Rahihi’s Throne Room, Eight Years Ago

  Rahihi sits on his throne, shuffling through some reports from scouts in the field, below his throne is his son Uruo, who he summoned into the throne room

  Rahihi: Son, do you know what the scouts tell me?

  Uruo looks on indifferent to his father

  Uruo: What is it?

  Rahihi: Supposedly, you messed with one of our great hunts, why do such a thing?

  Uruo: You can’t keep treating the creatures of the valley this way, they aren’t just animals to be hunted for sport, they have lives they value just like we do. I saved the beast because you can’t just keep tormenting them.

  Rahihi: Uruo, boy, I can do whatever I want, I have the power, I inherited the King’s Scepter, that makes me king of the valley.

  Uruo: What you’re still doing is wrong

  Rahihi: What made you think you could ever talk back to me like that!!

  Uruo: Because your reign is one of terror, the people living here don’t like your rule!

  Rahihi: They’ll like it because I am in charge and that is the end of that!!

  Uruo: You don’t have to be so cruel to everyone!

  Rahihi: Boy, the only way to be respected is to be feared

  Rahihi looks down at his scepter before speaking again

  Rahihi: You are banished from my realm

  Uruo: What?

  Rahihi: You clearly have no respect for my authority, so you can starve in the wilderness

  Uruo: Have it your way, I shall oppose you every single living day

  Uruo leaves the throne room as Rahihi scowls coldly

  Century Corps Camp, Present Day

  Uruo told everyone about the incident before he went to bed that night. He feels like his collision with his father was inevitable, what Rahihi was doing was wrong, Uruo felt he had to stand up for everyone. He doesn’t regret a thing. His other guildmates understood his situation and decided that if he wanted to they could talk about it more in the morning.

  Morning came more swiftly than they thought it would, with Uruo arsing and walking down stairs, seeing Boone sitting at a table. They were fidgeting with some kind of tool, having been forced to take the day off yesterday.

  Uruo: Good morning?

  Boone just looked at Uruo, as they continue tinkering with the contraption

  Uruo: Ok then…

  Uruo continued as he walked down the stairs, walking into areas with a higher concentration of people, until he was outside in the base camp. It seemed like people just continued on after explaining his quarrel with his father. He was confused by that, and someone else had sensed his confusion.

  Oseci: Uruo, do you have something you wish to speak on?

  Uruo turned around to see his friend, he was far wiser than he ever was

  Uruo: Well Oseci, I’m confused, I made a reveal that I was related to an enemy of ours, and I thought I would see more disrespect thrown my way, even last night everyone was calm and understanding.

  Oseci: Well Uruo, it doesn’t matter because what you’ve already done as part of our organization speaks louder than any past you could have had. I know you see this group as a family, and we just agreed that where you’re from or who you’re related to doesn’t matter.

  Uruo began to smile at Oseci’s words

  Uruo: I’m glad you feel that way

  Oseci: No problem, my own pursuit of justice has no effects on how I feel about you

  Uruo sighed a sigh of relief, before looking at the camp, maybe the fact no one had anything to say about last night was just because they didn’t care about what he had done in the past. His pondering was quickly interrupted by someone else

  Lilac: Uruo!

  Uruo turns around to face Lilac, looking at him with a look of grit and determination on her face

  Lilac: I’m doing mission planning with Centus and Olivia, and I thought you should join us today

  Uruo: Why is that?

  Lilac: Well it revolves around Rahihi's soul energy efforts and we thought that it would make sense if you helped us in planning with that, even if you know nothing about his current operations I think it could still be something you are interested in?

  Uruo: Helpful strategy planning, alrighty, I shall assist.

  Lilac: Alright, thank you Uruo

  Uruo: The pleasure is mine

  Uruo went and followed Lilac to the table where Olivia and Centus were doing their planning

  Uruo: Good day

  Centus: Good day to you as well

  Olivia: Alright, so I believe the target is a mining facility a fair distance from here

  Lilac: Correct

  Centus: We’re probably going to need some transportation help

  Someone else pops up from under the table

  Tranjoh: Sounds like someone needs a ghost wagon?

  Uruo: How long were you under the table?

  Tranoj: Irrelevant

  Uruo: Ok then

  Lilac: So, is there anything else we want to add or are we going in blind?

  Uruo: I think we should keep an eye out for Vakakoya, if he’s there it’s likely that the operation is important to Rahihi

  Centus: Good call, he would send his right hand man there if it was important

  Uruo: If he’s not there, it can still reveal decent information about any of Rahihi’s deeper plans

  Acantha: Always best to check your enemies for any plans

  Lilac: Can you stop randomly popping up?

  Acantha: Ok, sorry.

  Centus: A little strategic interference huh

  Lilac: Sorry I’m not willing to cooperate with her at the moment

  Olivia: Regardless, we have a plan of action

  Tranjoh: Wait how are we gonna know where to go

  Someone else walks up to the table

  Kutok: Hey guys

  Tranjoh: Oh yeah uh uh what’s your name?

  Kutok: It’s Kutok

  Tranjoh: Kutok is super helpful for this

  Centus: Kutok, you already know

  Kutok: I know

  Uruo: Well, let’s prepare for a raid, we need all the info we can get

  Begin mission: Field Learning

  Kutok and Uruo join your party, select the rest of your party. Tranjoh joins your unit reserve, select the rest of your reserve.

  Begin heading down the Mining Site Path

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  When you are 20% of the way down the Mining Site Path

  Kutok: It seems like the place you picked out is a really long way to go for something that might not even be relevant

  Larkin: Oh really?

  Lilac: We have underestimated the distance

  Kutok: This valley is pretty large

  Tranjoh: It’s a good thing I’m here

  Larkin: So question, how does a Ghost Wagon transport us if it’s a ghost, shouldn’t we phase through it as it moves?

  Tranjoh: Listen, do you care if it helps us get to where you want it go?

  Larkin: Not really?

  Tranjoh: Then stop asking stupid questions

  Resume down the Mining Site Path

  When you are 40% of the way down the Mining Site Path

  Ba-Bayost: I must say, the variety of enemies here is shallow, either Hollows, Henchmen or Mercenaries. Where are the demons or evil sorcerers or dragons?

  Hoard: I know where the dragons are!!

  Ba-Bayost: Oh right you have the heart of a dragon

  Hoard: But wait why group dragons in your list of bad guys? Dragons are good guys!

  Ba-Bayost: I fought a dragon while jumping off of a cliff, it was awesome

  Hoard: Don’t fight the dragons here, they are nice dragons!!

  Ba-Bayost: If they try to eat me I cannot be held responsible for my actions

  Resume down the Mining Site Path

  When you are 50% down the Mining Site Path, the party comes across a robotic figure that looks decommissioned and run down

  Olivia: What a strange figure

  Centus: Does anyone here recognize this felled automaton?

  Acantha: It’s not mine

  Lilac: Shocker

  Acantha: It’s not!

  Olivia: Yeah, this thing looks otherworldly in origin

  Lilac: We can circle back around to this later

  The party moves on from the strange automaton

  Resume down the Mining Site Path

  When you are 60% down the Mining Site Path

  Kutok: Sensing some weird vibes

  Tranjoh: Can you elaborate on these “weird vibes”

  Kutok: Essentially I feel a presence in the valley that shouldn’t be here, like a path that opened to somewhere else

  Tranjoh: How can you be sure something is wrong?

  Kutok: I feel it

  Tranjoh: I’m sure it’s nothing too important

  Resume down the Mining Site Path

  When you are 80% down the Mining Site Path

  Uruo: Noticing less of Rahihi’s thugs up this way, seems like there’s also some scattered Hollows

  Lilac: Is there something odd about the surprisingly lax security

  Uruo: Yes, the warlord often takes his security very seriously, maybe this place isn’t as important as we thought

  Lilac: We will see

  Resume down the Mining Site Path

  When you are complete down the path, the mining site is reached and it is a high security operation, where several of Rahihi’s forces are, along with a mysterious masked and cloaked figure, directing them

  Lilac: Uruo, who’s the masked figure?

  Uruo: I don’t know…

  Lilac: What do you mean you don’t know?

  Uruo: I don’t know, I’ve never seen them before

  Lilac: Ok, so what’s the plan

  Aiden: I think we should isolate the soul energy, they obviously need it for something

  Lilac: Good call

  Centus: Ok, so we jump down there?

  Lilac: I mean that appears to be our only option

  Yoni: Hey, look

  Yoni points to some vehicles that appear to be transporting the energy somewhere

  Yoni: It looks like the latent soul energy in the valley is being harvested for something, probably nefarious

  Uruo: The warlord had mentioned building a powerful weapon that could split the sky before?

  Yoni: So you think that’s what this is for?

  Uruo: But why do it now is my question? Maybe that masked figure has something to do with it

  Yoni: Alright, so are we getting answers the old fashioned way?

  Uruo: We can try

  The Century Corps jump down into the mining site, to come face to face with the masked figure

  Witch: It seems like I have untimely visitors

  Uruo: The warlord Rahihi is someone I had known for 16 years, I never recall seeing you around his courts or in his generals

  Witch: Time has changed, I’m the new right hand to the king

  Uruo: Warlord

  Witch: Potato, tomato, I’m going to be sending this soul energy to a secret site, so why bother coming here, to claim the site for yourself?

  Lilac: Well we just want information

  Uruo: Now reveal to use your name you witch

  Witch: It is witch

  Centus: This “witch” seems very familiar to me, I can sense something strange about “her” aura

  Witch: Oh would you look at the time, I have to be doing evil stuff…

  Centus: I’m going to find out the truth

  Centus reaches to unmask Witch but “she” dodges out of their reach and fires back, in the attack, it is shown that Witch is missing a leg, with a string of lava and obsidian forming a makeshift prosthetic

  Witch: I believe we’ve had enough of this

  Centus: Seems like you’re missing a leg, have a fall into a pool of lava?

  Uruo: Centus, who do you believe this witch to be?

  Centus: I’ve got a few guesses, but based on this lava leg I doubt any of them are correct

  Witch: Now, I think I’m going to be leaving, kill these guys boys

  Witch flees the scene as the minions of Rahihi turn to the Century Corps, ready to strike them down

  Uruo: Looks like the “leave me alive” thing isn’t a priority for “her”

  Centus: That is a little perplexing

  Kutok: Maybe she has her own goals

  Uruo: Like that super weapon

  Nest: We have to get our hands on some of this soul energy

  Uruo: Why?

  Nest: The Buzzard feeds on this stuff AND he has the dark mirror shard

  Oiyrr: Oh and also it could help me with my studies

  Uruo: Alright, let’s secure a shipment of the soul energy

  Tranjoh: It’s a good thing I have a ghost wagon

  Nest: I’ve got the skies covered for any aerial interference

  Hoard: I’ll help you with that

  Oiyrr: Let’s try to secure the biggest shipment we can reliably fit in the ghost wagon

  Aiden: We’ve got to clear out this place first so we can reliably take it

  Oiyrr: We’re ahead of you

  Fight off Rahihi’s Forces

  When they are at 25% strength, the party moves to retrieve the Soul Energy shipment

  Oiyrr: Alright, Tranjoh, take it form here

  Tranjoh: Yes sir,

  The Soul Energy is placed into the Ghost Wagon

  Tranjoh leaves your unit reserve, a random unit joins it to make up for their newfound absence

  Tranjoh: How far till this thing is safe

  Nest: Let’s get a good distance from here

  Aiden: I’ll cover your flank

  Tranjoh: Ok, Kutok?

  Kutok: I’m on it..

  Defend the Ghost Wagon until it is out of range from the mining site

  When the Ghost Wagon is 25% out of range

  Larkin: We have a fairly large shipment, how does it fit into the ghost wagon?

  Tranjoh: Because it has enough space for it, stop asking dumb questions

  Larkin: Sorry it’s just confusing to me

  Tranjoh: You’re a slushie man, that’s confusing to me

  Larkin: Touche

  Yoni: Larkin struggles to grasp dimensional space

  Larkin: Ok haha I didn’t go to school, I didn’t have an education, you don’t have to rub it in

  Iehn: Actually you did go to school, you just flunked out of the basic education Loren and Largo tried to get for you

  Larkin: Do not air out my dirty laundry like that!!

  Iehn: Whoopsie

  Acantha: We probably should have had Larkin take an IQ test to retain his guild membership, before I did all that stuff

  Larkin: No one cares about your opinion Acantha, nobody

  Yerod: I care

  Larkin: Do you?

  Yerod: A little

  Acantha: Thank you Yerod

  Lilac: Pfft, stupid spirit

  Acantha: Wanna repeat that?

  LIlac: Uh, nothing?

  Resume defense of the shipment

  When the ghost wagon is 50% out of range

  Tranjoh: These people don’t get you like I do, Ghost Wagon, you keep going

  Larkin: Why are you talking to it?

  Tranjoh: Why can you fit in a one gallon jug?

  Larkin: I actually have an evil clone who is a giant sentient liquid

  Tranjoh: Is it a container of spoiled milk, cuz I hate to break it to you…

  Larkin: What? No it’s not a container of spoiled milk? Actually how do you know what that looks like?

  Tranjoh: SOMEONE in the guild once left some bottles of milk outside of cold storage and they spoiled damn near instantly

  Aiden: Uhm, whoopsie??

  Tranjoh: You know what you did

  Larkin: Regardless, I am not spoiled milk

  Tranjoh: I said your twin was

  Larkin: CLONE

  Tranjoh: Whatever you say sir

  Resume defense of the shipment

  When the ghost wagon is 75% out of range

  Nest: Who’s the tech gal here again?

  Someone from the unit reserve chimes in

  Ohss: That would be me, Ohss

  Nest: Well Ohss, do you think this enough for you to make something out of?

  Ohss: Well maybe, it depends on how potent this stuff is

  Olivia: We also need a way to impair the Buzzard with this trap

  Boone: I have an idea

  Ohss: Let’s save it for after this

  Oseci: Well look who decided to chime in

  Continue the defense of the shipment

  When you are fully out of range

  Tranjoh: Looks like Rahihi’s forces are finally done assailing this shipment

  Ohss: When we get back I’m going to test how potent this stuff is

  Oseci: I’m willing to join you for that

  Ohss: Thank you Oseci

  Yoni: I will also observe

  Nest: I will let you work on that

  Lilac: We can count today as a success, let’s head home

  The Century Corps continues clinging to Tranjoh’s ghost wagon as they continue heading back to base

  End mission: Field Learning

  At the Century Corps base camp, Ohss, Yoni, Oseci and Boone are looking at Ohss test the Soul Energy’s potency

  Ohss: Alright, to test the soul energy’s potency, I have fashioned a chunk of it into a makeshift bullet, and Boone, who I want to thank for being willing to test this for me

  Boone: Thank you for the opportunity

  Ohss: So when Boone fires the bullet, the impact size it makes will determine it’s potency

  Yoni: So big boom equals big energy

  Ohss: Yes that’s about the gist of it

  Oseci: Alright, fire away then

  Boone: The pleasure is mine…

  Boone loads the makeshift bullet into their gun, and fires it a tree, the impact force is strong enough to bore a massive hole in the tree

  Ohss: Wow

  The tree falls over from being shot through

  Boone: And that…was for my back

  Oseci: You don’t know if that was the same tree

  Boone: I don’t care

  Oseci: Uhm ok

  Yoni: Personally I don’t think you should be so personally charged against a tree

  Boone: You want that hole to end up in your chest next?

  Yoni: Excuse me?

  Ohss: Alright guys this shouldn’t be necessary

  Oseci: Yeah, let’s play nice here

  Boone: Fine…

  Yoni: Fine my ass

  Ohss: AHEM, so this is a good plan for bait, but Boone-

  Boone: Yes

  Ohss clearly notices Boone being irate

  Ohss: What was your idea for weakening the Buzzard?

  Boone: Don’t remember exactly what it was called, but it’s sort of a blueish gray color and like, I saw a lot of it chucked into the Buzzard once, and it weakened him

  Oseci: It’s called aether

  Boone: yeah, yeah whatever

  Ohss: Alright, so how can we get aether

  Oseci: There’s probably some left over at my old stomping grounds, the Sacred Garden

  Ohss: Oh good call, we can probably head over to what remains of it and get whatever is left over

  Boone: yeah, yeah all about you

  Oseci: Are we gonna have a problem?

  Boone: Maybe you can just shut up

  Yoni: Alright, Boone, please take a timeout

  Boone: Everyone is telling me, do this, do that, I just want my revenge

  Ohss: Listen you will get what you want eventually, just calm down for a minute, no need to start fights for no reason

  Oseci: We’re a team effort here

  Boone: Fine

  Boone reluctantly walks away

  Yoni: I hope they can get their act together

  Oseci: Well, I mean I would be pissed too if I constantly came up short in my revenge efforts

  Ohss: Let’s get rest for the day, clearly tensions run high during the act of combat.

  The group there disperses and begins to head off for the rest of the day