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SONIC AU COLLISION 2: ROUND 1

Left Side, Poll 15

Out of the Blue VS Sonic Crystal Realms

Out of the Blue

Sonic Crystal Realms

Remaining time: 6 days 1 hour

Out of the Blue belongs to @artisyone [link to comic]

Art Credit: 321pietime on Instagram

Sonic Crystal Realms belongs to @wildangel12 [link to AU blog]

CONTENT WARNINGS: Death

Explore each world below the cut!

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⚔️ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Staff of the Cauldron Carrier Staff, uncommon (requires attunement by a spellcaster) ___

This iron and brass staff holds a cauldron at its end. Despite its materials, it only weighs as much as a normal staff. While you’re attuned to it, you gain a +1 bonus to any ability check using alchemy supplies, cook’s utensils, or an herbalism kit.

𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙨. The staff has 3 charges and regains all expended charges daily at dawn. While holding the staff, you can use an action to expend 1 or more of its charges to cast one of the following spells, using your spell save DC and spell attack bonus: “burning hands" (1 charge), "create food and water" (3 charges), "detect poison and disease" (1 charge), "heat metal" (2 charges), or "purify food and drink" (1 charge). This version of the "create food and water" spell grants 1d6 + 4 temporary hit points to any creature that consumes a meal that it creates. The food created by the spell is delicious. ___

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💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Midnight Dragon’s Ichor Candle Wondrous item, very rare ___

This candle magically invigorates those who smell it. It comes in a special cup, which features a draconic handle breathing fire. You can use an action to light the candle while holding the cup. Doing so doesn’t require any means of lighting a fire: instead, the candle glows from within, as if harboring a hidden flame, before it sputters alight. The candle has 1 hour of burn time, and can’t be extinguished once lit. As the wax runs down the candle and onto the rim of the cup, it bubbles and hisses like boiling water.

A creature holding the cup can spend the 1 hour of the candle’s burn time meditating, which can be done over the course of a short rest. The candle smells warm and sweet, and it can be smelled by any creature within 30 feet of you. At the end of the hour, the candle is gone, leaving only a bubbling drink in the cup. Drinking it as part of the meditation (no action required) grants you the following temporary benefits:

• You can immediately use any Hit Dice you have to regain hit points. If you just finished a short rest, you can do so using up to your maximum number of Hit Dice, even if you’ve already spent them. • You regain up to half of your expended spell slots for each slot level, up to 4th. • Your speed increases by 10 feet.

You and any creature that smelled the candle for its entire burn time loses one level of exhaustion. If you consume the drink the candle leaves behind, you lose two levels of exhaustion in this way instead.

These benefits last for 12 hours. At the end of that time, you and any other affected creature immediately suffers one level of exhaustion, plus any other levels lost as a result of the candle. You also lose any remaining spell slots you have, up to 4th level. You suffer none of these effects if you’re taking a long rest at the end of the duration, provided you finish the long rest. If the drink is left in the cup without being consumed, it reforms into the candle after 5 days have passed. ___

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💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Lucky Horseshoes Wondrous item, rare ___

“Lucky horseshoes” normally come in a set of four: one for each of a horse’s hooves. Each one shines with a brilliant, brassy luster and has a single four-leaf clover at its center. While all four shoes are affixed to the hooves of a horse or similar creature, the creature gains a +1 bonus to any ability check or saving throw it makes.

𝙇𝙪𝙘𝙠. Each horseshoe has this property. When a creature wearing the shoes either misses with an attack roll or fails an ability check or saving throw, it can use its reaction to automatically hit or succeed on the roll instead. When this happens, one of the horseshoes immediately tarnishes and loses this property.

This effect can’t allow the creature to do the impossible. For example, even with the aid of a "lucky horseshoe", a horse can’t succeed on an ability check in such a way that allows it to magically fly—doing that would require a set of "horseshoes of a zephyr" instead. ___

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💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Trap Sweeper Wondrous item, uncommon ___

You can use an action to speak this broom’s command word and sweep the ground with it. When you do, dirt and dust is kicked up by the broom in a 30-foot cone originating from it. The dirt and dust magically glows and clings to the edges of any trap, clearly outlining it for all to see. The trap remains outlined in this way for 1 minute.

Once the broom has been used to sweep for the third time in this way, it can’t do so again until 1d4 − 1 days have passed. If you roll a 1 on the d4, the broom regains all uses of this property and can be used again immediately.

A trap, for the purpose of this item, includes anything that would inflict a sudden or unexpected effect you consider harmful or undesirable, which was specifically intended as such by its creator. Thus, the item would sense an area affected by the “alarm" spell, a "glyph of warding,” or a mechanical pit trap, but it would not reveal a natural weakness in the floor, an unstable ceiling, or a hidden sinkhole. ___

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⚔️ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Tideborn Trident Weapon (trident), legendary (requires attunement) ___

This regal trident has been fought over by merfolk and sahuagin for centuries. Its shaft is made of crystalline glass and filled with a never-ending fount of water. You gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with this magic weapon. While you’re attuned to it, you have a swimming speed of 40 feet and can breathe underwater. In addition, you have advantage on Charisma checks made to interact with merfolk and sahuagin.

𝙀𝙣𝙙𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧. The trident functions as a “decanter of endless water.” The water it produces magically pours from one of its tines.

𝙋𝙤𝙙 𝙏𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨. You have advantage on any target you attack with the trident that’s also within 5 feet of another friendly creature. While underwater, you can move up to 10 feet immediately before or after making a melee attack with the trident, provided that your speed isn’t 0. This movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks.

𝙍𝙚𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜. Whenever you make a ranged attack with the trident, it flies back to your hand immediately after the attack.

𝙏𝙞𝙙𝙖𝙡 𝘽𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙩. While holding the trident, you can use an action to cause an orb of frigid water to amass at its top. The water remains there for as long as you concentrate on it (as if concentrating on a spell), up to 1 minute. You can amass more water to the top of the trident in this way for the duration using a bonus action on your subsequent turns, up to a combined total of three times. Any target hit with the trident while it’s amassed water in this way takes an extra 1d4 cold damage from the attack for each time that it’s amassed water. You can use a bonus action to magically launch the orb of water at a target that you can see within 60 feet of you, using a spell attack bonus of +9. On a hit, the target takes 4d4 cold damage for each time you amassed water to it. Any other creature within 5 feet of the target must also succeed on a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or take half as much cold damage. The effect then ends. If the target is underwater, you have advantage on the spell attack roll. ___

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💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Herbalist’s Journal Wondrous item, uncommon ___

This old, leather-bound book is caked in dirt. Inside is an almost unreadable scrawl of words, written in Common, that go into remarkable depth about herbology.

If you spend 48 hours over a period of 6 days or fewer studying the book’s contents and practicing its guidelines, you gain proficiency with the herbalism kit. If you were already proficient with the herbalism kit, you instead gain the feature below. The manual then loses its magic, but regains it in 10 years if it’s buried in soil for the duration.

𝙀𝙣𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙋𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣. You can spend 25 gp of materials—a collection of rare herbs and roots—to enhance a “potion of healing.” Doing so requires 1 hour of work using an herbalism kit, which can be done over the course of a short rest. At the end of the hour, the potion’s color changes to a shimmering green. It remains this color for 7 days; for the duration, a creature that drinks the potion uses d6s, instead of d4s, when determining the number of hit points the potion restores.

This feature can also be used to enhance a “potion of greater healing" (50 gp of materials), a "potion of superior healing" (75 gp), or a "potion of supreme healing" (100 gp). ___

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⚔️ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Sickle of the Sphinx Weapon (sickle), rare (requires attunement by a creature with an Intelligence score of 13 or higher) ___

The blade of this sickle is made of an azure crystal. Peering through the translucent blade conjures a flurry of existential questions to your mind. You gain a +1 bonus to any Intelligence check or Intelligence saving throw you make while attuned to the sickle. You’re proficient with the “sickle of the sphinx" while you’re attuned to it, and it deals an extra 1d4 psychic damage to any creature it hits.

While holding the sickle, you can use a bonus action to pose a mind-altering question (such as a riddle or philosophical prompt) to another creature within 30 feet of you that can hear you and understands at least one language. That creature must succeed on a DC 15 Intelligence saving throw or take 1d4 psychic damage. This psychic damage increases by 1d4 each time you use this property against the same creature on a consecutive turn, to a maximum of 3d4 psychic damage. ___

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Sonic vs. Anton, their first fight!!

Sonic seems to be running circles around Anton, Anton however, is struggling to keep up with him. How will this scuffle end??

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Clearing up the confusion in the fanbase regarding Sonic 06

For years in the English speaking Sonic fandom there’s been tons of confusion regarding 06′s place in the series, and collectively everyone seems to have come to the opinion that 06 isn’t canon so we must disregard it.

But I have some news for you;

06 is most definitely canon in the mainline series of games, and Shiro Maekawa confirmed it.

I specifically said “English speaking Sonic fandom” there, because the Japanese fanbase have always considered 06 canon in the mainline series, unlike the west.

“But it retconned itself, it erased itself from canon!” First, we must discuss the very definition of what “retcon” means. “Retroactive continuity, (or retcon for short) is a literary device in which established facts in a fictional work are adjusted, ignored, or contradicted by a subsequently published work which breaks continuity with the former.”

In Sonic 06′s case, sure, the timeline was erased. However, the events must have had to happen in the first place for them to even have been erased. This does not make it “non canon”, the creators have never said “please disregard this entry from the series”. In fact, if you’ve been paying attention, Sonic 06 is one of the most referenced games in the entire series.

But before I get in to that, I want to talk about something that happened recently. Shiro Maekawa (a past main writer for the Sonic series) recently held a Q&A livestream, however he answered a few questions directly on twitter with Japanese fans. I already translated these on twitter but I wanted to share them here too;

Manaita: “As Maekawa-san is Blaze’s creator, I think it’d be interesting to hear about how Rush and 06 fit together (chronologically).”

Maekawa: “No no, Blaze’s creator is Nishiyama-san who wrote Sonic Adventure 1’s story*~. The truth is, when writing Sonic 06 we wanted to add the sense of a connection between Sonic Rush and Sonic 06, but I don’t think that’s ever been officially stated.”

(*He said Nishiyama actually wrote the scenario for SA1, but it was easier on twitter to translate it as story because character space is limited).

If you’re unsure what Maekawa is referring to here, it’s this;

That different dimension Blaze gets sealed to? You guessed it. It’s the Sol Dimension.

In other words; he just said Blaze originally came from the future.

(Manaita replied to Maekawa confirming this https://twitter.com/mana_ita/status/1010665857536614400 saying this is what she always believed, that Rush/06 were written intentionally with a connection to each other).

This actually makes perfect sense because when the timeline is reset Blaze does not come back (even though she should) and she does not recognise Sonic in 06, nor does Sonic recognise her. (Before someone says “but she mentions blue hedgehog!” that’s a translation error. The word for “Blue” in Japanese can also mean “Naive”; yes, when she ponders over “the blue hedgehog is the Iblis Trigger”, she’s actually pondering “the NAIVE hedgehog is the Iblis Trigger”. It’s supposed to be a clever play on words and how it’s foreshadowing that Silver is going to be the one who will cause the ruination of the future. In this instance she is always talking about Silver, but this got lost in translation and they decided to translate it literally which caused a lot of confusion).

I came to this conclusion myself years ago as it’s the only way things can make any sense. My Timeline is a bit outdated but for now I think it’ll suffice to give the general idea of how It works;

Another interesting thing to note is; did you know that depending on which region you’re in, Silver actually debuted in Sonic Rivals, NOT Sonic 06?

These games came out within extremely close proximity to each other, which means that they were written at the same time.

You want to know something very interesting about that fact? Eggman Nega is Silver’s antagonist in Sonic Rivals and stated as being Eggman’s descendant.

That, and? Iblis is also in Sonic Rivals (as Ifrit);

Meanwhile, in Sonic Rush’s case, Blaze was not in any original promotion of it while it was in beta as “Sonic DS”. I was reading gaming magazines religiously at this time and was eagerly awaiting this game, but she was not there during this stage at all. In fact it seems that she was added to Rush later on. Sonic 06 and Sonic Rush were also being shown off together at a games expo in 2005; this means Sonic Rush, Sonic 06 and Sonic Rivals were all being produced at very close proximity to each other.

And, what’s interesting about this is; while people presumed that Eggman Nega is a native to the Sol Dimension (and Eggman’s counterpart), Sonic Rush never ever says Eggman Nega is from the Sol Dimension, ever. It says Blaze and Nega have been fighting a long time, but that’s all.

In other words… These three games had stories that were planned to fit this way from the very beginning.

Something else of interest to note, when Blaze is getting “sealed to a different dimension” in 06 while using the Chaos Emeralds, for a split second something happens;

Yes, she becomes Burning Blaze before fading away!

The fact Blaze/the Sol Dimension exist and Maekawa confirmed that Blaze came from the future first mean that they are evidence of that timeline once existing; ergo, 06 is canon.

Now now, you might be thinking “why would this plot exist, only for it to not be addressed afterwards?”

I remember watching an interview many years ago when one of the developers of 06 said something along the lines of “we named Silver “Silver” so that when we made a “Silver the Hedgehog” game, it would line up in store shelves beside the rest of the Sonic series”.

The mainline title before 06 was “Shadow the Hedgehog”. 06 was branded as “Sonic the Hedgehog”. My speculation? This was possibly going to be a plot point that was explored in a “Silver the Hedgehog” game they wanted to produce. However due to the failure of 06, the direction of the series changed and they decided to completely take focus off any of Sonic’s extra cast so this never came to fruition.

This is also probably why Silver and Blaze have been together in pretty much every game and appearance since (even in SATBK, Galahad is not in the story mode yet is still listed as Percival’s close companion!).

You might also be interested to know about Silver and Blaze’s continuous matching sets on Sonic Channel (where they share a similar pose), something that’s exclusive to just them.

but see this last one here?

It specifically references Sonic 06 as well.

Blaze is making the shape of a maple leaf with her flames, which is what silver’s quill style is based on.

Silver is throwing a Tanzaku in the air, referencing the Tanabata festival.

And what is Tanabata? To put it simply, Tanabata festival is a Japanese summer holiday which revolves around the famous story of lonely Princess Orihime and Hikoboshi, two lovers who get separated across space on opposite ends of the milky way and can’t see each other anymore. During Tanabata we hope that they will be able to see each other again.

… now, that sounds awfully familiar, doesn’t it?

In other words, I don’t believe Sonic Team have forgotten about this plot point at all. I can’t say I know what they are planning to do, but it’s not something they’ve abandoned either it seems. It’s hard to say what with the complete lack of attention they’ve been paying to anyone except Sonic for the last decade (Forces aside).

Which brings me to my next point; 06 being referenced in other games. If you’d been paying attention, 06 has always been referenced.

Sonic and the Secret Rings talks about Iblis;

Sonic Unleashed;

Sonic Colors;

(should be noted that in Japanese, Silver says “why does it feel like this isn’t the first time you and I have fought together”)

Sonic Runners;

And I’m sure I don’t need to mention Sonic Generations, where Blaze says she remembers Crisis City; "I never thought I’d find myself in Crisis City again. This world is full of surprises", and I’ve already mentioned the reference to partnership between Galahad and Percival in SATBK.

Silver also talks about the “青空 (blue sky)”, it’s a phrase that comes up in his dialogue often

You know what this is referring to?

(Sonic Forces’ original script also had Mephiles in it, and according to Maekawa? He thinks the reason Blaze isn’t in Sonic Forces is because it’s related to the ending of 06; https://twitter.com/SonicJPNews/status/930896302325592064 https://twitter.com/SonicJPNews/status/930897199407554561 )

At this point, it’s a little delusional to keep insisting 06 is not a canon game in the series. Everything points to the exact opposite, that it very much is part of the mainline. I’ve always thought it was very strange how the western fandom has been in collective denial regarding it’s canon status while the JP fandom have never doubted it’s inclusion (and hand waves everything about it as “that’s just a reference!” when it continuously happens again and again).

Anyway! I hope this info has educated you some. I’ve had these thoughts for a long time now, but have been discouraged from discussing it as every attempt is met with “but it’s not canon, shut up about it”. I felt now with Maekawa’s confirmation, people might be more willing to actually see what’s been right in front of them the entire time.

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Me when first reading: Oh this looks like an interesting post that translates developer information on ‘06 and how it still relates to-

After reading:

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Sigh…this really hurt. Though it does bring back the love that I have for Silvaze.