New Beginning 17: Souls of Intellect

[Celadon's Penultimate]

"How nice of you to join! Time to make ya pass away an' DIE!"

I send a beam of highly concentrated extratemporal data at Marv, to potentially warp his spatiotemporal existence.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

(could you repeat that in english?)

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Your body's presence on this plane shall be warped.

You will either be:

Accelerated through space and/or time at an unbearable speed

Put into a state of constant deceleration, until your molecules reach absolute zero and you can neither think nor move

Jaunted randomly through space-time any time you attempt to move

Blinked from the space-time continuum (which for us, in this game, is just the equivalent of being "out")

Take you pick. Mhm. Indeed.

[Zaleramancer]

I begin eating and absorbing the star I landed in.

NOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

The Cosms notice your tactic, and think to do the same. They rotate, faster and faster, taking in all the cosmic energy available to them. And slowly, begin to grow.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

I launch a Large crystal roughly the size of myself into the path of the beam to take my place.

[Zaleramancer]

I begin to blend with the star..

It begins to move and take on a humanoid form.

Just how much energy can these things take?

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Hm...clever, admittedly.

I send out specialized golems at Marv. Crystallokinetic, with all the previous enhancements of the other golems.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Never stopped to calculate it.

[Zaleramancer]

I amble over to absorb them in my star form, hoping to eat them before they eat me.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

Time to break out the new tactics...Sarabi!

Sarabi appears beside me and morphs into a khopesh. I charge the golems.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

The Cosms do not see Zale approaching at first, too busy ingesting their own energy, and so I send a psychic pulse to them. They turn, and look at Zale.

And then one another.

And then merge.

And then look BACK to Zale.

And they are FAR hungrier with their augmented size.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

"GOLEMS!!! Resist! RESIST!!!"

[Zaleramancer]

I explode into a sudden supernova.

[Philote]

I leave Aeon to the Core Guardian, I'll call on her later if I need her, and fly off with my lieutenants to track down source of the golems.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Let's hope they're not messy eaters.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

I fall back for a second to charge Sarabi then unleash a flurry of strikes that are empowered by my own miscreant energy.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Some of the golems speed out of the way, while others brace themselves.

[Marvelous Miscreant]

"Come here you cowards!" A dark flame burns in my eyes as I chase down the golems who tried to escape.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 "Oh, they're not trying to esc--"

"Shhh! I wanna see this!" Techne rubs her hands together maniacally.

The crystall golems speed off in all directions...and then veer back to face one another. And hurdle into each other like a crystalline hadron collider.

What emerges from the shrapnel-laden explosion, combined with a bit of my energy as Penultimate, is a Crystalline Shard Fiend.

Capable of exploding into cutting crystal dust to avoid most forms of harm. While retaining all previous powers.