Dantia/Storylines/Mana Surges & Wild Magic/Phase 3: The Magic Goes Awry
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This page relates to phase 3 of the 10 phase event known as Mana Surges & Wild Magic.
Phase 3: Magic Goes Awry
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| 449-05-184 Jun 15, 2024 |
A realm-wide magical disruption causes all magic users to experience intense pain as their specific magical attunements are suddenly severed, rendering the magic system inoperative. Over the next hour, characters experience a series of sensations ranging from coldness to overwhelming surges of mana, culminating in the restoration of magic but in an uncontrollable "Wild Magic" state.
Expand for details. Realm wide, people feel one of the below messages, depending on their mana type/Guild:
After this, attempting to use the magic system (such as prepare a spell, harness, invoke a tattoo, or use a wand) gave one of the following messages. Magic was turned off!
Over the next hour, we feel (in this order): Your body trembles as your mind instinctively reaches toward that place where you usually feel your connection to magic. It is cold. You feel a surge of mana reaching toward you! You instinctively reach out to grasp it. You struggle to hold on, but it slips away again, leaving you feeling exhausted. You sense a fleeting trace of mana. It briefly grows stronger, but quickly fades away again. Your senses explode and you are momentarily blinded! Mana overfills your being, and you struggle to control the flow! Just as suddenly, it seeps away, leaving you empty. You feel a deep sense that something has changed. Your attunement to the breathing rise and fall of Life is restored, but it does not feel controllable! Casting has returned, but it is now Wild! For more information on how Wild Magic works, the messaging, or effects, please visit Wild Magic (Concept). |
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| 449-05-184 Jun 15, 2024 |
Shortly after the the Wild Magic release, there is an invasion of Vile Plague Wraiths throughout Shard, Zoluren and Therengia.
Expand for details. > look wraith Held aloft by two expansive skeletal wings, the massive plague wraith towers over thirty feet tall. Under its tattered cloak, a black mass of writhing insects and serpents cling tightly to a nearly fleshless skeleton. Four elongated arms, covered in a tangle of scorpions and spiders, end in wickedly curved talons that twitch in anticipation of its next victim. Practically obscured by the inky shadows cast by its voluminous hood, two flaming emerald eyes partially illuminate its malevolent hook-toothed skull. Some of these creatures drop an emerald scarab medallion with a delicate gold inlay, which was cursed (meaning you could not drop it until it was uncursed). |
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| 449-05-184 Jun 15, 2024 |
Along with the release of Wild Magic is the addition of a new RESEARCH option, RESEARCH WILD. On completion, each Guild receives a different message with hints as to what is going on.
Expand for details. Trader: Breakthrough! Lunar mana fizzes out of focus with unknowable, periodic perturbations from the planets in your range. Oddly enough, it is the Negotiants' unbidden tutelage that nudges you toward the research's endpoint and a wealth of knowledge relating to wild magic. You are assured that the Contract is still inviolate and binding, and all prohibitions remain. The Contract is all that matters. Moon Mage: Breakthrough! Lunar mana fizzes out of focus with unknowable, periodic perturbations from the planets in your range. Oddly enough, your calculations prompt you to think back to a time with Katamba unburnt and Grazhir whole, the golden age of near-effortless Lunar miracles. All lost now, and the threads are converging on a similarly disastrous trajectory! Paladin: Breakthrough! You have come to an alarming conclusion you attribute the changes in Holy mana's behavior to long-standing and widespread lopsided practices of magic. An imbalance is shaking the Bulwark loose, which seems bafflingly vulnerable against this menace.Cleric: Breakthrough! You have come to an alarming conclusion you attribute the changes in Holy mana's behavior to an 'upward' lurch in the flow. Something is stymieing or etiolating the Font of Creation, and Divinity itself is suffering for it! Bard: Breakthrough! Something is broken with the replenishment cycles of Elemental mana. Even though you have not noticed a decrease in available power, it seems inevitable. From what your research has evoked, you have the smallest understanding, the barest shape, of an eonic plan that stretches back to the dark histories -- gods and demons, mortals and monsters all helpless before it. Warrior Mage: Breakthrough! Something is broken with the replenishment cycles of Elemental mana. Even though you have not noticed a decrease in available power, it seems inevitable. Lessons from long ago prickle at your mind concerning the lore of Sraan Mehath. You cannot shake a feeling of deep dread. Empath: Breakthrough! Life mana has buckled under vast pressures from what feel like above and below. Although this instills a fear in you for the fate of the cycle of life, you do not think the repercussions will echo to the natural world just yet. Ranger: Breakthrough! Life mana has buckled under vast pressures from what feel like above and below. You have an intimation that the Life dragons are keenly aware of the causes, preparing and further isolating their conserved lands. However, as usual, they have withheld their counsel. Necromancer: Breakthrough! You just concluded the unpleasant task of tracking the continual disruption in Arcane mana, step by minute step. Some force beyond your ken, nothing short of godly, has been changing the rules with a brutal hand. The Great Work is tipped on the brink of impossibility as the mana streams become increasingly immiscible, sterile, and foreign textured all at once. Necromancer (Redeemed): Breakthrough! You just concluded the unpleasant task of tracking the continual disruption in Arcane mana, step by minute step. The grand order ordained by the gods is under attack by... itself? In ways you cannot approach grasping, the mana spectrum is separating out, each strand resisting attempts to bend it into patterns. |
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