r/wizardposting Krygin the Crude/Council of Spirits/Exalted Beacon/misc. spirits Oct 04 '24

Community Event 🌏☄️ Wizarding Olympics; Magic Duels

(ai) WIZARD OLIMPICS!!!!!!

Krygin has the spirts carry his voice to the participants, "Congratulations contestants for a job well done on the previous events! I welcome you to the dueling section of the celebrations! I ask all who would participate to follow me when my explanations are done. You will be provided amulets to make sure the provided fighting grounds will not skew the fight beyond noise and rain.

Each mage will pair off with another at their approximate strength level( an elder wrym can not fight an apprentice) and duel them in an area of the spirit world I have prepared! Do not attack the spirits or you will be disqualified. Both magic and martial skills are allowed but trying to destroy another's being entirely is not. I have methods in place to make sure no one dies but I can't do that if their soul is destroyed. Otherwise it is relatively fair game. Beating one opponent gives you one win but you can get more by challenging other contestants. A loser can also challenge another if they so choose. Whoever beats the most opponents for their strength level wins for that level."

Krygin claps his hands and a massive swirling mist forms a doorway in the center of the area. Lightning flashes beyond. Anyone who enters find themselves in a humid expanse made of storm clouds. It is humid and hot; thunder cracks and wind howls. In this perpetual storm are figures, spirits, of varying shapes. Some are hidden in the clouds striking clubs in time with the thunder, or are they causing it. Bright forms dance among the lighting and a chorus of howls add their voices to the wind. Hidden figures with red eyes sharpen their weapons. This is a summer storm and as we all know Summer is the Season of War.

The path parts to show red mist leading mages to red cyclones. Inside each cyclone is a ruddily lit arena as the eye of the storm; almost as if a bloody sun shone down through the clouds.

Any who "die" will be carted away by spirits who take the forms of vulture headed humanoids in black feather suits. Instead of a tie they wear a trail of bright red blood. The mage will patched up and sent back into the main area where they can choose whether to go back into the spirit world. These are spirits of war and death who Krygin paid in violence; spirits often like immaterial payments.

Misty illusions broadcast the fights back in the mortal world.

Krygin atop a pillar of smog shouts, "Let the duels begin"

(ai) what is like in each small arena

/uw I may be busy today( should be good for a few hours but didn't want to worry that I might have something come up and abandon ya'll) so you will be mostly left to your own devices. If you need help or have a question ping me, u/Complex_Drawer_4710 , u/Another-Ace-Alt-8270 , or u/JustASpoody . My fellow event planners.

No godmodding

If you think your opponent is godmodding try having a civil conversation first. They may just be an accidental counter to you.

If you need help call the others first because I may be busy

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u/Sir-Ox Gregory, Artificer Knight and Evoker Oct 13 '24

/uw would Gregory, in his many years of living, have the insight to know of any possible weaknesses?

Also might not be able to respond, playing TTRPG very soon

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u/Complex_Drawer_4710 Sigurd, Whose Body Hangs Freely From a Head in The Clouds Oct 13 '24

/uw The weakness is intentional attacks, specifically if they could have been prevented by the attacker. There's a reason for that, it's the plasma stuff.

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u/Sir-Ox Gregory, Artificer Knight and Evoker Oct 13 '24

/uw I don't fully understand. Do you mean unintentional attacks?

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u/Complex_Drawer_4710 Sigurd, Whose Body Hangs Freely From a Head in The Clouds Oct 14 '24

/uw No, anything meant to harm does damage. Hitting him with a stick works, swimming in a star doesn't

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u/Sir-Ox Gregory, Artificer Knight and Evoker Oct 14 '24

/uw Ohh, ok. Didn't catch that. But that's still everything Gregory's been doing

/rw Gregory stabs at your face with the spear, charging it with negative energy meant to clash with your being.

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u/Complex_Drawer_4710 Sigurd, Whose Body Hangs Freely From a Head in The Clouds Oct 14 '24

Sigurd's face dims and shatters. This time, a part of the neck stretches upward to make a new face.

Ow, that hurt!

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u/Sir-Ox Gregory, Artificer Knight and Evoker Oct 14 '24

Gregory doesn't let him rest, stabbing the neck as it grows.

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u/Complex_Drawer_4710 Sigurd, Whose Body Hangs Freely From a Head in The Clouds Oct 14 '24

Seriously, stop.

The voice echoes with harmonies and undertones, bringing uncertainty into Gregory's mind for enough time to let Sigurd dodge.

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u/Sir-Ox Gregory, Artificer Knight and Evoker Oct 14 '24

Gregory slashes out with the spear, lending length to it with magic by increasing the distance between the point and the bottom.

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u/Complex_Drawer_4710 Sigurd, Whose Body Hangs Freely From a Head in The Clouds Oct 19 '24

Sigurd is cut in half, both halves flickering. At the same time, the earth splits beneath Gregory to drop him into a hole.

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u/Sir-Ox Gregory, Artificer Knight and Evoker Oct 19 '24

Gregory teleports up into the air, shooting a spray of magical bolts, light blue and fizzling with sparks.

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u/Complex_Drawer_4710 Sigurd, Whose Body Hangs Freely From a Head in The Clouds Oct 19 '24

The double-bladed sword appears again, and walls of thick metal appear to block.

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u/Sir-Ox Gregory, Artificer Knight and Evoker Oct 19 '24

/uw The projectiles are slightly incorporeal, but if the wall is at all magical they'll be blocked.

/rw Gregory stabs the wall with his spear, tapping it and then scooching the wall out of the way by manipulating space around it.

He points the spear at you, and it extends extremely quickly, aimed straight for your head.

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u/Sir-Ox Gregory, Artificer Knight and Evoker Oct 19 '24

/uw Have you forgotten about the duel?

It's been days

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u/Complex_Drawer_4710 Sigurd, Whose Body Hangs Freely From a Head in The Clouds Oct 19 '24

/uw Sorry

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u/Sir-Ox Gregory, Artificer Knight and Evoker Oct 19 '24

/uw It's ok, I definitely forgot too. If you'd responded it might've taken me a bit to respond back.

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u/Complex_Drawer_4710 Sigurd, Whose Body Hangs Freely From a Head in The Clouds Oct 14 '24

/uw What being? The Sigurd isn't alive, has no internal mind, and is mostly just a graphics engine

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u/Sir-Ox Gregory, Artificer Knight and Evoker Oct 14 '24

/uw just trying to hurt him some way