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"I'm fast. I like to be on the front line, smashing faces with "blade magic" before they can even do anything about it, just like Hiltze said. Though when that fails I do have a full divine arsenal to fall back on,... and a little bit of arcane magic too."
LOWX looks intrigued. "So I guess you lot have the rather conventional party setup. The sneak, a divine beatstick and a dedicated arcanist. Those kind of groups are rare in the high leagues but it might be just what we need. Seems like all bases are covered and with even epic magic much is within your grasp. Interestingly enough when researching the past universe in search for any clues on defeating the Aspects me and Quilvadish discovered they had a group just like yours fight them almost evenly in some ruins below even the underdark of Delvehrkt. We barely got anything out of it except that they fought multiple times almost on par with the aspects, sometimes destroying entire cities in their path. However they were eventually destroyed and the Aspects came on top. In the ruins however there were mentions of special relics created by Epic Magic that they used to boost their power to the level of that of the Aspects much like your ritual to enhance yourselves. But unfortunately I have not been able to find anything regarding the location of these relics, or if they even survived the universal consumption. We were able to draw some parallels to their powers to that of the legend of the Master 6, an old tale of Delvehrkt. I thought it was hopeless and useless information but them and you are the only groups of standard composition I have seen or heard of in the higher leagues, I doubt it's a coincidence."
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You all feel as a telepathic message goes through your minds simultaneously, recognizably being the voice of tazur in telepathic form. "Hey everyone, I heard from Quid of the situation and we are making plans, we can't find you in the demiplane and Quid really wants more intel regarding the comatose breach dude. Quid is being paranoid like always and is already thinking you guys might be fighting these shady dudes, please prove him wrong and come over here."
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Just sitting around waiting on you guys. I thought I was going to be sent on some sort of recon job while you poke around in his head and history. Has that plan changed?
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”Well where are you then? We are having a short conference in a bit to plan out approach at this, we kinda need you guys and I have literally checked all the demiplane again while we speak.”
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X's demiplane. Thought you knew.
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"Huh?.... Wait a ****ing second. In all of the places in the damn multiverse, you guys got into the demiplane of mother****ing Xzalvat're! How in the hell. We tried everything and were not able to get in. Did the gate faceplanter dude happen to be a guy named Quilvadish by any chance? He's an old friend who I heard managed to get rather powerful and allied with Xzalvat're at some point, before he y'know, went bat**** crazy and started rampaging in Delvehrkt likely due to the Cyst you found."
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Meraxen instructs everyone to join hands for a Plane Shift back to the DDC.
(And, barring objection...)
"Portus Planum"
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He let us in.
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Meraxen instructs everyone to join hands for a Plane Shift back to the DDC.
(And, barring objection...)
"Portus Planum"
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"Please tell me you're kidding. He's ****ing alive!? Please tell me it was the cyst and he's perfectly sane right now."
As Xzalvat're sees you're leaving he briefly speaks up. "So where are you going to now? Should I come with you?"
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"Please tell me you're kidding. He's ****ing alive!? Please tell me it was the cyst and he's perfectly sane right now."
As Xzalvat're sees you're leaving he briefly speaks up. "So where are you going to now? Should I come with you?"
"We're going to report back to the DDC and share intel. Do you want to come with? It sounds like someone is excited to see you."
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"Sure, why not." In it's kobold form, the dragon places a claw on Meraxen's shoulder.
As Meraxen finishes casting the spell, you see as you arrive in the middle of nowhere in the demiplane. As opposed to being a place you had been in before or even nearby the DDC mansion this was rather different. Being here, you see there is much to explore, currently arriving in a strange place. The place seems to be some training area of sorts featuring a flat plane with multiple boulders and pillars made of magically reinforced obdurium and various other wards. Lots of runes cover the place. On the side of that place, you see plains filled with an army composed of various brigades of astral constructs standing still, awaiting for orders. While you cannot count exactly the amount, each brigade looks like it consists of at least 200,000 astral constructs.
Barely seconds after arriving you see as Tazur appears in the distance moving at an incredible speed reaching you in under a second being over a mile away. As he arrives a sonic boom is heard following him. "I presume this is Xzalvat're, shall I take all of you to the mansion? Also where is coma dude?"
Xzalvat're looks impressed. "Long time Tazur. I'd like to thank you and your team for saving me a hundred years ago."
"Don't sweat it, from what these guys gathered, they were able to prove you were being controlled, it could happen to any of us if caught unprepared. Although I'll admit it was kind of hard to contain you and those were two long months of fighting."
"Well back then it might've, now it seems you have considerably sped up. Last time you were slightly slower than sound, right now if I did not miscalculate you were moving at more than mach 5 casually. I wouldn't last thirty seconds if all of you got a power boost comparable with what I estimate. Plus your feats in the Grand Delvehrkt War, while I did not prescence them I've heard of them. 5 million kills each of you is impressive however you put it."
"Well enough catching up, we should get going. If they brought you along you must either be joining for the manpower, have intel or both. We're meeting with everyone back at our mansion to discuss what we know and how to proceed."
"Coincidentally, that is what we were discussing back at my demiplane so we have some details panned out. By the way, Quilvadish told me to send you his regards by our telepathic bond. He's currently preparing his ascencion. He got in a bit of a fight with a squadron of fifty champions from elysium after he had just died by unrelated reasons and been true resurrected by a contingent in some other place. Needless to say he killed thirty and got captured."
"Well tell him to join us when he's done and open a gate into the demiplane, we won't stop it from opening."
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Meraxen gives a nod of respect to Tazur.
"Yes, let's head to the mansion."
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Dursurayss would stay silent as Xzalvat're assessed the group.
There wasn’t too much to say really, as his assessment was on point and very perceptive. Sure, recognizing that Hiltze was an assassin and served that role in the group wasn’t exactly the most difficult of tasks. Being able to identify Meraxen’s capabilities as both a divine caster and a front-line warrior, due to a combination of his items, and the specific god that he worshipped, was, quite frankly, impressive. Still, there wasn’t much for him to say in that regard, as Hiltze seemed to be more than willing to discuss matters without his input, even if it made him a little smug to hear the assassin admit that he didn’t quite know what Dursurayss did, and wouldn’t like to fight him.
Still, he would perk up when Xzalvat’re mention that he and his companion had actually been able to find information about the previous multiverse and that the Aspects had actually duelled against an organization that was similar to their own. If Dursurayss was a superstitious individual, he supposed that learning that this group was eventually destroyed by the Aspects might make him wary of their own fate. But Dursurayssa was a rational creature and was more interested in these artefacts of Epic Magic. His ritual was powerful for certain, but who knew how strong these artefacts from another multiverse might possibly be?
Then there was a telepathic message from Tazur... and Dursurayss, not entirely fond about the hyperactive teleporter, was more than happy to let Hiltze do the talking... even if he wasn’t exactly good at explaining the situation before they were plane shifted away by Meraxen. Back to the DDC Demiplane, through a different area entirely... he didn’t expect the DDC to have an Army of 5,000,000 Astral constructs... 5. Million... Astral Constructs... how the heck were they able to keep track of them all, let alone actually command them properly?! It had to be due to the Puppetmaster, but to control an army of 5 million Astral Constructs single-handedly... could it actually do that? And if so, just what was the Puppetmaster?!
Regardless, it was time to regroup at the mansion, share information that they had learned, and prepared for the next step in the battle against the Aspects. Afterwards... well. Dursuaryss had his own plans to work on as well.
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"Well in that case let's go."
In a split second Tazur teleports all of you into the mansion, into what seems to be a conference room.
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He seems to have used Trobriands Baleful Teleport on all of you to take you.
In there you see as it seems like Chin Lun Gaar and the Phantom twins got kinda bored and are fighting with blindfolds on with both of them having all their upper body extremities tied behind their backs and dueling with the Phantoms wielding knives in their mouths and Chin Lun Gaar just kicking. You also notice a huge Adamantine Golem in the room, presumably Puppet Master, likely the Quartz Dragon having been destroyed or he got bored of it.
As The Phantoms and Chin Lun Gaar notice you arrive they just break the restraints and take off their blindfolds, sitting down in a table at the center where Quid and Soul of the Frost were already sitting. Suddenly you see as a Warforged appears in one of the swiveling bar stools which immediately swivels to your direction. "Hello there, I believe this is the first time any of you see me in my real body. As you probably presume, I'm the Puppet master. I presume the kobold is Xzalvat're."
Xzalvat're replies "The one and only. I honestly predicted you would be an Azurin, it seems I was wrong."
"Well it is the first time that anyone has seen my real body outside the DDC in a century and a half relative to the material, it's not surprising no one would know what's under the guise."
"Well so my favorite new team has arrived. I hear from Tazur you already went ahead and discussed these matters with Xzalvat're."
"So from what we have understood, if you are already planning then you must know what we're up against. Xzalvat're what is it that you know?"
"Well I have gathered along with Quilvadish lots of information and actually met two of those we are up against, these are 8 beings so powerful that they were the ones manipulating me into going into a rampage 100 years ago. Quilvadish and I explored various ruins, divined lots and gathered evidence proving these 8 beings to be of a past multiverse and serving one greater master. Their powers seem to be thematic after certain aspects of reality, or more accurately aspects of power. Essentially their skill sets rely on manipulating one or two aspects necessary to gain power and as such we dubbed them the Aspects. As far as we know we have gathered that some of the aspects controlled are Body, Ingenuity, Probability, Reality and Soul. The one who controlls the Probability and Time is one and we know the Soul Aspect to only control that. In fact they were the ones I faced a hundred years ago prior to being controlled by them, their power being unlike any I have seen before, Probability was controlled with such finesse that I could not land a single blow or spell and I even saw time being controlled well enough to stop 20 high ranking Garrote members as if they were children. They could not move at all, what I saw was little but a Phane's time manipulation abilities would be that of a rookie in comparison."
Xzalvat're pauses for a second, only to cast a Silent Image of the Time and Probability Aspect over the table. An image of a halfling female with completely white hair and shiny demonic red eyes. In the image she is depicted as wearing a cloak, bracers, a ring, gauntlets and an amulet.
""That is the Time and Probability Aspect. I also fought the Soul Aspect who was the one who established control over me, however my memory is blurry of him and all I recall is him being a Dragonwrought Kobold."
Xzalvat're stops concentrating on the silent image and resumes. "So we know what their plan is and some of their history too. Their plan is to create widespread chaos across the multiverse and the ninth will cast an Epic Spell which will use all this chaos as fuel which will then expand and resonate enough to destroy the multiverse as we know it and condense it into a small perfect sphere the size of an apple which is perfectly edible and will be consumed by the ninth. In the past this has ocurred on the previous multiverse and they succeeded with the ninth also eating the fruit and growing to unfathomable power, however the power was so inmense that nothing could contain it, not even the far realm and now he exists beyond even that in a demiplane outside our known existence, now being able to exert only but minor influence on our multiverse. However a fraction of the multiversal fruit was left with the purpose of regrowing a new multiverse for more energy which will be destined to reform the multiverse one more time with the fundamental laws being changed to allow it to exist in it. The surviving piece of the universal fruit eventually expanded and managed to grow into a full fledged multiverse, our own. But the fragment of the fruit expanded into what is now known as Delvehrkt which is how we were able to access the ruins to gather information, because Delvehrkt actually is part of the previous universe and the new one. However for all this chaos to exist lots of things must happen, to begin with they need to destroy all of the inevitable factories, stop all the wars in acheron, start a full on planar war, capture Asmodeus and destroy all possible opposition, meaning us. However the ninth can't exert his influence into this multiverse or send much energy so to allow this spell to be cast he needs a trillion mortal souls and ten godly souls to power it. Since Vecna has been captured and Plane War I started then it must mean their plans have begun. We know they started the war and that the ninth created the breaches too. However this war will be the bloodiest in recorded history, even being over thirty three thousand times bloodier than the Grand Delvehrkt War at thirty millions dead as you all know very well, being the ones who killed all of those thirty million."
The DDC stays with acknowledging faces and not feeling the slightest bit insulted, seemingly that statement being entirely true.
Xzalvat're stops for a second to continue. "Now onto their history. We do not know much of it however there are bits and pieces we were able to recollect, to begin with, Qiulvadish and I found in ruins deeper than even the underdark that there are some records of the fights of the Aspects against a group of defenders of the previous multiverse. Here we discovered some of the aspects although not their abilities as most of the ruins are destroyed and even beyond the repair of wish spells due to the problematic perception of reality manipulation of wish. However we also discovered something strange, the ones who stood up to the Aspects were a trio composed of the regular conventional party, a rare sight in the high leagues as you know, especially as it was a trio that stood against all the eight Aspects. We know that they fought multiple times and there were various mentions of Epic Magic being used by them to create relics and grant them power that aided them against the Aspects. We don't know whether these relics survived or their location if they did, however their descriptions in power are beyond the charts. There is mention of what was named an Energy Surge Pill that seemingly doubled the capabilities to act, damage output, physical resistance and ability to avoid effects on whoever consumed it and permanently. Likely there are even more effects that we have not found but that sets a precedent to just how powerful the Aspects are and how much of a threat they are to the universe. We even drawed parallels of these trios abilities to that of the Master 6."
Phantom speaks up. "So they're that much of a threat, this confirms our projections."
Chin Lun Gaar looks almost frowning. "Well as you likely don't know, Quid can see possible futures and after seeing a septillion possibilities we are destroyed in 99.9999% of them."
Xzalvat're speaks up. "Well that's not the worse thing, in the fights the Aspects and the trio had, the records say that entire mountains and cities had been destroyed as collateral damage, sometimes even entire nations. Maps had to be changed after each combat they had."
"Well that confirms it. We're ****ed unless we go all out and even then. Xzalvat're, you fought two of them, were those exaggerations?"
"Those two that I fought were not fighters that killed via injuries so I'm not sure, however we did the same thing a hundred years ago with our fight and you destroyed 15 city states on the Grand Delvehrkt War, our feats are similar."
"It's not that which worries me. On plain combat we could likely take them on from what I see. What worries me is that they seem to have problematic abilities and that if the ninth is so powerful and could create the breaches where he can barely influence, it won't be over if we just kill them. This is more than just killing them. They have that kind of force backing them up, who says it can't use magic as powerful as the breaches or more against us."
"Well we won't know until we try. Is there any plan?"
"Well essentially Dursurayss will use an Epic Spell that will be used to boost the new DDC members, and likely you too so as to allow us to get an edge over the Aspects, then we will get a simulacrum of a dead Elemental Weird to use Legend Lore and gather us as much information on the Aspects, their plan and how to defeat them. However, we suspect that they would detect this immediately and therefore know we are now working against them, which is why we are doing it from a simulacrum who has no memories of us, so it can't be redirected to us and additionally since it is from an Elemental they won't be messing with any afterlife to find the dead original since they can't unlike that of many dragons or creatures."
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... Couldn’t they have just taken the restraints off, instead of flat out breaking them?
Shaking off this errant thought, Dursurayss would refocus on the actual meeting. Which, would begin with quite the surprise. The steel dragon shocked that the Puppetmaster would actually attend to the meeting in person, let alone where there was an Adamantine golem which seemed like it was here as his current puppet as well! It was also curious to note that he was a Warforged of all things, but that wasn’t exactly relevant beyond being a tidbit of information that was stored away in Dursurayss’ mind for a later date.
Still, that aside, there wasn’t too much else to focus on or actually do at first. Simply listening to Xzalvat're speak, and mentally judge what was being said. Which, as it was mostly just restating what he had already learned about a few moments more, wasn’t exactly much to judge. Sure, the image of the Probability and Time Aspect was nice. A white-haired and red-eyed Halfling female. But if they were powerful as they were, he wouldn’t be surprised if there was illusionary magic being used that even a True Seeing couldn’t pierce through.
... Maybe he should make an Epic Version of it now that he thought about it...
A little bit more news, a note that the DDC had killed 30 million people in a war where those 30 million were the only casualties, which was fun, and then they got onto the plan of the hour. Something that Dursurayss was still pleased to come up with really.
“Xzaltvat’re’s idea for using an Elemental Wierd was ingenious. I had originally suggested using a dead dragon, but then I remembered that dead people simply go to other planes of existence. Which we can all access. So likely not a good idea... some of the Gods would actually invite the challenge actually, but dead gods would just lead to more chaos. So we should probably avoid that.”
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... Couldn’t they have just taken the restraints off, instead of flat out breaking them?
Shaking off this errant thought, Dursurayss would refocus on the actual meeting. Which, would begin with quite the surprise. The steel dragon shocked that the Puppetmaster would actually attend to the meeting in person, let alone where there was an Adamantine golem which seemed like it was here as his current puppet as well! It was also curious to note that he was a Warforged of all things, but that wasn’t exactly relevant beyond being a tidbit of information that was stored away in Dursurayss’ mind for a later date.
Still, that aside, there wasn’t too much else to focus on or actually do at first. Simply listening to Xzalvat're speak, and mentally judge what was being said. Which, as it was mostly just restating what he had already learned about a few moments more, wasn’t exactly much to judge. Sure, the image of the Probability and Time Aspect was nice. A white-haired and red-eyed Halfling female. But if they were powerful as they were, he wouldn’t be surprised if there was illusionary magic being used that even a True Seeing couldn’t pierce through.
... Maybe he should make an Epic Version of it now that he thought about it...
A little bit more news, a note that the DDC had killed 30 million people in a war where those 30 million were the only casualties, which was fun, and then they got onto the plan of the hour. Something that Dursurayss was still pleased to come up with really.
“Xzaltvat’re’s idea for using an Elemental Wierd was ingenious. I had originally suggested using a dead dragon, but then I remembered that dead people simply go to other planes of existence. Which we can all access. So likely not a good idea... some of the Gods would actually invite the challenge actually, but dead gods would just lead to more chaos. So we should probably avoid that.”
Quid speaks up ”Very insightful of you Xzalvat’re, also a rather good idea of you Dursurayss to do this. Would be rather useful to minimize risks, but I doubt it would stop them for more than a couple of hours or even days at most, so we should have all preparations ready before then......
On another note, you might want to pay attention to how Xzalvat’re operates Dursurayss. We have noticed your lack of experience and your overwhelming power that you contain. While you wield it quite skillfully, fine tuning might be necessary and useful for you against a threat like this, we believe that with your experience you are barely scratching the surface of what you can achieve, learn to use it and you would grow in power exponentially. Someone like him would be a perfect rolemodel as he even was a dragon too at some point.”
Quid stops and Tazur starts talking
”So, that’s a pretty good plan for gathering intel. Any of you have a plan in case things go wrong and an Aspect strikes? It’s unlikely but what if it does occur, either you make a plan now or prepare to improvise, whichever you’re best at. Even then, if things do go south, call me, I can get you to safety before you blink an eye.”
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”Any of you have a plan in case things go wrong and an Aspect strikes?
"Stick 'em with the pointy end? I don't see how to strategize without intel. Maybe set a rendezvous point if we have to retreat."
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"Stick 'em with the pointy end? I don't see how to strategize without intel. Maybe set a rendezvous point if we have to retreat."
”Planning in a case like this is mostly just being paranoid and preparing in any way possible, create anything that could delay, incapacitate or kill. Set explosive rune traps, be inside an obdurium box surrounded by walls of force, link hands and teleport to random locations and or times with a mix of teleports and time hops, etc.”
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On the one claw, Dursurayss was somewhat annoyed that he was singled out and told that he needed to watch and learn, especially in a meeting where they had just been discussing what the plans were going ahead. Why did he need to be specifically told that he was inexperienced and needed to learn how to use his power better?
... But, on the other claw, Dursurayss had to admit that they were right. As powerful as the steel dragon was, he was still but a wyrmling and had much still to learn. For all of his knowledge, for all of the information that was crammed within his mind. Dursurayss had a long way to go before he would truly be content to be able to walk amongst individuals like the DDC as equals, no matter how much he desired to do so already.
And on the other-other claw. It wasn’t like Dursurayss didn’t look up to Xzalvat’re, Lord of the Wyrms and Ex-God already!
“I’ll pass on this discussion. As you said, I have limited experience when it comes to combat, let alone the level in which we’ll be operating in. If I can get a clean shot against these Aspects, I think I might be able to take them out... but getting that clean shot will likely be an incredibly difficult task.”
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On the one claw, Dursurayss was somewhat annoyed that he was singled out and told that he needed to watch and learn, especially in a meeting where they had just been discussing what the plans were going ahead. Why did he need to be specifically told that he was inexperienced and needed to learn how to use his power better?
... But, on the other claw, Dursurayss had to admit that they were right. As powerful as the steel dragon was, he was still but a wyrmling and had much still to learn. For all of his knowledge, for all of the information that was crammed within his mind. Dursurayss had a long way to go before he would truly be content to be able to walk amongst individuals like the DDC as equals, no matter how much he desired to do so already.
And on the other-other claw. It wasn’t like Dursurayss didn’t look up to Xzalvat’re, Lord of the Wyrms and Ex-God already!
“I’ll pass on this discussion. As you said, I have limited experience when it comes to combat, let alone the level in which we’ll be operating in. If I can get a clean shot against these Aspects, I think I might be able to take them out... but getting that clean shot will likely be an incredibly difficult task.”
"Well so I guess we have most preparations ready for this to start right?"
"Well we have some more DDC members and allies we are expecting will join us, so not quite yet. However we can skip the speech all over again since we can just introduce the information via a mindrape this time since we have all the details."
"Who would we be expecting?"
"Well among others we have Chandurg the Channeler, Mahou, Quilvadish who you mentioned would be coming, The Bladed Emperor of Delvehrkt, Dom of Athas, possibly a Lich named Damien and maybe some others. We'll probably have to wait on them a minute or two though."
"Well then we can decide how to deploy our forces to prevent this ****show from consuming the multiverse."
"Well now we only have to wait."
The DDC members snap their fingers as a Wizard Butler comes with some drinks and snacks while they wait. Tazur chugs a whole gallon of some drink in a can that says "Red Bull" while eating a burrito roughly the size of his stomach that was delivered by another Caster Maid. SotF drinks a Martini while Puppet Master has some Astral Constructs bring him a canister of oil with a straw which he drinks out of. Quid starts to seemingly try to hurry up the others as they are seemingly caught up with checking in with the deities to see none are missing and there whereabouts to know where to go if they need protection, likely a matter of minutes before they finish.
Chin Lun Gaar and Phantom on the other hand go get a Rum while they wait as they discuss and think of something which they come back to the main group to ask about.
Chin Lun Gaar asks "So uhh, what's the plan if the Ninth Aspect can create breaches to other places? We have nothing that could stop them other than getting even more blood from Asmodeus and thats a reactive solution not a proactive one. The Aspects can get theoretically anywhere, how do we know they can't get anywhere we are once they find out we're onto them?"
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The door to the room opens and a man, nearing seven feet tall walks through, His wears seeming normal jewels , although a simple magical sensory could reveal the guise for what it is, for the items he wears are very magical. He seems to be built to nigh-perfection, toned muscles showing through his armor and clothes. His eyes speak of forlorn days and his smile begs to differ. He looks both impossibly tired and wide wide. He trails a cloak that seems to break apart into crystals and reform into the cloak. With a snap of his fingers he orders a drink, then assess the gathering. A single curved blade continually dripping with blood seems to be the only weapon the man possesses other than the piercing gaze. When Dom gets his glass, which is a tall glass cup holding what looks like a translucent orange brown liquid that behaves much like honey, he takes a vial of thick, reddish liquid and dumps nearly half the cup into it. He slips the Vial back into his belt then sighs as the reddish liquid seems to dig itself into the Honey like substance like paint in water. He visually address all in the room and takes a quick swig of his drink another sigh.
After some time Chin Lun Gaar speaks and Dom thinks for a moment.
"I could contingent a sort of time saving effect that will bring us back to this moment should we fail. I don't know how effective the idea will work but its an idea. If i may Chin?" Dom closes his eyes for a moment concentrating on something then opens them back up a moment later. "I'm gonna need a lot more of this before the day is over." and he drinks some more.
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Dom will transfer information about having a Psicrystal manifest Forced Dream and Sending it into the future, via Time hop Greater, to bring it back after a set number of days should we be dead, it will know via a Greater Status on me. This is transferred should Chin be willing to a Mindrape.
For anybody that cares:
The drink is Elvenmead, Elven (AEG pg31)
The Vial is Agony [Liquid Pain] (BoVD pg42)
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The door to the room opens and a man, nearing seven feet tall walks through, His wears seeming normal jewels , although a simple magical sensory could reveal the guise for what it is, for the items he wears are very magical. He seems to be built to nigh-perfection, toned muscles showing through his armor and clothes. His eyes speak of forlorn days and his smile begs to differ. He looks both impossibly tired and wide wide. He trails a cloak that seems to break apart into crystals and reform into the cloak. With a snap of his fingers he orders a drink, then assess the gathering. A single curved blade continually dripping with blood seems to be the only weapon the man possesses other than the piercing gaze. When Dom gets his glass, which is a tall glass cup holding what looks like a translucent orange brown liquid that behaves much like honey, he takes a vial of thick, reddish liquid and dumps nearly half the cup into it. He slips the Vial back into his belt then sighs as the reddish liquid seems to dig itself into the Honey like substance like paint in water. He visually address all in the room and takes a quick swig of his drink another sigh.
After some time
Chin Lun Gaar speaks and Dom thinks for a moment.
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I could contingent a sort of time saving effect that will bring us back to this moment should we fail. I don't know how effective the idea will work but its an idea. If i may Chin?" Dom closes his eyes for a moment concentrating on something then opens them back up a moment later. "
I'm gonna need a lot more of this before the day is over." and he drinks some more.
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Dom will transfer information about having a Psicrystal manifest Forced Dream and Sending it into the future, via Time hop Greater, to bring it back after a set number of days should we be dead, it will know via a Greater Status on me. This is transferred should Chin be willing to a Mindrape.
For anybody that cares:
The drink is Elvenmead, Elven (AEG pg31)
The Vial is Agony [Liquid Pain] (BoVD pg42)
Tazur glances over as the door opens curious as to who arrives. Seeing Dom he acknowledgingly nods as the manservant hands him a glass of beer that must have been about two gallons. "Whats up mate. Been a couple of weeks since I've seen you." Tazur then chugs the beer like an absolute madman, doing it in under a second. SotF looks over with his typical smile and waves over at Dom. "How is it going?". As the other DDC member say their helloes and Dom answers Chin Lun Gaar who accepts the information transfer, Quid chimes in, approvingly of Dom's idea he nods as he says. "Might be worth a try, we would lose nothing." Just then do the Phantom twins come to gather around and both look pensative. He then speaks up in a somewhat doubtful voice. "It might work but there are a couple things to consider, you have not been debriefed yet but Quid can pass you on the information as I explain." Quid raises his hand to cast Mindrape to transfer the information to Dom should he accept and regardless the other Phantom twin continues the explanation as both cross their arms.
"The problem is that due to the sheer amount of possibilities, it is quite possible that by the time the Mass Time Hop expires, the multiverse might be destroyed considering we don't know when this will end, only the final deadline. However that is not the only problem, there is one Aspect that seemingly controlls time and makes it its bitch. Would time manipulation really be useful against such a being if chances are she is so much more adept than us at that? Against such a being from another multiverse we might as well use time manipulation in the far realm where there is no time." Quid thinks for a second. "Well actually, that just gave me an idea. We could technically create a worst case scenario bunker in the far realm, its outside the multiverse that would be destroyed and we could possibly survive outside the multiverse should we fail. We could theoretically use a Planar Bubble linked to the ethereal to create a demiplane outside the multiverse and transfer all the stuff in here over there..... Actually, this is pure speculation, but I might not be the first one to have thought of that, what if the previous multiverse or multiverses have done that already."
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I'm assuming you meant Mass Time Hop since I can't find any reference to Greater Time Hop and the Mass version has a longer duration.
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Re: Plane War I, Raise your Own Kingdom and Protect the Gods (3.5)
Meraxen looks surprised when the newcomer walks in, then raises an eyeridge and looks around the group.
"It would appear that introductions are in order?"
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Hiltze has been sitting at his chair, legs kicked up and just watching everyone. His eyes slowly wander to the door where the other recruit walks in from. As Meraxen speaks, a sigh comes from the gnome’s body that is somewhere between a groan and a yelp of pain. ”Gods I hope not. He looks mage-y, I’m sneaky, you’re fast, the wyrmling is weird, they’re powerful.
Introduced. Now for the literal love of this plane and every other one, can I please kill something!? Seventeen dimensional chess may be fun for you guys, but it is deathly boring to me with my lack of anything to contribute to it.”
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Re: Plane War I, Raise your Own Kingdom and Protect the Gods (3.5)
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Hiltze has been sitting at his chair, legs kicked up and just watching everyone. His eyes slowly wander to the door where the other recruit walks in from. As Meraxen speaks, a sigh comes from the gnome’s body that is somewhere between a groan and a yelp of pain. ”Gods I hope not. He looks mage-y, I’m sneaky, you’re fast, the wyrmling is weird, they’re powerful.
Introduced. Now for the literal love of this plane and every other one, can I please kill something!? Seventeen dimensional chess may be fun for you guys, but it is deathly boring to me with my lack of anything to contribute to it.”
Quid looks over at Hiltze, as he is about to speak Tazur interrupts him even though he sees him. "In that case, Dom, could you help Dursurayss accelerate his epic spell ritual? Dursurayss, use shapechange to become a symbiont and attack to Dom while he manifests Temporal Acceleration. That should give you more than enough time to cast your Epic Spell booster."
Quid looks at Tazur clearly impressed, incredibly noticeable in his expression. Almost beating himself up for not thinking of that. "I had not thought of that, good to have someone who thinks as quick as you in these situations."
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Re: Plane War I, Raise your Own Kingdom and Protect the Gods (3.5)
Dom turns to Meraxen first, "Dom of Athas, The last Annulus. I'll explain the title when time begets," he then turns to address Hiltze, "I can assure you I am no mage. Although I do use many weapons a wizard would wield," He pauses for a moment, "you must show me this seventeen dimensional chess some time, I don't think I have heard of it." After that he turns to Tazur, "Greetings, as alway, you, my friend need to learn to appreciate the luxury of the fine beverages we have here," Dom smiles and says with a wink. "I have been doing well good friend, better seeing you as warm hearted as ever." Dom says to SotF, lifting up his drink which is now three quarters the way full. After Tazur's Statement Dom turns to who he assumes is Dursurayss, as all the dragon's he has met in this world have had long names. "I assume you are Dursurayss? How long do you need for your epic spell to be completed?"
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Re: Plane War I, Raise your Own Kingdom and Protect the Gods (3.5)
Dursurayss had water.
Now. Whilst he had to admit. There was distinct curiousity on his part about alcoholic drinks. Especially as he doubted anyone here would actually remember that he was actually five years of age, and below the legal drinking limit of pretty much every nation in the multiverse. Or even care if they did remember that he was actually five years of age. But, just like how he had a strong distaste on how several of his compatriots had decided to enjoy themselves the company of succubus. He disliked alcohol, and how it would cloud his mind. They were busy in a mission to protect the entire multiverse from entire annihilation. They didn’t have time for such indulgences.
“I’m not wierd. I’m a magical prodigy.” Dursurayss said with a sniff at Hiltze’s method of introduction. Really, he had access to all schools of magic, including epic spells. Sure, druidic magic was difficult, but he could cast druidic spells. Hence, his stressing of being a magical prodigy. He was only five years old but could cast Epic Spells. Who else could say they were that good at magic? Putting that aside, he would turn to Dom at Quid’s suggestion of combining with him in order to accelerate his Epic Magic rituals to empower the others. He wasn’t sure how effective it would be if they were outside of the time stop admittedly, but he felt it was possible for him to accomplish. “12 hours per individual, split into 12, one-hour chunks. I am using the ritual on Meraxen and Hitlze here to greatly increase their power. After you have seen it in action, you can judge for yourself whenever or not you desire to go through with it as well.” Here, Dursurayss would pause, before turning his attention back to Quid.
“Three questions. First, would it be possible to find these potential refugees if they do even exist? Second, if we do make one, how would we know when a new multiverse has been made to return to it and hopefully stop the Aspects a third time around? And third, when will you be able to teach me the DDC’s anti-dispelling trick? It is utterly essential that I learn that trick.”
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Re: Plane War I, Raise your Own Kingdom and Protect the Gods (3.5)
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“Three questions. First, would it be possible to find these potential refugees if they do even exist? Second, if we do make one, how would we know when a new multiverse has been made to return to it and hopefully stop the Aspects a third time around? And third, when will you be able to teach me the DDC’s anti-dispelling trick? It is utterly essential that I learn that trick.”
Quid thinks about it for a second as if trying to connect with something. He then looks visibly confused for a second. "My timesight does not link to anything that indicates it would. But then again the Far Realm is quite weird regarding time which is probably why. As far as the multiverse thing, well we don't know, none of us have ever been in that situation. Also the antidispelling trick is just us having the capabilities of Dweomerkeeper and the capability to replenish our abilities automatically. Our anti-antimagic capabilities are separate though but they synergize quite well. Would you want us to bestow both of these upon you?"
Spoiler: Meraxen only, others may look but don't know IC
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Tazur telepathically pings Meraxen discreetly seemingly just listening to the conversation to outside view. "Oh Meraxen, there was something I wanted to give you. As a fellow Ruby Knight Vindicator this could be of certain use to you. I reccomend you don't use it quite yet but save it for later. Excuse yourself from the room for a moment and I'll give it to you. This is a well guarded secret of the Core and the less people that know the better, in case any of your teammates are somehow manipulated as Xzalvat're said the Soul Aspect did, it would be best they don't know either. If its you, then the Core group can handle it."
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Meraxen excuses himself and leaves the room.
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Re: Plane War I, Raise your Own Kingdom and Protect the Gods (3.5)
Spoiler: Spot Check DC 100
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You see as something about Tazur's image is kind of off. You're not exactly sure what.
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As you go out, an Ice Assassin of Tazur iw waiting right there for you. Nearly immediately you see as it apparently switches with the original, probably to keep others from suspecting anything. Tazur peeks around to verify no one is watching and he draws a small surgical knife. "Ok, so lets make this quick. I doubt my Ice Assassin will go unnoticed for long. In essence, I was able to create a way to generate more turn attempts. It functions once per every six seconds. If I'm not mistaken each one should create around your full daily capacity each time if not more." He holds up in his other hand and shows you a tiny piece of metal, barely the size of a grain of rice. He smiles with a smug smile. "I was able to condense the whole thing into this implant. So if you would allow me I can quickly implant it into you and provide a close wounds spell. I would keep it for emergencies but its your choice when you use it. Fortunately for you its completely automatic and does not need any replacing."