2^9

The 2^9 Material Plane (512) is the plane of existence most of the campaign (both Malice and Debt) takes place in.

## History

### Debt Campaign

The entirety of the Debt Campaign took place in 2^9; thus, the earliest known history of the plane follows the timeline of the Debt Campaign's early history. Chance (1) appeared in the plane and lost his dice artifacts to Oliooc in a game of chance. He left, and the citizens of the plane constructed the dice shrines. The citizens were killed off when Chance (1) reappeared in the plane of existence due to someone activating the d2 shrine and rolling a 1. Then the Debt Party would go onto explore many of the shrines, collect many of the dice, and activate the d2 shrine themselves.

Naomi and her crew would travel to this version of 2^9 twice; they first came here on their way to reaching 2^8 and they next came here in order to look for an unspecified something. Naomi was unsuccessful in finding the Rod of Undoing (the Tuning Fork for 2^9 during the Debt Campaign) on her second visit and is implied to have still been in the plane of existence during the Planar Erasure.

### Planar Erasure

The moment the d2 shrine was activated and rolled a 1 by Carin, Chance (1) reappeared in the plane. The moment was also synchronized perfectly with the planar erasure event perpetuated by a future version of Chance (1) in 2^8; he had accidentally caused the 2^8 Book of Truth to be converted into the 2^9 Book of Truth by making Chadwick trip onto Aveeno and touch the book with Aveeno's eraser. The implication is that the former 2^8 plane of existence overwrote the 2^9 plane of existence; the effect is that the entire plane faded from existence. Because the dice shrines exist in their own demiplanes, they were not overwritten. This is the start of the Malice Campaign's version of 2^9.

### Malice Campaign

The state of 2^9 and how much of 2^8 (Chadwick's plane) persisted through the planar erasure event is unknown, but the Fogged Ones possessed the set of six artifacts for 2^9 and presumably tinkered with 2^9's development in order to ensure a population of suitable hosts would be available for zombification. They used the remaining halflings in the plane, alongside the elves and humans they found in the dice shrines, to cultivate this population. They released the four elemental artifacts into the world and when they caused extinction level events they would zombify the corpses and funnel them into their plane of existence (2^10).

This cycle of continual extinction repeated until 16,000 years ago (14,154 B.C.). April was defrosted alongside six of the seven dice artifacts (the d2 still remained in the d2 shrine). She witnessed the Great Flood, the last artifact-caused extinction event in 2^9, and survived using the luck magic her Lauriel bloodline granted her. She followed the Fogged Ones into 2^10 and was able to defeat some of them using the d20 and d10; she then stole the Book of Truth and Magic Eraser from them and was able to claim the Book of Truth.

After witnessing the many extinction events that happened over the years, she collected all six elemental artifacts and buried them under the uninhabited Malus continent. She then left to 2^8 using the Mythical Longsword of Adjudication (the new Tuning Fork for 2^9 during the Malice Campaign) and was instantly killed due to the presence of Chance (1) rebalancing her bad luck debt.

Dwarves developed naturally on the continent of Malus at some point before 0 A.D., when the colonization of Malus happened via Flogarian explorers. This included Julian (2), Josephine, Elton, Roselyn, and Darius, who explored the Grainsboro Catacombs April made accompanied by the Grainsboro Librarian of the time, Sloknek. They discovered the artifacts together and each claimed one, going into exile to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands; Darius founded the Malicious Order and passed the Sword of Malus down through the royal family.

The Fogged Ones were still present occasionally in 2^9, and Elton fought with them as the guardian of a sanctum for the dead. In 360 A.D. he enlisted Julian (2) and Josephine's help in constructing the first Demon Orb and left to 2^8 to attempt to find them, not knowing this was Chadwick's plane of existence. After discovering the artifacts could be used to manipulate reality if all six were claimed, he made a deal with Julian (2) and Order (4) to have them remove the Fogged One's negative influence from 2^9. This deal involved the guarantee that nobody's agency would be overwritten using the artifacts in the same way Elton and Aveeno saw Chadwick overwrite Mariella's agency during arc 6. At some point after these events he left the Magic Eraser in the Hallowed Sanctum.

Julian (2), seeing how April's plan failed, decided not to tell the others about the events in the Book of Truth prior to the Great Flood. He constructed a simulacrum to help him collect these artifacts, and created the Grainsboro Mercenaries Guild and put a bounty on three of them. He originally planned to destroy the artifacts, but in 802 A.D. he left to 2^8 and saw how Chadwick used the artifacts. He made a deal with Elton and Order (4), deciding to try and collect all the artifacts and use them to manipulate reality.

Josephine left to 2^8 in 1028 A.D., at which point she was already dating Julian (1). She learned about Julian (2)'s plans and infidelity, but forgot this information after being exposed to a Sphere of Annihilation. After arriving back in 2^9, she was immediately suspicious of Julian (1) and thought he had enchanted her; Julian (1) made her a set of Enchantment Abjuration rings and proposed. Josephine was put at ease but Julian (1) became suspicious of Julian (2) when the rings didn't restore Josephine's memory, because he knew Julian (2) had gone to 2^8 like Josephine had.

The Grainsboro Fire happened in 1834 A.D. when Olivia's Sword of Malus was stolen. Aveeno's family was killed by a fire at ~1845 A.D.. The events of the Malice Campaign then occurred. The Malice Party attempted to collect all the artifacts but were ultimately unsuccessful, and Julian (2) put all the artifacts in a Sphere of Annihilation, a technique he learned from Elton's account of the events of 2^8. He put a Sphere of Annihilation meld on Ham's Kinesis Gauntlet to keep it under the same conditions. The party then left to 2^8 where they witnessed the Planar Erasure event.