The object that would be later called the Mystifier descended from the clouds and landed in the town of Crow during the time of the Linterget Troll Festival. The strange machine possessed the ability to change its size and color, and to some degree its shape, although it seemed to favor a pyramidal form.
Through some unknown magicks it projected an unending array of vivid holographic imagery--literally mystifying and entrancing the town’s residents for hours on end. It showed dancers, musicians and magicians, cats, bats, lewd nudes, men fighting, kids crying, cute things, gross things, pickles, toes, and unknown lands… but more often than not, it showed people talking. Talking directly to the people of Crow as if they were experts or friends. And the person they saw the most was maybe not a person at all, but something else. It called itself Chaz Throckmorton and claimed to be a “Future Human”. He said that the pyramidal object was his, that long ago his company had built it, and bragged that he was exceedingly rich, immortal, and a genius.
What he failed to mention and what the citizens of Crow would later find out, was that Chaz Throckmorton was an attention-vampire.
