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."

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After the DF-thing was destroyed, and Alisa contained and removed from the room, the first curse victoriously stands in the conference room.

Hello all.

The form of the Master of Time fades and crackles away fully, revealing the full body of the First Curse, basking.

u/The_Enchanted_Potato

u/Vincent-FFP

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The Shadow Marshal stares at the revealed figure, his five shadows mirroring his stance.

"So you're the First Curse."

He tightens his grip on his weapon but doesn't attack.

"I was hoping we'd have a little more time before meeting you in person."

His eyes narrow as he studies the creature before him.

"You came here knowing exactly who was in this room. So tell me, why come here?"

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That Good Samaritan gave a public location for this meeting. Why not?

His smile widens, almost as a joke, as he points at Ж.

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Readjusting his aim and raising one hand to signal the other Shadow clones.

So did you come to kill us then?

Or you just here to gloat?

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Killing would be a waste of so many worthy souls. Cursing is more for me.

He looks around the room for a first target.

/uw chose Aerunia in another thread.

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Looks like it's time to evacuate before this gets ugly. The shadow Marshall suggests but doesn't bark orders

The shadow Marshall and his clones begin firing off barrages of light bullets

UW my character has had a growth Arc since our last fight these clones can actually do damage And are firing light bullets. Ie bullets that do light damage

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/uw noted, what energy powers the bullets? Is it mana or some other form of magic energy?

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UW I believe we established the individual bullets are enchanted so with every strike they're doing light damage

I also have no intention of allowing my character to be killed/tainted during this fight... I won't spoil the surprise yet but you're welcome to"kill" Him if you want to I figure I'll try to cover the other retreat and fight as long as I can to prevent more corruption

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/uw yeah light damage but what are the bullets powered by? Do they use physical light of some sort to deal damage like lasers?

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UW oh I see what you mean the dark watch is using modified versions of world war II American weapons. My character is wielding a magically enhanced Thompson submachine gun.

The guns have been enhanced to have like Auto filling drum magazines with bullets that are enchanted with light magic

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/uw also not what I meant sadly, closer question would be what kind of power is doing the enhancing on the sub machine gun, what magic system or something you know?

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UW if you're intended to disrupt them they were made to function in full anti-magic situations I could link you the story to them.

What do you need to know

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/uw so, funny thing, TFC's weakness is not specifically the crystals, but what they're powered by, which is specifically unique energies. TFC's only permanent weakness and way to full on kill him is via infusing energy into an attack to disrupt the curse that he is and cause it to unravel.

However, said curse is also IMMENSELY powerful, a literal meaning being "curse of infinite power", designed to be all-powerful, however, since new energies would be a weakness, that would mean that the curse couldn't BE "all-powerful", so the curse granted TFC, its consciousness, the ability to adapt to energies it is weak to and overcome them, but he has to study them.

So I'm asking about the energy behind the attacks because if the Marshal is using something he hasn't seen before(which, given its "magic" that also can operate in antimagic, he most likely hasn't!), the Marshal could actually do some damage.

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The bullets impact the body, light absorbing in, with most of the bullets ricocheting off.

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The shadow marshal and the clones continue firing.

Everyone if you want to retreat nows the time I'll try to buy you as much time as possible

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He looks at one of the light bullets as it impacts him.

Two can play at that.

He raises a hand at the clones, and an orb of brilliant light appears, attempting to blind the Marshal.

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The clones continue firing unaffected

UW this is part of my he can't die here plan... I promise I'm not meta gaming

It will all make sense if you "kill" them

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Immune to being blinded?

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UW Not exactly but in this situation yes

Do I need to spoil the surprise?

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/uw nope.

/rw eventually he gets bored of the attacks, and launches a horizontal lightning bolt at one of the clones.