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Oh i will, but you will only get the contrast when the pol choices are done. There are quite a bit and i am still finding a way to make a new voting tally.
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Preterhuman (Mass Effect Fanfic)
- Thread starter Black-Aengel-01
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Oh i will, but you will only get the contrast when the pol choices are done. There are quite a bit and i am still finding a way to make a new voting tally.
Modus_Tollens
SCREAMING AT THE APOCALYPSE
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- ALSO SCREAMING.
Alien, primarily, with occasional human interludes. At least preferably.
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No because this is My last vote tally. Can't have a quest with only two vote tallies right?
Then i Guess i Will do both then.
Final Voting for the Story.
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To Continue the Tale of Mankind and the Galaxy.
EVERYONE PLEASE VOTE. AND YES, LURKERS, I AM LOOKING AT YOU TOO.
Of Choices to Make.
Nine paths to contact. Nine paths to damnation and divinity. Let the mortal minds see the Black Light of the Gods of the Primeval Realm. Let their souls shatter at the sight of the divine.
The ones in bold letters can affect the galaxy at large, but they may not if they don't win the top score, while those in italic shouldn't unless they are the top scored ones. Pick three. The one and second who have the highest score will be presented.
Of Victims and Heroes.
The Citadel Council has not realized its fortunes. Long before the waking of the Prothean remnants, the Citadel Council had enforced a… harder grip on the galaxy… even if it is not so easily observed. The prospect of power is something every faction would give blood and limb for acquiring. Despite the warnings of the protheans, the younger races will not listen. They think the tales of unfathomable horrors and godlike abominations from the void to be merely tales and exaggerations made by the enemies of the protheans, inflated even further by the protheans themselves so that they may maintain their technological superiority. They never realized the monopoly the protheans possessed over the Magitek artifacts of Preterhumanity was never to analyze nor understand, but to seal and contain and protect the galaxy from their own folly eons ago. When the council inevitably stumbled upon the realm of gods and demons, their thirst for power will be their undoing.
The galaxy is nearing an age where ignorance of the antediluvian cannot be accepted. And this will bring terrible consequences to the galaxy.
Choose wisely who will be affected directly by the coming events. Pick three and with who will the victim be bonded. Each faction has been affected slightly by the prothean cycle events and I added my own touches to my fic's canon, inspired by other fanfics I've read.
Pick the three who will be affected and your own personal reasoning as to why. It doesn't always have to be in a negative way, but this helps me create a better story. To hear your thoughts and personal reasons for picking them. It fuels my imagination and draws power to my pen…. Or my keyboard in this case.
This example is also my vote.
Of the contact events: The Abattoir. The Trials of Hephadon. Songs of Heaven.
Of the affected:
The Batarian Hegemony: It's a classic. We all hate the pirate, the slaver, and the scum. It is befitting they get what they deserve. This hatred does not expand to the rest of the population though. They are victims of an oppressive regime that keeps its chokehold of the population through religious brainwashing and propaganda and oppression. Unfortunately, their government will be their undoing. And for that… I pity them.
The Asari republics and the Council of Matriarchs: There is something wrong with their leaders. Their thirst for dominion and games of intrigue are subtle. The face they present themselves towards the galaxy is one of a friendly and wise alien, but underneath, the prothean bloodline runs strong. Just like their predecessors, they seek to rule the galaxy and assimilate all under their rule. But unlike their elders who used power and military might, the Asari use cultural and political influence to get their agendas into place. And I hate them for that. I hate their stagnation. Their games of intrigue. The face of benevolence they carefully maintain despite the fact that it is due to them that the galaxy has remained stagnant for well over a millennia and the terminus still is forevermore lawless. They were the ones who allowed this, the Batarians, the quarians, so much. So much harm done by those blue witches. It would be nice to have that illusion be shattered like glass and expose the hidden rotten core of the council of matriarchs.
The Quarian Admiralty: I don't hate them… I pity them. But they also make me angry, furious, even. They linger in the same place over and over, dreaming of a world they will never be able to conquer so long as they remain in space. Why struggle and toil in the darkness of space, when you can leave this place fir a wider galaxy? You have the technology. You have the means. You have the way. You could leave council space forever and build on a dead world. Anything you want. But you toil and struggle. For what really? You don't remember the pain of the Mourning War. You are not them. You are the children of the children of those who died there. This hatred isn't yours, it's your ancestors, and you still let it consume you. Doing things the same way over and over for two hundred years, expecting a different result. Its madness, but you are too blind and foolish to see it. Time to wake up.
Also i profusely apologize for not knowing how to make a bloody voting system after the one on the top.
EVERYONE PLEASE VOTE. AND YES, LURKERS, I AM LOOKING AT YOU TOO.
Of Choices to Make.
Nine paths to contact. Nine paths to damnation and divinity. Let the mortal minds see the Black Light of the Gods of the Primeval Realm. Let their souls shatter at the sight of the divine.
The ones in bold letters can affect the galaxy at large, but they may not if they don't win the top score, while those in italic shouldn't unless they are the top scored ones. Pick three. The one and second who have the highest score will be presented.
- Songs of Heaven. The arts of the gods is not something mortal eyes and ears should behold. Sometimes, it is best to leave them alone and turn a blind eye to their existence, for none should witness perfection.
- Some poor fucks found a pretersapien girl practicing for their concert. To say that humanity's music is something beyond comprehension is selling it short.
- Fingers of the Angyl. Sleeping golems of glass, iron, brass and gold. They await the rousing of their King of Light. Yet even slumbering, these constructs of alien thought traverse the halls of the Sanctum Luminosica, walking without mind or purpose, until the inquisitive prod their cogs and stir their God.
- A table top player gets his small legion of automaton figures stolen by primitives thinking the figures are unstoppable weapons of mass destruction. Pray that he is in a good mood when he wakes up.
- Mirror of Tales. You seek the truth, and it shall show it to you. You seek your greatest desires, and it will make them true for you. You seek power and it will provide it to you. You seek to dine at the greatest of halls, drink from the tallest chalice and it shall give it to you. You wish for a life without pain, without heart ache, and it will grant it. All that and more…. Only for the price of your soul.
- Don't play human videogames. They become… frighteningly real, and primitive brains cannot process the devices.
- Trials of Hephadon. The Halls of Hephadon, where the greatest of warriors come and gather, to pass its trials is to be gifted with an artifact of the gods themselves. Yet to reach such a price, one must traverse through horror and loss and blood.
- A place where lower class (I mean in power levels, not societal class) people do parkour, fight monsters and do all kinds of shenanigans and then given a souvenir for playing (Usually obsolete weapons and trinkets and stuff like that). Unfortunately those souvenirs are pretty advanced pieces of reality defying technology for the primitives that come in.
- Bones of the Dragons. The bones of a colossal god lay resting on the vast sea that is the Void of Stars. But not dead, for with strange eons, even death itself may die. The Wyrm dreams of things great and small, and it has a plan.
- A powerful preterhuman is sleeping in the void of space, letting the currents take him wherever he may go. Too bad that psychic dreams have an effect on primitives whether they want to or not. Pretty awkward to realize that the small thousand year siesta you took caused a whole cult of psychopathic maniacs to arise wherever you went.
- Library of Akash. They reached Heaven through the Spiracle of Many Arms. For those who walk these halls, enlightenment follows. But sometimes wisdom is not benevolent. Mortal minds are not meant to stare into the books of gods and come out unscathed.
- Some primitive dumb fucks break into a nerd's personal library. Hilary and horror ensures.
- The Abattoir. The slaughterhouse. Where long had man once fed upon the flesh of mortal creatures, now they thirst for something more. The very life force of creatures, to satiate a hunger unlike those of mortal minds. It is the very purpose of this planet's existence; to satiate such a profound hunger. It is why it is called Abattoir. And mortals are not meant to walk its cursed lands, for even they can be part of the meal of gods.
- Slaughterhouses are very efficient at what they do, especially since all their functions are autonomous… unfortunately it seems that they work just as well on primitives as it does with animals, or maybe even more so. So that's why the food tasted funny.
- The Gallery of Nightmares. A realm filled with horror and despair. Where your worst nightmare comes alive and hunts you relentlessly throughout its halls. Even to escape these dark galleries of living glass and bizarre alien geometries, does not mean one escapes the nightmares.
- A high quality horror videogame/cursed house exhibition. Or the preterhuman equivalent. Yeah… not good for the primitives in any way, shape or form.
- Philosopher Stone. The power to end all need. Such boundless quarry is the eternal promise of the Philosopher Stone. To create all matter that your dreams desire. All you need to do… is but to wish upon it.
- A nifty household device that allows the user to create any material they think off. Useful for gathering the raw materials for constructing everything you need. Even if it takes ridiculous orders at times.
Of Victims and Heroes.
The Citadel Council has not realized its fortunes. Long before the waking of the Prothean remnants, the Citadel Council had enforced a… harder grip on the galaxy… even if it is not so easily observed. The prospect of power is something every faction would give blood and limb for acquiring. Despite the warnings of the protheans, the younger races will not listen. They think the tales of unfathomable horrors and godlike abominations from the void to be merely tales and exaggerations made by the enemies of the protheans, inflated even further by the protheans themselves so that they may maintain their technological superiority. They never realized the monopoly the protheans possessed over the Magitek artifacts of Preterhumanity was never to analyze nor understand, but to seal and contain and protect the galaxy from their own folly eons ago. When the council inevitably stumbled upon the realm of gods and demons, their thirst for power will be their undoing.
The galaxy is nearing an age where ignorance of the antediluvian cannot be accepted. And this will bring terrible consequences to the galaxy.
Choose wisely who will be affected directly by the coming events. Pick three and with who will the victim be bonded. Each faction has been affected slightly by the prothean cycle events and I added my own touches to my fic's canon, inspired by other fanfics I've read.
Pick the three who will be affected and your own personal reasoning as to why. It doesn't always have to be in a negative way, but this helps me create a better story. To hear your thoughts and personal reasons for picking them. It fuels my imagination and draws power to my pen…. Or my keyboard in this case.
- The Citadel Council as a whole.
- The Asari Republics and the Council of Matriarchs.
- The Salarian Union and the STG.
- The Turian Hierarchy and its Military.
- The Terminus and its Warlords.
- The Batarian Hegemony and the Church of the Pillars.
- The Quarian Admiralty.
- The Geth Collective.
This example is also my vote.
Of the contact events: The Abattoir. The Trials of Hephadon. Songs of Heaven.
Of the affected:
The Batarian Hegemony: It's a classic. We all hate the pirate, the slaver, and the scum. It is befitting they get what they deserve. This hatred does not expand to the rest of the population though. They are victims of an oppressive regime that keeps its chokehold of the population through religious brainwashing and propaganda and oppression. Unfortunately, their government will be their undoing. And for that… I pity them.
The Asari republics and the Council of Matriarchs: There is something wrong with their leaders. Their thirst for dominion and games of intrigue are subtle. The face they present themselves towards the galaxy is one of a friendly and wise alien, but underneath, the prothean bloodline runs strong. Just like their predecessors, they seek to rule the galaxy and assimilate all under their rule. But unlike their elders who used power and military might, the Asari use cultural and political influence to get their agendas into place. And I hate them for that. I hate their stagnation. Their games of intrigue. The face of benevolence they carefully maintain despite the fact that it is due to them that the galaxy has remained stagnant for well over a millennia and the terminus still is forevermore lawless. They were the ones who allowed this, the Batarians, the quarians, so much. So much harm done by those blue witches. It would be nice to have that illusion be shattered like glass and expose the hidden rotten core of the council of matriarchs.
The Quarian Admiralty: I don't hate them… I pity them. But they also make me angry, furious, even. They linger in the same place over and over, dreaming of a world they will never be able to conquer so long as they remain in space. Why struggle and toil in the darkness of space, when you can leave this place fir a wider galaxy? You have the technology. You have the means. You have the way. You could leave council space forever and build on a dead world. Anything you want. But you toil and struggle. For what really? You don't remember the pain of the Mourning War. You are not them. You are the children of the children of those who died there. This hatred isn't yours, it's your ancestors, and you still let it consume you. Doing things the same way over and over for two hundred years, expecting a different result. Its madness, but you are too blind and foolish to see it. Time to wake up.
Also i profusely apologize for not knowing how to make a bloody voting system after the one on the top.
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Because i have so many possible ideas how the story can continue, i am doing an early voting so that i can start with the events post the evenst of the prothean and human wars with the reapers. I am not done, by far, with the prothean arc. But all of these ideas need to be picked before my memory begins to decay and go nutters. You understand now.
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I understand why the vote is happening but I ment more in I don't understand what is happening in the story currently or what any of the options mean (like why is humanity so advanced whats up with there mind fuckery magic stuff what's up with all the sup species etc etc)
EDIT: But I am finding it enjoyable even tho I don't exactly know what's going on
EDIT: But I am finding it enjoyable even tho I don't exactly know what's going on
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Ahhh.....
Then be glad that by the end of the whole Prothean arc it will all make sense. And you will laugh... you will laugh like you've never laughed before. Then you will cry. You will sob, and you will weep for the Protheans, for the Reapers, for the Council and all the other races. It will be so awful that it will be GLORIOUS!!!
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Contact Events:
1. The Asari Republics and the Council of Matriarchs.
-They're the first ones to discover the citadel which means they like poking old stuff.
-They're hypocrites that enforce an archeotech sharing law in canon but keep their stuff secret.
2. The Batarian Hegemony and the Church of the Pillars.
-They're a theocracy of slaving assholes.
-They keep the terminus warlords "in line" for the council.
3. The Citadel Council as a whole
-Each of the council members wants to get an advantage over the others so they all have their own secret exploration/ archeological projects.
- Trials of Hephadon
- Fingers of the Angyl
- Bones of the Dragons
1. The Asari Republics and the Council of Matriarchs.
-They're the first ones to discover the citadel which means they like poking old stuff.
-They're hypocrites that enforce an archeotech sharing law in canon but keep their stuff secret.
2. The Batarian Hegemony and the Church of the Pillars.
-They're a theocracy of slaving assholes.
-They keep the terminus warlords "in line" for the council.
3. The Citadel Council as a whole
-Each of the council members wants to get an advantage over the others so they all have their own secret exploration/ archeological projects.
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Library of Akash
Songs of Heaven
Bones of the Dragons
Affected:
The Terminus and its Warlords: Here be dragons, off the edge of Council space! Whispers of ancient treasures on forgotten planets, protected by Eldritch monstrosities!
The Geth Collective: robots who find religion and potentially answer their question of 'does this unit have a soul?' Might find a real answer.
The Salarian Union and the STG: the Asari may have hidden a Prothean beacon on Thessia, but the Salarians have a much greater prize hidden away...
Songs of Heaven
Bones of the Dragons
Affected:
The Terminus and its Warlords: Here be dragons, off the edge of Council space! Whispers of ancient treasures on forgotten planets, protected by Eldritch monstrosities!
The Geth Collective: robots who find religion and potentially answer their question of 'does this unit have a soul?' Might find a real answer.
The Salarian Union and the STG: the Asari may have hidden a Prothean beacon on Thessia, but the Salarians have a much greater prize hidden away...
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Delicious. That deserves a full jar of 🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪.
It's perfect in so many ways I am so sorely tempted to start writing it now.... But i won't. Not until the end of the month. But still.....
Edit: You know... I just brainstormed a bit. Religious fanatical geth vs batarians who stole the Angyl Legión would be an epic battle of biblical proportions. Hahahahahahahhaa!!!!!
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Contact Events
Library of Akash
Gallery of Nightmares
Bones of the Dragons
Affected:
The Batarian Hegemony and the Church of the Pillars: Because fuck them slavers
The Citadel Council as a whole: Nothing like pure eldritch fuckery to shock the almighty aliens out of their high table.
The Terminus and its Warlords
Library of Akash
Gallery of Nightmares
Bones of the Dragons
Affected:
The Batarian Hegemony and the Church of the Pillars: Because fuck them slavers
The Citadel Council as a whole: Nothing like pure eldritch fuckery to shock the almighty aliens out of their high table.
The Terminus and its Warlords
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Trials of Hephadon
Fingers of the Angyl
Bones of the Dragons
Affected:
The Asari Republics and the Council of Matriarchs
The Batarian Hegemony and the Church of the Pillars
The Citadel Council as a whole
Fingers of the Angyl
Bones of the Dragons
Affected:
The Asari Republics and the Council of Matriarchs
The Batarian Hegemony and the Church of the Pillars
The Citadel Council as a whole
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- Isekai'd to this shitty world we're live in
I love this story already! It's so unique and well written.
3. Mirror of Tales.
5. Bones of the Dragons.
7.The Abattoir.
The Turian Hierarchy and its Military. - they see themselves as knights in the land of monsters, but there be dragons, and their flames melt steel
The Terminus and its Warlords. - legends, myths in the land of "pagans", and adventurers trying to find treasures
The Geth Collective. - first artificial soul gestalt? cool!
3. Mirror of Tales.
5. Bones of the Dragons.
7.The Abattoir.
The Turian Hierarchy and its Military. - they see themselves as knights in the land of monsters, but there be dragons, and their flames melt steel
The Terminus and its Warlords. - legends, myths in the land of "pagans", and adventurers trying to find treasures
The Geth Collective. - first artificial soul gestalt? cool!
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several typos, like Hermaus calling himself the fifteenth hand then the fiftieth hand.
Were Krogans even around at the time of the Protheans? They were uplifted 50,000 years later after all.
So... Humanity is super paranoid, super advanced, and kinda on-the-run, but they did not search the system and its surrounding space for alien tech(like the Conduits)?
Really stupid if they just abandoned all their buildings and stuff... I mean, thats just giving your enemy all kinds of data about you and you tech.
Not a fan of the MORTALS nonsense. I mean, it comes out of nowhere. I get that you keep referencing Apotheosis, but the Humans supposedly fought against "godlike" beings in an attempt to escape extermination. Seems pretty off the wall for them to just turn around and do the exact same thing(playing up the god angle and torturing/exterminating others).
Were Krogans even around at the time of the Protheans? They were uplifted 50,000 years later after all.
So... Humanity is super paranoid, super advanced, and kinda on-the-run, but they did not search the system and its surrounding space for alien tech(like the Conduits)?
Really stupid if they just abandoned all their buildings and stuff... I mean, thats just giving your enemy all kinds of data about you and you tech.
Not a fan of the MORTALS nonsense. I mean, it comes out of nowhere. I get that you keep referencing Apotheosis, but the Humans supposedly fought against "godlike" beings in an attempt to escape extermination. Seems pretty off the wall for them to just turn around and do the exact same thing(playing up the god angle and torturing/exterminating others).
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Captain Arterius: We are Turians! None will defeat us! This unholy planet must be cleansed with orbital fire! It's serpentine demons slaughtered by the might of our Vessels. Blow them up!!!
*Bombs the planet from Orbit after loosing everyone on the ground.*
*Suddenly six thousand km dragón god thing wakes up.*
Every turian: -Cunfused screaming-
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Gallery of Nightmares
Beth
Turian
Asari
Beth
Turian
Asari
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- In the Space between Spaces
- Thanks for telling me about the typos.
- We are still in the Prothean arc. Krogan and the like haven't shown up yet.
- I should have mentioned that they ran away as in passed tense. No longer running because the Duchala arent chasing them. They simply didnt want humans in the dame galaxy because humans and the Duchala are obscurial brothers.
- They searched using all their technology. None of which detected the relays because eezo is exclusive to this galactic cluster. They did not know of it's existence.
- Sure... Letting your enemies have magic technology that reliably eats your sanity, makes You batshit omnicidal, cognitophagic, corruptive and has a habit of calling demons from another dimension is a Bad idea. For whom actually? The humans? Or for the protheans?
- And mortals? Yeah... he is the only one that calla aliens mortals. Because Hermaeus is a finger of a hand of that thing that was the unión of a million human souls in the warp. He is an inmortal. Killing his body Merely means he Will be reborn somewhere else. So not a single Obscurus has died. Ever.
- All that torturing and shit? Hermaeus is a demonic creature from the Empyrean born out of huamnity. He doesn't eat meat. He eats life Energy.
- Hermaeus and the entire Obscurus race is the one plotting for apotheosis. For humanity. The reason why no one knows anything about their plots is because their minds are so alien in process that only Sentients can understand them. And the Sentients are in league with them.
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- Planet Earth
As to #2. You may want to re-read this, or the previous chapter. Cuz in one of them the Protheans (Lotir?), directly mention the Krogan. Which is what I found odd.
Darth.
Definitely a heretic
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Will this be explained later in text or can you tell us what that means now?
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Protheans were cunts. They did what they pleased with even primitive sentient species. Hell Even javik comments that salarians liver is tasty. Krogan are most likely used as guard dogs or some tough prey. So they obviously should know how tough they were. And how aggressive.
I am making the timeline of events before reaching the new galaxy. You Will get the full explanation then. But to put it simply, life on earth was born from a fragment of a primeval entity.
The Duchala were born out of the other one. Only that they rose to sapience roughly about the same time the leviathans in ME did. And given that all of those primeval entities were all brought into inception by the universe at the dawn of creation they are in a loose way siblings.
That's humanity's relationship with the Duchala and why there was conflict to begin with. It is by their Nature to either kill each other or stay the fuck away.