Krasis summons Kronos with forbidden ritual
Plot Beats
The narrative micro-steps within this event
Krasis invokes Kronos, seeking power and strength.
Krasis completes the invocation, and vanishes in a flash of lightning.
Who Was There
Characters present in this moment
Reverent urgency beneath gnawing terror, resolved to trade his existence for cosmic intervention despite the terror of annihilation.
Standing at the altar’s center, Krasis chants in archaic cadence while the storm’s lightning rends the air around him, his robes whipping as the ritual progresses toward its violent climax.
- • To invoke Kronos and harness its power against the Master’s scheme
- • To ensure the survival of the temporal equilibrium through personal annihilation
- • That Kronos is the ultimate arbiter of temporal balance and must be obeyed
- • That individual sacrifice is justified for the greater preservation of time
Unfathomable and detached from mortal emotion, operating as an instrument of equilibrium between creation and oblivion.
Kronos is summoned into temporal existence by Krasis’s ritual, their arrival presaged by the cataclysmic flash that erases the priest and ruptures the temple’s atmosphere with raw cosmic force.
- • To consume imbalanced temporal excess and restore cosmic order
- • To answer the summons of a mortal willing to surrender their existence
- • That time is infinite but must be shepherded through sacrifice and renewal
- • That mortals who invoke them understand the irreversible cost of their plea
Objects Involved
Significant items in this scene
The forbidden Atlantean ritual, performed on a bloodstained altar, channels Krasis’s invocations through precise gestures and arcane incantations, culminating in a storm of lightning that sears the chamber and triggers Kronos’s manifestation.
Location Details
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The Temple of Poseidon serves as the sacred nexus where the boundaries between the temporal and the eternal fray under the storm’s oppressive ceiling, its roofless grandeur amplifying the lightning’s fury as the ritual reaches its apotheosis.
Narrative Connections
How this event relates to others in the story
"With Benton incapacitated, the Master’s operation of the TOM-TIT machine accelerates, culminating in Krasis’s successful invocation of Kronos, raising the tempo of the crisis."
Benton confronts Masters chronal theft"With Benton incapacitated, the Master’s operation of the TOM-TIT machine accelerates, culminating in Krasis’s successful invocation of Kronos, raising the tempo of the crisis."
Master disarms Benton and seizes control"With Benton incapacitated, the Master’s operation of the TOM-TIT machine accelerates, culminating in Krasis’s successful invocation of Kronos, raising the tempo of the crisis."
Master uses Benton's capture to power TOM-TIT"Krasis’s ritual in the Temple of Poseidon mirrors the Master’s lab experiment, both seeking to harness Kronos’s power, uniting ancient and modern attempts to control time."
Krasis welcomes Kronos ritual begins"Krasis’s arrival via lightning flash foreshadows the impending temporal catastrophe the Master is orchestrating, linking the ancient ritual to the lab’s escalating threat."
Benton thwarts the Master's impersonation then is ambushed"Krasis’s arrival via lightning flash foreshadows the impending temporal catastrophe the Master is orchestrating, linking the ancient ritual to the lab’s escalating threat."
Master secures Percival's unwitting consent