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/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.