With fading consciousness, you force your eyes to focus on the swirling images beyond the cracked dome. The temporal eddy creates a bizarre slideshow of history flashing by at irregular intervals. Your vision swims as you spot a snow-covered mountain range that looks suspiciously like the Himalayas - but there's something wrong. The peaks appear sharper, younger, untouched by erosion. Before you can ponder this, the scene shifts to a vast desert where impossible stone structures rise from the sands, their smooth surfaces carved with strange geometric patterns that hurt to look at.

Another violent flash reveals a cityscape unlike anything in recorded history - towering spires of glowing crystal connected by floating bridges, populated by silhouettes of beings with elongated limbs. The image lasts only a heartbeat before dissolving into what looks like a medieval village, but the people wear masks made of polished bronze, their movements unnaturally synchronized as they move through the town square.

Your head pounds as you try to make sense of these visions. Are these actual moments from Earth's history? Or something far stranger? The temporal anchor's countdown pulses through your fading awareness: 00:02:45...00:02:44... The last image you see before darkness takes you is a familiar coastline - but where there should be a modern city, there's only untouched wilderness and a single stone monolith jutting from the waves.