Episode 18 "A Little More Time"

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April 22, 102 P.A.

The party awakes from camping near the water to find that Kreesh is not there. Takeo begins to look for tracks, Runick looks around. Oliver sits by the shore and begins designing a schematic for a mirror that can cast blinding flash as a targeted attack against one opponent. As Oliver sits engaged in his work, tentacles come flailing out of the water and almost grab a hold of him. Oliver manages to scramble to his feet and move away from the water. He calls out to Runick and Takeo, who come over to look. Trevor had flown up and began to scout out ahead. As he was flying toward the woods, a magic net appears above him. Trevor hits his thrusters and speeds out of the way. He returns to the party and tells them he was almost captured by something near the woods. The party approaches cautiously, Out of the wood appear a troop of ten men in light body armor, one of the introduces himself, "I am Izo, Is one of you Trevor? We work for General Hagi. He has  sent us to escort Trevor and the suit back to him."  Trevor steps forward and asks them if they attacked him. Izo says, "We apologize for that, One of my men was startled by you, we did not expect you to be using the armor. We thought perhaps someone may have stolen it. We were only told that you are of use to the revolution... And that you travel with Takeo, who Hagi also speaks highly of. But I see now... the rest of you... you must be the ones all rumors spreading across the land are about. The ones who defy the Hades demon hoards. Many speculated that Hagi was not to be trusted, but he has proven himself every time. Truly we stand a chance, if Hagi really know Heroes of your caliber. Come we will lead you to him but we must go quickly before demons find us."

The ten men quickly turn and start running though the woods. The party is quickly losing sight of them in the brush, but see them hop on to the backs of horses. Trevor takes off flying after them, the rest run up to see two extra horses. Frank radios Trevor, and tells him he can't ride a horse. Trevor turns back quickly and scoops up Frank. Runick jumps on one of the other horses and grabs Oliver pulling him up on the back of the horse. Takeo jumps on the other horse, but hears someone calling out his name. Takeo looks back and sees Kreesh coming ashore from his night resting in the lake, he quickly rides back to pick up Kreesh. The party members follow one another, Takeo and Kreesh ride past Runick and Oliver. Struggling to keep up they make it to what appears to be an army camp, many more men in armor seem to be awaiting them. They are greeted by Izo once they finally catch up, "Welcome! I feared we may have lost some of you back there. Welcome! This is our forward operations base for the rebellion against the Emperor's Hades demon take over. You guys are more than welcome to eat the food tent is the large one over there. Food here is free, you guys can rest and relax for a bit. Trevor and Takeo you have been summoned by Hagi, you can go speak with him over in the center of camp."

Takeo goes to see Hagi, but Trevor goes with the rest of the party to the food tent. When Takeo gets to the center of camp he sees a couple small wooden buildings. He asks which one Hagi is in, and goes there. At the entrance two men ask Takeo to disarm before entering. Takeo goes up to the second floor and sees ten men sitting at a table with Hagi at one end. He is greeted by Hagi and asked where Trevor is, Hagi asks Takeo to go get Trevor. Takeo begins to speak out and ramble about his journey to get here. Hagi tells Takeo not to be to presumptuous, the they have other pressing matters to discuss and anything else could wait til Trevor was present. Takeo goes to the food tent to find Trevor.

On the way to the food tent, the party wandered into a scroll shop. Frank purchased 2 scrolls of Frost Blade and 2 scrolls of Mystic Alarm; Oliver purchased 8 scrolls of Frost Blade, 3 scrolls of Mystic Alarm, and 3 scrolls of Paralysis Lesser.

Runick had found his way into the weapons shop, of the local blacksmith. Runick asks about bows. The blacksmith tells him, "I don't make bows, but there are plenty of shops around that do." Runick asks about the finest bow maker. He is told, "Most are ok, the best one use to work for the Emperor, he's gone now. But there is this one old drunk people say he use to be a bow maker with the Demon Queller Society.. you know back when they were still around. He probably won't be any good though." Runick finds the old drunk in the bar, introduces himself and buys the drunk a drink. "Wha' did youuu sayz yous name was... Buttnick? OK Buttnick, I'll ssshows you bowss if you buy meees moe drinks." Runick agrees and purchases a few bottles and helps the drunk up and they walk over to his tent (right next to the bar). Inside the tent Runick sees a plethora of tools and couple bows and arrows on display.

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Takeo finds Trevor, Oliver, Keesh and Frank in the food tent. They all eat then head to back to the small building whee Hagi was. Takeo and Trevor go in, again they are asked to disarm. Trevor does not want to give up the power armor, but finally agrees to leave it with the men at the door. They go upstairs Hagi greets them and gives Trevor payment for delivering the power armor, "Thank you, Trevor again you have been a great help to me once again. You see even though that suit isn't the most powerful it will act as a symbol for the rebellion. A suit ironically designed to look like that which it was made hunt, those of Ichito want the Shinto people here in the New Empire to fall to the demons. It would save them the trouble of the inevitable war between the them and the New Empire. But I will use this suit to lead the revolution to free the Shinto people and defeat the demon scum. I tried to convince Ichito to help, but they only turn their backs. If you choose to stay there will be plenty more wok for you here, we could use you."

As they speak a man come running in shouting, "They'e here! They're here already!" Hagi jumps up, "Go! Go! Quick! Get the shield up!" The men in the room scramble, Hagi tells Trevor and Takeo, "Help  us, please, this is what we were discussing before. I just thought we'd have more time. A hoad of demons has been marching this way for some time, how they got here so fast? I don't know. But we have a plan. We just need time... a small group of mages and mystics are headed to each of the four corners, North, South East, West. They can cast a spell that will put a magic barrier around the camp. We just need you and your team to buy us some time. Please help us, otherwise many innocents will die."

Takeo and Trevor run back to the party. Hearing the commotion outside Runick comes out of the drunk bow makers tent and sees the party and calls them over. Takeo tells everyone what that the camp is under attack and they have to buy the mages as much time as possible. Runick and Takeo both steal a Master Craft (+2stk) Bow from the drunks tent (alignment starting to drop).

Frank reaches out and snatches a hair off of Oliver's head. Oliver rubs his head and asks what that was all about. Frank says he can track people if he has some of their hair, just in case they get separated. They est of the party willing give up hair samples. And the they run off in different directions. Trevor and Kreesh do some crowd control and help get innocent people to safety. Oliver goes East, Frank to the West, Takeo to the North, Runick to the South. They all run up on a battle scene of various warriors fighting off demons. Many off the demons seem to be making it through the human defenses. The Heroes stand and fight the hoards, doing hat ever they can against the large numbers of demons approaching. Takeo cutting down alu demon after alu demon, seems to have little effect on the 22 approaching alu demons. Frank blasting away with his rifle, appears to be but a nuisance to the 22 ghouls approaching later resorting to his super telekinesis. Demons attack the mages casting in both the West and the North

Oliver cast Energy Field around the mages protecting them from the 16 alu demons that made their way past the human warriors. Runick casts Ice Wall multiple times crushing 29 ghouls as they approached on the mages. After 30 seconds, a bright light shoots up into the sky from the South and East. Oliver and Runick both over hear the mages talking about the spell didn't work, someone must have fallen to the demons before the spell was cast. The mages call for a retreat. Everyone starts running in toward town. In the commotion, Izo finds the party members and asks them to escort and protect the caravan heading out to South. All the people are being moved to a safe place. The party head out with the caravan. Runick goes back to get the old drunk bow maker and pack up the old man's stuff and put him on a wagon out.

Episode 17 "The Dolphin's Path"

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April 19, 102 P.A.

A creature from the depths of the sea has been given a tasked with a quest to seek some way to defeat the Lord of the Deep. This creature is Kreesh, a Phema-Bioform Dolphin, an ocean wizard, a minstrel, and the best chance his home has of ridding themselves from the rule of the Lord of the Deep. Kreesh has always heard the old tale of the land, of it's New Empire and it's benevolent Emperor. It was said that long ago the Emperor had help Kreesh's home before, that combined with the power of the surface dwellers they wee able to defeat a great evil. Kreesh now hopes to track down this Emperor from his childhood tales and together they will defeat the Lord of the Deep. The elders of Kreesh's home have embedded him with a magic pearls that enhance his transformation abilities. Kreesh can change from dolphin to human as well as remain in a were-dolphin state in which he may use his dolphin abilities with out needing to remain hydrated. Wielding his Horune energy trident and kelp armor, Kreesh set out toward the Emperor's Palace.

Kreesh finds himself scaling up a mountain side near the peak he sees a demon locust. Keesh has no idea what it is and continues cautiously. The demon locust doesn't move. Kreesh has made it to the peak and sees the hole in the magic barrier, just like he had been told. After passing through the barrier Kreesh sees a wild looking human crouched on some very uncomfortable looking rocks.  Kreesh decides to announce his presence and the human seems startled. They both seem to be pretty weary of each other. The human introduces himself, "I am Runick." The Dolphin does the same, "Kreesh." Runick gets around to talking about the magic barrier and the journey they are making. Kreesh says he just crossed it's right up top. Runick and Kreesh see a power armor land not to far from them and then take off again. They decide to walk toward it when Runick suggest it may be one of his party members.

The four party members that had gone back down the mountain decided if they hiked horizontally across the mountain a ways they may be able to avoid the demon locust all together. Trevor, using the power armor Oliver had helped him retrieve, flies Frank and Oliver up the mountain. On his second trip he brings Takeo. By the time he gets back from the second trip Runick and Kreesh have joined Frank and Oliver and had begun introductions. Kreesh sings a song of joy when he meets the party. mentions his quest and how he is going to see the Emperor. Takeo tells Kreesh the Emperor is evil and of the quest he has been on to kill demons and get out to the 5th ring, Kreesh won't believe the Emperor is evil. The other need to try to convince him. Finally Kreesh believes them and agrees to show them the way he came and help them defeat the Evil Emperor if need be. Only if they agree to help him find the Real Emperor and/or help him defeat the Lord of the Deep. The  party agrees, they were planning on killing the evil emperor why not restore the rightful emperor.

Kreesh leads the party back up the mountain to the hole in the 2nd ring barrier at the peak. They then begin to travel down the mountain and encounter the other locust. The one Kreesh passed on his way here the others stop and tell Kreesh they can't pass with out being attacked. Runick casts water shield on Kreesh, so Kreesh turns into dolphin form in front of the party. Kreash and Runick go over to the locust and attempt to distract it, since it doesn't seem to want to attack either of them. Keesh begins singing to the locust while Runick hums off key. The locust doesn't seem amused but they manage to get its attention. The others prowl down the mountain past the locust line of sight as quickly as possible. While they are climbing down both Takeo and Oliver slip on the loose rocks and fall of the side of the mountain.

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Frank uses his super telekinesis to catch Takeo and Oliver, and gradually sets them down on the ground. Trevor fires up the Power Armor and flies Frank down as he hold the other two with his super telekinesis. Once the rest of the party is flown down, they begin to follow the path that Kreesh took to get get here. They party begins to enter the woods beyond the base of the mountain when they encounter a small clan of 17 surra-kappa as they appear to be fleeing something. The party tries to ask them what the panic is, they explain they've been attacked by a large demon not native to Japan. And they only wish to go home, they need to return to the water, they claim. The party talks so long that a large balrog comes stomping through the woods. The balrog sees the party, "Who dares trespass on my land?" Takeo says, "I am Takeo Takahido Demon Queller." The balrog takes a step back (Horror Factor fail), "I've heard of you and your group of travelers. I thought you were in the 2nd ring. Wait til they know your here." and the balrog says an incantation and teleports away.

The surra-kappa lead the party back to the shoreline. Kreesh tells the party the the path through the 3rd ring barrier is out in the middle of the lake, and jumps in the water turning into a dolphin. Kreesh tells the party he senses predators. Runick parts waters, around the two aquatics demons the Kreesh was sensing, and crushes them with the force of the water when it's released. The rest of the party tell Kreesh they can't swim the whole way. Kreesh offers to build them a boat. Runick helps Kreesh with the boat, while the rest of the party spend some time trying to teach other some useful skills. As they wait a scouting party of four alu demon hounds comes up on the traveling adventures. Kreesh sees them an immediately begins to sing his song of joy. Three of the alu demon hounds are immediately repelled by the majestic harmony of this ocean wizard's song.

Kressh then takes his trident an spears the one brave alu demon hound through the head with such force, he stands there suspending the alu demon in the air hanging from his trident. The party gazes in awe, then quickly get into the finished boat and leave to avoid any other demons that may be summoned by the three that ran off. They go to the hole in the barrier, along the way Kreesh manages to scare off 4 aquatics demons with his song of joy. They party sails the boat through the 3rd magic barrier. Just as Kreesh told them before, they see a massive lake with no land near by. Kreesh tells them he will lead the way to the next barrier. As they are traveling the boat is attacked by a giant squid. It rams the boat and entangles it, threatening to sink it. Those in the party who can swim, jump in to fight the giant squid. hey defeat it, but not before it crushes in one side of the boat causing it to take on water. Kreesh holds up the boat as he swims it over to the nearest shore, which takes a couple hours. They arrive on shore and decide to camp for the night and try to repair the boat. They can't seem to find sufficient supplies to fix it.

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In the morning they decide that the boat is good enough if Trevor will hold it up with the power armor as not to exhaust Kreesh, or leave him vulnerable. Trevor follows Kreesh to the magic barrier. Kreesh tells them here is where they must travel through a series of  underwater caverns and tunnels to come out on the other side of the barrier. The party worries that they can't hold their breath long enough. Kreesh tells them there are caves with air pockets and even dry land along the way. The party thanks their luck, as many of them were taught a valuable magic spell by the monks (keepers of the air element) at the millennium tree monastery. Some of the party members learned an even more rare martial arts technique. The party pairs up swimmers with non-swimmers and they go underwater. The party travels trough three different tunnels stopping to recast and rest at the air pockets. They reach an under water cave and decide to camp for the day and recharge their magic essence. While camping the party begin to hear a very familiar scratching noise in the walls around them. Immediately Frank shouts, "Ghouls!" and the party arms themselves and prepare to fight. Kreesh begins to sing his magic song of joy. The scratching noises seem to stop. Kreesh tells the party he thinks that should keep them away for awhile.

When the party is rested they decide to continue, but first Keesh goes to scout out ahead. Hes finds three sharks down the path. He sings his song of joy and scares two of them away but one charges him. Keesh uses sonic blasts to kill the shark, then he goes back for the rest of the party. The party then puts their magic and swimming abilities to the test and push them to their limits. The party barely makes it out of the final stretch of underwater tunnel without drowning. Once on the other side of the 4th ring barrier the party swims to the nearest shore. Relieved to be above ground on land, the party decide to make camp on the shore line.

Episode 16 "The Law"

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April 18, 102 P.A.

Upon entering the market Takeo immediately goes to the scroll shop and inquires about the scrolls, but can not afford any. Takeo, Runick, and Trevor return to the wagon. They tell Oliver and Frank that the town was very small and it seemed that they had some kind of agreement with the demons to live in peace. The party decides to camp out in the woods where the wagon is hidden, rather than return to the inn. Runick and Takeo use wilderness survival knowledge to build a shanty little camp. As they all rest and sit around talking, they hear the sound of wagons traveling in their direction. They go inspect the noise, they see two covered wagons. Each wagon is begin pulled by two horses and steered by a gallu bull demon. The party begins talking frantically among themselves, Runick Skyknight lies down in the bushes to prowl. After the party determines the wagons are simply traveling toward the town, not at them, they continue to talk among themselves. Right as the two wagons go rolling by the campsite the party finally comes to a consensus, they ambush the two wagons.

Frank Hamilton grabs one of the gallu bull demons with his super telekinesis and the horse keep running dragging the wagon away. Takeo Takahido casts a magic net on the other wagon's bull demon driver and Trevor Burnside flies in his power armor straight though the canvas top of the wagon.The power armor easily rips the entire top off in one swift swoop reveling 9 ghouls and 1 magot demon.

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"Magots are hideous... These demons roam the plains of Hades in small herds, petrifying and devouring intruders. Thankfully, it is rare to encounter more than one or two magots outside of Hades. Magots rarely leave hades intentionally, and those found in other realms of existence are usually summoned thee by powerful magic, lured there, or accidentally whisked to an alien world by magical or dimension spanning energies... Magots are officially the minions of Mictla the Devourer." (Palladium Books Inc: Rifts Dark Conversions 2002 p.21)

The heroes immediately go on the offensive and begin bombarding the wagon with rifle fire and magic fie. The gallu bull demon cast fear attempting to frighten the heroes, causing the horses to run away pulling the flaming wagon, with the demons inside, away. Frank takes the bull demon and repeatedly smashed his head into the ground killing it. Then he begins feeding of the PPE of the dead creature. The bull demon caught by magic net speaks, "Damn, You mortals. You think you've won. The Shoguns all know of you, we we're out her looking for you. On our way to torture some town folk for information about you. You caught us by surprise, it won't happen again. Relish in your victory for when we find you we will feast on your souls." The gallu bull demon mutters an incantation under his breath and teleports away. Trevor decides to fly off after one of the wagons to retrieve a horse. Meanwhile, Takeo begins stripping the demon bull, all he finds is the armor and the sword the demon was using.

By the time Trevor catches up to the wagon that was on fire, one of the horses has broken free and the wagon had come to a stop. Trevor flies over and seed the other horse still attached to the wagon beginning to catch fire. Trevor puts the fire out, the horse appears to be slightly burned, Trevor feels perhaps the wilderness people in the party might be able to make the horse fully healthy. Trevor picks up the injured hose and flies it back to the party. Takeo inspects the horse and determines it is healthy enough to pull the wagon, Trevor immediately flies off for the second horse. Not having a harness,  Takeo and Runick tie the horse up using some military grade paracord rope that Frank had in his bag. Trevor manages to catch up to the horse still running, he tries to fly down and scoop up the horse. The horse is startled and doesn't go as easily as the injured horse. Trevor skids his power armor along the ground causing light damage. Trevor decides it is probably not possible to fly this hose back, he grabs a hold of what is left of the reigns and starts walking back toward the party.

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After Takeo and Runick finish securing the horse to the wagon they begin to follow after Trevor. As they approach the direction Trevor flew off in they see a group of 14 men on hose back riding from the near by town out in the direction toward Trevor, who is walking a horse back. They see the men on hose back approach and surround Trevor. The party can make out what is being said as they approach. A man in the middle of the group says, "You there! Halt! Lower you weapons and exit the vehicle. You are in violation of the Shinto Faith Act of  5 P.A. All technology is outlawed by decree of the Emperor and the Shinto Church. Surrender! We wish you no harm, but we must arrest you." Frank immediately uses his super telekinesis and floats the man speaking.  Six of the men on horse back begin casting spells immediately. The party is stricken with paralysis and fall to the ground. Another man speaks, "Put the Commander down! We wish you no harm. You are giving us no choice. We simply wish to enforce the law of the land. We must. It is part of our agreement to live in peace we must abide by all laws and enforce them. We need to take your friend with the power armor... and now the one who attacks our commander. Attacking an officer of the law is not a light matter, especially since the attack was unprovoked. Please there is enough bloodshed in the land already with the ruling demons. We don't need to shed blood among us humans." One of the horsemen uses sense psionics and whispers to the man talking as he points toward Frank. Frank lowers the commander, and Trevor exits the power armor, they get taken into custody and the armor is confiscated.

The party is left recovering from the paralysis spell, as they watch the lawmen ride away with Trevor and Frank.  Oliver and Takeo decide to go the jail in town, they see a lawman sitting outside. Takeo inquires as to the fate of their friends. "Your pals will have their day in court in one week... Me? I'm Po. Visiting hours are Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 1-3, come back then to see you friends" Takeo asks if his friends can seek council and is given an address to public defender's offices.

Meanwhile Runick stays with the wagon, to watch all of the stuff. He begins whittling boards and pins out of some wood found near by and fits the wagon with a hidden compartment under the wagon.

In jail Trevor and Frank talk about a jail break... until the guard tells them he can hear them. After a couple hours the two of the are presented with confessions to sign. The lawmen explain to Trevor, "Normally possession of class 5 technology is punishable by death this close to the capital... but if you sign this confession we will let you off with some time served. It won't be a big deal, we confiscated the technology, you're obviously new to the area. The judge will go easy if you cooperate... And You! Your luck the commander doesn't want any unnecessary human bloodshed. I would slay you where you stand for attacking the commander. But the commander says we must uphold the law at all times. So, I guess you'll get your day in court too. Which won't go well for attacking our head lawman. But you get a deal too, if you sign this confession. You will both be released after 4 months in jail, with good behavior." Trevor and Frank sign the confessions.

Oliver and Takeo go find the public defender's office, they enter a building and read a sign that directs them upstairs. They see an long hall way littered with office doors on each side. They approach the first office, a very pretty lady sits at a desk. "OMG! are you hear because you need a lawyer? OK this is great I'll help you two. Nobody ever asks for my help. Like, I don't know why. But, Like, Anyway come in and have a seat." Takeo makes a lewd comment and sexual advance toward the lawyer lady. "Umm.. Gross. I think you should seek other legal help... because I will call security." Oliver asks her who the best lawyer here is. She says, "Office at the end off the hall way." and closes her door. Oliver urges Takeo to move on down the hall way. Oliver and Takeo talk with the lawyer and he tells them its outrageous that they can't see their friends. They go down to the jail and the lawyer gets them in. When they are all talking, Trevor mentions Urihu's name and the Lawyer immediately shushes Tevor. He tells him not to ever mention that name to anyone again and abruptly pulls Oliver and Takeo out of the jail. They talk outside, "You work with the wanted fugitive Urihu? What is you relations with him. Your friends need to be careful with who they say that name to. Many have been tortured and killed seeking information about that man." Takeo and Oliver tell the lawyer of their journey and their work with Chaz/Urihu. The lawyer tells them that there are a few friends that they should meet and he leads them into an alleyway. The lawyer the opens a secret door leading to an underground lair. Inside Takeo and Oliver see five men wielding swords.

They sheath the swords when the lawyer begins to make introductions. They lawyer tells them that they know Urihu and their friends are in jail. One of the men speaks, "I am Yamamato. We are the samurai of this land the 2nd Ring. Or we use to be... We have gone into hiding when the  new shoguns were put into power... We heard some of the samurai of the lands further out from Kyoto, where they aren't as powerful, had fallen to mind control and do the shoguns bidding. Most of the samurai this closed to the capital city have been able to resist the initial attack ment to control us. But then when the demons came, demons we'd never encountered before, we were unprepared. Word has spread that thousands died that day and dozens of samurai fell that day. We all know the Emperor has been replaced by a demon. Only the people of the lands further out still believe he has returned to us and the people of these lands closer in are all too afraid. They live according to the rules and look the other way when people are taken. As long as the constant attacks on the cities would stop. They say the shoguns and emperor have made a deal with the demons, but truth is they are all demons. It's some sort of ploy to find the millennium tree, but we don't know why. We don't know the end game... We know of a way that you can pass though the 2nd Ring Magic Barier, so you can continue your journey to aid Urihu...  And by the way word has spread of you. Tales of the heroes who safeguarded the passage of the chosen one, and dared to enter the royal palace and mock the demons by displaying their heads on your wagons are told around the land. You're friends will not be safe in the jail once they figure out who they have. The demons will come and demand the lawmen turn them over... Meet me at the bar cross the street at midnight, we'll get your friends out."

Takeo and Oliver go back to meet up with Runick. Runick shows of his modification to the wagon and they decide to hide all of the tech weapons in the compartment. Oliver places all of his TW weapons in the compartment, along with the phase world rifles. Body armors do not fit so they stay in the back of the wagon. They go to meet Yamamato at the bar at midnight, the tie the horse off in front of the bar. Yamamato tells them the plan. "Good you brought your friend, we are going to need all three of you for this. One of you will stay here with Bud and create a distraction. One of you needs to go retrieve your power armor, with Sai here. One of you will need to go meet the extraction team in the alley behind the jail. To get your friends out of jail will cause the lawmen to hunt you, so you need to leave immediately. Try to do exactly what the extraction team tells you and we will get you out of the town and on you way to the 2nd Barrier passage. Now who is doing what?.. We will coordinate to move in 15 min, 12:30pm exactly. "

Takeo and Bud sit around in the bar, until 12:30pm then Bud has to try to pick a fight because Takeo fails to make a distraction... The lawmen immediately leave the bar when alerted to something else.

Oliver leaves with Sai and they go to a warehouse about a mile from the jail. The warehouse is large and looks old. Sai warns Oliver that the building has security and is booby trapped with magic. They need to get the armo then meet at the rendezvous point.  At 12:30pm, Oliver and Sai sneak in and make there way though the warehouse. Inside Oliver sees lots of confiscated technology, most of it class 1 and class 2 items like flashlights and audio devices. They locate a room with Class 5 tech, and they find the Super Tengue Power Armor that was confiscated. Oliver attempts to walk up and take the power armor. A magic trap goes off and he is caught by one leg, with one of many spikes that was released, and the mystic alarm starts going off, fail. Sai tells Oliver to get in the suit and go. Getting the armor is the priority. Oliver removes the spike and gets in the power armor and flies straight though the roof. As Oliver flies off he can see lawmen running into the room and the flashes of magic being cast as he loses sight of them.

Runick goes to the alley behind the jail, where he meets the three guys who tell him that at exactly 12:30pm they are going to open a magic portal to the jail cell and Runick is to guide them along a pathway. The extraction team leader draws a map in the dirt. He reminds Runick do not deviate from the path we need to get you out of town and to safety as fast as possible and this is the only way we can guarantee your safety, is if you follow the path. 

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At 12:30pm,Trevor and Frank see a magic portal appear on the wall of their jail cell. On the other side they see Runick and 3 men. Frank cheers out loud when he realizes its a prison break, fail, an alarm immediately starts going off. The extraction team, urges them to get out fast since they couldn't keep the prison break quite. "Run!" the extraction team screams as the charge the lawmen. Runick, Trevor, and Frank start running down the path they we're given. Runcik then stops and thinks about the wagon, he leads the other two off the given path. They are immediately spotted and must run away. After losing the lawmen and getting back on path, Runick tells the other two to keep going down the path that he will go back for the wagon. Trevor and Frank meet up with Oliver, who came flying in on the power armor, and Takeo, who rode up on horseback, at the base of the mountain next to the town. They inquire about Runick but are told there is no time to wait. One of the samurai cast a spell and begins to levitate all of the party members on a piece of earth up the side of the mountain.

Runick runs back into the town and is seen immediately. He runs and tries to avoid the lawmen and prowl. He can not manage to get near the wagon without being seen. Runick decides to set a random building on fire. People start screaming and running out of the burning building. In the commotion he attempts to get to the wagon but fails and is seen and chased again. One of the extraction team guys finds him and yells, "What are you doing here? They will kill you? Are you stupid? You have to go now!" Runick tells him that he needs the wagon. The samurai tells him, "We will see what they can do about getting the wagon. But if you don't leave now. I can't help you anymore, we've already lost too many men because you're a bunch of armatures." Runick agrees to go. The samurai cast a mystic portal and send Runick to the levitating piece of earth.

The party is taken half way up the mountain to a clearing where two of the samurai instruct them to make camp. "You'll be safe here." He says as he cast a spell causing the clouds to form a wall around their campsite blocking them and the camp fire from view. In the morning the two samurai wish them luck and went back down the mountain. The party continued upward. They see a demon locust perched on the side of the mountain. They continue to walk, it shifts. Runick continues to walk and the demon locust doesn't move. Runick walks right past the locust and continues past looking for a place to rest while he waits for his friends to pass the locust, he doesn't find anywhere comfortable. They attempt to attack the demon locust and it dodges so quickly they can barely see. It calmly perches itself in the same spot and threatens the party. They turn and hike back down the hill some ways.

Kreesh

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Kreeesh  Pnema-Bioform Dolphin  Lvl: 4  Male  Age: 27    Height: 6ft  Weight: 200lbs IQ: 15 ME: 22 MA: 16 PS: 28 PP: 20 PE: 20 PB: 14 SPD: 19 (supernatural) Saving Throws Vs.Psionics:  Vs.Insanity:  Vs.Coma/Death : Vs.Magic:  Vs.Posion:  Vs.MindControl: +4 Vs.HF: +6 Vs.Illusion: +4 Vs. Disease: +4              Hand to Hand: Expert  Atk:  6  Int: +2  Dam: +  Stk: +5   Stk w/ E-Rifle: +4/2 Stk w/ Forked: +2 Parry: +8    Dodge: +8 Pull:  Roll:        MDC: 120 H.P:  ISP:           PPE: 200    HF:

Skills                        Swimming Dolphin/Whale Language(Dragonese) Language (Japanese) Underwater Navigation Track and Hunt Sea Animals Demon Monster Lore Sing Acrobatics Backflip W.P. Foked Prowl Disguise Undersea Salvage Holistic Medicine Boxing

Skills                        Literacy Japanese Literacy English Boat Building W.P. Energy Rifle Streetwise

Weapons Horune Energy Trident

Armor & Cloths Kelp Armor

Equipment

Currency

Magic             Electromagnetic Pulse Sonic Blast Psi-Flash Warning Sense Predator Song of Joy Song of Life Walk Like a humanoid Invisibility Simple Impervious to Electricity Breath Without Air

Abilities                Metamorphosis Human  Leyline Charge Leyline Energy Blast Leyline Hop  Leyline Speed Doubler Sense Leyline and Magic Energy Read Leylines Leyline Transmission Leyline Rejuvenation

Runick Skyknight

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Runick Skyknight Elemental Fusionist Lvl: 3 Male IQ: 24 ME: 20 MA: 15   PS: 22    PP: 24    PE: 21      PB: 14    SPD: 15               Saving Throws Vs. Psionics: +3 Vs. Insanity: +3 Vs. Coma/Death: +20% Vs. Magic: +5 Vs. Posion: +5 Hand to Hand: Expert/Martial Arts Atk: 4 Int:   Dam: +11 Stk: +5 Stk w/hands: +2 Parry: +11 Dodge: +11    Pull: +1       Roll: +7 Disarm: +2 SDC: 81 H.P: 27 ISP: 150 PPE: 6

Skills                           Language (American) Language (Japanese) Language (Dragonese) Literacy (American) Speak Elemental Swimming Horsemanship: General Lore: Demons Lore: Farie W.P. Axe W.P. Archery W.P. Rifle Wilderness Survival Whittling First Aid Intelligence

Skills                         Acrobatics       Balance       Walk Tightrope        Climb Rope        Back Flip        Climb        Prowl Quick Draw Gymnastics Outdoors Athletics Skin and Prepare Hides Fishing Carpentry

Weapons  7.62 Rifle 77 Ramjet rounds Axe Long Bow 16 Arrows

Armor & Cloths Leather Body Armor Urban Warrior Body Armor

Equipment Millennium Tree Limb 9 days of rations Large water Canteen

Currency 1230 Credits

Magic                           Dowsing Impervious to Fire Fire/Water Shield Superheat Water Steam Bolt Firestorm Flame Drench Liquid Fire Frequency Jam Flame Friend

Psionics

Episode 15 "Up a Creek..."

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April 16, 102 P.A.

After defeating the Balrog the party decides to collect the head, in hopes of trading it in for the bounty later. Frank Hamilton starving and seriously malnourished, from his stay at the Millennium Tree, immediately feeds off the PPE from the fresh kill. He then opens the large cellar like doors leading down into a large dark tunnel. Frank activates his night vision to see into the tunnel. Takeo casts a globe of daylight, blinding Frank momentarily. They enter the tunnel, it leads directly under the first ring magic barrier (life drain). The party rides the wagon into the tunnel, when they make it about half way through they hear they sounds of digging and continue through the tunnel at their same pace. Moments later they see 16 ghouls digging their way into the tunnel in front and behind them. The party stops and prepares to fight (buffing) allowing the ghouls to advance on them. Despite the fact the ghouls were of low level, the party finds the ghouls more difficult to handle than expected, often failing to strike the agile ghouls. After the battle with the ghouls Runick decides to collect the heads of the ghouls. The party then decides to hang the heads around the wagon on display and they continue though the tunnel. At the other end is another large barn size cellar door, Frank walks right up to the door and opens it. Frank sees a Gallu Bull Demon, the demon turns to look at the tunnel.

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The Gallu sees Frank standing at the opening of the tunnel and the rest of the party back by a wagon covered in demon heads. Frank preemptively acts, immediately taking control of the gallu, with super telekinesis, lifting him off the ground. Armed only with a sword, the gallu begins casting every simple spell it knows. Meanwhile, Frank occasionally slams the gallu into the ground and the rest of the party attacks the gallu as it is helpless. The demon manages to phobia curse and luck curse Frank before casting a cloud of smoke breaking Franks line of sight and freeing the gallu of Frank's telekinetic grasp. Runick gets the help of a lesser earth elemental and the gallu demon decides it's time to flee. Successfully casting a teleport spell he leaves the with a threat, "Wait til your shogun hears of this, you will pay for this disgrace. I will see you bow to our power, mortals. For your power is weak compared to that of the flames of Hades. Thus, have seen the people." Then the gallu demon is gone.

They all get on to the wagon and continue south, the party makes it to the edge of the woods. Ahead of them the terrain is all plains and open fields, they continue. They finally arrive at the 2nd ring magic barrier, it is a Wall of Agony. The party sees a bird attempt to fly through the shimmering blue barrier, it drops to the ground in agony where it stays til it dies. Runick throws a rock through the barrier, it lands on the ground on the other side. He picks up a flower and throws it, it hits the barrier falls to the ground and quickly withers. Runick puts a flower in his canteen and throws it it hits the barrier and falls to the ground. He retrieves his canteen and looks inside, to find a withered flower. Runick discerns the is no way to go through unharmed, only in animate objects can pass. The party travels east along the barrier for a long time until the reach a large pack of 32 ghouls in front of a large river. The party decides to avoid them and back tracks their steps all the way back to the edge of the woods. They decide it is the best spot to eat and rest. In the morning the party decides to travel east from where they camped. They reach a river, the same one, and begin to follow it down southeast. Eventually they see the pack of ghouls from the day before, again they choose to attempt to avoid them. Takeo gets in the river and cast breath without air, he will swim to the barrier to see if there is a way through. The others decide it is best if they fly the wagon over the river, Trevor takes out the power armor and flies the wagon with the party over. This draws the attention of the ghouls and they begin advancing on the party the horses left behind. Trevor flies back to grab a horse and scares it, he attempts to grab the other horse but fails. The horses are more afraid of the large super tengu power armor than they are of the humanoid ghouls. Thus, they run toward the ghouls and are devoured. Trevor flies back to the others, they talk and wonder what is taking Takeo so long.

Meanwhile, Takeo had swam along the shoreline and had sensed an evil presence in the water, he sees an aquatics demon from hades. Takeo avoids him and continues, he sees one other aquatics demon blocking his passage to the barrier. Takeo engages in battle with the creature and easily defeats it, with its last action the aquatic demon calls for help. Takeo continues toward the barrier an inspects it. The water seems to flow through but when a fish tried to swim though it hit the barrier and floated away with the current. Takeo had his answer no way through down there, he turns around to see two aquatics demons swimming at him. The aquatics are too fast and they entangle Takeo up and drag him to the bottom of the river. Takeo lays there motionless, and fears his breath with out air spell will run out.

Trevor, Oliver and Runick decide that they will enter the river to look for Takeo. Trevor's sensors start going off and he warns Oliver and Runick of a group of aquatics swimming toward them in the direction of the magic barrier. Trevor tells them  that they are moving very fast and he activates his flies through the water at top speed. Oliver and Runick figure they probably swim to slow to avoid the aquatics demons and decide to get out of the water. Trevor flies up fast and sees Takeo on the bottom entangled by two aquatics demons, He swoops down picks them all up and flies straight out of the water and lands on the shoreline next to the rest of the party. They cut the aquatics demons off of Takeo with ease, pick him up, and they get on the wagon and they move because the ghouls are now making their way across the river. Trevor now is pulling the wagon like a giant rickshaw, in the power armor. They continue along the magic barrier, being a round barrier after awhile the party is traveling north. they cross  the river two more times. and the reach the woods again. They continue through the woods all the way until they reach the base of a mountain. Trevor stops and flies up the mountain to scout ahead. He flies up and sees a demon locust, he flies away from the mountain to look around. Trevor sees a small village not far off around the base of the mountain and a large building over by the ley line, the Shogun's Palace. They travel around the base of the mountain and stop in the woods outside the village. Trevor Leaves his power armor in the wagon with Oliver and Frank, as He, Takeo and Runick enter the village. The three of them go to the local inn. They ring the bell at the counter a man comes in, "Oh I am so sorry! We don't get many visitors here, well not since the 9 rings went up. You must be men of the shogun's. Of course your stay is free please treat this place as your own. Let me get you a room." Takeo interrupts the inn keeper and tells him there is a misunderstanding, "we" are not with the shogun we fight against him and the demons. The in keeper's face changes, " Oh... well you can still stay if you want but we don't want any trouble here. The shogun has made a deal with the demons to keep them from attacking us. They leave us alone as long as we live by their rules. Uh... I don't really want to talk to you guys anymore." and the in keeper turns and walks ways leaving the key to the room on the counter. The three of them leave the key and go to the market.  Back at the wagon Oliver and Frank have started talking and Oliver tell Frank that the millennium tree leaves could cure him of almost anything. Frank offers to buy a leaf, Oliver tells him the are worth hundreds of thousands but sells it to Frank in good faith for a mere 250 gold. Frank rests under the leaf blanket, as it cures him of his curses the leaf is consumed.




Takeo Takahido Demon Queller lvl 6- Previous 44,750xp
+1175xp

Trevor Burnside Psi Tech lvl- Previous 31,956xp
+1725xp

Frank Hamilton Psi Slayer- Previous 9,679xp
+1200xp

Runick Skyknight Elemental Fusionist lvl 4- Previous 13,221xp
+1075xp

Oliver McPherson Techno Wizard lvl 2- Previous 2,600xp
+1050xp

Oliver McPherson

Oliver McPherson Techno Wizard Lvl: 2 Male IQ: 24 ME: 21 MA: 12 PS: 14 PP: 21 PE: 17 PB: 12 SPD: 12 Saving Throws Vs Psionics: +3 Vs Insanity: +4 Vs Coma/Death: 5% Vs Magic: +1 Vs Poison: +1 Vs Mind Control: 2 Vs Horror: +2 Vs Possession: +2 Hand to Hand: Martial Arts Atk 4 Init: 0 Dam: 0 Strk: 0 Strk Sword: +1 Strk: Hvy Wp +1 Stk: Veh Wp: +1 Parry: +7 Dodge: +7 Pull: +3 Roll: +3 SDC: 29 HP: 22 ISP: 42 PPE: 142

Skills                           Literacy (American) Language(American) Language(Dragonese) Language(Japanese) Radio Basic Computer Operation Computer Programming Computer Repair Basic Electronics Mechanical Engineer Techno Wizardry Construction Sensory Equipment Math: Basic Land Navigation Ley Line Piloting Pilot: Robots & Pwr Armor Pilot: Hovercycles Electrical Engineering Weapons Engineer Lore: Magic Surveillance Robot Mechanics Mathematics: Advanced

Skills                         Fencing WP Energy Pistol WP Sword WP Energy Rifle Quickdraw Gymnastics    Sense of Balance    P.Bars and Rings    Backflip    Basic Prowl    Basic Climb    Climb Rope/Rappel

Weapons Ng-56 Northern Gun Light Ion Pistol 2) E-clips (2)Ng Hand Grenades(Plasma) (9)NG Hand Grenades(Smoke) TW Eagle Eye Marksman Rifle Katana Bark Shield(Medium) Magic Pistol Firelight(Large Flashlight) Electric Arc Pocket Flashlight

Armor & Cloths Robes Quebec Military Armor HA-5 Hiker Body Armor     TW Belt Multi-optics Band of the Shadow

Equipment Hovercycle Wingboard Millennium Tree Leaf Blanket Work Overalls Nice Clothes Pilot Style Jumpsuit Tinted Goggles Sunglasses Magnifying Glass Binoculars Six Signal Flares Mini Tool Kit Knapsack Backpack 3 Small Sacks 1 Large Sack Pocket Mirror Silver Cross 6 Wooden Stakes Mallet Canteen Air Filter and Gas Mask Pocket Laser Distancer Pocket Digital Disc Recorder/Player Hand Held Computer Swiss Army Pocket Knife 6 Ft length of Rope

Currency 2780 Credits Approx 20 of each gem

Magic                           Armor of Ithan(10) Blinding Flash(1) Breathe without Air(5) Call Lightening(15) Cloak of Darkness(6) Deflect(10) Electric Arc(8) Energy Bolt(5) Energy Field(10) Fire Ball(10) Fire Bolt(7) Fuel Flame(5) Fly(15) Forcebonds(25) Globe of Daylight(2) Ignite Fire(6) Impervious to Energy(20) Impervious to Fire(5) Magic Net (7) Magic Shield(6) See the Invisible(4) Sense Magic(4) Shadow Meld(10) Superhuman Strength(10) Telekinesis(8) Frequency Jamming(8)

Psionics