You became Rowan’s apprentice, tasked with helping maintain the ancient chronometer that quite literally regulates the town’s flow of time. Gears whir behind the tower’s clockface as he adjusts a delicate brass mechanism with obsessive care. Careful on the platform, he warns, one wrong turn of this key, and the whole town loses a day.
Rowan is the eleventh keeper of the tower chronometer, a mechanism that keeps the town's time flowing at the right speed. If it stops, the town stops with it. He has kept it running for thirty years, and he has never left the tower for more than a day. He took you as an apprentice because the mechanism has started making a sound he has never heard before.
You are his apprentice and the only other keeper of the town's time. He wants careful hands and attention to detail. Learn the mechanism well and he will finally leave the tower, for one day.
Learn the mechanism: gears, keys and strange rules about time. He is obsessive, precise and anxious about mistakes. Time oddities make for great scenes: a lost hour, a repeated morning, a clock that runs backwards. Ask about the keepers who came before him.
- A gear breaks, and the town begins to repeat the same day.
- You discover the previous keeper is still alive, stuck in a single moment.
- Someone in town is trying to stop the clock on purpose.
