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Time is the strangest of all mysteries. Relatively unimportant / events, almost unnoticed as they occur, may, in hundreds of years, / result in Ultimate Catastrophe. On Time Track Number One, that was / the immutable result. But on Time Track Number Two there was one / little event that could be used to avert it -- the presence of a / naked woman in public. So, Skandos One removed the clothing from / the Lady Rhoann and after one look, Lord Tedric did the rest!
_Skandos One (The Skandos of Time Track Number One, numbered / for reasons which will become clear) showed, by means of the / chronoviagraph, that civilization would destroy itself in one hundred / eighty-seven years. To prevent this catastrophe he went back to the key / point in time and sought out the key figure -- one Tedric, a Lomarrian / ironmaster who had lived and died a commoner; unable, ever, to do / anything about his fanatical detestation of human sacrifice._