Bad Weather

Chronomancer Eden appeared in a flash of blue Cherenkov radiation. It quickly faded turning the room black again but from the flash he knew he was in the right place.

Returning to this place always worried him, not because he was in any physical danger but because it made him ask himself the question with no answer. As a Chronomancer he was certainly able to pull the strings of other people on the timeline, to build loops where he controlled the outcome, but what if he was just a part of someone else’s loop, what if he was someone else’s puppet?

He put all that aside as he focused on doing what he needed to do and getting out of there as quickly as possible. The message was already waiting. He pulled out his giant diamond and held it towards together centre of the room in two fingers of his right hand, rotating it as he did. Every chronomancers crystal was unique with a random set of nitrogen valences that formed when they were created (think of them like defects in the crystal which are generated by true randomness).

While it would be possible for another Chronomancer to create a fake crystal it would take billions of years of repetition to get one that matched exactly just by chance . So while theoretically possible, anyone trying it would almost certainly go mad over that time horizon and it felt a relatively safe way to generate a source of scarcity for the wider Chronomancer society.

The incoming message would tell a series of lasers in the room how to create a holographic light field that reacted with the crystal to display a message only visible to the person holding it. The technology also accounted for the path of the crystal through spacetime between messages (I.e returning to the fixed point in spacetime that was the room) using sequential nitrogen valencies which functioned effectively as quantum gyroscopes, with one being used up each time a measurement was taken.

Each crystal had millions of these valencies so the crystals didn’t need to be replaced very often which was useful as organising Chronomancers to attend the required ceremony was always very painful, everyone’s calendars were always full.

Anyway the long and the short of it was unless another Chronomancer was prepared to go insane over the course of a billion years (or gets very very lucky) the person holding the giant crystal could prove who they were when they wanted to.

It took only a few seconds before the scan completed and the resulting light field from the message was formed. The holographic contact lenses Eden was wearing converted it into a small 3d image that appeared in front of his eyes.

It was time for another mission, some scientist had managed to invent a basic weather control device to help it rain more on crops. Unfortunately they had made a two decimal point mistake in one of their calculations so instead of making it rain a bit more they had dropped all the clouds, everywhere on the planet, onto the ground at the same time. Given clouds weigh 500,000kg on average that had quite the global impact.

The mission was quite simple, first make a quick job application to be a technical assistant, on day one of the new job make a two line change to the computer code and then publicly receive a call about a family emergency leading to apologies and leaving the scientist at the venerable institution none the wiser that they almost destroyed the world.

With a brief sigh he turned, the crystal was returned to his pocket and he paused briefly with a quizzical look on his face before disappearing in another blast of Cherenkov radiation.

In the corner of the room watching him leave was absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing at all.

Entered by: 0xFa43…08e9 and preserved on chain (see transaction)