Verse Lambda (series)

Verse Lambda involves a universe of the same name. It follows a series of antiheroes fighting for survival through multiple apocalypses as the fate of mankind is in a constant struggle.

Author's Note: Verse Lambda is entirely composed of convoluted mashed lore for the sake of lore and nonstop death and carnage for the sake of death and carnage. It started out as daydreams after watching stick animations and Madness Combat as a kid among other things. I haven't taken much time over these last 6 years to actually sit down and make it all cohesive and clear or bring importance to the individual characters. Tl;dr: be ready to get lost and overwhelmed.

## Immortal Eagle (major arc)

### Immortal Eagle 0

Tora Magnison jumps through a rift as a great flood destroys the forest she is in. She runs into Anthony Henderson and uses the internet to quickly learn of this new world she's found herself in. Arik Kolkheim alongside his friends (Codex, Dante DeSanctis, Alyx Byrne, Anthony & the now named Sky Jaegerstrom) in Kansas get thrown into a zombie apocalypse caused by a quickly spreading mysterious fungus. They all assemble at the Kolkheim house for survival but it quickly gets overrun that night by zombies and Alyx dies. Arik sets the goal is to reach Bermuda as the undead cannot swim. The team takes off on a trek (except Jericho Kolkheim) for Virginia Beach. While in Kentucky, the team searches the mall for supplies but Arik and April Rivera get bitten. Neither of them get sick and they both decide to keep it a secret. While in Richmond, Virginia, a group known as Jörmungandr takes them in but enslaves them at a warehouse. Their leader Nick personally kills April for her zombie bite. Sky pins Nick and allows the others to escape as Arik's Magicka (superpower) awakens. Nick overpowers Sky and imprisons her and takes off for the others. Only Dante, Mitchell, and eventually Arik make it to the boat. The mission fails as the boat burns down in shadow rot at the Triangle but Arik and Dante escape using a teleporter.

### Immortal Eagle I

Nick arrives back after capturing Codex and gets drunk. He makes advances towards Sky as she is imprisoned but she injures him, ties him up, and throws him into a ditch for the zombies. Sky takes control of Jörmungandr and sets the goal of taking back DC. As Jörmungandr is taking control of DC, Anesi Kayne wakes up out of stasis with amnesia in an abandoned DIAM facility beneath the Pentagon. She reads her file and also finds that the facility is overran with zombies. Arik and Dante find themselves in an underground lab full of quantomagickal technology beneath the warehouse and discover that they too are Indigos (have superpowers or "Magicka"). Anesi picked up on a DIAM radio that a squad was being sent to investigate the warehouse for 'Lambda Tech' and so she tails them because she was designated one herself. The squad captures all the tech and Arik and Dante for being Indigos. At the Pentagon, Anesi breaks them out and takes the technology. She uses the Aleph chip for hammerspace and subatomic transmutation and Dante uses the Beta mech. Anesi takes control of the White House and announces her presidency and goal to bring all Columbians lives back to normal. Over the progress of a couple years, both Sky (secretly) and Anesi reclaim control over D.C. but it quickly spirals into a power struggle and civil war. Anesi gets successfully captured by DIAM and it is framed on Arik following his excommunication from the Jörmungandr syndicate. Fear of Indigos rises and many Jörmungandrians and New-Columbians wind up dead while Arik makes his way up the syndicate in order to kill the Ice King. Upon exacting his revenge, it is revealed to be his ex-lover Sky. He allows his execution by Duke's hands.

### Immortal Eagle II

Dante uses his Magicka to discover the abduction of Anesi by DIAM and finds clues leading back to where they started; Stillwater, Kansas. Arik wakes up from a coma, finds Vince dead, takes Anesi's technology, and follows Dante's direction. Arik begins to see auras and the Hat Man himself during his road trip back. He explores his abandoned hometown to discover that it's not so abandoned. The Flint Hills as a whole still contain many survivors and zombies but also a built up cult society that has power over the dead. They also hold his brother Jericho captive and want the "Immortal Eagle" dead. At the same time, a dimensional rift is cracking open, causing severe storms and stirring the pot even more. Zombies, monsters, revenants, and cultists block Arik's path as he liberates the county and he's not gonna let even a single gnome stop him. Arik goes to the missile silo and finds Dale LaPell still alive and with Jericho's dog Haze. Arik gets abducted by some cult members and drugged. He goes into a coma and enters a dream world. He explores through all the buildings he's ever seen while running from a guy in yellow robes and Hat Man directs him. Dante breaks in and witnesses a dead cultist in front of the unconscious Arik and snaps him out of it. They find the cult leader and kill him as the cult is destroyed by a gathered militia. They discover that Indigos (possibly including Jericho) were being thrown into the rift. It all climaxes when a solar eclipse passes over the town and the storm implodes. Arik makes it to the singularity in time and enters into it in order to bring the Indigos back and discover the cause of the rift.

[Heroes Unite plot]

### Immortal Eagle III

After escaping and sealing the rift, DIAM takes notice and decides to instead employ Arik as an agent named "Immortal Eagle". He discovers family thought dead and the secret knowledge of the deepstate. Many anomalies still roam the hills and Arik is sent in to capture them in multiple death-sentence missions alongside his new friends. Arik searches for Anesi under the council's noses as he befriends more people and listens in for secrets and rumors. Arik is nearly poisoned by Jeffery but Arik notices and interrogates him. Vince is alive, his Magicka is able to alter thoughts, and he is the capo of the anti-Indigo splinter. The council becomes weary and sends Raging Bull personally after Arik. After a tournament throw-down in the cafeteria, Bull secretly lets Arik defeat him and gives him his access card. Arik gets thrown into a holding cell and Vince interrogates him back and tortures him, causing him to snap and lose all emotions. David manages to sneak in and break him out while Vince is gone. They get to the secret power station floor and find that Anesi was being used as a magick conduit. Her husk is about to snap and so Arik electrolyzes his arms to pull her out. None other than Nick enters and notices Arik but gets lasered by David. Vince enters, shoots David, and has his squadron fire everything they have at Arik. Anesi's soul was able to merge with the electricity and keeps Arik together. Arik tells Vince to not touch Anesi as a concussed David lasers Vince. David takes the Aleph chip from Arik and gives it to Anesi's body as he bleeds out and Arik finally clatters.

## Eternal Raven (major arc)

[Fix Hell Timeline Plothole]

[Fix Jehovah Plothole]

### Eternal Raven I

DIAM has a black hole containment unit that suppresses Magick but requires tons of energy. Within this is the self-proclaimed Antichrist "Quetzalcoatl". With the zombie apocalypse occurring, DIAM's power supply dwindled and they researched into Magick that might help containment. News of the "daughter of Zeus" had not taken long to get to DIAM agent ears. Upon experimenting on Anesi, they figured out that her body was not only immune to electricity (except in water) but could also potentially multiply it. After discovering this, they used her as a human conduit as to keep Hell off Earth. Upon Arik pulling Anesi out, the black hole failed and Quetzalcoatl was quick to escaping. He proceeded to destroy everything in sight as he walked out of the facility. Most DIAMs escaped and most employees died.

David pushes through his concussion and seals the power station shut; Quetzalcoatl luckily overlooks it. Hours later, Anesi wakes up from her coma and David establishes contact with the Nevada DIAM facility. They have set up refuge and are attempting to fight back. David and Anesi go to the hyperloop tunnel to discover that it was also destroyed in all the carnage. [Plot gap, intro to Jericho Kolkheim] They leave the facility and head south, also running into Dante and Codex as well as Jericho Kolkheim. The five of them take a journey from Denver, Colorado to north of Las Vegas, Nevada while fighting and avoiding all sorts of anomalies that now dot the US. When they reach Grand Junction, a DIAM teleports Jericho and Anesi to Albuquerque; splitting their journey into two.

They eventually meet back up and get to the DIAM facility in Nevada but no one is there to welcome them. They descend into the facility and enter the cafeteria to find a horrible sight. Despite the emergency message still playing through the radio, Quetzalcoatl has taken the facility over. Many corpses litter the floor, a few people are alive but enslaved, and Q sits at a throne made of skulls, he himself appearing as someone each person has hatred for. He is Satan to Jericho and Dante, Jehovah to Anesi, and Hera to Codex. Q introduces himself multiple ways at once and studies the new entertainment in front of him. David, however, sees nothing as his friends enter emotional episodes before him. Amazed, Q takes the form of David and inquires him of his beliefs. Everyone else notices David's conversation and he reveals the truth of Q to them: he attacks his prey memetically.

The group quickly thinks up last minute strategies and Q laughs at them. Anesi and David attempt a chain attack but Q snaps his fingers and they disappear. Jericho enters Bloodrage but Dante holds him back, both of them notice movement behind Q. Dante knows who it is and tries to bury his surprise. It's Sky and she looks utterly battle-worn with a big scar down one eye. She's carrying a greatsword and looks like she just exited an arcade fighting game. Q mocks Dante for holding Jericho back and yells at them to bow before him. Sky quickly stabs Q through the heart. Q looks down as if he didn't feel it and then turns his neck 180 to look at Sky and mock her. Sky hesitates as the sword didn't work.

Jericho escapes Dante's grasp and begins to drill punches into Q's head. Q begins to grunt in pain. He's bluffing, Sky tightens her grip and wrenches the blade around. Q bellows out in pain as bloody ichor drains into the sword. (That looks deliciou-) Sky pushes the hunger back. Q snaps his fingers and Jericho disappears, Dante backs away in fear. Dante is thrown back as Q transforms into a dragon and thrashes all over the place. Dante watches on as Q and Sky disappear in a blinding flash of light as if a nuke went off. The sword clanks down to the ground and then silence. Dante takes a minute to steady his breathing. He'll hopefully find the answers he needs by rewinding the sword.

### Eternal Raven II

Sky falls into Hell with nothing after dying to Arik. She crawls out of a river of blood and into a world made of flesh and bone. A wasteland of decrepit corpses eternally fed to satyrs and succubi. Sky still has her Magicka, counteracting the oppressive environment and giving her strength. From bone and hide, Sky crafts armor and tools. She travels down stream and has to defend herself along the way. She eventually finds a ship docked at a ramshackle camp full of people. At it stands a tall dark robed figure with no face. She walks up to him and he senses her past, pulling a coin out of her mouth that wasn't there before. He hands her a VIP pass and allows her to board. The ferryman throws a stowaway into the river and sets off. Sky finds none other than Vince on the ship as well, who nonchalantly states to have died during a sex ritual. The ones who boarded all conversate about their lives, the ferryman (Charon), and where the ship might be heading. The ship stops multiple times but Sky and Vince among others still remain. Charon throws people off for getting their stop wrong and tells Sky she is staying with him due to the VIP pass. Sky trades it with Vince and Charon reluctantly lets her off.

[Plot gap]

Lilyth, a princess of Hell, introduces herself to Sky. She is the Goddess of Blood Magick, Love & Pain (Princess of Lust), and Vampyres (humans under her spirit). She explains to Sky that she senses a great future for her, as told by Mnemosyne, who Lilyth holds by a chain like a dog and who has been clearly whipped for ultimate knowledge. Lilyth then initiates Sky as a vampyre and introduces her to the other Sisters of Blood. Eisheth Zenunim, Goddess of Succubi and Consumer of Souls (Princess of Gluttony). Agrat Hel, Goddess of Necromancy. Naamah, Gatekeeper of Pandæmonium. Lilyth whips Mnemosyne to telepathically link their minds so that she may designate Sky an outfit. Lilyth chooses an arcade fighting leotard and high heel boots and magickally binds them to Sky much to her dismay but Lilyth allows her to keep the overcoat. Lilyth then also steals the only thing Mnemosyne has left, her golden necklace which carries a dull amulet, and gifts it to Sky, causing it to glow a bright magenta.

Lilyth gives Sky a mission to slay Quetzalcoatl; her sapient steed. He is soon to break containment on Earth and wants to consume it in order to impress his master but become the ultimate lifeform if he does. Sky is then sent to The Dealer; Coyote, the Head Reaper of Hell. He's much like a corrupt lawyer and likes to constantly joke and prank. He explains to Sky that Quetzalcoatl has blocked of the Gates to Hell and that she is to take the Sword of Gilgamesh to slay him. The Sword is to be held firmly until Q is dead, it will suck all of the essence from his soul. She will then be teleported back to Lilyth, who will take and break the sword for herself. Coyote then whispers to Sky that she will have two seconds to drop the sword before she teleports back.

[Back to the Present]

Jericho wakes up in a red desert and falls over after getting up like an unexpectedly empty jug. The stars look off and the moon looks like an asteroid. He's on Mars, but somehow able to breathe and not freezing. He turns around to find a cave with runes on it. He touches them and gets a vision of satyrs, succubi, and two goddesses. He walks deeper in and finds a naked buff man weaved in clouds and awkwardly notices that he is neutered. The man introduces himself to Jericho as Cain (among other names) and rambles on about his past. He tells Jericho that his Mark entombs Leviathan within his arm and that he is dying because of Lilyth. Jericho reluctantly agrees to take the Mark as Cain dies while wishing him luck. Jericho now stands before a long forgotten gateway. Suddenly, the gateway rips open a rift and hellspawn climb out before him. They were probably sent after Cain, but they found someone else that is not as weak like they expected. Now bearing the Mark on his arm and with the air fading, Jericho fights his way through the rift and into the Hellscape.

[Plot gap]

[Arena Scene w/ Satan and Crosskill]

Coyote then sends the trio to a jail cell deep in the bony caves of Hell so that they can convince his old friend Shamyaza to join the side of Lilyth, although this is really Coyote giving them an opportunity to escape. They descend down and find the pale one-eyed Shamyaza meditating and notice that he has no horns growing. They ask him to come to Lilyth's castle but he responds in musings and poem about the future. He breaks out of it and shaves his long beard with a blade, suddenly making him look young. "I didn't fall and sacrifice my eye to let her take everything, fuck her, and fuck Father." He explains to the trio that shadow figures wander deep in these halls and through walls, causing angels and demons alike to go insane. Shamyaza explains to them that the rifts they've been experiencing connected two timelines and that they were teleported into "Sky's timeline (Lambda) from Jericho's timeline (Lambda Prime)". Q and the DIAMs led to the extinction of mankind in Lambda Prime but all of mankind can still be saved in this one. Due to the vampyrism, Lilyth can sense where they are in Hell and will stop them if they try to leave, but if they instead follow the shadow figures into Tenebris Penumbra (Shadow World), Lilyth won't be able to sense them. He finally explains that the necklace will lead them to safety because it has been tracking mankind's safety and not the wearer's soul like Mnemosyne claimed to Lilyth.

### Eternal Raven III

[The following will be rewritten and compiled]

Calypso wakes up in what appears to be a motel room, the lights give off an eerie buzz. She goes to pull the curtains but they don't budge as if made of concrete.

Calypso leaves the room to see a long hallway, weirdly long. The rooms are numbered in 13,658,640s, she walks down the hall for minutes; 13,658,880s. She tries 13,658,888 and finds a bar that leads to nothing but another door.

Calypso searches room after room after room. She starts to hear her own voice behind her, taunting her. The lights buzz more and she begins to see her own shadow and reflections mutilate itself.

Eventually Calypso's electricity stops working on the shadow as it becomes embodied, screaming at her. She runs through more rooms but then opens up into a castle tower and slips off the slabs.

Suddenly Jared and Sky catch her out of nowhere.

"What the absolute fuck is going on, am I insane, what is even real, am I in a coma, a drug tri-"

"SHUT UP." Sky slaps Calypso.

"No, FUCK you!"

Sky's shadow starts to twitch and Jared notices.

"Both of you shut up and breathe for a goddamn moment. We need to be level headed!"

"Says you!" "How?!" (edited)

[20:56]

Calypso's shadow cackles immediately next to them and Jared attempts to punch it but slips. They all stop talking and they catch him. The shadow is about to touch Calypso but evaporates.

"I was TRYING to say that I think this place feeds off our emotions."

Arik "Immortal ︻芫═──" — 25/04/2021

The group eventually finds a food court much to their surprise. Jared and Sky dig in like monsters.

"Are y'all okay, I could eat 2 meals but damn!"

They look at each other for a moment waiting for the other to start.

They exchange telling the whole story and then start going into regrets and mourning. "Wait, Kolkheim?"

Calypso looks at a burger wrapper with fine print on it.

(Red, White, Yellow, Blue-) and it goes on for a bit. She looks up for the color red. (There's a weirdly not rotten apple, a painting, a door, -) "A door!" (edited)

Arik "Immortal ︻芫═──" — 25/04/2021

David mindlessly walks down the highway. (Just more damn mist...)

He sees a road split to the right. (Maybe, but I'm not walking back off the road, that's for sure.)

He takes the turn and eventually finds a town. (Did I just make a circle? Hasn't it been days?)

He notices a door appear down the road within a blink.

A white Calypso walks out in a lab coat and inspects the area.

"Calypso??!"

She jumps at the voice which weirdly reverberates through the mist with a rasp.

"What ar- who are you?" she asks.

"You could tell me the same."

"I'm Virginia Kayne of KayneTech, I'm an entrepreneur to rival DIAM."

David shakes her hand. Warmth. Finally, after all this cold mist.

David hugs her to her surprise. She pushes him off after a minute.

"My mind.. is actually kind of faded, it's probably the mist but I've been walking for ages, perhaps literally."

Virginia writes down a note.

"How about we get you out of here then." (edited)

Arik "Immortal ︻芫═──" — 25/04/2021

Eternal Raven 3:

David and Greene are sitting and talking at the hotel reception while sharing wine, when all of a sudden Sky, Jared, and Calypso walk out from Room 1.

Calypso sees the others and then turns around remembering where she woke up. "Are you fucking kidding me right now?!"

"David!"

"Hey guys!"

David explains where he has been. After Virginia brought him back, he was on an Earth that beat back the zombie apocalypse using nanomachines. In this other timeline, "Virginia found the technology before DIAM did and Quetzalcoatl never tried to take Earth," explains David.

"What about all this? Or Lilyth?" asks Sky.

"We've avoided even touching Hell, better safe than sorry. Quetzalcoatl doesn't even exist as far as we can tell. As for 'all this', it seems to be interdimensional, "Schrodinger's warehouse" as Virginia calls it," Greene explains.

"Who are you and who is Virginia?" asks Calypso.

"She goes by Greene, she has knowledge in practically all forms of Magick. She's not exactly human but that's a story for another time. Virginia is Calypso but not, you'd just have to meet her." David explains.

"What happened to the other 'us'?"

"Sky. Well. She wasn't born? It's in the records. David 2 is still a head researcher at DIAM. Jared died at his house, sorry about that as well. Arik lead a bunch of militia movements but then went off the radar. I already explained Virginia. Konnor is apart of a mission to build a moon base. Ben has been experimenting with the Burmuda Triangle, he keeps having dreams about it." (edited)

[22:47]

After having a happy reunion, they all go to walk through the gateway that Virginia is powering. David walks through but then it begins to fade back into another room.

"Greene!"

"What's happening?"

"I'm not sure, we'll try to reconnect it!"

Arik "Immortal ︻芫═──" — 25/04/2021

Arik stares down a shadow figure through the glass.

"Are you okay dude? You haven't slept." Greene asks.

"I'm still having those dreams about Hat Man. What do they even mean?"

"David isn't sure why you or Ben are having them. Hopefully we'll find answers with one of our projects."

"Anyways, I've worked my way up to an anti-tank bullet. Nothing but a vapory flicker from that thing still."

"What is with that fascination of yours? Try raw photons."

"Flare bullets!"

Greene scoffs. "Sure, try that."

Arik quickly replicates a magazine full of flare bullets and enters the chamber.

He loads the M1911A1 and fires with sentimental anger in his eyes as Greene leaves.

The shadow creature shrieks as a blast of photons kick back at Arik.

He begins to talk to himself. "I've never seen it do that before. Photons in, but more come out. E=MC2? This thing isn't even physical, rather it destroys matter... 'destroys?' THAT'S IT! Annihilation!"

Arik throws the casings into the figure and watches as they flash when breaching the skin. He steps back into the chamber as the shadow person looks on with sheer anger.

He takes a sip of his new soda brand and thinks. "But if that were true, a casing would have caused a 10 kilosoth annihilation... perhaps there's a membrane."

He draws his thoughts out on a dry erase board.

"What lets matter through but not photons... Electrons. An electron membrane my ass, only nucleons hold them and they'd annihilate. Unless... the LHC one bonded electrons to positrons but it was unstable. It's not like they were able to work with a living antimass though... Time for testing."

Arik replicates UV flare bullets and shoots. The figure screams louder and it completely vaporizes with an explosion of blinding light. "The passive photons in here must run into the electrons, causing them to configure and uncouple with the positrons, thereby seeping antimatter at an atomic scale, causing that vapory smoke effect as well as the outline even within darkness!"

26 April 2021

Arik "Immortal ︻芫═──" — 26/04/2021

Arik drives a plane plated in positronium over the Burmuda Triangle. "See you guys on the other side!" The radio waves then stop working as hail and rain hits the hull.

Arik puts on aviators and manically laughs while opening the bomb doors. "Yeeeeeeeeeee-ha!"

The bombs detonate above the surface and brake every record to be kept.

Ben records from a boat kilosoths away. (He's probably having the time of his life right now, that crazy son of a bitch.) A singularity of photons blast away and Ben's lens compensate. Big waves hit as the boat rocks and then a moment later; the humongous deep rumble and crack.

The blast subsides and Ben radios in. No answer. He turns his auto track on but no luck.

"Virginia? Do you have a location on Arik?"

"Uhhh. No. He insisted on no trackers. Him being him."

"Did the positronium work?"

"It sure as fuck should've!" (edited)

Arik "Immortal ︻芫═──" — 26/04/2021

Konnor messages back from the Moon and proceeds to play the theremin without practice. He switches his vocalizer to the Stephen Hawking voice. "I call this: Moon Base Beta!"

Ben facepalms, "He's not even taking this event seriously."

Arik "Immortal ︻芫═──" — 26/04/2021

Ben boards the submarine and drives it deep into the Triangle's center which is now free of shadow water. The water starts to take a bright cyan hue as he approaches the bottom. A city comes into view as he reaches the bottom.

"What the hell did we just discover?"

The buildings are plated in a crystal-like cyan metal. (Orichalcum? Diastalium?) Ben lands the submarine outside of the biggest building and walks out through the airlock.

Merpeople greet him while he looks around with amazement. They lead him to the doors of the castle and walks in. He climbs the stairs and meets the king at his thrown. (The king is wearing an old BETA suit?!)

"Hey, me!"

[00:32]

Those we're flashbacks obviously, I'll get back to the others now.

Arik "Immortal ︻芫═──" — 26/04/2021

Ben documents Atlantis but King DeSanctis asks him to keep it a secret so that DIAM and any others don't find out.

There is still a remnant of shadow water contained within Atlantis, it's a rift to the Shadow Realm aka Tenebris Penumbra. Ben gets news of the gateways failing to open and travels through the rift.

As Ben propels himself through with the new positronium add-on, gravity completely flips on him and he blasts out into a grey field. There is an eerie silence as the grass flows, up in the grey sky is a layer of clouds that flow by.

To the North is a huge spider crawling around. To the East is a tree with shadow figures standing around it. They stare back at him but don't move, catching Ben off guard. A little spider crawls up his suit, Ben jumps and blasts it off.

To the South is a great tower giving off an unsettling vibe as if it were alive. He decides to go investigate it.

Along the edges are unrecorded runes. (Fascinating, Virginia will want these.) He snaps a few photos and enters the doorway.

Arik "Immortal ︻芫═──" — 26/04/2021

The group of, now 4, within Schrodinger's Warehouse witness the lights go out in the distance of the hallway. One by one, each light clicks out and stops buzzing up to them until total oppressive darkness and silence.

Calypso attempts to create light through both of her abilities but to no use. In fact, it feels like she's in water. (Thank goodness David gave me those positronium membrane blueprints.)

Calypso suddenly gets yanked upwards and out of the shadow water by Ben.

"I can't believe I found you guys!"

Their reunion gets interrupted as Westminster Quarters chimes across the field like an artillery shell in a library.

"What the fuck, was that there before?!"

A colossal cathedral stands before them, terrifyingly tall. An army of shadow people gather around them as a couple open the doors. The team walks in at awe at the architecture; headache inducing Baroque and Gothic.

A pipe organ and carillon play Also Sprach Zarathustra as they wander down the tens of tens of pews.

Hat Man gets up from the stool and stands at the altar. "The Doom That Came to Sarnath, Poem 10, Paragraph 6 & 7: 'As if beckoned by those who had gone before, I half floated between the titanic snowdrifts, quivering and afraid, into the sightless vortex of the unimaginable.- And through this revolting graveyard of the universe the muffled, maddening beating of drums, and thin, monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic, tenebrous ultimate gods—the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep.'" (edited)

Arik "Immortal ︻芫═──" — 26/04/2021

They attempted to speak but their mouths were glued shut by an invisible force.

'Revelation 9: "The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. And out of the smoke locusts came down on the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.- They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek is Apollyon (that is, Destroyer).'"

Arik "Immortal ︻芫═──" — 26/04/2021

Nyarlathotep closes the book, which weirdly didn't change and looked fractal.

"I could go on, about others too, for perhaps an entire year and then some. The Sacred Whore was only a taste of what is to come. Virginia made a mistake not checking on the other copies. With your combined memetics, you might have started to at least conceive what is happening around you. All poets are prophets, especially the unorthodox ones. Sapient minds are all writers, and I wish to bring the stories to life. Konnor and Arik's referential humor is the fractal meta of this book we here stand in!" (edited)

Arik "Immortal ︻芫═──" — 26/04/2021

"You have one question only. You are now allowed to speak."

They all look at each other in fear for a moment.

"Who's the yellow dude?"

"W- what?"

"What are even building up to father? You can't just throw away the food," states a figure behind Nyarlathotep. (edited)

Arik "Immortal ︻芫═──" — 26/04/2021

The figure stands a bit taller than Nyarlathotep, a vibrant yellow robe screaming out from the grey scale. There is a painful nothing where his face should be. A talisman around his hood carries a unique sigil. Sand pours out from beneath his robes and snares Nyarlathotep.

"The Raven, The Panther, wields the unseen Sword coveted from the Fates of Aeons past. The Second King may not be as powerful as the First, but this shant dishearten the chance. A firm grasp," The Yellow King states.

Jared steps up to the alter and unsheathes the sword from within his coat.

Nyarlathotep begins to chant in an unspeakable tongue, mentioning each person's name. Greene begins chanting back with an archaic sounding language but was too late, Sky gets dragged through a rift and Jared feels a strong tug as well.

"The Mustang is once again captured, but not for eternity," The Yellow King states.

The Yellow King then recounts Ozymandias:

"And on the pedestal these words appear --

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.'"

Jared then stabs Nyarlathotep through the gut. Bright light breaches from within his mouth and eyes.

The sword begins to gain weight but then the essence surges out of the blade and into Jared's soul. (edited)

Arik "Immortal ︻芫═──" — 26/04/2021

"The Raven tastes yet ever more wrath. Let the sands of time take you to your next destiny," states The Yellow King.

Jared gets dragged through a rift, sword included.

With what little essence remains, Nyarlathotep breaks free from The Yellow King's grasp, shakily pulls out a pocket watch, and disappears.

[03:16]

"It is time for the humans to wake up and wipe the sand grain," The Yellow King dictates.

Calypso, Greene, and Ben all wake up from the nightmare in their beds. When they try to remember who was behind Nyarlathotep, they lose thought.

## Undying Panther (major arc) [Messy Concepts]

Secret Meldrn-Fahgod Backstory: Seth Barrett was the baby son of Rasputin and Nyx but was banished to the void for being only a demigod. Hastur discovers him and teleports him to a catholic orphanage, which is where he grows up.

An old nun senses Seth's dark soul and believes him to be a demon child and abuses him growing up. While letting out anger in his room, his Magicka "50 Caliber Punch" awakens. He decides to put his life to good use by joining the Marines. He excels bootcamp and an undercover DIAM field agent enlists him.

Seth gets stationed at a DIAM facility which is experimenting on ancient alien eggs that hatch into dinosaur-like reptiles. The facility was built on top of a cave which housed an army of the eggs. The entire cave hatches suddenly and they prove powerful enough to invade the entire facility. A researcher dies which has the dormant zombie virus (following an abduction by the Grays/Dwarfs earlier in their life). Seth manages to kill the aliens and disarm the self-destruct sequence but escapes the facility to discover the zombie virus somehow made it out to the public.

A few months prior, Arik suddenly gained his memories from the previous timeline and searched for KayneTech, realizing it was from this timeline. Dante sees a prophecy of the zombie apocalypse happening in this timeline as well. They meet Virginia Kayne and set up a plan to quickly stop the incoming apocalypse using Horzine type technology. KayneTech later reveals the Burmuda Shadow anomaly to the public and Arik decides to personally deliver a nuke to destroy it but disappears in the process and is designated MIA.

Years later, Seth makes his way up the chain of command all the way up to the Council's Hand which grants him ultimate access. He visits DIAM-0 to finally learn what it is, finds the black hole chamber, and walks up to it. He suddenly gets a migraine as whatever is inside somehow telepathically linked with him despite none of the other guards being affected. A woman's voice commands him to punch the chamber open as he feels like his brain is about to explode and his body is being fried. The guards try to kill Seth but it's too late as Nyx breaks out and possesses everyone in the room except Seth, whom she can't seem to. Nyx walks through the facility and possesses everyone except for Chief Archivist Ryker Gunn who reveals himself to really be Arik Kolkheim to Seth. Nyx sends an army after the two but they manage to escape the facility and she gives up for the time being.

Over the next few years, Arik tracks down and assassinates several possessed world leaders who turn tyrannical. Arik reveals the conspiracy but the media and DIAM council frame him as a murderous psychopath to be assassinated himself. To make things even worse, Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower are bombed and DIAM frames it on Arik. Nyx sends in Nick (Lambda) to contain Arik, which he does by drowning him in a room filled with cement. DIAM discovers KayneTech's secret base and tracks down Virginia and Seth. Director Nyx herself captures Seth and contains him as Nick corners Virginia to a cliff Polnareff style. Dante retreats to defend Atlantis once more, Codex is currently stuck on the Moon, and Anesi's whereabouts are still unknown [David, Thalia, and Jericho plot hole]. Nyx makes a deal with Seth to continue being the Council's Hand or she will kill him and with no back up; he relents.

[Revolution Plot]

It all eventually culminates to the final battle where Nyx is about to kill Seth but Arik uses Mnemosyne's necklace on Nyx, causing her to remember everything. They then get teleported to Cthulhu's dream realm where Arik, Seth, Jericho, Nyx, and Gaia [potentially more] are made normally mortal, forget their pasts, and get thrown into a slice of life plot. Interestingly, all the artifacts still vaguely contain their powers. Mnemosyne's neckless leads Nyx to Mnemosyne herself, who has managed to regain her memories and some of her powers. Fast forward to that finale where Cthulhu is about to kill and consume Seth but Nyx/Sky takes his place. After she dies, this is when Jericho uses his sword on Cthulhu. This accidently lets Nyarlathotep out who has consumed Q's soul, who then very angrily fights Cthulhu in his ultimate form and manages to win. Nyarlathotep pities the survivors and teleports them back to Earth.

## Unused Ideas

SOMETHING to explain Jericho's disappearances

Grays/Dwarfs Plot (Johnny Kolkheim, the researcher, Hephaestus, the Kaynes)

Gaia as an antagonist; the Kaynes as main characters

Leviathan and Lilyth takeover Hell, abduction of Jericho and Nyx

2094, Mithras' awakening and Coyote's resurrection