The All-Seeing Eye

The All-Seeing Eye is an event that took place on 8/29/2023 in Nexus, the capital of The Second State of Hautbois. The event confirmed the death of JJSilver and revealed the cure to exterminate Clathrus and the mushroom plague.

## Background

#### The Final Feast

A couple of days prior to the event, Klism and legomat hosted a feast at Klishka City called the "Peace Feast". It was to celebrate the peace after the war in The Bretherlands. However, Attaxolotl's character Clathrus has been slowly influencing Josh (Klism)'s dreams into supporting the cause of The Eternal Circus. The E.C. is a mushroom cult lead by a demon trapped in a mask named Clathrus who's goal is to infect the entire world so that the world is elevated into an Eternal Peace where everyone is one hivemind that doesn't argue or fight. Josh spiked the wine served at the feast with mushrooms, leading to most attendants becoming infected. Josh killed Clathrus' current host, putting on the mask. The feast devolved into fighting as players started vomitting trying to get the infected wine out of their system.

#### Iris Aurum

Shiva Aurum (GeoZ) also went to the Eternal Feast, and was allegedly infected in the process. However, Shiva Aurum is actually a puppet stand-in of Iris Aurum, the real Golden Monarch, a fairy child who needed the puppet to gain influence and save Hautbois from its coup-d'état. Over the past few days, Iris has been studying the effects of the plague on the Shiva puppet and investigating the Citadel to figure out the cure, when she stumbled upon an ancient prophecy.

*"In shadows deep, where darkness curls,*

*Clathrus schemes with wicked swirls.*

*From the world's core, five sparks align,*

*A blazing pyre, doom to malign."*

She writes it down in a letter (now referred to as the Nexus Letter by FLAPJACKPANTS) and gives it to Silver before going on an expedition to find the Citadel Artifacts.

## The Event

#### Aurora’s End

"Almost 2 nights in this world have passed since a fungal infection has spread through the land of Prairie. At first, little was changed in the mind of a shy Monarch, shock more than anything clouding her thoughts - though as a new day dragged on she would find her fellow Monarch missing from the city they shared, and strange new blocks and messages appearing around their city. Seeing these, Aurora starts working to remove the strange items, while wondering about The Golden Monarch, now missing. Though as she hacks away at the roots of some of the blocks, small spores are released and cover her face and clothing; and she hears a voice in her mind.. ***Eternal peace, through eternal connection..*** **Aurora is now confirmed infected, though a fellow leader is strangely missing from Nexus. For now, Aurora is seen as the sole ruler of the Second State, though she hopes to continue to be trusted even as she joins a new group, a new** ***Federation..**" -Aurora's last diary entry*

Aurora is told by Iris to head to the secret bunker to check on the mushroom specimen that is being held there for investigation, and to recieve Iris's diary entry. Slowly getting infected, the contact with the specimen is too much and she falls with the book still in hand, dead. Before she falls, a message is sent, explaining the disappearances of the Monarchs to the uninfected alliance, asking them to come to Nexus.

#### The All-Seeing Eye

On 8/29/23, the message reaches the alliance, and many go to Nexus to investigate. JJSilver is found in the lab, and the book she was holding was retrieved by HurriNai and read to the non-infected.

#### The Nexus Letter

To \_\_\_\_\_\_,

When I see this again, will it help me remember? Or once infected will I be just as muted as the others? No matter - it seems the lengthy precautions worked.

The fungus entered the God of the Moon Puppet at approximately 20:15 EST. Within minutes, I

recorded spores entering the brain. By an hour, the infection had taken over the brain, rewriting neurons, pathways, and functions to one purpose: Serve \*\*\*\*\*. If you're reading this, A---r-, the world has changed. I've been in hiding, praying that Clathrus doesn't know of me.

But I'll be fine. I'm the puppeteer. The color in one's eye. The Princess of Aurum. You know me. If you see this, -ur---, you may have already turned. That your mind was warped, just as the puppets, to the control of the fungus. The fungus that wants to destroy \*us\*- for peace under the dark. And I've been trying to figure out the cure. To save us. To save our Prairie- our world full of humanity. Conflict, drama, tension- only a side effect to love, memories, and connection- and the hive seeks to destroy all of it. But let me tell you  ---u-a, that they won't stop fighting.

A crusade. Clathrus plans to bring us all into the hivemind- by force. And it's slowly mobilizing.

But thankfully, my research has been fruitful.

We can't cure the infected. They will have to die.

It pains me to say this, but the infection has killed them- not their bodies, but their souls and spirits, and it can't come back, and unless a miracle happens, they're dead.

B-but... what's left? Stopping the host- the devil.

An ancient scroll I found when caving in the Titanic Crater last month ago says it all.

"In shadows deep, where darkness curls,

Clathrus schemes with wicked swirls.

From the world's core, five sparks align,

A blazing pyre, doom to malign."

So please \_\_\_\_\_\_, I hope you're still there. That the curse hasn't gotten to you, that you weren't absorbed into the hivemind like \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.

If you're reading this, I have already left Nexus on a voyage to figure out the location of the "sparks". Take care of the turtles for me. And the cats. And whatever you do, I hope the mushrooms haven't gotten to you yet. If it's too late... goodbye. M- may- we meet on the battlefield..

-Iris Aurum

The Golden Monarch of the Second State of Hautbois

The Spirit of Shiva

## Aftermath

Iris returns home from her voyage to find Aurora dead and infected in the lab, but the letter containing the key to eliminating the virus successfully retrieved by the non-infected alliance. Shattered by the loss, she takes back over Hautbois and dedicates herself to the fight against Clathrus.

Unbeknownst to Iris, Aurora was revived by Clathrus’s voice, leaving Nexus and Hautbois to join the Eternal Federation.

## Trivia

The background music for the storyline in the Aftermath section is Isabella's Lullaby.