Chapter 3-Fighting ensues.
Kenneth had them now. He could pick them off from a distance. They were in a Jagd, nothing could save them. Unless someone Ihappened/I to stop him. But that wouldn't happen. Famous last words, as one of the people there, the one which looked like a Blue Mage, suddenly looked up and started gesturing wildly in his direction. 'God dammit, kupo, can't I get a break?' he thought to himself, as the rest prepared for battle.
What he said out loud was, "Back up, kupo, back up!"
As he shouted it, Agatha and Foobar came running up, with a Gadgeteer, a Nu Mou Time Mage, and a Summoner. Kenneth grinned. Somehow, he saw them leaving alive. - - Meanwhile, Marche was walking down the same area with his clan, arguing with Montblanc.
"'Let's go through Jagd Dorsa', you said. 'It's sooooooooooo much quicker', you said. Now we're lost!"
"Well, actually Kupo, it was your idea to go through the Jagd." Montblanc replied.
".shut up."
"Do you hear that?" Montblanc said. He was referring to the shout of "Back up!" he'd just heard.
"Yeah.let's go check it out!"
As Marche walked ahead, Montblanc thought, 'Ah.kupo!' - - Thenardi was first to see them all run down the hill. The Gadgeteer looked quite weak though, maybe a break in defence.
Madeline had already casted Protect and Shell on all of the party, so damage would be minimalized. Thenardi looked at who he thought was the leader, the Viera in the dress. She would probably be a hard nut to crack. But not as hard as the Summoner.
He was proved right, as the Summoner was already invoking some demon to smite them. Largo had noticed as well and, backed by Eldana, were charging to meet her. As they charged up towards her, the Summoner's spell finished, and the demon appeared. It summoned a fireball out of nowhere and threw it at Largo, Eldana and, much to Thenardi's amusement, the Summoner too. Largo and Eldana managed to get away in time, but she wasn't quick enough, and got crushed under a ton of hot magma.
Meanwhile, Quin and Schneider were going after the Gunner who started this off. The Gunner was getting panicky, as his shots were getting more and more off, hitting one of his own members, the Time Mage in the process. Luckily for him, it only scraped his shoulder, and he could still fight. When they were about to get close to him, the Gunner suddenly smiled. The gun suddenly crackled with mystical energy, and fired out with one huge burst at the pair. Quin jumped away, but Schneider wasn't so lucky and got blasted 30 metres away. Madeline ran to heal him.
All of a sudden, Thenardi felt time speed up for him. He looked at the Gadgeteer, who had realized his mistake, and was now fruitlessly hitting his Pandora Box with a spanner. Thenardi made a break for him, but there was suddenly an explosion that blinded him temporarily. When he could see again, he saw Quin standing triumphant over what was left of the Gunner.
That just left the Viera in the dress, the Time Mage and the Gadgeteer.no, wait, there was someone else. Heading straight for him. - - Quin was grinning with triumph. Giga Flare worked. Now for the Gadgeteer. The Gadgeteer however had finished hitting the Box with a spanner, and was taking out a cog, and throwing it in the air. As soon as that happened, Quin felt his sight being taken away. 'Oh dear, I wasn't expecting that,' he said. But before he tried to go after the moogle who did this, he needed to help Schneider up. Madeline had finished healing him, and he jumped up, and without a word, headed towards the Gadgeteer. He didn't see it, but he heard the sound of spells being cast and the moogle falling. When he fell, Quin found his sight back, and headed for the Viera. - - - Agatha couldn't believe it. It should have been alright. But now Kenneth was dead, the Gadgeteer was dead, the Summoner had commited suicide. It wasn't going very well.
But she saw Foobar head towards the Black Mage, and the Time Mage, realizing his fate, casting Quicken on himself to make himself move faster. As Agatha puzzled over this, the White Mage suddenly appeared behind him and thwacked him round the head, making him slump to the floor, in a daze. 'Ouch,' she thought.
But she couldn't help laughing as Foobar, after working his Alchemy Mojo, had produced a straw hat with a frog inside it. She laughed so hard that she didn't notice the Red Mage behind her. But she suddenly felt very tired.
"Just gonna.rest my eyes.for a sec.on.zzzzzzzzz." - - - When Marche finally got there, he found that it was over already. There was much in the way of remains, but very little in the way of items. The people must have been targeted by bandits....oh Jesus.
He was looking at an eviscerated body of a Gunner. It had burn marks all over.
"Eep," he whispered, before telling the rest of Clan Nutsy to move on. - - - When Agatha woke up, the first thing she thought was, 'Where's Foobar?' Then she looked around to see him next to her, tied to a.chair? Then she realized she was in a not too dissimilar predicament. "Ah crap," she said out loud, before looking at her surroundings. She was in Muscadet, in the top floor of the pub. There were two people in the room apart from her. One was Foobar, still asleep. The other was the Black Mage formally known as Frog. He was reading. When he saw her awake, he sat up and put the book down.
"Ok, why did you attack us?" the man asked.
Agatha answered, "Clan Wars, y'know. Why are you capturing me in a Clan Battle?"
The Black Mage answered, "Because, Clan Wars don't happen in Jagd Dorsa. It's kill or be killed. And we were very nearly the latter."
"Bah, spoil our fun," she spat at him. She wasn't sure about him however. She'd heard about a Black and White Mage combo that hired themselves out as mercenaries. If he and the White Mage the above mercenaries, she could probably hire them. But they were under employment from the palace. 'Hmm.' she thought. 'The truth can be a dangerous weapon, and I don't think they know it yet.'
"Ok, let me tell you about the wonderful monarchy," she said, with a serious look about her. "The Queen is placing stricter and stricter laws because her brat of a son wants her to. And it helps that his father is the Judgemaster. He has a personal mage, Babus, who we don't know much about, but he's extremely powerful. And then there's.him."
"Him?" he asked. Agatha was glad to see some sort of interest.
"Him, the iother/i guardian. He has a special law from the Monarchy. It's called a Fortune law, which means no damage can come to him. He is the other, less well known guardian. His name is Llednar Twem."
"How do you know about him?"
"One time, Foobar, Kenneth the Gunner, myself and a load of others stormed the palace. He walked out to greet us, happy as you like, and started killing us. Only we survived. And now Kenneth's dead, thanks to your Sage. Oh dear.
"Now you have a choice. You can continue working for the Palace, or you can rise against it, and bring down the prince once and for all! What will you do?"
Kenneth had them now. He could pick them off from a distance. They were in a Jagd, nothing could save them. Unless someone Ihappened/I to stop him. But that wouldn't happen. Famous last words, as one of the people there, the one which looked like a Blue Mage, suddenly looked up and started gesturing wildly in his direction. 'God dammit, kupo, can't I get a break?' he thought to himself, as the rest prepared for battle.
What he said out loud was, "Back up, kupo, back up!"
As he shouted it, Agatha and Foobar came running up, with a Gadgeteer, a Nu Mou Time Mage, and a Summoner. Kenneth grinned. Somehow, he saw them leaving alive. - - Meanwhile, Marche was walking down the same area with his clan, arguing with Montblanc.
"'Let's go through Jagd Dorsa', you said. 'It's sooooooooooo much quicker', you said. Now we're lost!"
"Well, actually Kupo, it was your idea to go through the Jagd." Montblanc replied.
".shut up."
"Do you hear that?" Montblanc said. He was referring to the shout of "Back up!" he'd just heard.
"Yeah.let's go check it out!"
As Marche walked ahead, Montblanc thought, 'Ah.kupo!' - - Thenardi was first to see them all run down the hill. The Gadgeteer looked quite weak though, maybe a break in defence.
Madeline had already casted Protect and Shell on all of the party, so damage would be minimalized. Thenardi looked at who he thought was the leader, the Viera in the dress. She would probably be a hard nut to crack. But not as hard as the Summoner.
He was proved right, as the Summoner was already invoking some demon to smite them. Largo had noticed as well and, backed by Eldana, were charging to meet her. As they charged up towards her, the Summoner's spell finished, and the demon appeared. It summoned a fireball out of nowhere and threw it at Largo, Eldana and, much to Thenardi's amusement, the Summoner too. Largo and Eldana managed to get away in time, but she wasn't quick enough, and got crushed under a ton of hot magma.
Meanwhile, Quin and Schneider were going after the Gunner who started this off. The Gunner was getting panicky, as his shots were getting more and more off, hitting one of his own members, the Time Mage in the process. Luckily for him, it only scraped his shoulder, and he could still fight. When they were about to get close to him, the Gunner suddenly smiled. The gun suddenly crackled with mystical energy, and fired out with one huge burst at the pair. Quin jumped away, but Schneider wasn't so lucky and got blasted 30 metres away. Madeline ran to heal him.
All of a sudden, Thenardi felt time speed up for him. He looked at the Gadgeteer, who had realized his mistake, and was now fruitlessly hitting his Pandora Box with a spanner. Thenardi made a break for him, but there was suddenly an explosion that blinded him temporarily. When he could see again, he saw Quin standing triumphant over what was left of the Gunner.
That just left the Viera in the dress, the Time Mage and the Gadgeteer.no, wait, there was someone else. Heading straight for him. - - Quin was grinning with triumph. Giga Flare worked. Now for the Gadgeteer. The Gadgeteer however had finished hitting the Box with a spanner, and was taking out a cog, and throwing it in the air. As soon as that happened, Quin felt his sight being taken away. 'Oh dear, I wasn't expecting that,' he said. But before he tried to go after the moogle who did this, he needed to help Schneider up. Madeline had finished healing him, and he jumped up, and without a word, headed towards the Gadgeteer. He didn't see it, but he heard the sound of spells being cast and the moogle falling. When he fell, Quin found his sight back, and headed for the Viera. - - - Agatha couldn't believe it. It should have been alright. But now Kenneth was dead, the Gadgeteer was dead, the Summoner had commited suicide. It wasn't going very well.
But she saw Foobar head towards the Black Mage, and the Time Mage, realizing his fate, casting Quicken on himself to make himself move faster. As Agatha puzzled over this, the White Mage suddenly appeared behind him and thwacked him round the head, making him slump to the floor, in a daze. 'Ouch,' she thought.
But she couldn't help laughing as Foobar, after working his Alchemy Mojo, had produced a straw hat with a frog inside it. She laughed so hard that she didn't notice the Red Mage behind her. But she suddenly felt very tired.
"Just gonna.rest my eyes.for a sec.on.zzzzzzzzz." - - - When Marche finally got there, he found that it was over already. There was much in the way of remains, but very little in the way of items. The people must have been targeted by bandits....oh Jesus.
He was looking at an eviscerated body of a Gunner. It had burn marks all over.
"Eep," he whispered, before telling the rest of Clan Nutsy to move on. - - - When Agatha woke up, the first thing she thought was, 'Where's Foobar?' Then she looked around to see him next to her, tied to a.chair? Then she realized she was in a not too dissimilar predicament. "Ah crap," she said out loud, before looking at her surroundings. She was in Muscadet, in the top floor of the pub. There were two people in the room apart from her. One was Foobar, still asleep. The other was the Black Mage formally known as Frog. He was reading. When he saw her awake, he sat up and put the book down.
"Ok, why did you attack us?" the man asked.
Agatha answered, "Clan Wars, y'know. Why are you capturing me in a Clan Battle?"
The Black Mage answered, "Because, Clan Wars don't happen in Jagd Dorsa. It's kill or be killed. And we were very nearly the latter."
"Bah, spoil our fun," she spat at him. She wasn't sure about him however. She'd heard about a Black and White Mage combo that hired themselves out as mercenaries. If he and the White Mage the above mercenaries, she could probably hire them. But they were under employment from the palace. 'Hmm.' she thought. 'The truth can be a dangerous weapon, and I don't think they know it yet.'
"Ok, let me tell you about the wonderful monarchy," she said, with a serious look about her. "The Queen is placing stricter and stricter laws because her brat of a son wants her to. And it helps that his father is the Judgemaster. He has a personal mage, Babus, who we don't know much about, but he's extremely powerful. And then there's.him."
"Him?" he asked. Agatha was glad to see some sort of interest.
"Him, the iother/i guardian. He has a special law from the Monarchy. It's called a Fortune law, which means no damage can come to him. He is the other, less well known guardian. His name is Llednar Twem."
"How do you know about him?"
"One time, Foobar, Kenneth the Gunner, myself and a load of others stormed the palace. He walked out to greet us, happy as you like, and started killing us. Only we survived. And now Kenneth's dead, thanks to your Sage. Oh dear.
"Now you have a choice. You can continue working for the Palace, or you can rise against it, and bring down the prince once and for all! What will you do?"
