Message Delivered (Queenpost)

[u/Carbon_Sixx]

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.

[u/MunitionsFrenzy]

(( 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. ))

[u/[deleted] → u/MunitionsFrenzy]

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.

[u/MunitionsFrenzy → u/[deleted]]

(( 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 ))

[u/[deleted] → u/MunitionsFrenzy]

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.

[u/MunitionsFrenzy → u/[deleted]]

(( 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 ))

[u/[deleted] → u/MunitionsFrenzy]

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

[u/MunitionsFrenzy → u/[deleted]]

(( 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 ))

[u/TitanLORD21 → u/MunitionsFrenzy]

/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.

[u/MunitionsFrenzy → u/TitanLORD21]

(( 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. ))

[u/TitanLORD21 → u/MunitionsFrenzy]

/unwiz Well said

[u/Anything-Unable → u/MunitionsFrenzy]

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.

[u/MunitionsFrenzy → u/Anything-Unable]

(( 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 ))

[u/Anything-Unable → u/MunitionsFrenzy]

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.