FINAL TRIAL

[strangerpeople]

FINAL TRIAL

[The doors at the other end of the city do not open for the Titled. However, whatever is going on in there still brings forth bright lights from within, and ultimately, it is to the steps of the entrance that everyone is drawn to. It's not the most formal setting for figuring out the truth of the matter before them.

Eric's brought the snacks, at least.

The Dragonborn sits at the top of the stairs, looking down as everyone congregates.]

...Having this key...I am certain I can open the door with little difficulty. But before I do we must make certain we know and understand exactly what we will be facing. What we are facing. These people...they are doing something and we must ensure we can somehow stop it.


[The end is near. The objectives of this quest are simple:

Who is the Mastermind? What is going on in this world? And...of course...why did the Mastermind want to kill 15 strangers?

Good luck, Titled.]

Comments

[carries_war]

You sure? It might be different if they were sitting on top of an artifact of the gods that was meant to shape creation, don't you think?

[thiscomicsucks]

Not necessarily, especially if they couldn't handle it. It's as the Evil Overlord List put it: never consume an energy source bigger than your head, no matter how tempting unlimited power is.

[carries_war]

I was thinking less like consuming, more...siphoning. It's like the Zohar emulators: damn dangerous if handled carelessly, but if you know what you're doing, you've got a near limitless source of power. And the kinds of people who have to be reminded not to consume an energy source larger than their heads, are the kinds of people who aren't going to think about what if it goes wrong.

[thiscomicsucks]

Eh, true...though we prefer to call those people dumbasses.

I guess siphoning makes sense, but...I don't know, it just feels weird that you could do that and have it affect entirely different universes.

[carries_war]

We don't really know enough about how these Towers and Stones work...though a blockage in their tunnels could work from either end. Bringing us here in the first place, though...that's tough. Especially since just passing through Imaginary Space brings you into contact with U-DO, and there's no way something like him wouldn't also occupy the border of the universe.

[thiscomicsucks]

That's what I'm saying. Bringing us here without a trace is incredibly difficult, even for someone with access to god-like powers. There would be some energy residual that either a sufficiently advanced technology, or...if you're a magic world, a wizard or witch of sufficient power could sense.

I mean, hell, my Earth's tech is nothing to write home about and I'm a novice when it comes to magic, and even we could figure out when an Elder God from another reality was screwing with things!

[carries_war]

Ripples in space-time and anomalies in the UMN are easy to pick up, yeah. But for all we know, someone actually has found it, but they just can't get through. Just because you can find a distortion doesn't mean you can open it...hell, it took a localized Phase Transfer Cannon blast just to tear through the force field Albedo was using to hide the Song of Nephilim.