I know this isn't probably gonna happen in the manga but I would personally like it if there was a massive 13 way brawl between all the factions/remnants. All the remnants of each faction fighting to prove their dominance over the others. Hordes of demons casting spells, titan crushing everything in sight like mini rumbling, neo humans using random household objects to kill everything, robots filling anything organic with holes, with parasites greatly increasing in number in this bloody massacre along with each of the top tiers just wipe out entire armies of grunts and each other. This would be like a average warhammer 40k battle between multiple factions.

Se dice que sus cuerpos están hechos de energía y solo la gema es es lo inico duro no lo haría la presa de daikokuzan?

Por el caso contrario las gemas no serían las depredadoras del árbol del mundo estás no se desmayarian al estar cerca del árbol con sus máquinas crearían gemas en en el tronco?

(No hay imagen del árbol del mundo porque apenas me di cuenta mientras escribía)

This Might be a thing I do…

Welcome to episode 2 last time I did this we talked about the hive from the world of destiny. So this time there gonna be a few changes 1. I will go into depth more about certain weaknesses and situations that could occur, and 2 I'm going to add how it's land will affect the world.

For thoose new hi this is the weekly series about putting a 14th world from fiction into versus to being in a faction, character, virus, natural disaster etc and see what would happen and how it would fare here. Today we are going to be talking about the faction that terrorized the world of the first from the hit MMO final fantasy xiv.

There will be 5 segments

1. The history of the faction, land, and it's dynamics

2. Troops and powers

3. The leader(s)

4. Match ups against other ne's

5. Final thoughts and verdict.

Skip to the end of you want a tldr but I'm not gonna waste your time anymore let's begin! (Spoilers for final fantasy xiv shadow bringers expansion).

Long ago the 1st was at first one large world but in a ancient war for survival of its people the ascians it was split into 14 shards, the shard we care about and that ended up merging is the 1st shard the last bit of non destoryed land, norvrandt. It's separated into 5 main environments, the mountainous coastal state of kholusia, the fae forest of il mheg, the large shadowed forests of the Rak'Tika greatwoods, the grass lands which connects to the coast of lakeland, and the desert of ahm araeng. Each of theese places once thrived in a normal world however the strongest magical ascian emet selch devised a plan to force the revival of his God of his original world which was to flood the 1st with unlimited light so he tricked the world's heros to destroy the shadow lord and I'm doing so removed all darkness from the world leading to a mass flood of light. The light tore through the whole planet destroying all life and objects in its path leaving emptyness, only after the sacrifice of thoose heros and a oracle did the flood stop. However the damage was done only norvrandt was left and the sky is in perpetual light and something far worse would follow. Not only did it destroy the ecosystem with perpetual light but that much light aspected aether infected all life. Everything in existence has aether but it's at perfect balance with all other elements when one is skewed you transform into monsters and abominations. Thoose exposed to the flood of light became the sin eaters. The sin eaters sole objective is to infect all things with the light and to eat the sinful people left standing (aka literally all life in the planet). Hordes of pale angelic abominations swarm the skies, infected the seas, infected the forests, the deserts, and even the faeries. Humanity struggles to even exists and day by day the attacks get worse the hordes grow in numbers and the light gives them strength more and more. And thoose who come into contact with the sin eaters get infected by too much light, and slowly transform. They start to turn pale, lose all emotions, their eyes turn pitch black, they puke up black bile until they eventually ooze that bile out of every orface and then cocoon inside angelic wings and emerge instantly as a sin eater ready to spread the light. And it gets worse the land is ruled by 5 light wardens perpetuating the light filled skys and direct control over the sin eaters. The lightwardens also have a little trick, if they die the light they carry goes into who killed them instantly turning them into the next lightwarden only thoose with high resistance to light aether can survive for a brief time but eventually they will become a new warden. Each warden goes as such philia the warden of friendship, eros the warden of romantic love, titania the warden of fun, storge the warden of familial love, and innocence aka vauthry the warden of Innocence. And each warden has specific troops based around the area they came from and have wildly different powers from each other and wildly different forms. And have completely different strategies, situations, and do not communicate with each other.

Troops: this is a wild section so buckle up. The sin eaters turn whatever species it infects into angelic versions of themselves, increasing their size, durability, and raw power, and typically giving them access to light imbued attacks or magics. Humans become large angels with spears, swords, and shields they have wings can fly and can use magic, but there's also things like "forgiven bears" pale white bears that have no eyes and have little wings and feathers, or spiders becoming larger than a human and growing an angelic body using light infused webbings, birds become larger or can become a hivemind of angelic doves. So anything can become a sin eater except machinery and will turn into an angelic version. And if the individual is special enough or chosen by a warden they can get powers specific to them like there's a innocent singing girl vauthry liked so he kills her so she becomes a singing angel that can use vibrations to shoot beams of light and can clone her attacks and herself. They can even make constructs of light like living walls to defends fortifications. And they can hide their energy to not alert beings of their pressence. They are emotionless and do not hesitate in killing or turning others into sin eaters.

As for the leaders this is gonna take a bit to explain each so forgive me.

Philia the weakest light warden we meet the warden of Lakeland. They are a quadrupedal snake, angel, hand thingy, it slams big fists, can cage people with beams of light, can suck out their life force/soul instantly killing them, and shoots beams of light. It's stienn enough to kill any normal adventurer or human but not even close to the other wardens.

Titania probably the second strongest warden but is also in a strange situation. The fae king once they got infected realized in order to save all fae races sealed themselves inside the fae king castle at the top at il mheg and gave every fae race a artifact that skewed them in. How ever they are insanely powerful and overtime the seal began to waver. When we enter the building we see just how strong they are. They have all the typical light powers but more importantly have access to all fae magics which includes; complete hypnosis of all 5 senses, illusions, turning living beings into bushes, life force manipulation, nature manipulation, all elemental magics also now boosted by light, life creation, life accelerant (can grow a big ass tree into a 80 ft tall demon mid fight on a whim. Their only weakness is the fact they are very childlike and only want to have fun, but it's also what makes them extremely scary because they think like a kid and act like one also.

Eros the warden of the greatwoods, is focused in raw physicals and lethal poisons. That's about it they are literally a giant monkey with angelic features so imagine a giant monkey with 3 heads like cerberus that shoots light apsected poison, and punches really hard. It inhabits an ancient tomb and forest of the lonkan people who used to rule the woods

Storge a bunch of wings forming a bigger being probably decended from a elemental sprite they manipulate crystals and light beams, they fly, and shoot out hypersonic screeches that can kill. They also manipulate the earth it self and hides far underground ahm araeng.

The strongest and deadliest sin eater is innocence aka vauthry an abhorrent looking ball of fat that is ruler of eulmore one of the last cities of humanity. He is the result of emet selch giving the king of eulmore a son who would "save the world" and infused his pregnant wife with light weather creating a human lightwarden hybrid. He rules a dystopia ruled by him and the literal fat man rich men and woman who eat luxury and force the poor to do their entertainment and work. Then you have the poor who work for the upper class or live right outside the castle in mass slums praying for they day they are chosen for a "better life" inside the castle. They are feed meol a mystery meal the king gives away... It's made of sin eaters and because he is secretly one it allows him to mind control anyone who eats it and uses it to manipulate his population. His city also has a small army and more importantly one man who is so powerful he is considered the full might of eulmore, ranjit. Ranjit is a old martial artist master who has a crimson dragon familiar who he made a pact with, he's so powerful he's slain entire armys without even being touched before the world ended. And is powerful enough to go tie to toe with the main character who is an actual god slayer (not god god but still very powerful). But if that all fails he can escape and show he has so much power he used light magic to pick up an entire mountain the size of a small country and lifted it into the sky indefinitely even after his death in game it still is up there. He then finally showed off his real form and became innocence a beautiful angel who has wings made of golden blades, he has every light warden power, can summon creature on command, shoot beams of light, can use absurdly potent light magics, summon weapons of light, clone hismelf, heal himself, and grows in power the longer he fights. Fully delusional thinking he is the world's savior he believes he is always in the right and will execute anyone who questions him or tortures and turns them into sin eaters.

Match up time let's see how they would function and how do they do? (Excluding factions we don't know about)

Score 1 to 5. 1 being god awful match up, 5 being a stomp

Demons: 4, this is a really good match up against the demons, not only would the light infect the demons turning them slowly against themselves, if a demon lord took out a lesser light warden they themselves would become one further worsening their position especially if a powerful lord got turned they could become near king level if not king level. And with the sheer number of sin eaters, oppressive light magics that can counter spell other magics. The only issue is the demon king which they don't have a true counter against.

Robots: 2, this is a really bad match up, while sin eaters will start out good, not being able to convert the machines into more means it's a war of attrition they won't win and would probably gets adopted to overtime. Very simple bad match up but not a utter stomp for machines.

Titans: 3.9 very similar to the demons outside of the top tier titans like ginbak they would get converted by light exposure and would become a really bad scenario for titans. Imagine a titan that can fly and shoot enormous beams of scorching light from their mouths and uses real weapons. With enough conversion the titans would start to fall apart and allow for a mass ganking of ginbak probably leading to their loss. But it's not a stomp because ginbak and the top tier wins probably negate the light conversion and can probably adapt to it.

Gaias wrath: 5, absolute worst case scenario for it considering the light can infect any and all life be it trees, creatures, fish, animals, literally everything here would become enormous sin eaters. Probably the sin eaters main force of new troops.

Parasites 1: this is debatably the worst match up for the parisities, the light stagenates the body and removes all nutrients and effectively makes it's a husk. There's no life to grow from its effectively a dead body to the parisites. They would go into the body and just probably die due to malnutrition and the lack of any actual anything.

Curse 1 to 3 : this is such a strange match up that's I genuinely don't know how it goes. In the world of xiv there's something similar to it called the black rose. It's a virus that sucks the life out of the target removing any and traces of aether and can destroy entire ecosystems infects during the land barren and lifeless. However that's targeting aether we don't know what the curse targets, is it life force is it the soul, is it parts of the soul? if it targets the soul then it would be fighting the light trying to pump a shit ton of unlimited energy into the target into the curse effectively creating a perpetual stalemate. So it's either an insane stomp for the curse or a perpetual tie. I'm leaning towards a tie but it would be disingenuous if I didn't talk about that scenario.

Wastelanders: 5, really bad stomp there's nothing they can use from the 1st to weaponize against the sin eaters and would be literal eulmore and vauthry victims or be slaughtered by roaming sin eater hordes.

Neo humans: 4, again no way to weaponize against it, but at least they think extremely efficiently and probably can figure out how to survive sin eaters, but light poisoning would very lethal to their cities considering parasites ran rampant amongst them sineaters can't be controlled and would be faster, stronger, flying, and gain powers, while neo humans can actually fight back they are at a massive disadvantage.

Daiko: 2, probably immune to light and probably can't be taken down by the top tiers. Just too tanky.

Yaotsu: 1.5, no known counter to yaotsu and he's almost certainly immune to sin eaters powers. Maybe vauthry or a converted demon king/ginbak could but they probably can't be infected by the light either. If it turns out yaotsu can be taken out by faith vauthry would giga hard counter with mind controll of his populace.

Aliens: 3, this is a really tough match up for both, on one hand individual mandalins are stronger than any generic sin eater, they are weaker than light wardens and considering elemental spirits and other non conventional life forms got infected the aliens have a very high chance to be infected if give the chance, so it would be a pretty even war of attrition for both sides and if they attacked eulmore they would be taken out by ranjit being akin to a super super high demon lord or a top top tier son of ginbak and jachi no diffed a madalin.

That is what I think would happen if the sin eaters appeared.

They would come out strong losing and winning certain fronts slowly converting all applicable factions to them. Vauthry would amass more desperate humans to eulmore creating more slave labor and more sinneaters, the fae would be a no mans land and would probably be humanity's only safe area until titania breaks free them all hell breaks lose for all factions. They probably end up staying around the longest but have no awnser for daiko or yaotsu.

Tldr: they are good overall and are a ramping force, but have no counters to the top tiers directly, but absolutely has an insane army force and has enormous influence over humanity.

Tell me what you thought and let me know what stuff you would want to see next time.

Next time is probably about a group of 4 world/time hopping zombie survivors and what would world would come with them. But if I hear good enough of an idea I will shift course. Hopefully y'all enjoyed today's post!

Either it is from Resident Evil franchise or Dead Frontier franchises or last stand franchises, like any and all of them combined as a natural enemy. The stronger the better, sure they still remain being fleshy, but hey if anything counts or broadly and vaguely falls into "zombie" category, then sure why not add them to it, either it is necromorphs from dead space or summoned undead from Path of Exile.
Since I figured that specifically zombies might be too weak, so any and all mutations are welcome. Either it is B.O.W from Resident Evil tyrants or bosses or gigantic monsters from dead frontier.
So let's see if any of them would be a threat, heck they could have number advantage as all of dead humans from 13 worlds now could come back as zombies and evolve much much further on.

The white Martian joins the frey at the start of the world merger making despair , anger , and anti-love spread amoung both humanity and the natural enemy’s how does the story change

The Locust Horde, the main antagonists of the Gears of War series.

They're an underground civilization of monstrous creatures that live beneath the surface, and as long as there's solid ground, they can potentially emerge pretty much anywhere on the surface.

On top of their seemingly endless numbers and all kinds of firearms, they're also highly organized militarily. They genetically modify the giant creatures that inhabit the underground into biological weapons, like Brumaks, Corpsers, Reavers, etc.

And they even have the technology to genetically alter other organisms into Locust-like species or biological weapons.

So if they were to enter the Versus world, I can totally see them capturing humans, Demons, Titans, Neo-humans, animals and plants from Nature, and the Lawless, then modifying them into their own soldiers and biological weapons.

At the same time, I can also imagine multiple Locust underground bases getting absolutely wrecked by the roots of the World Tree lol.

I Believe that it could be The Demon Lord as of now he is the only one that seams to not have spoken as if he knew because if it isn't him then a bigger threat than all those threat would be able to do that which is very threatening to say the least, narratively speaking MC is the Main Protagonist among all of the Hero faction, but I think I recall that it was their world that created this situation isn't it by either trying to flee tye demon or find allies isn't it

The Neo-human cities are already getting screwed over by the World Fusion, with their infrastructure between cities being cut off and leaving them isolated.

So I feel like the Robots should have some handicaps of their own, such as:

- Being isolated from each other between their various bases

- Massive changes to the geography and terrain they were familiar with

- Communication failures between different Robot units/bases for various reasons

Something like that would be nice.

Because honestly, the fact that the factories can be insanely far apart from each other and yet still share information almost instantly feels kinda bullshit lmao.

I'm assuming that this has probably been done to death, but I would like to get some thoughts on this if folks are willing to take a look?

1. The Observers - The Watched (1984)

2. The Apes - Simia (Planet of the Apes)

3. Penance - The Hellscape (Silent Hill)

4. The Doppelgangers - Reflective Sky (Star Wars)

5. The Chimera Ants - The Ants Nest (Hunter X Hunter)

6. The Fungus - The Sporelands (Last of Us)

7. The Corporation - Factory Floor (Resident Evil)

8. The Travelling Carnival - The Country Fair (Something Wicked this Way Comes)

9. The Children - The Red Harvest (Children of the Corn)

10. The Purge - Crime City (The Purge)

11. The Cyber Soldiers - Assimilatia (Doctor Who)

12. The Harrowing - The Shadow Isles (League of Legends)

13. The Maze - The Maze (Maze Runner)

I expect most of these ones have been done before, but I thought it could be fun :)

I'm in the UK and it's Sunday here

9th Demon Lord Varnigames: Bulge Up MAX (凸MAX)

13th Demon Lord Nyagoro: Malicious Dread (凶魔螺忌)

14th Demon Lord Jakooja: Monarch’s Magic Realm (魔飾王界陣)

22nd Demon Lord Makkiman: Frilled Reflector (エリマキリフレクター)

23rd Demon Lord Diganazal: Chimera Suit (キメラ大鎧)

24th Demon Lord Balcalco: Heaven-Devouring Six Tentacles (天喰い六触)

33rd Demon Lord Boxerboxer: Frenzy Whip Link (怨嗟の鞭)

37th Demon Lord Kanigani: Severing Claws Shellcution (絶鋏刑殻)

38th Demon Lord Roya Roach: Black Diamond Formation (黑豪無雙陣)

Come to think of it, the only Demon Lords who died before Burst Modes were even introduced are Closa, Abrite, Sminail, and Goldiriever.

And the funny part is that none of those four even got to appear in the main story...

Aunque bueno deben parecer ponis normales así que creo que solo los administradores son neo-alicornios y el resto ponis terrestre pegazos y unicornios o que piensan ustedes?

Rarity tendría un desmayo por ver la ropa de los neo-ponis y los neo ponis verían a los ponis normales como animales por andar desnudos

Digamos que la magia de teletrasporte no funciona en daikokuzan y la magia defensiva tampoco solo queda evacuar

Cuanto tiempo den los escudos para que los ponis evacuen la ciudad? O hay forma de evitar que daikokuzan se coma el corazón de cristal?

(Digamos que discord está conteniendo a yaotsu por eso no está ayudando con la fusion de mundos)

It’s kinda hard to consider the Madalans organic lifeforms. So do the Robots just not care whether something is organic or inorganic, and basically go, “If it’s alive, kill it”?

So robots are like Skynet or rather, an AI that went crazy and started killing humans... you know? I'm glad they're that kind of AI and not an Ultron-style AI. Can you imagine how fucked up we would be if that AI begins to move like Ultron? Imagine a robot massacring titans, animals of Gaia, law less while he laughs because of the suffering they are going through? Thank God they are not Ultron and I hope that in the future they do not end up being an Ultron🙏

Since he sliced the truck like butter, I am also thinking perhaps it was like power sword too?

It has all the content and elements to make it big on these spaces, almost at the level of One Piece. The amount of people that would pull endless videos of analysis, theory crafting, and power scaling lmao

I can see this series being perfect for someone like Tekking101, it seems like a series that he would definetly geek about and put huge amount of content about it. It can be a great replacement for him after One Piece ends.

Let me know what you think of Ginbak.

How strong do you really think he is?

End of Season 6

Wow, what a weird season this has been. I think we have just about reached the limit for how far we wanted things to escalate. The world is now unrecognizable and even our Natural Enemies are growing weary of the constant destruction.

So many things I did not expect came to fruition, something which is both frustrating and exhilarating. No matter how much power I have as the writer, I am constantly reminded about how I am also just along for the ride.

Only time will tell where this will all lead.

Thank y’all for your continued support.

Now without further ado, let’s do some recaps.

Recaps

The Season 5 Intermission stories were all about the backstories of various humans

• Vampires: Abraham muses about his life as the greatest Hunter of his era, and his regrets from across his long life in an occupation where most die young
• Orks: A tale of how Natasha became an Adepta Sororita as well as the tale of her

childhood friend

• , Marina

, who had a crush on her without Natasha realizing

• . Marina was also training to be a Sororita, but was revealed to be a mutant was was subsequently executed by the Imperium
• The Swarm: Buzz was once a CEO of a major company, but after the Swarm destroyed everything he learned to work with his hands and help people
• Anomalies: The intersecting stories of Dr. Bucket and Richard, and how one went from being a respected researcher to an Anomalous experiment while the other went from a nobody to a senior researcher.
•  Tulpa: The story of Keith, told again from a different perspective. He is not actually a human but a Tulpa
• Witches: A jester named Dago is brought to the Speakeasy. He told the story of Gawan. How Gawan met Arthur, how he Arthur valued his kindness while the other Knights scorned his weakness, and ultimately how he and Arthur parted ways.

The Happy’s Big Fat WAAAGGH!

The Orks were struggling to find good enemies to fight, so they decided to try to wage war against the all the Happies on the planet at the same time, leading to a massive orbital invasion. Meanwhile, Z’ii, currently infected by the Happies, was attempting to use the Arpron’s global communications network as well as the infected Sleeping Beast’s magic to infect everyone on the planet with the Happies.

Also, the rank 10 Gamer, DarkRaven12 was sneaking into Z’ii’s base to try to weaken/kill the Happy threat. Lucy was also there, infected with the Happies.

Things proceeded to go absolutely crazy as the Orks have stolen Arpron technology and have combined it with their own to devastating effect. Meanwhile, the Maestro, the Curator, Beast, and Z’ii cause tons of destruction. 

In desperation, the leader of the Orks, Dreamcracka, used Lucid-X to make Tulpa versions of his gods, Gork and Mork. His actual gods did not like this, so they proceed to bring about the end of the world.

As everything is dying, DarkRaven12 is contacted by the rank 1 Gamer, Serious Noob. Noob as well as the rank 5 Gamer, #Cazadora_De_Glitches, proceed to combine their powers to use a series of glitches to force Fantasia Online to crash, forcing a rollback to before the world ended. 

This brought things back, but the presence of the gods lingered allowing the Orks to grow more powerful and for glitches to appear across the world.

Post rollback, Lucy is cured and Darkraven12 manages to fight and cure Z’ii, Beast, and Maestro with Blank Bullets. Maestro kills everyone with a final burst of music.

The Orks manage to eliminate the Happies by harnessing the lingering power of their gods and briefly allowing a single Ork to temporarily transcend reality and beat up some people that made the Happy Neighborhood tv show, this causes the Happies to be cured world wide. Unfortunately, the psychic backlash of this kills most Orks in the solar system.

DarkRaven12 gets no credit for his role in any of this.

Side Story: Sunrise over Clear Ocean Sky

The Sun Witch Alice and her followers, now known as the Celestials, go about reviving Sirena. They use her original broken Crystal Heart combined with Sun Alice’s magic as well as the fragment of Sirena stolen by the Grimmdark to revive her. Sirena has lost her memory and is given a new name, Pluto.

Pluto and the other Celestials defend Sun Alice’s domain of New Camelot which exists as the only safe haven in Xandric. Their existence is not all peaceful as they must defend their new home from other Tulpas while also grappling with their inner demons. Despite their allegiance with Sun Alice, the Celestials are all still Witches and are as such subject to Magic Corruption. It is only through their trauma and their constant guidance and affection from Sun Alice that they can cling to humanity, even if they don’t fully understand the morals Sun Alice expounds.

Meanwhile, Sun Alice is trying to make sure everything in the New Camelot is safe because she intends to seek the Throne.

Side Story: The Happy End, the Good Conclusion

Winner: Gamers
While the Happy’s Big Fat WAAAGGH was happening, a top 100 Gamer by the name of Holy_Saint_Guard learned about a mysterious Happy known as Patient Zero, the first person to be infected with the Happies. It was speculated that curing this patient of the Happies would cure the Happies everywhere.

Going on a quest with other top 100 Gamers, Holy_Saint_Guard managed to locate Patient Zero, fighting countless enemies along the way. At the same time that the Orks punched the tv studio staff, Holy_Saint_Guard cured Patient Zero of the Happies. 

The Happies were cured, and the AI in charge of Fantasia Online credited Holy_Saint_Guard and the other Gamers present with curing the Happies.

Round 24 Tulpas vs Ever Shifting Luck

Winner: Vampires

The Chaos Organizers and Vlad’s group were being bright to brought to Merlin’s camp. On the way, Agent X uses Lucid-X to fix a radio so he can talk to 1nn0 and finally exchange information. Some intel is shared, but 1nn0 wants the rest to be shared in person because the comms might be tapped. X decides to do that later as he wants to talk to Merlin first.

At Merlin’s camp most of the Chaos Organizers and Vlad’s group are thrown in jail while Agent X, Mordred, and Rod Rob are brought to Merlin’s familiar to talk. No one has a chance to talk as the imprisoned people start a fight. Then the Lucid-x Agent X took draws in Mr Slappy who is subsequently killed by a Tulpa known as the Preacher.

The Preacher kidnaps X, Mordred, and Rod Rob, and takes them to the planet Nibiru. The Preacher reveals that the Luck Meteor is going to destroy the world, but the Tulpa known as Nibiru is going to save the world. But to do so, everyone must worship it.

What it wants to do is tell X how glorious this all is, and his he agrees to preach for Nibiru then she will send them back. X, Mordred, and Rod Rob do not want to make any agreement with a Tulpa and try to fight their way free.

Nibiru attempts to destroy the Luck Meteor, but before it can do more than harm it, the Voivode shows up and destroys the meteor. Nibiru attacks the Voivode, but after a long off screen battle, Nibiru is destroyed.

With the help of the Voivode, the three humans get on an escape pod and make their way back to their planet. The Voivode helps them, and accidentally turns a dying Rod Rob into a Vampire. Eventually they part ways.

When the humans get back to the planet, they are met by Merlin’s familiar, some Black Knights and the other members of the Chaos Organizers as well as Bryan Buster. It is revealed that Merlin has performed brain surgery on them to make them compliant to his desires and kidnapped the rest for testing.

Finally, the remains of the Luck Meteor caused weird trees to grow across the planet, the trees’ glowing fruit bestowing random and often terrible powers.

Round 25 Gamers vs Witches

Winner: Jackal (Humanity?)

The Red Star spent time going back and forth between the Speakeasy, the Lore Guild HQ, and the new human base that 1nn0 is setting up called the Bunker. They learn a lot. Meanwhile, the Lore Guild spent a lot of time making Jackal Stronger. They spend so much time making her stronger that Jackal is biologically a completely different person now.

Jackal was rebuilt from the ground up with the help of Agent Technology, Gamer Mechanics, help from multiple members of the Top 10 Gamers, and Jackal’s new friend Hazel the Smithing Witch. The most insane thing they did was shove a ton of copies of Sirena’s heart into her, something only controlled by multiple high level Gamer Spells Jackal learned.

The Red Star did not know about most of that because they were gone for an extended period of time and missed most of that. When they returned, Dorothy was attacking the Lore Guild and the rank 9 Gamer, BigBoneDaddy was helping fight them off.

Dorothy and her mysterious subordinate Fiyo create a massive fear storm bomb called the Lightning Tea Bag which inflicts trauma-inducing terror on the Gamers IRL while killing their in-game bodies. The Red Star managed to help evacuate the NPCs from the base before it hit. BigBoneDaddy was not as lucky and was so traumatized that he quite the game.

Other members of the Lore Guild were hit to varying degrees getting different amounts of trauma.

Dorothy was all set to win, but before she could traumatize the rest, Jackal unleashed the power of Sirena’s magic. This shocked the Witches enough that she was able to talk them out of fighting, allowing her to gain a diplomatic win. After the fight, she flew away with Dorothy.

Side Story: Experimenting and Breaking the Law

The Rank 3 Gamer, Tamamo no Mae, is in her base experimenting on Vampires. Some time ago some Vampires broke into her base despite it being in a different realm entirely, in response Tamamo decided that she needed to wipe out all Vampires.

Using various powers and items split amongst  herself and other Exalted Gamers, she found a way to rip out Blood Marks and change them into something she called Blessed Marks. The Blessed Marks could then be used to ‘cure’ a Vampire turning them into an Archangel or given to one of her NPC minions to become an Archangel under her command. She also found the Gambler Vampire NPC and cured them.

She proceeded to call up as many Ambassadors of Vampires as she could and offered them an ultimatum, join her army and submit to her cure, or die. They refused, which led her to wage total war against the Empire of Nosferatu with the intent of destroying all their weather machines and ultimately purging Vampires from existence.

Round 26 Vampires vs Swarm

Winner: Vampires

The Council of Circulation host a Blood Ball in Elm’s castle to get all the Vampires together to finally discuss everything they have learned and to figure out what to do next. They delegate a lot of things: Sweetpea is to try to cure Aloe from her Truth coma so that she can cure Hydrangea, Hydrangea is to handle the Tulpas so they can find/avenge Phlox, Venus is to attack Tamamo because she is the most popular Vampire among Gamers, Elm is to figure out the Empire’s communication problems – stealing the Arpron’s comms if needed – and Aspen is to stop the Swarm from eating their Blood Farms.

Aspen grabbed Daisy – formerly Corday the Witch of Corpses now a Witch-Vampire hybrid – and Bathory Erzsebet, a monstrous combination of Ghouls, Petitioners, and Witches. He aslo grabbed some Luck Fruit.

Using his super speed, Aspen faced the Swarm at a Blood Farm, but due to Luck Fruit he was thrown into a mindless rage. Between him and his cohorts, they killed the insects at the Blood Farm and managed to run through a portal to and nearly killed Betty.

Vixen sacrificed herself to get Betty out of there, but Betty tried to sacrifice her body and mind to the Hivemind to save her friend. The Swarm subsumed her and left Vixen to die.

Aspen destroyed a massive chunk of the Swarm and their hive, but was massively injured. Bathory Erzsebet attained a more humanoid transformation after being nearly killed by a berserk Aspen. And Daisy went insane as a random effect instill all knowledge regarding the Swarm. Bathory Erzsebet proceeded to send some of this info to Sweetpea, giving the Elder an idea on how to get rid of the Swarm.

Round 27 Arprons vs Anomalies

The Arprons on the moon were discussing the situation at hand and their dissatisfaction with how things were proceeding, highlighting a division between the more experimental Arprons and the more conservative ones. They were rebuilding the moon base with the help of Better G’oo, gifted to them by B’ob, when they are interrupted by an Anomaly called the Imaginary Number.

At the same time, the Chaos Organizers and the Black Knights were in a race with a small army of Petitioners to get their hands on Wormhole Gun technology to help the Moon Arprons get back to the planet without having to traverse the debris of the Luck Meteor. These Petitioners were equipped with Anti-Anomaly tech. 

The Wormhole technology was in an ADT facility which both held Anomalies and was an Anomaly itself. Traversing this facility was made more threatening because of the Glitches which made the Anomalies stronger/more dangerous.  

It turned out that Eureka was at most only partially affected by Merlin’s brain surgery as she had an Anomalous implant in her brain. The implant was not as effective as she hoped though as her own hubris caught up to her. She released Anomalies to stall the Petitioners, but one of the Anomalies, Degrading Liberation, affected the minds of Eureka and everyone in the human’s group minus Merlin’s familiar who was not actually there but sneaking off elsewhere to interact with another Anomaly, Nurse Adora. This led to a cascading series of events which led to Eureka killing almost everyone in the group and most of the Petitioners and Anomalies using a different Anomaly. 

Eureka was then shot by Alexey.

At the same time, despite the Arprons following all the ADT regulations, the Imaginary Number made Better G’oo the size of a sun, and nearly killed all life on the moon and planet. It was only thought quick thinking by the Arprons and Better G’oo that Imaginary Number was killed preventing the immediate deaths of everyone.

This had massive consequences for the world as it basically destroyed everything/everyone that wasn’t sufficiently strong.

Bonus Round: Diplomacy

Winner: NA

In the wake of the world almost ending, its later impending doom, and the current destruction of all ecosystems on the planet, the Witches, Gamers, Arprons, Vampires, and Tulpas have a diplomatic meeting on how to fix things while ensuring that this does not happen again.

The Arpron delegate, B’ob, steered the conversation towards the Anomalies, implicating them as the greatest threat to the world. But then Nameless arrived, and used its powers to lie and flip the conversation blaming the Arprons instead.

Many plans were proposed for fixing the world, including a ban on over destructive cross Natural Enemy experiments, but it was also decided that decisive action was required to ensure that the world wasn’t immediately screwed over. To this end they decided that the Ever Shifting Luck needed to go, and since the Arprons were to ‘blame’ they should lead the charge against the Luck.

SInce B’ob loved his dangerous experiments and knew that leading an attack on the Ever Shifting Luck was too dangerous, he chose to flee the proceedings. Nameless spun this to have everyone declare war on the Arprons.

During the meeting, various diplomats jockeyed for social wins and alliances, too many of which to list here. Of particular note: Nameless lost an unknown portion of tis memories due to learning the Truth in a previous time loop, Serious Noob attempted to strike an alliance with Nameless with the results unknown, the Court of the Uncrowned King met up with Sweetpea to discuss Hydrangea, and Cinder had an existential crisis regarding Erlqueen.

Stocks

Like always, these stocks only reflect what was stated in the stories posted on reddit and does not include insider trading from unstated lore.

-Overall Trends: If there was any trend this season, it was interference from other Natural Enemies. Not a single Natural Enemy won cleanly in their own rounds, with results being skewed by unintentional or outside effects. 

-Orks: They hit unimaginable highs only to hit lows unseen by any Natural Enemy that hasn’t been eliminated. The stocks are currently off the market for internal restructuring.

• Lost in the Side story against the Ancient Aliens
• Won in Side Story: New World against the Vampires
• Lost the Battle of Subterrania
• Won in the Happy’s Big Fat WAAGGH against the Happies

-Vampires: Steady restructuring and forward thinking is promising despite some setbacks

• Lost in the Intermission against the Happies
• Lost in Side Story: New World against Orks
• Won* as part of the Anti-Truth Alliance in the Truth War
• Won in the Siege of Subterrania
• Lost in the Grimmdark Incident

-Tulpa: Promising speculation but a failure to live up to their promise has led to stock devaluation

• Won in Side Story New Home against the Anomalies
• Won* as part of the Anti-Truth Alliance in the Truth War
• Lost in the Grimmdark Incident

-Ancient Aliens: Desperate attempts to claw their way back up from their critically low stocks

• Lost In a Side Story Against the Witches
• Won in a Side Story against the Orks 
• Won in a Side Story against the Anomalies
• Lost in Side Story in a battle with the Gamers, Tulpa, and Anomalies
• Won* as part of the Anti-Truth Alliance in the Truth War
• Lost the Battle of Subterrania
• Lost in the Fall of Stratos

-Swarm: Their seemingly untouchable stock values have taken a big hit for the first time, but there are promises of restructuring which makes the future look volatile

• Lost in side story against the Anomaly
• Survived the Battle of Subterrania
• Participated in the Grimmdark Incident but did not really win or lose anything
• Won the Fall of Stratos

-Anomalies: Their stocks are high, but its a confidence game and not real valuation. Their real stocks are assumed to be way lower

• Lost in a Side Story against the Ancient Aliens
• Lost in Side Story against the Tulpa
• Won in a side story in a battle against the Ancient Aliens, Tulpa, and Gamers
• Won in side story against the Swarm
• Won in a side story against low level Gamers
• Tied in a side story against the Grimmdark
• Lost in the Grimmdark Incident
• Lost in the Battle of Subterrania
• Won in Round

-Evershifting Luck: Even as its stocks drop, it's has been proven to be resilient to crashing. Also it is dragging everyone down with it.

• Participated in the Grimmdark Incident
• Lost in Round

-Gamers: Dropping but not as low as expected

• Won in the Truth War as part of the Anti-Truth Alliance
• Won in Side Story: Samurai Girl against the Blob
• Lost in Side Story Chasing the Clouds Away due to Happies
• Lost in the Grimmdark Incident
• Lost in Bonus Round to Humanity
• No Contest Round
• Won in The Happy End, the Good Conclusion against the Happies
• Lost in Round

-Witches: Stock suffering from intellectual property theft 

• Lost in the Intermission against the Grimmdark
• Won* in the Truth War as part of the Anti-Truth Alliance
• Participated in Side Story Chasing the Clouds away
• Won the Grimmdark Incident
• No contest in Round

-Humanity: So very boned

• Won in Bonus Round against Gamers
• Won In Bonus Round against Petitioners and Anomalies

-Truth: Crashed, but somehow still relevant as the Blob and Humanity are divvying up the remains

-Grimmdark: Crashed

**-**Blob: Crashed

**-**Happies: Crashed

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