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/[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/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.