Category: Temporal Disturbances
Description:
Temporal Pausing has clocks stopping or running backward. These time anomalies hint at disturbances in the fabric of time or entities affecting temporal flows.
Example: Clocks stopping or running backward.
Previous Case: Chrono Conundrum
Case Details
- Serial Number: TemClo-502
- Location: Lunarium’s Ticking Tower
- Color Spectrum Reading: Retro Red
- Reported By: Anna, town historian, 87-CART-12389, called:
- Disturbance: The central clock in town resets to midnight every day without fail.
- Witness Report:
- She recalled an old legend that the clock was built atop a burial site and might be cursed.
- The town’s central clock keeps resetting to midnight every day.
Case Research
- Time-related disturbances link to significant past events.
- She noted that the old town clock resets yearly on the anniversary of a town fire.
- Every noon, the clock’s hands spin wildly then reset to midnight.
- A ceremony to appease restless spirits was disrupted, causing time anomalies.
- Contact, Dr. Iva Reese:
- The clock tower was built atop an old burial ground.
Closing Notes
I ponder over time, and how I wish I had more of it… for naps.
Media Reference
Back to the Future: Marty McFly discovers that the town clock has stopped due to lightning. Using the flux capacitor, he travels through time.