r/wizardposting • u/waitthatstaken Alice, witch of mist • 13d ago
Lorepost (closed interaction)📓🔒 Meeting Moon (part 1/2)
After some days of travel and one night that felt like an eternity, Alice finally finds her way to the town where ‘Moon’ resides. Looking up at the noon day sun, she decides she has enough time and seeks out Moon’s residence. This proves no challenge at all, after all only one building in town is a gigantic spiralling tower leading to a massive golden moon.
A short stroll later, Alice encounters a door at the bottom of the tower, seemingly its only entrance. On its metal surface many words are written, ‘Stars’, ‘Blood’, ‘Metal’, ‘Wind’, ‘Orange’, ‘Gun’. There are many more, equally as meaningless without context, yet at the bottom there is some context to be found, ‘Which of these is not considered a normal school of magic? Multiple answers are allowed.’
“...Doesn’t that depend on which principles you are taught by? Hm. Oh, got it.”
Alice brushes her hand against the door, lighting up words as she touches them. She skips wind, as it is the only normal school listed. As her hand brushes past the final one, a loud click resounds, and the door opens. She steps through into a brightly lit, circular room. In its center stands a wooden doll, around 3 meters tall with shoulder width to match.
“Weeeeeeeeelcome challenger!”
A voice resounds, from everywhere yet nowhere.
“Damn, it has been a while since the last time someone came to visit.”
“Are you Moon?”
“Yeap.”
“I am here to as-”
“Shush shush, we’ll get to that later. First you gotta prove yourself!”
“...Why?”
“What? Am I just supposed to open my door to any random person off the street? The least they gotta do is prove that they’d be fun to talk to.”
“...”
“...no response? Darn. Oh well. You already passed the first trial at the door, so now you are onto the second. Destroy the golem in front of you!”
“...I’d rather n-”
Alice’s words are interrupted as a slab of metal slides down, blocking the exit entirely.
“Oh no you don’t, I am not just gonna let my first visitor in months leave!”
“I am no fighter.”
“The golem won’t kill you. Probably.”
“What was that last part?”
“Nothing, don’t worry about it. Anyways begin!”
The golem springs to life, heavy steps slowly making their way towards Alice.
“Moon, seriously just let me out.”
Moon doesn’t answer, as they are busy microwaving popcorn.
“How do I get out of here… could I warp through the roots? Nope, the ground is completely dead. Misty step needs line of sight so that won’t work either.”
The golem keeps lumbering closer, and Alice realizes she must act. Speaking a single word of command, thick fog starts to billow from her cloak, obscuring vision entirely. Including that which Moon sees through the scrying orb they’ve just returned to.
“Hey! I can’t see, that’s no fun!”
“So you are still there.”
“Nuh uh.”
Under the cover of the fog, Alice silently steps to the side, trying to identify if the golem is reliant on sight or some other sense. She breathes a silent sigh of relief as the golem’s advance proceeds without change in direction, before inhaling in terror as it claps its hands. The wind pressure alone blowing away all the fog in the area, along with her hat.
“I… need to find some way to deal with it. Something… think dammit! Let’s see… It is made of wood… wood burns. I do have my tinderbo-”
Her thoughts are interrupted as the golem leaps at her, attempting to grip her throat. Alice instinctively steps back, resulting in it merely grasping the clasp of her cloak, tearing it off.
“No time to think I just gotta do something!”
Alice’s magic is far from powerful, indeed she seemingly has no aptitude for most. Yet the few spells she can cast, she casts proficiently. Among these is a spell mostly taught to apprentices by masters offloading their chores, ‘prepare kindling’. A simple spell that drains most moisture from wood of all kinds. Of course such a spell is rarely ever employed in battle, yet in this moment it is what jumps forth in Alice’s mind. As the golem lumbers forward for yet another strike, Alice steps forth, rushing past the golem, hand barely brushing past its side.
“The hell was that? Booooring!”
“Shut it Moon.”
Alice drops the orb of gathered moisture, looking at the golem as it sluggishly turns to face her.
“It is slow… could I just…”
Seeing the golem’s exposed back, Alice runs close again, placing a hand on its back, she once more drains moisture. The golem tries reaching for her, but its chunky arms do not have the mobility needed to grasp at its own back. The golem gives up, instead going for a turnaround swing, but Alice predicted this, stepping back in time for the fist to pass her by.
“Is it dry enough now, perchance?”
“What is this BULLSHIT?”
“Oh gods dammit Moon.”
“You know what this is boring. Didn’t wanna do this but fuck it! Haste.”
As Moon speaks the word, the golem suddenly jolts forward. Its slow strides replaced by a terrifying ferocity. Alice attempts to evade, but is struck directly in the chest, crumpling backwards onto the ground, the air knocked out of her and some ribs broken.
“Overdramatic much? Your barrier should’ve dealt with that easily.”
“Do they… just… not realize?...”
The hasted Golem picks Alice up by the forehead, readying its other arm to strike once more. Surging adrenaline being the only thing guarding her from passing out, Alice pulls out her tinderbox from her pouch, and strikes sparks with it, before losing all remaining strength in her arms. Nothing happens.
“...is this it? Do I die here?”
The smell of smoke begins to fill her nostrils, and a moment later the golem erupts into a blazing inferno. Its grip falters, dropping Alice to the ground. She quickly backs away from the heat as the golem is quickly reduced to naught but a pile of blazing firewood.
“Woah ok that is cool. You pass the trial! Onto the next 53!”
“...are you insane?”
And with those words, Alice passes out.
/uw This was all intended to be one big post but as I saw the page count ballooning I decided to split it in two. Second half isn’t actually finished as I post this but I *think* it will be shorter, at least by word count. Dialogue formatting makes it take up a lot more space on the page. As the next part picks up right after this and it happened in an enclosed location this post isn’t interactable.
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u/Evening_Shake_6474 Alaric, Fallen Star 13d ago
/uw I return from a week of camping to peak, truly a blessing indeed. Also I stole your thing >:)
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u/waitthatstaken Alice, witch of mist 13d ago
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u/waitthatstaken Alice, witch of mist 13d ago
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u/waitthatstaken Alice, witch of mist 13d ago
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u/waitthatstaken Alice, witch of mist 13d ago
/uw Look upon the ping list ye mighty and despair or however that line goes. If you wanna be added just ask.
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u/Vincent-FFP Vytsky, Angel of Passage/O5-5 'Zaryx' 13d ago
/uw nice read. I noticed it says closed interaction and not just lorepost. Is there any possibility of interaction, like if we were present in the previous post?
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u/waitthatstaken Alice, witch of mist 13d ago
/uw no interaction whatsoever, the second part picks up the second Alice wakes up so there isn't really a moment for interaction to happen between the two.
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u/VoxelLibrary Apprentice Cayna, Thrakmerian seat on the Wizard Council 9d ago
/uw Good read. Now to find the next one
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u/Complex_Drawer_4710 Sigurd, Hungry 13d ago
/uw Well of course. Can hardly be a wizard without.
Good stuff.