>>52123541I mean, it could still be a sleeping god. Maybe Az took the shot intentionally? If something was way too strong to let live he might've been trying to kill it. Or maybe it was just there and he coincidentally hit it? Could be half awake due to a ton of situations, too. "Sleeping God" strikes me as something very Lovecraftian, the concept of the thing being a geometric shape (
>>52119174) that fucks with the natural order really works for that, too. In some of Lovecraft's works, a sleeping god might come alive and do shit but not really even be awake. Cthulhu wakes up in CoC, and does shit, but then immediately turns to gas and fucks off back to sleep because the stars aren't actually right. Like, being awake isn't necessarily a binary arrangement. And creating a weapon strong enough to wipe out a country and using it might not be enough to kill something like that. But I bet it might put it down until the situations are right again. Maybe Az built the weapon to put it down because it woke up and he just hoped people in the future might be able to do that shit again later if it ever came to that.
Or again, maybe it was just there and he accidentally hit it. Maybe he didn't even wake it up, maybe it's been there sleeping this whole ass time and he just happened to hit it on accident. And that sort of...roused it, a little.
