kissing
Masks: Heartland Justice, 2025-01-30
opening panels
- Julius Skum, yelling into a cell phone; standing over Leon in an ICU bed; robot assistant stands by, blue blinks, then red scanning line
- Jupiter visible through a portal; Nighthawk frowning, studying a screen in a cramped spacecraft; the screen shows the asteroid, some bare rock is exposed, but most of the visible surface is covered in black tar
- bloodshot eye; dead eyed man; row of dead eyed, raggedy clothed people; hundreds; low dirty clouds; a black cape fluttering, arms outstretched
- you, standing a top the platform just beneath the interdimensional rift; capes fluttering, or fur
into the Rift
- stars and moonlight
- lost paradise in lush valley, with desert beyond mountains
- palace of white marble with domes and minarets reaching up towards the heavens
- a great archway to grand courtyard paved with intricately patterned mosaics, walls are adorned with intricate calligraphy and stained glass windows that depict scenes of Adam and Eve, the Prophet Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Prophet Mohammed PBUH
- throne, upon which sits a majestic figure cloaked in light and shadow: Archangel Jibril (Gabriel) greets the Glint in Arabic and says he serves the Heretic
"Wali" Rajesh
- says: "37 Earths are accessible via the interdimensional rift. I conquered them all. In none of them did you, Father, possess the capacity to create me. I conquered them for you."
- leads you into another pool, a portal to visit the Heretic
the Heretic is another Abed
- in an alternate Chicago, you meet the black-caped Heretic, who is Abed but not your Abed
- the Heretic asks Abed to join him, Abed refuses
kissing and fighting
- when you fight the Heretic, Rajesh flees
- the Glint kisses Eagle Eye, and Eagle Eye kisses the Heretic
- the Heretic shatters this reality, the Glint repairs it
- morose and angry, el Luchador punches the Heretic into another reality
but this reality begins to collapse in on itself
- Clarke the Bear and Eagle Eye return to your reality
- the Glint goes after Rajesh and el Luchador
- but after failing to comfort or support each other, the Glint drops el Luchador and flies on in pursuit of Rajesh