Uncle Rob’s Time Portal
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Aliases: Time Machine Status: Major Origin: Built by Uncle Rob and his helpers from beer cans, boxes, and duct tape Wielder: Uncle Rob
The machine that starts the saga. Built in Uncle Rob’s workshop out of beer cans, boxes, and duct tape — plus one genuine Flux Capacitor — the time portal sends Chino and Homeboy back to yesterday, where they steal their own weed stash and kick the whole story into motion. The device then becomes unstable and collapses, and the Homeboy who comes back is explicitly Homeboy Alpha. The leftover technology goes missing into alien hands, and a later makeshift ship portal can’t run without its absent capacitor.
Description
The portal is exactly what it sounds like: a working time machine assembled from junk, with a Flux Capacitor as its one serious component. The text calls it both a “time portal” and a “time machine,” and the wiki records both. Its one demonstrated trip sends the protagonists to yesterday — one day back, no farther — where they pull off the self-theft of the stash that the opening of the saga depends on.
The trip produces the two-Homeboy situation: more than one Homeboy comes out of the event, and the narrative is explicit that the Homeboy who returns is Homeboy Alpha. The dossier keeps that distinction intact — the other Homeboy is never given a stated name, so none is supplied here. The portal does not survive its own success. It grows unstable, collapses, and leaves its technology scattered and missing, which is how the aliens end up with research material they didn’t build.
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A later makeshift portal, assembled aboard the alien research ship, cannot operate without its missing capacitor — which is to say the recovery of the original part is the whole ballgame, and it never happens.
Role in Volume 01
- Uncle Rob’s Time Portal: Uncle Rob and his helpers build the portal from beer cans, boxes, and duct tape around the Flux Capacitor. The trip to yesterday produces the self-theft of the weed stash, the two-Homeboy situation, and the explicit identification of the returning traveler as Homeboy Alpha. The portal destabilizes and collapses.
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- Uncle Rob and the Aliens: The makeshift ship portal can’t operate without its missing capacitor, and the scattered technology becomes material for alien research.
Role in Volume 02
- Volume 2 looks back at the portal in a retrospective reference. It is a look back, not evidence of a new working portal — nothing in the second volume puts a functioning time machine back on the table.
The Flux Capacitor
The portal’s one named component, and its whole reason for working at all. It arrives by UPS with no manual — Rob and company wire it in on vibes and hope — and during the portal’s collapse it disappears into the Time Vortex. Its recovery is unresolved: the missing capacitor is the reason the later makeshift ship portal can’t run, and the text never gives it back. The wiki imports nothing from other franchises’ rules for how a Flux Capacitor is supposed to behave; what the text shows is all there is — delivery, installation, disappearance.
Notes
- “Time portal” and “time machine” both appear in the text. Both are recorded; neither is more official.
- The brief supplies no name for the second Homeboy. Only the stated fact is kept: the returning Homeboy is explicitly Homeboy Alpha.
- Volume 2’s reference is retrospective only. There is no second working portal in either volume.