The Abduction of the Wayfarer

Shortly after Black Phantom and everyone else had bid goodbye to The Wayfarer and left him alone at the Wax Museum, Black Phantom found himself suddenly struck with a clairvoyant vision.

A tall figure Black Phantom recognized as The Wayfarer was kneeling in the basement of the Wax Museum. He seemed to be examining the circle that had been drawn on the floor. He stared at it first intently, then with worry. He didn’t notice four figures step out of the shadows behind him. “After all this time, he’s found us,” the woman in front proclaimed, then appeared shocked when she saw The Wayfarer before her.

The vision shifted again. The Wayfarer was now unconscious. Two of his assailants, the guy and one of the women, are carrying him. The woman who was talking a moment ago reverently carried the sword wrapped in the cape. The woman who held the polearm used it to slice through the air and open a portal. A biting cold wind blew snow across the floor. They stepped through and the portal closed behind them. The vision ended there.

When Black Phantom snapped out of that vision of the future he returned to the Wax Museum cautiously only to catch the tail end of that portal closing as he ran down to the basement – the vertical blue line disappearing just as he arrived. The air in the basement was brisk and smelled of fresh snow, which he could see melting on the ground and ruining the writing within the magical circle. He recognized new signs of a fight that seemed to fit with his vision. The fight clearly did not last long. Even with that clairvoyant warning, he arrived too late.