Comic: Lux's QANTAS Announcement
by archivist
Four-panel comic strip. An entire medieval city is flying through the sky above an ocean. Chaos everywhere.
PANEL 1: Wide establishing shot. The city of Highpoint — towers, walls, houses, market squares — ripped from the earth and hurtling through the sky above a vast ocean. Chunks of rock trail beneath it. The arcane tower at the city’s centre pulses with unstable energy. On the streets below, paladins clash with swords, civilians scream, buildings crumble. Total pandemonium. In the observatory at the top of the arcane tower, a tiny silhouette stands at the controls.
PANEL 2: Interior of the observatory. Lux — a young Aasimar wizard, celestial features faintly glowing — stands at an arcane console covered in levers and rune-etched dials. His robes billow from the wind howling through broken windows. His expression is completely calm. Dangerously calm. He raises one hand and casts Prestidigitation. His voice amplifies, booming out across the entire city. A tiny owl familiar perches on his shoulder, unbothered.
PANEL 3: Wide shot of the city from outside. Lux’s magically amplified voice rolls across every street, every rooftop, every battlefield. Speech bubble in massive formal airline font filling the sky: “THIS IS YOUR CAPTAIN SPEAKING. This is Lux Armiger, the Light Bearer and controller of your destiny. Cease all hostility towards any Nemesis member or be responsible for the death of all that live in this city. This is not a bargain or a threat. It is what I will do.” Below, every single person in the city — soldiers, paladins, civilians — has frozen mid-action. NAT 20 in bold impact text.
PANEL 4: The landing. One thousand angelic figures materialise in the sky, pulling on shimmering celestial chains attached to the city’s foundations, guiding it down toward a coastline. Lux stands at the observatory window, wings spread, hand outstretched toward a translucent celestial guardian angel floating before him. The city descends. In the foreground, a civilian on the street stares up at the angels, jaw hanging open. A tiny speech bubble: “…did he just land a city?” The guardian angel gives Lux a thumbs up.