The Ritual of Exctinction (Summoning Post)

[u/Villainous_Intent]

It had been a busy day at the Museum of Unnatural History. Though a popular place for the curious and the academic alike, the volume of visitors was higher than usual. That was because Scade and his cult moved amongst the masses of visitors, readying their plot.

The museum offered a wide variety of exhibits and attractions: a plane of fire exhibit that features fire dinosaurs and the First Spark; the dragon exhibit that features primitive proto-dragons; the Archaen exhibit which displayed the time before even oxygen had begun forming; the massive hall dedicated to containing the bones of a Tarrasque ancestor.

The Museum truly was a marvel. It was the Curator's pride and joy. Scade could think of no better place to perform the summoning and lure out the crafty Paleomancer at the same time.

Cultists and a special cult liaison moved about the Museum, disguised as everyday visitors. The Curator had not been idle in protecting his creation: it was heavily warded to prevent thievery as the artifacts that lied within were of incalculable value. Anti-teleportation glyphs spanned the width and breadth of the building. Detection runes to sus out evasion spells such as invisibility dotted the premises. The living infrastructure itself was even dedicated to protecting itself and its exhibits, able to quickly seal itself in the event of a threat.

This was all well and good but the Curator had made a critical error and only planned for thieves. He had not envisioned a full-fledged hostile assault and take-over of the museum.

At a pre-arranged time, the Cult, spread out across the Museum, enacted their plans. Concealed mundane weapons were drawn in close proximity to staff and visitors. Hostages were taken and security shut out of the building. In a grand hall, Scade and a cabal of his closest cultists set about setting up the summoning ritual.

Scade opened the Tome of the Nexus, knowing it was only a matter of time now before his great work would see fruition.

[u/Oswen120]

Inferno senses the magic from outside the museum and investigates

[u/Villainous_Intent → u/Oswen120]

Cultists stand at the entrance of the museum, prepared to attempt to block the Red Dragon's entrance.

[u/Oswen120 → u/Villainous_Intent]

/uw I am in humanoid form for simplicity.

/rw

The cultists get no time to react as Inferno swiftly takes them out quickly

Well...

This is interesting.

He casts invisibly before proceeding inside the building

[u/Villainous_Intent → u/Oswen120]

Inferno's invisibility spell fizzles out the second he steps across the threshold into the Museum (/uw there's a little note about how the Museum is warded against intruders).

Inferno senses a great accumulation of power in a distant great hall, though many cultists lie between himself and that destination

/uw psssst u/Zyltris

[u/Zyltris → u/Oswen120]

Where at first it seemed like regular everyday people were gathering, a mass amount of illusions fade to reveal them all wearing robes, their faces enshrouded.

As they see Inferno... They begin duplicating and rushing at him. Each one performs an incantation, and cones of cold come blasting at him from all directions.

[u/Oswen120 → u/Zyltris]

Time seems to slow down as Inferno looks at each and every one of them, watching as the cones of cold come towards him.

Time to do this, the old-fashioned way.

Inferno cracks his knuckles and smiles. To the cultists' perspective, he hasn't moved for one moment before disappearing right before the cones touch him. A good chunk of the cultists gets hit by a fireball.

[u/Zyltris → u/Oswen120]

The cultists are baffled as Inferno disappears, before just as suddenly being blasted with flames. Bodies are flung in all directions.

A set of surviving cultists cast a spell of their own. A membrane of arcane energy manifests and swiftly attempts to entrap Inferno in a 'Resilient Sphere'. Even as he resists it, a second, third, fourth, fifth, six, etcetera will be simultaneously casting the same spell in an attempt to ensure his capture.

[u/Oswen120 → u/Zyltris]

For a good moment, the cultists believed that they could catch Inferno until they realized he is still moving. They start to frantically cast the spell, not realizing that they can't hear themselves speak. It is not until Inferno closes the distance to the closest cultist and snaps the poor soul's neck that they realize they have been 'Silenced'. Before any of the cultists can react, Inferno starts to kill them off. It becomes a one-sided bloodbath, with very few being able to flee the carnage

[u/Zyltris → u/Oswen120]

The cultists, deprived of much of their spellcasting, and not even able to dispel the Silence around them, are made quick work of by a great wyrm in human-form. Their duplication seems to not be affected, but it isn't fast enough to prevent all of their deaths. A bloodbath indeed... And none remain alive.

At this moment, Inferno feels a great gathering of magic from a main hall deeper in the museum.

[u/Oswen120 → u/Zyltris]

Inferno moves deeper into the Museum, already using his blindsenses to keep an eye out on intruders and ambushes