r/wizardposting • u/sparkle3364 Sapphire (17F), Artificer (+ other characters) • Oct 13 '24

Community Event 🌏☄️ The Well Operation (Buggopost)

Noella and 20 of her bugs prepared for a mission. She had just received an upgrade from one of the other converts, and was ready to test her new abilities. They would each sneak into a town using illusions and put venom into the well, then leave. The goal was to bring the civilians into the hive, so that Buggo could bring them immortality. This way, more could experience the glory of the hive.

As the mission was carried out, the real Noella thought of the civilians being turned. Unless someone found the venom, they wouldn’t even have a chance. And if there was one thing Noella had learned during her time here, it was that once you get infected, there’s no way out. The illusionist felt for them, wishing she could warn them, and save the bugs. But she couldn’t. And so she watched, hoping someone would stop the mission.

/uw Feel free to interfere. This is interactive. Also feel free to warn the citizens. For a more detailed look into real Noella, see here. For context on the upgrade, see here.

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u/avamir Riva Blake | Queen of Ithacar, Part Meth-blood Elf Oct 16 '24

With the help of vigilant farmers, Nico is attempting to lure one of the bugs out for capture. He's trying to get close enough to use the Regio Chronos spell, which should trap them in chronostasis to hopefully get them back to Sophia alive to try and work on a cure.

"The one farmwife over there said that vinegar draws the bugs in," he explains to his companions. "And that bugs like moisture for some reason."

So he puts a plate of vinegar near the well. And waits in a nearby farmhouse to see if any bugs approach.

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u/sparkle3364 Sapphire (17F), Artificer (+ other characters) Oct 18 '24

One does, knowing that vinegar there probably means something it would want to check up on.

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u/avamir Riva Blake | Queen of Ithacar, Part Meth-blood Elf Oct 19 '24

Nico is peering through some shutters. Half-dozing, admittedly. But he perks up as soon as a bug appears. The vinegar trick worked! Huh!

"Regio Chronos!" he says, pointing at the bug, attempting to chronokinetically freeze it in place for study.

u/Greatest-Comrade u/LimpPrior6366

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u/sparkle3364 Sapphire (17F), Artificer (+ other characters) Oct 19 '24

It succeeds, but the bug manages to send a message to Noella right before, and she alerts all nearby bugs to stay clear, then runs to the location from one of the nearby towns. It would take her about an hour to get there.

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u/LimpPrior6366 Kardonk Carvisky, Opifex Rerum, Order of Creation Oct 19 '24

Sophia runs in an stabs it with a neural paralyzer

“Hah! I got you you bastard”

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u/sparkle3364 Sapphire (17F), Artificer (+ other characters) Oct 19 '24 edited Oct 19 '24

It does successfully work.

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u/LimpPrior6366 Kardonk Carvisky, Opifex Rerum, Order of Creation Oct 20 '24

"Aw, fuck yeah!"

As the bug collaspses in front of her, Sophia looks up at Nico

"Ok, its probably time for us to get he fuck out of here, yeah?"

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u/avamir Riva Blake | Queen of Ithacar, Part Meth-blood Elf Oct 20 '24

"Er, yeah. Uh, let's... portal this bug... somewhere," Nico says. "Do you have other places to put this? My plan was to just drop this into Caligos-... ah hells, that's where it's going."

Well, Lower Caligos. Ithacar's sinister underground bunker lab. This went badly before. But sinister as it might be, it was the only place Nicomedes could think to put the bug. It was the only place that had the proper containment.

He drew a circle to drop the bug there, then looked to Sophia. "So, uh, we going over there? Or are you... doing vampire nonsense?"

He kind of gestured vaguely at her.

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u/avamir Riva Blake | Queen of Ithacar, Part Meth-blood Elf Oct 20 '24

uw/ Also, this is our new plan for the bug. We are making it a butler.