On returning to their safe house after mission P455me2 the group found the door open and some regency equipment was missing. James Klein could not be contacted either. Everyone except Brian went to regency HQ. Brian chose to take the subway but ended up being chased and shot by the police after exposing a firearm.

HQ could not contact James either and reported his last known location was at the groups safe house. The group met there. James was not there but his wife was. She acted strangely and then fled the house. Jaroslaw gave chase and found her exceptionally fast and strong for a sixty year old woman. She was strong enough to be able to prevent him from stopping her driving away. He gave chase and finally stopped her by forcing her to have an accident. After a short foot chase she turned and attacked Jaroslaw forcing him to shoot her. He then fled across the freeway to an RV park where he stole an RV to make his escape.

The others searched the house and found a laptop before fleeing when someone tried to break into the front of the house. Jack reported feeling ill and had a brief vision of being a snowbound landscape. [This could be the effect of a variant self nearby, possibly Earth 7] Everyone then met up in regency HQ.

The laptop was password protected but Jaroslaw opened it. It contained an invoice for 2 weeks hire of a truck from a company in Juno valley park. Brian called and managed to get the registration number. Brian found a password protected file which Jaroslaw opened. It contained the address East Chester, 5 Union st, 4258. Brian experienced a vision of being somewhere very dark and developed a headache.

As the group left Brian was shot by a crossbow. The shooter was not seen but the evidence suggested one of Brians variant selves was nearby and a likely suspect. A regency car was borrowed to go to the address. The address was a self storage company. There were 24 lockers with combination padlocks. One opened with the number 4258. Inside was stacked junk and crates. A puddle of organic goo was by the door. Behind the crate appeared to be something with a tentacle. Jaroslaw went to buy some gasoline. He also bought a paper with an article about a spate of murders in East Chester.

Jack emptied the gas into the locker and set fire to it. He also set fire to himself, scorching his coat. He then went to buy a new tee-shirt. He then went a teashop and chatted up the waitress. The group met up and Gideon requested regency provide some FBI coroner ID so he could get information from the morgue on the murders. They then booked into a hotel. Jaroslaw read a clock and determined there was a broken room somewhere in East Chester with a short cycle time to Earth 2, 7 and 9.

The searched for the room and traced it to a school under demolition. Suddenly the whole group experienced headaches and Jaroslaw was drained of some momentum. [A strong indication of a nearby variant self] After arming themselves with assault weapons the group advanced into the school. They encountered the variant selves of Brian and Jack. Jaroslaw triggered some feature of his Ktech rifle which attached to his eye causing some pain but giving night sight. After a brief fire fight the variants retreated.

The group gave chase. Jack caught and killed his variant self. Jaroslaw chased the variant Brian. When the others caught up they found him barely alive with his eye ripped out and his throat cut. Jack called for an ambulance. Brian went looking for his variant self and found someone paddling in the centre of the swimming pool. However that was the broken room and it cycled at that moment.

It took 9 weeks for the group to recover from their injuries. Neil Ellington promoted Brian and the group was introduced to father Juan Daigo as their new patron. Jack laughed at his name then got into an argument over religion resulting in Juan walking out. The following day Ellington introduced the group to Katharine Ryder as their new new patron. She was a closer from Earth 2.