shadowgast wedding at aeor and it's them sending a normal save-the-date card to all their friends and sending an extra card to their wizard friends that says: 'prepare your biggest spells. we're fighting a necromantic emerald. do NOT tell the non-wizards about this. they will try to stop us. we may be squishy but we have numbers'
so it's the wedding and caleb, essek, yussa, allura (who ignores any rational thought she may have because she misses doing wizard shenanigans), astrid, eadwulf and all the other wizards sneaking off during the afterparty and circling the stupid obelisk. the wizards are NOT sneaky at all (but think that they are) and the wedding guests are watching a safe distance away with healing spells at the ready (jester has spare the dying)
they all cast spells upcharged at 9th level to try and grab it. caleb goes for telekenesis. essek casts magnify gravity. allura stylishly evokes crown of stars. yussa, feeling particularly high in hubris today, picks chain lightning and doesn't notice how close they all are to the gem. astrid and eadwulf ready dispel magic. they all send out their spells.
an explosion of light decorates the starry night of aeor. veth fires off her gun to add to the chaos and jester whips out her celebone. the dust and snow clears and display a heap of wizards knocked out on their asses and an emerald shining brightly than ever before.
beau, frustrated at how dumb all the wizards are, decides to teach them a lesson. she dashes to the emerald before they can recover and goes to activates its defenses again, to punish them before they make another dumbass attempt. she imbues her punch with stunning strike, and to her and everyone else's surprise, the emerald falls from it's grooves from her punch.
as the emerald falls, a note is tucked behind where it was embedded. the note, in ancient aeroian, says: 'LOL i bet this killed like five hundred wizards before someone with no magic finally decided to just punch this XD. anyways wizards suck check out my dad's shop at the market of wonders #BrutusWasHere'