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[He takes out his wand and he begins to conjure up a scene on the dinner table, and the room darkens as these projections take form. A white disc floats above the center of the table and then 11 other discs appear around it, floating in orbit. And Barry says,]

Barry: This is the Planar System. This is what it looks like each time we come into a new world.

[And you see a small projection of the Starblaster flying in from the edge of the table, landing on that center plane. And Barry continues and says,]

Barry: Each cycle, within a day or two of us landing, the Light of Creation emerges, and follows us to this plane.

[And you see a small light lower down from the ceiling and it lands on that central plane as well. And he says,]

Barry: And then about 48 hours or so after that, The Hunger’s scouts find us.

[And then there’s a dozen white eyes floating over the projection.]

Barry: And, they relay our location to The Hunger. And then about one year later—

[And then a round black disc appears from below the table and slowly consumes the scene, and Barry says,]

Barry: That’s when The Hunger arrives. And then, rinse and repeat.

[And sure enough, this scene plays out— it rewinds and then plays over and over again. And Barry says,]

Barry: I’ve been trying to figure out why the Light follows us down into these new worlds, and I— I don’t know. There’s so much about The Light that we don’t understand. What I do know, though, is how The Hunger keeps finding us.

[And you see the light descend from the ceiling again, only this time there are waves, there are ripples of energy coming off of it, that reach far beyond this scene, and they start bouncing all around the kitchen. And Barry says,]

Barry: This is that force. It’s that desire to be desired. That The Light gives off.
Magnus: [crosstalk] Ahem. Cravea— craveability.
Barry: [heavy sigh, defeated] It’s the craveability. [laughter] That The Light gives off. It’s— it’s a signal. It’s a beacon. And it reaches well beyond the edges of our reality. The Hunger’s scouts are attuned to it. They’re able to follow it as easy as a path. Unless!
All, overlapping: Unless…
Barry: Unless we interrupt it.

[And then suddenly the scene changes, and those ripples cascading off the Light of Creation, they grow weaker. And they’re not bouncing all around the kitchen anymore. They’re just sort of surrounding the plane in the center of the projection. And Barry says,]

Barry: If we can reduce the signal’s strength to— according to my calculations, about 15% or so-- it won’t be able to escape the boundaries of our reality. The Hunger won’t know where to find us. We can hide, wait it out. Starve it out.

[And Lup says,]

Lup: And, we can do that, with artificing. We can divide up the light of creation into 7 parts, and then we hide those parts inside of magic items. And those items, well... they’ll be incredibly powerful, but the signal will be weak!