The Sacrifice on Terra

Overview

Carried into Terra’s deep past by the timeline rewind, the party arrived before the original Battle of Terra — the fight in which the planet’s champion defeated the devourer only to become the next Hungry God. This time, forewarned by the party, the Terran warrior chose a different end: total self-sacrifice, breaking the cycle at its source.

What Happened

• The party materialized on a green, living Terra — two suns, lush grass, a distant city — facing a tall, three-legged, three-armed warrior waiting, sword in hand, for something to fall from the sky.
• The warrior sensed them and asked telepathically whether they were friend or foe.
• Jens answered with a mental download of everything the party had learned: every battle, every failure — and the core rule, if you kill it, it jumps; leave it one host and your whole world is lost.
• The warrior set his sword down in the grass.
• The Alpha Predator — sixty feet of tentacled, whale-like horror — tore through the upper atmosphere trailing fire.
• The warrior flew up, caught it with all three arms, and carried it into the heart of the nearest sun, destroying both — total annihilation, no surviving host to jump to.
• A flash, and the party returned to a rewritten present (the airport, the limo, Sam Elliott, and the business cards).

Why This Matters

• Breaks the harvest cycle at its origin. Because the Terran champion is destroyed with the devourer instead of becoming the next one, the Hungry God never forms — and, by implication, never comes to Earth.
• Refines the cosmology: total destruction with no nearby host is a second valid solution alongside “drain, don’t kill” (see cosmology).
• Rewrites the timeline. Everything after this point — including the team’s new status as the Voss Corporation’s executives — flows from this sacrifice. Its scope is the campaign’s central open question.