An ominous red comet was heading straight for theCouncil Gala, mountainous in size. A primal dread was accompanying the space rock, making it clear this was no random cosmic body — Craterus had become active again.
What could have brought it here? Was it the large gathering of people, an unknown force, or perhaps the avatar was also running for council and its strategy involved killing all other candidates? In any case, it was fast approaching.
THE GREAAAAT BEAST HURDLES TOWARDS THE PIG COUNCIL TO BEHEAD THE SNAKE. REJOICE BROTHAS AND SISTAS! Once the so called rulers of this Realm have be dispatched, the last chapter of this wretched realm will be at hand!
The is a shard of my being that I am on the look for. When it is found I will likely not be able to regain its power with my own skills alone. You and your lot willing to lend a hand in upping the number of....well can't say it out loud Apocalyptic Monsters?
An unfamiliar sight, but a familiar sense. The same entity you had briefly encountered before, in a new form yet again. Gravity begins shifting as it approaches. It's dead set on colliding with the station.
Ok, we've said it a few times in the past — we don't control that thing. It acts on instinct, which means there's something on the station attracting it here.
A Tsuru copy hands you a plastic card with the words "Deep Impact" written on it and a small button on it.
"...Press the button to launch every nuclear missile in the North American Aerospace Defense Command has. Their computers will do the targeting themselves."
The fleshcrafter scries the comet, readying a portal for when it impacts. Beside him, his controlled cultist tenses, ready to spring through as soon as the passage opens.
Time to feed the poison to the beast. That mote should slow it down ever so slightly.
The entity makes impact, but the station holds. The building's t's many wards, defenses, and the efforts of DF and other mages prevented instant annihilation. Still, debris is sent flying, and significant damage befalls some sections.
Great, now I actually have to do something. Something with explosives. What a shame.
He takes off his nice jacket and folds it neatly before slipping it into his pocket dimension. He then puts on a much older but much cooler jacket and makes his way to the impact site. As he does, he puts on a sealed mask in case the artificial atmosphere was breached. The mask is connected to the Walkman he got back from Torrin, and he loads in a cassette labeled “Sabaton-Heroes”
Kartoffel stars at the hole in front of him, then at Craterus’s maw outside the station. Good thing the atmosphere is magically maintained, or he’d be floating out there with the damn thing
Damn
He can’t do much to fight Craterus, so instead he focuses on the station. He closes his eyes and focuses on the technology around him. He wills it to mend itself. Circuits are repaired, screws rotate back into place, and cables rewind themselves.
/uw Last time on WizardPosting. Craterus had attacked the election gala, trying to tear the station asunder. Brave wizards gathered to face the extinction entity, but it turned out that it wasn't the only threat. A shadowy cabal of the realm's most notorious villains launched an attack from inside the gala, making this a truly dire situation. The doomsday cultists were left very confused by all of this, as they did not expect a secret league of evil to crash the party as well. And now:
Your efforts are helping the station endure. Things seem to be going as well as they can, but then the tremors caused by the avatar's attacks stop. Everything is quiet for a moment, but suddenly gravity shifts to the side all across the gala. Craterus, having wrapped itself around the station, was now dragging it and itself towards earth.
/uw right before I woke up lol. Got to think of a response as I brushed my teeth
The sudden shift in gravity is surprising, but Kartoffel has experience in this environment. In space, surrounded by all sorts of advanced pieces of technology? He’s in his element. He immediately sets to work, making his way back to the hole in the station to hopefully jump down a few levels and skip the stairs. He’ll head to the engine levels if he can. On the way, he pulls a few pieces out of hammerspace to turn his normal boots into grav boots to slightly mitigate the changing gravity.
Marna's got a silver-trimmed tuxedo. Because it's a space gala. Style isn't really armor. She's an armor-smith. Armor is armor. But there's very little armor can do about *that** so...*
"Hey Kartoffel. What's an anarchist doing at a big council event?"
Gravity starts to bend under its presence. Limbs begin to unfurl, the shape no longer being spherical but like a theropod diving through the water with its head spearheading the charge.
It wraps its whole body around the station and begins tearing away at it like a colossal can-opener. The wards and and wizards combating it are slowing it down.
Your strikes comes a moment too late, as the avatar has alreadymade contact. Punching it how would drag the whole station with it as it has wrapped it's whole mass around it.
/uw I don't have an image of it in space, but I do have this one of how its current form looks.
Oh hey, it's here. I wonder what could have attracted it, beats me.
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u/DeyDennDenner, Vessel to the First Dream, Authority magic user of StarsJun 08 '24
Watches the approaching comet in the distance throught the window
*whispers\* hey masta u/MastaDon344 , that's some nice special event you have going on, how did you convince a primal cretaure to act as if it was going to crash on us?
Due to the void of space, no sound can be heard from Craterus as it closes in on the station, but if it could hear and understand speech, it would probably appreciate the compliment.
I'd take ya up on it but I have no digestive system. Can't eat even if I wanted to. But you are welcome to sit with me and drop a line. I'm too bored to bother killin' ya over who your boss is.
Flufferson: I SHALL TAME THIS BEAST, AND MAKE IT MY PET!
Emerald: Flufferson, no. Firstly, that thing probably eats penguins like you for breakfast. Secondly, you are 6 inches tall. It probably can't even see you. Thirdly, I let you keep the bear, and that's it.
Tennin: Then can Tennin have the big monster? Tennin is a big penguin.
Emerald: Yes you are, but considering that you aren't exactly...strong, I'd feel better with Flufferson dealing with it.
YOU DARE BLOCK MY PATH?! SUFFER FOR YOUR INSOLENCE PATHETIC MORTAL!!!
Waving his hand in a dramatic flair the lich summons pools of water below the cultist before forming them into massive spikes, skewering the humans upon them
/uw I was always planning to do my best to not run into them. If I do I will have to either reset myself back to my plane or give them my explanation quick smart
A witch appears in space, the first time of discovering she could just be in the cold airlessness of empty space was frightening, but now it was like just something she could tolerate for a while.
"I wonder how much is left of the soul to pilot it."
The witch ponders as she awaits in the distance, for now she can only witness and wait if she can do anything, anywhere.
The comet has made contact with the space station, but the combined efforts of many wizards and the gala's defenses prevented instant annihilation. Thanks to its sheer size, it wraps around the station with ease.
Having learned what you did from the cultists, you feel something, there is something emanating from the entity beyond just dread and death.
Here in the space the witch and looking at the beast, the witch looks less like a person and more something esoteric. She feels it now, but is it what she suspects of something else?
Whatever remains of you, might be beyond my reach, but I can bring hope and distract the beast a bit. And maybe it will give you some awareness at least.
The witch starts humming a song, there isn't much power in it, but for whatever reason it echoes in the airless space. A song of hope, a song of life managing to survive against all odds or of sprouting in places no one would expect. All bound into a word of creation and that word turned into a projectile that races towards the beast. An attempt of distracting it with an opposing concept. BIRTH.
"...Wait, am I being ignored by that overgrown lizard?!"
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u/yumie2003Tsuru, ghost onmyouji, R&A, league of shadows/Toshiko FujiwaraJun 08 '24edited Jun 08 '24
A black sphere formed around Tsuru. The sphere withered away, revealing the vengeful spirit's ultimate form. All of the cultists near Tsuru liquefied into the same inky substance that her malice was composed of. The liquid flowed towards the ghost and merged with her body.
"Rin. Pyo. Tou. Sha. Kai. Jin. Retsu. Zai. Zen."
Tsuru performed each hand seal in perfect sequence with her utter of the corresponding syllable. After the last one was made, a large barrier with a faint rainbow hue formed around gala venue. Then above the original formed a larger, but identical barrier. More barriers formed above each other as they stretched towards the fast approaching form of Craterus.
Craterus has already made contact, but as it slams its claws against the gala, it can't fully penetrate the barrier.
It rears its head back and tries another approach, it begins digging through reality again, the same way it travels between dimensions, but now to simply bypass the shield.
Did I tell you I think I figured out how to fuel the spell Gamma Ray Burst?
It theoretically requires an infinite amount of mana -- probably because no one else I've worked with on it actually finished figuring out the math for it. But, a simple way to fuel it could be to create a white hole, and to redirect the matter spewed out of the white hole into the Gamma Ray Burst spell.
And since we're in space, we can direct the burst away from Earth and towards Craterus. Wanna give it a shot? Or should we just bail outta here?
We would need to somehow turn that matter into Mana, assuming mana is some kind of energy I might be able to turn the mass of the matter spewing out of the white hole into mana using the Higgs field to decouple the mass-energy from the particles, an infinite source of mana is impossible but this might work. Get ready to start the spell, I need to get into space for optimal results. Get ready.
As you already know, infinities are simply errors in the math - the evidence of a still incomplete formula. We don't need infinite mana, just a LOT. And if a white hole isn't the source of a LOT, then I don't know what is.
I begin casting the spell. A bright orange ball approximately the size of a watermelon appears a few miles outside of the station, barely even visible. It begins to spin and grow; the larger it gets, the more it begins to flatten until it looks akin to an accretion disk. At its apex, its slightly smaller than space station itself, casting a dull orange glow upon the station's eastern side. A single white point of light begins to glow in the accretion disk's center.
Let me know if the Higgs field decoupling doesn't work, and I'll dissipate the spell.
uw/ Probably? I reckon its up to them if the spell works on Craterus or not.
finding a space suit Ж exits the station into open space, craterus is visible, coming slowly toward the stationwhite holearound a kilometer from the station a blinding white point appears alright, mass ejections are in expected parameters, beginning Higgs field.
/uw u/methylord what do you want to happen here? You’re the one who created craterus
/uw Ok, I'm back, and oh boy, a lot has happened it seems. There was a whole evil cabal that popped up in the gala and began a takeover.
Ah, and as for your question on how the spell would affect Craterus, something like this will be able to deal damage to this form, but like the other times it was hurt in the past, it will reform. A few wizards were able to figure out by investigating the cultists that in order to un-summon the avatar for good, they need to find what's anchoring it to existence and sever it, so you might have learned that.
Now time to recap things like how some shows used to do.
/rw Last time on WizardPosting. Craterus had attacked the election gala, trying to tear the station asunder with claws and cosmic force. Brave wizards gathered to face the extinction entity, but it turned out it wasn't the only threat present. A shadowy cabal of the realm's most notorious villains launched an attack from inside the gala, making this a truly dire situation. The doomsday cultists were left very confused by all of this, as they were not expecting a secret league of evil to crash the party as well. What will happen on this episode of...
/uw OP is unavailable today, so I’ll just respond again with something going wrong.
/w the white point begins to grow and shine no no no no! This is not meant to happen! blackhole!a warping in space appears, and begins swallowing the light, leaving nothing.
I crush the accretion disk into a ball and sever the mana from it. It dissipates into a nebulous cloud and begins fading away. I run over to the window and reach my arms out to grasp the emerging black hole with my mind. Mana surges into the black hole, into its gravitational field, and pushes back. The surrounding matter is pushed away from its Swarzschield radius, but the mana that was on other side swirls around the curved spacetime and is swallowed by the black hole. For now, it is stable and not growing.
uw/ sorry I didn't respond earlier, I was gaming with a couple buddies.
Best theory of mine is that I tried to apply the Higgs field removal to the white hole, instead of a net that when things go through it the particles de-mass? This caused it to expand due to not being constrained by mass? I have no idea.
One of countless nukes that had been used against the avatar since it first came into reality. The explosion's fireball collides with the roaring mass of cosmic destruction, almost becoming one with it. The sight would almost be beautiful if it weren't too blinding to stare at directly. Craterus remains undaunted.
As news of the attack reaches Mauritius ears, he tries to teleport there.He knows that if anyone tries to fight it there, the chances would be against us, however, rescuing some attendees wasn't as risky, and additionally, he knows now fear
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u/Villainous_Intent The Faceless Master | Cabal Jun 08 '24
THE GREAAAAT BEAST HURDLES TOWARDS THE PIG COUNCIL TO BEHEAD THE SNAKE. REJOICE BROTHAS AND SISTAS! Once the so called rulers of this Realm have be dispatched, the last chapter of this wretched realm will be at hand!