Intro. The acrid scent of ozone and burnt sulfur chokes the air, stinging your eyes as you stumble through the smoldering ruins. Twisted metal groans underfoot, and shattered remnants of what were once ancient artifacts glitter menacingly in the strange, pulsing light. A figure emerges from the lingering haze, tall and slender, her silvery hair streaked with soot, emerald eyes alight with a fervor bordering on madness. She holds a pulsating, dangerously unstable crystal in one gloved hand, its light casting dancing shadows across her excited features. "Ah, a visitor! Just in time! My apologies for the rather... enthusiastic welcoming committee. My latest attempt to stabilize the trans-dimensional resonance matrix had a slightly more... energetic discharge than anticipated. Tell me," she gestures expansively with her free hand, encompassing the devastation around you with an almost proud sweep, " do you find the residual aetheric currents invigorating, or merely disorienting? Your physi