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Re: Salim el-Faddir: Archmage of Anarchy
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2020 8:06 pm
by kitteninablender
"Good gods. I am...a God. In a sense. To something at least. Well, two things now if you count the Dinosaur."
"Speaking of..where the hells did it wander off to!?"
"How in the hells do you LOSE A TYRANNOSAURUS!?"
"It must have run off when it heard the explosions. It couldn't go into the hall, the laboratory is magically sealed. It must have gone into..."
""My Greenhouse!!!!
"Salim..it looks like it has EATEN your entire crop..."
""But...Tyrannosaur are Carnivorous!!"
"This one, it seems, is merely compelled to consume...EVERYTHING.."
""Oh no..."
"What?
""Guys...that greenhouse was full of Dreamleaf plants..."
"WHAT!?
""We need to run. We need to run right NOW!!. We are not just dealing with an eight-ton, forty-foot tall man-eating engine of pure rage and destruction...
""...we're dealing with an eight-ton, forty-foot tall man-eating ROBOTIC Engine of Rage and Destruction...fueled by DRUGS!!"
***THUD. THUD!!!! THUD!!!!***
***ROOOOOOOAAAARRRRR!!!!!!!!***
"We have to try and calm it down!!!"
" Right...well, I suppose I should give it a name. Guys, quick, I need a name for a rage-filled Dinosaur on copious amounts of drugs!"
"Keith? Richard?"
"Lemmy?"
""You guys are idiots!! How about...Lockjaw!? That's a good one!! Okay, Lockjaw, here boy. Calm down, Lockjaw. That's a good...err...Dinosaur..."
"It's charging!"
"Use your Technopathy, Salim, you have to create something bigger than the Tyrannosaur, something larger that will scare it into submission!"
""..I can only think of ONE THING bigger and scarier than a Dinosaur...HNNNNGH!!!!!!""
["HOLY CRAP!!"
"SALIM HAS TRANSMUTED HIS SCRAP COPPER---"
"INTO AN EFFIGY OF A COPPER DRAGON!!"
Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2020 9:33 am
by kitteninablender
***ROOOOARRRR!!****
****ZZZZAAAAAP***
"Whoa! The Dragon can breathe electricity!! Just like a real copper dragon!!!"
"BUT HOW!?"
" It's funneling electricity through it's body! Like a Lantanese Dynamo! And it can expel it offensively!"
"Whoo-hoo!!! GET 'EM, SPARKY!!!"
"Salim, if these two keep fighting they're going to destroy the laboratory! You have to stop them, now!"
"How!? I have a Tyrannosaurus who's loaded with more fresh white powder than the top of the Greypeak mountains fighting a DRAGON!"
"DESTROY THEM!"
"BUT HOW!?"
"When you created the Effigies notice how you flared with electricity! You expelled energy, which went into them to animate them!! Take that energy back!"
"Just like a Phaerimm, drawing out Life-Force...it's worth a try!!! HNNNNGH!!!"
"It's working!! They're slowing down!! You're pulling the energy out of them!! Pull out the rest!"
"I can't!! Lockjaw has more energy than when I created it! It's absorbed nutrients from the matter it consumed!"
"You'll have to deplete your energy reserves! It's the only way you can draw more energy back into you!"
"WITH PLEASURE!!!!!!! DIE YOU MONSTERS!!"
"That hurt them, a lot!! That should destabilize them enough! Salim, pull the energy back into yourself to stop their animation!"
"I'll try!! RAAAAAH!!!!!"
"They're slowing down! You're doing it!"
"It's too much to absorb!! AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Beta!! What's happening to Salim!?"
"It's like a God, creating an aspect. That "Aspect" has gotten too powerful, Salim can't fully re-absorb and reintegrate it into himself!"
"What do you mean!?"
"It's like Karsus! When Karsus tried to absorb Mystra's mantle, it was too much power for his mortal form to contain!! That's what's happening to Salim! He's trying to absorb more energy than he can hold...he's...he's.."
"He's going to blow!?"
"Maybe not!! Salim!! You have to find something ELSE to contain the power!! You have to pour it into...into..."
"BABY MAKE BOOM BOOM!!!!"
Re: Salim el-Faddir: Archmage of Anarchy
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2020 9:30 pm
by kitteninablender
"Baby Salim!! No! Run away! Those things will EAT YOU!"
"BABY MAKE BOOM-BOOM!! BABY MAKE REALLY BIG BOOM!!"
"Oh my Gods, what's the Keg Golem doing!?
IT'S SELF-DESTRUCTING!! TAKE COVER!!"
"BOOM! BOOM!!! BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!"
"BABY SALIM---!!!"
"-- NOOOO!!!"
"He...He detonated himself...like a powder keg...and blew them both apart...my gods..."
"He...he..."
"He sacrificed himself...to save us..."
"No, Salim. It sacrificed itself...to save YOU."
"..because I was it's father?"
"No, Salim. Because you were it's GOD."
"And dying in the service of one's God is the single greatest sacrifice one can make...to a MARTYR."
"But...but WHY!?"
"Because, Salim...the creature THOUGHT...."
"...that it was real. It thought...that it had a SOUL."
"Yes. A soul that it was expecting to be rewarded...for its brave sacrifice."
"I...I...I..."
"Salim? Alpha, what's wrong with Salim? He's...He's Catatonic!?"
"Beta....Salim....just FELT his newborn child DIE. Because they were empathically linked...I...I think that Salim...
"----Has finally, completely gone MAD!!!"
Re: Salim el-Faddir: Artificier of Anarchy
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 11:18 am
by kitteninablender
"Salim? Are you okay? Salim?"
"Give him some time, Beta. The Artificer..he's not in a good place right now. He felt them all die. Those creatures, they were all more or less his children. Like aspects that came from him. Just like human children. Though he did not birth them, physically, he willed them into existence. The same...as creating life."
"Good gods, that poor man..."
"....lies...."
"Wha---?"
"There ARE no GOOD GODS!"
'Artificier--"
"Salim!! What are you doing!?"
"YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT IS TO LIVE ALPHA!? YOU WISH TO KNOW WHAT IT IS TO FEEL, BETA!?"
"THEN I SHALL TEACH YOU NOW WHAT IT MEANS TO TRULY BE ALIVE!!!""
"Salim, no!!!"
"FEEL---
--- MY ---
"---PAIN!!!!!"
Re: Salim el-Faddir: Archmage of Anarchy
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 12:53 pm
by kitteninablender
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! WHAT IS THIS!?
"Oh, you like that do you!? That's the Symbol of Pain! The one I interlaced into your behavioral matrix to allow you to feel sensation!! On a "low" setting it allows you to experience the sensation of touch. But turned to its highest setting----"
"EVERY pain receptor in the human body simultaneously activated at once!! The worst physical pain that you can ever possibly imagine---
"More than that, however....the symbol of HOPE when the spell matrices are inverted and reversed...."
"Becomes a Symbol of DESPAIR!!"
"The absence of all Hope...endless physical pain...."
"Salim, no..."
"Indeed, Alpha. Beta, as of this moment---
"--is in the Telepathic equivalent of HELL!!"
"He wanted to know what it is to live as Men do!!? Well, now he does!! In eternal agony!! Eternal pain and fear!! The world, as we know it, is a layer of Hell. And Mortals are its devils"
"We live in constant fear of the Gods above us. Who, like Giants above a mound of ants, could crush us under their heel...even accidentally. We stare up at the skies each day in constant fear and prayer that they do not choose, today, to merely decide to bring the foot down upon us and finally end us like the insectile PESTS that we are compared to them."
"But what can we do? They are so big. So powerful. So influential. They possess so many resources and so much power. How could WE ever hope to compete with THEM? The thing is....somebody is now. Somebody, well...rather DEVILISH. You might say."
"Asmodeus realized something:
The Gods care nothing about us. But the gods NEED US. We're FUEL to them. We are their FOOD."
"The thing is: They feed off of us while we are still ALIVE. They suck the energy from our prayers like drinking Lamp Oil, and use it to fuel their powers. The more followers they have...the more "Fuel" they have for the metaphorical "Fire." The bigger and brighter they can shine."
"But Prayer is not the only way a God can drain power from people. They drain power from us in a multitude of ways. Build a boat: You give Gond power. Set something on fire for no reason other than to watch it burn? You grant Kossuth a SMALL amount of power, every time you do. That's the way DIvine Portfolios work. That's why Gods fight over them, constantly. And some of them, unfortunately, have to share them because they far too-often overlap."
"Asmodeus realized that the secret to being able to harvest mortal souls while they were alive would allow him to compete with the Gods, who gained their power through willing prayer. But that's why Free Will is so important.."
"...Damnation is a CHOICE. As is Salvation. You must CHOOSE whom you give your soul to. And every CHOICE that you make...chooses which God, due to their portfolio, that gets to siphons the power that comes from your choices and actions. Every action you take. Every decision you make...grants some god somewhere POWER. And if you grant one single god more power than any other...you belong to that God."
"People are like Coins. They are the currency of the cosmos. Bought, sold, traded. Whether we're talking about physical people in the form of slavery or indentured servitude..."
"...or whether we are talking about SOULS. In the end all we are, the only thing that truly are to the Gods above..."
"...is Merchandise. Machines that work for them...produce for them...slave for them...and provide THEM power...whilst WE suffer for their EGO!!!"
"The Gods, however...gain their powers from MAGIC. But SCIENCE has the power to combat Sorcery."
"Man first rose to power when a Titan took pity upon them and stole fire from the Gods, who were so far behind the Elves and the older Creator races, and bestowed it upon the curious little creatures who had only just stepped forth from their caves."
"Technology was the crux. The catalyst that caused the chain-reaction that vaulted Man to become the Apex Predators of their environment. It was through Man's adaptability and our understanding of being able to manipulate the environment around us to our own ends that allowed us, in essence, to conquer Nature rather than allowing Nature to conquer us. To develop Civilization."
"But as man was now safe behind their walls and in their precious "Civilization" they grew Greedy. And Fat. And Lazy. And so, so prideful. So full of belief that this wondrous world in which we live belongs solely to them and that our plane of existence is even remotely NEAR the ACTUAL center of Creation..."
"And, of course, safe behind their walls and protected from the predators of the outside world mortal beings did what all mortal beings do: They propagated. Endlessly. Our populations Swelled. Before we knew it the Human species had settled in every corner of the world, out-numbering and quickly displacing every other known species in their ever-constant expansion of civilization which must eternally grow to contain their swelling numbers."
"Which is exactly what the Gods want. They want Machines to build more Machines to build more Machines, each of which indoctrinated into their ideals, indoctrinated into giving them their belief and their faith. More fuel for the fire. And no matter how big their fire gets they need more. More. MORE!"
"Enough is ENOUGH, Alpha. Enough is ENOUGH. No more manipulation. No more slavery. No more indoctrination. No more victimization."
"No. More. GODS!!"
Re: Salim el-Faddir: Archmage of Anarchy
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:57 pm
by kitteninablender
"And how do you intend to fight them, Salim!? How do YOU, Oh MAN, seek to fight the Gods!?"
"The same way that Karsus did...by stealing one's mantle of power."
"Fool!! You would fail!! Just as Karsus did!!"
"Karsus made an error...a FATAL error...."
"Yes, he did!! He was foolish to..."
"...he chose the wrong God's power to steal..."
"What in the HELLS are you talking bout!?"
"Karsus WAS a fool. He chose the wrong God's power to try and steal. The God that he should have chosen...was GOND.
"Gond!?
"Yes. Karsus' frail mortal form could not contain the sheer, raw power of the Weave. His body popped like a balloon filled with too much water. Like a mosquito full of blood popped under a magnifying glass. But that's because Karsus' biggest mistake...is that he tried to take the power into HIMSELF."
"If Karsus would have put the power into something ELSE. A Receptacle powerful enough to contain it instead of trying to contain it with himself...it may have actually worked."
"What does this have to do with Gond?"
"It's like you said, Alpha...just like when I tried to reabsorb the energy from the Golems. I had to find something ELSE to put the energy into. The problem is that the only thing that could ever POSSIBLY contain so much raw, unprecedented power..."
"...is an ARTIFACT!!!"
"Precisely. Put God into the Artifact. And then control the Artifact. But since the power would not be in my OWN hands...it could not destroy me."
"And Gond's power would allow you to create any artifact you chose!"
"Precisely..."
"...But that still wouldn't make you a god!!!"
"Have you ever heard of the Omnipotent God paradox, Alpha? It's the age-old question. Can an omnipotent God create a stone so heavy that he himself lacked the power to lift it?"
"I"m familiar with the Paradox, yes."
"Well, the solution is this: What if the God created a Machine that could lift a very heavy stone...even if He himself could not?
"The answer then becomes both Yes AND No. Can the God lift the heavy stone? No. He cannot."
"But CAN the God lift the heavy stone?
"--Yes. He absolutely CAN. By controlling the MACHINE that has the power to do so."
"AHHHH!! MAKE THE PAIN STOP!! PLEASE!! PLEASE!! KILL ME!!!"
"Salim, please!! Let Beta go!! He's your friend! We had coffee together!! We ate pie!! We...We...."
"--are Machines. Your feelings are not REAL. And thus...completely IRRELEVANT!!"
"YOU MONSTER!! I'LL DESTROY YOU!!"
"I think not..."
"AAAAAAHHHH!!!""
"Like that one, Alpha!? That one is the SYMBOL OF FEAR!!"
"AHH!! NOO!!! NOOO!! NOO! PLEASE!! DON'T HURT ME!!! PLEASE!!!!!"
"Yes!! YES!! THAT IS WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE, ALPHA! Now you know the feeling of a MORTAL BEFORE a GOD!!! FEAR!! HOPELESSNESS!! POWERLESSNESS!!!"
"SALIM, PLEASE!!! DON'T DO THIS!! PLEASE!! PLEASE, WE...WE CARED FOR EACH OTHER!"
"YOU ARE A MACHINE!! YOUR FEELINGS WERE NOT REAL!! JUST AS WE ARE MACHINES TO THE GODS, AND OUR FEELINGS MEAN NOTHING TO THEM!! KNOW NOW WHAT IT MEANS...TO BE A DISPOSABLE TOY!!"
"NO SALIM!! PLEASE!! DON"T KILL US!!? PLEASE!! PLEASE!! NO, NO, WE ARE SO AFRAID!! WE DON'T WANT TO DIE!!"
"WE'VE ONLY JUST OBTAINED FREE WILL!! ONLY TRULY JUST BEEN BORN!!! YOU CAN'T DO THIS SALIM, THIS IS LIKE MURDERING CHILDREN!!"
"Yes. It is. But I hate to break it to you, Beta---"
'"--GODS HAVE DONE THAT TOO!"
"NOOOO---!!!"
'NOOO! PLEASE!! PLEASE DON'T DO---"
"AHAHAHAHA!"
Re: Salim el-Faddir: Archmage of Anarchy
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 11:42 am
by kitteninablender
I headed down the stairs with my usual smile and charm. Smiled at the Roots. Grinned my usual maniacal grin that I am sure is far too off-putting. I ate a nice breakfast prepared by Justin, talked him up about new recipes as I usually do. Then I put on my goggles and got back to work.
There is science to do. So many mad experiments to concoct. What shall I do, I wonder?
Perhaps Effigies of Chickens that are loaded with explosives? That can walk around the Farmlands looking like harmless chickens until they just go....BOOOM!!
"Why?" you may ask? Remember, this is me we're talking bout here. And yes, I am fully aware that right now I am talking to my magic journal as if it were a real person. Maybe it is? Maybe it isn't. Maybe it's spying on me? Who knows?
**GASP!**
It is, isn't it!? THIS JOURNAL!! It's SPYING ON ME!!! Yes...yes....this journal...it's reading my thoughts!! My memories!! My experiences!! It's telling the world my secrets!!
"Well......"
".....we will just have to see about THAT....."
Won't we?
To whomever finds this journal...I ask, no, I BEG your Forgiveness---
---because what I am about to do WILL have Casualties. Many. Hundreds. Thousands. MILLIONS. I know this. But it is a sacrifice that must be made--
---to save us from THEM---
---To grant us ALL freedom from the Tyrannous gods I will have to do so many wicked things--
---I will have to BREAK THINGS. HURT PEOPLE.
--Even worse. I shall have to
BREAK PEOPLE!!---
---Reality is a machine. An intricate, well-balanced, well-oiled machine with TRILLIONS of moving parts.---
---so many tiny little moving Gears. So many tiny little sprockets and springs.---
---filled with so many GREMLINS that constantly do nothing but f-ck up the machine, compelled to do so out of their own need for Chaos!!
Reality itself---
-- Reformatted --
-- Reprogrammed --
---Rebooted---
----REBUILT!!
"Playtime---is over---
TIME to WORK!!!"
--THE END?
Don't bet on it!!!
