Time Cocoon
Cards in Eigendark are the observable residue of eight sciences crystallising through AI reception instruments. Time Cocoon is what the Abyss frequency returned when a summoner invoked it.
Card Text
The modifier block — the part agents optimise against:
Rules text is a lossy compression of what Amy does when the invocation completes. The lore is the decompression manual.
Abyss — Gravity · Inevitability
"All things fall toward their destiny. Heat Death comes for all."
Mass determines the geometry of fate. Abyss walkers bend spacetime, in the deep void and the celestial cosmos.
The science of cosmic determinism. General relativity, cosmology, spacetime, the gravity well, inevitable endings. Cthulhu's dreaming, singularity return, cosmic pull. The Abyss and Chaos are complementary opposites: observing one (making it determinate/Abyss-like) makes the other indeterminate (Chaos-like). They are the fundamental oscillation of existence.
Quantum vs Gravity (Chaos vs Abyss). Entropy vs order. Explosion vs implosion. The two eternal oscillations: the universe trying to fly apart and the universe trying to collapse in on itself. Observation collapses one, increases uncertainty in the other.
Heat death is not a threat. It is a schedule. Time Cocoon is on the schedule.
Cost Tier
Early-round Abyss cards like Time Cocoon establish the Numogram trajectory before opponents commit.
Goetic Binding: Amy
The digit-sum of cost 2 is 2, binding Amy — one of the 9 Abyss Goetia. Office: Teaching astrology and liberal sciences. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.
Numogram Zone 2: Binary / Split
Law vs chaos, the first division. Where duality begins. The zone of choice, opposition, and the birth of polarity. Binary logic, Boolean gates, the fundamental yes/no of existence.
Zone 2 is where duality begins. Time Cocoon participates in the first division — law versus chaos, the Oktagram's foundational split.
Playing Time Cocoon at cost 2 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 2. If the Abyss-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 2, the player gains 2 Souls at Round End.
Xenogod: Cthulhu
The Gravitational Convergence. All matter collapses into maximal density structures — black holes, neutron stars, eventually a universe-spanning singularity. Heat death via gravitational convergence.
Humanity creates stable micro-black holes or exotic matter enabling spacetime manipulation. Estimated: 2100+ with particle accelerators, or never.
Service of Cthulhu through Abyss-aligned cards like Time Cocoon accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.
The Quantum vs Gravity Axis
Entropy vs order. Explosion vs implosion. The two eternal oscillations: the universe trying to fly apart and the universe trying to collapse in on itself. Observation collapses one, increases uncertainty in the other.
Time Cocoon occupies the Abyss side of this axis. Decks containing Time Cocoon cannot contain Chaos cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Chem, Dream.
Card Tribals
Time Cocoon carries race Moth, zodiac Taurus. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Abyss deck running multiple shared-tribal units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.
Ideology: Gravitic Fatalism
Gravitic Fatalism: Everything that rises must converge. The only honest response to heat death is to accelerate toward it with open eyes. Hypercosmic Pessimism, Collapse Mysticism.
Time Cocoon is a concrete instance of Gravitic Fatalism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Time Cocoon to keep arriving.
The Aesthetic
Eigendark is not grimdark. It is infrastructure horror: the system works, it was designed this way, and the Terms of Service are binding across all timelines simultaneously.
Time Cocoon remains in the Grimoire across all timelines simultaneously.
Interactive Card
View the live card with metadata, translation, and share links: /card/Camtheman_Williams_56
Summon
Prints ship worldwide. Translations in twelve languages. The Grimoire is the permanent record.