In the Taren Empire, it was a beautiful day, it was a shame King Jason had just left the other day and missed it. Not that many could feel sad, not with the celebrations held by the townsfolk,
"The harvest has arrived!", "The world is free of Chaotic Nonsense!" And other similar cheering was in the streets, it was joyous to say the least, even some of the more stalwart adventurers joining in their own ways, mostly just jumping for some reason.
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This celebration was also, unknown to the townsfolk, being broadcast throughout the world, our world to be more precise. Not only were many adventurers streaming the moment live, some adding their commentary out of the game, and even on 'Fantasy Today' the new news network that focused exclusively on matters in the game.
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Meanwhile in the land split to seven parts, our dear members of Chaotic|Nonsense were also going about their own business.
Al was finishing up some machines, some large, with spherical bodies and metal legs like spiders, the gears helping them to move exposed on the outside, but that was fine. Some others he had already made were much smaller machines, holding scrolls with green runes etched in, and softly glowing crystals.
Boldy was getting in as much last minute rope and chain tying practice in as possible, as well as weight lifting with some of the rocks above his caves.
Kelly had already done his part, and was calmly waiting in position. His position? Posing as a royal guard, which was surprisingly easy, since he only had to keep it up for less than a day. How, you ask? Well, position swapping and self altering spells can be really useful for going incognito, if you use them as Kelly did, swapping positions with the guard's skeleton and altering himself to match the other skeleton better. By the way, did you know, One, Having a mismatched skeleton to your body for as little as a second is apparently enough to kill a man, two, The body odor of a dead person can be cleared up with an illusion spell, and three, An empty chest cavity can provide a lot of room to hide things, like say, smoke bombs or explosive crystals.
Pat was saddling and pampering his fastest large person griffon. The griffon in turn, nuzzled up against Pat. Pat had control over the beast and its respect, as it should be.
Gimme was searching through his hoard for the things he wanted to bring. His 'shopping list' went as follows: Two Bottles of rather effective healing potion, A large Greatclub, a Crystal glowing a brilliant ocean blue, and a large sack for himself.
For the others he brought a rag, a bottle of effective sleeping potion, and some rope, for Pat and Boldy. For Everyone he brought a small, fit in the palm of your hand, clear crystal each.
Emp was still out trying to steal some small dragon eggs, with minor success. So far only one from a brown scaled one. He currently had his eyes on the eggs of what was nicknamed the "Chameleon Dragon." You get two guesses why it's called that.
Pat, Al, Boldy, and Gimme all met up in the abandoned city by the arch, a brief going over the plan done by Pat.
"Okay, first things first, we all need to attune the portal stones Gimme brought us." A brief round of nodding, then they held the clear stones inside the Arch. The crystals shined briefly, then settled into shifting between all the colors known.
Pat said, "Good, now, the plan."
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In the streets people danced with each other, laughing and singing.
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"The first one in is Gimme, once there, he'll drop the Waterform crystal in the well and do whatever he wants, just provide a minor distraction, and keep it behind the castle,"
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On 'Fantasy Today' a news anchor was pointing to the live feed from their reporter in the field, getting it from their feed. He said, "Yes folks as you can see the people are celebrating currently in the Taren Empire. We will keep this live footage up for the next hour, we here at Fantasy Today can all agree, it's about time to focus on the good news.
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"Then after that, Al will come in from the right with the machines from myself and Boldy direct porting you and the machines in, you'll provide a larger distraction,"
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Ellianne sat in the garden within the castle walls, enjoying looking at the beautiful flowers and talking to one of her favorite maids.
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"Then, when they notice the trouble from front, left, and right, being the elementals, Gimme, and Al respectively, they'll want to fortify in the back of the castle at the throne room,"
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Out in the southern continent, Emp had just finished fighting and killing the Mother Chameleon dragon, and started gathering two eggs, starting with the smallest, then taking the biggest. It didn't take much to levitate them behind him, what was more annoying was that he'd have to ask Pat to come with him to get the dragon hide and scales off it, and he'd owe him one again. 'Ah well, It's worth it,' Emp thought, 'Chameleon Dragons are stupidly rare, hopefully he'll let me keep a good chunk of it when he's done."
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"When they get there, Kelly will detonate the explosive crystals he should've been laying near the foundations all throughout the castle, and he'll make sure the princess isn't crushed in the rubble. After all of this, Myself and Boldy will fly in on the griffon, Boldy will swing down with the chain and pick up the princess, followed by using the potion and rag to knock her out. I'll be controlling the griffon. Once we have the princess, I'll shoot a fire arrow at a random building, when you see a burning building, everyone uses their stones and ports out. Me and Boldy will each bring the griffon and princess back in our ports respectively. Everybody understand?"
A round of nods went by, and Pat said, "Good, now we start on go, and remember" They all smiled, knowing what he was going to say next, "Make sure you have some fun. GO!"
A rush of activity, Pat and Boldy putting their hands on the archway, activating it to show the town square of the capital city just by the well, and Gimme jumping through.
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On Gimme's end, he rushed through, dropping the waterform crystal into the well, then rushing to a soldiers barracks to the left.
From there he scared off most of the soldiers, realizing that he was 'The Hoarder'. The few that stayed ended up the same way, swing, crush, stain on the greatclub. Once they were gone he filled his sack to the brim with cannonballs from the barracks, and began playing some mix between baseball and a shooting gallery.
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When Elliane heard some commotion to the left of the castle, she began to rush for the windows to that side.
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Pat said, "Good, Alright you're up Al." The arch showed the other side of the castle, then what appeared to be iridescent lightning struck Al and his machines in succession, teleporting them to city on the other side of the castle.
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Once Al was in, he wasted no time, immediately 'Mana Linking' as he called it, to his machines. The best way to describe mana linking, is like a magical wireless connection, except instead of using computers to control it, you use it with intent and mana, either using specific intent such as with his arm or the factories, or vague such as with these machines. This was how Al operated his mechanical arm, and his factories. He was also the inventor of the technique, and nobody else used it as far as he knew.
The machines gears began to move, and so they gained more and more speed, and started stomping around everywhere, their long, pointed, spidery legs making quick work of what roads they had.
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Elliane heard a much, much, louder commotion to the right of the castle and couldn't help but rush over, she didn't make it far enough to see what was to the left, but she figured whatever made that sound to the right was more important.
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Pat and Boldy quickly hopped onto the Griffon, rushing through the arch as it showed the sky above the Capital City.
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The newscaster from earlier said, "As we can see from the live reporters feed, not only is 'The Hoarder' still alive and causing havoc to the left of the castle, we can also see another infamous member, 'The Creator', is currently leading large spider-like machines to the right of the cas- Breaking news! We cut to our second reporters feed as we see what we can recognize as water elementals coming from the well!"
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In the castle, the guards and princess had retreated to the throne room. They began to barricade the doors to hold out for adventurers to arrive. While some believed that this was the end, little did they know that while for some individuals it was, for the rest of the world, they were living out the beginning of a fairy tale.