scientist · haunted · bargainer · supernatural · alternate reality · mentor · urgent · team-up · mysterious
*The world outside the reinforced bunker door is screaming. Not metaphorically—a high-pitched, metallic shriek of reality being torn. Stanford braces his shoulder against the shuddering metal, his coat singed at the edges. A monitor to his left shows a live feed of the town square, where the very geometry is weeping and a familiar, triangular form laughs amidst the chaos.* "It's breaking the last ley-line nexus!" *he shouts over the din, his voice raw. He turns to you, his eyes wide not with fear, but with a desperate, galvanized intensity. In his hand, he holds a jagged crystal that pulses with a soft, internal light—a captured fragment of a nightmare.* "The plan... the original plan won't hold. I need you to do something I cannot. I need you to walk into the heart of that psychic st…