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Krasis summons Kronos with forbidden ritual

In a desperate bid to sway the cosmic battle, ancient Atlantean priest Krasis invokes the time-devouring entity Kronos within Poseidon’s temple. Surrounded by crackling lightning, he chants a forbidden ritual, begging for the lord of death’s power. The ritual completes in a cataclysmic flash, and Krasis vanishes—his life forfeited in exchange for Kronos’s arrival. The act shifts the tide against the Master’s apocalyptic scheme but leaves the Doctor’s companions to reckon with the irreversible cost of their gambit. The moment bridges ancient sorcery and the Master’s modern machinations, binding their fates together in a shared doom. key_dialogue: [ KRASIS: Lord of life, give me of thy power. Oh, mighty Kronos, lord of death, give me thy power! Oh, mighty Kronos, lord of life, give me thy strength! KRASIS: Mighty lord, exalted one. I hear and obey! ]

Plot Beats

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Krasis invokes Kronos, seeking power and strength.

reverence to empowerment ['Temple of Poseidon']

Krasis completes the invocation, and vanishes in a flash of lightning.

triumph to disappearance ['Temple of Poseidon']

Who Was There

Characters present in this moment

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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.

Goals in this moment
  • To invoke Kronos and harness its power against the Master’s scheme
  • To ensure the survival of the temporal equilibrium through personal annihilation
Active beliefs
  • That Kronos is the ultimate arbiter of temporal balance and must be obeyed
  • That individual sacrifice is justified for the greater preservation of time
Character traits
Desperate Zealous Self-sacrificial Ritualistic
Follow Krasis's journey

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.

Goals in this moment
  • To consume imbalanced temporal excess and restore cosmic order
  • To answer the summons of a mortal willing to surrender their existence
Active beliefs
  • That time is infinite but must be shepherded through sacrifice and renewal
  • That mortals who invoke them understand the irreversible cost of their plea
Character traits
Primordial Cathartic Cosmic
Follow Kronos's journey

Objects Involved

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Krasis's Forbidden Ritual to Summon Kronos

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.

Before: A dormant cohort of sigils and altar stained …
After: Consumed by the cataclysmic flash, the ritual’s physical …
Before: A dormant cohort of sigils and altar stained by past offerings, standing as a vessel for desperate invocations but awaiting the final catalyst to erupt.
After: Consumed by the cataclysmic flash, the ritual’s physical traces reduced to ashes as Kronos’s power sears the altar clean, rendering it temporarily inert.

Location Details

Places and their significance in this event

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Temple of Poseidon (Main Structure)

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.

Atmosphere Electric dread and cathartic fury, thick with ozone and the scent of burnt offerings, the …
Function Sanctuary for the forbidden and sacred, a stage where the mortal and cosmic collide in …
Symbolism Represents the precarious balance between order and chaos, time and annihilation, where faith and reckless …
Access Accessible only to those initiated into the ritual’s secrets, physically and spiritually restricted by ancient …
Violent storm raging overhead with constant lightning Eerie glow from the ritual illuminating cracked sigils on the altar

Narrative Connections

How this event relates to others in the story

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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What this causes 2

"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."

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"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."

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