Oh.. damn
Thanks !
Really appreciated
You... you
do realize he's joking, right?
What
really happened was that a space parasite [Tchort] crash-landed onto the planet 65 million years ago, forming the Yucatan Peninsula, before burrowing down into the center of the Earth to absorb all life from the Lifestream. This caused the equivalent of a nuclear winter, which overtook the Earth for the next 64 million years and caused the dinosaurs to go extinct. In order to escape the never-ending cold, human civilization was forced to dig down into the Earth, where they established an interconnected series of passages between settlements [the "Metro"], before stumbling upon shards originating from Tchort that granted them superhuman powers [the Psi Monoliths]. The largest of these shards was hollowed out by humans, becoming the Oculus.
One day, 12,000 years before today, one settlement, gifted in telekinesis, lifted their kingdom out of the ground and raised it far above the Earth's surface above the cloud-line, where they were able to take in light and heat from the Sun in order to grow crops and expand their population. However, they became enamored with the space parasite and were eventually destroyed by their own greed. The remnants of their civilization then fell back to Earth, and became the Institute of Tchort. However, just before the civilization was destroyed, the princess of the kingdom used her powers to send the space parasite back to sleep, before splitting herself in two and sending her clone far into the future to play a pivotal role in a widely-contested sequel that has objectively better music. (fight me)
Time passed, and eventually the protagonist was born, and using a time machine created by his neighbor, the protagonist escaped into the past to defeat the space parasite Lavo--I mean, Tchort--in order to stop him from eventually reaching his true strength and erupting out from the Earth's core to rain death upon the peoples of the Underrail. He went back in time, stole the Cube from the Faceless in order to give it to Oculus who sold it to the Bakers who had it stolen from them by a gang that sold it to Coretech before the Tchortists stole it and then you took it from Tchort and gave it back to the Faceless. ... Yeah, that was how it happened.
And if you still can't tell, I was also joking when I wrote all that... mostly.
(It is pretty hilarious how well the plot of Chrono Trigger matches the plot of Underrail.)
