OurPowers/WOM.bat, dn: Anonymous

[rehandle]

Display Name: Anonymous
Profile Photo: It's just the default pic, nothing uploaded.
Notes: The account he's sending this from doesn't have any followers, but he makes sure to DM the link to the social media of larger pages, news outlets, famous metas, conspiracy theorists, etc, in the hopes that some of them might help spread it. He also DMs it to every Starfallen he's aware of and/or can trace through the friend/follower lists of those he already knows, so it's safe to assume if nobody decides to share it your character can still have read it!

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Deletion Time: 7 days
Notes: This is posted in the same board as Heron's crosspost.



[ After recent events, Heron's post prompts him to finally get his information together. It's now or never - the risk of not sharing outweighs the risk of being traced. So this goes up on Ourpowers, posted by Anonymous from a phone he'll ditch when he's done answering questions, sitting on a park bench on the other side of the country from anywhere he can usually be found.

It goes up on WOM.bat around the same time, a little delayed by all the DMs he's sending, display name the usual string of nothing revealing. ]



The people behind Fantastic's sudden rise to power and the creation of Arcadia are called the Battlements of the Shining God. They believe in predestination, keeping things moving along the path laid out for them by their god, and in the past to that end have committed murders, magical interference, and ritualised killings of powerful meta individuals.

The symbolism they use is misleading. It pertains to the celtic god of healing, Belenus, 'bright one' or 'shining one', hence all the suns in their armour and their city and their name. But Belenus isn't their god. The deity they worship is known to them as the Lady of Endings, and she's spoken directly to members of their organisation in order to help lead them and the world down her path.

Their members are everywhere. At the time of receiving this information I was told we could trust the founders of the guilds but no other authority, and since that time Atomight has been ousted unexpectedly and replaced by a man who has no business leading the Alliance, and who doesn't seem to fully understand the strings he's attached to. And then Arcadia. A beautiful new haven atop an arena with a platform with shackles in the ground.

[ The dots are easy enough to join. He's fairly confident none of them need convincing at this point that there's something More going on here than Fantastic trying to help the poor, misunderstood Starfallen. ]

The Battlements consider the Starfallen to be the greatest threat to their path that they've faced to date. They're the first problem they haven't been able to solve with a quick murder or spell, and the most powerful group of metas the world has seen in two generations. [ Thanks Frances. ] That's a lot of power to have conveniently gathered in one place if you were looking to either extinguish or reap it.

To those of you still in Arcadia, I urge you to leave immediately. There are places you can find refuge - if you need help, leave first and then reach out. I'll do what I can to link you to someone who can assist you.

To those of you who read this and believe it, Starfallen or no: be ready. This won't be over easily. Those of us who can oppose, must.



[ He'll be available for a while on OurPowers directly after the post, and after that will check in every now and then from random locations across the States in case of any requests for help or questions being asked. He'll be more regularly available on WOM.bat.

OOCly, the sources for this info are here and here for more context! ]

Comments

[demigoth]

shackles that have been USED

and blood

and kids just vanish and the alliance tells you oh maybe they had enemies or ran away

[codicies]

what do we do if we're not in arcadia?

like i don't have any escaping to do. i wanna focus on stopping her. how do we stop her?

WOM.bat

[faceguy]

terrifying, thanks

if their members are everywhere, is there any way to identify them?

WOMbrz

[purplexing]

This is all kinds of nope.

I have concerns for the opposers- if they can nullify our abilities with a magic seal then what else can they manage? It's going to make things complicated if we don't have alternate methods of opposing.

[powercrept]

People who just can't HELP but want to keep things the way they think they ought to be even if it's stupid

Dang, I'm glad I already wasn't on their side!

[rehandle]

Starfallen come and go, I don't believe all of them have met this fate, but it remains unacceptable that any of them should

I hope those who are able to will act

[rehandle]

That remains to be seen. I don't have any information on what to expect as and when she arrives. What we can do for now is prevent Arcadia from being used as a means to set her path in motion.

Beyond that, the more people who are willing to help those Starfallen who aren't in a position to help themselves, the better.

[rehandle]

No innate means that I'm aware of. Some of their spells leave certain traces, but you'd need magical acuity to detect them. Telepathic ability could also help, but risks breaching the privacy of the many to identify the few.

It's something to work on.

[ Identification, that is. For a cult this ingrained, it's going to take some doing to untangle the webs. ]

[rehandle]

To my knowledge, their power inhibitors only take effect within their approximate vicinity. If it comes to physical altercations, ranged attack utilising the environment are still an option, along with close combat.

Beyond the guards, we don't know what we're up against yet. We need strategize with what we do know, and be prepared to be adaptable beyond that.

[rehandle]

There does seem to be a lot of stupid going around recently

[ An understatement, but one he's happy to amplify ]

[purplexing]

True enough. The things can even be removed too, and damaging the thing disrupts whatever...magic it uses.

I agree that we need to strategize but are we actually dealing with a real god?

[demigoth]

"i don't believe all of them" yeah not making me feel better

do you think they buried them there in arcadia

[faceguy]

magical acuity like maybe
goggles with a magic crystal that helps the wearer see mystic energy?

[powercrept]

What are the odds that the Lady of Endings comes down and causes some more problems, like, oh, I dunno, ending us because she's also an idiot?

[rehandle]

I wouldn't bet against her making the attempt.

[rehandle]

That's a start. But magical acuity as in seeing that mystic energy, knowing what it means and how to differentiate it from any other magic in local use to avoid drawing potentially harmful false conclusions.

[rehandle]

I don't know. But I do have the capacity to extract information should we manage to arrange an opportunity for contact with anyone involved in any past rituals.

If we get the chance to find out, I'll take it.

[faceguy]

well we can probably figure out how to do that

my guy’s pretty smart

[rehandle]

Difficult to know for certain until it appears, but safest to assume yes. Gods aren't so rare a thing here.

[purplexing]

Greaaat.

[powercrept]

Ohhhhh scary! At least we'll know to expect her last time. Taking care of a god when you're expecting her can't be too hard, can it?

[Gojo is confident because Gojo is the kind of guy who genuinely thinks his powers could probably help him take on a god.

And in some situations, he might be right. But probably not this one.]