Ok folks, I'm writing this while Chapter 7's in progress. Lately I've grown concerned with how many people read this prelude and then don't go on. This and the chapter after this are both short quips, which I don't feel entirely good about myself, and I am slowly revising them. You're not supposed to feel introduced to any character by the time you've gotten to episode 3, save perhaps one. I recommend you read at least past chapter 3 (should take maybe 15 minutes to read all that, chapters start getting longer and better at chapter 4) before you make a judgement and stop reading. This thing really, really picks up there, and continiues to do so.

This is not the story of our stupid antics in the game. That wouldn't be good reading. This is far beyond FFXI's silly limited playstructure.

Hope you enjoy it.

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Prelude

It was a highly improbable event, although when you think about it, it was bound to happen sometime. It went something like this. Wriith, an Elvaan monk, was going to Windurst Woods to meet his Mithra girlfriend Vernice, who had received an unsigned letter from someone who she figured was Wriith saying to meet there. However it was in fact Rampart who sent this letter, who had a rather large secret attraction to Vernice. Vernice sent a letter back, simply saying that she would meet him at the arranged location, and that he should prevent his Taru black mage friend, Poiso, from following him there. Of course that was not about to happen, or not happen as may be the case. Following Poiso around for no apparent reason without knowing where he was actually going was Hellhound, along with his new friend Krie, who happened to be Vernice's ex-boyfriend and object of extreme contempt for Poiso and Wriith, as well as Vernice, of course. Krie also happened not to know Hellhound was following Poiso, lending more chaos to this situation. Hellhound was not good enough to tell Krie much of anything. And following these two for the sole purpose of recruiting them into her guild was Angelinx, who was Rampart's ex-girlfriend. Read that again, if you must, it makes sense eventually.

Indeed, a staggering coincidence that all these directly related people would accidentally be headed to the same spot. But this is the way things go. Especially for this bunch.