TEMPORAL FLUX SEQUENCER (Public) (Patreon)
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Eric scans diagnostics from his navigator's chair, "We're showing a quantum desynchronization in the time crystal's oscillation. The discrete symmetry operation is stable, but the interface is registering a nanowave frequency shift in the primary nexus".Dmitri shakes his head, "We've got to find a replacement temporal flux sequencer. Just land us somewhere isolated and we'll see if we can buy a household power-beam grid TCS from a local, they're sure to have a backup, and I'm certain I can recalibrate one and make it work."Eric guides the Akuma Maru 悪魔丸 down on the planet's night side and finding a lone house on a hill, guides the ship down to land next to it.Dmitri leaves the cockpit and exits into the chill night air. Eric follows a few minutes later, climbing down the ladder of the ship's access hatch and onto the cold ground.Eric has seen hundreds of alien worlds, but there is something unusual about this alien's residence; dozens of strange markers in the front yard, roughly hewn wooden boxes with skeletal hands, burning candles, glowing orange caricatures on the porch of some deity perhaps?Dmitri is there holding a small orange object with a caricature painted on it and looking confused as Eric arrives. "What is that?" Eric indicates the object."Some kind of multi-colored glucose-disaccharide-sucrose pellets in a petrochemical polymer-resin container," Dmitri answers, showing the container and its contents to Eric.Eric rolls his eyes. "So, what happened?" Eric asks him.Dmitri, looking bewildered, explains, "I knocked on the door and a young woman answered. I explained that we needed a temporal flux sequencer and asked if they had a back-up for their residential power-beam grid that I could buy?"Dmitri continues, "She said, 'Nice costume, love your eyes', then she gave me this, said, 'Happy Halloween!' and shut the door."
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