Post by Lioncourt on Jun 4, 2015 4:34:31 GMT
If you're reading this, something terrible has probably happened to me.
Things we know:
If I am dead, the Keeper should be able to find me fairly easily. Ask her to look for a mind with both a Memnodyne and QDS magic. If she cannot find me, I am more likely kidnapped or under some other form of duress, rather than killed. (Specifications of exact mind-shape will follow after the rest of this message.)
Something took under three seconds to kill or otherwise incapacitate me from a state of 'there is no threat' or 'the threat is being handled', in a way that took me more than a week to restore forum connectivity.
It was not possible to cast Temporal Stasis at the threat, even with heightened reflexes. This may indicate that it cannot be touched, was a subtle attack, was significantly faster than even I am, or had a exceedingly strong will.
My best guesses for how I might end up in this situation, in order of most dire to least:
1: Eclipse Virus Outbreak
I've been acquiring books from Eclipse on their future technology. I have been quite careful, in my estimation, to not take anything from too late in the dimension's history. However, there is still the chance that I somehow made a mistake and pulled something infected. Astra has permission to delete the virus entirely from my universe if this turns out to be the case.
2: Kidnapping
I've been using unsusal abilities acquired from QDS in my local environment. Someone may have noticed and decided to try and prise the information out of me. If they succeed, this may result in some further multiversal threat. This would probably come with a local-magic mental block to prevent me from accessing Planar Message, but my will is fairly strong, so if this is the case you will likely recieve a message from me after some unknown amount of time.
3: Assassination
As some of you may have figured out by now, I am a vampire. I burn in sunlight. So are most of the local nobility, and they are terrible ethically. Having a Sunlight spell was a convenient stick to beat the worst of them with. This, however, may have incited someone to get unusually creative. If this is the case, the Keeper can probably fetch me.
4: Madness
Vampires from my world are not particularly stable. It's possible that squeezing QDS magic into my mind did something nasty to me. If I can be physically retrieved, Esthfora or ME can probably fix the damage.
5: I forgot to reset my Dead-Man Switch
This would be very embarrassing, but you should come check in person anyway in case of duress, even if I say that this is the case.
Threats you might encounter from my world:
Vampires are fast, strong, and can dominate you if they look you in the eyes, or nudge you slowly with their voices. Mages can do practically anything within their specialties, but proper ones are very rare. There are other kinds of magic in my world, but they are not known well to me.
