The machine worked. It actually worked. Sure it took more power than a million homes use in a decade and released it all in a femtosecond, but it worked. You were able to step outside your light cone. Not very far, only a few steps to the left, but you did it. The first entity in the world, nay, the universe to defy causality like that. It would've been an unmitigated success, until those hundreds of eyes turned to face you. Like a dying video stream they distorted the air and matter around them. They were always there, must have been. Turned away all this time. But now you've caught their undivided attention.
Researcher █████████ disappeared immediately at the moment of criticality and has not been located since.
