since the Fourth Coming.Eight-o-one don’t got a name. Zery’s wanted to give it one but I always say no one can ambush you if can’t tell ‘em where you’re goin’. Small divot of a moon, the ground made of old asteroid iron. Tidal forces from Lumaworth IV fold the landscape on itself, crimping the moon over and over again. Slow but steady erasure. Turns the whole thing into these swirls of metal, frozen, spaceblack waves.First found the Fulcrum Diode on a run for a Bernec’cog Zeolot studying the Omrot folks. Went to try to find one of their old temples on the moons. Didn’t see no temple, but picked up Asterwhale reverbs from Eight-o-One. Diode was half buried but Shoals Blessed, it still worked despite what must have been a couple million years worth of cosmic ray bombardment.Diode’s synced up to a brown dwarf next galaxy over. Travel comes in waves. You freeze yourself in crystalline sapient solution first. CSS keeps everything nice and neat when the Asterwhale mind cycles over. Then out you go at your destination. Always wild looking back from the other Fulcrum Diode a galaxy over, the spiral arm of this one smashin’ into the arm of the other. Most diodes go between these two. Oh, there are some that go further out into the filaments, but the Ayin pretty much keep those to themselves. Still, I’d like to travel out there some day. Some day.