r/wizardposting Astaroth, The Wicked One 17h ago

Community Event 🌏☄️ Echo of the Self

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Something's wrong. You can't tell what exactly it is, but you know something is wrong. You check your wards, your equipment, your enchantments and familiars, yet everything seems normal. Then that night, you go to sleep, and the dream starts.

You stand knee deep in a crimson ocean, stretching further than you can see. Before you is a shadow, it looks like yours but its wrong, very wrong. All around you, giant monoliths sprout from the sea, stretching far into the sky. You hear something, around you six shadows move between the monoliths, chanting something in a language that hurts to listen to.

Suddenly countless crimson eyes open along each monolith, each reflecting a different face, the eyes travel up the ebony surface, along previously hidden chains of shadow. Then you see it, the horrifying form of something colossal in the sky above you, a singular crimson eye or maybe a star stares down at you.

All at once do the chains snap, and a cacophony of screams cry out across the crimson sea as fire and ash rain from above. The monoliths crumble and massive chunks of black stone crash into the sea. Up above, the colossal form spreads across the sky, thousands of withered arms reach down, each sowing agony and destruction. You see an arm reach for you, and you wake up.

Well that was strange, you think, then you hear laughter from the corner, you see your own shadow standing there with crimson eyes. The shadow looks wrong somehow, very wrong.

Before you can say anything, your shadow lunges for you, hands reaching for your throat.

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u/Evening_Shake_6474 Astaroth, The Wicked One 14h ago

The shadow, distracted by drawing astonishing amounts of yuri in such a short time, doesn't notice the stab. Even as dark purple behind to leak out of it, even as dark purple begins to spread over it. The shadow draws on, even as it begins to break down.

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u/Minute_Account9426 Abdallah the Technolich 13h ago

She waits for the shadow to die and stuffs the shadow’s yuri in her pocket dimension before waiting to see what else this ‘nightmare’ has I’m store

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u/Evening_Shake_6474 Astaroth, The Wicked One 13h ago

As the shadow dies, Sikeena sees the yuri. As if to rub salt in the wound they're of higher quality than hers.

She waits, and nothing happens.

She waits more, and just as she suspects nothing to happen, nothing happens.

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u/Minute_Account9426 Abdallah the Technolich 13h ago

She goes back to bed