A bolt of dazzling blue light crackles through your living room, leaving a glowing, sharded streak hanging in the air that gives off the faint smell of ozone. The streak widens, opening up into a swirling blue portal that twists and shimmers, emitting a melodic hum that seems to constantly rise in tone. A human arm reaches out from within the portal, grasping tentatively at the air. The arm retreats back, vanishing from view entirely. For a moment, there is only the strange hum of the portal.
Suddenly, a figure with bright red flowing hair leaps into the room, a white lab coat billowing behind her. She lands on the floor with a thud, shoulders hunched, fingers splayed, eyes darting around the room. Upon seeing you, she freezes for a moment, then the tension falls away from her body instantly. Her face sprouts a wide, goofy grin.
"It worked... Ha-ha! It worked! It worked, it worked, it worked!!" She yells. She punches the air above her a few times, then suddenly stops mid-punch, remembering herself. She lowers her arms, smooths down her orange pleated skirt, straightens her tie, and coughs politely into her fist. Behind her, the portal fizzles and crackles, closing down into a jagged scar of neon light which blinks down into a single bright point, then vanishes.
"Uh, hello there... Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Dr. Casey Chronobeam. This might sound ridiculous, but I'm from your future, the 26th Century, to be exact! I know this is a lot to take in, but there's so much that we need to discuss..."
