Psidemica Lore
It all began with the human, Pandemica. After joining the plague monks and studying for what felt like eons, Pandemica left to find his path. He had already studied medicine, technology, chemistry, and programming. It was time to dive deeper and connect them all with an ultimate creation, a new body. A vessel that could contain the magic source he had discovered before breaking away from the others. This required a deeper dive into magic, even before it could be harnessed.
Over the years, Pandemica made a secret lab where he created a new body and studied the magic source. For the last time, he enters the lab wearing a plague mask and punches a code into a keypad on the wall near the lab elevator. A strange machine with two seats and an unconscious alien cyborg in one of them emerges from under the floor as panels open. This is Psidemica. Pandemica approaches the machine and sits down. When the machine activates, it scans and digitizes Pandemica's mind, killing him in the process. This digital mind is then duplicated, with one copy going to the cyborg body and the other copy integrating with the lab itself. Psidemica, now conscious, exits the lab via the elevator to begin his real journey.
Psidemica leaves the underground lab where he was created, or reborn, and is faced with a forest after exiting the elevator. He proceeds through the forest, passing a mountain along the way. Magical tendrils begin appearing behind him as he walks, and things get weird as doppelgangers appear marching beside him. After this event, he continues onward and more magic begins to appear. Soft light orbs float amidst the foliage. Eventually, he comes to a clearing filled with ancient trees. There is a familiar symbol on the ground that, when touched, begins to glow. It rises into the air, pulling Psidemica with it. He rises up and into the symbol as it glows brighter and brighter, then the symbol disappears, and he falls to the ground with the color of his jacket and eye light changed and the symbol now on his clothes.
Psidemica has now gained magical powers from the shrine in the woods. He meditates for a while, exploring this power, training and getting more comfortable with his magic. He meditates, exercises, practices, and discovers new techniques. He can float or hover with ease. He can also conjure a small magic circle and symbol. He learns how to hurl weak blasts of concentrated energy, but it is hard and uses up a lot of power. After he has gotten a better hang of some things, he returns to the lab. He enters the elevator and heads toward the hanger, ready for the next phase of his plan.
Psidemica the alien cyborg approaches and enters a spaceship. After a launch sequence, Psidemica leaves his current planet and enters the expansive, beautiful, and haunting void that is space. He cruises for a while around his current star system before engaging the hyperdrive and navigating witch-space to travel to a distant star system. Once there, the destination planet is located, and an approach sequence is initiated. The landing on this planet is rather rough, after which Psidemica emerges, ready to continue his quest. He always knew he would come here, that there was a connection. But now he better understands why.
On the new strange planet, Psidemica looks around and sees a path leading up a mountain in the distance and heads towards it. He passes shambling figures, drained of essence, some of which are hostile. He uses energy blasts and physical attacks to subdue them. When he arrives at the path, he begins the hike up it. At the top, he encounters a guardian. The bodies of others that sought the same power lay strewn about. There is a large shrine with the same symbol just beyond the guardian at the mountain peak clearing. He knows he must fight the guardian of the mother shrine, and while fighting the guardian it incapacitates him.
Psidemica awakens in a strange reality after having been knocked out. He finds himself in the clouds and fog with spirits and otherworldly things around him. He explores his new environment and locates a temple. He enters the temple and sees more of the same symbol throughout. There are many different size and color variations of the symbol. He finds a deity type of being within the temple, and they motion to him. They open lots of blocks within Psidemica and further awaken his powers to a great degree after displaying their own power in an incredible and fantastical way. After this occurs, Psidemica thanks them and fades away, returning to the physical world.
Psidemica has returned from the soulscape with drastically increased power. He uses his new power to incapacitate the guardian. He must now return to his ship so he can leave this planet. He uses his newly awakened psionic powers to conquer foe after foe using energy blasts, magic circles, and mind magic. Leaving the large shrine behind, he makes his way to the ship only to see others surrounding it. These individuals sought the power that he had attained and wanted to take it from him. Psidemica shows them he will not be defeated so easily and gains access to his ship after eliminating them as well.
Psidemica has finished facing a series of hardships and has grown much stronger. He is now ready to leave the planet he's on and return to his lab to focus efforts on new and now attainable goals. His ship was damaged during his prior rough landing and he barely manages to launch into the open and mostly empty void of space. When he returns to the lab, he takes his place in the center and opens a screen showing plans and schematics. His journey has only just begun. He now knows of other shrines he must locate.
Author: Psidemica
Published: 2025-06-30
Edited: N/A
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