Mirror Crystal Timeline: Today
His name was Lurtor, and in the Mirror Crystal Timeline, he had helped the United Tribes wipe out the Colonial leadership of the Earther Colonies and the EEF. Even VLAD wasn’t safe, as Lurtor triggered a VLAD Strangulari War over actions comitted on an independent dimension in a place codenamed SteamGate.
He had seen the Carriages of that dimension personally in his timeline and our own. The steam powered devices that pulled the carriages, with their network of brass and steel pipes. He watched as they had pushed excess steam through a set of valves mounted near a metal cup filled with a liquid incense. The device acting like an articial lung, breathing out scented air as it passed.
There was something about the design he found so intruguing. His own prototype stood before him. He had impressed hundreds of Rehsedians smith into working on the design, and he was rather proud.
Instead of a carriage, this device would have an extended body and dispensors provided by the enslaved alchemist Onderal. The Tor’Lallur, through their mutual hatred of the GulTor’Gor for wiping out their most blessed unholy site the Pit of Filth, were pleased to supply the fluid the steam coneyance would carry within its “scent cartridges”. It would also mist the are with a subtle spray of nanites of a unique design. The nanites would counter the symptoms of the Tor’Lallur diseases…until they were shut off.
The Mirror Crystal Lurtor was ready to deploy the first of many weapons on the suspected GulTor’Gor colonies in our own Timeline.
Using a small jewelers drill, Lurtor gently pried off a tiny flake of the mirror crystal in his timeline and placed it within the control housing of the automaton cart, and then directed the full energy of the Mirror Crystal towards the device. It disappeared.
The Mirror Crystal Lurtor wondered if the experiment would be a success. If not… it was not to worry, as he looked over at his next set of experimental weapons lying the corner, another creation by the imprisioned Alchemist Onderal.
The Mission
In the wee hours of the night, there was another incident at the Museum of Brez. A cart smashed its way out of the Museum, leaving a trail of bodies in its wake. Automated artifact weapons on the cart cut down any guards who got in its way.
The cart made an interesting tactical decision, jumping the hovertrain as it passed out of Brez, and took it all the way to Simonburg. It got off there, under some form of sentience. After lingering in Simonsburg and killing off some known members of Krodnok’ Disciples, the Automaton turned south.
Within days it had rapidly reached the Ruins of Karov, and was in the Shadow Dome of Karov. Once in the Shadow Dome, it broadcast a message declaring,
“The United Tribes finds the GulTor’Uf, GulTor’Gor, Og’GulTor and all their ilk criminals in the eyes of the United Tribes. For the crime of birthing Olgog the Olgog and allowing his rampage on the Tla’loc’alan peoples, and for the crimes of defying the will of the United Tribes, we demand the head of Uhryu Bill. This messenger will kill fifteen people of all ages and all species within its range each day until the entire region of Karov is ceeded to the United Tribes. If any fools think they will stop this punishment for the birth of the Infamous OtO, let them know that the destruction of this automaton will result in the death of a calculated 2.75 million Olgogs at this point in Karov and in Brez. Of course we will not share the means of this death, but the shutdown of this machine in any all ways will trigger this death. Come face your death Bill of GulTor’Uf. Stand for the Sins your son would not stand for against the United Tribes and Tla’loc’al.”