Clash of Worlds by Bloodshadow

[Bloodshadow]

Wait... Gl1tch, another of your insect hive mind thing has arrived at Elements? That might make things too complicated, especially since the story has just started...

[ddevans96]

I would suggest introducing this as a boss later, instead of something early on.

[Krahhl]

Could we somehow find a place to combine the pieces of the story, so it's easier to read? Also, this way it could be organized chronologically, as my first post will likely have happened before the latest events in the story, my character just hasn't found his way to the Kingdom of Light yet.

I think Bloodshadow, Helios, $$$man, and Gl1tch should pause for a bit, to allow everyone else to get going so we can all meet in Illucius or something, whatever direction the plot may take. (You can't exclude me from being butt-kicked by corrupted Miracle and Rainbow, if that's what's happening!)

Will edit with an InC later.


Where is it?

Sethri pushed a fallen tree out of the way and continued looking for the carving. The little piece of metal meant a lot to him personally, as it was the last possession he had from his first tutor, who had since fallen in battle. On it were engraved the words, Running away is the same as losing. Retreating is not. He had lost it the day before without any logical story. His friend Ciuna was assisting his search, along with Nyks.

Leaping over another tree, Sethri spotted a peculiar plant hiding among the undergrowth. It had long flat leaves growing in parallel formations, unlike anything he had seen before.

“Ciuna! Come over here!”

“Did you find it?” she hollered back from the other side of the clearing.

“No, but there’s something else! Come che–”

An instinctive impulse interrupted him, turning his head to the left. He saw a rift forming in the ground – no, in reality –, rapidly expanding.

“JUST KIDDING! GET OUT OF HERE!!” he bellowed.

Sethri tried running away, but there was no solid surface anymore. The last thing he saw was Nyks jumping to his side before existence ceased to exist.

- - -

Sethri dropped to his knees, unable to command them to support his weight. His eyes described only blurry blotches, but he could already feel the cold. He felt Nyks’s gentle nudge on his shoulder, strengthening him to focus his mind and rise to his feet. With his vision cleared, Sethri surveyed his surroundings. The entire landscape was frozen. In his front, left, and right, there were only plains of ice, and what seemed like an ocean far in the distance. Behind him was a small mountain range. Although he had been ripped from his home, he still felt at home, among ice and snow.

Deciding that it was the best way to go, Sethri headed towards the mountains. He magically blasted ice behind him, reactively propelling himself forward. Nyks followed along, easily scaling the slope with twenty-four sharp claws, supported in motion by its wings.

When he reached the top of the mountain, Sethri could see a bay, beaching to more of the frozen plains on the right, but a different land on the opposite side. It seemed to glow with a faint light. Light had always been a good thing to Sethri, so he didn’t think he could go wrong by continuing towards it.

[Bloodshadow]

I would suggest introducing this as a boss later, instead of something early on.

Agreed. Right now it would only complicate things too much.

Could we somehow find a place to combine the pieces of the story, so it's easier to read? Also, this way it could be organized chronologically, as my first post will likely have happened before the latest events in the story, my character just hasn't found his way to the Kingdom of Light yet.

Uh... Someone else can do that if s/he is bored, but I won't have time for that.

I will now add Krahhl and JamesDyer's profiles to the first post.

@JamesDyer: Keep in mind that most player characters in this game have strong mental defenses. I suggest that you don't try to mind control them, unless the players agree to being controlled.

[jamesdyer680]

OOC:I know, I'm planning on having him to try and use his powers to communicate to John but make him get knocked out for a short while for letting his guard down near an enemy when he was trying to send a message, but have him get back up soon after. I'm going to add an INC post to this quite soon about right before and after he goes through the portal.

INC:


Elderich Mindfang blinked. What is that? He thought while staring at the ashy and fiery plane in the hole in front of him.
Perhaps it's a trap laid by those foolish Hondas have put up for him. Do they really think that I'm that stupid? I find it as an insult that's so disturbing, I can't even bear thinking about it.

While he was thinking to himself, one of those brutes pushed him in accidentally. He thought that their trap was right there on the ground...

Elderich Mindfang felt a slight touch on his back, well, not exactly touch more like what happens when you get hit on the back with a crowbar twice the length of your arm. He was then cascading through the portal in front of him, then, he had fainted.

He came to a few hours later on the ground in the fiery and ashy plane he saw in the hole before he fainted. He came to just in time to jump of the way of a lava golem's fist crashing into the spot where he used to be, he took a slight glimpse at the huge crater where his head used to be and sighed, perhaps he could control him for a moment?

He took a deep breath and concentrated amazingly hard while the lava golem's fist came crashing down at him.

When it seemed like that he was going to get pummeled without a doubt, the lava golem's fist stopped inches before contact. It then withdrew and started hitting itself with it's fist as Elderich Mindfang laughed 'stop hitting yourself! I said stop hitting yourself!' A short while later, the golem was a simple pile of clay and rocks in front of him with a piece of paper that had some writing on it.

Maybe I should keep this he thought as he picked it up and put it in his pocket it might come in handy.



OOC:

Ok, change of plans, I won't try and infiltrate John's mind as I said, I'll just send a telepathic message. And the fight I had just now wasn't my official fight that Bloodshadow told all of us to do, it was just for a little fun, oh, and this all happened in the past a short while after John goes into the world of Elements, and I'm planning on using the chem Elderus picked up somewhere in something like a mini-boss fight accidentally so he realises it's a spell or something, I'm free to suggestions though .

[Bloodshadow]

I won't try and infiltrate John's mind as I said

Try that, and you'll find out the hard way where all of Jonathan's evil traits went. If anyone tries to invade Jonathan's mind, s/he will see his inner demon Eclipsis inside him. And then get beaten into a psychic pulp, since Eclipsis is pure evil and shows no mercy. Eclipsis actually acts as a mental defense mechanism of sorts.

Although, even if you try to invade his mind, Jonathan will block it. He is in a foreign land, so he's constantly on guard.

[jamesdyer680]

I won't try and infiltrate John's mind as I said

Try that, and you'll find out the hard way where all of Jonathan's evil traits went. If anyone tries to invade Jonathan's mind, s/he will see his inner demon Eclipsis inside him. And then get beaten into a psychic pulp, since Eclipsis is pure evil and shows no mercy. Eclipsis actually acts as a mental defense mechanism of sorts.

Although, even if you try to invade his mind, Jonathan will block it. He is in a foreign land, so he's constantly on guard.

Ok, I'll try and describe the mental mind control thing you told me to do. It'll be interesting to see how this goes.

[Glitch]

Garb darb, updates too slow.  Time to make up mah own thing.
Approximately 600,000,000,000 years ago.  Earth.

My name is Alan, and I am alone.

So, so alone.

Have you ever done something, seen something, and wished more than anything you could change what you have done?

Of course not.  You wouldn't be here if you had.

But I did.  Not for me.  For someone else.  Someone who's gone now.  But then, that's not special.

Everyone is gone.

It only took two months.

Two months ago I did it.  I made a device that could change things.  One that traveled through time.  And, proud of my creation, I looked forward 6 months to see the fruits of my labor.

The second I got back to the present, I destroyed the machine.

I was horrified by what I saw!  No one was satisfied!  They changed things rapidly and for trivial reasons, the existence was unstable.  The entire universe fluctuated between two options for years at a time over a simple football game.  A football game!!

So I redesigned the device.  If one person drags the entire universe through when they change something, there will never be any peace.  Ever.

The new design only changed things for the user.  One person could leave the current world and go where they wanted.  An alternate world with whatever they wanted.  But I did not have the ability to look ahead anymore.  I could not see the fruits of my labor before hand.  I was young.  I was excited.  I was foolish.

The second people could, they left.  They went to a better world to live in, a happier world, a utopia.  One that was not here.

And they never came back.

Not one.

So I am alone.  They have all gone somewhere "better", somewhere that is different for all of them, and until I can be in more places at once, it is somewhere I cannot go.  I cannot find all of them.  I cannot wander forever.  I cannot retrieve what is gone.

I will write again in this journal when I have made progress, but for now?

I am alone.

So... so alone.

"Gl1tch you can't do that blah!!!!!!!!"

"This is a collaborative writing thing.  I'll do what I want D=<"

I've decided to write a backstory to Annihilus.  Right now Annihilius is just some mysterious person who's been imprisoned for millennia.  Here's why.  Like all my writing, this story will be told in peaces, snippets of  emotion instead of a chronology of plot.  And, most importantly, no one is inherently evil.  No one is born evil, no one considers themselves evil.  Everyone honestly believes they are fighting for the forces of good.  Everyone.

So I'm sorry if you think I'm overstepping my bounds here, but it has no impact on the story whatsoever and makes the main bad-guy less cliché, and I've seen no evidence to the contrary that this cannot be done.  So ignore it if you will, I won't argue with you if you say this shouldn't be done, because, well, I don't care.  It shall be written, and in my opinion, it's written pretty damn well.  And, if you give it time, it'll explain some things. 

[Krahhl]

It looks fine to me. It definitely doesn't change the current story, so it can't hurt. 600,000,000,000 is a big number o_o.

I think I'll add an InC later.

[Bloodshadow]

So I'm sorry if you think I'm overstepping my bounds here

Hell yes you did. I remember that I said anything regarding Annihilus must be discussed thoroughly before it's written.

Technically, everyone is allowed to narrate in the perspective of Annihilus, but I would suggest that we should avoid controlling the main antagonist as much as possible. If you really have to do something with Annihilus, discuss it with the players first to make sure they're fine with it.

And if you decide to write something as game-changing as the very nature of the main antagonist himself, I would expect you to talk to us about it before you put it into InC words.

However, if you do plan ahead, you are expected to share your plans with other players. Keeping things secret is highly discouraged, because the more you keep secret, the more likely it'll conflict with what another player planned.

You may think that what you wrote doesn't affect anything, but in fact it already affected far more than you would expect. The idea I originally had in mind is that Annihilus is the antithesis of God, and the reason why God disappeared was all a part of His great plan. The point is, you should really talk to at least half of the players first before you do something like that.

All right, time to build upon your ideas.

Originally, there was only one world, one universe. Then this being (human?) named Alan built a time machine, and caused the universe to split into many parallel universes.

The original world that Alan inhabited got erased due to a paradox, and all that left in its place was a Void. The time machine also exploded, releasing an energy that would later be known as Divine.

Alan fused with the Divine and Void energies and became a godlike being, but the process, along with his guilt, regret, and loneliness drove him insane. He figured that the only way to restore the world was to devour all the parallel universes, mash them together, and create a new one. However, doing so would destroy all life in existence, so Alan's conscience refused to let him do it.

Alan had a mental breakdown, which caused him to split into Infinis (God) and Annihilus. Annihilus wanted to devour all the worlds and reset everything, but God wouldn't let him do it because it would destroy life. Annihilus got sealed away, and God became the Creator because technically it was him who "created" all the parallel universes.

600 billion years later, the worlds are what they are now.

Yep, maybe this is going to work out after all. However, I think we do need a better name than "Alan".

[jamesdyer680]

Oh, what the hell, I don't mind if people argue a little to get everybody to agree on something, but I don't want this to turn out like the old elements RPG where I think there were at least half of all the pages was from just plain bickering, I don't want this to happen again, ok?

[Bloodshadow]

Oh, what the hell, I don't mind if people argue a little to get everybody to agree on something, but I don't want this to turn out like the old elements RPG where I think there were at least half of all the pages was from just plain bickering, I don't want this to happen again, ok?

Neither do I. However, information regarding the nature of Annihilus is very important, so it has to be discussed. Discussion is not necessarily bickering. If it's necessary, we can resolve things via PM.

BTW, the name of Alan's time machine: Deus ex Machina