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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 2045128" data-attributes="member: 2020">Why you shouldn't like Drow, even if you are IuzThe Dark Drow are not happy at Iuz, Rikandur.  He betrayed Lady Shadow.  Now, Iuz can spin it as something else, but THEY see it as betrayal.  So, they proceed to send one of their own to Al'Akbar, and that Dark Drow surrenders to Al'Akbar.  THAT Dark Drow immediately tells Al'Akbar the truth:  that Lady Shadow was using the city of Doraaka as her refuge, and that Iuzs' protections against scrying shielded her.  ANOTHER Dark Drow is sent to King Arden, with the same message.  (Arden has her executed, but not until after he confirms the truth of the message.)  OTHER Dark Drow are sent on suicide missions to tell the truth to everyone else on Oerth and in Greyspace.  Thus, EVERYONE knows that Iuz shielded Lady Shadow (and the Dark Drow put the worst spin on the story possible, implicating Iuz in the worst way possible) and thus made her attacks possible.  -  Meanwhile, some of the remaining Dark Drow are powerful wizards, and they carry out Lady Shadows' final command:  The Dark Drow mages and magistresses look at each other, smiling, and they say:  'The Surface Dwellers insist they love the sun.  They want all the sun they can get.  Well we shall give them the sun!  We bequeath to the Surface Dwellers the sun they so desire!  We hope they enjoy their beloved sun!'  For Lady Shadow had read the Devilish Blueprints about hydrogen bombs.  She could not comprehend them, but she COULD comprehend the words 'duplicate the explosion going on in the sun' and she could comprehend 'they destroy huge areas when they detonate.'  And she could view pictures.  A Gate is opened, using the 9th level Gate spell (the right version, in this case ...)  The Gate is modified using Wish spells to allow material to flow freely from one side to another as it will (and it will ... oh, it will indeed ...)  The Gate is opened with the other end INSIDE Oerths' sun.  Wishes, cast priorhand, are used to make the Gate last as long as physically possible.  Fortunately, the drow do not understand the sun well enough to open a gate to it's core, where the thermonuclear process is occurring.  Instead, the Gate opens on the superheated hydrogen within the surface, but outside the core.  The drow had intended to open this Gate in the midst of the Flanaess, but thanks to Al'Akbar those drow were killed or driven off, and their plans foiled.  But those drow way out on the remote Isle of the Phoenix, succeed in their plan.  The hydrogen in the sun, driven by unearthly pressure, spews through the Gate like the mother of all flamethrowers.  The Gate cannot withstand this force, and instantly collapses.  But ...  The Wish spells kick in, demanding the Gate remain open.  It can't, but the Wishes command it to anyway.  A hole is torn in the fabric of reality, and a momentary enormous, miles wide opening is made directly connecting Oerth with it's sun.  This opening lasts only an instant, then snaps shut.  In that instant, a colossal flood of superheated hydrogen enters Oerth.  The Isle of the Phoenix is instantly incinerated.  The bedrock under the Isle of the Phoenix melts, the continental plate slumping from the incredible heat, a hole melted through the tectonic cover of the world.   The atmosphere bursts into incandescent glory as a cloud of superheated gas in the tens of thousands of degrees fills thousands of cubic miles of it.  Before the cloud cools, it heats all the ocean for a hundred miles in all direction to the boiling point, then sends vast amounts of the ocean (tens of thousands of cubic miles of water) screaming skyward as steam, while the deeper waters boil furiously.  A hundred thousand cubic miles of ocean is raised in temperature to the boiling point.  By the time the hydrogen has cooled, a GIGANTIC cloud of superheated steam has filled a hundred thousand square miles of Oerths' atmosphere, from the surface to well above the mesosphere.  Below this cloud, a fourty thousand square mile area of ocean continues to boil, right down to the bottom five miles down.  The drow casting the Gate are all killed in this catastrophe.  They don't care.  They are guaranteed Lolths' good will for this.  -  The superheated steam cloud begins to spread and dissipate into the surrounding atmosphere of Oerth.  The boiling ocean waters around the magma plume that was once the Isle of the Phoenix begin to merge with the surrounding waters, cooling as they do, but heating up those waters.  Rapidly, superheated ocean currents begin to form, while above them the atmosphere is filled with roiling, superheated vapor.  Unless someone does something, whatever season it was somewhere on Oerth, it will soon be summer.  It will be summer from Polaria to Hyperboria, from Anakeris to Aquaria, from Burundi to the Thillronian Peninsula.  It will be a summer the likes of which Oerth has never known.  Average temperatures will hover over 120 degrees Fahrenheit, and humidity will be near 100%.  And it will rain, perpetually rain, endlessly rain, as the atmosphere tries and tries to balance out the impossible amount of heat interjected within it.  Hurricanes with winds beyond imagination will hit all the coastlines.  Waves hundreds of feet high will come with these hurricanes.  Every snowpack, glacier, and icecap on Oerth will melt.  The level of the oceans will rise many hundreds of feet through snowmelt and thermal expansion.  And this summer will go on for years, many many years, without relent, without mercy, without a single pause, as the overheated atmosphere and the overheated oceans attempt to mitigate the colossal overheating they themselves have been subjected to.  Indeed, the Surface Dwellers wanted the sun.  The drow would say the Surface Dwellers got their wish.  The drow would say:  Be careful what you wish for.  You might just get it.  Or, in your case, you are getting it.  Get it?  -  There is no immediate effect on the Flanaess or other continents from the destruction of the Isle of the Phoenix and the injection of heat into the oceans and atmosphere.  A great light is seen in the east from Oerik, and in the north from Aquaria.  The destruction of the Isle of the Phoenix and the end of all ocean life around it cannot be immediately reversed.  But the long term effects could be reversed.  Assuming the demipowers of Oerth do something immediately to mitigate it.  But of course ... Iuz is busy wandering, Eilistraee is overwhelmed trying to stop a complete kill off of the elves by the Howling Death Iuz sent, Al'Akbar and the Shining Lady alone cannot stop the long term effects of the drow handiwork, and Hachiman, Zagyg, and others aren't helping.  Hmmm ... I must wonder if the demipowers of Oerth will choose to stop their feuding, and save their world?  Or they will remain divided, and let the Great Summer come upon them?  I CAN speak for Arden, King of Keoland.  Informed of Iuzs' collaboration with Lady Shadow, his response is:  KILL Iuz first.  ALL other things second.  But, of course, he is a paladin ... and he doesn't know, couldn't know, what has happened and just what it means for him and his people.</blockquote>

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