At the Starting Gate

When you slip to Temporal Prime tiie first time, vou always seem to be near the middle of the timestream—never dead center, but close. Reasons for this vary, but the truest is that when a creature is able to reach that higher level of temporal activitv, it overlays reality with Temporal Prime. In a creature's mind, the center of the world is never too far away from it. That and the basic will to survive, the belief that its life is the most precious, focuses everything around itself.

This doesn't work perfectly, though. Other creatrures slip to Temporal Prime, also for their first time, forming the timestream around themselves. A median range occurs that places ail slipped creatures close to the same range from middle. Interestingly enough, if an observer on Temporal Prime watches a new creature slip in, the time-stream does not rearrange itself to place the creature toward the middle. The dimension has apparently already adjusted the time-stream to account for the various slips. A few lifelines can be seen to move—the lines the creature would have affected if it had remained in reality.