User:GoldenYak/World's Heart/The Crawling Corruption

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Background
Azeroth's own memories are polluted by the presence of some terrible spawn of the Old Gods. The players must help cleanse Azeroth of her corrupted memories and destroy the Crawling Corruption.

Overview
The battle against the Crawling Corruption takes place in the depths of Azeroth's Memory Core.

Phase One - The Crawling Corruption
The Crawling Corruption pollutes the central memory chamber of the World's Heart, and will manifest as a colossal, corrupted vision of Azeroth, a female Titan festooned with tentacles, eyeballs, and other Voidborn foulness. The Crawling Corruption will manifest as soon as the players enter the central area of the memory chamber and flood the chamber with the Corruption of the Old Gods.



Intermission - Corrupted Memories
When the Crawling Corruption is at 50% health, she will withdraw beneath the Corruption pool and begin twisting Azeroth's memories, unleashing tainted versions of them on the heroes. The Crawling Corruption will attempt to devour these twisted memories to increase its power. The Crawling Corruption will destroy all raised platforms during this phase and they will not be restored until the phase is over.



Phase Two - The Corruption Evolves
When the first Corrupted Memory phase ends, the central platforms will rise again and the Crawling Corruption returns, erupting from the Pool of Corruption as per its Corruption Eruption ability. Phase Two is identical to Phase One, but the Crawling Corruption gains the following ability.



Intermission - Corrupted Memories II
This phase occurs when the Crawling Corruption is at 20% health. This phase is identical to the first Corrupted Memory phase, with the following elements added.





Phase Three - The Corruption Unleashed
When the second Corrupted Memories phase ends, the central platforms will be restored. Three Corrupted Maws will spawn in three points around the central platforms, dealing massive damage to all nearby players when they erupt from the Corruption pool.

Corrupted Maw Abilities
Enormous worm-like manifestations of the Old Gods' corruption, with abilities similar to the Crawling Corruption herself.

Phase Four - The Crawling Corruption Returns
When the Corrupted Maws are slain, the Crawling Corruption returns.



Strategy
The heroes begin the encounter in the Memory Core, which is flooded with corruption. Once the Crawling Corruption itself is engaged, the Corruption pool will begin to deal damage to anyone standing in it. Heroes must take refuge on the raised platforms in the central area of the chamber.

The heroes must contend with the Crawling Corruption itself, as well as preserving the four Memory Cortexes at the four cardinal points of the chamber, which will come under attack by Memory Devourers periodically. If the Memory Devourer succeeds in corrupting a Memory Cortex, it will become invulnerable and begin attacking random targets with ranged magic, adding to the pressure on the heroes.

The Crawling Corruption will withdraw into the Corruption pool at 50% for an Intermission Phase. During an Intermission Phase, the heroes must destroy Tainted Memories that appear from the outer edge of the chamber and move towards the center of the chamber, where a Corruption Maw spawns. If a Tainted Memory makes it to the Corruption Maw, it will be devoured and the Crawling Corruption will regain health and become stronger. Memory Devourers will stop spawning during this phase.

When the Intermission phase is complete, the Crawling Corruption will return for Phase Two. Phase Two is largely the same as Phase One, but the Crawling Corruption will now summon eyeball tentacles that will destroy the raised platforms if they are not stunned and swiftly destroyed. Memory Devourers will spawn once again.

The Crawling Corruption will withdraw at 20% health for another Intermission phase. The second Intermission is similar to the first, but new hostile enemies will spawn, and the Memory Devourers will continue to spawn.

When the second Intermission phase is complete, Phase Three begins. Three Corruption Maw enemies will spawn that share a health pool. They must be slain to end the phase. They will attempt to Devour random players, and they must be dealt sufficient damage to halt the Devour. When all three Corruption Maws are killed, the fourth and final phase begins immediately.

The Crawling Corruption will reappear from the Corruption pool, destroying the raised platforms permanently. It will then begin attacking the heroes with all of its abilities, using Seismic Slaughter on random targets and periodically using Final River of Power, while summoning eyeball tentacles constantly. It will continue to attack until it is slain. When the phase begins, four Memory Devourers will spawn and gain an invulnerable shield, allowing them to pollute the four Memory Cortexes with no way for the heroes to stop them. As in other phases, they will eventually become Empowered and begin attacking random targets with ranged magic. This will add to the pressure on the heroes to quickly slay the Crawling Corruption before they are overwhelmed.

Quotes

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