Welcome Scholae Palatinae to the beginning of the second week of Monstrosity! We have another fiction update below and some massive updates for what's going on in this event. Enjoy!

Ohmen
Judecca
Cocytus system

“This is too easy.” Dante shouted firing off another shot. Across the plaza the head of one of the infected Pacre Datship followers exploded in a puff of blood. The military of Scholae Palatinae had quickly fallen in to defend the city, and those who were off planet were already in route to clean up the mess.

“It’s a bit disappointing isn’t? All the texts pointed to monsters… These things are creepy but I would have thought Old Gods would have mustered something a bit more serious,” Zagro Fenn said from the line along the barricade. No sooner had he said it, that the remaining Pacre Datship followers dropped, convulsing on the floor.

From the middle of the plaza Calindra turned off her crimson blade and turned to look back toward Dante and Zagro.

“Why would you ever say that of all things?!” She shouted. There was a pause, and an unnatural silence swept through the city.

Then the sky burned, and earth shook.

Ritual Cave
Judecca

Vanis collapsed to the ground as the massive chamber went pitch black. He let out a scream as he shakily attempted to apply a tourniquet to the bleeding stump that had once been connected to his right hand. Before the glowing crystals of the cavern extinguished he watched his hand explode into a puff bright green gas and fade away.

The ritual was done. He could feel the earth heave and ho beneath him, then fall still. He pulled himself to his feet, shaking and bleeding. Now was the time of his retribution. The Old Gods would wipe the false Empire from existence.

Northern Wastes
Caina

Shadow pulled her cloak tighter around her and turned to Rosh. For days they had been sweeping the great ice wastelands of the northern hemisphere of the planet. Ever since Lord Onasi had been killed, they had been picking up unnatural heat signatures from the icy plains.

“Nothing about these readings make sense,” Rosh said, eyes sweeping the horizon. The plains were as they had been for centuries, frozen and devoid of life. Shadow opened her mouth to reply in agreement, but then scrunched her nose.

“Do you smell that?” She asked, eyes watering. Rosh shot her a sideways glance.

“Whatever it is, it certainly didn’t come fro-,” he stopped short fighting his gag reflex as he caught the first hints of the smell.

It was sulfuric with hints of peppermint and rotting flesh. They had never smelled anything remotely like it before. Then came the crashing, crunching sound of ice shattering. In the distance they saw ice start shooting skyward, mist of powder filling the air. As the mist settled, what they saw sent them running for their ship.

Miles away, the hulking ice colossus let out a roar. For eons it had slept in the ice, and now nothing would send it back.

Outskirts of Zef Demoht
Antenora

Dek Rott and Sim Vel’Potens sat next to each other in the shade of a giant rock. The Duros and Human were among many searching the planet of Antenora for news of where the Pacre Datship could have hid away. When the call had come from Judecca that Ohmen was under attack, the two never heard it, the comms batteries dead.

So instead of rushing to the capital, they were enjoying a cold drink.

“Looks like a storm is coming,” Sim said gesturing to the east. A thick wall of sand and dirt was picking up. They were barely able to make out something rising out of the sand before arching back down into it.

“I don’t think that is a storm,” Dek said, scrambling to his feet. He pulled out a pair of binoculars. He looked through it for a moment before continuing.

“Get on the comm, we’ve got a possible incoming enemy force kicking up a lot of sand.”

Sim was already fiddling with the comm trying to get it to work.

“It’s dead,” he said, looking up at the Duros. Before either could continue came a distant roar. Dek pulled the binoculars back to his giant red eyes.

“I… I think it is a worm.” He said after a moment.

Ruined Temple
Ptolomea

They wasted no time getting out of the temple as the blood began to rise. By the time they reached the temple entrance, the blood was up to there knees.

“I am not drowning in blood,” Arch bellowed as he hauled his way up the steps to the outdoors. Even over the sound of voice, all were able to hear the sound of howls from outside the temple.

“You really didn’t need to splash it in my face Arch,” Ulfsark said wiping his face as he crossed the threshold.

“It’s his big feet,” Lucyeth said, brows furled. If he had been new to the Brotherhood, this experience would have disturbed him, now it was only a vexing issue.

“Guys, we have, some issues. you need to get up here,” Delak’s voice came in, with a clear tone of urgency.

“That might be easier said than done,” Arch said emotionless, eyes focused on the treeline. The trees were bending, and another roar echoed, followed by another. In the darkness of the trees, there were five pairs of eyes peering at them, unblinking.

Imperial Palace
Judecca

“You have got to be frakking kidding me,” Xen’Mordin said, staring at the center screen on the wall. Several others were flashing earthquake and tsunami warnings planet wide. However, like Xen, everyone’s eyes were glued to the center screen.

“Lexic, you really should have let us know you had family in the area,” he added. Everyone’s heads snapped to stare at him, slack-jawed. Xen pulled his mask off his face and started laughing.

“Look at it! This thing came out of the ocean! The deep ocean! It’s like five times bigger than an AT-AT, assuming we are even seeing its whole body! Look at the tentacles!” Xen exclaimed. He laughed and pressed a button. The screen changed.

“Caina, a giant ice colossus! Ptolomea, five, a whole pack of these beasts. Antenora, that giant worm? That is 10 clicks away.”

“This isn’t our first time dealing with threats, Xen,” Eether protested. He continued, “We nearly have these corrupted… people, in the city cleaned up.”

“They were a distraction… This was Vanis. We need to find him and deal with these beasts,” Xen said. The others nodded in understanding.

Meet the Monsters

Introduced above, let’s take a look at the monsters that have been stirred from slumber. Each has a picture (And massive thanks to A’lora for running it through the filters to make them look all fancy) and a wiki page. Check them out.

Wriggling its way across the wastes of Antenora comes the Sandworm.

Ascending from the darkness of the Judeccan ocean floor comes the Abyssal.

The pack of the Ptolomea hidden in the wilderness comes the Forest Beasts.

Crashing its way across the frozen wastes of Caina comes the Colossus.

Special Awarding - Important!

By now you guys are aware how these bigger events work. You earn points from participating and placing in the associated competitions to try to win the overall parent competition. It is an excellent way to win some more major crescents and have a big impact on the lore of the clan.

This event has a secondary award for winning the parent competition. The top 4 placers in the parent competition will get the one of the 4 monsters above named after them. 1st place will pick one from all 4, 2nd will pick from the remaining 3, etc.

Let me just repeat that for you guys, you win this event you get to have one of these huge awesome nightmare machines named after you.

This weeks update comes with several more competitions, in addition to those already running. Those from the opening, will be ending in little over a week on the 16th. In addition to some new two week long competitions, there were a few more added to the list that end on the 30th. Full breakdown of all currently open competitions is below. The ones that are just opening are marked as New.

Ending Monday November 16th:

This Isn’t Where I Parked My Car: This is a 500 word minimum fiction event. As seen in the fiction above, the loyal Pacre Datship members were transformed into horrible monsters (that I may or may not have based on the clickers from The Last of Us). Alone, without a weapon or means to communicate you must get from the outskirts of Ohmen to safety!

Clicky Boom: This is a graphics competition, where you get to go wild in creating exactly what these transformed Pacre Datship members look like!

Fall of the Infinite: The origins of all our problems in this event can be traced back to the Infinite Empire and their workings in our system. Once they fell, they became part of the legends of the native peoples of the system. Write a poem to capture that legend.

Legends of Old: This is a trivia event, which means it is timed from the moment you hit subscribe. This trivia is focused on random bits of stuff from the old EU, aka the “Legends” timeline.

Ending Monday November 23rd

New Hounds of the Cocytusville: This fiction sets you on the trail of Vanis following the awakening of the Old Gods. Find him, and attempt to bring an end to this conflict.

New Halls of the Mountain King: Another graphics competition, this one having you illustrate what maddening images the Abyssal of Judecca forces upon your mind.

New The Pokedex: A new trivia event, which is timed. This trivia is focused on information of various beasts and animals of the SW Universe.

Ending Monday November 30th

New The Awoken: A fiction event where you pick one of the four awoken monsters to go and stop.

New Never Start a Land War in Asia: This is a battleplan even where you need to divide up the CSP forces to handle the dangers of all four awoken monsters.

New The Coming of Shai-Hulud: This is a flashgame, where you will play as a super destructive worm destroying all those who get in your way. Play for as long as you can to get your highscore, then screenshot it and submit!

Investigative Journalism: This is a bit of a different fiction, being in the form of a in universe news article.

Temple of the Forgotten: This is the run-on that will take place in this thread. Here you will journey deep beneath a temple that sits above an Infinite Empire ruin. Will you be able to survive the trials and save the system? Team up with other clan members and find out!

Gipsy Danger: Obligitory PVP Gaming Competition. You can play against anyone in the club, just as long as it is submitted to this competition.

If you find yourself wanting a quick refresher on what’s going on, all of the fictions for the Forgotten Campaign are archived on the forums here. There are also wiki pages for both Act 1: Entanglement and Act 2: Deception, that are broken down into a more TL;DR format.

I want to give a quick shout out to all of you participating in the run-on, Great job on hitting 25 posts this week! If you haven’t gotten a chance to post, it is never too late to jump in on the action! There is also a Telegram chat group going where many of the participants are talking about what they want to hit with it. Also if you scroll down near the bottom you may notice there was a post from me, which I will be periodically doing as the functional DM for this little adventure.

Spoilers, there is a sentient AI I might have named after GLaDOS from Portal… So jump on in it's going amazing!

Keep hitting it hard to win glory and honor and medals and to have a wicked sweet monster named after you!

For the Empire!

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