April 6, 2116
Sure enough, Chrom came over after the bloody battle to the knock-out to get me out of prison. Thankfully, they had already talked to Farina, so I avoided another confrontation with her. Man, she is really sensitive! I'm well aware that I can be a bit hard to deal with at times, but you don't get thrown in the dungeon for forgetting someone's name and overestimating their age. Anyway, Coco filled me in on the details: it turns out he ended up fighting "Marth," who had a copy of his sword. I didn't know what to make of that fact until he told me that she had been tought her fighting skills "by her father." With these new findings, I was able to formulate a theory on Marth's origins.
You ready?
Marth is Chrom's daughter from the future.
She has his sword, and her suspiciously similar fighting style was learned from her dear old dad. When Lisa first met her, she had fallen out of a giant portal in the sky and given a cryptic warning about "the further ahead of us." Plus, she has the same blue hair. While I'd usually dismiss time travel as a hackneyed plot device, that's what I (assumably) did before, and look where it got me.
Of course, I didn't have time to dwell on things like that, I had important matters to attend to: creating a tactical strategy game. Now, I wanted to make it as realistic as possible, so that I could use it to practice strategizing in the downtime. I thought up eight different stats to effect combat (health, strength, magic, skill, speed, defense, and resistance), as well as various different classes to include. Some of the ones I thought about Cavaliers (balanced lance/sword wielders on horseback), Fighters (axe users with lots of health and strength, but not much else), Mages (physically frail magicians), and Clerics (healers who can't fight back). I was going to ask some of the shepherds-Kellam and Maribelle, especially-but I couldn't find either of them. Oh, well.
I decided to write this entry early, so I could spend the rest of the day working on my game. After all, it was shaping up to be a pretty lazy day. I mean, what else could happen?
~James Blahblahblah
Author's Note: Chapter 4 is what else could happen.