Time-Lost Wanderer Emerges from Rift, Claims to Be From “Version Two” of Veridion
By Hal Brix, Rift & Weird Sciences Correspondent
Shoppers in the lower tiers of the Shadow Market scattered like frightened vermin yesterday as a portal flare erupted behind a stack of counterfeit dreamboxes. The shimmering rift lasted less than 15 seconds, but in its wake stumbled a dazed figure wearing antiquated tech and a rusted security badge marked “Veridion Prime – Beta Loop.”
The man, who identified himself only as “Thatch,” was incoherent at first—muttering about demons frozen in reverse, and a version of the city where the moon never rises. Authorities detained him, but his gear appears to be real—at least in part.
Paranormal Stabilizers cordoned off the site, and rumors now spread of a looping city, one step out of sync with our own. Officials urge calm. But in the alleys of the Shadow Market, temporal tears are bad for business… unless you’re selling ghost insurance.
