The Extinction. It's something we could potentially use. It was an emerging Entity when I ended the world. It's something like the Desolation, but distinct. Not just destruction, but a complete wipe and replacement by something new.
If it could emerge, it might be enough to destabilize the connection the Fears have in my world, pull them back. It could also just end up destroying all sentient life as we know it in my world. Presumably to make way for something else.
But at least Elias would lose.
[There are no good options, really. Nothing that's certain. Nothing that isn't going to bite them in some way.]
There is also something else, a place. It's where Agnes grew up. Ask her about Hilltop Road sometime. The fabric of reality is thin there, torn. It might be something we could use. Somehow.
A location in your world isn't here. But I know the concept. There are certain times in the year where the veil between worlds is thinner. Why would the Extinction help you?
It wouldn't actively help me, personally, but it could be a tool. It would be the equivalent of setting off nuclear bombs all over the planet, though. It could work, but at what cost?
There are, at the moment, 14 Dread Powers in my world, manifestations of our deepest fears. They're all tightly connected. Maybe they're separate, technically, or maybe they're all aspects of some single eldritch creature. The ritual Elias developed to bring the apocalypse relied heavily on all of them being brought through to our world. It was the only way to keep the balance and stop them from snapping each other back. The Extinction, if it were to manifest, could upset that balance. It could potentially pull all of the Fears back to their own plane, probably through me. Or it could do what it was made to do, which is simply to wipe everything out, including everything the Powers could use for their food and maybe even the Powers, themselves. It might turn them into the food for whatever comes next. No one really knows because the Extinction has never manifested before. Hard to predict how something might go when you haven't got the data to even form a hypothesis.
Which is why it would be the option of absolute last resort. I don't think there's a way to bring him down here. But Hilltop Road at home. That's where we need to go. I don't know what's there, but I know it's important. The Web's avatar told us to stay away from it. That's usually a good indication that we ought to go there.
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It's something we could potentially use.
It was an emerging Entity when I ended the world.
It's something like the Desolation, but distinct.
Not just destruction, but a complete wipe and replacement by something new.
If it could emerge, it might be enough to destabilize the connection the Fears have in my world, pull them back.
It could also just end up destroying all sentient life as we know it in my world.
Presumably to make way for something else.
But at least Elias would lose.
[There are no good options, really. Nothing that's certain. Nothing that isn't going to bite them in some way.]
There is also something else, a place.
It's where Agnes grew up.
Ask her about Hilltop Road sometime.
The fabric of reality is thin there, torn.
It might be something we could use.
Somehow.
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Why would the Extinction help you?
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It would be the equivalent of setting off nuclear bombs all over the planet, though.
It could work, but at what cost?
There are, at the moment, 14 Dread Powers in my world, manifestations of our deepest fears.
They're all tightly connected.
Maybe they're separate, technically, or maybe they're all aspects of some single eldritch creature.
The ritual Elias developed to bring the apocalypse relied heavily on all of them being brought through to our world.
It was the only way to keep the balance and stop them from snapping each other back.
The Extinction, if it were to manifest, could upset that balance.
It could potentially pull all of the Fears back to their own plane, probably through me.
Or it could do what it was made to do, which is simply to wipe everything out, including everything the Powers could use for their food and maybe even the Powers, themselves.
It might turn them into the food for whatever comes next.
No one really knows because the Extinction has never manifested before.
Hard to predict how something might go when you haven't got the data to even form a hypothesis.
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( not if people would die either way. the extinction could perhaps reset something but at what cost? )
One apocalypse or another. Coming back from that would have consequences you couldn't have considered.
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I don't think there's a way to bring him down here.
But Hilltop Road at home.
That's where we need to go.
I don't know what's there, but I know it's important.
The Web's avatar told us to stay away from it.
That's usually a good indication that we ought to go there.
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Just watch out for Agnes while we're here.
[At least they have that mission in common.]