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May 14, 102 P.A.
Runick and Takeo are prisoners to the Hades demons. Trevor tricks out his big bear suit. Kujira chases a dead end lead on a black pearl. MC Hammer leads raids on the demon camps.
Kreesh, Frank, Oliver, and the Hood travel to the mountain to find the mage. Oliver sends another magic pigeon when they arrive, "We need to know where you are, we are here to meet you. Hagi has requested your help." Kreesh sings a song of joy a a small portion of the ley line begins to glow. The four of them choose to continue traveling along the ley line, up the mountain. After traveling for some time Oliver receives a response in the form of a magic pigeon. When the magic pigeon flies up it leaves a misty blue light tracing its flight path, it explodes and says, "We are over here." and the Blue light begins to fade beginning at Oliver back tracing the flight path. The party follows the fading flight path leading them to a few round huts encircled by round fences, and children playing soccer. They approach and Oliver begins acting as a commentator for the kids game. After a short while an old woman descends down the path from a small hut further back within the fence line. She introduces herself as Kaleb Swanson and invites them to sit down. Kreesh and Oliver plead for her the help.
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Kaleb simply begins telling her story, "I was orphaned as a child, captured by the Splugorth Alien Race and made a slave, along with dozens of others. Then one day, in the 3rd Age of Dragonwright, a human man with incredible power and his strange traveling companions; a dragon, a cyborg mage, an elf wizard, and an evil cyber knight, came to the Splugorth town. And he freed us, he freed us all...
His name was Sparticus Garth, and he was the buyer. Sparticus was a cold man, but a just one. When he first freed the slaves, we didn't know what to do. So we sought refuge in the wreckage of an alien ship, but alas many of us died due to the raids of monsters. When Sparticus returned to check on us, he found only children left alive and took pity on us. Sparticus fed us, cloth us, housed us, armed us and trained us the way he was.We became family and we grew strong to make him proud. He often displayed of great power when someone hurt or threatened on of us. Despite that, the rumor is nobody ever saw the full extent of his power. And he had one rule,..
Army of Thunder above all...
Yes, those were the good days. I went to school in the city of Tolkeen and studied magic. All the meanwhile defending Tolkeen's southern borders from attacks, protecting the townsfolk and training new orphans to survive. We were a great army indeed, we spanned across the country with strongholds in different states. I even like to believe we saved the world once or twice. But alas as mighty as we were, those days are behind me. I have very little fight left in these old bones. I am afraid I can not help your cause as honorable as it maybe...
But perhaps...
if your quest is as honorable as you claim, the peril is real, and your plead is great...
Then just maybe HE will hear your call...
Yes that may work, you see Sparticus ascended into something greater, he lies dormant within the ley line energy finally receiving the peace he so deserved. but its said if the need shall come he can be awakened...
Let us try."
The party gathers and Kaleb begins her preparations for the ritual it takes her 3 hours. She instructs the others to stand in a circle and to focus on their plea for help, focus on the terrible danger the earth is in. Kaleb utters an incantation, the wind begins to whip around and a mist forms. Multiple surges of lightning crack from the center of their circle and in a flash a man appears huddled over in the center spot of circle where the lightning is surging. The lightning stops and a naked man stands between them.
Kaleb snaps her fingers. One of the boys runs over with a arms full of clothes, Sparticus dresses. Kaleb walks forward and greets her General, informs him of the scattered troops across the world. Although he disband the Army of Thunder everyone had remained together for a time, then the Captains began venturing off to find places and people that needed our help. They had stayed in contact and can be reunited if need be. Each captain has an item of Sparticus that they keep guarded for his return one day. Kaleb gives Sparticus his Shadow Cloak and Magic Lightning Rod. Oliver comes forward and offers to have Sparticus scan him to speed up the process. He does and agrees to join their cause.Then they prepare to head back to meet with Hagi, Virgil, and Izen, in the village. Oliver donates 3 frost blade scrolls, 1 mystic alarm scroll, 1 TW silver cross energy field to the orphans, Frank gives them 3,000gp. They then return to the village.
When the party arrives back at the village Hagi, Vrigil, Izen and the village elders are there to greet them. They explain that the old woman couldn't help like they were hoping for, but they brought back Sparticus instead. They discuss methods of advancing the army, Virgil says on of his guys can create a mystic portal to allow people through the magic barrier. After agreeing that is the best choice, they are told to come back and meet tomorrow at the town hall. In the mean time the party decides to camp by a river just outside of town.
Kreesh spends his time fishing, hurling live fish a shore for the entire party, and searching for sunken ships. Oliver sits back and designs another schematic for a new TW item to create. After a while, Kreesh resurfaces dragging out a glass box with what looks like a man inside of it. Kreesh tells everyone to check out the box, and tells them he wants to sing a song of life and awaken the man.
The Hood recognizes the man as the connection he was to meet with and give a progress report to of the war effort. The Hood immediately agrees with Kreesh to revive the man. Kreesh tells them that it will need to be preformed back at the ley line where there is an abundance of magic energy to draw upon. They decide they will go later after they meet with the elders again. Kreesh sings to his box in anticipation.
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They enter the Town Hall, only to see a horrid murder scene and samurai acting as crowd control. Three people lay dead on the floor; Virgil the head samurai, Ando and Shinzo also both samurai. One person hangs impaled on the wall forty feet high; Izen the famous Techno Wizard. The party inquires as to what happened, they are told that it appears that someone has betrayed them for the samurai never drew their swords. When they ask about the samurai that can cast mystic portal they are told it was Ando. Frank gets a glimpse of Izen hanging from the wall and recognizes what looks like hilts of Takeo's swords. He tries to use telekinesis to draw the swords to him, but can't seem to get a hold of them. Oliver offers to help investigate the situation, Limini the second samurai in command tells him it will be handled internally and asks him when the last time he saw Takeo was. Kreesh runs into Nymar in the crowd and discuss how this is potentially devastating to the cause and that Nymar will be returning to the sea. Hagi finds the party among the crowd, they exit the town hall and talk about what they will do now.
He says to them, "Let us let them do their investigation, for it seems we are an annoyance here. Besides, just yesterday Izen told me that he had finished the construction of a weapon that would ensure our victory. But he said it was still missing the key components, magic black pearls, and must be activated in the center of the hell pit. Izen said that you, Oliver McPherson, can complete it. Come let us go see it."
Oliver indeed offers to complete the work and they go visit Tigon. Tigon is a boy that was assisting Izen. He cries when they tell him that Izen is dead. Sobbing all the while he tells them that he didin't learn much from Izen, he was just a beginner. Oliver asks him how his training was going, the boy tells him his first project was a TW scuba mouth piece imbued with the spell breath with out air. Oliver tells the boy that they could really use such an item. The boy offers Oliver his only two, the one Izen gave him as an example and the one he built. Oliver hands out the TW scuba mouth pieces Frank and the Hood. Then he thanks the boy and reassures him that he will complete the generator looking weapon and defeat the demons. Oliver tells Hagi that they know of the black pearls and they will return to finish the generator.
They then return to the ley line with the glass box and man inside. Kreesh draws upon the ley line energy and begins his song. It takes a couple hours for him to draw enough energy to unleash the magic of the song. The man awakens and the glass box shatters. The man sits up wearily, Oliver tries to force bond the man and Kreesh get between them and protects the man. Kreesh attempts to speak with the man and find out how he came about being trapped in a glass box at the bottom of the river. The man thanks Kreesh for his help calls him his brethren.
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Then the man says, "My name is Bakura. I am a liaison of the Sony Corporation. We have heard of the conflict here on the mainland. My boss has asked me to come and attempt to negotiate with the demon invaders. I imagine..."
The party tackles the man and put force bonds on him, "Why are you making deals with demons?"
Bakura replies, "... as I was saying, My boss sent me. We just want the senseless killing to stop. But I imagine the deals went bad. The last thing I remember was encountering a demon and that he didn't like the idea of our offer, the next thing I know I woke up here."
The party release the man and take him back to the village. As they bid their farewells Oliver catches a glimpse of a black pearl in Bakura's belt buckle. Oliver decides to follow him but is not very stealthy and is questioned as to what he is doing by Bakura. Oliver asks about the black pearl, Bakura says its a family heirloom and the conversation is left at that. They part ways.
The party talks to Limini the second samurai. He tells them Takeo is suspected of the murders. They have his swords locked in a magic box, for they were emitting evil energy.
They rest for the night. The Hood sneaks out and goes to meet Bakura at the bar without the party. The Hood asks Bakura where all the help is, he's told their won't be any if the magic barriers are not dropped. To contact him as soon as the are dropped and the army will be sent in. Sony will completely fund an invasion if the Hood can ensure entry to the capital city of Kyoto. Bakura also mentions that he recognized a man in town that worked for the Mitsubishi company, they need to be careful.
In the morning the party leaves fro the next magic barrier ring. When they arrive they decide to take the underwater passage that they took when they were making their way out of the center rings. The trip takes a full 24 hours as it did last time, with the party camping in the under ground cave. Kreesh again singing his song of joy to keep the ghouls away. While swimming through the underwater tunnels the party encounters a couple of tiger sharks. Kreesh manages to kill one with his sonic blasts. While Sparticus, in his no-nonsense manner, shoots an electric blast obliterating the tiger shark but slaging much of the parties equipment in the process.
When the party surfaces the following day they make their way ashore. A shadow passes overhead, they look up. A fire worm flies above like a tiny little dragon. The party freezes in amazement and stares up. The fire worm sees them and dives in attack. The party snaps out of its stupor and leaps to action. They quickly kill the fire worm. and decide they should rest and camp for the remainder of the day.As they rest a rift opens near them. At first it was about 10 feet in diameter, but immediately began pulsating and shrinking with each pulse. They can barely make out what seems to be the Millennium Tree through the mist. In a matter of 90 seconds the rift pulses away to nothing.
Takeo Takahido - Demon Queller Lvl. 7 (next 80,001): 56,295xp + 500xp = 56,795xp
Trevor Burnside - Psi Tech Lvl. 7 (next 51,001): 50,246xp
Frank Hamliton - Psi Slayer Lvl. 6 (next 37,901): 29,471xp + 900xp = 30,371xp
Runick Skyknight - Elemental Fusionist Lvl. 6 (next 35,920): 31,946xp + 500xp = 32,446xp
Oliver McPherson - Techno Wizard Lvl. 4 (next 26,501): 18,325xp + 1,675xp = 20,000xp NOW Lvl. 5
Kreesh - Pneuma Bioform Dolphin Lvl. 4 (next 30,601): 19,700xp + 1,825xp = 21,525xp NOW Lvl. 5
Kujira - Pneuma Bioform Orca Lvl 4 (next 20,601): 12,826xp
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