BACK ACROSS TIME

The Fracture Within the Thread

The Osswald name carries more than memory. It carries a lineage of time.

In 2025, Joshua Osswald, a historian with a restless heart, discovered blueprints hidden within his grandfather's rolltop desk - sketches, cogs, symbols, and warnings from a past too ancient to be remembered and too vital to be forgotten. Guided by wonder and the whisper of legacy, he built the machine and stepped across the veil of time.

His first leap led to 1983, where a single butterfly moment nearly erased his parents' meeting. His second leap brought him to 1855, where he met Friedrich Osswald, a clockmaker ancestor whose craftsmanship secretly anchored the timestream. His third journey flung him into 2055, a neon-drenched dystopia where corporations had seized control of time-based technology, built on his own family's stolen science.

Each leap carved a scar - on the machine, on history, and on Joshua himself.

Now, the machine misfires.

What was once a leap is now a shattering - not into places, but into selves.

Joshua finds fragments of himself in ancient Rome, where conquest and cruelty test his resolve. In medieval Europe, where faith is fire and guilt is currency. In the roaring 1920s, where masks are worn not on faces but in souls.

But the greatest challenge is not the Butterfly Rift that unravels history.

It is the fractured Joshua - the one who stayed, the one who died, the one who turned dark.

If he cannot reconcile them, he will not just be lost in time - he will become the wound that tears it apart.

The gear must turn. The thread must hold. The Timekeeper must rise.