The latest character you played has just found the Scroll of Genocide. If you write a creature or race name into it, every single creature/member of that race immediately falls dead, their souls/essence irrevocably shattered.
Aside from its destructive power, it is a normal scroll, and thus it can be easily burned, or spell formula marred by water.
It is possible to understand the formula, but the eldritch nature of the spell actively resists all attempt to study it, and failure means death - not only to you, but to every single creature of your species.
What does your character do with it?
Hard mode: don't mention elves or kender in your post
Dominic Bennett
Anything but make an overrated anime series about becoming God by killing people.
Ian Lee
The scroll is one-time use only, so you won't be able to go this far.
Mason Hall
Block off the doors to the room with boulders, dip the scroll in cursed water, strip down, and reverse genocide nurses to boost my max HP prior to my ascension run. Then high-five my DM, 'cause we're operating on the same level.
Isaiah Torres
Does it apply to specific divine beings? If so, Rovagug.
There are some things that even a Redemption focused Inquisitor of Sarenrae can't redeem, and a being of pure destruction and nihilism is one of them. Besides, about we shook up the setting a bit.
Michael Johnson
Destroy it.
When I wrote "Good" on my character sheet, I meant it.
Jaxon Moore
He writes "Your mother"
Joshua Bell
OUT OF MY WAY FAGGOTS!!
Sebastian Fisher
Full-blooded demons. NOT tieflings, NOT demon-blooded sorcerers, DEMONS. >Inb4 But what about all the good demons? Creatures literally made out of Evil can't be good.
Landon Campbell
Last character I played was my D&D one. So it would be any race/creatures that are inherently evil. IE Aberrants (we're playing Eberron) are inherently evil, so they'd go on the list. Afterwards I'd probably burn the scroll to prevent others from using it.
If it's one use only, then Aberrants as they are the greatest threat in our current campaign. I don't think there is any greater evils outside of maybe literal gods.
Juan Cook
You realize you've also killed off several species of bird with this, right?
Levi Sanders
Mosquitoes.
Ryder Price
Yeah, and?
David Ross
Writes "Tyranid"
Then burns the scroll.
Jackson Ramirez
This. It's just bait for a moral dilemma anyway, so it's better to just burn it to ash.
Dylan Howard
Destroy it. It's evil and way too risky to use.
Xavier Sanders
>It is possible to understand the formula, but the eldritch nature of the spell actively resists all attempt to study it, and failure means death - not only to you, but to every single creature of your species. That's kind of overkill. I could understand it having a failsafe that kills the person who tries to copy it, but also killing off their entire race? That's like using a nuke to kill a single fly.
Jason Parker
It sounds right for a scroll of genocide
Gavin Richardson
How many nukes can you think of that have options other than: - Nuke goes off - Nuke doesn't go off
This is a scroll of genocide. I doubt it's magic can affect the world with anything other than genocide.
Colton Cooper
>Chaos
Daniel Scott
CHIHUAHUA
Julian Jackson
"Everyone"
David Rivera
And lo, for he did write, "OP"
Ryan Long
Elves.
Hunter Bell
Mosquitos are the worlds number one pollinator
Gavin Jackson
I can't decide between killing off trap lovers or futafags.
Brayden Smith
My current character would have said minotaurs almost any other time in his life, but he's gotten over that now. Time can make wounds deeper, or it can make things irrelevant. He's seen too much over the years of war and just wants the world to be saved to be over so he can stop dying every few months and go live peaceful somewhere far away. Maybe commune with his deity, raise his child, get away from the chaos of the world. The only things he could eliminate that would actually help the war are already undead, so the scroll is worthless. After staring at the scroll for a few moments, he would drop it in the sea and watch it disintegrate.
Jace Walker
They're also responsible for the spread of malaria and are the leading cause of death by animal.
Carson Wood
>"Just as the scroll is about to hit the water, a scaly hand shoots out from it and snatches the scroll. It looks like the fishmen just stole it." >"YOINK" How does you character react?
Jaxson Baker
Crying rage, probably. The Yoinks were a fine and respectable people. Why, his best childhood friend was a Yoink.
Elijah Sanchez
I use divination magic to find who created the scroll, burn it, and make it my quest to beat up that wizard.
Jordan Howard
Funnily enough: there's a bunch of mosquitos that literally have no ecological niche, eradicating them would actually hurt no other species, they're basically smallpox in bug form.
Easton Bailey
According to OP the scroll's ruined by water, so I'd just go "Aww, stupid fish man!"
Cameron Lee
Jews
Oliver Davis
As a Librarian first and a Wizard second I would attempt to copy
Christopher Smith
Rolled 1 (1d3)
A hard choice. Tanar'ri, mindflayers, or aboleths, hmm... Let the God decide.
Parker Roberts
goodbye abyssals
Nicholas Nguyen
As a result, the Orks kill everything by spiralling out of Octavius unopposed and the Tau don't get destroyed for a few more years. Just write down Eldar, it is for the best.
Austin Jenkins
Dwarves. Nazi necromancer hates dwarves.
Isaiah Brown
I got this... I write "Everyone".
Angel Barnes
>CHIHUAHUA >Jews
Be aware we don't know the BUC state of the scroll. if it's cursed, you'll be surrounded by a whole bunch of whatever you tried to genocide. If it's blessed, then you'll not just genocide the specific thing you asked for, but everything in its class. Which means all dogs for the first guy, and all homo sapiens for the second. Scrolls of genocide are dangerous.
Gavin Jenkins
My Paladin would be seriously tempted to write down Gnomes, because they are evil fuckers. But, being a Paladin worshipping the god of balance, he'd destroy it in the end.
My Wizard would try to study it regardless, and damn the consequences.
My Black Crusade Chosen would write down Eldar, cause we need to get onto a heavily guarded world to steal Ynnead.
Jackson Brown
Orks, Tau, Tyranids, Eldar etc etc etc.
Sebastian Davis
>homo sapiens >jews
what are you babbling about?
Jayden Adams
Sell it to the highest bidder
Colton Barnes
What happens if you write something like "assholes", or "jerks"?
Jaxon Wright
>literally have no ecological niche All blood-sucking mosquitoes fill the "blood-sucking mosquito" niche.
Wyatt Mitchell
>What does your character do with it?
Copy it for as many sentient races that exist. Start with my least favorite, end with my own race.
Hunter Turner
Chechens
Isaac Turner
c If the scrolls uncursed, you wipe out assholes or jerks. If it's blessed, you wipe out the whole class, ie humans in general. If it's cursed, a bunch of new assholes will appear nearby to beset you.
Ayden Reyes
>Your, the reader's, mom
Instant artifact of doom
Liam Butler
Seriously? Burn that thing. My character is Good, this shit has no place in the world.
Angel Hill
He writes his own name and waits.
Justin Reed
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS STUPID BULLSHIT, FUCK WRITING, I STAMP ON IT AND EAT IT
Noah Smith
Hey, Dwarves aren't mindflayers, but they're both an "h" so you gotta be careful if you're a dwarf. So even if you're certain Jews are reptiloids from space, they're still an @, which means a blessed scroll will hit all @s.
Justin Thompson
Tau seem like the best option. Relatively large pain in humanity's ass, and not needed as a balance against anything else.
Mason Reed
>Creatures literally made out of Evil can't be good. This guy gets it.
Michael Adams
Ronnie go home, you're drunk.
Lincoln Rivera
Would a Druid who used this to kill a race that is hurting nature be evil or good?
I mean genocide is bad but it's for a good cause
Carson Morales
Scrolls of Genocide of unknow BUC can be dangerous. Better take it to an altar first. Emergency genocides are one hell of a panic button, so my last character (a lawful netural psionic with a historic of questionable choices) would probably store it for when needed. Maybe try to bless it. Or reverse genecide something useful. Assuming that the scroll works like it does in nethack
Charles Nelson
>You successfully killed off mosquitoes >Massive population explosion in Africa leads to famine >experience loss from alignment change
Nathan Cruz
Depends on who or what a druid actually serves. Does he want to perpetuate stable ecosystems? Then this is a definite option.
But a naive "Friend to All Living Things" type (which I think is a retarded approach to druids and druidry) probably won't, nor would the fallacious "Balance In All Things, For Balance's Sake" bastard type (you know, the kind that will switch sides in the middle of combat because of muh balance, having no further objectives or ambitions).
Aaron Gomez
Undead. Send their souls to their rightful destinations and give them the rest they deserve.
Andrew Thomas
Fiends
Fuck yeah guess who just won the multiversal war of good versus evil.
Carter James
>Massive population explosion in Africa >experience loss from alignment change
/pol/ sends its greetings
Cooper Turner
Great, now evil elder beings just come rocking up.
Juan Clark
We were going to have to deal with them anyway.
Unrelated, but spooky space tentacles and demons should be in the same category if they coexist at all.
Juan Brooks
I'd write bedbugs.
Luke Gray
If my half-orc found it he'd be tempted to write elves but his BFF is a half-elf.
Human warlock, he'd try to see if writing demons would work. If it fails burn it.
Austin Campbell
polymorph myself write @
Nathaniel Wood
>experience loss from alignment change The fuck?
Kevin Reyes
He writes gnomes
Man hates the midgets
Nathaniel Rogers
burn it cause I'm not an edge-lord and neither is my character
Nicholas Collins
He takes some religious knowledge checks to find out if writing demons or devils is viable and if it wouldn't make the entire cosmos shit a brick. Because if he can destroy the manifestations of Evil with a single word he's fucking going to. If not, he burns the thing for being both bloody terrifying and far too dangerous in the wrong hands. He then makes it his mission to track down the original creator of the scroll to ensure there aren't more of the things lying around.
Parker Watson
>experience loss from alignment change How can i even get lower than evil?
Logan James
/pol/tards, for the irony.
Kayden Lewis
>Last character I played in a game Trolls, they kidnapped her sister and she was already setting every troll nest on fire in Her kingdom. Considering they were one of the worst problems the country had it would be a no brainer >Last character in a game I ran Gods, Nigga was chaotic and would want to see what would happen
Charles Edwards
>Famine brought to Africa >Water becomes wet and the sky turns blue
Christopher Powell
Taking a ride on Charon's boat, shall we?
Jackson Phillips
Criminally underrated.
Jaxson Bailey
So write Plasmodium, nub nuts.
Luis Peterson
>Assholes Everyone shits themselves forever.
Logan Diaz
>Not just writing Xenos
Luke Gutierrez
She would be very tempted to write N'wah, but they happen to be useful as slaves and some of her more recent retainers have proven competent. In addition, even if she can't tell the difference, N'wah aren't all technically the same race. She would shrug and flip a coin between Argonians and Vampires.
Zachary Wilson
After some hesitancy considering destroying such a deadly spell, it is rolled up and tucked into the sleeve of my robe, to be brought back to my hut in the woods, where i keep all powerful magic items I find, in a sort of "Dragon Hoard/ Protect people from themselves" kind of way
David Smith
"All Gods" Time for a brave new world free of divine meddling.
Jaxson Cooper
"Everything has a right to live and a right to die, it is not my place to decide one or the other for everyone. EVEN THOUGH EVERYONE SHOULD CHOOSE THE LATTER" -takes it to a fire pit and gives it a respectful burning-
William Long
Flumphs Fuck those guys
Robert Torres
My current character could never live with being responsible for the deaths of countless thousands of people.
He'd tuck it into his pack and either turn it into the realm's god for a reward, or keep it around... just in case. Y'know, if he needs it.
Gavin Walker
owlbear
Jayden Lee
Magic-User
Jason Reyes
Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need
Jacob Mitchell
Whatever this guy's race is. Flumphs are beautiful, fuck you user.
Zachary Bennett
>Vampires.
The Technocratic Union will be most pleased to find out about this grand victory against some of the world's most prolific Reality Deviants.
Now I just have to ensure they never find out it was me who did it. Because using such deviancy myself? Hooo boy. Not good for my career prospects.
Jaxon Ortiz
Would you be able to take out every species, though? Or just one?
Tyler Williams
Write Charlie on the scroll. If that doesn't work, try and erase it and write Nixon. If that doesnt work. Just get angry, write, in this order:
Whitey. Viet Cong the LT. Fuck you Fuck your mother Vietnam. Small Titties
Get bored.
Ball up
Throw in a River.
Fuck this shit man.
Logan Nguyen
I like this one
Gabriel Scott
same.
Isaac Rodriguez
>their souls/essence irrevocably shattered This is why you read your incredibly powerful magical items included instruction manuals. Congratulations, you just destroyed their souls! Every single one! You'll be receiving plenty of godly attention now.