One Week Later, Soulight Valley
The Century Corps are now in full swing with their expedition, it didn’t take long at all for a group to be assembled, they are now about to enter the valley through the entrance noted on their map. The expeditionary force, consisting of just over twenty members, has all the supplies they need for an extended expedition, as they are just at the very entrance of the valley
Nest: So this is the valley?
Olivia: It appears to be, I have never been here myself so this sight is new to me
Hadane: I’m still surprised you were up for this Nest?
Nest: It’s better than being cooped inside all day worrying about being helpless
Boone: That courage is admirable, I respect it
Nest: Thank you
Boone: I just can’t wait to get to the bottom of this mirror mystery
Centus: Everyone needs closure of some kind
Larkin: I’m here for the popcorn
Ba-Bayost: I’m here for the fight
Oiyrr: I’m here because you don’t know your plants
Kutok: I’m here because you all need me
Olivia: Once again, thank you for your services Kutok
Kutok: No problem
Yoni: Uhm aren’t you going to thank me too? I helped get this ready so fast
Olivia: Your help was also appreciated Yoni
Yoni: You’re damn right it was
Larkin: Ok, so where to go now?
Kutok: Follow me
Kutok, Hadane, Larkin and Nest have joined the party
The movement tutorial begins
When the movement tutorial ends, the party comes across a clearing where a mysterious falcon glowing with soul energies is perched
Nest: Oh, it looks lost
Olivia: Look at that
Nest: I’m going to get it to come over here
Nest does a brief bird call to get the falcon to land on her arm
Nest: Hey buddy, you like it up here
The falcon coos in agreement
Hadane: Looks like you made a new friend
Iehn: Is that safe?
Larkin: Probably she really likes birds, it’s like a massive thing
Iehn: Well she’s never seen this bird before?
Nest: Doesn’t matter to me
Kutok: Well lucky, you made a new friend so le’s g-
Before she could finish her sentence, a group of hollow humanoids leap out and try to grab the Falcon from Nest’s arm
Nest: AH!
Hadane casts a powerful fire spell against them, disintegrating them
Nest: Thanks for the save
Hadane: You’re welcome
Boone: Hollows…
Centus: What does the presence of hollows imply?
Boone: The Buzzard…he’s here
Nest: …
Hadane: Hey, don’t be worried about a thing, we’ll take care of him
Boone: He killed my family, no way I ever let him get away again
Olivia: This expedition has become a bit more dangerous than I originally anticipated
Larkin: Danger’s our specialty, as we say, if it can’t kill us what’s the point?
Kutok: You can’t die jackass
Ba-Bayost: Is death a normal thing for some of you? Damn, that must suck
Iehn: You’re not immortal
Ba-Bayost: Uhm, you don’t know that
Centus: I destroyed the key, no one is immortal
Ba-Bayost: Ok well…I still don’t die even in very dangerous situations, mainly because I just kill my way out of them.
More rustling is heard from the bushes
Olivia: Stay on your guard
Hadane: I’ll lead my charge, stay behind me
Begin Basic Combat Tutorial
When you win
Centus: A classic display of combat, nicely done
Nest: How many of these things are probably lying around here?
Boone: We will never know…
Gyhaz: Technically we could easily know by just surveying the entire valley and finding them
Oiyrr: That would take days and we really just want to find part of a broken mirror
Gyhaz: Fair enough
Centus: We should find a neutral site to make camp
Hadane: Great idea, Kutok?
Kutok: I’m on it, follow me
The expeditionary force begins following Kutok through the valley
Begin Valley Outskirts
When you’re 25% through the outskirts
Olivia: Seems like the amount of hollows we’ll encounter will only increase as we navigate this valley
Kutok: As I navigate this valley, you’re just following along
Centus: Rear guys, get ready to fight
Centus turns to the back, looking at the other units behind them
Gyhaz: Yes sir!
Iehn: On it
Ruwt: I’ll ready myself
Uaptin: You have my word
Olivia: Ok, let’s continue to advance
Continue Valley Outskirts
When you’re 50% through the outskirts, a hollow with a strange mark appears
Boone: Looks like that mark signifies an elemental weakness of some kind
Hadane: I can take care of it
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Hadane fires a stream of fire at the hollow, but it seems to resist the damage
Boone: Looks like the opposite is true
Larkin: So how are we going to go about this?
Kutok: We’re probably just going to continue to attack it normally
Begin Advanced Combat Tutorial
When you win
Larkin: And stay down!
Boone: I think these hollows must have advanced since my last encounter with them
Olivia: That sounds about right
Nest: Let’s continue going
Continue Valley Outskirts
When you’re 75% through the outskirts, the expedition comes across a bright green weed, glowing with a soulful energy
Oiyrr: I recognize that glow, it is similar to my own plant
Nest: Meaning?
Oiyrr: It likely has some kind of soul energy about it
Boone: It’s best if we learn our way about the elements here
Ba-Bayost: Always good to do that when you’re in survival type situations like this one
Begin Environment Tutorial
When the tutorial is complete
Nest: My new friend seems to really like the energy of this plant
Olivia: Do you liken this to similarity?
Nest: I am unsure
Yoni: I bet I could sell that for a lot of money…I mean good on you that your friend likes the plant
Centus: Thinking about your personal finances Yoni?
Yoni: This whole thing is coming out of my pocket so it would be pretty nice if I got a return on my investment, as my father would say
Centus: Isn’t the return…adventure
Yoni: Well yeah but also if I didn’t have to explain to my dad that I spent a good chunk of money to go on an expedition to a mystery valley via the gaping hole in my personal finances, I would like to do that. And then after I explained that I went on that expedition then he would ask why I didn’t bring him with us.
Larkin: Your dad sounds cool
Yoni: I like him and all but I don’t want to bring him on potentially life threatening expeditions, he’s not exactly ready for this like I am
Kutok: Can we focus, we don’t have time to just stop and smell the roses or else more hollows could show up and ambush us!
Yoni: Oh right, we have somewhere to go
Resume Valley Outskirts
When you’re complete the outskirts, the Century Corps come across the charred remains of a village, where some other adventurers appear to be fighting hollows
Larkin: Small valley huh
Kutok: Hey there are also hollows like, all around us
Larkin: Oh crap
Centus: Alright, it’s time for some reinforcements, guys
Centus turns to the back once again, looking at the people trailing
Iehn: Welp, this was bound to happen eventually
Ruwt: Let’s lend a hand the best we can
Volta: Oh cool, wait how do we go about this again?
Sypka: Follow my lead
Iehn, Ruwt, Gyhaz, Uaptin, Volta and Sypka joined your Unit Reserve
Begin Reinforcement Tutorial
When you win
Larkin: Yeah and stay back!
Volta: Ok, I think I understand now, the goal for people like me is to assist in combat operations
Iehn: Yup, Century Corps Unit Reserve
Larkin: The Century Corps always wins the day!!
Larkin’s comment attracted the attention of someone nearby
Wayward Adventurer: Hey hold on what did you say?
Larkin: The Century Corps wins the day?
Kutok: Is there something wrong with that?
The group who was fighting off the Hollows moves closer to the Century Corps
Wayward Adventurer: No, It’s just, I didn’t expect another group to be saying that we win the day
Centus: What do you mean “we”?
Larkin: Yeah WE are the only Century Corps
Wayward Adventurer: What, no there must be some mistake, Mygin?
A Centennial with a long staff approaches the party
Mygin: Yes Lilac?
Lilac: Do you think these guys are the Century Corps?
Mygin: No that’s us
“Century Corps Member”: Yeah, we’re the Century Corps
Nest: There’s a dragon in your hair
“Century Corps Member”: There are bird eggs in yours
Larkin: Can we get back on track, these IMPOSTERS clearly don’t know who they’ve decided to impersonate
Lilac: Uhm, no imposter, there’s just no way you guys are the Century Corps, the spirit woman who lives inside of me said this was HER idea
Vague Spirit: Uhm, about that?
Larkin: HEY I KNOW THAT VOICE
Kutok: What are you going on about?
Iehn: No I hear it too, that can’t be who I think it is?
Lilac: What’s the deal, it’s just Acantha, my guardian spirit
Larkin: I KNEW IT
Olivia: Oh snap, that's the one who like killed a bunch of people that one time?
Lilac: I’m sorry what?
Acantha: Whoops…
Lilac: Hey what the hell, why do these people know you?
Acantha: Well remember I told you I used to be a person, well the Century Corps was the organization I used to run and I died because I did a thing where I broke an idol and released an army and then killed a bunch of people and then I got shot of a building
Iehn: Hey how the heck are you here
Acantha: I came back because I could
Lilac: Well yeah they found her in my body when I was like eleven so I founded the “Century Corps” thanks to her effort
Mygin: Well that’s pretty awkward
Olivia: Well, your name is Lilac right?
Lilac: Yes, and the group currently with me is myself, Mygin, Hoard (she gestures to the woman with a dragon in her hair), Aiden (she gestures to a Centennial with a sort of eye guard), Oseci (she points to a male with two leaf like axes) and Uruo (she gestures to a guy with floating ice seals)
Yoni: It seems like we might have the same goal here?
Lilac: What’s your goal?
Oiyrr: Completing our evil mirror jigsaw puzzle
Hoard: What is a jigsaw puzzle?
Oseci: It’s a thing people do when they are bored, involving putting pieces of of a bigger picture together
Hoard: Sounds BORING
Lilac: Uhm, can we help with that?
Yoni: Ok, what I’m trying to say is…we both fight bad guys, maybe we team up…and fight bad guys together
Uruo: I think I can agree with that
Aiden (gesturing to Boone): I really like that fellow’s gun
Boone: Thanks I guess?
Lilac: So what is this some kind of Century Corps-Century Corps team up?
Acantha: More like a collaborative effort
Larkin: You shut up, you killed people, you’re a bad person
Lilac: Excuse me?
Larkin: Your spirit guardian or whatever
Centus: Oh yeah she did all that
Aiden: Yeah, was our whole organization based on someone else’s organization?
Acantha: Technically it’s more like me making a splinter branch of my organization that I used to be in charge of
Lilac: Well fine, these darkness monsters-
Boone: Hollows
Mygin: So that’s what they’re called?
Lilac: -hollows, will be easier to deal with if we fight together
Centus: That is highly probable
Mygin: You look really old
Centus: I’m the first Centennial, I am older than every other living being on this planet
Mygin: Ah you must be Centus
Centus: This guy knows their facts
Ba-Bayost: Shouldn’t the rest of us introduce ourselves, I mean we have quite the impressive resume, I mean I killed like ten thousand demons that one time
Mygin: And you must be Ba-Bayost
Ba-Bayost: This guy gets it
Yoni: So what do you say Lilac, feel like putting your trust in us?
Lilac: Ya know what..I will…
Olivia: Well, we got that settled, “Century Corps” members, there will be a time to meet the rest of us
Hoard: Hey why does that person have bird eggs in her hair
Nest: What even IS your hair?
Hoard: Gold and gems from the treasure troves of Dragons, what is your hair, a nursery?
Nest: Birds love me, so what?
Larkin: There’s already arguing I love this
Hadane: I see opportunity for growth and introspection
Uruo: I agree, we might see something constructive from our collaborative efforts
Kutok: Ok, so what do we do know?
Lilac: How about the part where we fight together
Hollows begin to surround the large group
Kutok: I’ll let you take a swing at it
Kutok has left the party
Lilac has joined the party
Fight against The Hollows
When you win
Larkin: Now that’s what I’m talking about!!
Lilac: Now it’s time for us to head to our base?
Kutok: Your base?
Lilac: Oh yeah, it’s not that far into the valley, just past this point
Nest: Why pick a place so close to the perimeter?
Uruo: It allows us to work in the shadows
Lilac: We’re not exactly welcomed by the guys who run the show
Kutok: Alright, one of you show us the way
Lilac: Ok, follow me
Begin Base Pathway
When you are 25% down the pathway
Hoard: So what’s with the bird on your shoulder if they reside on your hair
The Soul Falcon begins looking at Hoard with a weird look
Nest: Well I found him, he was lost and one of those hollows wanted to grab him
Hoard: What’s so special about that bird
Nest: Well, I don’t know, but I want to keep it safe
Hoard: Wow you really love birds don’t you, are you some kind of nest?
Nest: Well about that…
Resume Base Pathway
When you are 50% down the pathway
Aiden: So gun friendo, where did your legs go?
Boone: A flying bastard named The Buzzard ripped them off my body
Aiden: The Buzzard?
Boone: The evil responsible for creating the Hollows we fight, I’m sure you’ll run into him soon enough
Yoni: WE’LL, run into him soon enough
Resume Base Pathway
When you are 75% down the pathway
Hadane: Lilac, how many members of your group are there?
Lilac: I lost count
Hadane: Fair enough
Lilac: But..I bet Ohss knows…
Hadane: Ohss?
Lilac: Ohss is our own genius, she runs a lot of the “smart people stuff” around here
Hadane: Well I look forward to seeing the people in your guild soon
Resume Base Pathway
When you are complete the pathway, the large group comes across the “Century Corps” base, which has great verticality and looks somewhat big
Lilac: We’re home…
Seeing Lilac return, one of the scouts on the top lets out the signal, but also a lot more people are here than expected
Pyzaiia (Over megaphone): Lilac is back, with, a very large group, open the doors
The doors to the base open, with several members of the “Century Corps” looking onward
Lilac: Looks like I have several explanations to make…
Uruo: Quite the explanation you have to make
Aiden: Looking forward too it
Olivia: So what do we do in the meanwhile?
Lilac: I guess you can set up camp outside
Lilac and her people go inside as the Century Corps Expeditionary Force begins making temporarily camp outside.
Nest: Looks like we’ve stumbled into a fight greater than we had thought
Nest looks over at her falcon
Olivia: Recovery of the Dark Mirror Shard still remains our top priority
Yoni: I think we have an obligation to help our counterparts with whatever struggles they may have, afterall, The Buzzard is here and he is also an enemy of our organization
Larkin: We can multitask, every adventurer is good at that
Ba-Bayost: Whatever challenges that arise can always be surmounted by a group of warriors, it’s why I’m here.
As the Expiditionary Force lies outside, Lilac and her compatriots are addressing her own group
Pyzaiia: So you’re so saying that we aren’t the only Century Corps, and we have counterparts
Acantha: Yeah that’s the premise
Lilac: Well, this was your idea, along with Yerod
Yerod: Having an assembly of fighters was always a good idea, I think we can do some good, we’ve done enough already
Lilac: When you revealed Acantha to me, I didn’t expect this result
Yerod: You didn’t know what to expect
Uruo: Life has that funny way of surprising you
Feydzke: So how does this affect all of us?
Ohss: Quite a few of our guys are scattered to the winds, this is going to give us a better push against Rahihi if he sends his goons after us again, or even those new mercenaries he hired?
Mygin: You must be talking about the Sinners Sextant
Aiden: Ah so you remembered their name
Mygin: I often do
Oseci: It seems like, we’ve reached a crucial juncture, we unite to fight
Lilac: I see, is there room in here they can stay?
Roik: I don’t believe so, but still their presence outside is good enough, as long as we are close together
Lilac: Alright, than I guess I’m going to learn about the organization I was led to create
Acantha: You’re welcome
Lilac: Shut up
Hoard: I’ll let them know
Hoard leaves to tell the Expeditionary Force about the conversation they just had
Lilac: I’m going to have to do a lot of self-reflection
Centus, Boone, Mygin, Uruo, Yoni, Oiyrr, Olivia, Oseci, Ba-Bayost and Aiden have been unlocked for party selection
Yerod, Ohss, Terefn, Pelican, Pyzaiia, Gtwtu, Ckkuan, Wgyte, Gego, Roik, Iofyr, Litas, Nushk, Ganczl, Roar, Qeego, Lid, Feydzke, Ovcon, Dneuez, Tranjoh, Noll, Ojun, Kmieou, Uvkais and Hjiiri have been unlocked for unit reserve selection.