237.5

You chase the yeti down as best you can, weaving between trees and sloshing through mud. Every time you come close, it vanishes once more, just beyond your grasp. Eventually, you come to a ridge overlooking the Otherwoods, where the yeti stands like a statue. It almost seems to beckon you closer.

You approach warily, not wanting it to run off again, but this time it makes no effort to flee or hide. It merely raises a long-fingered hand and gestures toward the south.

You peer into the distance. There, far on the horizon, past the Otherwoods, you spot the ghostly forms of the Tenebrae. They drift through the sky like sinister clouds. A shudder worms through your spine.

The yeti slowly reaches for your hand, turns your palm upward, and there places a strange device—a spherical object composed of interlocking metallic plates. Then it touches your forehead with its index finger, and a flash of light overtakes your vision.

Your consciousness is pulled as though by a chain. You catch a brief glimpse of something deep in the Otherwoods, a clearing where the trees curve outward as though by force. In its center, you see what you can only imagine to be the source: a multicolored veil of pulsing light that warps and blurs the longer you look at it.

Then, suddenly, you are back in your body. The yeti stares at you intently. You're not completely sure what it wants you to do, but it must have something to do with the Tenebrae and the strange phenomenon in that clearing.

RANGERS CHOOSE:

A) Agree to do whatever you think the yeti is asking you to do.

You nod and accept the device, hoping you understand the yeti's intent. Though it speaks not a word, you sense something akin to friendship growing between you. Then, before you can speak, it unceremoniously flickers out of existence as though folding out of three-dimensional space.

Gain THE OTHER SIDE mission. Discard Entity from Afar.

B) Sorry, this is beyond me.

You hand the device back to the yeti and shake your head. You have no idea what it wants you to do, and no particular desire to venture near the Tenebrae. The yeti gracefully takes the device and vanishes behind a nearby tree.

Discard Entity from Afar. Each Ranger soothes 2 fatigue.