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Post by Just14 on Jul 24, 2017 23:12:06 GMT -5
(Because I didn't get a chance to, here are images of the caravan.)
Daniel
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Seiberg
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Ell Hope (On Right)
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Ra Lena (On Left)
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The Wild Crows are accepted as temporary members of the caravan, walking along with them or floating in Flurrie's case. The caravan moves along until coming close to the forest of mushrooms. As they approach, Seiberg turns to your party. "This forest is very dangerous. There are many monsters in here. Do not worry though. We are well equipped for combat. If you are incapable of fighting, you may wait in the wagon. We must travel through this forest to reach Alfitaria, however. That and we can collect a drop of Myrrh for the crystal back at home."
Daniel starts jumping around excitedly with his sword and shield in hand. "Yes! I'm so excited! Our first dungeon!"
"Somebody get him under control. If he wakes up those worm things, I might kill him myself." The girl from before comes walking along past you two carrying a strange chalice. And by carrying, I mean she's bouncing it on her head.
"You will have to forgive Ell Hope. She is not very trusting of people since we let that band of thieves into our caravan. They stole most of our things..."
"Seiberg, hurry up! We've got to get that Myrrh." Seiberg continues onward, taking the lead with the other two. It looks like up ahead there are a bunch of sleeping insects.
Will you fight or stay behind?
What will you do?
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Post by Just14 on Jul 24, 2017 23:12:21 GMT -5
The party quietly moves along past the strange insects. Flurrie and Nogeko stay behind Daniel and Hope with Seiberg. They make it through without waking them up luckily, but what looks to be a group of mischievous imps waits ahead. They're all dancing together, but as the caravan approaches, the imps take out pitchforks and look like they're going to attack. Hope places the chalice down and takes out a lance while Daniel holds his weapon ready. Seiberg reaches for a staff on his back as well. Fletcher flaps his wings a little and jumps on top of Flurrie's shoulder, telling her he's ready to take down the bad guys. Nogeko is wearing his battle armor. Also known as the dinosaur suit he stole from that nerd.
What will you do?
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Post by Just14 on Jul 24, 2017 23:12:30 GMT -5
Flurrie creates a fog that only her allies can see through, blinding the imps while Daniel and Hope hack their way through their enemies. Nogeko holds up porn and shows it to one of the imps before sucker punching him and running away. Fletcher flies around, quickly pecking the imps as well. As the fog clears, the last imp is defeated in a sudden blast of fire. The party moves onward and comes to a point where the path splits. There's a bouncy mushroom nearby that will lead up to a treasure chest and another path leading forwards even further. "We can't get the entire caravan up to that chest. Someone will have to run in without the chalice and get back before they suffocate in Miasma."
"Be careful of traps as well."
What will you do?
(Fun Fact: Traps were a leading cause of death in the original Gates Trilogy. Fighting Wonder Woman was just below that.)
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Post by Just14 on Jul 24, 2017 23:12:41 GMT -5
"Let's not risk it, okay sweetie? Better safe than dead~"
Hope seems to approve. "Hm. Good plan. Let's not go jumping into danger."
"Aww..." Daniel seems kinda sad, but perks back up and runs ahead to the front, looking around. Seiberg carries the chalice next to Flurrie and Nogeko.
"I'm surprised things are going this well. It is our first dungeon after all. We are a new caravan from Tipa."
"Hey guys! I found some treasure! Look at it! It's just sitting here!" There are two treasure chests sitting right in the middle of the path.
"Hmm..."
What will you do?
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Post by Just14 on Jul 24, 2017 23:12:48 GMT -5
Nogeko walks up to the left chest, picking it up and throwing it into the right chest. As it smashes into the right chest, the wooden chest blasts open from the right chest chomping on it. A cool looking bow falls on the ground. The right chest is revealed to be a Mimic and it charges toward Nogeko. Luckily, it explodes in a burst of flames from Seiberg's spell. Nogeko is disappointed that there is no porn, but picks up the cool looking bow anyways. The group advances a little further, but strange dust starts to float down from above, sparkling. A giant moth flies above...
What will you do?
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Post by Just14 on Jul 24, 2017 23:12:57 GMT -5
Nogeko takes out the cool bow and shoots it at the moth, not really knowing how to use it all that well. He falls over while shooting it, but he notices three arrows fly out of the bow instead of one. At least one of them hits the moth and Fletcher flies up to the moth, pecking at it. The party is suddenly unable to move, however. The strange, sparkling dust coming from the moth has paralyzed them all! The giant moth descends, screeching at the party. While this happens, someone comes walking from out of the wagon, yawning. "What are you guys doing...? I was trying to sleep..." She's got blue hair and holds a bow.
"Sleep!? You were supposed to be watching the back of the wagon!" Hope is pretty mad.
"But it got so boring I got tired."
Seiberg attempts to bring attention back to the real problem. "Now's not the time. La Rena was out of range of the paralyzing dust. She can help us out of this."
"We're all gonna die."
What will you do?
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Post by Just14 on Jul 24, 2017 23:13:08 GMT -5
"Sugar, would you mind getting some of this off of me?" La Rena walks up to Flurrie and kicks her back, knocking the dust off. Flurries then takes her chance to blow all of the strange dust away and everyone lets loose their attacks. Rena and Nogeko put holes in the moth's wings and it falls to the ground, screeching. Hope and Daniel cut what's left of the wings off and the moth squirms around on the ground angrily. Seiberg sets it ablaze with fire and it burns to death among the flames.
Before the group moves on, Nogeko yells out. "Wait! I think I have more dust on me. You'll have to kick me too, Rena." He giggles to himself,
"I'll handle this." Hope cracks her knuckles and then kicks Nogeko powerfully into a giant mushroom.
"GAAAAAAHHHHH!"
"Now that that is over...RENA! You were supposed to be watching our rear."
"But it's so boringggg..."
"But it keeps us from getting attacked by monsters. What if they stole our stuff?"
Daniel leans in. "Uh, hey, are those Goblins supposed to be running off with our food supplies?"
"WHAT!?" Looking behind the wagon you can see Goblins running off carrying crates of food.
Seiberg weighs the decision of what to do next. "Well, if we give chase, we risk running into more monsters, but if we continue forwards we will have to spend most of what Gil we have left on new supplies..."
What will you do?
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Post by Just14 on Jul 24, 2017 23:14:02 GMT -5
Everyone gives chase to the Goblins, running after them. They're eventually cornered to a dead end and surrounded by mushrooms. As the Goblins look around for a way out, something is heard screeching from above. A strange looking, flying monster with a giant eye flies above. It must have been attracted to the food. Looks like you'll have to take it and the Goblins down.
What will you do?
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Post by Just14 on Jul 24, 2017 23:14:10 GMT -5
Fletcher wastes no time in blinding the Fly Eye with sand while John and Scruff keep it busy with growls and leers. Flurrie unleashes Dodgey Fog to keep the enemies blind while Hope and Danny keep the Goblins busy, knocking most of them out of the way. Seiberg provides magic support with different fire, thunder, and blizzard spells. La Rena attempts to show Nogeko how to shoot his bow, firing an arrow into the Fly Eye. He takes not of her boob size and pretends he was paying attention. He's still not that great at using the bow, but luckily the magic enchantment on the bow lets it shoot three times with a single arrow, so he still hits the Fly Eye. La Rena takes out another arrow and shoots the Fly Eye directly in the pupil. "Whoops. I think I killed it." The eye drops from the sky and all the Goblins have been slain as well. "There you go. I got the food back."
"You were the one that got the food lost!"
Nogeko walks over to the Fly Eye and pokes around it before taking a treasure chest out of its mouth and dancing around happily. Flurrie heads over and opens it up, finding a Golden Needle. That should be useful if you run into a Petrification enemy. The group returns to the main path and walks along. They approach carefully. Along the road, they see a tiny, green creature. It's pretty ugly. "Stand back!" Seiberg pushes the group back as the creature sucks the life out of multiple mushrooms around it, turning gigantic in size. "That's a Malboro! Its vines and breath are dangerous." The Malboro starts to take in a deep breath and plants it's vines into the ground.
What will you do?
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Post by Just14 on Jul 24, 2017 23:14:41 GMT -5
Fletcher immediately charges into battle, pecking at Malboro's face while Flurrie keeps herself busy with blowing away the bad breath. Vines start to come up out of the ground as the party manages to jump and dive through them, dodging the attacks. John is sent out and he grabs one of the vines, using his Strength to tear it right up out of the ground and throw it at the Malboro. Daniel and Hope work together to fight off the vines incoming toward Flurrie so she can keep up her blowing. Meanwhile, Nogeko and La Rena get to high ground, standing atop the mushrooms. They unleash a rain of arrows on the Malboro with Rena having more effective shots compared to Nogeko's admittedly. It's still possible to see some improvement, however. Seiberg sets the Malboro ablaze with his Fire spell and Fletcher goes flying right into the flames while pecking at the Malboro. But he doesn't look injured by the flames. In fact, Fletcher starts to glow brightly! He evolves from a Fletchling into a Fletchinder! Fletcher starts to breathe fire at the Malboro as well and it lets out a roar while falling over. As a nasty haze of purple has floats out of it, the Malboro is replaced by a beautiful, blue tree. It glows with a fascinating light and a small pedestal stands in front of it. Seiberg approaches, holding the crystal chalice before placing it down on the pedestal. As smaller lights gather around the tree and swirl around it, a tiny drop of a shining, blue liquid forms on the tree's leaves. It then falls and lands on the chalice. You notice the once empty chalice fills slightly with a floating bubble of water. It's about one third of the way full. "Beautiful, isn't it?"
"So this is what the Myrrh looks like." Daniel looks at it, fascinated.
"Here's your mail, kupo!" A little Moogle comes running in carrying four letters in its mouth. It hands each of them to the party members of the caravan. They read their letters and some are happy while others are sadder. But they all write back a reply and some include gifts. "Thank you, kupo!" The little Moogle runs off with the new letters.
"What were those all about, sugar?" Flurrie asks Daniel about the letters.
"Oh, those were letters from our families back home. They send them from time to time using the Moogle Mail."
"Was there any porn?" Nogeko tries to reach for Hope's letter, but she smacks him.
"No, it was simply my family telling me the weaponry is still in perfectly fine, working order. Lilties take pride in their blacksmithing craftsmanship."
"But who cares if it's not porn?" Before Hope can kill Nogeko, Seiberg points out to the group the way forward is no longer blocked.
"Look over there. You can see Alfitaria from here in the distance. We are this close. Then we can stock up on better supplies."
"Oh, I hope we can get a good nap in. Fighting Malboros is exhausting. They smell bad too..." La Rena follows from behind again.
The caravan reaches Alfitaria and your party looks around the huge city. It's mostly filled with Lilties, but you spot a few Clavats in this town as well. Seiberg heads over to a nearby magic shop while Hope goes to the closest blacksmith. La Rena wanders over toward the item shop and tries to decide what food to get for the journey ahead. Daniel sticks around your party for a bit. "So now that we made it to Alfitaria, what are you guys gonna do? It was cool traveling together and all, but you guys probably have your own stuff to get back to, right?"
What will you say?
What will you do?
Points and people of interest
Blacksmith
Tailor
Magic shop
Grocery store
Castle
Daniel
Seiberg
Ell Hope
La Rena
(Remember those are just things I felt like putting down. You can explore the city to any depth you want. There's also not really a limit to how long you spend exploring. Just remember some NPCs will not wait around.)
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Post by Just14 on Jul 24, 2017 23:14:54 GMT -5
"Well we can't just wait around here without a chalice, honey. We need to get back to helping fill those chalices and fighting those monsters. If you don't mind, we would like to come along and help you with your journey." Flurrie gives a wink to Daniel.
"YEAH! I love it when we get new people to help out! Just not when they steal all our stuff like those thieves did. Those guys were hardcore..."
"So, sugar, what would you like to do while we're here? We've got a lot of time before the others finish shopping~"
"Oh, I was gonna go relax a little and take a break. The others are doing all the chores, so there's not much I have to do. I guess I could feed and wash the Papaopomus we have." Daniel and Flurrie head over to the wagon the caravan uses and make sure to help feed the Papaopamus and wash it. They sort of bond a little from it. Not a lot, but at least they can say they've spent time together.
Meanwhile, Nogeko walks over to La Rena and sees her looking over the different foods to buy. "Those apples don't look really fresh..."
"Hey! You're the girl with the easy to see cleavage! Let me help you pick out the food. Watch this. I'm a master at choosing good food." Nogeko hops up and starts to look through the different foods before his eyes settle on one he approves of. "Yep, definitely this." He pulls out a ham and shows it to La Rena. "This is the closest thing I could find to Prosciutto here. It is the best food ever. It's all you need. Forget water or anything else. Just eat this and you'll be good."
"Alright, you think so? I guess I'll buy a bunch of them then..." La Rena buys a bunch of ham for their food supplies while Nogeko attempts to look up her skirt. As she places the ham away, she loses sight of Nogeko and walks along, accidentally stepping on him.
The group gets back together afterwards and goes over everything they bought. Seiberg takes out some different magic scrolls. "Here, these contain some basic level spells. One for Fire, Blizzard, and Thunder. I suggest some of you pick up on a little magic. It may be useful to know some."
Hope hands a better shield to Daniel. This one is larger than his other shield, which should defend better, but may make him slower and make it more difficult to move. "Here. This should help you with your defensive abilities. This shield is very sturdy."
La Rena places a bunch of ham down so everyone can see it.
Everyone just stares at her for a long moment before Hope starts yelling at her. "RENA! This is all just ham! How are we supposed to survive off of JUST ham!? We need other nutrients too!"
Seiberg places a hand on Hope and tries to make her relax. "Calm down. At least we still have the food from before. There's still enough left until we need to stop again."
With all of the new things sorted out, Daniel speaks up. "Hey, guys, Flurrie and Nogeko want to stick around with us for a little longer. Can they please? We could use the help, right?"
Seiberg contemplates the situation a moment before responding. "Well, they have proven to be useful allies in battle already. They do not seem to have any ulterior motives in helping us. As fellow caravaneers, we should be able to work together."
La Rena shrugs. "If they take my boring job of watching the back, I'm okay."
"...Fine." Hope folds her arms. "But I don't want any trouble from any of you. Got that?" She points to Nogeko.
"I dunno what you're talking about. I'm an angel."
"..." She just glares at him.
"Yay! It looks like we'll be all traveling together!" Daniel seems excited.
"Yes, but first things first. Which direction will we be headed in. I've already taken the time to check the map and find a route toward Shella. It seems that there are two different dungeons we could stop by along the way with the fork in the road, but both ways lead to Shella. One way has a mysterious mansion and the other leads to what used to be a small village. It was destroyed and overtaken by Miasma, however."
How will you distribute the magic scrolls?
Which path will you take?
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Post by Just14 on Jul 24, 2017 23:15:06 GMT -5
(I RNGd the Blizzard scroll between Flurrie and La Rena and the goddess demands that La Rena uses Blizzard.)
Hope studies the Fire Scroll, learning the secrets of fire magic and gaining access to the spell Fire! Daniel does the same with the Thunder Scroll, learning Thunder and La Rena learns Blizzard. The party then gets ready to set out in the direction of that strange mansion.
Upon reaching the mansion, the party enters the front garden. Beautiful flowers grow in the garden and a large arch stands close to the entrance of the mansion with a closed gate. A mysterious mechanism sits next to it. There's a moon shaped hole in it. Two intimidating gargoyles are placed on top of both sides of the closed gate. There's a fountain nearby in the garden. There's also an eerie feeling of being watched. "Be careful, there may be enemies in hiding."
"It looks like a key goes into that weird thing." Daniel points to the mechanism.
"Search around for a moon shaped object to place inside." Hope starts to walk toward the fountain.
"Why don't we just take a nap...?" La Rena yawns.
"We could always climb up the fence and take pictures of them changing in their bedrooms." Nogeko points out the vines growing on the side of the building near the gate up to the window.
What will you do?
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Post by Just14 on Jul 24, 2017 23:15:16 GMT -5
Nogeko takes out his Eye Gem and hands it over to Hope. The light in it seems to be gone. "Here, put this in the fountain. This definitely isn't an attempt at getting some quality tentacle porn." Nogeko gets the camera and waits to watch Hope. She sighs, annoyed with Nogeko.
Hope walks over to the fountain and throws in the Eye Gem. There's a splashing sound and then it is completely quiet. The silence is somewhat uneasy. Then from the fountain, the strange eye gem starts to float back up out. It suddenly flashes and the color comes back to its gem as it flies out of the water, splashing water all over the place and covering Hope in a spray of water which the group cannot see through.
When the water clears, it is revealed that the strange Eye Gem is staring Hope directly in the face, inspecting her. The light is not red this time, but rather green. The amorphous water takes the form of a vaguely humanoid shape. The Eye Gem carefully walks around Hope and stares at her some more. It looks over at your party as well, seemingly expressionless.
What will you do?
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Post by Just14 on Jul 24, 2017 23:15:27 GMT -5
La Rena takes out a fish and shows it to the Eye Gem. It moves closer to her slightly, staring at the fish without looking away. Then it suddenly shifts into a fish itself, taking the form of a floating fish made of water with the strange Eye Gem inside. It looks like this thing can change forms into whatever it sees. The Eye Gem returns to its somewhat humanoid form and walks around La Rena, inspecting her with its green, glowing eye.
Nogeko takes this time to climb on ahead up the vines on the side of the mansion and peek inside the window. Inside, he sees what looks to be a bedroom. A woman is having a conversation with some sort of chef, but it's difficult to see what exactly is going on...
What will you do?
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Post by Just14 on Jul 24, 2017 23:15:35 GMT -5
The strange creature watches as Flurrie approaches and greets it. She winks at it and it attempts to wink back with its one eye. Flurrie laughs a little at this and the creature's eye shifts colors from green to yellow.
Meanwhile, John and Scruff work together with Rock Smash, shattering apart the gargoyles. Not much seems to happen, but the gargoyles are destroyed. The feeling of being watched still presides, however.
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