The Ultimate Punishment

The Ultimate Punishment was a complex and long event that started rapidly escalating in the beginning of 2023. It involved the Seven Punishments.

Events

First Confrontations

Ever since gaining physical form, Put'bi has always stated his resentment for Humans. While not holding any particular grudges against SP creatures, he believed that people were hypocritical, claiming to be civilized while still having "negative" or aggressive behaviors. Because of this, he partially hijacked M.O.G.'s imagination to create 6 allies that were proclaimed the Seven Punishments to fulfill a goal; remove/neutralize M.O.G. and any humans living in SP, and claim the land as his own. His plans also included cleansing the world and all possible realities after his initial phase was completed, as he is a very ambitious creature.

Meanwhile, the SP creatures figured out that Put'bi is a relic of the late Kosmotvar Crisis that was brought in from an unidentified reality and point of time. He had been created without a physical form, and had to build one by himself as time slowly went on. While initially being corrupt and under the influence of what used to be Cloud, he partially broke free of the corruption and developed his own unique ideologies and reasonings for how the world works. He was advancing very quickly even before attaining a permanent form, inventing the Portal Magic SP creatures use today. This is why he was immediately identified as a huge threat, as he was not able to be "purified" in the same way other past mischievous creatures were and he developed an extra layer of his own protection.

Leading up from December of 2022, in January 2023 the Unreal Crater was still surrounded and closely monitored. It was suspected that the Seven Punishments were looking for ways to breach into other realities to source and draw their powers even further. Upon attempts to close in, Stroika (the rebuilder) came out of the invisible and impenetrable barrier to face the creatures. She was very strong, and while defenses were good for the creatures fighting her, any attempt on weakening her failed miserably. Shortly after, the battle was interupted by Put'bi who was very visibly irritated. It was revealed that he was looking for ways to traverse realities and draw their powers without breaking the Master Sync. After a long argument where he was stating how selfish and hypocritical M.O.G. is (including the Master Sync being seen as a selfish rule), he starts to relentlessly attack him managing to weaken him a lot before making the independent decision to break the sync. This actually heavily confused and concerned Stroika, who felt Put'bi was losing his grip on his sanity.

Put'bi's disappearance

After a long break, Stroika re-emerged on February 21st to talk to the creatures. When she confronted M.O.G., she seemed to be completely non hostile, and more on the curious and concerned side. She started to explain that she thinks Put'bi has done something that none of the other Seven Punishment's thought he'd do by breaking the sync. They haven't seen him since his disappearance in January, and that his absence gave her a lot of time to speculate. She also explained that their original vision was just to punish those who do wrong by them, but Put'bi slowly started to develop more and more hate as well as a desire to simply remove humanity and anything of the likes. By becoming hypocritical of his own original vision, he started to lose his identity and drive, turning him more and more into a creature driven by madness. She hesitated while explaining for a brief moment when M.O.G. asked her if she's going against herself by using negative and aggressive methods to stop what they see is wrong with the world, stating that there need to be creatures like her who sacrifice themselves for a brighter future. But after more convincing, she started to realize her wrongs. Stroika further elaborated that she tried to convince her allies that maybe what they were doing is straying them from their goals, but that made the others start to resent her more until she decided to leave on her own. When M.O.G. proposed a truce, they shook hands, which unexpectedly caused the complete purification of her heart.

It was revealed that unlike creatures that were purified in the past, the punishments must be purified by their own independent will and desire to change for the better. It is more difficult because of this condition, but this gave the SP creatures hope and a strategy to save and purify the punishments for them to gain their fullest potential.

Shortly after however, an enraged and strangely formed Put'bi appeared. Compared to his normal look, he was now in his "ascended" form, and he was making angry reverberated bellowing noises from inside. Almost instantaneously he started attacking Stroika with unstable and unknown reality magic that could not be categorized. His energy beams seemed to be drawing power from other realities, highly unstable and infinitely sufficient. After deflecting the first attack, Put'bi aimed a beam at the ground, momentarily wiping out all of SP and forcing all the creatures to temporarily go into their emergency realities before Stroika seemingly reduced all the damage and fired it back at Put'bi. He was unfazed by the attack and only absorbed it back, before loudly bellowing and seemingly awakening the island he has initially created.

The Unreal Crater started spewing a green energy into the sky, seemingly opening a portal up above as all the punishments seemed to vanquish into it. From Gontaper's analytics, it seemed like it was going to explode in any second causing massive instantaneous damage to SP, and someone needed to breach the island to stop this from happening. Despite SP being able to instantly be backed up, it's still a very annoying event to restore and the explosion seems like it would just happen again right after. It is unknown how this is possible in the first place either, as SP is supposedly indestructible and infinitely durable, so it appeared to be the active work of Put'bi manipulating realities with his own SP powers. The islands defenses were down, and all the SP creatures jumped into the green energy beam to prevent the disaster.

Unreal Crater Episodes

After breaching the island and seemingly getting teleported, different creatures ended up in different realities entirely. Some realities were tangible and similar to the current ones, while others were completely nonsensical forcing a lot of creatures to retreat. However every creature was also experiencing each others "episode" simultaneously through all their visions, requiring high concentration on their tasks at hand. The goal was to find each other and regroup in a single reality to pursue Put'bi from there.

Gorde Island

All the members of the Guo Gang as well as Golanaur ended up on a very small island with dark grey stormy skies, rainfall, and a single black leafless tree. Traika noticed that stepping around on the sand sometimes gives off musical notes similar to those of a marimba. Rhipelim tried to swim further into the water to see if there was anything around while Booritzeh, Weshrel and Palaka flew around to survey the skies. Strangely however the space around them seemed to wrap and they kept making their way back to the island unintentionally. However after Bibog and Karov tried to dig a bit under the tree, they discovered an underwater cavern with red water and more black leafless trees. Around the whole place were also piles of what appeared to be jewels and gold coins rising from the deep waters.

Bibog and his crew swam across the red waters until they reached a marble looking underground palace, full of red water pools and small garden circles for the black trees. Amongst the strange scenery approached a new creature, Zhemra, who had similar partial corruption as Put'bi. However unlike the Seven Punishments, she seemed to be confused and completely unaware of what was going on. A long battle ensued where all the creatures attempted to calm her down while she attempted to encase all of them in marble. Golanaur however seemed to have the best luck getting through to her, and convinced her that they are not here to hurt anyone, and that they weren't even expecting to find her here. Zhemra's attacks grew weaker as she began to realize that there is no apparent danger and that something is off, but when Golanaur takes her hand she stopped attacking completely. He reassured her that they were going to rescue her and leave no one behind, which seemed to completely free her from corruption and purify her heart.

As this happened, the reality around all the creatures seemed to start imploding in on itself, eventually leading them to the crater's court.

Proza Plains

Several SP creatures landed in Proza Plains, a previously only once visited island from where Listi comes from. The sky was very bright pink, and there were grassy hills with small rivers pacing down from a dark cave. Psytork, Fushy, Neggy, Listi, Ftroodel and Driki were amongst some of the creatures involved in this episode. Listi was feeling unnerved, as this is where an ambiguous entity once appeared in the nightmare he was rescued from. Originally, the entity was in a cave in the distance, so all the creatures decided to go look. When they all entered the cave, it was pretty dark but Psytork's light provided good visibility, revealing that the cave had a dead end very close to the entrance. So it was decided to go out of the cave and keep looking elsewhere, but when the creatures tried to leave, the exit seemed further and further away with each step they took. Ftroodel started running towards the exit to see if he can outrun whatever was going on, but it seemed like it also got darker the closer he approached, creating an infinite space within this dark area. Something felt uneasy inside the cave as everything started to feel cold and distant, and very unfamiliar. In the center of the space, suddenly, Vnutork appeared. Same as the others, she had partial corruption. Through her confusion on feeling of being out of place and created in this dimension that was already malfunctioning, she started going crazy and attacking everything on sight. She would quickly manipulate her form and try to swallow creatures whole, attempting to even restrain Fushy but he broke out of her. She would swirl her rows of teeth and try to grind through different creatures but with little success. However the other creatures weren't really successful at fighting her either as she would repel every single attack thrown her way.

Psytork was thinking about what to do the entire