Grasping at straws
Ok, Big Epic Battle time, starring the Champions and all our mains. I like the three good (asterisk Suzette) guys going into the misty country to duke it out with the DG. What if they used Wolfgang as their portal that ways?
Ok so in the Big Epic Battle (BEB) Alex makes his way to wherever Wolfgang is bc he knows he's controlling the gross army. He's intending to just put him down like all the others he's done, but he is not expecting a few details to pop up:
1. Suzette is there, acting as right hand
2. Damien is there, trying to get Suzette to think more like a human
3. Wolfgang still has a tiny snippet of himself left somewhere inside.
So they're having a wizard duel and it's really cool, but then Suzette comes in and starts ruining everything, really beating the snot out Alex. Damien soon follows and is trying to pull her off, but to Alex this looks like Suzette has backup.
Somewhere in the confusion, Wolfgang gets a lucid moment. Idk if this is because the DG is so occupied with the army, or because Alex is so imbued with necromantic energy in the heat of battle that he can see it more easily, but the little part of human!Wolfgang that's left struggles through and actually manages to say that this is not him, he's being controlled by the dark god of the misty country. Damien would recognize what he's talking about immediately, where Suzette would only see that Alex is distracted.
Wolfgang surprises everyone by using his own body and the last of his lucidity to open a portal to the misty country. Maybe he cuts a door into his carcass, maybe draws a door on the wall with his blood, something that ultimately kills him.
Alex understands now that the army isn't going to stop unless he kills DG, and spotting it through the portal, dives in. Suzette dives after him, because of course she does. Damien dives after both of them, because that nice young man clearly doesn't have any idea what he's dealing with here.
Once there, there's little point in fighting. Damien can fill him in a little as to what this place is. Alex tries some of his augmentations, but instead it becomes literally what he asked for, pretty much all the ambient energy is his to shape as he sees fit, like the Green Lantern. They see the DG approaching, Alex quickly gives them all weapons made from energy (LIGHTSABERS YO) and this just sounded really stupid.
Anyway, derivatives aside, they all attack as a team. It is intelligent, and it informs them what's what about the other god and why it's doing all this mess-making on earth. I mean, during the battle he says this, it's not like they all sit down and have a nice chat over tea. Damien is particularly pissed that his whole life was devoted to more of a lie than he'd known before, and is ready to deliver the killing blow when Suzette jumps in and does it herself. Back on earth, the army starts acting like normal undeads, not organized ones, and the Champions make short work of them. Undeads the world over do not behave any different, but there is a mysterious lack of them in the months to follow, almost like they aren't rising up anymore.
SO all the gods are dead and now we have this entire plane of existence that is going to fill up with dead souls if we don't do something about it. Alex gently picks one up and buries it in the ground. It sprouts as a single blade of bright green grass, because souls=energy here. He asks Damien to describe what he thought the afterlife should look like, and he said he always thought it would be a natural place, somewhere soft and peaceful, like an open field, where you could find rest. Suzette says they will need more grass for that. They cannot go home, and there's nothing left for any of them even if they could. They then know what they have to do.
When they bury the dark god, it becomes a huge tree, as well it should.
Anyway, well into the distant future the misty country changes completely. It's still sunless, but there is light from below, shining out of the grass. There are a few groves of trees, slowly becoming forests as the years go by, due to one of the group figuring you could tie souls together like rope before you bury them. It's not an infinite field, but what there is is thick and lush, because the trio plants densely. Religion has shifted somehow over the decades to worship not a single god but an evenly-divided trinity.
AND THERE'S YOUR OPERA.
Great, now go actually outline all that.
Ok so in the Big Epic Battle (BEB) Alex makes his way to wherever Wolfgang is bc he knows he's controlling the gross army. He's intending to just put him down like all the others he's done, but he is not expecting a few details to pop up:
1. Suzette is there, acting as right hand
2. Damien is there, trying to get Suzette to think more like a human
3. Wolfgang still has a tiny snippet of himself left somewhere inside.
So they're having a wizard duel and it's really cool, but then Suzette comes in and starts ruining everything, really beating the snot out Alex. Damien soon follows and is trying to pull her off, but to Alex this looks like Suzette has backup.
Somewhere in the confusion, Wolfgang gets a lucid moment. Idk if this is because the DG is so occupied with the army, or because Alex is so imbued with necromantic energy in the heat of battle that he can see it more easily, but the little part of human!Wolfgang that's left struggles through and actually manages to say that this is not him, he's being controlled by the dark god of the misty country. Damien would recognize what he's talking about immediately, where Suzette would only see that Alex is distracted.
Wolfgang surprises everyone by using his own body and the last of his lucidity to open a portal to the misty country. Maybe he cuts a door into his carcass, maybe draws a door on the wall with his blood, something that ultimately kills him.
Alex understands now that the army isn't going to stop unless he kills DG, and spotting it through the portal, dives in. Suzette dives after him, because of course she does. Damien dives after both of them, because that nice young man clearly doesn't have any idea what he's dealing with here.
Once there, there's little point in fighting. Damien can fill him in a little as to what this place is. Alex tries some of his augmentations, but instead it becomes literally what he asked for, pretty much all the ambient energy is his to shape as he sees fit, like the Green Lantern. They see the DG approaching, Alex quickly gives them all weapons made from energy (LIGHTSABERS YO) and this just sounded really stupid.
Anyway, derivatives aside, they all attack as a team. It is intelligent, and it informs them what's what about the other god and why it's doing all this mess-making on earth. I mean, during the battle he says this, it's not like they all sit down and have a nice chat over tea. Damien is particularly pissed that his whole life was devoted to more of a lie than he'd known before, and is ready to deliver the killing blow when Suzette jumps in and does it herself. Back on earth, the army starts acting like normal undeads, not organized ones, and the Champions make short work of them. Undeads the world over do not behave any different, but there is a mysterious lack of them in the months to follow, almost like they aren't rising up anymore.
SO all the gods are dead and now we have this entire plane of existence that is going to fill up with dead souls if we don't do something about it. Alex gently picks one up and buries it in the ground. It sprouts as a single blade of bright green grass, because souls=energy here. He asks Damien to describe what he thought the afterlife should look like, and he said he always thought it would be a natural place, somewhere soft and peaceful, like an open field, where you could find rest. Suzette says they will need more grass for that. They cannot go home, and there's nothing left for any of them even if they could. They then know what they have to do.
When they bury the dark god, it becomes a huge tree, as well it should.
Anyway, well into the distant future the misty country changes completely. It's still sunless, but there is light from below, shining out of the grass. There are a few groves of trees, slowly becoming forests as the years go by, due to one of the group figuring you could tie souls together like rope before you bury them. It's not an infinite field, but what there is is thick and lush, because the trio plants densely. Religion has shifted somehow over the decades to worship not a single god but an evenly-divided trinity.
AND THERE'S YOUR OPERA.
Great, now go actually outline all that.