okay, fellow posters, i have a confession — something i need to get out in the open, that by now i'm sure many of you suspect
it's not about my winrate, nono, that's all legitimate
this is about something far graver
you see, it's no coincidence that v and i did battle in the shadow realm, and that this should come up now
as many of you know, v is presently absent
what you might not know is that his absence stems from a quest to that forbidden realm, to the Great Under — and that he and i undertook that quest together
i'll spare you the details, but it had to do with the triple black sorceror negaloth. some of the older users might remember this issue
it was determined that in order to keep that threat imprisoned, we must maintain balance between the realm of light (our world) and the realm of dark (The Umbra Zone), and in order to keep this balance in check, that there must always be one of us on each side of this threshold
do try to keep up
v and i did battle to determine who would take the first stint as Night Guardian, and from then on would trade back and forth, always one below, always one above
for a time, this seemed to sate the ebb and flow of darkness and light...
until one day i lost communications through The Mirror of A Thousand Truths with v
not long after, i noticed the arrival of one user za... and i was suspicious
you see, in our ten thousand year shared shadow pilgrimmage, v and i were learning and making up the rules as we went. this had never been done before. arguably, it's never been done at all
what might be the side effects of crossing the threshold to darkness? what might be the side effects of doing so regularly? would we be weakening the curtain to The Curléd Nether?
i suspected that we had — that when last we traded places, a Shadow Fragment had escaped
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you see, just as einstein said, for every user, there is an opposite and equal quantum shadow user
each time we remanifested here, i postulated, we rolled the dice on risking manifesting that quantum shadow user here, in the waking world
was za my doppeluser? my mirroman? my freaky fridaylet? i had to know
and so, i issued the challenge
since then, i've seen za to be a user of Truth and Light. if i have a quantum shadow user, it surely isn't za
but then... could i be the shadow user to za?
is all of this a Grand Coincidence?
and what, then, does all of this mean? am i retracting my challenge? fleeing from battle like a cowerd?
no, friends
you know as well as i do that once a trainer locks eyes or exchanges vms with another, a battle is locked in
that
we will do battle in RBY randbats in a best of five at 23:00 GMT is inevitable
i confess this arrangement to reveal to you that this battle may have more meaning than any of us knew
for you see, in doing battle, if one of us were to be the inverse equivalent to the other, the loser would be banished to the shadow realm by the powers of the universe in an effort to separate the two equal forces
with both myself and v in the shadow realm, there would be no-one guarding The Big Topside
the forces of darkness may once again prey on our world...
the stakes are higher than a couple of rib-eyes in v's penthouse suite
lurkers and gentleposters, the hour of reckoning draws nigh
don't miss this, an truly hinstoric battle that could change the fate of the universe