Grand Imperial Ice Lord: I’ve been told you have amassed a selection of secrets from the dark palace & news of the missing prince.

Seller of Secrets: Yes, your lordship. In fact the 2 items are actually 1 in the same. Apparently the prince appeared on the palaces doorstep in horrible disarray. Not knowing at the time what they had in their possession, the palace guards threw what they believed to be a lowly outkast into their underground prison to rot, but he was almost immediately jailbroken by a phaser who had been secretly hiding out inside the depths of the prison.

GIIL: Hmmm…. and what of the dark prince?

SOS: My original reports proved correct as usual. He was left to guard the vortex to the dark dimension by his mother, the black queen, but when the spectrum prince…

GIIL: DO NOT UTTER THAT TITLE IN MY PRESENCE!

SOS: 1000 apologies your lordship…
When the prince of skull entered the subterranean pyramid they fought ( with the aid of the Immortal Hammer ) & in the end, the pair hobbled the dark prince while simultaneously destroying the gateway inside the pyramid. The hammer escaped, but both princes were sucked into the never ending & fought another battle where the young prince emerged victorious again. 2 more times they met inside the palace & in both instances the prince of skull emerged the victor.

GIIL: His power grows even greater than we anticipated.

SOS: Yes, & on top that, he vanquished the palaces stone guardian & he did so with the quantum blade!

GIIL: The situation grows more perilous with each morsel of info. Do you have news of the princes current location?

SOS: A sortie was dispatched to a small town of outsiders in the mountains where he was believed to be hiding. They sacked the town, but they found no trace of the prince. They did however find an old destroyed prism portal in the basement.

GIIL: Why would that be of import?

SOS: Well see heres the rub. The unit actually appeared to be fine on the outside, but when a tech checked it out, all the electronics had been fried.

GIIL: Again, why?

SOS: All the parts on the inside looked pristine, but they were all non-functioning. After eliminating every other possibility, the tech determined the console had been phase wiped.

GIIL: Intriguing…

SOS: For sure. My current working theory is the phaser dumped him into a distant dimension & since phasers cannot dimensionally shift, she fried the console so no one would be able to trace the princes whereabouts or follow him.

GIIL: Clever girl. Is there any possibility he would be coming here? We have his fathers snowflake, he could be coming to reclaim it.

SOS: Impossible. Those old prism portals dont have the range to reach to our dimension. Most likely the prince is lost in some chaotic fledgling dimension. As for the idea that the prince would make advances towards the dimension of death. I highly doubt it. In the 300 years youve governed the ice palace, none has breached our walls.

GIIL: What does the black queen make of all this?

SOS: She is an absolute state of fury right now, but she was the impetus for this whole chain of events, so she really only has herself to blame.

GIIL: Elaborate.

SOS: When she inherited the crown after her mothers passing, the new queen went to an oracle for insight & prophecy on her impending reign. The oracle predicted the dark kingdoms downfall at the hands of the spect… kingdom of continuum. Believing the skull king to be the source of this new kingdoms power, she sent her prince to assassinate the young king, this would later become the event that put the skull prince on his fantastic quest for revenge. Now the 2 kingdoms stand on the brink of all out war!
Normally the dark palace would be able to topple any adversary with ease, but the wrinkle that makes this conflict so problematic is the 2 dimensions have wildly different time flow. Continuum Kingdom has possibly the fastest time stream I’ve ever come across & the dark empire is on the slow side. The ratio is something along the lines of 1 month in dark time is equivalent to a year in Continuum. So basically whenever they try & invade they are almost literally fighting the clock.

GIIL: That Kingdom is truly blessed by the Infine. Thank you for sharing your secrets. Your information was worrisome & informative as per usual.

SOS: And as always, it is my pleasure & duty to serve you my lord.

GIIL: Dismissed.