Chapter 3: The Crystal Palace
Talis took in his surroundings. Clan AVALANCHE was up in a tree overlooking the palace, plotting their -- well, Catherine's - mission.
"If you need help, we'll come back you up, but try not to get caught breaking into the palace! We need to go to the Crystal Palace without being seen." Marche said. "As this clan's thief, that's where you come in."
"I'll do my best, Marche!" Catherine said with enthusiasm as she dropped out of the tree and crouched behind a bush. This area of the palace was a garden. "Queen Remedi must really like hedgerows" Catherine thought as she noticed the garden was like a maze of hedges. There were guards everywhere! Catherine took her place behind one guard, but so the one behind her couldn't see her. She followed the guard to the next area, and passed into another hedgerow room. It was there that she found her entrance point: a small water duct for the palace moat. She quickly removed the grate and slipped in quietly, crawling through the tunnel. The slime and stench was wetting her hands and knees as she crawled through the muck, but it was more important she get to the Crystal Palace in the Royal Court basement.
Soon, Catherine saw a light at the end of the water duct, and she came out of the tunnel and into the kitchen, where there was running water for the cooks to wash their hands, emptying out into a pool from a grate the size of the moat grate. She easily snuck past the cook and ducked into the shadows just in time, for a guard had just come out from the door next to her. She watched the guard go past and then stepped out, went through the door and down the stairs. Catherine realized she was getting closer to the stolen loot with every step she took down the cold, dark staircase.
Finally she reached the bottom, and as soon as she turned the corner of the hallway she saw a huge statue, and the air around it started warping! The warping area quickly grew bigger and engulfed the whole room, and when it cleared, she was in an ancient-looking palace with a big crystal in the back. "This is it!" she thought, as she saw the pile of stolen weapons and armor and gil lying on the ground in the Crystal Palace. She quickly loaded it all up into the sacks she had brought for that exact purpose, and soon enough she was starting out on the way back. but she didn't know how to get out of the ancient palace! She tried everything, the door was stuck, there were no windows, and just when she was about to give up, the air warped again, and she suddenly found herself back behind the bush she had crouched behind before the trek to the Crystal Palace.
"Hey! Catherine! It's us! Looks like you got the stuff back!" She could hear Marche's voice from somewhere above her, and then she remembered the clan's hiding place in the tree.
"I sure did, Marche! Lets head back to the base with is and regroup for our next mission!" Catherine yelled back, ecstatic that she had finished her first Dispatch mission
Talis took in his surroundings. Clan AVALANCHE was up in a tree overlooking the palace, plotting their -- well, Catherine's - mission.
"If you need help, we'll come back you up, but try not to get caught breaking into the palace! We need to go to the Crystal Palace without being seen." Marche said. "As this clan's thief, that's where you come in."
"I'll do my best, Marche!" Catherine said with enthusiasm as she dropped out of the tree and crouched behind a bush. This area of the palace was a garden. "Queen Remedi must really like hedgerows" Catherine thought as she noticed the garden was like a maze of hedges. There were guards everywhere! Catherine took her place behind one guard, but so the one behind her couldn't see her. She followed the guard to the next area, and passed into another hedgerow room. It was there that she found her entrance point: a small water duct for the palace moat. She quickly removed the grate and slipped in quietly, crawling through the tunnel. The slime and stench was wetting her hands and knees as she crawled through the muck, but it was more important she get to the Crystal Palace in the Royal Court basement.
Soon, Catherine saw a light at the end of the water duct, and she came out of the tunnel and into the kitchen, where there was running water for the cooks to wash their hands, emptying out into a pool from a grate the size of the moat grate. She easily snuck past the cook and ducked into the shadows just in time, for a guard had just come out from the door next to her. She watched the guard go past and then stepped out, went through the door and down the stairs. Catherine realized she was getting closer to the stolen loot with every step she took down the cold, dark staircase.
Finally she reached the bottom, and as soon as she turned the corner of the hallway she saw a huge statue, and the air around it started warping! The warping area quickly grew bigger and engulfed the whole room, and when it cleared, she was in an ancient-looking palace with a big crystal in the back. "This is it!" she thought, as she saw the pile of stolen weapons and armor and gil lying on the ground in the Crystal Palace. She quickly loaded it all up into the sacks she had brought for that exact purpose, and soon enough she was starting out on the way back. but she didn't know how to get out of the ancient palace! She tried everything, the door was stuck, there were no windows, and just when she was about to give up, the air warped again, and she suddenly found herself back behind the bush she had crouched behind before the trek to the Crystal Palace.
"Hey! Catherine! It's us! Looks like you got the stuff back!" She could hear Marche's voice from somewhere above her, and then she remembered the clan's hiding place in the tree.
"I sure did, Marche! Lets head back to the base with is and regroup for our next mission!" Catherine yelled back, ecstatic that she had finished her first Dispatch mission