Chapter 6: An evil presence invades the land (15th of August 2006)

[GM-Pandora]

An evil presence has invaded the land and a lot of people have fled or are about to flee the kingdom. This presence is unknown to even Sir Melot, though he approves of it since it is evil, even him is not glad to see some of his followers desert the kingdom to go settle in other kingdoms.

Lady Pandora, in the name of our king Tristan the third has assembled a team of braves, both Light and Dark alike, to go battle this evil presence.

The first step would be to find it, but the evil presence, toying with them would give them clues as to the town it was located in.

The first clue mentioned the 4th dimension (time) and an association of brewers (alchemists), a dark high priestess by the name of Hitoo was the first to find the evil presence behind the clock tower in Al de Baran. She was rewarded with a strange purple box while the other braves joined her.

The evil presence laughed, and it had no intentions of fighting them himself since it did not deem them worthy. It did however test them by telling them to be watchful for something, but it did not tell them what, they would have to figure out something in the end, not knowing what to look for, but only warned to pay attention to details.

Afterwards, he sent some of his minions such as Abyssmal knights and Assaulters to deal with the humans. The braves had little trouble fending off the monsters, but the evil presence had moved to another location so they would once again need to search for it.

Luckily, the presence once again sent a clue, it was on a wooden platform overlooking fishes. It was quickly guessed that he was on a dock and all members set out for the different cities with docks. It was a professor named J@h_Man who who found the evil presence on the dock in Comodo. He was also rewarded by a purple box and the others came to the spot of the discovery to find themselves once again surrounded by monsters summoned by the evil presence.

After a tedious fight, they managed to kill all the Creamy Fear and the Chimeras and were allowed a brief resting as other braves joined with them.

A short while after a new clue was given and a new search began. The presence spoke vaguely of breathing well, but that they would not enjoy it as much. The message was rather unclear, but eventually someone found it in Einbroch (where the air is toxic). Once more, monsters greeted them and they had to raise swords against monster swords (Executioners) and out spell the monstrous casters (Evil Druids).

A last clue was given, regarding pityful human magic, the presence was found in Geffen, and after summoning some of Gajomart and Gryphon which the team fought bravely it finally agreed to fight them.

But before the fight would start, it asked if any humans had found what they were supposed to look for, none of them found the answer it was looking for (one came close), but all had failed, but in the end it would not matter, for surely the humans would then fight the presence and win!

The fight began with some technical difficulties, but eventually the team of braves assembled all their efforts toward beating the monstruous presence. They all dealt good damage, but surprisingly, the most came from an outsider champion. With his fist of fury he repeatedly crushed the presence until it was laying down with no more energy to raise.

The presence admitted temporary defeat, but fled the scene with some sort of magic. It no longer gave out clues, but all knew that they would eventually have to fight it again, for it was not completely gone. Perhaps on that day they would find out what they were supposed to discover.

All the braves were rewarded for their efforts and both the Dark and Light leaders were proud of them for their courage and willingness to save the kingdom.