Did Schala cross to our dimension?

[Chrono'99]

It's as likely to be set in Tokyo as the girl is likely to be a real-world actress who was cast for a video-game cutscene...

[grey_the_angel]

But random warping contradicts the fact in Chrono Cross that in order to cross dimension you must find a hotspot(call it dimensional gate if you might will) then use the Astral Amulet to open the gate.  The gate didn't throw you randomly like you said if you recall the game.

Well I'm not talking about the GATE, am I? I'm talking about the Chrono Cross. There's more than one way to cross time, so I'm sure there's more than one way to cross dimensions.

not really. even in CT, the only way to hop was through gate usage. The entity had to allow you some place.

[Magus22]

Wait... if Lavos enabled the super massive gate which sucked Crono and co. to Mystic Mountain and Magus to Zeal (why those particular places still unknown) but could Schala have obtained new skills threw her encounter/struggle with the TD having been bonded?

[Chrono'99]

Wait... if Lavos enabled the super massive gate which sucked Crono and co. to Mystic Mountain and Magus to Zeal (why those particular places still unknown) but could Schala have obtained new skills threw her encounter/struggle with the TD having been bonded?

There's no solid evidence of that. In any case, we know that the fusion with Lavos was not totally complete yet (or else the multiverse would have been erased), so Schala probably didn't gain much power from it. Actually, it's more probable that she became even weaker after that stressful, fateful encounter which lasted thousand years...

[Zaperking]

Too bad that the game implies otherwise, anyway.

Also, simply is she can traverse dimensions doesn't mean that she has to be omni potent. If you take into account what Masato said and how Schala wrote her ending journal line, it's quite plausible that indeed, Schala did travel to our world to look for Serge. Heck, it'd have a greater effect if that was true. Remember, Schala has no place in the CT universe anymore. Her past is erased, she does not belong in the future.

[Chrono'99]

Oh yeah, I forgot that she belongs in our world now. It all makes sense..

How is her past "erased" by the way?

[Zaperking]

Her past is erased no matter what. Maybe I stated it wrong. She has no place in the past. Heck, she was supposed to die or dissapear in the Black Omen. That or teleport out and live a normal life. But ofcourse, the past in the keystone timeline is that Lavos awoke and destroyed everything, Zeal was in the Black Omen throughout time and Janus got sent to 600AD. What life would Schala go back to?
I came to this conclusion as Schala kind of mentioned this in her journal.

An eternity has passed...
   Fleeting dreams fade into the distance...
   All that is left now
   Is me and my memories...

If she only has her memories left now, then this implies that she can't relive the past. Heck, CC pretty much closed the whole aspect of time travel, that it will not ever happen again except for the Magus/Schala search (or whatever else Chrono Break may come up with when it does). Heck, the compendium seems to support the fact that time travelling into the past erases and created a new future.

So pretty much, all Schala has left is to look for whoever. I still think it's Janus in a way.

[ZeaLitY]

Jeez, after an innocent topic starter, this topic became a fine example of what "Lavos" is to a planet called "Analysis". Except there's no Day of Lavos; that parasite just keeps going...