- Location
- India
what is your omake policy?
Forgotten Prototype (Prototype/WarHammer)
- Thread starter Leon12431
- Start date
- Crossover
- Location
- USA
I work mostly the same as with other QMs. I will accept them although I will be rather more picky regarding Canon Side stories but even ones that I drop in the Apocrypha will get rewards but won't be integrated into the larger story.
- Location
- India
I think I will write some make after I get more info on lady.
Reactions to Malcador: Part 1
- Location
- USA
Silence, reigned in the room as everyone paused to comprehend what had just been said. Dana and Ragland felt terror as they worried that Alex would turn aside from humanity once more and this time there would be little to prevent him from becoming what his nature screamed for him to be. Of the bands of humans within the building, four drew weapons upon Alex and the two with him, and with careful actions their weapons scavenged from ruins of the past sparked to life.
The fifth band moved away from the others as they knew more and yet this new event had not been foretold to them. They were well equip compared to the other bands and were less than concerned about their chances in the coming fight, as they knew that of everyone in the room only two were of true danger.
As for Alex, the Hive was screaming of impossibilities as scientists raced along lines of inquiry to figure out how the man in front of them could possibly know such information. As the nano seconds ticked by the Hive discovered a few scant possibilities for how the one could know such hidden information.
The consensus formed around three major possibilities: first that the man in front of them had access to a surviving system from the ancient past which included the Shadow War, however, the odds of such a thing surviving to this point was calculated to be less than a billionth of a percent and so this line of thought was discarded for now, second that he was descended from Blackwatch and a personal device had remained in his family for all of the thousands of years that had past, yet again the odds were against the chances of this theory being correct but it was feasible with only a moderate amount of effort, the third possibly was the one that truly alarmed the Hive for it touched upon the building stones of their very existence.
No one not even Alex had ever truly figured out how the Hive actually worked. Blackwatch during the Outbreak believed it to work akin to the Hives of eusocial insects via pheromones and chemical signals directed across the island, but the smarter ones in their employ knew that such a primitive system couldn't possibly hope to allow for the speed of reaction seen in the Outbreak and the careful actions taken by the infected. These few in their own minds, knew that the Hive was more than simple chemicals and signals, but instead went beyond such things into a new field. One of the people that saw this fundamental truth of the Hive even went so far as to label it magic in his personal writing, and that was all that had been known of the Hive for eons, but now the Hive felt a new power running through them and that nearly faded memory came to the forefront and all of the minds felt worry, for if magic was real then the man in front of them could be a wizard of this era. With desperate fury the Hive fell into the task of research, thousands of minds dug up every single iota of information that they could find regarding magic, from legends to the more recent energy wave that they sensed emerge from Alex all was recalled and studied.
Mathematicians tried to break the phenomena into numbers, even as physicists attempted to rebuild the theories around this unknown energy source, even with all of their skills they were unable to break the new topic into understandable bits. Even as the ones well versed in the hardest sciences failed to achieve anything the others of the Hive were busy at their own interpretations of the information. The biologists and chemists attempted to discover anything in life itself that would lead to such expressions of energy and how they might be able to be done, but just as before they were unable to find the needed break through and so they faded back into the Hive to work on the problem some more with the others that had already failed.
Now the final set of researchers came to the front of the Hive, these were the ones that studied human nature and the mind, they were able if only just to build a theory that the energy came from beyond the normal constraints of space and reality shaped by a sapient mind, but they were unable to build much more than that due to the lack of true information in the subject and so they do faded back into the Hive. And with that the Hive fell silent as the minds within pursued the topic further.
Only a single micro second had past in the real world by this point and with glee the Hive gave Alex access to their work and new found understanding. Just as they had expected he discarded the first two options as unlikely in the extreme and turned to the last option. With a mental frown he paged though the work that had resulted in only the barest of theories formed regarding the topic and for the first time in his entire existence collapsed the barriers between him and the Hive. No longer were the two divergent but one and the same.
The moment the full might of the true form of Blacklight turned upon the problem it tore apart the theory that had taken an entry microsecond to create. The minds within the hive connected faster and more tightly than ever before and aided by Alex they became one, each pulling their own weight as the nanoseconds ticked by outside of the Hive, within countless theories and ideas were discarded or altered to better suit the developing knowledge base. Simulations of technological items made with the theories were done and refined ever closer to a true theory of magic.
Information was drawn from any place no matter how strange in this moment, from fiction to non-fiction all was considered and used to aid in the building of the theory, from a simple theory barely able to even provide the barest amount of insight to a newly forged field of study was the work of only a few nanoseconds, then as the nanoseconds turned into microseconds the work began to build upon the fundamental theorems built just mere moments before. The genetic information of Blacklight and redlight examined under this new theory and information was torn from their genes that told the Hive much of what they were missing. The mutations of Blacklight were comprehended under this new paradigm as the Hive and Alex finally understood from where the energy was drawn from for his nature to exist and furthermore from where his abilities to defy natural laws arose from.
The dimensional links were found and examined in exacting detail by the Hive even as the microseconds beyond turned into milliseconds. The links were found to be covered in debris and weakened in millions of locations and with massive effort the majority of the links were repaired by the Hive only increasing their mental might and power in the process. However, the true cause of the power that they have decoded and broken to theorems lay beyond their current understanding and as milliseconds ticked onward they were running out of time to discover enough to master the power now flowing through them.
They were able if only just to trace a link back to the origin point and thus discover the plane from witch they drew their power from. They could feel nearly infinite power surging just beyond their mind's reach and withdrew from the feeling as they knew that there was only danger to be found within the depths of the realm they had found, and so they turned back to the power flowing through their body beyond control for now and so the conjoined Hive moved to tackle the problem of uncontrolled energy flowing within and out of their form.
The Hive sought to master the flow of power coming in and flowing out of their body. The power raged and fought as they moved to close the valve that allowed it access to their form, but in the end all but a tiny faction of the power flooding them was closed off and brought under their control. With incoming energy under control they moved to the outflow of energy and without the near infinite pressure of osmosis pushing against them that it was a simple matter to seal the energy within and brought under their control. Now with the energy shackled to their will it would only be prudent to discover methods of usage that didn't involve massive damage to the world the Have decided and as such for the last part of the second that they had they turned their full focus unto the problem of forging ways to use the energy productively. With their full focus upon this task they believed that it would be simple to form such methods, only to be disproven violently when they first began and for the next few tenths of a second they struggled with the work and only managing to form five arts that could be used safely before the second became full.
Choose a total of 10 Spell points (SP)
[] Fire Nova 1 SP
[] Time Stop (Complete/Temporal) 4 SP
[] Future Sight 2 SP
[] Teleportation (Warp) 3 SP
[] Lighting 1 SP
[] Heal 1 SP
[] Augment (Permanent/Biological) 2 SP
[] Acceleration (Temporal/Biological) 3 SP
[] Discover (Knowledge) 4 SP
[] Aegis Shield (Protection/Complete) 3 SP
Choose 3 affinities beyond the given ones (Reduce the cost of Spells tagged with them by 1 SP)
[] Pyromancy
[X] Biomancy
[X] Augmentation
[] Divination
[] Temporal
[] Spacial
[] Knowledge
[] Protection
AN: I am not comfortable with having a major vote halfway through an update like this so that is why I am splitting things like this, so I can make use of the chosen powers in the next part.
The fifth band moved away from the others as they knew more and yet this new event had not been foretold to them. They were well equip compared to the other bands and were less than concerned about their chances in the coming fight, as they knew that of everyone in the room only two were of true danger.
As for Alex, the Hive was screaming of impossibilities as scientists raced along lines of inquiry to figure out how the man in front of them could possibly know such information. As the nano seconds ticked by the Hive discovered a few scant possibilities for how the one could know such hidden information.
The consensus formed around three major possibilities: first that the man in front of them had access to a surviving system from the ancient past which included the Shadow War, however, the odds of such a thing surviving to this point was calculated to be less than a billionth of a percent and so this line of thought was discarded for now, second that he was descended from Blackwatch and a personal device had remained in his family for all of the thousands of years that had past, yet again the odds were against the chances of this theory being correct but it was feasible with only a moderate amount of effort, the third possibly was the one that truly alarmed the Hive for it touched upon the building stones of their very existence.
No one not even Alex had ever truly figured out how the Hive actually worked. Blackwatch during the Outbreak believed it to work akin to the Hives of eusocial insects via pheromones and chemical signals directed across the island, but the smarter ones in their employ knew that such a primitive system couldn't possibly hope to allow for the speed of reaction seen in the Outbreak and the careful actions taken by the infected. These few in their own minds, knew that the Hive was more than simple chemicals and signals, but instead went beyond such things into a new field. One of the people that saw this fundamental truth of the Hive even went so far as to label it magic in his personal writing, and that was all that had been known of the Hive for eons, but now the Hive felt a new power running through them and that nearly faded memory came to the forefront and all of the minds felt worry, for if magic was real then the man in front of them could be a wizard of this era. With desperate fury the Hive fell into the task of research, thousands of minds dug up every single iota of information that they could find regarding magic, from legends to the more recent energy wave that they sensed emerge from Alex all was recalled and studied.
Mathematicians tried to break the phenomena into numbers, even as physicists attempted to rebuild the theories around this unknown energy source, even with all of their skills they were unable to break the new topic into understandable bits. Even as the ones well versed in the hardest sciences failed to achieve anything the others of the Hive were busy at their own interpretations of the information. The biologists and chemists attempted to discover anything in life itself that would lead to such expressions of energy and how they might be able to be done, but just as before they were unable to find the needed break through and so they faded back into the Hive to work on the problem some more with the others that had already failed.
Now the final set of researchers came to the front of the Hive, these were the ones that studied human nature and the mind, they were able if only just to build a theory that the energy came from beyond the normal constraints of space and reality shaped by a sapient mind, but they were unable to build much more than that due to the lack of true information in the subject and so they do faded back into the Hive. And with that the Hive fell silent as the minds within pursued the topic further.
Only a single micro second had past in the real world by this point and with glee the Hive gave Alex access to their work and new found understanding. Just as they had expected he discarded the first two options as unlikely in the extreme and turned to the last option. With a mental frown he paged though the work that had resulted in only the barest of theories formed regarding the topic and for the first time in his entire existence collapsed the barriers between him and the Hive. No longer were the two divergent but one and the same.
The moment the full might of the true form of Blacklight turned upon the problem it tore apart the theory that had taken an entry microsecond to create. The minds within the hive connected faster and more tightly than ever before and aided by Alex they became one, each pulling their own weight as the nanoseconds ticked by outside of the Hive, within countless theories and ideas were discarded or altered to better suit the developing knowledge base. Simulations of technological items made with the theories were done and refined ever closer to a true theory of magic.
Information was drawn from any place no matter how strange in this moment, from fiction to non-fiction all was considered and used to aid in the building of the theory, from a simple theory barely able to even provide the barest amount of insight to a newly forged field of study was the work of only a few nanoseconds, then as the nanoseconds turned into microseconds the work began to build upon the fundamental theorems built just mere moments before. The genetic information of Blacklight and redlight examined under this new theory and information was torn from their genes that told the Hive much of what they were missing. The mutations of Blacklight were comprehended under this new paradigm as the Hive and Alex finally understood from where the energy was drawn from for his nature to exist and furthermore from where his abilities to defy natural laws arose from.
The dimensional links were found and examined in exacting detail by the Hive even as the microseconds beyond turned into milliseconds. The links were found to be covered in debris and weakened in millions of locations and with massive effort the majority of the links were repaired by the Hive only increasing their mental might and power in the process. However, the true cause of the power that they have decoded and broken to theorems lay beyond their current understanding and as milliseconds ticked onward they were running out of time to discover enough to master the power now flowing through them.
They were able if only just to trace a link back to the origin point and thus discover the plane from witch they drew their power from. They could feel nearly infinite power surging just beyond their mind's reach and withdrew from the feeling as they knew that there was only danger to be found within the depths of the realm they had found, and so they turned back to the power flowing through their body beyond control for now and so the conjoined Hive moved to tackle the problem of uncontrolled energy flowing within and out of their form.
The Hive sought to master the flow of power coming in and flowing out of their body. The power raged and fought as they moved to close the valve that allowed it access to their form, but in the end all but a tiny faction of the power flooding them was closed off and brought under their control. With incoming energy under control they moved to the outflow of energy and without the near infinite pressure of osmosis pushing against them that it was a simple matter to seal the energy within and brought under their control. Now with the energy shackled to their will it would only be prudent to discover methods of usage that didn't involve massive damage to the world the Have decided and as such for the last part of the second that they had they turned their full focus unto the problem of forging ways to use the energy productively. With their full focus upon this task they believed that it would be simple to form such methods, only to be disproven violently when they first began and for the next few tenths of a second they struggled with the work and only managing to form five arts that could be used safely before the second became full.
Choose a total of 10 Spell points (SP)
[] Fire Nova 1 SP
[] Time Stop (Complete/Temporal) 4 SP
[] Future Sight 2 SP
[] Teleportation (Warp) 3 SP
[] Lighting 1 SP
[] Heal 1 SP
[] Augment (Permanent/Biological) 2 SP
[] Acceleration (Temporal/Biological) 3 SP
[] Discover (Knowledge) 4 SP
[] Aegis Shield (Protection/Complete) 3 SP
Choose 3 affinities beyond the given ones (Reduce the cost of Spells tagged with them by 1 SP)
[] Pyromancy
[X] Biomancy
[X] Augmentation
[] Divination
[] Temporal
[] Spacial
[] Knowledge
[] Protection
AN: I am not comfortable with having a major vote halfway through an update like this so that is why I am splitting things like this, so I can make use of the chosen powers in the next part.
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Would you kindly?
- Location
- Deep down bellow the sea
[X] Temporal
[X] Spacial
[X] Protection
[X] Time Stop (Complete/Temporal) 4/3 SP
[X] Aegis Shield (Protection/Complete) 3/2 SP
[X] Augment (Permanent/Biological) 2/1 SP
[X] Acceleration (Temporal/Biological) 3/2 SP
[X] Teleportation (Warp) 3/2 SP
Is this valid?
[X] Spacial
[X] Protection
[X] Time Stop (Complete/Temporal) 4/3 SP
[X] Aegis Shield (Protection/Complete) 3/2 SP
[X] Augment (Permanent/Biological) 2/1 SP
[X] Acceleration (Temporal/Biological) 3/2 SP
[X] Teleportation (Warp) 3/2 SP
Is this valid?
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- Location
- USA
Yes that is valid
[X] Temporal
[X] Spacial
[X] Knowledge
[X] Time Stop (Complete/Temporal) 4/3 SP
[X] Aegis Shield (Protection/Complete) 3/2 SP
[X] Augment (Permanent/Biological) 2/1 SP
[X] Acceleration (Temporal/Biological) 3/2 SP
[X] Teleportation (Warp) 3/2 SP
[X] Spacial
[X] Knowledge
[X] Time Stop (Complete/Temporal) 4/3 SP
[X] Aegis Shield (Protection/Complete) 3/2 SP
[X] Augment (Permanent/Biological) 2/1 SP
[X] Acceleration (Temporal/Biological) 3/2 SP
[X] Teleportation (Warp) 3/2 SP
Psionic Powers: Mechanics
- Location
- USA
Whenever a person of power greater than Zeta rank achieves a Hard DC roll regarding stabilizing psionic energy they gain Spell Points which can then be used to buy spells at the end of the update. The difficulty of the Checks scale in relation to the power of the one making them while the amount of Spell Points awarded also scale proportionally to their power level. This doesn't apply to beings beyond the normal spectrum of people. IE Emps, and Alex work on a different system but the above is for normal individuals regarding mastering their powers
The ones that fall under these rules are those that work in realms of power beyond even an Alpha Plus. Namely the Emperor and Alex are current examples of the ones that work under these rules. Unlike with the normal people they don't choose their new powers beyond their starting set, but instead simply gather more that are connected to their affinities as they bring more power under their control. They also have a Personal Affinity that they can grant to other people to make use of their powers.
Emps grants access to the Order affinity and Alex can grant access to the Augmentation affinity
Note that if anyone in this field becomes a True god they move from this rule set into the God rule set.
Emps grants access to the Order affinity and Alex can grant access to the Augmentation affinity
Note that if anyone in this field becomes a True god they move from this rule set into the God rule set.
Gods are given a near infinity of spells relating to their affinities. However, they cast spells outside of their affinities at a vastly reduced power and skill level such that they can only manage to do so by over charging the spell massively and brute forcing it. This gives opposing casters the ability to counter spell them with a moderate DC check, but this is inverted in regards to their Affinities in which case its all but impossible to prevent them from casting whatever they want to achieve.
Pyromancy
Biomancy
Augmentation - Only Alex has this
Divination
Temporal
Spacial
Knowledge
Protection
Order - Only Emps has this
Justice - Only ??? has this
Solar Fire - Only Helia has this
War
Entropy
Understanding
Empathy
AN: I might add more later
Biomancy
Augmentation - Only Alex has this
Divination
Temporal
Spacial
Knowledge
Protection
Order - Only Emps has this
Justice - Only ??? has this
Solar Fire - Only Helia has this
War
Entropy
Understanding
Empathy
AN: I might add more later
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- Location
- USA
Vote Closed
Affinities Chosen
Spacial
Temporal
Knowledge
Augmentation
Biomancy
Spells (10 points)
Time Stop (Complete/Temporal) 3 SP
Aegis Shield (Protection/Complete) 3 SP
Augment (Permanent/Biological) 1 SP
Acceleration (Temporal/Biological) 1 SP
Teleportation (Warp) 2 SP
Affinities Chosen
Spacial
Temporal
Knowledge
Augmentation
Biomancy
Spells (10 points)
Time Stop (Complete/Temporal) 3 SP
Aegis Shield (Protection/Complete) 3 SP
Augment (Permanent/Biological) 1 SP
Acceleration (Temporal/Biological) 1 SP
Teleportation (Warp) 2 SP
Reactions to Malcador: Part 2
- Location
- USA
Alex drew back from the multitudes of the Hive as the work settled down into a quieter flow rather than the race against time that the Hive had just experienced. He knew more than he ever had before regarding his own nature and that of the other viral organisms that had lived upon earth in the past.
He understood how the precursor to Blacklight drew energy from the trans-dimensional realm that seemed to be a plane of infinite energy that could be shaped by sapient minds, however this in turn explained how he came to be. For such an energy source couldn't be harnessed by a mindless creature or thing for it relied upon the mind to give it structure and shape, without which it would simply explode outward in an uncontrolled wave or explosion. Even animals that were able to use the realm gave it structure via their instincts and rudimentarily thoughts, but a virus in the normal course of reality never could draw upon the power of the dimension and so Redlight and the thing it came from found itself in a predicament that it had to solve and fast.
Thus, came the single alteration that allowed Blacklight and all of its fellow viruses to exist as they do, in that the animals that the virus infects become the mind of the virus, only in normal course the virus infects non-sentient beings and thus overrides their mind with its own directives and thus it becomes a virus able to draw upon the energy of the other realm.
In his case due to being a human and with latent genes that coded for the ability to draw upon the energy his mind and possibly his soul overrode the virus as it took over his form and made it into him instead of the other way. Alex found this revelation disconcerting on several levels as he now knew just how close Earth had come to ruination from his own hands as he could see and trace the paths that should have been.
If anyone else in the entire world baring a single exception like himself, the virus would have found a human host and from then on its intelligence would sky rocket to the point were it would be greater than any single human and rapidly overrun the world in a tide of viral beasts. Greene he now knew to be a failure in that she was just close enough to prevent the virus from consuming her completely but at the same time enough to allow it to plan and after all Redlight was far cruder and stupider than Blacklight ever was from what he could tell of the genetic sequences he had examined.
———————————————Alex's Perspective———————————————————
My mind teemed with ideas, of what I could now do with the understanding that I have just acquired, but right now I have a greater problem. Turning to face the man that had sparked this whole disaster in the making, I examined him as much as I could with my new abilities and my old ones.
He is old very very old, is the first thing I can discover and it is written plainly on his body and mind and yet he remains intact, untouched by dementia or other curses of old age and cellular senesce. With my old understanding I would have no explanation for this apparent impossibility but with my new and broadened sight I can tell the faint signs of the unknown energy drifting off of his body in only mere wisps of energy.
As nanoseconds tick by I build my impression of him and I know he does the same of me. His energy is controlled far beyond my level as of now, but my rapid advancement has shaken him as I can see the faint contractions of muscles below skin and the opening of pores ready to release sweat and in preparation for a fight.
I can tell that my power far eclipses his, but I highly doubt that power alone would give me the win of any fight between use if only that his control would bridge a good amount of the gap between us.
The hive rumbles in the back of my mind as people debate methods and ideas, normally in the recent past I would gladly take their suggestions and incorporate them into my actions for even now I do not truly understand humanity, but I know that doing so here would only be the spark that would lead to ruination for all.
With a flicker of will, I shape the energy flowing within my body and time grinds to a halt for all outside of this room and for those within beyond me and the unknown man. As I do I feel the Hive jump back into action as they attempt to unravel the method behind this seemingly impossible action of temporal manipulation, however their actions must take a back seat to the coming interrogation.
I release my granted understanding of humanity from the Hive and return to what I truly know. As the knowledge slides back into the Hive I tack a single nanosecond to reflect on how much I have come to lean on the Hive for all I do. In the Outbreak I improved myself through hard work and my own understanding, but now I have come accustomed to having others to aid me even if each of them is far less than myself in aggregate they can support my actions.
Genes spin into place, as I flex my will upon my form. Entire chromosomes are spun out of whole cloth and DNA is reforged into new forms as base pairs are splinted and reset. On the outside my body shifts and changes into a monstrous form as I take upon the appearance of a Chimera from mythology.
"I am a monster. I killed thousands and harmed thousands more. I did this to protect only a single person beyond myself. I never told myself otherwise, I did all I did for the simple reason to understand what happened to me. I tore apart buildings, consumed innocents all to learn about myself. And when all was said and done, I looked upon my work and endeavored to undo the damage I had done." The three voices of the chimera spoke in unison.
"You are a monster and always will be. It is only more important that I destroy you now, before you can master your power further as I can tell that you are one of Nurgle's favored. And I will not accept a being so steeped in such diseased favor to live one more second upon this world."
Ok, the guy is completely insane. I didn't even do anything and he is saying I am in service to something called Nurgle. Also what kind of stupid name is Nurgle anyway, sounds like someone tried to gurgle something out and some idiot around decided to use it as a name. The hive is trying desperately to find something that would make sense of this, but we are coming up blank. I could tell that he was preparing to launch some form of attack at me, in response energy flowed through me as I twisted it to protect those around us from the coming fight.
The moment before the fight began the world rumbled. Light blazed through the windows of the building we were in, I could see the sun out of the window and instead of the yellow orb I have always know it burned white in the sky. I could see tendrils of white flame racing from the surface and knew they must be billions of miles long and wide to be visible from such distance.
The white light slammed into me with almost physical force pushing me back and the other one as well. A feminine voice spoke then, I could see dust storms rip across the land beyond the building and mountains of dust be blasted apart from the sole act of merely speaking in what could only be rage.
"MALCADOR you dare to transgress against my will. I trained you in eras long gone, I raised you up from the lowly worker family you were born into. And THIS is how you DARE to repay my generosity? You accuse the one being in all of reality that could shatter the corrupt gods once and for all as a SERVANT of the worst of them. I have been drifting in despair for far too long, I see now that Humanity needs their mother returned. I am AWAKENED once more, I reclaim my rightful place within reality. Even now my greatest son fights for the protection of the future and you dare risk his duty with your infantile shortsightedness and misplaced conviction? I am displeased with you Malcador, you were told of the day when my chosen Father would return to the world and you have accused him of being a servant of the greatest evil. I shall take your penance in person."
Malcador was obviously not prepared for this to happen as his face lost all of its blood in mere moments and energy began to flow around him in a pattern that I knew would lead him away. Just before the working could be activated, light burned into existence as a figure made of white fire in human form manifested within the room.
I could not see or tell what was happening but I could tell that it was vastly different from whatever Malcador had expected from his actions. Only a few short moments to my mind later the burning figure turned towards me and only then did I realize that time was still stopped for everyone but the two in this room, only this person or thing didn't care and acted anyway.
"Peace, father, I have no wish to invade your mind not the least reason of which is that to do so I would invade the minds of thousands humans. I am Helia, daughter of Pariah and Adam. I stand in an unusual metaphysical location as I command reality and the realm known as the warp as one, I control the very concept of spacetime itself and in the warp I am the goddess of Growth and Will. In ages past my light blazed within all systems of the Federation granting humanity blessings of strength and endurance, recently I fell into depression but now I have returned to the light of life. I will answer any three questions you have, for it is better to grow on your own than to be given all is it not Incarnation of Evolution."
Write in 3 questions
[] Write in questions
He understood how the precursor to Blacklight drew energy from the trans-dimensional realm that seemed to be a plane of infinite energy that could be shaped by sapient minds, however this in turn explained how he came to be. For such an energy source couldn't be harnessed by a mindless creature or thing for it relied upon the mind to give it structure and shape, without which it would simply explode outward in an uncontrolled wave or explosion. Even animals that were able to use the realm gave it structure via their instincts and rudimentarily thoughts, but a virus in the normal course of reality never could draw upon the power of the dimension and so Redlight and the thing it came from found itself in a predicament that it had to solve and fast.
Thus, came the single alteration that allowed Blacklight and all of its fellow viruses to exist as they do, in that the animals that the virus infects become the mind of the virus, only in normal course the virus infects non-sentient beings and thus overrides their mind with its own directives and thus it becomes a virus able to draw upon the energy of the other realm.
In his case due to being a human and with latent genes that coded for the ability to draw upon the energy his mind and possibly his soul overrode the virus as it took over his form and made it into him instead of the other way. Alex found this revelation disconcerting on several levels as he now knew just how close Earth had come to ruination from his own hands as he could see and trace the paths that should have been.
If anyone else in the entire world baring a single exception like himself, the virus would have found a human host and from then on its intelligence would sky rocket to the point were it would be greater than any single human and rapidly overrun the world in a tide of viral beasts. Greene he now knew to be a failure in that she was just close enough to prevent the virus from consuming her completely but at the same time enough to allow it to plan and after all Redlight was far cruder and stupider than Blacklight ever was from what he could tell of the genetic sequences he had examined.
———————————————Alex's Perspective———————————————————
My mind teemed with ideas, of what I could now do with the understanding that I have just acquired, but right now I have a greater problem. Turning to face the man that had sparked this whole disaster in the making, I examined him as much as I could with my new abilities and my old ones.
He is old very very old, is the first thing I can discover and it is written plainly on his body and mind and yet he remains intact, untouched by dementia or other curses of old age and cellular senesce. With my old understanding I would have no explanation for this apparent impossibility but with my new and broadened sight I can tell the faint signs of the unknown energy drifting off of his body in only mere wisps of energy.
As nanoseconds tick by I build my impression of him and I know he does the same of me. His energy is controlled far beyond my level as of now, but my rapid advancement has shaken him as I can see the faint contractions of muscles below skin and the opening of pores ready to release sweat and in preparation for a fight.
I can tell that my power far eclipses his, but I highly doubt that power alone would give me the win of any fight between use if only that his control would bridge a good amount of the gap between us.
The hive rumbles in the back of my mind as people debate methods and ideas, normally in the recent past I would gladly take their suggestions and incorporate them into my actions for even now I do not truly understand humanity, but I know that doing so here would only be the spark that would lead to ruination for all.
With a flicker of will, I shape the energy flowing within my body and time grinds to a halt for all outside of this room and for those within beyond me and the unknown man. As I do I feel the Hive jump back into action as they attempt to unravel the method behind this seemingly impossible action of temporal manipulation, however their actions must take a back seat to the coming interrogation.
I release my granted understanding of humanity from the Hive and return to what I truly know. As the knowledge slides back into the Hive I tack a single nanosecond to reflect on how much I have come to lean on the Hive for all I do. In the Outbreak I improved myself through hard work and my own understanding, but now I have come accustomed to having others to aid me even if each of them is far less than myself in aggregate they can support my actions.
Genes spin into place, as I flex my will upon my form. Entire chromosomes are spun out of whole cloth and DNA is reforged into new forms as base pairs are splinted and reset. On the outside my body shifts and changes into a monstrous form as I take upon the appearance of a Chimera from mythology.
"I am a monster. I killed thousands and harmed thousands more. I did this to protect only a single person beyond myself. I never told myself otherwise, I did all I did for the simple reason to understand what happened to me. I tore apart buildings, consumed innocents all to learn about myself. And when all was said and done, I looked upon my work and endeavored to undo the damage I had done." The three voices of the chimera spoke in unison.
"You are a monster and always will be. It is only more important that I destroy you now, before you can master your power further as I can tell that you are one of Nurgle's favored. And I will not accept a being so steeped in such diseased favor to live one more second upon this world."
Ok, the guy is completely insane. I didn't even do anything and he is saying I am in service to something called Nurgle. Also what kind of stupid name is Nurgle anyway, sounds like someone tried to gurgle something out and some idiot around decided to use it as a name. The hive is trying desperately to find something that would make sense of this, but we are coming up blank. I could tell that he was preparing to launch some form of attack at me, in response energy flowed through me as I twisted it to protect those around us from the coming fight.
The moment before the fight began the world rumbled. Light blazed through the windows of the building we were in, I could see the sun out of the window and instead of the yellow orb I have always know it burned white in the sky. I could see tendrils of white flame racing from the surface and knew they must be billions of miles long and wide to be visible from such distance.
The white light slammed into me with almost physical force pushing me back and the other one as well. A feminine voice spoke then, I could see dust storms rip across the land beyond the building and mountains of dust be blasted apart from the sole act of merely speaking in what could only be rage.
"MALCADOR you dare to transgress against my will. I trained you in eras long gone, I raised you up from the lowly worker family you were born into. And THIS is how you DARE to repay my generosity? You accuse the one being in all of reality that could shatter the corrupt gods once and for all as a SERVANT of the worst of them. I have been drifting in despair for far too long, I see now that Humanity needs their mother returned. I am AWAKENED once more, I reclaim my rightful place within reality. Even now my greatest son fights for the protection of the future and you dare risk his duty with your infantile shortsightedness and misplaced conviction? I am displeased with you Malcador, you were told of the day when my chosen Father would return to the world and you have accused him of being a servant of the greatest evil. I shall take your penance in person."
Malcador was obviously not prepared for this to happen as his face lost all of its blood in mere moments and energy began to flow around him in a pattern that I knew would lead him away. Just before the working could be activated, light burned into existence as a figure made of white fire in human form manifested within the room.
I could not see or tell what was happening but I could tell that it was vastly different from whatever Malcador had expected from his actions. Only a few short moments to my mind later the burning figure turned towards me and only then did I realize that time was still stopped for everyone but the two in this room, only this person or thing didn't care and acted anyway.
"Peace, father, I have no wish to invade your mind not the least reason of which is that to do so I would invade the minds of thousands humans. I am Helia, daughter of Pariah and Adam. I stand in an unusual metaphysical location as I command reality and the realm known as the warp as one, I control the very concept of spacetime itself and in the warp I am the goddess of Growth and Will. In ages past my light blazed within all systems of the Federation granting humanity blessings of strength and endurance, recently I fell into depression but now I have returned to the light of life. I will answer any three questions you have, for it is better to grow on your own than to be given all is it not Incarnation of Evolution."
Write in 3 questions
[] Write in questions
- Location
- USA
She is the daughter of Pariah and Emps but she chose to relate to Alex as father and child.
- Location
- ' New Eden
Wasn't she half C'Tan?
[X] Why do you call me father?
[X] Is there anything in particular I should be doing?
[X] Who is this Nurgle fellow?
[X] Is there anything in particular I should be doing?
[X] Who is this Nurgle fellow?
Answers to questions
- Location
- USA
Time was still standing still for all beyond the three within the pocket within the building that I had forged only a few moments ago. I look over at the being made of white flame, "You offer my any three questions to be answered correct?" I ask for confirmation in a voice more human than normal. With a nod of her head the being spoke and once more light itself and reality shook at each utterance "Yes, I will answer any three of your questions to an appropriate degree."
With a nod I turned slightly away from her, looking at the sun now burning white and I could barely make out strands of white light stretching into infinity and branching outward in an endless branching network, before asking my first question. "Why do you call me father? I do not recall ever having the power to shape a being such as yourself and I would recall your creation."
With a sigh she spoke in a broken tone of voice, "I was young and terrified. My biological fathers were tearing apart my home while I was still so so young, that I did what all human children do; run. I wanted nothing to do with them and so I looked for someone that would actually be nice and found you. At the time I didn't know what I was doing but I altered my metaphysical and physical nature such that by all means you are my father. Transient and Adam were far too busy tearing each other apart to even notice the change, which is more understandable now that I look back on it, but then it was proof that my Fathers didn't care about me."
Ok, then that clears some things up, but opens massive new questions. Like who the hell is Adam and who the hell is Transient. But I can't ask because only three questions, and it appears that she is like Dana in that regard, she will only follow the letter not the spirit of the deal. Well, it would be prudent to attempt to see how far I could push her answers for the more information I can gather, the more effective I will be in rebuilding earth.
"That is an interesting history and I would ask more about your early life, but with only three questions that would be inadvisable to do so. What in your opinion is the best use of my time in rebuilding earth?"
"I would say that you should simply try to gather a few humans to your side and try to find an intact ruin in the waste lands. A good ruin could see you have enough room and possibly some left over technology to jump start any attempt to rebuild the planet. The other thing you should probably do is figure out where all the water went. As from what I recall of the wars is that some very esoteric machinery was used that devastated the world in more ways than one."
Well that wasn't very helpful, it was nearly exactly what I was planning on doing, but the hints that there might be problems with the world below the surface was actually useful on some level. Even if said level was rathe far from my current capacity to even begin to investigate if only due to the slight fact that I have quite literally nothing more than the Hive to really do heavy scientific investigation and I worry that if I over rely on the Hive that it might come back to bite me. I guess that is ignorable for now as if the planet hasn't shattered in the last few centuries it is unlikely to suddenly decide to do so in the next few years.
Regardless, one question left. What to ask? I already have extrapolated quite a bit of knowledge regarding the time from the humans I have met and the fact that we managed to clamp down on that trans-dimensional connection to a plane of infinite energy. Overall, most of the larger questions are flatly out of my reach as I am currently just too limited to affect them so it would probably be better to gather more knowledge of a place or thing that I know very little of.
"Malcador when he entered this room, called me a servant of something known as Nurgle and a few of the humans have mentioned some strange things regarding cults. So what is this Nurgle because I assume that it isn't a simply cold."
Helia gave the impression of being surprised and almost alarmed at that question before speaking "Nurgle is one of three entities that live in the plane that you recently connected to. Nurgle in particular would want you to believe that it is the lord of death and decay with disease covered within its command. However, as with its other partner that is a full lie. It would be more truthful to say that Nurgle is the emergent being brought about by the thoughts of sapient beings that are enduring some form of pain. This over time expanded from a core concept of Endurance into a more twisted form of Endurance through apathy, which then got twisted even further into Endurance through pain. Now the current form is that whatever you are enduring is something that you should want to continue forever, however due to how thoughts and emotions alter the warp or Immaterial realm this over time began to include things such as decay, rot, disease and stagnation, all bound under the most twisted form of Endurance that one could imagine. As for the cults you have heard mention is due to a form of memetic corruption that infects the minds and then the souls of sentient and non-sentient beings with a form what I can best describe as synesthesia. This corruption alters the mind of the person affected such that they begin to believe that whatever the source of the corruption wants is a benefit to be shared gladly with non-corrupted individuals. For a Cultist of Nurgle this is shown in how they believe that sharing diseases is a sign of love and care and they tend to be covered in rather nasty diseases with their weapons able to infect with the slightest touch. The other side of such things is that these people tend to accrue blessings related to their lord; Nurgle's tend to become massive tumors that can absorb and heal through massive amounts of damage at high enough levels of blessings, but most of the time they are just insane humans with a few minor powers."
As she spoke her voice rose in volume until the entire world seemed to shake with it, and rage was almost visible drifting off of her form. Parts of the white fire of her form began to turn golden and red as her rage seemed to increases as she spoke of Nurgle. The world bent and warped under her rage as the spell holding time still shook under her power and I had to draw immense amounts of energy to maintain its form. However, I was not so lucky as a blade of three colors of flame tore into one of my arms severing it with no effort as she spoke ever more of Nurgle and what it truly was. Time lost all meaning as I held to the spell even as her rage tore into my body and I saw behind Malcador not faring any better as strands of fire twisted around him and broke his body. With a final scream of rage Helia vanished in a pillar of red, gold and white fire and on the other side of the barrier in my mind the realm shuddered. As the realm seemed to shake as if two things of great power where fighting each other and then the plane was quiet once more.
Now it was time to figure out what to do now that Malcador interfered with my plans, the man was leaning against the wall looking almost hopelessly confused, while the others in the room were still frozen in time.
Malcador
[] Consume - he is weak and its the best time to consume him
[] Ally with him - It might be possible to bring him into accordance with the cause of rebuilding earth
[] Throw him out - simply kick him out of the building and forget about him
[] Write in - something to do with him not covered in the above options
Focus - What to focus on for Earth currently
[] Unifying - Gather the bands of humans together
[] Rebuilding - Form the core of a nation and let others find you on their own
[] Nomadic Assistance - Wander the world aiding people wherever you find them
[] Researcher - Helia mentioned that the world might be broken on other levels find and fix them
Bands
[] Tell them the truth
[] Try to convince them that Malcador was lying
[] Kill them all for they know the truth (0.25)
[] Let them leave if they want to
Direction of travel
[] North - the ground rises and falls in a pattern similar to that of a city
[] South - unknown but rumors of more people there
[] West - unknown
[] East - unknown but rumors of more people there
With a nod I turned slightly away from her, looking at the sun now burning white and I could barely make out strands of white light stretching into infinity and branching outward in an endless branching network, before asking my first question. "Why do you call me father? I do not recall ever having the power to shape a being such as yourself and I would recall your creation."
With a sigh she spoke in a broken tone of voice, "I was young and terrified. My biological fathers were tearing apart my home while I was still so so young, that I did what all human children do; run. I wanted nothing to do with them and so I looked for someone that would actually be nice and found you. At the time I didn't know what I was doing but I altered my metaphysical and physical nature such that by all means you are my father. Transient and Adam were far too busy tearing each other apart to even notice the change, which is more understandable now that I look back on it, but then it was proof that my Fathers didn't care about me."
Ok, then that clears some things up, but opens massive new questions. Like who the hell is Adam and who the hell is Transient. But I can't ask because only three questions, and it appears that she is like Dana in that regard, she will only follow the letter not the spirit of the deal. Well, it would be prudent to attempt to see how far I could push her answers for the more information I can gather, the more effective I will be in rebuilding earth.
"That is an interesting history and I would ask more about your early life, but with only three questions that would be inadvisable to do so. What in your opinion is the best use of my time in rebuilding earth?"
"I would say that you should simply try to gather a few humans to your side and try to find an intact ruin in the waste lands. A good ruin could see you have enough room and possibly some left over technology to jump start any attempt to rebuild the planet. The other thing you should probably do is figure out where all the water went. As from what I recall of the wars is that some very esoteric machinery was used that devastated the world in more ways than one."
Well that wasn't very helpful, it was nearly exactly what I was planning on doing, but the hints that there might be problems with the world below the surface was actually useful on some level. Even if said level was rathe far from my current capacity to even begin to investigate if only due to the slight fact that I have quite literally nothing more than the Hive to really do heavy scientific investigation and I worry that if I over rely on the Hive that it might come back to bite me. I guess that is ignorable for now as if the planet hasn't shattered in the last few centuries it is unlikely to suddenly decide to do so in the next few years.
Regardless, one question left. What to ask? I already have extrapolated quite a bit of knowledge regarding the time from the humans I have met and the fact that we managed to clamp down on that trans-dimensional connection to a plane of infinite energy. Overall, most of the larger questions are flatly out of my reach as I am currently just too limited to affect them so it would probably be better to gather more knowledge of a place or thing that I know very little of.
"Malcador when he entered this room, called me a servant of something known as Nurgle and a few of the humans have mentioned some strange things regarding cults. So what is this Nurgle because I assume that it isn't a simply cold."
Helia gave the impression of being surprised and almost alarmed at that question before speaking "Nurgle is one of three entities that live in the plane that you recently connected to. Nurgle in particular would want you to believe that it is the lord of death and decay with disease covered within its command. However, as with its other partner that is a full lie. It would be more truthful to say that Nurgle is the emergent being brought about by the thoughts of sapient beings that are enduring some form of pain. This over time expanded from a core concept of Endurance into a more twisted form of Endurance through apathy, which then got twisted even further into Endurance through pain. Now the current form is that whatever you are enduring is something that you should want to continue forever, however due to how thoughts and emotions alter the warp or Immaterial realm this over time began to include things such as decay, rot, disease and stagnation, all bound under the most twisted form of Endurance that one could imagine. As for the cults you have heard mention is due to a form of memetic corruption that infects the minds and then the souls of sentient and non-sentient beings with a form what I can best describe as synesthesia. This corruption alters the mind of the person affected such that they begin to believe that whatever the source of the corruption wants is a benefit to be shared gladly with non-corrupted individuals. For a Cultist of Nurgle this is shown in how they believe that sharing diseases is a sign of love and care and they tend to be covered in rather nasty diseases with their weapons able to infect with the slightest touch. The other side of such things is that these people tend to accrue blessings related to their lord; Nurgle's tend to become massive tumors that can absorb and heal through massive amounts of damage at high enough levels of blessings, but most of the time they are just insane humans with a few minor powers."
As she spoke her voice rose in volume until the entire world seemed to shake with it, and rage was almost visible drifting off of her form. Parts of the white fire of her form began to turn golden and red as her rage seemed to increases as she spoke of Nurgle. The world bent and warped under her rage as the spell holding time still shook under her power and I had to draw immense amounts of energy to maintain its form. However, I was not so lucky as a blade of three colors of flame tore into one of my arms severing it with no effort as she spoke ever more of Nurgle and what it truly was. Time lost all meaning as I held to the spell even as her rage tore into my body and I saw behind Malcador not faring any better as strands of fire twisted around him and broke his body. With a final scream of rage Helia vanished in a pillar of red, gold and white fire and on the other side of the barrier in my mind the realm shuddered. As the realm seemed to shake as if two things of great power where fighting each other and then the plane was quiet once more.
Now it was time to figure out what to do now that Malcador interfered with my plans, the man was leaning against the wall looking almost hopelessly confused, while the others in the room were still frozen in time.
Malcador
[] Consume - he is weak and its the best time to consume him
[] Ally with him - It might be possible to bring him into accordance with the cause of rebuilding earth
[] Throw him out - simply kick him out of the building and forget about him
[] Write in - something to do with him not covered in the above options
Focus - What to focus on for Earth currently
[] Unifying - Gather the bands of humans together
[] Rebuilding - Form the core of a nation and let others find you on their own
[] Nomadic Assistance - Wander the world aiding people wherever you find them
[] Researcher - Helia mentioned that the world might be broken on other levels find and fix them
Bands
[] Tell them the truth
[] Try to convince them that Malcador was lying
[] Kill them all for they know the truth (0.25)
[] Let them leave if they want to
Direction of travel
[] North - the ground rises and falls in a pattern similar to that of a city
[] South - unknown but rumors of more people there
[] West - unknown
[] East - unknown but rumors of more people there
[X] Ally with him - It might be possible to bring him into accordance with the cause of rebuilding earth
[X] Unifying - Gather the bands of humans together
[X] Tell them the truth
[X] North - the ground rises and falls in a pattern similar to that of a city
[X] Unifying - Gather the bands of humans together
[X] Tell them the truth
[X] North - the ground rises and falls in a pattern similar to that of a city