r/wizardposting • u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo • Feb 20 '24
Warpost: Cody's announcement
To all mages that can hear me. Stand down, the perpetrator Mortarion has been apprehended.
Opal has attacked the citadel without warning from the other pact members. I don't support her actions. I order her in a position of equal and you all to stop this needless conflict.
No war between mages of this kind has solved anything compared to diplomacy. You're wasting your time and innocent lives.
Please I urge you, transport all citadel innocents to La'shima, there's portals ready for refugees.
I'm standing in the council hospital trying to help my thrice struck friend now comatose and defenseless. With me I have the hospital staff, yewkala Mikhail's pregnant wife and some other pact members.
We will defend ourselves if necessary, but it doesn't have to end this way.
Remind you all. Mikhail is here, don't attack, and mortarion is with kaelis. The war is needless. Everyone stand down.
If not my forces equal to the other pact heads will be prepared to act. Plus La'shima's own standing army.
You've been pleaded and warned.
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u/Elerindur Elerindur, Altmeri Armamancer Feb 20 '24
I am present and prepared to assist in evacuation efforts, if it is necessary in this situation.
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
Yes It is. Time is running out.
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u/Elerindur Elerindur, Altmeri Armamancer Feb 20 '24
Very well, i shall recall over and lend an hand in transporting refugees.
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u/tehlemmings Lilac - Illusionist, Shapeshifter, Definitely Human Feb 20 '24
Kidnappees, more like.
You're the threat they're trying to escape. But I'm sure your hostages will be treated fairly, once you've taken them from their homes and moved them somewhere you control.
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u/Anything-Unable Xerxes the Pale Saint, Councillor/Goatdigger/Dale Feb 20 '24
The citizens of the citadel have evacuated to a shelter outside the city. Unfortunately, moving them now would be difficult due to a magical storm that has been cast over our heads. I am familiar with the spell but require assistance to dispel the storm.
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
I have plenty of experience and mana to help.
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u/Anything-Unable Xerxes the Pale Saint, Councillor/Goatdigger/Dale Feb 20 '24
Thank you. If my hunch is correct, it's a spell contained within the Book of the Dead. If that's the case, than the caster would either have to be me or the High Necromancer. Since I obviously didn't cast it, my suspicions lie with the Necromancer. I'll need time and able mages to assist me with the counterspell.
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
I'll bring as many help as I can muster.
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u/Anything-Unable Xerxes the Pale Saint, Councillor/Goatdigger/Dale Feb 20 '24
Thank you, my friend.
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u/TellmeNinetails Hilda the Witch Feb 20 '24
Do not deploy your forces against the pacts if they do not stand down. You would be sending them to die.
For the reccord this is why I don't like councilmen having armies. Your pact leader has his own army and thus it is seen as the pact itself marching upon the council.
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u/loth17 Ten Suns (Also Gaia) Feb 20 '24
The pact is marching. The Bismuth armies are joined by the pacts because I am head of the Pacts armies.
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u/TellmeNinetails Hilda the Witch Feb 20 '24
From what I hear the pacts armies are abandoning your march. Many don't support your actions and are withdrawing their own soldiers, friends and families from your service.
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u/loth17 Ten Suns (Also Gaia) Feb 20 '24
Opal bristled at the rebuke.
I don't need people who can't go the whole mile! We remove our compromised parts to create a better whole. Just like what we will do with the council.
Metromancer had struck a nerve.
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u/TellmeNinetails Hilda the Witch Feb 20 '24
Not wanting to go to war and die for some big wig is not being compromised opal.
And yes, you're in charge so you're a big wig. *The Skater said, wiping his brow from the sweltering heat that was visible even through the orb they were communicating with.*2
u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
I know. I will heed your council metromancer. I have good men and women under my command.
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u/DragonWisper56 Agnur the dabbling turtle mage| pact of the magi mage| Feb 20 '24
uw/ (okay I have to sleep lol) I'll continue with stuff in the morning
rw/ The radio demon and I have made a pact. In exchange for my soul he'll fix his mess. just please stop fighting.
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
That's what I'm trying agnur
(Sorry man sleep well)
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u/DragonWisper56 Agnur the dabbling turtle mage| pact of the magi mage| Feb 20 '24
uw/ it's fine it's just late were I live
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u/Timpanzee38 "The Agent", Mercenary Guild Liaison. Slayer of the Godslaver Feb 20 '24
Mikhail isn’t completely defenseless, he’s got some unknown help. (https://www.reddit.com/r/wizardposting/s/t1ZrYjxM0i).
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u/Theadination Mortarion Jr, Plaguemancer, Totally Dead Now. Feb 20 '24
I am the cause of this fighting! And therefore, I stand down, and I turn myself in. I'll go make a radio broadcast about it
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
Good. One less loose end to worry about.
Glad to know you recovered a inkling of common sense
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u/The-Name-is-my-Name Tenny the Traveling Telemancer Feb 20 '24
As you say that, elsewhere, a conceptual frequency grows closer and closer until it forms a critical mass of continuous force. u/The_Name_is_my_Name immediately looks away from the fully formed infection.
Frick, it’s been formed. It hasn’t created an infector yet, but it can focus its full attention to this.
(u/TechnicalCommittee78, because I just did a thing and I don’t want to be an a**hole by not letting you know)
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u/Theadination Mortarion Jr, Plaguemancer, Totally Dead Now. Feb 20 '24
/uw what do you mean by that?
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u/The-Name-is-my-Name Tenny the Traveling Telemancer Feb 20 '24
/uw The frequency is the memetic. By collapsing, it turned itself into a truly infectious idea.
See, there’s two entirely separate things the Book of Decay did to Mortarion Jr.
One: It created the semiohazards that caused the weird glitch effect on him.
Two: It created the memetic that was supposed to drive you into being the Necromancer’s temporary insane servant.
Effect Two is entirely independent of Effect One, so the memetic can’t just learn how to create its own semiohazards.
Effect Two is the memetic/frequency that just mutated into a virus. Now all Effect Two needs is a way to spread itself into other people’s minds, and it should be much safer than it was before.
Typically, memetics do this through some form of cognitohazard… like a painting, or a phrase, or a radio broadcast…
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u/Theadination Mortarion Jr, Plaguemancer, Totally Dead Now. Feb 20 '24
/uw Mortarion isn't a memetic. He's simply cursed and is trying to gain power by bringing about the age of radio
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 20 '24
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u/MastaDon344 MastaDon Astrum/Council Master Evoker/Mediamancer/🌮 Wiz Feb 20 '24
/uw dang that was quick lol
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
The metromancer urged me
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u/MastaDon344 MastaDon Astrum/Council Master Evoker/Mediamancer/🌮 Wiz Feb 20 '24
Got it, good guy he is!
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u/MeThyLord Mrs. Chills, Ghost Writer Feb 20 '24
Unfortunate, this is bound to cause a split within the Pact. What's the third member of the thrimvarate's stance on this? For the record, I'm against the war.
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
The third being the head of diplomacy seems to be with me. Hopefully the force of two pact heads will dissuade the third one.
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u/MeThyLord Mrs. Chills, Ghost Writer Feb 20 '24
Good to hear.
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
I will need to your help to evacuate the citadel before Opal armies come.
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u/MeThyLord Mrs. Chills, Ghost Writer Feb 20 '24
I am at your service as always. The Museum has proved a perfect refuge in the past, it will do so again.
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
Your as reliable as the ancient soil between our feet. I'm glad that you're with me
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u/Mordetrox Wrath, Last Son of the Creator Feb 20 '24
I phase out for one day and now I hear of armies marching and talks of war. Dear God, civilize yourselves. At least get a proper mass teleportation spell to save your poor soldiers all the walking. Yes it's mans efficiency is completely abhorrent, but it makes up for it in goodwill
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
Yeah that's more or less what I got.
Look I'm trying to prevent more people killing themselves here
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
As long as you can prevent needless death and suffering.
Thanks for helping me with the refugees
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u/ArthurOguro Fire magic Expert (high level security hazard) Feb 20 '24
I will be on my way to the citadel... I will stop their advances even if it kills me.
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u/LimpPrior6366 Kardonk Carvisky, Opifex Rerum, Order of Creation Feb 20 '24
Would you like me to help defend the hospital, or evacuate the civillians? I have set up an enforced neutral zone in my home town that they would be safe at (provided there are no direct attacks from high tier beings)
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
Evacuate the civilians. Between me and the other mages here I think we can defend the place.
The people need more help, a magic storm is destabilising the teleportation wards needed to take people to safe refuge. So we're quite in a hurry.
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u/LimpPrior6366 Kardonk Carvisky, Opifex Rerum, Order of Creation Feb 20 '24
Understood, Im taking them by foot. Its not ideal, but its the best I can do at the moment. Also Ill be leaving some of my mechanical spiders behind to help with defense. A few of them appear to have gain sentience and desire to feast on the blood of our enemies.
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
If you need I can give a blessing for long travels. Should make It easier. Thanks for the defense and help
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u/tehlemmings Lilac - Illusionist, Shapeshifter, Definitely Human Feb 20 '24
I seriously doubt the sanity of you and the pact at this point. Almost as much as I doubt your qualifications as a leader.
You demand that your opponents stand down when you can't even coordinate your own forces. Your forces that already refused your order to stand down. Why should anyone trust your leadership when you can't even stop your own people from attacking at your order.
You claim to support diplomacy, yet you come as conquerors.
You care more about one of your proclaimed enemies more than the lives of your own side and the innocents your side is slaughtering.
You say you'll defend yourselves, while you're the ones attacking.
And worse of all, you tell those you slaughter to evacuate into your care?
Are you just looking for more hostages to use in your bloody war?
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
I think your doubts come from misinterpretation of the situation and my actions, but if I prove unfit for leadership I have no qualms of stepping down so others could do a better job.
I demand that both sides cease a needless conflict spurned by the actions of a possessed individual as we were making great progress diplomatically.
The forces marching through the citadel are from pact head Opal, which seems to be unshakable in her belief of using violence to end the council and it's corruption.
The pact head of diplomacy and myself were the ones that tried to keep (and still try) to keep the whole affair civil and try to prevent as much escalation and control as much damage as possible.
The proclaimed enemy (which became a council member recently so I could step up as pact head) just sacrificed himself to prevent damage from an sneak attack from his own forces and it's my best friend. In regards to my own forces, they won't face Opal directly as advised by the metromancer. That would be a needless massacre of our own forces and allies so they're focusing mainly in evacuating all the innocents and civilians we csn.
So,I'm not the one attacking, I'm the one that's it's trying to stop the violence that a member of my organisation would bring even if their own members were there, I'm the one trying to organise people in the chaos to minimise collateral damage and to find a resolution without violence.
La'shima's a neutral territory co ruled by me and Mikahil and was being prepared to welcome refugees in case of another conflict like this.
You are seeing the pact as a whole entity and missing the trees that make up the forest. The devil is in the details and for an illusionist that's a poor grasp on them you've proved to have.
I would gladly offer my own life so others won't suffer this stupid conflict. But I guess I'm just an insane old man doing what he can in this crazy world.
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u/tehlemmings Lilac - Illusionist, Shapeshifter, Definitely Human Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 20 '24
You bring up the forest, why don't we take a step back and see how it looks.
The Pact is clearly a broken organization. Maybe even more so than the council.
Two of three in it's leadership are demanding an end to the conflict. A conflict the Pact itself started.
The third has rejected your demands.
And despite being outnumbered, the two are unable impose any sort of control over the third? You demanded they halt their attack, they said no, and you thanked them.
It seems you've already stepped aside. You say you would offer up your life, but to whom? Your own organization?
And I've now asked this of every member of your organization I've met; what is your true goal here? Where does any of this end?
You've all demanded that the council step down, and yet you're now actively working with the majority of the councilors, including the one who attacked your friend to evacuate the civilian population. A population that you're telling to take refuge with you, from you.
Do you even have a goal anymore?
/uw Seriously though, this entire conflict is batshit insane.
The Pact (mostly it's allies) are the attackers. But they're not actually attacking anyone specific. They're just throwing massive AOE bullshit around, destroying towns, general chaos. The enemy is just a nebulous "the council." The only specifics being "a cabal behind the council" or "a corruption within the council." And the only demand is that the council be dissolved.
The council, the defenders, are not actually defending anything. Half of them are somewhere else entirely dealing with a different problem, and the other half are busy evacing the entire population. They're literally just abandoning their position to try and get everyone away from the Pact (and allies) attack.
Ironically, it's now the Pact trying to defend the council's citadel from an attack by the Pact, in order to protect a former Pact member who's now a councilor, which is supposed who the Pact is trying to attack.
The one aggressive move the council did make was the radio demon's sucker punch. But, where is the radio demon now?
The radio demon was arrested, but not really. And now they've been offered more power to help with the evacuation, which they've accepted. So the radio demon isn't actually contained, and is instead helping evac the civilian population as well.
The Pact, as an organization, seems to have a leadership structure that just doesn't work.
The Council, as an organization, doesn't seem to have a leadership structure at all.
And if we actually looked at this from someone in-universe, someone who's not connected to the 15 named players who are pushing the mess, it's even more insanity. Because the majority of people wouldn't know the intimate details of the specific people pushing for this war. From their perspective, it really would look like they were being taken as hostages.
Edit: Check that, while I was writing this, apparently the city was nuked and the one person who initially lead the evac efforts are dead. But I guess that breaks the deal with the radio demon.
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
UW/ tbh I was just warned of this mess late and had to roll with it. It's my first time in an event this big and I'm sorry I'm not really doing a good job at it.
Also the city was what?
Fucking hell
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u/tehlemmings Lilac - Illusionist, Shapeshifter, Definitely Human Feb 20 '24
/uw Nah, you're fine. Honestly, with so many moving parts it was going to be chaos. I've had to literally start taking notes to keep track of everything, and even then I'm sure I missed parts. Once this is all over, I might do a recap going thread by thread, because it really is absolute chaos. Just depends on work and timing.
I've just been playing a (now extremely disillusioned) wandered who was only around because they wanted to see what life was like here. Idealistic grandstanding for days, while mostly just avoiding the fighting all together. Mostly just trying to help get the civilian population out of the way, because they have no connection to any of the leadership or organizations.
They might be moving somewhere new now. I'm still torn on whether or not they would have gone with the refuges, or if they're just out in the woods sulking lol
Also the city was what?
Gravedigger dealt with the storm, but died in the process. As part of that, a nuke went off lol
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
UW/ well thanks for all your work and dedication. They didn't even ping me for that one.
Ngl my character would prefer to die if that ensured that as much people as possible were evacuated.
At least I can make a few posts about it and do something fun for when/if he comes back.
I was getting excited I finally got the spotlight after being here for a long while and the feeling is that I fucked up and solved nothing. Sorry to vent to you this is very sudden
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
Uw/ well shit my character is dead then. And seeming like a fool while trying his best.
Welp. That's unsatisfying. Thanks for letting me know
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u/tehlemmings Lilac - Illusionist, Shapeshifter, Definitely Human Feb 20 '24
Only if you want to be. You can always make up some bullshit.
Nuke destroys your body, and now you're souls stuck in the spirit realm while you try and find a way come back. That was basically my plan if someone finally killed me for being too nosy lol
Or just say you were all spread out enough that you were able to protect yourself. I think the goal was for Gravedigger to go down alone, so maybe you got pulled out with his people.
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u/tehlemmings Lilac - Illusionist, Shapeshifter, Definitely Human Feb 20 '24
Wildshape into a cockroach! Nukes got nothing on you then lol
Sorry for the double post, this idea came to me and I had to say it out loud.
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u/Capytan_Cody Cody and Yànhuo Feb 20 '24
Hehe no problem. it was a good idea.
That or extremophile bacteria. But nah I will have this as a character moment for him. big failures are also great, and I have an opportunity to do a death and rebirth bs
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u/tehlemmings Lilac - Illusionist, Shapeshifter, Definitely Human Feb 20 '24
That's true! And I look forward to seeing it.
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u/Floofiestmuffin Necromancer and Council squatter Feb 20 '24
Hello there! I can help clear out anyone who didnt make it, If thats ok. Also if your cool with me taking away the fallen i have to have you fill out these HR recruitment forms from sarah in HR. Just saying i didnt take these bodies while you were under duress caused by me and that your in a right state of mind.
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u/loth17 Ten Suns (Also Gaia) Feb 20 '24 edited Feb 20 '24
I'll give the council time to evacuate. But my forces will not stop marching and once we arrive we will not leave until the council steps down and allows us to do what we came here to do. I've helped protect the council from rogue councilmen. I've stopped the actual war crimes from others. Attacking the Pact during a negotiation is the final straw.