(Look down to see the 1st part of the final battle)
j. The Failed Species
Of course, in the tale of life, for it to be complete, death should also be present to complement it. Many crises were easily shrugged off by the species of the forum, but at times the weakest of the runt would be taken out, them or any descendants never to be seen again. The first example of true extinction in the forum’s history was the one of Fabula Antelectum, a species which not like it’s mainline brethren moved towards far into appealing to the users, only for other species to take advantage of the lack of good defenses as the result of the shifted focus. The end of the plight of this kin might have meanwhile contributed to the next two species going extinct, that being Cogito Arstractatori, a new genus species derived from the main branch of the Fabula genus, specialized towards the cyber side of the forum, which species didn’t even last a full month. The other species which went extinct exactly a year after the appearance of life in the forum was Dichorisare Hemozore, a rather derived form of the divider genus, having evolved to be more like a plant with a skin of glass, which has already been in grave danger for a while before it’s final perishment. A year and a half after these two extinctions came the fourth one in total, with the Yuyimus species, the first split-off from the main Multipoda species that gave rise to this genuses age, having been finished off by other species after suffering a catastrophe from the cursors first and those competitors next. These centipedes were the only obligate carnivores in the forum’s history, having a good musculature, excellent eyesight, much parental core into offspring, mimicry and features made specifically to combat special defenses of other species. It’s stay as a dead species wouldn’t exactly last very long however as it would be returned under the form of a Mistworm-controlled puppet two months later… Only to be absorbed along with Cancrorum Caligovermis back into the worm seven months later so that it could conceal itself. During it’s stay as a dark subservient the Multipodan went back to a diet of both letter and flesh, along with much cyber-abilities relating to darkness that especially aided it in combat and evasion. For the crab with an oath to the worm meanwhile, it’s abilities were too enhanced with elements cyber and dark, even being able to create beings of water to help itself. The last extinction in the forum, thus far, would come when eleven months after the hiding of the mist into the orb, it’s last loyal species, Dichorisare Bontopius would finally perish after a long struggle against the covenant when all it’s members were annihilated by a mass nuclear explosion set as a trap to lure them in, making them think they were going to save their trapped master… An another split-off of from the Dichorisare base species, this one would speck for combat more than it’s fore father’s intelligence, initially at least. It’s body became tougher and when killed it would explode in it’s killer’s face as a punishment. More long legs would grow from it’s abdomen and it became much larger than what it used to be, all while being an eusocial kin by this point. Allying with the mist, it became fully devoted to it unlike the wall slugs/crabs, becoming even more dangerous to deal with. It’s swarms grew and so did it’s intelligence to be on par with the level of the worm, until sapience was achieved. Mutation and Technology would be weaved together month after month as the fight against the covenant continued. The element of this warsome kin would become fire and then then darkness. At it’s end the species also become extremely resilient to hostile attacks, with even Cybernuclear flurries not guaranteed to wipe out the species completely when spread out.
Some species also came tantalizingly close to total eradication and yet they naturally - or not - came back from the dead, for one to die out later, and for the other to live on. The former was true for the Hemozore species, whose spores survived the death of the last specimens of the species at the time, while the later was the case for Chiozore, which was saved from the grasp of death by no one other than Deus itself, imperfectly albeit.
3. Special Entity Histories and Descriptions
a. The Mist(worm/orb)
A creation of the users most controversial back in their time and age, this being has had just perhaps the largest impact out of any to ever exist in this realm. Originally guided by the aforementioned user wizards, it’s purpose was to bring an end to the biosphere, a task it would try to execute for the lion’s part of it’s lifespan. It would eventually have to rely purely on itself after it’s makers were exiled from the website. As resistance against it grew from the many species of the forum, some others joined it’s fight for perhaps a chance of survival in the forum. With great plans and aspirations, it certainly deemed itself worthy to challenge the entire covenant, turning into a worm larger than anything the forum would see until recently. And yet, it was pushed back by the being much smaller than itself, with their technological prowess fast accelerating. Despite it’s grandeur, armies of the dead and even two species under complete control, it had to hide itself in the end. A shadow of it’s former self, the orb of the mist could no longer attack, but it was sure as hell resilient to attacks. Unfortunately it’s immobility would render it easily encircled and trapped from it’s brethren in alliance for good, even as it birthed an ally to maybe just one day aid it in a final struggle against the covenant - Darkblur… But despite that it’s fate was already sealed as a soul got injected into the shifting insides of the sphere, turning it obedient to Deus. Now nothing could be done anymore, and all left to do was to wait as even it’s former prison was used to make it’s last loyal species a speck of the past. Eventually, the blur did come to the PM Mistorb was stored at, but this was no liberation - it was the opposite. Ironically enough, the being it thought of as a vassal or a puppet would vassalize and consume it’s own “master”, making an end to this tale, though not the one of the Mistdom as a whole…
b. Deus
The first proper species god in the forum, this being would unite and guide the biosphere to it’s directions, spearheading the supremacy of the covenant. By itself it might not be the prettiest, being mostly made of large nodes, some filled to the brim with energy, with those spherical masses being connected by networks, highways sometimes even, of tendrils, most of these being in the cyberspace, but some also permeate into the regular layer. From the very beginning Deus would move towards an unified biosphere and would lead to a world where species live together in peace and fight together in case of war. Even despite the emergence of younger species gods across the entire forum later on, Deus still retained the respect of all the critters around. But not all would be bright at the end as it might have also been just because of the archmage god that those colorful gods came down into it’s website. Still, it has got to be the smartest commander, also having quite the intelligent robots on command, around at the battlefield soon to form in The New Trench PM, and, hopefully, will lead the species into an another victory…
c. Darkblur
A worthy successor to the mist of the olden days, this swift “god” did not start out very dangerous. Separating from it’s mother Mistorb, it was at first meant to be a weak ally, perhaps used to take down just a singular extra danger, when the mist planned for it’s shell to finally break from within. However as time went on the blur obtained an agenda of it’s own, first resulting in a fusion with a human soul from the real world, to then absorbing it’s very creator. From that point on it became a major player on the stage of the forum, first going for an user following in a recently emerged organization. Just when it’s job was finished over there, it would confront the weaker of the divine beings, which treated it pretty unfairly in it’s own eyes at least. Competition with the covenant would continue soon enough with first Devourer trying to take down the knight by it’s own, and then a machine ordered by Deus itself moved in the paved path, finishing off the blur and bringing it to a prison it would have never left… or so was intended as not long after that defeat the second coming of the divine was announced, making Deus free the blur, also informing it about the coming danger. Now that the blur has found it’s last loyal users and went on to complete it’s whereabouts with them, it is unknown if it made the way to the site of the battle in time or if it died on the way there, like what happened to all beyond the battlefield…
d. The Outsiders / Soleye
An once group of beings now turned into one, these “aliens” were originally planned to spread the life of the forum beyond… Only for the life that sprouted to find a way back to it’s genesis. Even back home they had more to worry than the belt of inhospitability beginning to clamp down on them as the Devourer’s avatars, incarnations of that hungry devil from what they could see, ate entire biospheres whole, while others came together faster to prevent this fate from ending them too. When they set out to the forum, only twelve forums outside would have survived the deadly feast, with some fusing en route, resulting in nine outsiders, three of which were created from pairs combining into singular beings. Most of them resembled animals or biological beings alike, though with some twists to them of course as nothing could be expected to develop the same across the biospheres. They for the longest time have searched for their Devourer, though they have also helped with the divine on the way. Still, their goals remained the same amidst users coming together around them and other missions being launched at them. But when they finally reached the butcher’s homeland, it cowardly fled, leaving them to reorganize back home, where they realized that further fusion is the key. The results of that fusion would however not manage to strike their sworn enemy once more as it would be soon thrown into the battlefield where soon battle against the divine would begin. For the look of this final fusion,
4. User Organizations
a. Forum Protection Group (FPG)
The first grouping to ever arise around the creatures of the forum, it originated as a conglomerate of users who for some months by then have been trying (and failing) do rid the forum of the annoying, letter-eating creatures. Soon naming themselves as FPG, they would go on to develop most importantly the AI cursor technology, which’s memory would be carved deep into the memories and even instincts of all species around. As time went on however users developed more complex ideas and ideologies surrounding the life that was getting smart fast, leading to the old group splintering and weakening over time, though the cursors would keep being updated. It’s end was sudden nonetheless as the Mistworm awakening and then fighting battles against the biosphere lead to an even larger exodus of users who saw the mist as more of a threat than the species, leading to this alliance being finally dissolved when even the most rooted members agreed to this state of the forum world.
b. Biota Conservation Alliance (BCA)
The second covenant of users, this one would be much more short lived than it’s predecessor. It came to existence as a result of some opposition to FPG’s goals along with a rather user-oriented species, Fabula Antelectum, coming into existence. For a brief moment this alliance and the group would create an uneasy balance in the website, but few things remain stable forever. When the machine-steered cursors and Multipoda species took out the friendly Fabula, much reason for the alliance’s existence faded, with most quitting the organization quick. Even though it may not have left a successor, it’s ideals would be revived in the future, for the better or the worse…
c. Creature Park Organization / Creature Containment Plan (CPO/CPP)
The third organization, this one started out as a movement within the still young FPG after the fall of BCA. Standing in between the stances of the two older groups, it (CPP) sought to create special areas within the forum where the forum life could roam and live freely while hoping that this way “the wilderness” could be reclaimed by the users somehow. As CPP became CPO, FPG would agree to this solution, the less friendly EA would find this still unacceptable and kept attacking the parks, most certainly reducing their attractiveness. Still though a species or two found refuge in those unique threads, developing some unusual characteristics as each park was made to represent an unique Earth environment. Though staying quite strong for most of it’s existence, just like FPG with the Mistworm came an exodus of users that would too result in the parks eventually being left to become reintegrated with the wilderness…
d. Eradication Agreement / Eradication Society - Cybermagic Solution (EA/ES-CS)
The fourth petition, being made up of the most radical FPG members which did not agree to the agreement with CPO. They sought complete eradication of the biota and not even a watered down existence of those creatures within the parks. However when it actually comes to doing stuff the “eradicators” weren’t very apt at doing their job. It could seem the organization was doomed… Until the wizards arrived. Whilst most considered them as some kind of conspiracy theorists, EA radicals rather saw them as a chance to eliminate the creatures, even if in an unconventional way. EA would be reformed into ES-CS and become the platform for the wizards to express their actions upon the biosphere. After preparations they would create the mist and aid it two more times after that, until it could finally be confirmed that they were indeed behind the darkness that engulfed the threads and posts, but by that point the damage was already done. Regardless, the societies end was rather spectacular as all it’s members were banned by the moderators’ will.
e. (CPO) Research Community ([CPO-]RC)
The fifth commune of users, this was originally just a subset of CPO focused on researching the creatures and figuring out their science, leading to the standardized epochs we see today. They were the first to notice the intelligence rise of the creatures and even the back-then invisible Deus. After CPO’s fall to an exodus, RC did not follow in and instead became independent from this point on, surviving until the final battle and documenting new advancements and epochs on the way there. Without them, stuff would probably be bound to have gone misunderstood between the users and the creatures once they reached the level of development to communicate with those who hide behind the cursors…
f. Mistworm Termination Council (MwTC)
The sixth circle of people, arise it would when the mist finally became worthy of being called a grand threat by the users far and wide in the forum. Their focus would lay on defeating that beast that has been understood to pose a greater threat than the species, and so the council eventually became an integral part of the species’ covenant. It would continue to dominate the forum organization scene and scout for all and any remains of the Mistdom until the orb was put under a mage’s rule and the Bontopians were blasted into oblivion. When that happened, a second exodus occurred, this time from the MwTC to the now-barren scene of the userbase groupings. What was left behind meanwhile mostly focused on maintaining user relations with the covenant and upkeeping New Trench. A reflow would only occur with the strengthening of Darkblur’s, but even then it was paling in comparison with it’s former glory. Now though, all who remained or chose to return stand their cursors proudly amongst the posts filled with warriors and soldiers as the final battle nears…
g. “Prosper First” / Forum Reclamation Front (FRF)
The seventh frontline of humans, FRF would have it’s beginnings in the end of the first confrontation era, with users no longer having much of a reason to stay with MwTC. Being simply known as “Prosper First” for a while, they stood for a forum meant for the users, not the creatures beneath their eyes. This stance, not too dissimilar from that of the long-gone FPG’s, would find a liking in most moderators’ hearts, and so the front would arise to put the idea to reality. With a copy of the AI cursor architecture on board, it took not long before the swift scourge descended upon the unprepared creatures once again. An another upgrade to those flying deaths would nearly put the archmage species to an end, a great success for the reclamation. But when the second upgrade came, all the creatures have already converged at the site of the last battlefield, where FRF users would decide to watch the show rather than pester their enemies…
h. “The Splitters” / Biota Salvation Alliance (BSA)
The eighth alliance, this one started as the more pro-creature counterpart to the splitter users, not to dissimilar from the FPG-BSA split of the olden days. When it came to actually establishing the organization though, these users would start to delve into the darkness. At first their points would be relatively beneficial for the creatures, with such proposals as transforming the forum into a creature-focused space entirely, but soon enough these de jure points were replaced with a de facto agenda dictated by Darkblur, whomst has gained influence and then control over this new covenant of people. They would go from the “saviours” of the critters to perhaps one of their worst enemies as behind a mask of helpfulness laid a platform made to execute the blur’s will in the forum. It would even establish it’s headquarters in the main PM of the converted! Fortunately however other species took notice and tried to fight the old BSA back into existence, with first the more loose users abandoning their ways and then most of the core of the organization falling after the imprisonment of Darkblur, though it is said three have managed to conceal themselves from the de-mistification before it could have reached them. Now, BSA’s users are ready to fight along with the MwTC ones against the divines who pose an obvious threat to the biota…
i. The Outsider Refugium (TOR)
The ninth refuge, this is also the most recent organization of users, having been created two-thirds of a year before the final battle took place. Formed around the allusive outsiders, the users under TOR’s banner have created a safe haven for the nine to reside in, safe from cursors and hostile creatures. These users also tried to study the band to the best of their knowledge but their abilities could never truly match those of RC’s. They might have formed some sort of a link, a connection with the outsiders over those few months, but the last ones were spent by them watching over the azure shield of blue within which who knows what the nine were doing… Now with the result having been spit onto the battlezone, TOR stands by Soleye’s side, which for all sakes and purposes is the same side the creatures and Darkblur (if they are still alive) are on, up against the two gods…
I made this summary of the FG so that future visitors don’t have to read the entire set of 64 rounds to understand everything in the final battle (which will be also coming soon, don’t worry).
The tension has reached it’s limits as all the gathered species had their hands on the plentiful and sophisticated weapons. They were awaiting Corrosion to make their first move. And they did so by beginning to float towards Soleye, itself standing close by the other major species gods as well as Throne, themselves too ready to charge at any moment. With the first speck of movement detected, thousands of weapons and wands suddenly flashed as the lesser divine was attacked from most sides beneath to make the job easier for the major players of this fight.
A huge plume of smoke and ash suddenly enveloped the general area where the divine beings stood, with some metallic fragments flying from the location where the target of these attacks was located. As the air cleared itself it could seem like the battle was over before it even had the chance to start, for Corrosion at least. When the core of the fog was finally starting to get visible again though not one but two shapes the general contours of that metallic scourge could be seen, smaller than the one before them though.
Before the demon from above could finish it’s line however the mass attack resumed, being aimed in the general direction from which this voice came. The dust plume only grew larger while it became increasingly difficult to tell what exactly is happening on the inside of the visual obstruction…
Soon enough however it became obvious what is going on within as one after another tiny copies of Corrosion, at most a few letters wide, flew out of the dust, now too small and swift for enough attack to hit them for these to be destroyed just by those blows. With the force of the small game no longer enough to take care of the situation, the big guns finally have a chance to shine. Whilst some “clones” of Corrosion begun to attack those who have brought them into this state, other found an interest in Throne that was heading straight for them. The post-sized aerial battleship would unleash it’s most powerful weaponry and other technologies upon the swarm of metallic blobs coming for it, getting smaller but increasing in quantity as they approached the flying dominance platform. Just as they were about to finally reach Throne, it teleported out of their way and attacked from behind!
As more flashes of large-scale teleportation could be seen in the skies above, beneath a battle no less intense was taking place too. With chunks of Corrosion now generally in the size range of the forces brought into this battle, things would get less one-sided. The mighty darrens would easily shake off the fragments that could rarely ever challenge their size or strength, but the smaller species, which made up the majority of the grand army were in a much more dangerous predicament. Fortunately being stabbed and ripped into by the sharp blades those rust-colored enemies possess in large quantities blades of steel did not mean the end for plenty as some were saved by the golden metal quickly materializing to block such usually unavoidable attacks, while those less lucky were rapidly healed by the microscopic crabs, sometimes even having their minds reconstructed by those fellows. Still, the ground would be scarred with unrecoverable corpses of many when a larger remnant of the once much larger Corrosion swept and razed the ground below.
The wretched metal speaks as one despite having been split into many as it seems… Until what sort of size does it need to be shredded down for it to surrender or be defeated outright?
As the size of the living metal dropped throughout the battle thus far, it became less capable of taking on the big game, even if now the said titans could not target it quite as proficiently as before. It could seem like the support forces would take the lead once more like they did in the beginning of the battle but this assumption couldn’t have been more wrong. Out of the sudden, the chunks of Corrosion, now on average a letter large, came together to form back a singular entity, even if no longer made of a monolith of shifting metal and instead of much smaller units. Despite a new wave of weapon and spell fire alike this new form of the apparently lesser divine did not bend the knee and shatter like the previous one did just in a matter of seconds. As it became apparent the entity was going to do something in a second, even the species gods and Soleye located a few posts back, up to this point having mostly been shooting down the larger chunks with those who had ranged attacks, prepared for if they were next. And right they were as suddenly Corrosion morphed from a blob shape to many streaks or veins in the air, rapidly going for each and every of those major fighters. The progress of the attack would be halted for a hot second when a wallcrab pocket dimension suddenly fired a ray of strong light upon the veins, causing a large percentage of the chunks within to degenerate into forms so small an user’s eye couldn’t tell them apart. This brief moment of glory over the supposedly enjoyed gave the lesser gods enough time to prepare their own attacks, hitting the swarm of Corrosion the moment it begun it’s rapid approach towards them once more. A fight would break out over there, with the now generally microscopic agents of the divine eating away at the skin and surface of some of the most powerful beings in the battlefield, with some chunks even entering the bodies of it’s opponents! Stuff would get ugly pretty quick as the mere soldiers, wizards and Throne would halt the fire, afraid that their actions could accidentally harm their allies.
As the fight moved over to the gods’ post, the troops that happened to be stationed next to the red fire could recover for a moment at least. The plentiful resources brought here within some special glorious chests by the inventors of the mighty metal itself allowed most to replenish what energy they had lost in the rapid action and prepare to take on the danger once more when it will surely return to claim who had broken it down. At the same time the fire that appeared along with Corrosion seemed to lean towards the site where most action was taking place at the moment. Suddenly, an another ray of brilliant yet deadly light, much like the one which broke down the veins of moving metal, struck this fire without a warning. The beam of white however passed right through the plasma with the mysterious being instead turning it’s attention to the pocket dimension and the wallcrabs which forged the bright assault on it. And then once more a light was seen, but now instead it was where that pocket dimension would have been located, and the wallcrabs within would be heard from no more. As the fire returned to watching the struggle between the species gods, Soleye and Corrosion, it spoke suddenly:
With the forces beneath the fire spooked and swiftly leaving their positions a safe distance away from the fire, it suddenly begun to morph and twist in unnatural ways, with a figure of some sort beginning to emerge on the inside while the body of the plasma itself begun to fade away. Most have already realized what is happening here and now - the second, probably more powerful of the two divine gods is beginning to take it’s proper form, as it’s about to enter combat. Deus saw this too and knew the battle is likely to take a bad turn for the covenant and the users who have shown up alike - their forces were able to handle Corrosion even when it decided to persist as fragments, but this new, most certainly more powerful enemy could swing the battle to the opponents’ side. Worse yet, there have been no signs Darkblur has arrived in the battlefield thus far, which most likely means it perished on the way there or even wherever it stayed to meet up with it’s last loyal users. Hopefully the covenant can stay ontop despite all those inconveniences… hopefully…
(Sorry for the wait.)
Covenant And Allied Forces Status:
Main Species Count - OP- (negligible losses)
Species Gods - Minor Injuries
Soleye - Minor Injuries
Deus - Unharmed
Darkblur - Unknown (Probably Eliminated)
Users - Generally not engaged (yet)
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