Episode 22 "Birth Right"

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April 30, 102 P.A.

After the battle Frank gets out of the crashed APC and figures its done for. He uses telekinesis to get all of the gear out of the vehicle. Hagi comes flying in and gives a speech to the remaining troops, declares victory, and orders them to return to town. Afterward he talks with the party. He offers them a chance to reload back at the town. Trevor asks for missiles, Hagi tells him he's welcome to what they have. Oliver asks Hagi for transport back to the mainland to pick up the TW and where the Mage they need to find is, Hagi says they only have a small fishing boat they could use and the mage is in the 3rd ring. Trevor goes to look at the APC while they talk and gets it to fire up. Just as the car starts up Frank's 6th sense goes off, and he immediately puts a telekinetic force field up.

A Night Owl Demon appears from nowhere in the sky. Before they know it they find themselves in a battle, as the night owl animates the dead from the casualties. The night owl turns invisible and continues to increase the number of undead. Takeo jumps into the sky with a wild strike and hits the owl demon. Runick shuts his eyes and sense where the owl is with his bow and sticks a couple arrows in him. Seeing the arrows Trevor has a target and take the final blow with his rail gun shattering the owl's force field and leaving a dust up of feathers. The party loots the remains and find; 1880 gold, Tanto of Hellish Poison, and a Mirror of True Seeing. Takeo wraps the mirror in a cloth and puts it away. Trevor picks up the tanto and Takeo warns him of the poison, Trevor carefully puts it away. Runick picks up 100 owl feathers They split the gold and get into the big bear. Although the APC fired up it isn't in flying shape, so they carry it back with the Big Bear Robot.

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 On the way back the party comes across a single man dressed in green riding alone with an enormous sack on his back. The man rides directly toward the Big Bear Robot, the party stops. " 'Hello there, my name is Sheamus and I have the finest weeds in the land." says the man in green. He then reaches down and pulls a large fat wooden pipe bowl from his saddle bag revealing a rather lengthy thin stem to draw from. Sheamus then lights the pipe, takes a draw, then holds it up in offering to the Big Bear Robot. Trevor opens the hatch to the robot and introductions are made. After some trading the party is off leaving the weed dealing traveler to continue on his way, as they themselves continue on back to town. They arrive at 4 am, and Frank pays to rent a garage to park the Big Bear Robot. The most of the party sleeps in the garage around the Big Bear Robot. Frank gets a hotel room to sleep in. In the morning the Runick awakens and retrieves the demon hides he had skinned. Runick begins preparing the hides to make leather armor out of them. Oliver spends his time drawing up schematics for a new TW item. Trevor begins working on the Big Bear Robot and souping it up. Takeo goes off to meet the bow maker at his tent.

The bow maker invites him in, "Are you ready to accept your birthright?"

Takeo responds, "As a matter of my character, I've had deals with evil, and where the less virtuous would have handled it differently. I don't expect to have a clean soul."

The bow maker asks Takeo to present his sword. Takeo tries to hand it to the bow maker and is scolded for his lack of manners. Takeo gets down on one knee and presents the sword properly. The bow maker take Takeo's sword from him, inspects it, then turns his back to Takeo. The old bow maker mutters and incantation and cuts the inside of his forearm with the sword.

He turns and faces Takeo, "Now your father's sword."

Takeo presents his fathers sword, the bow maker says an incantation. "Now strike me!"

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Takeo swings his father's sword and bow maker does not react. The sword makes contact, a bright light flashes, shattered metal flies through the air, Takeo's eyes close, he feels a lack of weight in the sword. When Takeo opens his eyes he looks upon his sword, piercing the earth, its shinny new hilt beckoning him. He looks around, no sign of the bow maker. He looks at his hand, at the hilt of his father's shattered sword, only to see a perfectly formed short sword with a matching hilt to sword in the ground. Takeo draws the sword from the ground and rush of power washes through him. A whisper of a voice rings in his ears, "You are our last hope."

The party rearms and gathers supplies from the convoy of equipment they hijacked and brought to the village. The party then leaves Runick to his work in the garage, making demon hide leathers, and travel to the coast and acquire a ride aboard a large ship to Takamatsu City on Shikoku Island. On the boat ride Oliver manages to craft his TW globe of daylight wand, and sends a magic pigeon to Izen. Frank uses his streetwise to talk to someone about getting them a ride back to the mainland in 2 days. They then fetch a taxi and ask to go to the Auto Repair shop, while there Trevor purchases a hover propulsion engine to fix Frank's CS Hover Vehicle APC. The party then shops for traditional Japanese robes. And they rent a hotel room.

Oliver receives a magic pigeon fro Izen, "I will be ready to go in half a day as agreed upon."

Oliver responds with a magic pigeon, "Where will we meet? Hagi awaits us on the mainland. We just won a great battle. Now is the time to join the Revolution!"

Ever since the party has returned to Takamatsu City, Takeo has been feeling the compulsion growing to a point where he could no longer resist. Takeo has to fulfill his end of the deal to Crowley, and begins eyeing
Oliver's Millennium Tree leaf. he considers killing Oliver for a second but that feeling washes away quickly. Compelled, Takeo offers to trade the mirror true seeing for the leaf. Oliver declines and says he wants the tanto of hellish poison that Trevor has. Takeo attempts to trade with Trevor for the tanto. Trevor says Takeo can't be trusted with such an evil weapon. So the three of them preform a triangle trade, so each person receives the item that they wanted.