May 23, 1800 Shailand
Episode 3: The Warlord's Location! Into the Shyu-Ryr Plains
Daniel was up heading for Shyu-Ryr to meet with Sergeant Ironsmith, they had a lot of work a head of them this time around. Sergeant Ironsmith saw Daniel coming up in the distance, now that he was here they could get to work right away. Approaching Ironsmith Daniel will have a lot of work cut out for him, however they need to take one step at a time now.
|There you are now we can get to work on the Shyu-Ryr Plains right away, I heard good things from the two higher ups in the other places Daniel. That's good to know that you've won over them with the work you did, yet its time for you to prove yourself to me out here in these parts. The villagers her are quite nice I heard form my lower ranks, yet they are having too many problems with the warlords men. I have a feeling that he'll show himself very soon to us, but be on your toes he can be a deadly adversary when you are fighting him. Even though we know about the warlord we don't know where he is, we need to find some clues to help us get started. Your going to have to do some fighting this tome around, yea I know that you get tired of doing this over and over. However this is the only way for us to find clues, first why don't you start by fighting some of those annoying Sing-Yieh Sword Dancer down the path. They looked quite shifty if you ask me I bet they have something that could help us. Once you do find something bring it to me at once marine, we need that to help us in this mission were doing. Yet you wont be able to that if your just standing there, you better get started fighting them.| Daniel left the area to find some Sing-Yieh Sword Dancers.
Walking down the path he felt really uneasy about something, sure enough his hunch was correct when a Sing-Yieh Sword Dancer jumped out at him quickly. Daniel luckily managed to dodge the attack before something bad happened, there were more of them so he was going to have his hands full for a while. After a good hour of fighting he finally found something useful, going back to Sergeant Ironsmith he might know something about this. Giving him the paper he examined it well from his standpoint, unfortunately for Daniel it seems that this clue couldn't ring a bell with him.
|I'm sorry Daniel I'm afraid that I don't know about this thing at all, it seems that its broken into two parts. They have secret coding that I don't know of, don't worry though I know something that could help us out. There is a person named Wan-Sing he knows a lot of things by spying on the warlords men, he might be able to help you with this paper you got me. Well he'll probably tell me everything that you did once your done, so its best for you to get going right now.| Daniel left to find this Wan-Sing person.
Walking down the path he saw a man standing quietly, it was Wan-Sing he was expecting a marine to come visit him near by. Seeing Daniel he knew that someone needed some help with something, so he offered some of his skills to help out.
|Oh Ironsmith sent you here about this paper you found let's see, I can tell why he want you to take it to me out here. Its in a secret code I can read some of it, its a two part code that leads to the warlord. You've got the first part to me quickly good job my friend, yet your not done with your mission just yet. The first part says that the warlord is hidden someone n the Siang-Tsai Forest, I know that place is packed with his men ready to fight. However we have to find the second part to see who he's writing to, and we might to fight some more people to do it. I got a good idea where we might find the second piece of the paper, down the path from my original spot I saw some of those feared Hai-Siang Spear Mongers doing harm to citizens. We can afford them hurting anyone in there path my friend, once you find something come back to me quickly as you can...I don't want them to get suspicious of us.| Daniel left the area to find some Hai-Siang Spear Mongers.
Going down the path he managed to find them breaking into peoples homes, so he sneaked slowly so he didn't get there attention. When he was at attack ranged he sneak attack them heavily with his brigade, for a moment they were caught off guard only for a moment for they did fight him. After a good thirty minutes he did find something but it wasn't the paper that they needed, it however was the name of the warlord addressing his henchmen his name was there as well. Going back to Wan-Sing he gave him the piece of paper to look at, it might not be the best clue but it was the most helpful of them.
|Yes! Finally we know who is the warlord that has bee controlling everything here, he goes by the name of Shyr-Tz-Tzuo. He was giving orders to his men so they could disrupt you marines away from Steel Jack, however he left out one fatal flaw in that plan Daniel buddy. That was telling his henchmen about his plans for the raid on the palace, now that we got it all we have to do is to defeat his henchmen Sher-Shou-Tzuo in his dojo. Be careful about that guy he is one hell of an archer, don't let your guard down with this guy he's quicker than he looks. Well its best for you to get going right now, don't worry I'll tell your friend about what you did while your gone.| Daniel went off to find the person know as Sher-Shou-Tzou.
Reaching his dojo he went inside to see him ready for battle, Daniel knew that this wasn't going to be easy one bit. Luckily he had his brigade with him in battle to even the odds, after a good fifty minutes he finally defeated him...well with a few scratches here and there. Going back to the spot where Wan-Sing was standing softly, yet he wasn't the only one there at the time the other person was Sergeant Ironsmith as well. Know that they knew here the warlord is hiding they'll be good to go, now its time for them to get ready for the battle in Siang-Tsai Forest.
|Well done, Daniel! With your snooping we were able to get the location of the warlord, this next place will need the aid of Wan-Sing to help us out. He knows that place very well from his standpoint, I will warn you now that he wont be anything to sneeze at one be my friend. He will be throwing everything at us to keep from catching him, something tells me that he has the emperors daughter. Once we get her to safety will be able to deal with Steel Jack, however we need to focus on the warlord first. You look like a real marine now since you got all those scratches, yes like I said every marine must get his bruises to tell he or she is a real warrior. Tomorrow we'll be heading into the place know as Siang-Tsai Forest, get up early so we can get to work there. You'll need your rest to do that so head off to the resting area, you've did well out here and deserve a good rest for tonight...dismiss!| Daniel saluted as he went off to get some sleep.
Patrick closed the book slowly as he too was getting tired, the showdown with Steel Jack was getting closer each second...yet we might have to wait to get more answers.