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Verse and Dimensions: Stories
Upon returning to the Folded Cascade, Seven found that it was already under attack. Furthermore, it had already sustained twice the amount of damage as the civil war, and was in fact the most destructive attack which The Overseer had sent thus far. The Hexagon Lords were fighting hard to fend off the threat, but were clearly struggling. Seven leapt into action to help in fighting The Overseer’s forces. Although the rest of the Hexagon Lords already knew that Seven was to blame for this attack, now wasn’t the time to confront him as the current priority was defending the Cascade. The battle was hard-fought, and numerous casualties were suffered by both the inhabitants of the Folded Cascade and The Overseer’s forces. Eventually, the final Beast had been slain, and the Folded Cascade was fortified against any further attack.
The Hexagon Lords looked all around, and saw just how much destruction had been caused by the battle. This time, they all knew for certain that it was entirely Seven’s fault. Before they could confront him, Seven once again teleported away, retreating into his pocket dimension. As he sat in solitude, Seven seethed at his failure. With all the power he had accumulated thus far, he refused to believe that it was his fault that the Folded Cascade nearly fell to The Overseer’s forces. Therefore, he could only come to one logical conclusion: he needed even more power. In his isolation, Seven began losing himself in his obsessions and delusions of grandeur, forgetting why he wanted power in the first place. It was no longer about protecting others, or the welfare of his people. Now, it was simply about subjugating others.
As the rest of the Lords conversed, meanwhile, it did not take long for them to reach their own logical conclusions. Clearly, Seven’s overambition and impulsivity nearly brought about the demise of the Folded Cascade. Such an incident was poorly representative of the ideals that the group stood for. Furthermore, the other Hexagon Lords were disturbed by Seven's downward spiral into obsessive insanity, and knew that to keep him around any longer would only be further to their detriment. Therefore, The Hexagon Lords unanimously came to the decision to banish Seven from the group. They thus traveled to Seven's pocket dimension to confront him.
Upon One breaking the news to him, Seven was…shocked would have been an understatement. He felt incredibly betrayed by his teammates. He believed that after all he did for them, they were being ungrateful enough to toss him aside like waste. In a moment of rage, Seven violently lashed out and attacked One. Three tried to calm down Seven and de-escalate the tensions. It almost seemed to have worked, that is until Six squandered any potential chance of peaceful negotiation as he retaliated against Seven and attacked him too. A skirmish then ensued amongst the group.
Seven, fighting The Hexagon Lords as he merges the Prismus cubes together.
Eventually, the rest of the Hexagon lords seemed to have been gaining the advantage in the battle. Desperate, Seven finally attempted one last drastic method of increasing his power: he combined all the prismus cubes together, and then attempted to absorb it himself, intending to merge with the intelligence and steal all the power that the entire Folded Cascade fed to it. In the process, however, Seven became overloaded and the cube rejected him, burning him as its memory and data became corrupted and it was flung away. The magnitude of this event was so great, that the chain reaction from the explosion resulted in damaging property all throughout the pocket dimension.
Failsafe
This incident nearly killed Seven, severely injuring him and nearly destroying his entire physical body. Since his manifestation served as his true form and contained his essence, this had a far more detrimental effect on him than it would have for any of the other Hexagon Lords' manifestations being damaged/destroyed. He now primarily existed as a mass of semi-physical disembodied essence, which struggled to remain intact. But even despite this, he was still more powerful than any individual Lord. However, Seven had anticipated the circumstance he found himself in, and had a failsafe in place.
During the early part of his quest for power, Seven was already concerned with the prospect of an untimely death. He was not so ignorant to believe that he couldn't be killed, and so using the technology he used in creating his servants, he developed a plan to create a being that he could transfer his mind and soul into, essentially renewing his life and strength should it have ever been depleted. To accomplish this, he constructed an incubation machine which housed one of his hybrid clones, specially engineered to have enhanced attributes so that it could serve as a worthy vessel, and activate upon his death so that his consciousness would fully transfer into the new being. However, in the incident that injured him, the incubator malfunctioned, and his original self was still alive, effectively ruining his premeditated failsafe. In light of these new circumstances, Seven resorted to a new, improvised plan.
There remained a fragment of the combined Prismus cube which successfully merged and integrated with Seven, forming a symbiosis between them. With this, and his local omniscience, he remotely searched through his multiverse. He surveyed every universe, every timeline, for the most genetically perfect and compatible organism possible. After a lengthy vetting process, he finally identified one single candidate: a mortal human female. Seven transmuted a part of his essence into the human, birthing a hybrid offspring. This boy would be called J. Christopher Trigonum. Seven watched from afar, occasionally serving as a guiding hand in the child's life to help increase his power – the more powerful the child would become, the more powerful that Seven would in turn be once he took possession of him. Seven planned to transport the rest of his essence into Trigonum's body, essentially using him as a vessel with which to reincarnate himself, and return to his full power.
Seven was convinced that despite being offically removed from the team, he was still a part of it, as he considered it to be a fundamental right that he was entitled to. He even viewed himself as the rightful leader of the Hexagon Lords. Thus, he held onto his title of "Seven", using it as leverage to boost others' perception of him, as well as his own self-perception. In fact, he decided to "improve" his title, to boost his perceived status. And so, he henceforth became known as The Seventh. The Seventh made a vow to himself to return to the Folded Cascade, once he was powerful enough to properly "lead" the Hexagon Lords.
Aftermath
The remaining Hexagon Lords were aware of what had happened to The Seventh, but they chose to not pursue or attempt to defeat him, since he did not seem to pose an active threat any longer. If anything, most of the Hexagon Lords took pity on him, disheartened by what their former friend had become. There were also those, however, such as Six, who suggested that they outright kill The Seventh then and there, to prevent him from being a potential problem in the future. Despite this sentiment, the majority opinion of the group was weighed against him, as many still carried sympathy for The Seventh.
These events served as a cautionary tale to the Hexagon Lords, who unanimously agreed (some with reluctance) that no individual in the group should be allowed to serve in any form of an advisory or leading role to all the rest, and vowed to never accept any more new members again. This would additionally also lead to the completion of the development of the Domain Ring, to ensure that power was equally distributed amongst the Lords and remained balanced. Despite the controversy that this caused, they all could agree that these circumstances were still more favorable than what could have been, had circumstances previously followed down an alternate route.
The Hexagon Lords did as much as they could to disassociate themselves from their excommunicated member. They abandoned their old gear, and stopped using the weapons invented by The Seventh. As a final testament to this, they dismantled the Prismus system, with the intention to upgrade and integrate the overarching AI of A0N1 instead. The immediate effect of this unleashed an unstable backlash, but the resulting chain of events eventually led to the creation of Vyotekha. She was eventually stabilized and contained, in large part by Four’s efforts.
There still remained, however, several loose ends. Even after everything that had transpired, Four never revealed that he knew The Seventh always had the potential to become evil from the beginning. Additionally, Five also held the secret that she had erased The Seventh's compassion. They both knew that if this information were to come to light only now, long after the fact, it would severely divide the Hexagon Lords, as well as harm Four and Five’s reputation. And so, they decided that it was best to simply let it be..
Floyd
Floyd is a (relatively) minor Cosmic Entity who heads an extremely large pantheon of gods known as the Melodic Pantheon, who collectively control about 15,000+ universes. He has the capability of creating and destroying entire galaxies the size of the Small Magellanic Cloud with only a minor amount of effort.
Floyd is a benevolent god, who cares for the civilizations and nations who worship him in much the same manner that a mother cares for her children. However he is not soft by any means, and is quick to put down any hostile civilization that attempts to destroy him, any member of the Melodic Pantheon, or any civilization that worships him.
History
In the year 2750 AD, a baseline human named Kevin Nuson was born on Earth. By this point in time, humans had already thoroughly explored and colonized their solar system, and were also just establishing the first interstellar colonies. This period was the absolute height for humankind, the era of history which experienced the most rapid and drastic rate of advancement in civilization and technology. Kevin was lucky (or unlucky) enough to have been born right in this point of history.
However, tensions were brewing between the nations of earth. The primary conflict concerned the use of all this new technology, and primarily the ethics thereof. Many factions wished to use this technology to accomplish various goals. There were those who wanted to use it for warfare, those who wanted to use it for peace, those who wanted to use it making a cleaner environment and those who wanted to capitalise on it; and so on and so forth.
Kevin tried to push worries about politics out of his head. He was more concerned with his own life and what to do with his future, and for a time he waited for someone or something to show him the way. But it was then that Kevin realized that he would have to carve out his own path in life, as he went on to become a quantum physicist, a field of work in which he greatly excelled. Kevin was the kevinest Kevin who ever lived. In layman's terms, a lot of people liked, respected and admired him. While doing his work, Kevin would often have music by a very ancient band known as Pink Floyd cranked up in the background. For some reason, the music seemed to resonate with Kevin, and it took away the moments that made up a dull day. Kevin eventually established himself in a laboratory based on the Dark side of the Moon. When asking why it was located here, his superiors told him that it provided better stealth and kept the activities secret from enemy governments. It was clear to Kevin now that he would be taking part in more controversial and secret experiments.
Kevin never made time to start a family or even make much friends either. Every year was getting shorter, and he never seemed to find the time. At this point, he started worrying that he may have wasted his life.
The Rise of Floyd
One day, Kevin's colleagues arrived at the lunar base with a mysterious object they had discovered. It was a small, crystalline pyramid-shaped structure.
The strangest quality about this small artifact was that there was a small series of cosmos within it, like a miniature universe.
Kevin, and a few other scientists, were tasked with experimenting on the pyramid and learning its properties. During experimentation, it was discovered that the pyramid seemed to resonate with sound. When specific notes were directed at the object, it seemed to reflect it outwards in various ways. Additionally, the object could focus light beams and fire out beams as intense laser rays.
Before any further information could be gathered, the pyramid started acting up. It was as if something Kevin did had awakened something within it. Suddenly, it hovered in the air, glowing, before flying into Kevin's face. The last thing Kevin heard was a faint voice saying "just a little pinprick" before a vibrant explosion of colors erupted in his eyes and everything went black.
When he came to, Kevin was in the lab's infirmary. He found that there was no pain he was receiving, and the spot where he was struck by the pyramid did not hurt at all. His whole body was numb – comfortably numb, in fact. Nobody else was there in the room besides himself, and so Kevin was shocked to hear a voice say to nod if he could hear it. There was inside his head but it wasn't him. He was startled, but not wanting to reply out loud and arouse suspicion, Kevin slowly nodded in response. Kevin was worried that a lunatic was in his head. Had he sustained brain damage from that accident? The voice than asked if Kevin could stand up. Slowly, Kevin sat up and got out of the bed, shakily rising to his feet. The voice began to say something else, but Kevin cut it off. He needed some information first – just the basic facts.
The voice then introduced itself as "Pyramus" to Kevin, and revealed that it was in fact the very same pyramid that had collided with Kevin. What was furthermore, was that the pyramid had symbiotically merged with his brain and mind. Kevin was incredibly shocked to discover this, but did not reveal this to any of the other scientists (who believed that the pyramid was destroyed in the accident).
From this point forward, Pyramus remained as Kevin's "conscience", his own personal Jimminiy Cricket. With the pyramid in his head, Floyd could "see" the world in ways no other being could have. Everything was viewed with a cleaner, broader lense, and connections were made where many others would have easily missed them. Kevin knew that this ability would be very beneficial to society and the world, if used correctly. It was here that Kevin realized that, at the core of everything, the Universe was nothing but pure sound, vibration. The smallest pieces of physical matter were formed from condensed sound frequencies, melodic vibrations that bounced off of one another. If Kevin could tune himself to the tone of this universal symphony, he could achieve divinity. And so that was what he sought to do.
Using wide array of futuristic technologies readily available to him, Kevin augmented himself over the course of hundreds of years, eventually becoming a T4B on the Cosmic Entity scale by 3200 CE.
By this point, Kevin was seen as the hero of Earth, a man who could solve many of the world's problems with his powers. But there then came a time where there was one problem that could not be solved so easily…
The Schism
One day, one of the earth's governments unveiled a secret weapon which was capable of ammasing entire armies of individuals by mentally influencing them to do so. This technology was aptly dubbed "Thought Control", and with it billions of people hecame soldiers who served in this army. And thus, WWVI occured.
Kevin's native country of course looked to him for aid, but their unethical use of Thought Control did not sit well with him, and so he defected from their army to try to find another way to end this global civil war.
Schism
The war became so destructive, that Kevin finally resorted to using his most drastic measure. In his years of study, meditation and research, a powerful secret was revealed to him. It was a single tone, known as The Note, and it was related to Earth's Schumann resonances. This frequency, if used in just the right way, was capable of shattering a planet.
And so, Kevin sounded The Note, and thus split the Earth clean in half, ending the war for everyone. Kevin knew that everyone, all sides involved in the war, would hate him and view him as a monster for what he had done. So he erased everyone's memory of him and his identity on on earth, before departing from the planet and fleeing. He was on the run now.
The Start of Melodism
Some time after this point, Kevin had discovered a relatively small following of worshipers who lived on the Jovian moon Ganymede and revered him as a god. Kevin, slightly amused by them, decided to go along with it and proceeded to invent a new religion he called Melodism. Melodism advocated for the worship of music, primarily that which was made by Pink Floyd, which apparently was the music that resonated with the frequency of the universe. Kevin claimed that the members of Pink Floyd had prophesied his arrival through hidden messages in their music, and that anyone could join him in enlightenment (e.g become a god/godess like him).
Over the course of the next few thousand years, Kevin (who now preferred to be called Floyd, as an ode to his favorite band and the Six Prophets who predicted him) not only continued to augment himself to tier T5A on the entity scale, but ascended from the universe and became multiversal level, enlightening the first few dozen members of the Melodic Pantheon to divinity as well.
Ever since, Floyd has gradually expanded his empire, making contact with countless civilizations in The Folded Cascade and enlightening them too. He is based in The Wall – but all in all, he sees himself as just another brick in it.
Abilities
Compared to an average human, Floyd is immensely powerful. He has the ability to instantly create entire solar systems with a single thought and can destroy them just as easily. He has knowledge about almost a quarter of every song that was ever composed in his local Multiverse, and he can manipulate space-time itself to a certain extent.
Creator is a monocosmic god that exists within The Barrel and governs and maintains The Omniverse. Having no restrictions on what he can and cannot do within The Barrel, Creator is its ultimate authority.
The Supergod Council has created every Creator and Destroyer in Beyond throughout metatime, shaping them from Alom and placing pairs of them within assigned their monocosms, for the purpose of monitoring, influencing and regulating the contents therein. Creators typically fulfill this role by creating contents within the monocosm, while Destroyers serve to destroy some of those created structures in order to balance the monocosm and ensure that it does not become unstable.
Creator is The Barrel's oldest and most powerful inhabitant, and is credited for having created The Omniverse in an event called The Divine Ground. Therefore, he is considered by The Barrel's inhabitants to be truly Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent, but in reality only possesses Omnipotence^1. While Creator and other Omnipotence^1 users may have such control over Omniverses/Omniverse-equivalent structures that they could be considered "truly" Omnipotent by those standards, beings which possess greater levels of Omnipotence (Omnipotence^2 and higher) could typically defeat and destroy them with relative ease.
The closest thing that could be considered a "home" for Creator is his Godverse, which is one of three within The Barrel (the other two are for Destroyer and Hyperman). As they exist outside the Omniverse, Godverses are not bound to omniversal physics/logic. Thus Creator can inhabit both the Omniverse and his Godverse simultaneously, if he so wishes.