The Future is Ours: Call to Arms


Graphite

 

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Location: Paragon City Hall
Time: 1:00 PM, April the 6th, V-Day
Freedom of Speech Permit: 16723-992A
Part of the Future is Ours RPvP Event.

Fellow citizens of Paragon City, heroes great and small, along with my fellow defenders of the multiverse: I come to speak to you about a great threat upon us. This threat stands in omen of apocalyptic proportions great as the Rikti War, Rise of the Hamidon, and even Lord Recluse himself. Head my words and head them well or less we face a fate worse then death.

This great threat is upon us. Not against a city, not against an ideal, but against our right to exist. Even now, I have heard word that Sadistic Seven make plans to conquer a history that has not yet come to be. I have seen visions of the future. I have seen these visions perhaps because I am of that future. Perhaps, I do not know. What I do know is that I was approached by a stranger who called himself Century. And he told me this…

‘Do not be alarmed hero. My name is Century, and I am charged with the protection of space and time. But I may be the last Century, and the last protector of this universe. An outside agent seeks to disrupt time, hero, and it is the mission to stop them with which I charge you.

They call themselves ‘The Sadistic Seven,’ who plan to solidify the future in their vision, a future which we cannot see come to pass; a future which will take their efforts from the lowest, insignificant point, and boost them to infamy throughout all time.

The timeline they wish to solidify is a terrifying one. Twenty years from now, there will be a purge: the murdering vigilantes and heroes all over the world. A third and fourth Rikti assault, leaving much of the world a smouldering mass of a mistake that should never have come to pass. And then a tyrant who will surely see the end of this planet.

I cannot disclose the name of this tyrant to you, my friends, for fear of destroying your own timeline. What I can tell you is this: The Sadistic Seven plan to travel to Recluse’s Victory, use stolen equipment gathered from the labs of Dr. Aeon, to shift the timelines to the world in which their leader will rule the world, and then lock it in time forever. They wish to take a possible future… And make it fate.

As observer, I warn the agents of virtue that they must save their world and then they are on their own. All the more I can tell you is this: the world must be saved… And it is your job to do it.

The 6th of April 2007, remember it. My final warning to you, my friends, is that you will be met with resistance. You are the world’s only hope.’

Then mists of time and space cleared and Century disappeared.

And in shadows such as these there must be a call to arms, call to action, and a call to battle. This is your time to rise and be the greatest of this generation. To Fight; to make Might Right!

This is your Call to Arms, General Quarters and Assembly. Now I stand guard as a symbol of hope and make plans. Today, the massive recruitment for resistance must continue. Tonight we fight not just for a city. Not just for those we love. Not for a simple ideal. No, we fight for a future yet to be. A future that we shall make TOGETHER UNITED; a future that our progeny will look back on and be proud of. Tonight we fight for that they can look back and see what the spirit of few accomplished. Then the will say in such despair, I too will fight on. I too will fight strong. I too will change fate and not let it be!

Today is OUR V-DAY. For we will stop at nothing short of Victory!

Yet if few are to stand against many. If good is to triumph over evil it must be organized. It must stand strong as a callsign, that flag of freedom, the trumpets bugle that can be heard all across the battle field. So earlier this week I called for the formation of the Eidolon Eight, in recognition to the deeds of the Surviving Eight, to combat these mighty foes. Be Prepared. The threat is real. Yet I cannot win this battle alone. Together, we eight will stand as symbols, as icons, of pure Virtue against what ever evil the Rogue Isles throws our way.

Together as individuals we compose singular names: Graphite, Empyreal, Alumette, Vindicator, Plasma Wisp, Red Queen, and the Havok Brothers. Yet in such a short time we have already become so much more. As the call continues out we have already been joined by the spirits of Noble, Grae Knight, Imperial, Tarberetta, Dr Jack Wolfe, Dragonberry, Yin, President SK, Xanatos and many many more.

Are you among us? Do you stand with us? Now I ask you to. Bring yourself and the greatest of valor you possess to become something so much more. Be lifted up by your strength, but also by the strength of your neighbor, and the strength of his neighbor, to become a banner of Free Will across the land, our world, and all time.

Then I ask you to turn to all those you know. Talk with your super group, your teams, your pugs, friends, family, kinsmen, and strangers on the street. For the more we have the more we become. I alone cannot accomplish much. Together only Eidolon Eight can go so far. But I tell you know, together the people of a world can change the fate of that world!

Remember these words of mine and heed them well. Together we make a difference! Together we have strength, power, might, right! And tomorrow, the world will wake up a better place. A new star will rise commonly called the Sun but as it casts new light it shall also cast new energy, new hope. Tomorrow is a day yet unwritten! Always Always Remember: The Future is never set in stone!

*And with those words, Graphite the no longer silent sentinel looked upon the crowd that had gathered. He looked upon there smiles and cheer clear with in their eyes. He smiled with satisfaction knowing for as long people fight for hope there will always be that hope. And with that thought he vanished, teleported to other lands, for there was still much left to be done.*