Keep me alive! (Or the Alphabet gets it)
From Egs Mayhem
This thread is an excerise in unchecked power and rampant...well...something bad. And to think, it started from something so innocuous...
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The Innocuous Beginning
It all started as an insecure post by Kyrio to see if people liked him. Though people's responses were indeed respond overwhelmingly affirmative, the inherent chaos of Mayhem ensured that the message of the thread would be derailed into many more entertaining venues. But like many of the entertaining threads which pop up every so often, this one seemed doomed to fade into the obscurity of the lower pages...
The Descent
No one knows what motivated the creator of the thread to unleash what he did next. Some say it was a bad reaction to low self esteem. Some say his insecurity compelled him to take up the dark arts. Some say he was prescient, and decided that doing so would be amusing to many. Some even say he was aiming for something smaller and just happened to say Hastur's name a few too many times.
Whatever the cause, the creator took up the art of Necromancy and raised his thread from the second page. Doing so had no immediate ill effect, and it lasted for another couple of hours. But as it began to fade again, he pulled the same trick. This happened a few too many times, and the creator's madness became apparent. And as many know, insanity sometimes leads to awesome powers, just as tragically proved to be the case here.
The Premise
This thread has become something along the lines of the Merch. If the thread fails to be maintained, a letter of the alphabet will be destroyed. Regardless of which letter is destroyed, this would be a catastrophe. People's whole reading lists would be rendered illegible, and the phrase "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs" would lose its meaning entirely.
If recent actions are any indication, the destruction will not stop at letters. Entire syntactical concepts could be annhilated. Diction as we know it might die an agonizing death!
The Action
Letters have been destroyed before. However, the initial disaster was stopped by the timely intervention of Lomgren's white magic. Letters have since been destroyed. A glimmer of hope shined momentarily, as Drow Bunny's initial confusion and literalness instead caused him to lose "x," the most unused letter in the alphabet (except, of course, for わ. Nobody uses わ very much). Lomgren has worked tirelessly to revive all of the letters, but what about the future?
The Future?
It is unknown what the future holds. Will valiant people strive to free the alphabet from Kyrio's tyranny, or will they passively go along with its effects? Will Kyyio have a change-of-heart and try to destroy the monster he may have created, or will it grow even beyond its intial bounds? Will people understand or get bored with the thread? No one knows...
What is certain is that this is only a delay for the inevitable slow merciful death that a thread receives. After all, even liches must die sometime... but then, it's much more fun for everyone else if you get to poke the lich with sticks in the meantime and play a rousing game of tennis with its phylactry.
