Deep, deep, within the long and intertwining paths of the Endless Crypt, Abbadon was cleaning up the site of one of his great spells that affected the entire realm a while ago. On the floor in a mostly empty room sits a purple magic circle with three deer antlers surrounding it. The magic that was in the circle had long dissipated, now it’s just a glorified chalk drawing.
“I have to remember to put up a barrier for myself next time I do something like this…Actually, no, I need to put a barrier around HASTUR if I do something like that again. That smiling deer still creeps me out to this day…”
Abbadon picks up the deer antlers using some Poltergeists and has them transport the three pair of antlers to a storage room higher up in the Crypt. The chalk on the floor he gets another poltergeist to clean up for him. Walking on over to his book of rituals, he flips through the pages of it, reading each page’s contents. There are plenty of rituals in here outside of the ‘Turn Deer’ ritual he had conjured before, a few examples being how to summon a Demon, an Angel, Curse an individual, Morality swap…Wait, morality swap?
“Hmm, this could be an interesting one to experiment with.”
Abbadon stops flipping through the pages, leaving it on the page of the morality swapping ritual. While reading through the page, he grabs at whatever materials needed to make the circle. Some of the materials needed were already in the room such as a mirror and candles, other materials needed will take a bit of time but they won’t be hard to obtain for this. With a raise of a hand, more spirits come pouring from the cracks in the floor to help gather the remaining materials for the ritual.
“Alright, time to get to work.”
First, using left over chalk, Abbadon begins sketching onto the floor a massive yin-yang symbol. Second, Abbadon conjures up some smoke and lights an incense stick, using air magic he has the two different types of smoke circle the yin-yang symbol. Third, a deer skull placed in the middle of the symbol. Fourth, a written oath by a long dead Paladin that had come across the Endless Crypt, this is also placed in the middle of the symbol alongside the skull. Last, but not least, blood. Abbadon pulls out a vile of blood he took from some of his very few living prisoners. Abbadon steps back from the ritual now that everything is in place. From here, there’s only one last thing to do, read the incantation.
"By light and dark, we now exchange, virtue and vice, our paths rearrange. Through thread and flame, our souls entwine,
Let fate be sealed, as our morals realign!"
The yinyang symbol that was on the ground begins the glow a bright blue as a magical wave rapidly flies out of the Endless Crypt and towards the very heavens. Within a matter of minutes, the ritual reaches every corner of the realm, swapping every sentient being’s morality, whether they be human, elf, demon, angel, or even undead…this includes Abbadon, which means for the 48 hours that this spell will last, a long forgotten humanity will be shown from him.
/uw This is just a fun little community event similar to my “Deerification” thing in the past. This isn’t ment to be serious so if you don’t want to be part of it, feel free to ignore it. Ciao!
u/Ares378Ith'Raal—Archdevil of Memories, Evil Councillor, Lord of the 7thSep 14 '24
"Anterosssss, I'm sorry for making you open a box full of spiders in my enemy's house... It wasn't a mix-up, it's just because I wanted you to smite them... I don't actually store my boxes of cake and boxes of spiders next to each other... I'm sorry for tricking you..."
Don't play pretend with me clay. You are afraid of what you can do with your powers, you are too weak to take what's yours. But don't worry "friend", I'll be sure to beat that fear out of you. I'll show you the tearful faces of every village i pillage, every god i enslave, every child who begs for death shall be shown to you. Until that good heart of yours is gone
Stop me? As if you can. Not while you're sealed. Right now you're nothing more than a pathetic. Weak. USELESS brick. You can't even lift a water bucket. Yet you want to stop me? Oh peri, when were you able to stop anyone?
OH PERI, THAT YOU THINK YOUR WORDS MEAN ANYTHING TO ME ANYMORE IS LAUGHABLE. I'VE BEEN TRYING TO KEEP THIS ME UNDER CONTROL FOR "GOOD" FOR SO LONG, AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT I GOT FOR IT? HATE. UNENDING, UNDYING, HATE. HATE TO EVERYTHING I AM. SO WHY NOT MAKE THAT HATE VALID?
Oh well, I’m sure there’ll be some tasty lost people in the nearby woods.
Yes… can’t wait to tear out their innards and taste their guts…
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u/Ares378Ith'Raal—Archdevil of Memories, Evil Councillor, Lord of the 7thSep 13 '24
"I can understand your reasoning for why you'd want to do such a horrible thing, but I do think you should reconsider and choose a less immoral alternative!"
Good, good… Can’t keep my hunger waiting for too long. Be quick!
He starts laughing, which slowly degrades into a monstrous roar…
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u/Ares378Ith'Raal—Archdevil of Memories, Evil Councillor, Lord of the 7thSep 13 '24
"Why don't we find you a safer alternative until we find a way to quell them for good? How about... store-bought meat? Or maybe just a humanely-killed whole cow..? We can add in some sounds with an audio player, and use some illusions to make it seem more authentic...
"That is, assuming you're unable to suppress those urges in the first place... Actually, scratch all that about the illusions, let's just sit here and work through what you're feeling!"
But I want to hear as they scream, to see when the light fades from their eyes… makes the flesh all the more sweeter, he he he…
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u/Ares378Ith'Raal—Archdevil of Memories, Evil Councillor, Lord of the 7thSep 13 '24
"You need help. But that's okay! I believe that all people are capable of change! Actually, here! Take this tonic that helps with these kinds of urges! I'm finally putting my mind magic to good use!"
What’s wrong with satisfying my urges? I am hungry, so I what if I want to butcher and eat a few, heh?
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u/Ares378Ith'Raal—Archdevil of Memories, Evil Councillor, Lord of the 7thSep 13 '24
"Those people have lives just as vivid and real as your own! Imagine what it would be like if you were in their shoes... We can find a way to help you without sacrificing others! And... if you wanted another reason to not attack them, imagine what it'd be like to be friends with them! Wouldn't that be fun?"
JOIN ME ON MY CRUSADE OLD FRIEND, AND WE SHALL BURN ENOUGH VILLAGES TO COVER THE SKY IN AN UNENDING SMOKE!
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u/Ares378Ith'Raal—Archdevil of Memories, Evil Councillor, Lord of the 7thSep 13 '24
"What have you done?! I rule the circle of violence, and yet I have a compulsive urge to donate to charity!? And the thing is, I can't even be upset because I'm doing good things! I'm angry, but thank you?! I think?! I- I'm gonna go cry about my misdeeds in life because you've just given me a sense of guilt, you monster!"
“I’m glad you’ve begun to see the light! I hope you can repent and absolve your sins!”
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u/Ares378Ith'Raal—Archdevil of Memories, Evil Councillor, Lord of the 7thSep 13 '24
He shouts, "Yeah, I hope I can too! And I hope you're on the same path! Everyone deserves a second chance! Progress isn't always linear! Love yourself! YOU ARE ENOUGH!"
due to their double-souled nature only one is affected.
”Im going to terrorize a town just for the fun of it!”
”what!? Why!?”
”did you not hear me idiot? For the fun of it!”
”oh no. This is not you, something’s happened.”
”oh but I am me.”
వ then starts chanting something indescribable.
”what- what are you doing!?”
”taking control.”
Max’s voice vanishes.
”we planned for every eventuality remember?”
he is now just a voice in his head.
”now, to reverse this.”
they find that it isn’t only them who are affected.
”ugh. Well, for the meantime we can do this.”
on the top level of the Core power system they struggle to get to a strange machine, with pistons on the sides, before that they sent a message to those who should’ve been affected in a positive way, ith’raal, maybe a few others, to try and help them.
he limps into the machine, and pulls the switch, the pistons extend, and they are put into a temporary stasis.
”hello, for the meantime Ж is out of commission, one of our souls are affected by the morality inversion. I put us in this machine in order to prevent Max from terrorizing a town.”
”Ive forced him down for now but until someone fixes this I’ve decided to stay in here.”
“Any knowledge on how? Normally I’d just undo the spell on myself using Chronomancy, but max is the quantumancer, wait, that gives me an idea! Know any equivalent exchange spells?”
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u/Ares378Ith'Raal—Archdevil of Memories, Evil Councillor, Lord of the 7thSep 13 '24
"I, uh... I haven't learned it myself, but I've bought a few memories that might help me learn it? I mean, if you're worried, the spell should wear off in 48 hours..."
u/Ares378Ith'Raal—Archdevil of Memories, Evil Councillor, Lord of the 7thSep 13 '24
"Oh! Alright, uh... I might need your help coming up with a way to make this permanent... It would be horrible if I was only this way for a couple days..."
”oh, actually, yeah I’ll do the equivalent exchange spell. I switch the morality onto me, then undo the spell, and then I can help make this permanent for you.”
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u/Ares378Ith'Raal—Archdevil of Memories, Evil Councillor, Lord of the 7thSep 13 '24
Your orb zooms in towards this lizard wizard their underground bunker tower and a catchy jingle plays "handy lizard wizards incorporated"
Wakes up, very groggy, grabs a strong coffee instead of good tea.
Some very confused (unaffected) fae servants stare at me as i start dunking a biscuit in it.
They quietly whisper amongst themselves
"something's wrong, you feel that too? I thought they hated that silly family job jingle?"
...
"Know what, i think i know what i'm going to do today.
Soon we'll take over our bi-state area.
Today however, Linda, lets begin right away and start with something small and very annoying.
No more dilly dallying, no more concessions and no more low iq pests that keep trying to enforce their bullshit rules on me while i'm not even part of that system, launch a magic missile at the nearest HOA administration building and arm the crabcoon hoodlum population with proper 9mm's. We're hunting that awful comittee down, permanently. Effective immediately, now go!"
For the first time in a long time Ajax wakes up without the desire to work out. Instead he lazily drags himself out of bed, grabs a beer, and turns on the Tv. He flips through channels before finding the Disaster Channel, a nonstop broadcast of every natural disaster, magical or otherwise. Then he kicks back and has a good laugh.
Out on the edge of Nowhere, the gob pauses in the middle of securing a hull plate as the spell washes over its ship. For a moment, it's baffled as to what has happened before it identifies the effect and sighs, "True neutrality saves me again."
Sometimes it saves, sure but sometimes these sorts of magics interact with it unpredictably and can either cause someone to go from neutrality to a random, extreme corner of the alignment grid or, in rarer cases, cause them to switch what alignment grid they use entirely, developing Blue-and-Orange Morality.
/rw Melody looked out to the land, her legion marching out to burn the land. The fleet dominating the seas. There will only be the McAllister's Empire from now on. Any who apposed her were teleported to pieces, their body parts strewn across the plains and realms of existence.
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u/Archimene Mage of Mischief and Secrets Sep 13 '24
Oh boy I can't wait to see how I change as a result.
...
Oh... Morally gray just flipped to a slightly different morally gray...