Episode 25 "Defend the Village"

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Later May 12, 102 P.A.

The remaining members of the party fall back to a safe distance and watch stupefied, as the shogun's palace burns to the ground. Unsure of how to process the loss of Runick and Takeo, they discuss their next move.

Meanwhile, a magic pigeon comes flying up to Oliver and explodes in a voice message, "Great job! the Barrier has fallen. Our troops are already advancing to the village below. We will do our best to protect the villagers. Meet up with us after the battle if you can."

Trevor hops up on the reigns of the wagon and puts his new horsemanship skills to the test. After working with Takeo nearly a year, Trevor seems to have the hang of it. The party rides at full speed to the village, coming up on a horrid battle scene. The party charges directly at the Balrog barking orders, taking up the rear. The village samurai, and army of humans (once they arrive) make short work of this rookie platoon of Gallu Bull Demons.

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The party attacks the Balrog and when they seem to have the upper hand, the demon teleports away. They meet up back at the village and start to heal the wounded and fix some of the wreckage. Hagi introduces the party to a friend of cause, The Hood. Hagi explains that he knows the Hood from back in Takamatsu City, And that the hood is here to help defeat the Hades demons and stop them from completing the construction of a Hell Pit. The Hood tells them that his connections back in Takamatsu have heard of the war effort here on the mainland and send their support, if the magic barriers can be dropped an army from Takamatsu will come help.

Trevor and Frank make a deal with the samurai to have the hover APC and Big Bear Robot power armor brought to the front lines from where they were left. The samurai agree and tell them it'll take 2 days, to get equipment that large sent back over the mountain. The party rests for a couple days waiting on their equipment to arrive. They also inquire around town about a local mage, and are told the only one they can think of is the old women, that runs the orphanage on the mountain. Oliver sends a magic pigeon to the old woman, "We are coming to meet you, to ask for your aid."


Takeo Takahido - Demon Queller Lvl. 7 : 54,320xp + 1,975xp = 56,295xp

Trevor Burnside - Psi Tech Lvl. 7 : 48,371xp + 1,875xp = 50,246xp

Frank Hamliton - Psi Slayer Lvl. 5 : 27,796xp + 1,675xp = 29,471xp  NOW Lvl. 6

Runick Skyknight - Elemental Fusionist Lvl. 6 : 30,721xp + 1,225xp = 31,946xp

Oliver McPherson - Techno Wizard Lvl. 4 : 15,950xp + 2,375xp = 18,325xp

Kreesh - Pneuma Bioform Dolphin Lvl. 4 : 19,700xp

Kujira - Pneuma Bioform Orca Lvl 4 : 12,826xp

Episode 24 " Just In Time..."

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May 12, 102 P.A.

Looking down on the 3rd ring's palace the party sees a group of 16 Gallu Bull Demons and a Balrog. Not far from the group of demons sits the shogun's palace with only a steal gate and a small group of mystified human guards separating them. Just as it looks like the demon platoon is going to advance on the gates, they sit to rest. The party is perplexed and argue with what they should do. As night fall approaches Runick decides to prowl away from the group and down to the shogun's palace. He scouts out the back, its clear. Runick returns to the party and talks them into going to the back of the palace. When they all prowl down to the back end of the palace they here a large creak of the palace gates. They scurry into positions where they can see the gate open.

Two lines of dozen human guards file out of the gate in formation and for a path way. Then a small unassuming human shogun proceeds down the guard path. The Balrog stands and meets the shogun at the end of the guard line. The party witnesses them exchange a few words, and in the same fashion that he arrived the shogun retreated back into his palace.

The Balrog turns and bellows, "The time of the reaping is nearly upon us. We must go to the villages and heard the sheep to city of Kyoto. The Emperor was wise indeed to allowing the people to live in peace,.. never the wiser that they're being kept for the grand blood sacrifice. Our brethren will flow into this dimension thousands and we shall feast upon it endless supply of souls. Now go bring the humans!"

The Gallu Bull demons turn and begin to march off to the villages near by. Takeo acts quickly and runs off into the woods making a racket successfully luring 6 of the bull demons in his direction. The rest of the party rush to help and they dispatch of a half dozen bull demons. Oliver then sends a magic pigeon to Hagi to warn that the remaining demons approach the village and that they will drop the magic barrier. The party sneaks around back climbs the fence and go in through a window on the second floor.

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Once inside Frank Hamilton feels the effects of a compulsion spell and convinces the rest of the party he knows the way to the throne room, only leading them into a trap. The party is imprisoned in a cell, Runick grabs the bars and melts them. Just as he goes to walk through the hole he falls to the floor paralyzed. The remaining party members start fleeing. Takeo is compulsed  to removed the helmet of his friends. Once removing Frank's helmet, Frank is compulsed to capture Trevor. Oliver and Trevor make a run for it. In the turmoil Runick recovers from his paralysis and runs to Trevor and Oliver's aid. Runick bursts into flames and begins running through the palace setting everything on fire. Takeo chases him and takes a few swings at Runick with his sword but misses each time. Even when Takeo is sure to deliver a death blow to his friend his hand jerks at the last second.

Runick finds the throne room. When he sees the shogun he rushes him with Takeo close behind. Then just a few feet before his intended target he stops, and does Takeo. Runick's has fallen to the compulsion and his flame is extinguished. In the chaos of the burning palace Frank is free from his compulsion and decides to psychically track Takeo and Runick. Oliver, Trevor and Frank running through the burning hallways following the "scent" upstairs.

Arriving upstairs just in time to see Takeo, Runick and the Shogun pass through a stargate. The floor begins collapsing and Frank begins to air walk out of the window and down to the ground. Oliver pulls out his wing board and flies out of the window hovering around. Trevor runs to the stargate and uses his abilities to read it, he only gets a destination, the 1st Ring. Trevor makes a mad dash for the window and dives.

As Trevor comes flying out of the window the roof caves in and the shogun's palace comes crashing down. Trevor hurls toward the ground.

Just in time Oliver swoops down and catches Trevor by the wrist, saving him from going splat on the ground.

Episode 23 "Help from... Friends?'

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May 6 102 P.A.

Oliver receives a magic pigeon response from Izen telling hive to meet tomorrow in the bar at the Techno Wizard exclusive hotel. Meanwhile, back on the mainland in the village Runick sits making leather armors from the demon hides.

The party, on Shikoku Island, is awakened by a knock at the door of the hotel room. After deliberating for a minute, Frank decides to open the door. A maid is standing on the other side, upset for being woken up Frank shots "Go Away!" and slams the door in her face. About 2 minutes later there is knock at the door, Frank again gets up to open the door. This time he sees a box on the floor. Immediately Frank put a Telekinetic Force Field around the box and uses his Telekinesis to open the box.

Inside the box there appears to be a jar and a letter. They inspect the contents of the box up close. The letter is addressed to Takeo and reads, "My friend, I am so glad to see you have returned safe and unharmed. I hope you were successful in acquiring my item. I will meet you at the bar down the street from your hotel. Enclosed you will find a gift to help you on you travels. Your friend, Crowley." When Takeo takes the jar out of the box he sees a fairy that appears to be weak and near death inside of it. Immediately Takeo wants to free the fairy.

However, he is talked out of it by Oliver who understands TW items and explains that they may inadvertently kill the fairy. They agree to find someone that could free the fairy later. Frank asks to see the jar, when he grabs it he senses the magic energy emitted by it. He begins to feed off of the magic energy and fairy begins to shriek in agony. Takeo snatches the jar from Frank, and Frank halfheartedly apologizes. Takeo attempts to talk to the fairy but it seems they can't hear each other. Trevor uses his mirror of true seeing to see the party, and seeing a twinge of evil from Frank. The party decides to leave the hotel and go meet Izen.

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On the way out of the room they see the maid from earlier. Trevor pulls out the mirror of true seeing and uses it to look at the maid. As he gazes upon the true form of a Harpie Trevor shouts his new discovery to the rest of the party. Frank, Takeo, and Oliver sense magic and see it coming from a ring with a black pearl, on the maids hand. A battle ensues and the hotel hallway catches fire, and they manage to cave the floor in for 5 stories below. After killing the harpie Frank air walks across the divide and retrieves the ring. The party flee in the midst of the chaos.

Takeo asks to borrow the mirror of true seeing from Trevor and goes to meet Crowley at the bar. When he arrives he goes to the bar, has a seat and orders a drink. When he takes a sip and put his glass down, Crowley is sitting in the bar stool next to him. Takeo gives Crowley the Millennium Tree Leaf and tells him this makes him good on the deal they made, the compulsion leaves Takeo. Crowley asks if they managed to drop all of the magic barriers between hear and the Millennium Tree. Takeo tells him that they managed without doing so. Crowley looks disappointed, then says, "Well you've made good on your end of the deal."

Takeo reaches for the mirror of true seeing in his pocket and secretively attempts to use it while hiding it along side his leg. He averts his eye toward the mirror, and sees only an empty bar stool. When he looks back at Crowley, he sees only an empty bar stool. Crowley has vanished.

After Takeo's meeting with the mysterious Crowley, they go to the Continental Hotel. Izen is awaiting Oliver and they all get in the vehicle and drive back to the dock to board a ship back to the mainland. On the way back Kreesh decides to swim along the ship. They all return to the village in the 5th ring, and find Runick has made several leather armors and cloaks from the demon hide, giving it a resistance to fire. Trevor, Oliver and Kreesh work together to fix the Frank's crashed hover vehicle. When it is done they travel back to the top of the mountain to the passage through the 3rd ring barrier. The passage through the magic barrier is to small for the hover APC to fit. Everyone disembarks and changes into the robes that they bought. Then they head through the barrier and toward the town in which the had fled with the help of the samurai.

As they approach the city Oliver, Takeo, and Trevor encounter some lawmen. Takeo instigates a battle and the lawmen are killed. Takeo feels a void in his connection to his new swords begin to form, as if they disagree with what he did. After the battle the rest of the party comes out of hiding, and Kreesh and Frank go into the city to find the samurai. They manage to set up a meeting with Virgil the lead samurai. The party meets and the samurai tell them they managed to save the wagon the party had left behind. The wagon and equipment stored in the hidden compartment are returned to the party. They get information as to where the Shogun's Palace for this ring is and they set off for it.

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As the party travels along a leyline. As they come upon the Shogun's Palace they see a platoon of demons marching into a large rift leading to the Astral Plane. After a short while the majority of the demon troops disappeared into the misty realm and rift closes. The party looks upon the sight in horror.

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.