Editing LoH/story/Archival of the Fittest

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{{LoH/StorylineTopBar|issue=Archival of the Fittest|prev=Phantoms of Phaeton}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Issue}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Moxie: Empowered}}
|text='''Moxie:''' I am glad to see everything is finally returning to normal around here.<br />
You must be happy to be back, ''PlayerName''
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Quick!}}
|text='''Moxie:''' I have to admit I was a little envious.<br />
It sounded like quite the adventure.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|In and Out}}
|text='''Moxie:''' Zeroth is back to his old self.<br />
The heroes and villains are mostly back to their old ways...<br />
'''Afterimage:''' Found 'em!.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Keys to the Castle}}
|text='''Moxie:''' And AfterImage is coming to the rescue when I lock myself out of The Harmory.<br />
'''Afterimage:''' Just hanging on the hook by the door...again.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Foreboding}}
|text='''Moxie:''' I am just looking forward to a nice quiet semester.<br />
And putting all that mayhem behind us...
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

== It's Time ==

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Area|It's Time}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Abduction}}
|text='''Afterimage:''' ''PlayerName''! Moxie! Heeeelp!<br />
Everything. Is. Slowing. Down.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Riftwalker}}
|text='''Moxie:''' It is another Riftwalker but it isn't Zeroth!<br />
There are more of them?
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Riftwalker}}
|text='''Moxie:''' Any ideas on how to cut this thing down to size ''PlayerName''?
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Chronarchitect}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Hands of Time}}
|text='''Hand of Time:''' You have been summoned to the tribunal of The Chronarchivist!<br />
You cannot resist the Hands of Time.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Edge of Nowhere}}
|text='''Hand of Time:''' Everyone is almost in place. The tribunal can begin.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Hostile Witness}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' Chronarchivist! You have been charged by your fellow Chronarchs with the high crime of chrono-tampering.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Chronarbiter}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' Should you be found guilty the errant timeline will be razed and a new one built in its place by the Chronarchitect.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Time of Judgment}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' I am the maker of worlds but today we shall find out what you are made of instead.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Chronarbiter}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Chronarbiter}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' ''PlayerName'', you have been brought before me, The Chronarbiter, to defend the existence of your reality.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Hostile Witness}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' The Chronarchivist has let her affection for Emergent culture ... and fashion ... blind her.<br />
She has been derelict in her solemn duty to preserve the tapestry of time and space.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Time of Judgment}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' If you are deemed worthy you will be given the opportunity to aid the defense.<br />
Let the record show that I am treating the witness as hostile!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

== Cold Combat ==

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Area|Cold Combat}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Hostile Witness}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' The Chronarchivist's folly has allowed your timeline to not only exist but to spill over into other forbidden realms.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Hostile Witness}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' Myriad other possible paths through time and space your world could have traveled if not for her allowing Zeroth's meddling to change it so profoundly.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Time of Judgment}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' That she did not know he was a Riftwalker, a nascent Chronarch, makes the case against your timeline even more sound.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Blue Prints}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' The Chronarchitect is constructing an arena and populating it with heroes and villains from timelines that did not exist at the expense of your own.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Chronarch's Bidding}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' The last hero standing shall ensure their timeline will carry on where yours now pulses.<br />
It is archival of the fittest!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Cryotechnique}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i15_page3_panel8.jpg
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' In another time, young emergents would have to cope with the bullying of Cryotechnique.<br />
'''Cryotechnique:''' Who's the precious little snowflake?
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|On Ice}}
|text='''Cryotechnique:''' Too bad nobody told you to bring ice to a snowball fight!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Afterimage: Valiant}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Unwilling Participants}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' You are not the only emergent from your timeline fighting today.<br />
'''Afterimage:''' Hey! Quit shoving!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i15_page3_panel2.jpg
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' To determine the outcome you will need to fight them as well.<br />
'''Afterimage:''' Aww c'mon! I never beat ''PlayerName''!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Moxie: Empowered}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Vortex}}
|text='''Moxie:''' There has to be a better way to resolve this than fighting against my students.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Boulder Dash}}
|text='''Moxie:''' Until another solution presents itself we will have to fight for all our lives!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

== The Man Who Never Was ==

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|ScarabTron}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Crossover}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' In some potentialities humans never developed emergent powers at all.<br />
'''Moxie:''' Incoming!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|ScarabTron}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' Instead they protected their world with technological weapons like ScarabTron.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|BreakerTron}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Surfacing}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' Humanity rose above its limitations and externalized their evolution.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|BreakerTron}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' BreakerTron was just a small part of how this timeline undermined its enemies.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Johnny TinkerTron}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Stomp}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' One man towered over all in the Earth Mech Defense Corps and stood tall against any challenges.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Johnny: TinkerTron}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' Johnny TinkerTron would have been his world's greatest hero. And if you fail to defeat him he will get that chance to exist.<br />
'''Johnny TinkerTron:''' Trust me y'all are going to have some pretty compelling evidence of my existence very soon...
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

== Attack of the 50ft Susie ==

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Hands of Time}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Two Scoops}}
|text='''Johnny TinkerTron:''' I don't know about y'all but I am getting tired of being pawns in this game.<br />
'''Afterimage:''' If this Tinker is anything like the one we know back home...
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Going Up}}
|text='''Moxie:''' He is not going to let anyone else dictate his fate.<br />
'''Afterimage:''' I hope so Moxie because right now he literally has us in the palm of his hand.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i15_page5_panel4.jpg
|text='''Johnny TinkerTron:''' As my second ex-wife can attest I always say "fight with the one that brought you."
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Flung into Battle}}
|text='''Moxie:''' Whaddaya say ''PlayerName''? Are you ready to clean some clocks?
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Riftwalkers}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Striking the Clock}}
|text='''Moxie:''' I don't know how realistic a plan this is but it sure feels good.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Afterimage: Valiant}}
|text='''Afterimage:''' I will tell you what is unrealistic! Fighting these Riftwalkers without any help from ''PlayerName''!<br />
Get over here!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Big Bad Susie: Worldbeater}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Shattering Blow}}
|text='''Johnny TinkerTron:''' Ooooooof!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Big Bad Susie: Worldbeater (794)}}
|text='''Big Bad Susie:''' The way I understand things is this is a trial by combat...<br />
And Big Bad Susie Worldbeater is not in the habit of losing!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

== The Heavy Mob ==

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Dimetrodrone Grunt}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Trip Wire}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' In another timeline the genetic experimentations of Dr. Tessera became apex predators.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Timber}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' Never backing down from a fight no matter how big the foe.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Falling Heroes}}
|text='''Big Bad Susie:''' Uh-oh!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Dimetrodrone Soldier}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Foot Soldiers}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' They were ruthless and savage and would have eventually destroyed themselves.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Otherworldly Enforcers}}
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' But one of them fought his way to the top and channeled their savagery to make them into foot soldiers in an elite organized crime family.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|The Don}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Don}}
|text='''The Don:''' I am The Don.<br />
My organization runs on one principle. There has to be a profit.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Don}}
|text='''The Don:''' There was no profit in Emergents where we come from.<br />
And then there were no more Emergents.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Don}}
|text='''The Don:''' Looking at you mutts I am not seeing a lot of profit.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

== Enemy of Time ==

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Area|Enemy of Time}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Don}}
|text='''The Don:''' I have built my career, and my army of foot soldiers, by making cold calculated decisions.<br />
I prefer a bottom line style of management.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Don}}
|text='''The Don:''' But the real bottom line is that I don't like taking orders from anyone.<br />
What I am saying in my own long-winded fashion is...
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|The Don: Fight}}
|text='''The Don:''' The Don fight!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Hands of Time}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Fighting Time}}
|text='''The Don:''' What are you waiting for? Clobber something!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Cryotechnique}}
|text='''Cryotechnique:''' This Don guy is pretty cold-blooded.<br />
'''Henchman:''' I like it!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Chronarchitect}}
|text='''Chronarchitect:''' There is one constant across all your timelines. Your race is the most willful of any we have ever encountered.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Endless Time}}
|text='''Chronarchitect:''' We will need to take a stronger hand with you to break that will.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Riftwalkers}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Quick Hands}}
|text='''Afterimage:''' Why does it always have to be Riftwalkers? Ummm...''PlayerName''? A little help here...again?
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Antichronarch}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Abstraction}}
|text='''Chronarchivist:''' I hate to ruin everyone's fun here.<br />
I know I am supposed to just sit here quietly while my fate is being decided.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Abstraction}}
|text='''Chronarchivist:''' But if all these Hands of Time have been summoned here...<br />
Who is guarding you know who?
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i15_page7_panel8.jpg
|text='''Chronarbiter:''' The Dark One can't possibly escape?<br />
Can she?
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Landfall}}
|text='''Antichronarch:''' Not only did those damnable guards who have kept me in stasis for so many millennia abandon their watch...
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Antichronarch}}
|text='''Antichronarch:''' How deliciously ironic to see one of those members being judged herself.<br />
Dear, perfect Chronarchivist. What could you have possibly done to bring this upon yourself?
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Restore Order}}
|text='''Antichronarch:''' Now that I am free of your hand's grip you will find I am not so easy to recapture.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Blown Away}}
|text='''Antichronarch:''' When I can destroy you with just a touch of my finger.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Recoil}}
|text='''Afterimage:''' She just evaporated those Hands of Time with a finger!<br />
'''Moxie:''' Chronarchivist! Who is she?
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i15_page8_panel8.jpg
|text='''Chronarchivist:''' She was once one of the Chronarchs but grew weary with our unending existence.<br />
Where she once studied creation and preservation she now only seeks utter destruction and oblivion.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i15_page8_panel8.jpg
|text='''Chronarchivist:''' She is the AntiChronarch.<br />
And if she makes contact with any of the Chronarchs it will result in the annihilation of everything that ever was. Or could have been.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}