u/Fc-chungus

A day or three after the initial announcement, proper channels for joining in virtually to the meeting are posted, as everyone who came in person is directed to a secretive underground meeting room, where Ж and a few others sit around a long table.

"Welcome, welcome. A year or so ago I held a similar meeting for a separate threat, one a few of you here would remember, but today we've another threat, as you know, the Abyss has taken a great minority of the world's surface."

"As well, we need a plan for the origin of the Abyss, we need to divise a way to take down The First Curse."

they snap a finger and a hologram like model of an entity, presumably the first curse, appears in the center of the table.

"To start, one of the more essential things for said plan is the Crystals, of course, some here might not know about them, so I'll elaborate."

they wave a hand and the model shifts to 5 different crystalline objects, encircling the First Curse.

"This is not the first time The First Curse had arrived, he was here before he made that big announcement, but hidden. When he first arrived to this realm, 7 Aspect Crystals formed, counterbalances, from someone else as an, almost future inheritance to help take him down. They are antithetical to his very existence, and harm him when nearby. However, if one falls into his hands, he can adapt to that crystal, rendering it useful to him. This anti-him nature also applies to the Abyss, and thus they are the best damage source to fight the Abyss."

"the originals, of which we currently have 5, 4 are in New Aviron, and via the work of Koranth and others, we have multiple derivatives from them, with the other being handled by The Consortium. The last two need to be picked up and collected."

"That is about the basics, with the preamble done, more discussion on how to fight against the Abyss would be welcome."

every single Orb connected to the orbnet, every television, every radio on a range of frequencies, cuts off its original broadcasting, if any was still running, to show a new message.

"Attention! Attention! Global emergency alert! Global emergency alert! Do not disregard! Do not disregard! Do not disregard!"

on screen is an EAS-like message, with 2 symbols in the center of the screen, before a robotic voice speaks.

"The following broadcast is a message organized through the nation of Calarakis, the Esoteric Order of Nations, and Orb Broadcasting corporations across the earth."

"In the last 48 hours there has been a massive worldwide attack by an arcane infection known as the Abyss."

the screen displays an image of a floating black substance, resembling paint.

"This infection is immensely dangerous and has already taken around 40% of the planet's surface. It is due to the work of many diligent mages, knights, soldiers, and nations the number has been lowered to that small a number. If you have fought the Abyss and survived. Make your way to the city of Calarakis as soon as possible, call in Orb call, or contact via long range radio."

the image changes to a map of the planet, with blackness covering a large part of the continents.

"All civilians residing in population centers near the borders of Abyss infected areas are ordered to evacuate, or, failing that, erect detection systems near the borders."

"A full dossier on the Abyss will be published publicly, for all available forces to be able to combat the threat at highest efficiency."

"This message will loop 2 more times."

First is mine, second's the original.

Looking for more artwork for my main OC on an RP subreddit since the current artwork I have are all semi-outdated at this point, as well as some others being made with AI which I want to step away from, but it's still useful as reference, the image is already generated(image 3). Feel free to DM or comment for any more specifics!

Name: Ж Petrov-Ansky

Race: Human male

Age: early 30s(32/33)

Appearance:

semi-light skin

Roughly 6'1 tall,

black straight hair, bit messy but overall flat

Eyes: Mint and Indigo pupils, heterochromic.

2 pitch-black scars just beneath the eyes, not in the sockets like eyebags, but dark, loose rectangles beneath the eyes.

Composure: generally serious-ish and formal, but somewhat friendly despite some natural RBF.

Outfit: dark/pine green labcoat/duster coat(can't think of the name), suit jacket and undershirt with a black tie(with or without a pattern, artist's choice), black slacks with pockets, laceless leather shoes that are kept on via a sort of locking mechanism on the shoe. A black ring on their right middle finger and a white ring on their left middle finger. 2nd left arm situated below the biological one, made of a reflective red metal, see image 2 for detail, the arm itself doesn't have its own sleeve on the shirt, but rather just a hole for it to poke through.

I'm not a good builder, so this is about the best i could do, any ideas?

In terms of theme i would prefer if wood was still there but i can change it around.

unfortunately not much else to say on the matter here, the title's succinct.

First took notice of the issue when I tried to load up Minecraft but it said I did not have enough ram, i had allocated around 8 gb, so i was not sure why this was happening. I tried disabling memory compression via Powershell but that did not work either, disabling sysmain, among a few other processes, and nothing changed this. there's no application in use that would have this much RAM being used constantly, only one that comes close is Firefox, with maybe 3 gb.

Sorry for not having much information on the issue.

current windows 11 OS build is 26200.8655 according to settings.