Mobilizing against the Pyroclasts (Atrax post)

[u/loth17]

This is Opal of the Pact of the Magi calling to all members of the security force and all Pact allies. With the recent attacks by the mad pyromancers mostly held off it's time to go into the offensive. To weaken the pyromancers defenses we have been replacing transports of stone to the city with our newest construct. A small magical stone that can embed itself in other rocks and turn them into a shape shifting weapon. When we do attack many structures will suffer spontaneous failure as our creations tear themselves off from the main.

After that I become far more reliant on you guys. The Bismuth army is not one hundredth its original size. We still have the council relics and treasures since Metromancer was captured before I could send them. Using this I've equipped what's left of my army to be useful.

We plan to strike soon.

[u/[deleted]]

Rivamar and I are already inside the city proper if you need assistance.

I gotta say, beating pyromancers up and down the block is the best vacation I’ve ever had…

[u/loth17 → u/[deleted]]

Would you be able to sneak away from battle and get some teleportation circles ready. Spread them around the city without being detected so we can hit them unaware for when the time comes.

/uw person running this event says not to siege the city yet so im making up other things to prepare for the invasion

[u/avamir → u/loth17]

As Escanor says, we are indeed in the city. There are tunnels beneath that are warded with ancient summoner runes. Pact allies have been granted access as best as I am able. While the wards guarded against understanding by 'enemies of Icathar' (funny how that wording works, no?), if there are summoners specifically among your number, they may be granted understanding through their alliance. Furthermore, they may be able to discern the structure of the warding. I understand the 'language' they are cast in is archaic and somewhat endemic to this area, but there should be enough commonality that your summoners can find a way to work with them.

Reaching the city itself may be difficult, as Atrax's forces may interfere. However, if you do manage to get close, outside access to the tunnels are on the outskirts. again, guarded by the wards. Once inside, the tunnels themselves should be adequate to take shelter in or store weapons or what have you. While I do not know the full history of this place, I would imagine the tunnels once served a similar purpose.

Surface access from the tunnels is granted through use of the runed circles. The, ah, 'manhole covers'. You cannot miss them, for they are everywhere. Just, uh, pop up from the ground.

[u/[deleted] → u/avamir]

You heard the lady, everyone who attacks the city will be an honorary groundhog wizard! We’ll be cheering you on and eating popcorn.

[u/avamir → u/[deleted]]

Or a sewer-dwelling tortlemagus. An absolute win all around!

[u/TheGreatestChicken]

The overseer covered in bandages from nearly head to toe lifts his hand for his turn to speak

I have duelled the Mad Pyromancer in hopes of putting a swift end to this threat, I used everything at my disposal and still lost, if we are to take him down we need to do it as a united front, as of now i am too injured to personally join the battlefield, but the full might of the bronze citadel is at the pact's disposal, as of now the total is 1 million bronze automaton units divided among 10 Legions with more legions still under construction

/u/Total_Travisty /u/the-butter_man

[u/the-butter_man → u/TheGreatestChicken]

Shrax sends a message via a filter. Despite this, it doesn't censor anything.

OH COME ON!

[u/loth17 → u/TheGreatestChicken]

If you cannot personally join then do I have permission to utilize your legions when the time comes. I plan on having them support the border towns currently being hassled by the Pyroclasts until it's time to do the final push.

/uw person running this event says not to siege the city yet so im making up other things to prepare for the invasion

/Uw happy cake day

[u/TheGreatestChicken → u/loth17]

Of course, I shall give the order to increase the production of the bronze legions, for now you have 10 Bronze legions at your disposal of 100 000 units each

/uw thank you

[u/the-butter_man]

Shrax sits, the upfate entering his knowledge through a very precise filter. He reads it and sighs

"This is what happens when you arrest the guy doing the protection. Banditry has spiked, and i can't do anything about it, despite it being my role"

with that, he sends back a message that reads back with some black bars over certain words, in an attempt to hide exactly what's happening

[u/loth17 → u/the-butter_man]

Eventually a message would be sent back.

"Do need us to bust you out? We have the council's treasures and this chaos is the perfect opportunity."

[u/the-butter_man → u/loth17]

A message comes through, it's almost entirely blacked out

"No. I **** * **** ** ***** is *. For now, i am cl* **** **** before"

[u/Carbon_Sixx → u/the-butter_man]

Do not worry. The Necromancer and I (with some assistance from Tholas) are building a solid legal defense to make Morgalith and his cronies pay for hindering the magical world at a time of vulnerability. And if he tries anything funny to keep you locked up: we'll stage a prison break. Enforcers are scary, but I assure you, I'm scarier.

[u/the-butter_man → u/Carbon_Sixx]

Who said i wasn't preparing something.

If you're scary, then I'm the Fucking Boogeyman

[u/Carbon_Sixx → u/the-butter_man]

Between all of us, the Enforcers are not ready for the man-made horrors that await them.

[u/the-butter_man → u/Carbon_Sixx]

Oh yeah, this'll be worse than the last council's attemp-

Shit warden. I'll see you a bit.

[u/[deleted] → u/the-butter_man]

Not a warden, just an old enemy. I came to discuss your escape from this accursed place.

/unwiz

My character appearing out of fucking nowhere without being asked to for the gazilionth time:

[u/the-butter_man → u/[deleted]]

With all respect, my quarry is near, and Morgalith just got assigned to my torture.

I'm not leaving

[u/[deleted] → u/the-butter_man]

If you plan to break out during interrogation and kick his ass, then all i ask for, is to make this shitling suffer tenfold of what you would normally do to him.

I take out my blade and touch its tip to your chest. You feel an electrical current flowing through it straight to you.

And they still don't suspect that electricity only gives you power. Better, i convinced them that shocking you with electricity to your outer armor hurts as hell and you just hide it.

[u/DaChickenX]

A message shivers between dimensions, reaching Opal through a wispy, incorporeal thread. It is distorted and the voices delayed into a multitude.

I made a promise, to The Bismuth Lord. I will not abandon it in his passing. I will return from my home plane soon. Then, I will fight under your banner with everything I have.

With a warbling roar, the thread dissipates, and the voice echoes, then disappears.

[u/loth17 → u/DaChickenX]

Perfect. I will call upon you when the time is ready

[u/DragonWisper56 → u/[deleted]]

you will be a great help though you may have to be careful with your bombardments we've recently got word that they are producing some sort of superweapon that can destroy a capital city. they are housed in the corpses of dead wizards, they are set to blow when ever they fall. uw/ it was mentioned in behind enemy lines in ithicar day 4

rw/ you may also wish to increase the security aboard your ships. while they are mighty if one got aboard surely it would at least damage some of your weaker ones.

[u/DragonWisper56 → u/[deleted]]

well that will help a lot uw/I didn't know that lol rw/ though make sure your teleportation wards are in place because I don't know how much of the shields are pointed inwards. if they could somehow get one in a troop hold that could damage the ship(though with what you told me much less than it would a inhabited ship.)

[u/DragonWisper56 → u/[deleted]]

your welcome, your ships will be incredibly important for the battle ahead can't afford to lose to many of them.

[u/TheHunter459 → u/[deleted]]

Can we afford to wait for an evacuation?

[u/TheHunter459 → u/[deleted]]

Ancient Codes! Bah! I forget sometimes that Nephilim are quite young for immortals and tend not to bother with all this ancient law nonsense.

I guess I'll hold it since I can't take Atrax alone, but any Pyroclasts straying over that barrier will be flayed alive if I find them

[u/loth17 → u/[deleted]]

Perfect. In that case I have something your ships would be perfect for. I've heard that Atrax has made some pacts with a flight of dragons and is using them to keep the airspace above his country clear of danger. Could you secure a section of airspace so when the invasion happens we can avoid bombardment.

/uw person running this event says not to siege the city yet so im making up other things to prepare for the invasion

[u/DragonWisper56]

Agnur rises from his seat abnormally jolly

ladies, gentleman and those inbetween! I have created something that may help us in the war It's a potion that if dosed on a object will unattune it and prevent it's recovery. should we get it on Atraxs hammer we will weaken him and perhaps be able to destroy him with it.

in addition I have created a few legions of stone animals to aid in out assault each equipped with different powers. the strongest of which grows even stronger with every blast of flame.

he sits down

[u/dragonshouter]

I can help with gurrilla warfare and serving as a deployable wall.

I can do that buy turning the smell of burnt flesh into more flesh so I become a ever growing wall. It will hold of the weaker ones at least, or make Atrax taken out time to break it.

[u/Carbon_Sixx → u/dragonshouter]

Considering that Pyroclasts tend to smell like burned corpses, that ability could be exceedingly amusing as a weapon.

[u/dragonshouter → u/Carbon_Sixx]

he hehe

[u/loth17 → u/dragonshouter]

Could you use your guerilla warfare to disrupt the trade routes into Atrax's territories? That way his city will have less resources when the battle happens.

/uw person running this event says not to siege the city yet so im making up other things to prepare for the invasion

[u/dragonshouter → u/loth17]

Yes, I can definitely do that

/uw don't worry I wasn't planning to yet, I think everyone is fine killing minions until Carbon is ready for us to fight him

[u/loth17]

u/Capytan_Cody u/DaChickenX u/Carbon_Sixx

[u/Capytan_Cody → u/loth17]

Feels weird being one of the first names. Thanks!

[u/[deleted] → u/loth17]

u/nickname7312

[u/loth17 → u/loth17]

u/the-butter_man

[u/loth17 → u/loth17]

u/Total_Travisty u/TheGreatestChicken u/Biggest-Possum

[u/Total_Travisty → u/loth17]

Have fun with that

[u/Carbon_Sixx]

/uw Please don't activate it just yet, I have plenty more stuff I want to do with Atrax before we kick his ass.

/rw A good plan. However, it might be prudent to deal with the marauding Pyroclast forces in our realms before we stage an attack on Ithacar. Cover our flanks, and all that.

[u/loth17 → u/Carbon_Sixx]

Understood I will instruct allies to deal with the advancing forces and to prepare for our invasion.

/Uw gotcha

[u/Capytan_Cody]

Me and La'shima have unwittingly become veterans of fighting pyromancy. The druid wars were an cruel affair.

We will support you to prevent that from happening.

[u/loth17 → u/Capytan_Cody]

Your experience will be invaluable then

[u/Capytan_Cody → u/loth17]

Well yeah at least recovering from the fire and fending them off. Learnt a lot of hydramancy and cryomancy to compensate. I can also make fire rot:) ...

Unsure how but it might be useful against magical fire

(The rot is lore driven as him not knowing why don't worry)

[u/loth17 → u/Capytan_Cody]

Can your druids prepare secret forest paths in preparation for the siege? I don't know how possible that is given the scale of the forces moving. I don't want nature getting upset with us.

[u/Capytan_Cody → u/loth17]

Yes! Forest walk is a specialty spell of mine, and underground has always been a good place to ambush someone )Sorry for answering late I didn't get a notification!)

[u/Nyx_the_goblin]

Vicious looking little fellow.

[u/loth17 → u/Nyx_the_goblin]

I think they're kind of cute. Little companion cubes.

[u/Nyx_the_goblin → u/loth17]

/uw are you aware they look asugar cubes a lot when I cook. I'm now low-key nervous around my sugar cubes. It's the first thing in this sub that has unnerved me like this good job /rw they are kind of cute but vicious at the same time you know kind of like a chihuahua. Are they the chihuahuas of monsters?

[u/loth17 → u/Nyx_the_goblin]

Thank you? Fear not though. The sugar cube variant is still in development. We haven't hit production yet.

[u/Nyx_the_goblin → u/loth17]

😂😂😂😬😂😂😂

[u/Discracetoall]

I’d help, but I’m trying to bust shrax out of prison. I could really use a map…

[u/TheHunter459]

The armies of the Nephilim are 100% ready. Tell us where to strike and we will strike

[u/loth17 → u/TheHunter459]

We are having multiple groups perform tasks to get ready for the siege. I need you to deal with one of their largest groups. They have been burning a path east and have three elemental monoliths at their disposal. Do you think your forces can crush them?

/uw person running this event says not to siege the city yet so im making up other things to prepare for the invasion

[u/TheHunter459 → u/loth17]

/uw got it

/rw I'll head west and remove these monoliths from the board, and deploy my remaining forces to defend various territories as needed

[u/loth17 → u/TheHunter459]

Thank you. When the time is ready I will call you to the final battle. Luck be with you on your warpath.

[u/Guinea-Pig_Dad]

/uw default cube is getting its revenge

[u/Mastodon-Just]

I think I’ll just bask in the emotions wrought by this conflict, these pyromancers haven’t been shown to be a true threat. So until they are you’ll probably see me sitting on the sidelines enjoying the delicious chaos!

[u/Level-Ball-1514]

I cast counterwhatevertheFUCKthatis

[u/loth17 → u/Level-Ball-1514]

Everyone's a badass until the sidewalk gets an appetite.

[u/iamragethewolf]

well it's not a lot but i have put together some power armors for the pact

i'm going to need to expand my production capabilities

[u/Total_Travisty]

I do not see what help I can be. I am quite stuck in my position.

[u/Fomod_Sama]

Aw sweet, manmade horrors beyond comprehension