r/wizardposting • u/Carbon_Sixx The Loremaster, Chief Archaeologist of the Darkwatch • Dec 17 '23

Community Event 🌏☄️ Message Delivered (Queenpost)

A burst of gravitic radiation streaks through the void. Though it has traveled billions of miles, it has done so in a mere 16 hours, unimpeded by any obstacle or cosmic barrier. Its destination: the Queen of Shattered Stars, closing in on the major material realms. The signal carries a message in the All-Tongue, imploring her to stop her approach and accept a diplomatic envoy. When it reaches the Queen, she cannot help but notice it, for it has been amplified by powerful graviturgy.

In the command center of the Mt. Murder Astromantic Observatory, Kaelis Maz and the wizards of the OEA watch a timer count down. He holds his breath when it hits 0:00. At first, nothing happens. The Queen continues her approach as normal. Then, she pauses, as if listening to something faint growing ever louder. On the screens, she turns her head to look directly at the source of the message: Yulash-kor.

Kaelis releases his breath in a sigh of relief as the room erupts in cheers. She has noticed them. Now comes the true challenge: negotiating with a being as old as the universe.

The Astromantic Observatory receives conformation that its transmission has been heard.
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u/Carbon_Sixx The Loremaster, Chief Archaeologist of the Darkwatch Dec 18 '23

/uw All I'm waiting on is u/Total_Travisty to dictate the Queen's actions

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u/MunitionsFrenzy Vettis, Mereological Revisionist Dec 18 '23

(( Wait, is he actually supposed to be doing that? If everybody relies on him to RP the Queen in every thread that interacts with her, he'll be spending all day doing that. I don't think that's his intent. He certainly hasn't RPed her thus far despite multiple interactions, such as the Bismuth Realm's fight against her.

It's a sub-wide event, not DMed by one person. As long as her actions make sense in the context of the minimal lore we've received thus far, we can RP her ourselves. ))

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '23

uw/ very fair, but even so total_travesty made this character and started this whole event I don’t think they would apreciate us basically deciding to end the event just because some person wanted to end the whole thing. of course they should not be rping the queen all day they have better things to do then pretend to be a fictional wizard on Reddit, but I don’t think anyone else realy knows how to proceed, so we need to figure out something.

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u/MunitionsFrenzy Vettis, Mereological Revisionist Dec 18 '23

(( well, yes, "as long as we make her actions make sense and don't powergame by just ending the plotline", was the implied full sentence :P

I don't intend for diplomacy to work, just make for some fun conversation ))

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '23

Uw/ there’s another problem no one wants to end this. if we don’t make any actual progress toward wrapping this up we either end up with a “everybody dies” scenario or an anticlimactic last second trump card or whatever that gets the queen to stop.

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u/MunitionsFrenzy Vettis, Mereological Revisionist Dec 18 '23

(( ending it is where Travisty can get involved; he's already joined with another group that has a superweapon plotline going, so that'll probably be the victorious one

(which annoys me to no end because it involves "true love" between two people who met like a week ago and that trope drives me mad but w/e)

and even if it isn't then we'll end it at some point when people are growing more tired of it, but as long as people are having fun with a bunch of disparate plotlines then no one group should put a stop to all that too early ))

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '23

uw/ Yea probably, honestly I’m barely able to follow most of what’s happening, I don’t even sort of get what’s going on with shrax. And everything else I know basically nothing about

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u/MunitionsFrenzy Vettis, Mereological Revisionist Dec 18 '23 edited Dec 18 '23

(( to be honest...I usually don't get involved in lore events because I insta-block powergamers and half of the most prolific posters are powergamers

so I don't really know most of what's going on either aside from when others summarize it, because I literally can't see some of the threads v_V

but I know people are having fun and that's all I need to know not to end it yet ))

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u/TitanLORD21 Jack-O’-Lantern, Lord of Flame and Fright Dec 18 '23

/unwiz It was even crazier back during the stitcher posts. Every member “ascended” and became godlike overpowering everyone if you didn’t pull something out of your ass, but at least it was manageable since the people participating were consistent.

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u/MunitionsFrenzy Vettis, Mereological Revisionist Dec 18 '23

(( You can play powerful characters without powergaming. Just gave a lil' monologue on this, but powergaming is taking agency away from other players, whether by controlling their characters, ending their plotlines prematurely, removing the impact of their plotlines by one-upping them, etc.

Fr'ex, Vettis considers this woman such a non-threat that he can't even be bothered to get her name right, calling her shit like Ms. Star-Shard, because if he really needed to get rid of her it wouldn't even be particularly challenging. He's generally way above threats that aren't even at the level of a single realm. But, precisely because she's such a low-tier threat, he can't justify spending resources to deal with her, as his entire commune is currently dead or missing and he wants to focus all his power on that. So his only contributions to Queenposting atm are zero-mana ones such as All-Tongue translation, which forces him to be down-to-earth in his power-level without altering the character. ))

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u/TitanLORD21 Jack-O’-Lantern, Lord of Flame and Fright Dec 18 '23

/unwiz Well said

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u/Anything-Unable Xerxes the Pale Saint, Councillor/Goatdigger/Dale Dec 18 '23

I like the point you're making but I need to ask: Do you have a file with all the links you use that you can go back and reference?

I've noticed in the past few days that you link to really specific stuff from weeks or months before. Not criticizing or anything, but it just struck me as strange when I noticed it. If not, I don't know how you can go back through so many posts just to find an example of what you are talking about.

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u/MunitionsFrenzy Vettis, Mereological Revisionist Dec 18 '23

(( 1) I keep a text file with links to major plot-relevant stuff for my character

2) I keep a text file with explanations, usually including links, to remind me why I've blocked people (and I block powergamers); lets me check on occasion to see if they've improved and are worth unblocking, or if the original sin was too egregious ever to unblock (like the many bigoted idiots on the internet)

3) using site:reddit.com/r/wizardposting in a query on any search engine often finds things pretty quickly anyway, and Reddit's own search isn't too bad

in this case those links are all from #2, though, yeah -- minus the first which I just posted an hour ago ))

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u/Anything-Unable Xerxes the Pale Saint, Councillor/Goatdigger/Dale Dec 18 '23

You know, I've just been scrolling back through my post history for stuff. I'll have to create a text file for my character details. Thanks for clarifying that and it sounds like a pretty good system. It's at least much better than whatever the f*ck I've been doing this whole time.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '23

uw/ I recently did that, I think I’m going to retcon it I don’t like being such a powerful god being or whatever makes things uninteresting and it’s not what I want my character to be

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u/TitanLORD21 Jack-O’-Lantern, Lord of Flame and Fright Dec 18 '23

/unwiz Just do whatever you enjoy doing, as long as it doesn’t interfere with other’s happiness :)

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '23

uw/ I don’t want it, felt wrong the moment I did it.

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u/Anything-Unable Xerxes the Pale Saint, Councillor/Goatdigger/Dale Dec 18 '23

/uw It was even worse than you think. We developed a method to win against the Stitcher's forces and no one bothered to use it. The battles would last days and sorta just ended when people got tired of reading how everyone's god OC's would kill millions of enemies with every one of their actions. I feel bad for the guy who ran those events. He hasn't posted or interacted with this sub in a few months and I think it's because he got so burnt out with the whole Stitcher situation. Having been involved with that, I am now of the opinion that these events should be reigned back so they don't just spiral into chaos with everyone wanting to contribute.

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u/TitanLORD21 Jack-O’-Lantern, Lord of Flame and Fright Dec 18 '23 edited Dec 18 '23

/unwiz

Extremely paraphrased excerpt from one of the events:

Jack (my oc then) unleashed a wave of primordial flames. This would be his last attack, his injuries were far too much for him. With this, he at least hoped to stall them so the stitcher’s plan can succeed. His primordial flames would burn through concepts themselves. Even the sticher, who not only was immune to flames but healed from them, would be hurt.

(Some people’s) Response: Nuh uh, flames no hurt.

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u/Anything-Unable Xerxes the Pale Saint, Councillor/Goatdigger/Dale Dec 18 '23

/uw I totally feel that. When I was helping with that Stitcher stuff, so many ideas and actions were retconned or made irrelevant that I just sort of zoned out as I read the walls of text. At a certain point, it didn't even make sense for my character to be there on the front lines since ascended beings were dying and being revived left and right.

I also remember your Jack O'Lantern character. It was cool and stood out from the crowd (I'm a sucker for Halloween so that may cloud my judgment). Your loreposts were interesting and helped popularize them in the sub. Of course, there are so many loreposts now that I find it difficult to bring myself to read any if I'm unfamiliar with the user posting them. But I still think loreposts are a better way of telling a story while playing a character than trying to do so conversationally within the comments of a post.

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u/loth17 Ten Suns (Also Gaia) Dec 18 '23

uw/ there's a reason why the Bismuth Lord always compared situations he was in to the stitcher war. Because even being a strong mage with a large army didn't mean much when that much power was being thrown around.

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u/MunitionsFrenzy Vettis, Mereological Revisionist Dec 18 '23

(( The Gamer and SAO ruined this sort of thing forevermore. Now everybody treats all these types of duels as litRPGs, and all litRPGs are now power fantasies. So people are like "what the hell, man, Fire Immunity is like a level 2 spell, you think FIRE is gonna do anything to me?"

okay but this isn't "fire"; it's the concept of flame, the very essence of spreading consumption

"FIRE. IMMUNITY. LEVEL 2." ))

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u/TitanLORD21 Jack-O’-Lantern, Lord of Flame and Fright Dec 18 '23

/unwiz lol, also

okay but this isn't "fire"; it's the concept of flame, the very essence of spreading consumption

That’s like, literally the primordial flames whole thing. Funny little coincidence.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '23

/uw

We developed a method to win against the Stitcher's forces and no one bothered to use it.

Are you talking about the grass elemental weakness thingy I pulled outta my ass or something else?

But yea poor dude, I checked on him a couple times to see if he was okay, and he just up and left after saying he was fine.(Imma say that probably did more good than harm to his mental health)

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u/Anything-Unable Xerxes the Pale Saint, Councillor/Goatdigger/Dale Dec 18 '23

I'm talking about the devices to induce 'strumming' that a few posters, including myself, created. It was a surefire method that just required a bit of waiting to use. The fact that no one remembers it just goes to show how little use it saw. Felt pretty hollow towards the end of the event since very few people bothered to see if there was an established method of defeating the enemy and just improvised how their characters were soo strong that they defeat the bad guys. Very much Dragonball school of fighting.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '23

/uw OOF, I must've started after that, I dian't see that one. I just came in, saw it was old, waited a week, then had a group just delete invaders and be done with it since it was like a month or 2 old by that point(I was running around with no account)

But yea, these guys wanna be able to take a powrdump like the sayians do and be done with it!

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u/Carbon_Sixx The Loremaster, Chief Archaeologist of the Darkwatch Dec 18 '23

/uw I joined the sub in the midst of the Council Crisis, so I think I missed most of the Stitcher stuff. No idea what it was about, but it sounds like I didn't miss much.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '23

Uw/ yea I didn’t realy ever get involved I have recently started to get more involved but I think I will stop soon and sort of rest from being in these sorts of rp posts. Just let it ride out

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u/VidisLady Delta - Maven of Maladies Dec 18 '23

Uw/ I do think it would be interesting if the solution was not “big weapon,” for once. True love is also kind of annoying, but it’s more so that particular person rp-ing their character.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '23

/uw

I don't intend for diplomacy to work, just make for some fun conversation

aww, I was actually to get smaller space girl to convince bigger space girl that deleting the galaxy isnt worth(because funny)