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FIRST CONTACT:PART ONE
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YellowBelly had just completed work on the Brewery, although as he dug further into the dark earth, he felt a strange vibration emanating from one of the walls of the cavern, taking his trusty pickaxe in hand, he decided to investigate.
As he drove his pick into the rock-face an unnatural luminescence seeped from within the stones. Driven by curiosity, he delved further, uncovering the source of the eldritch light: a vast, ancient mechanism that seemed to envelop the very roots of the Brewery itself!
A piece of the mechanism had dislodged in the digging and glowed with a faint light. As YellowBelly held it in his hand the instruments of it’s clock-like face took on a life of their own and began to move. Suddenly, the device seemed to explode in a blinding light!
As the light danced around the cavern it coalesced into a circular portal, at the other side YellowBelly could discern brewing tanks, like his own, but different. Everything was familiar, but at the same time, totally alien.
Just then a figure lurched into view, and YellowBelly stood stunned as he stared into his own face, but not! The figure was like a mirror image of himself, but twisted somehow, broken, rebuilt and completely bedecked in Blue!
Suddenly, the figure reached his mechanical arm through the portal and with a sinister smile, swiped YellowBelly’s precious recipe book from beneath his sash! YellowBelly could only look on in shock as the portal closed before him. The last thing he saw was a face, too like his own, sneering as the light left the cavern. Once again alone and in darkness, YellowBelly swore to discover the secrets of the mysterious device and to retrieve his lost recipes. At any cost.
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FIRST CONTACT:PART BLUE
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Finally, after years of poring through the ancient texts, he had found it - the formula! It had already cost him an arm and a leg, literally, what more was an eye? An eye for all of the answers and the means to seize power once and for all.
As BlueBelly brewed the final potion, he knew success was in his grasp. The device had begun to hum already and as he infused the crystals with the concoction it shuddered into life! Now he had the power, not only to travel through time, but to parse the very fabric of space itself and visit the infinite dimensions!
As the machine thrummed with latent power, he surveyed his creations. His clockwork army stood ready to scour the dimensions for the greatest beer recipes in existence, and he knew just where to start: another him, in another reality, had already unlocked the secrets to the greatest beers, and he knew exactly where and when to find him.
As the portal opened, he looked into his own shocked face as he reached across dimensions and stole the recipe book from beneath his alter ego’s nose.
Now he had everything he needed, he could truly be the greatest brewer in existence and nothing would stand in his way! To be Continued...