CotDS Finalle

Okay, so the PC's are in the middle of a fight. a rather complicated fight... only because the Airships involved have so much HP.

 

They have taken out 3 of the 10 airships that are attacking their small fleet. Seven are left.

 

So far they have taken straiffing runs, using the enemies formation to their advantage. They have teleported onto two of the airships and collided them into other ones or on the sea.

 

However, these techniques will not work anymore.

 

There will be mages in these airships. These mages will cast Dimensions lock on the Airships themselves to keep anyone from teleporting onto them.

 

Also, their formations will change, to form a quasi circle to get a good broadside. Their combined damage would be able to penetrate the PC's defenses.

The PC's will have issues with continueing the fight, as the odds will gradually go towards the trading corperations favor.

 

As things start to look bad, help will come.

 

A flare will be shot in the distance. It is the same flare used by Bonny on the Flying Feline. Infact it did come from the Flying Feline, just not the Galleon.

 

Quite some time has happened since the Flying Feline sunk with her captain on it.

 

Bonny somehow made it to the mainland, on the run from a spec ops team from LTC.

 

She has been on her own adventure, been all over the mainland of the Outer Continent. While she was there, she stole the Corporations newest line of Airship, built using ancient Technology found in the ground of all places. As such, it is faster and more nimble than any other airship, and has more Firepower than the Dragon Class Battleships. For taking away the Flying Feline, Bonny has decided to take away the Corporations most prized ship, and call it her own.

Getting a new Airship was the least that Bonny has been up to. She has inadvertantly gained new allys from all around the Outer Continent.

 

In addition to a few Air Pirates that decided they would follow bonny's lead, there are a few notable NPC's following Bonny around.

 

A Native Outer Continentian, named Cisum whom is an Avatar Summoner. (On a side note, she has already obtained Vendit's Avatar.)

 

A half Celestial, named Renwo HcNar. (whom by this point, has obtained the loyalty of the Dark World- now Light World... So now has an army of Angels.)

 

A psuedo dwarf that for some reason goes by "Nathan's Evil Clone" or Nec for short.

 

A man with an absurdly large sword with symbols all over it.

 

A mysterious being that looked frightenly close to the grim reaper.

 

And a Cowboy named Cactus Wren.

 

A movement has been sturring in the north, partly because of the PC's efforts.

 

A freedom movement. Bonny is gathering all the allys she can find for a massive assault, because the Corporation is up to something.

Through Bonny's adventures, she came accross a startling plot. LTC had uncovered something in a cave in the far north. A woman incased in a strange green crystal. They uncovered something they did not understand, and accidentally unleashed it upon the world. From the Crystal, not the woman herself, but an ancient god was awakened Epor. A life sucking god. by a glance, she littereally consumed people lifeforce.

 

To protect a friend, Bonny stood in its way. Bonny had plenty of life force to spare, and fed the Epor to her limit. While it tempered Epor for the time being, Bonny seemingly died. When she awoken, she had lost all her memory, except for her name.

 

During the time of her amneisia, she continued her adventure and came across some friends and information.

 

There were these strange musical instruments that had the symbol of Epor on them. Origionally, another pirate was after them. But in doing so, LTC learned of its purpose.

 

Once all of the instruments of Epor were assembled together and played a certain piece, they could control Epor.

 

Bonny stole the airship, with LTC knowing what she knew and the support they were getting.

 

Because of that, Lyndhurst has reallocated its recources. They sent fleets out to take care of the rebels. However, the bulk of their navy had been assembled around Central City.

 

It looks as though that the Corporation had found these magical musical Instruments, and are now trying to decifer the score to unlock their power.

 

Point is, Bonny has seen the power of Epor. And if the Corporation gains the power of Epor, then Freedom will be reduced unto dust.

 

Bonny is trying to amass a sizable fleet/army to try and take Central City.

 

She asks the PC's if they have any more Ally's up their sleeves.

 

It being Bushimaru and Boku, as well as what's left of their empire.

The Total Military assets consists of...

The Flying Feline: Flag ship and commanded by Bonny.

Pirate Fleet, led by Bonny as well.

The Dragon Class Battleships, commanded by the PC's

The Celestial Army: led by Renwo.

The Avatar of Vendit: controled by Cisum

The 4th, 5th,7th and 9th Calvery, led by Cactus Wren.

Trek, The Mountain Cutter (with Side Kick, Nathan's Evil clone)

Death Reaper, whom is actually Felinara.

Bushimaru.

The Napajian Empire Army.

The Plan is, to launch a frontal assault upon Central City, while a small team goes in and intercepts the Musical Instruments.

 

On thier way North, to Central City, the PC's will see the Mother Tree in all of its glory. It was a Tree the size of the largest mountain... if not larger. Its branches spanned the horizon.

Scouts will confirm a massive fleet hovering over and around Central City, with the LTC Command Ship in the middle, the L.T.S. Titanius.

 

Bonny informs the PC's that the plan is, during the battle, Trek, Death, Cactus and Renwo will make their way into the city and find the artifacts and stop LTC from using them.

 

Bushimaru says that he is willing to give his support... but not in so many words. He says something more along the lines of, not if he gets there first and nobody better get in his way, kind of thing.

 

As the armada is assembling, final upgrades to the airships are made. Better cannons are installed on all the ships.

 

The Napajese army arrive on ships and deboard onto land to get into formation.

 

Cactus gathered the Calvery units.

 

The Air Pirate Fleet arrived, sporting all sorts of different colors.

 

The Celestial Army arrive with Renwo.

At the Dawn of the new day, outside Central City. Bonny gives a speach.

 

"Gentlemen... Ladies... and... other invited transgendered individuals. I... am not much for speeches... but this is as good of a time as any i guess so...

 

"Long ago... Before many of you were born, I was free. This was before the time of the Corporation.... Before Lyndhurst. I was alive to remember a time of individual freedom. Though I admitidly took it for granted. I was young then. THe World was also in a depressed state back then. Lyndhurst at the time, seemed like the only way the world would make it out of the struggles it was facing. We as a people allowed them to grow and allowed them to take away our Freedom... all so we could live comfortably. By the time we knew what we had done to ourselves, it was too late."

 

"Lyndhurst represents Corporate Owned Imperialism. We may have allowed them to flurish and deny our freedom, but it is WE who will claim back that Freedom! It is We who will fight them, and let them know they no longer own us like property. It is we who will let them know that they don't own the world."

 

"Now I know most of us don't see eye to eye with each other on some if not most aspects on how we live our lives. But I do know that we all agree that dispite our differences, we have the same goal in mind. To live our lives as we see fit, and not the way some faceless entity of a corporation tells us to."

 

"Today, we will show these bastards that it is not resources or a enterprise that rules the land... It is the People! Today, We fight!

 

Cisum walks to the edge of the deck. Her left arm glows purple, as energy seeps out of it. She thrusts it forward toward the ground. A huge glyph apears on the the ground in a clearing. The Glyph glows brightly. From it slowly rises and emerges a colossal Dragon-esk creature with scales, the color and texture of stone.

 

Renwo raises his golden sword and his Celestial army takes flight, like a swarm.

 

Down bellow, you see Bushimaru give out a load roar as the Napajese army starts advancing towards Central City.

 

Moments later, The Calvery units also start advancing towards the City.

 

When the units get ito position, Bonny finally shoots the signal flare into the sky. The Battle Begins.

The Pirate Ships fly ahead to get into position.

 

The Dragon Class Battleships, and the Flying Feline come about for an opening broad side volley.

 

All Hell Breaks Loose.

The Battle gradually pushed its way deep over Central City. The Relativly stationary Airships surounded by swarms of Celestials and other flying units. Vendit, Cisum's summon was wreaking havok against the LTC Ships, all but the L.T.S. Titanius, which was holding its own agaist whatever was thrown at it.

 

Gun fire, cannon fire, Spells, where all rumbling throughout the scene. An occasional Fireball lit up the sky, as well as a lighting bolt or two.

 

Bushimaru was likewise tearing through enemy forces.

 

You hadn't seen much of Trek, NEC, or Death. They must have slipped by like they were suppose to.

 

The battle was heading in a good direction. THe seemingly unstopable L.T.C. fleet was being pushed back, and their numbers were starting to dwindle. The combite might of the alliance that Bonny and you had formed were supprisingly a match for Lyndhurst.

 

Losses were being sustained on both sides. Many of the smaller Pirate Airship dirgibles were being picked out of the sky. However, more Lyndhurst Battleships were being torn down as well. Having a couple of Dragons assisting was certainly turning the tide.

 

Bushimaru was flying over the firing arc of the battleships, then landing on the deck, tearing his way through to the engineering deck where he would cause it to crash into the ground.

 

Still as the battle wore on, it was difficult for any one person or ship to get close to the Titanius. It had very effective point defence around its ship, which put out alot of fire power.

As the Titanius started to take a more active role in the battle, ships and people started dropping like flies.

 

Bonny signaled to the armada to then abandon their current targets and concentrate all fire upon the L.T.S. Titanius.

 

All ships came about and started making their way closer to the Titanius. Celestials charged in.

 

Vendit turned and started attacking it as well as Bushimaru.

 

Mordor fire came from the ground also started shooting at the Titanius.

 

While it seemed at first like a questionable call, going all in agains this monster, with Celestials falling out of the sky, Pirate ships going up in balls of fire, and even Dragon class ships crashing... Once the fleet surrounded the Titanius, things started to turn around. With that much point black fire, it was hard for it to keep up with all the targets around it.

 

Vendit flew right up close to it, and shot out its massive breath weapon. Bushimaru made it upon the flight deck of the ship and started dueling everyone on it.

The Celestial army was able to finally make it upon the flight deck and prevent more fighters from launching by swarming the crew.

 

A lucky shot to several of the Titanius' main thrusters caused it to start tilting and listing to one side.

 

Another ally airship went up into a ball of flame and crashed into the city. The onslaught against the command ship was taking its tole on all parties.

 

Never have you seen so much fire, and anything resist said fire all at once.

 

Even the PC's airship that they were on starts taking heavy fire and taking its tole.

 

At some point, Bonny will take the PC's on board the Flying Feline.

 

The Titanius finally starts loosing altitude as smoke and flames escape the hull. An explosion here and there finally take it down, and it seemingly slowly falls to the ground, crashing and exploding as it hits.

 

As you look around you see the cost of such an objective being filled. There was not much left of your fleet. However, much of the remaining Lyndhurst ships started to scatter.

 

Dispite the cost, it apeared that Victory was all but assured here.

Many of the remaining Lyndhurst Craft signaled their surrender. The rest fled.

 

Later...

 

Trek, Death, and Cactus boarded the Airship. They said the instruments were not there. They fought a beefed up Victor Unit, but there was no prize at the end. There was no Mr. Ruse or anybody trying to use the instruments.

 

It was as if the Corporation wanted to keep them busy and distracted.

 

They did find something though. There was a war room down there that had a bunch of maps out. There was one in particular spread out, like it was left in a hurry. A map of the Dragon Sea. more specifically, a Map of the Kothar Triangle. A reference to some Island named Saventh Yhi.

It was then the sun was blocked out.

 

A massive creature in the sky seemed to fade in out of nowhere. It had a face at the top, but insect like legs reaching the ground. This thing was miles tall. This... was Epor.

 

Trek, Death, and Renwo got into a defensive posture. Epor's very shadow was sucking the life from countless people in the city.

 

Bonny turned to you. She says that the Pc's know Saventh Yhi than anyone here. They will keep Epor Busy, while they go back and figure out what they were doing there. Saventh Yhi Apears to be the Key to everything.

Saventh Yhi.

When the PC's go back to Saventh Yhi, they find that all the spires have been activated and are glowing.

While the PC's were getting ready for and commencing with the attack on Central City, Lyndhurst used it as a distraction to make their way to Saventh Yi. One of Bushimaru's goblin slaves was a Lyndhurst Spy, and was keeping tabs on the progress of the deciphering the seven spires. When Bushimaru and the PC's left the island, they called in "The Boss." captured Boku, and activated the spires, causing them to drill down into the planet surface. This left little more than holes in the ziggurats with pillars of energy shooting out of them into the sky. Around each of the holes were spiral ramps left over by the drilling the spires did, leading down to the resonance chamber, where the instruments were playing.

This resonance chamber is massive. It must be miles tall. The seven spires are only the top of the seven spiral staircases. seven pillars from the top of the cavern, to the bottom. Down bellow, in the center of this chamber, was some sort of large alter.
The alter had seven pedestals, each with an instrument playing on it.
The seven instruments were:
Violin - strings
"Diortemian" horn. -brass
Harp. - harp
Clarinet - woodwind
Timpani. - percussion
Hand bell - bell
Piano - piano
Each pedestal was glowing, and sending energy through some sort of conduit that went to a specific spire.
Lyndhurst special forces were guarding the alter, and in the middle, was one man.
The people playing the instruments appeared to not be in their right frame of mind. Their eyes were glowing and seemed like they were in a trance. One of them was Boku.
At first the soldiers get in formation to block access from the alter. However the man in the middle told them to let them pass. So the Soldiers opened up their formation to allow passage.
The man in the center was The Boss. He was dressed in an expensive suit, enough to know this man was highly decorated. He was also old and had white/silver hair. As he turned around, you saw that he was a spitting image of Bonny, but old enough to be her grandfather, if not older.
Plot twist!
"The Boss", is actually the grandson of Bonny. He is an old man, with delusions of controlling the mighty Epor. While he thinks he is controlling Epor with the instruments, Epor is actually controlling him.
"Greetings, Grandmother." the old man said.
You could almost see the blood drain from Bonny's face. "Moses?"
"Indeed," The Boss responded, "But I am rarely referred to as that anymore."
"But, I don't understand. You're the Boss? Why- How?"
"You could say in the beginning, I had grandmother issues. My mother had always looked up to you. Even though you were never there. Always away because of one excuse or another. She couldn't understand that you didn't really care about us. I hated you for that."
"But that's... That's nonsense."
"Indeed. Your crime is much deeper than that. Later, as I got older, I realized that you did care, and you wanted to protect us from yourself. Not from being a pirate specifically, but from being immortal."
Bonny didn't say anything.
"As long as I have lived... I can still not even imagine what it must be like, being as old as you are. Yet at the same time, I don't understand why you do what you do... Immortality has so much potential."
...
"Look what I have accomplished in my relatively short life! I am 'The Boss!' I am CEO of the Lyndhurst Trading Corporation! I did that! Through hard work! And Dedication! I controlled the largest economical force in the world!"
"You control a monster! You control Corporate owned Imperialism!" Bonny retorts.
"That's the main thing that I don't understand, Captain." he responds, "As old as you are, you still don't see what Lyndhurst truly represents. Do you really not see that everything outside of Lyndhurst is poverty and crime? You lead the rebellion. Look at it. What is it made of? Criminals, Traitors, Savages and Aliens. You are destroying a civilized world. A world free of crime, free of poverty, free of-"
"-actually having freedom." Bonny interrupts.
"What is freedom?" The Boss asks. "A place where people live in fear of the savages and criminals that you lead? Or a place where they can live comfortable lives?"
"Freedom is the ability to choose what people want to do with their lives, without someone else telling them how to do it. Lyndhurst takes away those options, and everyone has no choice but to follow them, or BE poverty stricken and Be those criminals that you hate."
"It doesn't matter much anymore." The Boss interjects, "Epor will change all of that. The ultimate level of control. Only through Control, will we remove all savagry and uncivility."
"By killing innocents?"
"Innocence is apparently in the eye of the beholder. Epor will end this bloodshed that we are in the midst of. It's ironic, really. Epor was a goddess of Savagery and Chaos back in the day. A god with no home, and roamed the cosmos bringing destruction wherever she went. It was the ancient Azlanti that brought that to an end. Saventh Yhi was a weapon, and they used it to destroy Epor, ten thousand years ago."
"If they destroyed her..." Bonny asks, "Then how does she exist now?"
"Because... the truth is a bit more complicated than that." The Boss answers. "I like history, and have spent my life studying it. That's why I am an archeologist at heart. It teaches us a thing or two about the present. The Epor out there is not really Epor. eighteen hundred years ago, there was a crisis on this planet. A crisis where all the Trinities of the world had to come together to keep it from happening. They call this, People Eve, or Year Zero. After they saved the world, it was not a happy ending. There was some conflict between the members of the trinities. One of such members was Goldfinch. The girl with the dream. Goldfinch fell into a state of eternal slumber, and started dreaming. there was a Key event that took place shortly after People Eve where Epor was released. The first time Epor has ever been seen in eight thousand years. I have discovered that this Epor was nothing more than a manifestation of the nightmares taking place in Goldfinch's dreams. Throughout history, the two Epor's have merged into one in the eyes of society, while in reality they are two separate beings. However this nightmare of Goldfinch makes Epor Real enough. Enough to be controlled by Saventh Yhi. Enough to be controlled by these instruments."
Bonny speaks up, "It was because of one of these instruments that Epor is here now..."
"Indeed," Moses responds, "It is because of the misguided attempts of one of my scientist, fearing Epor so much that he mistakenly played one and only one of the instruments in front of Goldfinch. This awakened the nightmare as it were. It was then you, Captain that fed the nightmare with enough energy to become stable. This fortunately, kept it from going on another journey of chaos and rampage. This allowed us enough time to find these instruments and decipher a score that would control it. For that, I thank you."
"And these people?" Bonny asks referring to the people playing the musical score.
"Maintaining control over Epor requires that these instruments and the score to be played continuously. Since there is no natural way for any person to continue playing indefinitely, I had to dominate these people to play indefinatly. Don't worry, they are all equipped with a ring of sustenance and they are being periodically healed by my clerics to offset the wear and tear of their bodies for playing for so long. Like I said, control is key. Without it, all of this would not be possible."
"But you are taking away what makes them unique. you are taking away their free will."
"Like I said, Free Will is an illusion. It will only cause us to break down into Chaos. Control is key."
"I am also a fan of History, Mr. Moses." Spoken by Bushimaru as he entered into view, "And you seem to have a diluted view of what is transpiring. Epor is a goddess of Chaos. She cannot by her very nature, be controlled. The Azlanti tried the very thing you are trying to do, ten thousand years ago and failed. Why do you think they died out?"
"Like I said, this is not really Epor. It is a nightmare created by Goldfinch. Because of this, the nightmare can be controlled." Moses responded.
"Goldfinch by her very nature, one of the purest beings known to have existed. She suppressed her dark side to the point where there was none. He nightmare now is the very opposite of her self. It is her Dark-Side. The Diamond formation that she is imprisoned in acts as a catalyst on thoughts. This might as well be Epor. Even Now, Epor is destroying all in her path, Lyndhurst personnel and rebellion personnel alike. Are you saying that this is what you intended?"
Moses ponders what Bushimaru said. He then responds, "For their to be order, sacrifices have to be made."
"And at what point will the killing and destruction stop?" Bonny asks.
Moses speaks, "When the world is sufficiently cleansed, we will be able to start fresh in a new world, with a new order!"
"Idiot! There wont be any world left after Epor." Bushimaru responds, "Epor by her very essence is destruction. She will continue to consume all life until there is none. That is why the Azlanti, even though they were already defeated, rose up and destroyed her. They had nothing left. Yet they chose to destroy her and save the rest of the world."
"No! I am in Control! I wont let that happen! Epor obeys my will!"
"Mo..." Bonny adds, "Listen to yourself. This is not you."
"You don't know me, Captain!" Moses responds, "All of you don't know what you are talking about! You think power like this comes easy?"
"You are sacrificing too much, Mo." Bonny continues.
"Grandmother..." Moses shakes his head, "I-I only want to protect mortality. The Seven spears can control Epor. I know it can! I just-"
The Boss is having trouble keeping his composure. A perception check reveals that he seems to be fighting his own mind here.
"It's not too late..." Bonny assures him, "Let them go, we can do the rest."
"I-" Moses struggles, "I can't do that, Captain."
"Of course you can't," Bushimaru interjects, "Epor is controlling you now."
The Boss regains his composure, "You'd... You would undo everything I have accomplished. I wont let that happen."
"Because of you, the world is in danger of being destroyed." Bonny comments.
"That's not true!" Moses roars, "I just need to-"
By this time you notice that Moses' eyes are glowing very similar to the ones playing the instruments.
"You are doing exactly what Epor wants you to. You are doing it because Epor is controlling you!" Bushimaru exclaims.
"I-" Moses struggles, " She's too strong!"
"You are stronger, Mo-Mo." Bonny using a childhood nickname of Moses.
"I tried fighting her, Grandma..." Moses, speaking more from his childhood than from his present.
At this time, his eyes are blocked out by the powerful glow emanating from them.
Then, in the massive cassum behind Moses, materialized Epor, the miles tall abomination. Her eyes glowing the same hue as "The Boss" as well as the people playing the instruments.
The Lyndhurst soldiers lost their nerve and started shooting at Epor, with rifles and spells and what not. All having no effect. Soon their very life energy was sucked out of them into an orb in Epor just above her insect like legs.
In a deep, dark yet feminine voice speaks from Epor. "You have done your part, Moses. Your usefullness has come to an end."
Before your eyes, Moses' life energy starts being drained away from him. Bonny yells out, "No!" before running up to him. She embrases him as he starts collapsing.
Just as she makes contact, her life energy joins Moses'.
Bushimaru draws his sword, and holds it out in front of him, sideways. He speaks out, "Oku Ryu Ha!"
Like lightning, green energy shoots out from Okuryutsume in all directions, circling Bushimaru, before striking the pedestals with the musical instruments. Each of the people, playing the instruments were struck, causing them to fall back off the pedestals and release their instruments. Each of them seemed to snap back to reality. The light from the alter and the spires halted. However, Epor remained.
Epor, still sucking the life out from Bonny and the boss Spoke again, "This does not change anything. I bring Chaos. I will consume the entire world, starting with you."
It was then it happened. It appears that Epor tried to move or perhaps try to switch targets as it were, but she had trouble letting go of Bonny. The whole body of Epor seemed to quiver for a moment, sending tremors throughout the chamber.
Bushimaru turned to you (The PC's). "You need to play the instruments."
A moment of Confusion.
"Each one of you has memories of the different spires. Included in those memories, is the ability to play one of these instruments. Since all of you are here, you can do so. The piece that the dominated people were playing before was not the original Azlanti Piece. The score in your minds is what is needed to end this! You only need to search for it!"
Sure enough, you do remember being able to play a certain instrument. You didn't remember doing so before, it was a new memory, one that was not as obvious. It was like remembering something from long ago that you had forgotten.
You pick up the instruments and get onto the pedestals. As you play the piece that was in your mind, you notice the spires start to glow. This time, instead of shooting their energies straight upwards, energy from the tip of the spires shoot up into the center of the casum, where they combined into a massive ball of energy.
The Ball of energy explodes in all directions, like a shock wave.
Epor Stops. Energy from Bonny stops as Epor stands there motionless. She then starts floating upward, and seemingly reverting into the fetal position like an insect dying. White partials starts escaping Epor, like pyreflies. As each particle leaves epor, it takes a peice of her with it. It starts off slowly, before picking up speed. Soon, Epor is reduced unto particles of dust, which then get sucked up into a forming energy vortex at the top of the chamber. As the last particle enters the vortex, all the swirling energy ceaces. The chamber goes dark and quiet, except for the alter.
Bonny was kneeling there, like she was cratling something. It was a baby, wrapped in Moses old cloths. Bonny was comforting it and calling him Mo-Mo. It had apeared that Moses had reverted to an infant.
All was quiet.
The dominated people got up and wondered what just happened. "Boku, we're leaving." Bushimaru explained as he walked away.
Boku got up and started running after Bushimaru, "Wait for me Bushimaru-sama!"
Bonny got up and turned to you, still comforting the baby in her hands. "Thank you. You've saved the world. And it looks like we all get a second chance today." She walks past you twoards one of the spires.
By the time you get up to the surface, a new day has started. The Lyndhurst presence has all but left the island.
There was alot of time to think on the way up. Upon seeing the new day, Bonny turns to you. "I have one final job i want you all to complete for me, payment will be delivered upon completion. Take me back to Central City. Trust me, it will be worth it."
Payment? "The Flying Feline. It is yours. I wont be needing it for a while. I have other priorities now."
Lyndhurst reared its head from the aftermath of recent events. From the Ashes of Central City rose a new one, and a New World Government. Alpha Prime. It represented the start of a free world.
Bonny went on to live a normal life and started a family with little moses.
Bushimaru went on to wander the new world on his own plus Boku.
The Black Pearl became a merchant vessel. Aryse as captain and Sahsa as first mate. Jask was found alive and joined the crew as well (he was ressed by Mr. Ruse to find Saventh Yi. after Lyndhurst was defeated, he was released and joined the crew).
The Crew of the Flying Feline, now commanded by the PC's go on to have another adventure in the sky's of the Dragon Sea. The end?