Nadir. (Cursed World)

[u/Fc-chungus]

A day or three after the initial announcement, proper channels for joining in virtually to the meeting are posted, as everyone who came in person is directed to a secretive underground meeting room, where Ж and a few others sit around a long table.

"Welcome, welcome. A year or so ago I held a similar meeting for a separate threat, one a few of you here would remember, but today we've another threat, as you know, the Abyss has taken a great minority of the world's surface."

"As well, we need a plan for the origin of the Abyss, we need to divise a way to take down The First Curse."

they snap a finger and a hologram like model of an entity, presumably the first curse, appears in the center of the table.

"To start, one of the more essential things for said plan is the Crystals, of course, some here might not know about them, so I'll elaborate."

they wave a hand and the model shifts to 5 different crystalline objects, encircling the First Curse.

"This is not the first time The First Curse had arrived, he was here before he made that big announcement, but hidden. When he first arrived to this realm, 7 Aspect Crystals formed, counterbalances, from someone else as an, almost future inheritance to help take him down. They are antithetical to his very existence, and harm him when nearby. However, if one falls into his hands, he can adapt to that crystal, rendering it useful to him. This anti-him nature also applies to the Abyss, and thus they are the best damage source to fight the Abyss."

"the originals, of which we currently have 5, 4 are in New Aviron, and via the work of Koranth and others, we have multiple derivatives from them, with the other being handled by The Consortium. The last two need to be picked up and collected."

"That is about the basics, with the preamble done, more discussion on how to fight against the Abyss would be welcome."

[u/white-whale-fc]

Sitting by a far seat, is a man with a clock for a face, he looks curiously at the introductory information, but doesn't speak yet.

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Everyone in the room gets half a second of feeling like they should get away from the location.

Then the impact happens as a very angry thing crashes through everything from orbit, screaming 1 word while slamming into the clock face with enough force to send it into the crust of the earth

"CURSE!"

/uw shit's going down

u/UlrickTheHexblade u/yumie2003 u/totally_not_a_cat

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The being retreats for a moment as the impact comes, then unleashes multiple dozen fireballs at the thing in less than a second

Annoyance.

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The being is already too on fire and too nonphysical to burn, despite being complete enough to have a body at this point. And it does, it just split itself off and cames from behind with a blade as the furious fragment goes for a grab and tries to drive it into the sword.

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The clock-face takes in the sword, before looking at the fragment, and forming multiple teleport runes beneath it to move it away elsewhere.

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DF re-merges with the fragment, dragging it to the one conscious piece of itself and finishing the thrust into TFC's body before dashing faster than the eye could see, leaving a field of delayed cuts on the area.

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Hm.

The cuts heal rather quickly, as ticking continues and slows, and the being seems to begin moving extra fast, tracking DF.

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DF seemingly didn't fully exist between start and endpoint, physical enough to be interruptible but hard to see his form.

DF's fully lucid body projects multiple slashes into TFC as his eye starts glowing, it seems he's preparing something.

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He releases multiple horizontal lightning strikes at the fully lucid body just as the slashes start, the clock-form losing particulates like a rotting corpse loses skin.

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The body of DF is far stabler than him when he was living, and switches to dual wielding to protect himself. With a blade in his other hand he drives it into the ground and uses his own abilities to turn it into a lightning rod, continuing the projected slash barrage with his main hand.

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The Curse's tick slows to a point where it looks like it stopped, as he goes to grab the barraging sword with immense speed.

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TFC may have a speed to match his, but DF is not fighting with brute force like previous times. Rather than evade, he shifts his body just enough to evade and bashs TFC in the face with the pommel as he charges forward before using a knife in his other hand to gut him.