Lewascan2

Myriad Reality

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A form of teleportation amigo.

@Uncle Death

Righteo.

Myriad Reality

@Uncle Death Was that speed or teleportation?

Myriad Reality

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Howdy.
*waves at you, my skull warping into a grin with my mouth slightly open*

@Uncle Death

*I barely managed to conceal my trepidation, but hopefully, I came off generally amicable. As things were, I was having to enter an almost meditative state to avoid giving too much attention to any one of the absurd individuals I was now surrounded by.*

Uh... Hi?

*Like, what did you even say to the manifestation of "Death"?*

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*I chuckle at the use of the word killer, ironic with the present company as it was.*

I'm glad I never crossed paths with these killer whales else I wouldn't have the pleasure of such company.

*Motions to everyone in the room.*

@Dark Cloud

*I grimaced openly, cringing at the memory of those abominations. Sure, Yandere had been bad on a personal level, an unparalleled nemesis, but Scion?*

Well, I call them whales, but that's more a mocking term so I can focus less on how easily they could destroy... pretty much everything if they started taking us in any way seriously back then. One was killed by pure luck and betrayal of one of their own kind. Only reason we could even kill the remaining one was that he -it- was depressed and suicidal... and also never took humanity seriously until it was too late. We hit him with a weapon that could strike every single dimension he was in simultaneously and managed to cripple enough of his vital abilities that we were able to finish him off before he could recover or escape.

Myriad Reality

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Yes, I'm good friends with Death himself. Interesting individual like my undead comrade Vinashay.

*Nods towards a shadow in the corner of the room.*

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Do show yourself friend.

@Dark Cloud

*Death him-fucking-self? Absolutely wonderful. My flat expression didn't quite convey the existential dread of that concept... more because my very existence was as likely to fascinate as it might personally offend such a being.*

So... Death, huh? Like... THE Death or just A Death? I mean, the multiverse apparently being what it is, I feel like there's a distinction to be made there.

*A moment later, my head swiveled towards the indicated shadow with trepidation.*

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*There's a swirl of crimson smoke, and he appears infrount of the group, then sweeps into a elegant bow*

I am Vinashy. It is a pleasure to make your aquantince.

@Shadow Dragon

*It was a good thing I was fairly numb to the concept of self-preservation presently, because otherwise my poker face might not have held in the face of the utterly noxious, seething scent of blood that billowed off of the newcomer's soul and battered my senses, even through Alna's aura. At this point, I was starting to wonder if I might have just stumbled into being the "noble general" of some evil overlord type. Between the skeleton's obvious charisma and power, the unstable but loyal cutie as his maybe right hand, and the probably "hyper competent" assassin general now showing up, I was starting to see a potential pattern developing before my genre savvy senses. Just my luck.*

Ah... Yes, a pleasure. Sorry, I'm a bit out of my depth right now, I think.

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*Falls from the ceiling, my skull rolling away from my body*
agh, my neck.

@Uncle Death

*Honestly, my own neck probably should have been getting sore from how much I kept having my attention snapped in different directions. I watched relatively impassively, as Alna conversed with... another skeleton.*

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A holiday is a holiday or whatever common phrase you humans use eh?

*Glances to Collin*

@Dark Cloud

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*shrugs*
I wouldn't know.

@Uncle Death

*I shrugged in turn.*

Eh, you're not wrong. I've not really participated much in holidays in recent memory. The Apocalypse tends to be something of a mood-killer... as does the existential dread of multiverse-ganking space-whales.

Myriad Reality

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Haha, okay I'll be clear Alna has the means to bend universes to him whims, destroy realities with a flick of the wrist yet he doesn't because it isn't the gentleman's way.

EDIT: He could do anything you can do replicated with magic, transcending any and all laws of nature to do whatever his whimsy desires.

@Dark Cloud

Unless he can simultaneously: locate every reality with a vital portion of the Entity (of which there will be hundreds to thousands), shatter the dimensional barriers they put around said realities, and then destroy them fairly simultaneously, it will pretty quickly devolve into a game of cat and mouse. And the Entity will hardly be merely running, so Alna would have to be playing defense too against a being with a literal Path to Victory power that they would absolutely be using in the face of such an egregious attack. They're hiveminds, so they can multitask like no-one's business.

And to reiterate, Entities don't use magic, merely high-ascended math backed by energy that lets them impose those new laws of physics on reality. It's not anything he can copy without the same level of planet-sized computer computational power. Sure he can probably think of a magical version, but the Entity way is not magic.

Point being, Alna's absolutely a monster and strong to a degree that boggles the mind no doubt, but a full-powered Entity can and will likely give him a run for his money, even if he's try-harding. Luckily, they're all dead now, so we won't be seeing such an utterly devastating fight come to pass.

Myriad Reality

Also for whatever it's worth, we've historically tried to avoid force-resolving "who would win in a fight" between characters that both players want to portray as strong and "defeat is unthinkable!" So if you have a character you would want to win in a conflict and the other player also has a character they would want to win, just remember that carrying it to the end will result in someone being unsatisfied with the results. =)

@Meta

The Entites are not characters I'm playing. Just enemies that are involved in my character's backstory/homeworld. They're pretty "big fucking deal" type beings but not ones I'd really enjoy playing. Didn't even consider it. They also most certainly aren't unbeatable. After all, all the relevant ones were killed in Worm Canon by various means. There was extenuating circumstances, but they're hardly unbeatable, merely incredibly daunting in their prime and typical state.

Myriad Reality

Ahhhhh. Elderich Horrors

@Shadow Dragon

Basically this. Worm does love its existential threats to humanity.

Myriad Reality

He eats more then blood. Energy, powers, spacial authority, and traps the soul in his scythe.

@Shadow Dragon

That still wouldn't steal their powers. That's not how the Entities work. It's not special energy. It's literally just ascended math. Unless he has the mental computation power and absorbs their knowledge of physics, it's useless to him.

Also, the Entities don't actually fight using their real bodies. They channel powers through humanoid avatars and hide behind dimensional barriers with their body scattered out across multiple dimensions. Getting at their souls -if these abominations even have one- would require reaching their true body parts... many many times, since they can shift dimensions at will. As I mentioned, each individual Shard would effectively be a separate soul of a massive hivemind. These things are the furthest thing from easy to so much as challenge, never mind kill.

And this is assuming one can get around their Path To Victory power that literally gives them the precognitive step-by-step path to perfect victory in literally any situation. The only limits are that it's naturally hyper energy intensive to use, so they save it as a last resort for foes they have to take seriously.

Myriad Reality

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With their power combined Alna and Vin are possibly equal to the whales you keep mentioning.

@Dark Cloud

Vinashy could just drain them and steal their powers

@Shadow Dragon

Well, not really. The "space whales" only kinda look like that. What they actually are in Worm is multidimensional worm-like "Entities" that go around using entire worlds as petri-dishes for their experiments into how to truly overcome Entropy.

Each Entity is comprised of hundreds of thousands of individually planet-sized "Shards", each one having dominion over a specific power and able to in time spawn offshoots of themselves with new related powers. The shards have no blood and so probably can't be drained. They are more like giant crystalline computers that only seem flesh-like, and every single one of them is independent from the whole but connected like a hive-mind. Their powers function through the manipulation of dimensional physics and basically hyper-advanced math and computation of physics, and so it's not really conventionally possibly to "steal" their powers. Killing a Shard isn't really going to do anything to an Entity even then. They can easily cast off and/or disconnect themselves from compromised Shards and are more than able to eventually create a replacement later on.

Like, these Entities are capable of destroying entire multiverse clusters in a single blow if they feel like being serious, and they actively do so as a method of propelling themselves across the multiverse using the force of the explosion.

Killing these guys is a big flipping deal, and the only reason canon Worm went so well was that a Third Entity tricked and weakened one of the two that was threatening Earth, allowing it to be assassinated by a human that connected to one of its strongest powers. That left only one full-powered Entity for humanity to have to fight, and they only won even then by making him depressed over his partner's death and causing him to commit suicide. That was the original course of events separate from the AU caused by Collin's interference.

Myriad Reality

You guys are good people?

@Shadow Dragon

Well... at least they're polite?
*side-eyes Misty*
Mostly.