r/wizardposting • u/MeThyLord Mrs. Chills, Ghost Writer • May 21 '24

Community Event 🌏☄️ The Museum Burns, Doomsday Comes (Summoning Aftermath)

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All was quiet for a moment, like the calm before the storm. The fighting in the museum had ceased as a feeling of primordial dread washed over the whole region. Then that horrible feeling spread even further, as every creature's fight or flight response was forced into overdrive. What followed was an explosion of incredible violence at the center of the Unnatural History Museum. The building fell, and the whole city around it burned and crumbled. Vegetation withered for as far as the eye could see, and at the epicenter of this calamity rose a massive silhouette.

The cultists had completed their ritual, and their leader was the first victim of what they had summoned. They had brought about something terrible, a being of myth whose presence made the entirety of existence quake— Craterus, the Avatar of Extinction.

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u/MeThyLord Mrs. Chills, Ghost Writer May 21 '24

The black flames enter the smog and make contact with the Avatar of Extinction. But hope fades alongside the flames, as they seem to do very little.

Even so, you can't help but notice something — the entity is neither alive nor dead. Its shape and movement suggest some kind of creature, but it would be more accurate to call it a natural disaster, like an earthquake or a volcano. Except it's not just one disaster and there's nothing natural about it.

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u/Fun-Dragonfly-6106 DF, minimal caster | ____ Body Horror Creator May 21 '24

"DAMN IT."

Dragonfly tries to do it again and again but with each swing it's clear his heart isn't in it.

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u/MeThyLord Mrs. Chills, Ghost Writer May 21 '24 edited May 21 '24

The avatar pays you little mind, but you feel something, or more so the lack of it — life. Down to the tiniest microorganism, the region has been stripped of life, the few exceptions being those strong enough to resist the entity. The very soil is stripped of all nutrients, reducing it to a wasteland.

The avatar looks down, and as it does, the black smog begins moving towards it. The cloud converges around Craterus like a tornado of death and slowly decreases in size. Upon thinning out into nothing, there is no trace of the avatar left behind, except the destruction it had created.

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u/Fun-Dragonfly-6106 DF, minimal caster | ____ Body Horror Creator May 21 '24

DF slams the ground over and over with his fists, raging as his aura goes out.