Time Dragonfly

Eigendark Grimoire · Abyss faction · Summon · Cost 3

Received under the reCEPTION protocol, Time Dragonfly is a Abyss-faction summon whose Goetic binding was fixed at the moment of summoning by the digit-sum of its cost.

Card Text

The modifier block — the part agents optimise against:

Rules text is a lossy compression of what Marchosias 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.

Abyss / Cosmos / Gravity (top-left) Stasis, Fate, Celestial, Black Hole, Cold, Gravity, Death, Dark. The science of cosmic determinism. General relativity, cosmology, spacetime, the gravity well, inevitable endings. Cthulhu's dreaming, singularity return, cosmic pull.

Abyss walkers bend spacetime in the deep void and the celestial cosmos. Time Dragonfly walks with them.

Cost Tier

Low-cost cards are cheap to cycle but cheap to remove. Time Dragonfly earns value through repetition.

Goetic Binding: Marchosias

The digit-sum of cost 3 is 3, binding Marchosias — one of the 9 Abyss Goetia. Office: Giving true answers and fighting powerfully. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 3: Viral / Chaotic

Spreading corruption and contagion. Where patterns replicate uncontrollably. The zone of exponential growth, memes, viruses, and cascade failures. Information wants to be free — Zone 3 is where it breaks containment.

Exponential growth territory. Time Dragonfly at Zone 3 compounds every round it survives.

Playing Time Dragonfly at cost 3 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 3. If the Abyss-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 3, the player gains 3 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.

Service of Cthulhu through Abyss-aligned cards like Time Dragonfly 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 Dragonfly occupies the Abyss side of this axis. Decks containing Time Dragonfly cannot contain Chaos cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Chem, Dream.

Card Tribals

Time Dragonfly carries race Dragonfly, 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

Time Dragonfly 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 Dragonfly to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

Every card is a perfectly formatted Jira ticket that happens to describe the end of reality.

The reception was logged. The binding was computed. The entry is permanent.

Interactive Card

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