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You are going about your business in the world you have always known - be it one of swords and sorcery, mobile phones and automobiles, starships and lasers. It is an ordinary day - until it isn’t.

All at once, everything changes. In a single, explosive moment, your world is thrown into turmoil when a fantastic battle breaks out just around the corner. Suddenly you are in great peril, as gunshots and shouting fill the air. Immersed in the chaos, the ground trembles as something not far off erupts into flame. Bodies move around you as the combat swells to a climax - shouting men and women, the snarling of some otherworldly monstrosity.

Practically from nowhere, an elderly man appears, spry and light on his feet, draped in a fastic assortment of sashes and robes, gaunt, mustached face and impossible golden eyes alight with mischievous alarm. It’s almost as if this is all a game to him - albeit one with dire consequences. ”Betta’ take covah kiddo, ol’boy’s not pullin’is punches today no’sah~!” He crows out in warning as he passes, frantically gesturing for you to get yourself to safety - even though it seems unlikely there is any safety to be had in the tumultuous surroundings.

As suddenly as he appeared, the old man is gone - ducking out of sight with the agility of someone half his age in a flurry of cascading silks and leather - leaving only the glinting of some hitherto unrecognized object gripped in his palm, now gone along with him, trapped in your mind.

Moments later, a second figure appears, bursting in with violent abruptness - another old man, this one taller, broad of shoulders and jaw, clad in an improbable garb that straddles the line between rugged adventurer and faded nobility. His own golden eyes are alight with the furious, blazing inferno of dying suns - craggy face creased with a twisted snarl of rage and exertion. He clutches a long-barreled gun in one hand - and on his shoulder, lurking in the shade of his wide-brimmed hat, you could swear you glimpse the obscured shifting of some kind of animated shadow-being.

Before you have a chance to flee from this dark spectre, those burning eyes fall upon you, boring down with an intensity the only respite of which being an ire not aimed directly at you. Nevertheless, his voice is a gruff roar as he barks out his demands. ”Where! That vile sorcerer, where has he gone!”

But again, you are not given enough time to mount a response - for you are interrupted by a renewed trembling of the earth. The shadowy gunslinger whirls back on the direction from which he had come, growling frustration and defiance at whatever had caused this most recent detonation. With deadly peril clearly boring down just around the corner, he glances back to you, cursing, then beckons expansively for you to follow as he storms out in another direction. ”On me, stranger!” He bellows, in a voice inspiring the command of ancient kings. ”For your life, on me!”

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Your character has found themselves being swept up into a fantastic and perilous adventure, whether they like it or not. Life as they know it may never be the same, with beings from other worlds breaking through into their own, extradimensional forces exerting their will on the natural order, upending everything they thought they knew about the laws of the universe.

The gunslinger is a traveler of worlds beyond, forever in pursuit of the sorcerer and his mysterious artifacts. He is a ruthless killer, relentless in his ambitions, and guided by a twisted sense of morality that rides the line between nobility and avarice. He is a dark knight on a quest of epic proportions, and your character is but one of many who will briefly cross paths with this enigmatic and dangerous man as he traverses the road of worlds. Will they join him on this quest, and travel to new and fantastic places beyond their wildest imagination? Or will they merely aid the gunslinger in finishing his business in this world before moving on to the next?

Pretty much any character from any setting should work here. Anyone whose life might be totally upended by this sudden influx of otherworldly peril. I have a few ideas for directions this little adventure could take, and I’m just as happy discussing ideas as I am simply taking you on a wild ride. If you’re interested, please hit me up in a PM and we’ll see what comes of it~!

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That was brilliant to read. Very cool intro

Thanks~!