What Willo-B, Willo-B

Willo-B [Character 2.03]

Your story

Farfergnügen, that's YOU on the floor.

As one of the barely surviving millions of humanoids in the wetware civilization of the Predestined to Fall, your goal is to find a way to go back in time. That will allow the Predestined to Fall to prevent the creation of the Negative Power Vortex. The Vortex is a far distant region of space that's stealing all energy in an ugly web around it. Tendrils stretch out, like electrical sparks, to your home galaxy, leaving drained stars and worlds in its deadly grasp. It is a chaotic catastrophe of cosmic consequences.

The Predestined are part of an Armada, aimed at the Vortex. Kardashev's Scale posits Type III civilizations that control energy on a galactic scale. Evidence suggests the Vortex is the work of a mythical Type V civilization, controlling the energy of many universes. They're draining this one like a battery.

Why does the Time Field Emitter Display Map refer to a "Great Attractor?"

Your calculations and computations say you've gone back seven hours, to when you turned on the Time Field Emitter. (TFE) The pulsars used to determine your location are in the completely wrong places. This Time Field Emitter has some odd widgets, but they don't explain what's happening.

The glowing field is deja vu? from your most recent prototype, where most of the crew of the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum died horribly as they were eaten by the Field. The farfergnügen Field consumed the crew, the ship, and its power supply without a blip. And now it's doing it again. Or have you returned to the same event? Except you remember watching the entire event, from start to finish. Or did you? This is just too farfergnügen.

The Field vanished after 37 hours, almost as if it ate itself. That would suggest that leaving the system at Power Level FIVE is the right answer. As before, the Field is messing up the comm channels. You're going to have to get the Field sorted first, before you can get out and sound the evacuation alarm that will fail to save most. Farfergnügen!

You know some Relevant Physics and Clever Math

You have three possible choices of action. You must use Your Manipulator (a household prop of your choosing) to perform the listed action on The Manipulated (another household prop of your choosing). (e.g. "Change the Improbability Vector") In order to get the timing right, you say the associated phrase (in italics) out loud. (e.g. "Neutron polarity...") The action takes exactly the time it takes to recite the phrase. It's a personal quirk, but it works. When done, the power is changed by the amount specified for the action. (e.g. -1)

The solution requires five actions, one from each participant, performed in the correct sequence. (The Action numbers play NO ROLE in this.) It should be readily apparent if the answer is correct and the action succeeds.