Zombie apocalypses are curiously lacking a large array of common equipment that could neatly control the situation.
āBut we canāt build walls to contain them!ā
Moves by truck, train or boat. Ridiculously common. And see those holes on the bottom? Mobile by forklift. Also, HEAVY, even when empty theyāre in the tons. If you had some warning you could string these things end to end for miles and human bodies canāt move them. Plus theyāre nice and wide so you can comfortably walk on top of them for patrols.
āBut we donāt have easy ways to kill them!ā
Put the shotgun down you fucking idiot.
No tires to pop. Heavy and slow but inevitable. Climbing required to enter and thus, relatively zombie proof, especially if you spend like an hour to protect the glass.
A lot of large farming equipment can destroy cars.
Want to guess what itād do to a decaying human body? Itās not pretty.
Now I know what youāre thinking. Merely flattening them with common construction equipment or farming gear isnāt enough.
How about a
tree trimmer that can mulch a tree top to bottom in nothing flat?
OM NOM NOM NOM.
āBut we need ways to move a lot of people that zombies canāt stop!ā
BEEP BEEP MOTHERFUCKER. Deer donāt have a chance and neither does a zombie.
āBut thatās not good enough!ā
NOW itās time to call our friend the military because this ride stops for no one.
Do I need to keep going or is it clear the movies are bullshit yet? Seriously a dozen prepared people with heavy equipment licenses could clear an entire street of zombies AND powerwash it after.
Kinda bad (but better than blizzard) attempt at re writing Sylvanas story from BFA.
Right so I hate how Sylvanas is written in BFA and I wanted to take a second to have a rewrite that doesnāt change much of the BFA plot.
Right so we start just before the burning of Teldrasil. Saurfang abandons the horde just before Sylvanas goes for the tree. Sylvanas holds the torch and states up at the tree. Then stops. What is she doing? What does this achieve this is cruelty for cruelties sake, and she remembers the horror of seeing Silvermoon fall and she begins to stop.
Just as sheās about to call retreat, Nathanos stabs her, burns the tree himself, leaves her for dead.
Nathanos using typical wow bullshit convinces the horde that he was named successor and BFA continues as normal. With him as the sole driving force.
Meanwhile Saurfang returns to the tree and helps Sylvanas the two of them working together in the background to kill Nathanos while not destabilising the horde during the war.
As this is going on Sylvanas teaches Saurfang about what leading the forsaken means, about Silvermoon and what it means to survive at any cost.
Sylvanas spends a lot of time working to become a better warchief, still cunning and vicious, but less cruel. She even interacts with Voljin and Thrall. Taps into the history of the horde. Parallels herself with Garrosh, but the difference is she tries to change. Seeks redemption and when she returns to the horde she kills Nathanos and leads the horde into an uneasy truce just in time to fight Nzoth.
This could create a lot of parallels between her and Jaina and create growth for both of them and allow them to find a common ground.
Iā¦what? :confusion:
Sylv hesitated before the tree, it was Saurfangās desire for honor that fucked up her just conquering Darkshore.
Sylv has stated so many times that she believes that the Alliance is going to attack them first- sorta why Darkshore exists. As far as Silvermoon goes, she sees that as her own failure due to Arthas. Itās pcanon as to how she feels towards him.
Nathanos wouldnāt stab Sylv. That breaks so much fucking lore about his undying loyalties TO SYLVANAS. He wouldnāt masquerade as leader, that also breaks his character.
Saurfang didnāt agree with the tree and he despises Sylv. This is even stated in the most recent cinematic in the most obvious terms. Sylv could care less about Saurfang beyond his dutiesā¦itās more than clear that they never were friends. Especially with the shit that went on in Hillsbrad.
Volājin is a maybe. Thrall is a definite no- did this person play a shaman? Ever? Specifically in Legion? Thrall has stated so many times that heās *done* with the Horde. He even lost his powers the last time he intervened (specifically due to him cheating in a sacred duel with Garrosh). Taps into the history of the Horde- fam, thereās little there to tap into that isnāt already well known.
Kill Nathanos- again. Heās undyingly loyal to Sylv. This has been made clear LONG before BFA.Ā
I notice that a lot of people are super salty about Sylv but proceed to totally ignore the lore justifying it. Letās just ignore the quest about us getting the Doomhammer, or Warbringers, or hell, LEGIONāS LORE. People keep whining because,Ā āBOO HOO, SHEāS A WOMAN VILLAIN, BOO HOO-ā No. Stop it.
Women can be evil too. Women can be good too. Sylv has been a damn good villain all things considered and itās justified. She came into the cursed mantle of warchief at the most volatile of times. She has been dealing with nothing but stress, with scorn. No shit that sheās gonna make major mistakes and do bad shit. We also have so lovingly IGNORED THE LORE THAT STATES THAT EVENTUALLY, THE UNDEAD FUCKING LOSE IT. Sylv is not fucking immortal! Thatās why STORMHIEM existed! Every post Iāve seen on Sylvās lore being shit forgets so swiftly that itās been this way since Sylv was first introduced and has remained consistent to who she is. Sheās allowed to be evil. Itās not Blizz beingĀ ābigotsā or bad writers. Itās you not being able to read the lore from the past and understand that lore builds on itself over time.
OP is mad because this is Hordeās second rodeo being villain in an expansion. We did this in MoP. Weāve been through this song and dance time and TIME again and itās getting old super fast for me and the rest of the Horde playerbase.
We want so desperately to stop being the villains because I (and a lot of other people) are beginning to see some rather uncomfortable insinuations with the Horde always playing bad guy, always trying to be good but for some reason always being second best, LOSING OUR BEST WARCHIEF (Voāljin), ALWAYS CAST AS THE UNWANTED, ABUSED AND BERATED only to have it thrown back in our faces.
We wish that Sylvanas could be good. I personally think Jaina Proudmoore is a villain type character as well based on what she did to the Blood Elves but she seems to get a free pass whenever but the Allianceās ability to jump on Sylvanas as a villain whose origins are being ground up and spat back at her in the form of a crude catharsis by burning Teldrassil and forcing her to have a freakinā flashback is fucking insulting, in my opinion.
We wish that Sylvanas could be good. I personally think Jaina Proudmoore is a villain type character as well based on what she did to the Blood Elves but she seems to get a free pass whenever but the Allianceās ability to jump on Sylvanas as a villain whose origins are being ground up and spat back at her in the form of a crude catharsis by burning Teldrassil and forcing her to have a freakinā flashback is fucking insulting, in my opinion.
I honestly really feel people here who want a way better storyline for their main character. Especially when the horde -finally- had someone with enough plot armor to at least theoretically prevent them from being thrown away. At the same time, barring some things, I can also easily see a lot of the story stuff sylvanas is doing as very in line with her character as its been. Itās just, weāve done this before. And that sucks, but in the path theyāre also finally fleshing out more horde leaders which they havenāt done in...gosh, ages. We even got at least one moment of lor'themar kicking ass and being happy heās not doing paperwork.Ā
Sadly though, the direction theyāre going seems pretty obviously set down a certain path. And I really, really canāt imagine a canon where sylvanas thinks she needs to redeem herself. So unless they have her do a grinch stole christmas esque heart growing 3 sizes as the horde (potentially?) turns against her? Especially with the potential red herring of her having the spriest artifact weapon at some point. Which Iād expect is more likely that sheād at that situation just say fuck everyone and go full on banshee.Ā
The other problem is that it often feels like the horde get forced into the villain role because really, almost -everything- the alliance does is reactionary and easily more justified by the average person. Orcs invade azeroth to steal it? enslaved. Slavers bad, stealing entire planet, potentially worse. Horde steals super weapon from dalaran after horde -just- nuked an entire city out of existence with another super weapon they used? Jaina goes outrage mode on them and says get the hell out -very- forcefully.Ā
Maybe in vanilla or even warcraft 1-3 things were more grey/balanced and complex. But itās the running trend that the horde does somethingĀ ābadā and the alliance is given free reign to kick back twice as hard. Because at that point, you donāt blame the guy who shoots someone else 15 times after they got shot at twice, right? Though I will adamantly hold onto the fact that anyone defending the burning the tree is confusing to me.
In no instance whatsoever is the notion ofĀ ākilling hopeā a viable option for anyone not wanting to be a hitler esque villain. Enslavement of an entire people, even if she didnāt burn the tree wouldāve been a huge problem but stopping a war? Just because peace might only last 5 years doesnāt mean it means nothing. The thought process blizz shoved into sylvanas head for that is incredibly flawed and stupid. Especially the other excuse of the kaldorei shipping azerite for the alliance. You know, the incredibly magically nature worshipping race that WOULD NEVER SUPPORT USING THE PLANETS LIFEBLOOD FOR WAR OR ANYTHING ELSE after they messed up so bad last time.Ā
...On the plus side blizz got people talking about their story, the downside is a lot of it is people complaining about inconsistencies or issues. The up side, I really do hope they use this to flesh out the horde leadership entirely. Even the like, 5 seconds interactions weāve seen in the siege of undercity is more lore then baine has had in...years.
Amazingly lovely portrait done by this person!
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Everyones been on a binge hitting this person up for their portraits at a very easily affordable cost lately in guild. And theyāre so fast at it! This took maybe 6-7 hours! Really recommend them, or their higher tiers, they do good work.
Tagged by: No one! But it looked fun and I missed this last time.
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Consciousness pulsed steadily, weakly, the internal awareness of both entrapped demons able to feel the string beginning to pull backwards. A steady, slow sensation that had built up over the course of the day. It seemed to pulse faintly as she drew closer.
The timeless, endless void of twisted, unspeakable malformations and abominations had begun to take their toll upon her mind. It had felt like hours, days, years perhaps. For a while sheād managed to keep focused, to not think on where or what she was in that moment.Ā
Such time was almost a gift, allowing her to focus more upon the nature of the chaotic, twisted realm her consciousness drifted through. Witnessing many nearly un-explainable things being done with the magic. Some made her curious, as best as one could be in such a state. But still, her awareness felt something closing in.
Time seemed to slowly be wrapping around her as she felt her path diverting. For how long it had been she could not say, but things seemed to slowly be making more sense. Which disturbed the calm understanding sheād bared this burden with. The incongruous sensations mixed confusingly and made her more and more aware of the awful, unspeakable things around her.
Still, the void would not leave her with merely memories, nor nightmares. No, throughout the duration it was subtly nudging her towards an awe for the power, for the things that twisted and writhed, entire worlds snuffed out and rebuilt in new, horrible images in the blink of an eye. If sheād had eyes. Since her initial reaction wasnāt to break immediately, instead whatever beings pulled her strings decided theyād rather feed the desire for power within her. The spark of hunger that had always been there, slowly growing.
In the last seconds, eons, however her calm shattered and she buckled more and more under the insanity. Barely scraping by at all before she felt the thread yank harshly, forcefully, flinging her out like a grown man knocking away a child with his fist.Ā
The transition was jarring, somehow, sheād grown used to not having a physical body. Within one heartbeat, wait, she had a heart? The sensation almost uncomfortable. She went from drifting sentience to being slammed back into a flesh and blood body.
Suddenly she wasnāt alone once more, she felt her connection, to others. To her demons, somehow even their connection to her soul felt uncomfortable. More so that she even had one.Ā
Fingers stretched out slowly, flexing one after another, as she drew upon her distant memories and felt her focus throb outwards. Taking in her surroundings, the bed, her room. Somehow she recalled when the changes had occurred to her body, feeling so much more...capable. And now as she took in her form it felt...lacking.
Distraught confusion shifted through her muddled thoughts as she half fell out of the bed. Catching herself barely, wings fanning out behind her. It wasnāt merely the bodily differences that made her uncomfortable. The body had clearly not exercised or moved much at all in the time it had been left vacant.
Stiffness ached in her joins, her bones, the mere sensation of stretching out her wings sent shivers down her spine as the nerves felt stimulation for the first time in a good minute. It was at this moment she realized she was quite naked, having not been dressed since the night.Ā
Chest heaving, the demon hunter forced herself into an upright posture with a struggle of effort. Unconsciously sparking heat along her runes, body glowing with a mix of void purple and fel green as the fiery chaotic magic burned heatedly in her veins. Smoke wafting off of her form as she eased out a mildly tired sigh.
Going through stretches, her frame flexed every which way and that as she worked the kinks out of her body. The burning fel sinking into her flesh and enhancing her muscles as it often did. Not thinking upon how much she was using, and clearly not as focused as usual. The texture of her skin shifted ever so slightly.
Soft elven curves altered in shade somewhat as barely visible ridge formations began to grow in. Tiny scales bumping up along her arms and legs before she caught herself. Awareness sparking with mild discomfort as she reigned in her energy. Frowning her fanged expression towards the markings.
Blackened, sharp claws traced over her own arms as she inspected the damage the unrestrained chaotic magic had wrought. Not quite as smooth as before, but not overwhelmingly rough either. It seemed sheād stopped it before it went too far. But still, it was a failure none the less.
Magical sensed sparked out from her now that she felt a bit more rejuvenated. A couple thoughts coming to mind, aware she hadnāt eaten for a few days with some discomfort. Reaching for the shadows around her was an odd sensation, somehow closer then before. Tempting, promising. The first of whispers beginning to grasp at her despite the caution and protection of her runes.
Another perceived failure, but sheād made her peace with the error that made her...unavailable. Thoughts shying away from those memories, particularly the end. A new hunger now known as well, not physically, but more an internal maw of need. The combined urges of her body were distinctly unappreciated. Now not just hungering for fel, but for void as well.Ā
Drained, hungering for a number of urges, not the least of which being thoughts drifting towards the many things sheād not partook of for several days. Instantly aware of her satyrās actions during her absence. Annoyance fluttered across her mind before being dismissed, at least now she knew how long sheād been gone. Already not excited for the thorough pouring over her memories the satyr desired strongly.
Darkness pooled up and over her body, swallowing over her steadily in a now intimately, uncomfortable familiar sensation. Grasping, clinging to every inch of flesh as she channeled her focus and the magic into her desired wishes. Before with a throb and a spasm her form rippled once. Shadows fracturing and breaking apart into a swarm of illusory bats that scattered away, leaving her room empty.
Within the depths of some odd shadowy realm beyond her knowledge, Shelys mind continued to be flung. Time long since lost its meaning in this place, even moreso then sheād thought it couldāve at the start. Somehow so far the endless, vast, empty void occasionally flourishing with cosmic horrors she couldnāt even comprehend hadnāt shattered her sanity yet.Ā
The warped perspective of time gave her plenty of chances to think upon what occurred, and so many other things. Shock having since weakened enough that she could be aware of the here and now, admittedly the before was oddly difficult to focus on. The many lessons from her teacher and Satyr both meditated upon, as much as Shely could in her present state. Serving out her time in recompense forĀ āstealingā from the void.
Meanwhile, the empty shell containing her soul and the two demons bound to it lay within her bad in the tower. Moved there by a friend, it had managed to mend after time passed. Natural regeneration combining with the efforts of the first night and leaving her mostly whole. Save for the lack of a sentience.Ā
Inside the satyr stirred, mentality testing, examining the state of her form. The runes kept him from breaking out, not that heād want to. The nathrezim itself seemed to have tested and decided it was better to save its energy moments before. The shadowy, deeply cowled and robed mental image of a creature pondered the opportunity before it.
Given the opportunity, he began to reach, stretch. Starting with the sight, recalling his intimate examination of every magical thing sheād learned since heād been bound to her soul. Even still the runes interfered massively, but like a nearly blind person squinting through glasses. His surroundings slowly became visible.Ā
Attempting to move was infinitely harder, like being weighed down by tonnes of water. His attempts at maneuvering her were useless for the first day or so. But he would not likely get another chance to examine through his ownĀ āeyesā as it were.
Speaking was weirdā¦everything was weird, itād been several years since heād been freely moveable. Though the nathrezim observed his experimentation, it merely continued to exude a constant malice. Having long since learned of his lack of loyalty to the legion.
Interactions were at best hostile, and those he managed to speak to seemed distrustful and doubtful. Forthright and honest, he found their reactions confusing. Though any demon possessing its host would be frowned upon, he supposed.
Expending most of his effort, heād barely made it an hour before he felt the weight of the ocean growing oppressive. Dragging the empty shell back to her bed, heād fallen into the covers with a weighty thud. Consciousness dipping back into the mental space she used to visualize her internal mind.Ā
As another day passed, he felt the thread of magic slowly beginning to pull backwards. Hopefully this meant sheād return soon, heād thought to himself rather wistfully.Ā
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Been rolling a bit for shelys handling some mad realm, gotten some insanely good rolls so far. But still one day left, so who knows! But it was fun to toy with the internal demon character a bit as a change of pace.
Within the depths of some odd shadowy realm beyond her knowledge, Shelys mind continued to be flung. Time long since lost its meaning in this place, even moreso then sheād thought it couldāve at the start. Somehow so far the endless, vast, empty void occasionally flourishing with cosmic horrors she couldnāt even comprehend hadnāt shattered her sanity yet.Ā
The warped perspective of time gave her plenty of chances to think upon what occurred, and so many other things. Shock having since weakened enough that she could be aware of the here and now, admittedly the before was oddly difficult to focus on. The many lessons from her teacher and Satyr both meditated upon, as much as Shely could in her present state. Serving out her time in recompense forĀ āstealingā from the void.
Meanwhile, the empty shell containing her soul and the two demons bound to it lay within her bad in the tower. Moved there by a friend, it had managed to mend after time passed. Natural regeneration combining with the efforts of the first night and leaving her mostly whole. Save for the lack of a sentience.Ā
Inside the satyr stirred, mentality testing, examining the state of her form. The runes kept him from breaking out, not that heād want to. The nathrezim itself seemed to have tested and decided it was better to save its energy moments before. The shadowy, deeply cowled and robed mental image of a creature pondered the opportunity before it.
Given the opportunity, he began to reach, stretch. Starting with the sight, recalling his intimate examination of every magical thing sheād learned since heād been bound to her soul. Even still the runes interfered massively, but like a nearly blind person squinting through glasses. His surroundings slowly became visible.Ā
Attempting to move was infinitely harder, like being weighed down by tonnes of water. His attempts at maneuvering her were useless for the first day or so. But he would not likely get another chance to examine through his ownĀ āeyesā as it were.
Speaking was weird...everything was weird, itād been several years since heād been freely moveable. Though the nathrezim observed his experimentation, it merely continued to exude a constant malice. Having long since learned of his lack of loyalty to the legion.
Interactions were at best hostile, and those he managed to speak to seemed distrustful and doubtful. Forthright and honest, he found their reactions confusing. Though any demon possessing its host would be frowned upon, he supposed.
Expending most of his effort, heād barely made it an hour before he felt the weight of the ocean growing oppressive. Dragging the empty shell back to her bed, heād fallen into the covers with a weighty thud. Consciousness dipping back into the mental space she used to visualize her internal mind.Ā
As another day passed, he felt the thread of magic slowly beginning to pull backwards. Hopefully this meant sheād return soon, heād thought to himself rather wistfully.Ā
@the-house-of-crows
Been rolling a bit for shelys handling some mad realm, gotten some insanely good rolls so far. But still one day left, so who knows! But it was fun to toy with the internal demon character a bit as a change of pace.
Her consciousness drifted, aimless, empty. Entirely disconnected from anything physical, anything real. Shelynas thoughts occasionally flickering back to a recollection of what had occurred. Warnings given in the past, ingrained in her by many teachers. Her satyr, her husband, others still. The void gave, and the void took. She payed a price in energy every time she asked it to bring something physical into reality. A price only sufficient enough to borrow, never fully keep. As that would cost so much more, for a permanent gift from the twisted realm of darkened magic.Ā
The prior night, day, year? Time didnāt seem to pass wherever her awareness was. Not that she could tell, perhaps it flew even faster then normal. Recollection recalled her error, in a moment of haste and need sheād beckoned her magic into a humanoid form to act quickly. Shoving someone out of the way of...something, her thoughts were fuzzy. Only really remembering that whatever it was had consumed and destroyed her creation quicker then a heartbeat. Before the world was torn apart in a blaze of fel and void combining and rippling outwards.
She remembered feeling...broken, shattered, more pain then sheād felt in quite some time. And severely paling in comparison to the sensation of something tearing at her while she lay in a heap. Tendrils of void ripping past her flesh, into the veins of energy in her body, into her mind. Devouring energy, but the price was greater then merely energy. A humanoid form was much more potent, flexible, useful. She felt a yank, and her thoughts blacked out entirely.
Her body left behind, a cage fortunately unbreakable easily in the hopefully short time that the demons would be left bound to her soul, locked within the runes that covered nearly inch of flesh. The consciousness lapsed away with the shock of the drain, leaving her body merely a shell containing her soul and those tied to it.
Aimless, the thread of magic that was her sentience drifted through horror filled realms, barely aware of what transpired, or how long it lasted. Unaware even that her physical body was being tended to, she would not be able to be pulled back unless someone intervened, or herĀ ātimeā paying recompense ran out.
āYou should be more careful with what you borrow.ā A quaking presence chided the nonexistent insect of a being. Before her awareness fluttered away once more, and she continued to float along.
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