Our party wanders around the inside of the massive, ancient building while a half-mutant/half man creature with 1 eye spots the party and is immediately suspicious.
Mutant: "Da-me! What business do you have in Tankia?"
TRITHAL: "We are on our way to Tanchi City. We are just passing through."
Mutant: "Oh, yeah? Then, why the hell are you wandering around in here?....(taking a closer look at our party)....Wait a second, the lot of you look rather classy...(taking a closer look at Ali and Evan)...well, you two look rather classy, the rest of you...well, one is a scrawny-looking weenie roast, one is a bung lick with stupid red markings on his face, one is a shorter pudgier bung-lick with ridiculous long hair and stupid blue markings on his face, and the other one looks like a rock star reject."
The quartet is quite pissed at how the mutant stereotyped them...and engages the mutant in battle.
BATTLE MODE ON
TRITHAL: "I'll show you what this pudgy bung-lick can do!"
TRITHAL rushes at the mutant with his pizza knife. Due to the fact that the mutant has a surprisingly adept ability at combat, he stops TRITHAL dead in his tracks, snatches that pizza knife out of his hands, subdues him in a stand-off position and holds the pizza knife to his neck.
Mutant: "One move and he dies!"
The party withdraws any possible retaliation they were going to make.
Mutant: "You all look like the fuckers who stormed the Ice Fortress and wiped out the Redusa, defenders of the late, great, Liiche of the Cold."
The mutant is still holding TRITHAL at knife point.
Mutant: "If I were to kill this teammate of yours, I have a feeling that you would be dealt a crushing blow."
CHRIS cowardly gives in by exclaiming, "You can have him. We're outta here!!!"
CHRIS RUNS AWAY
CHRIS is seen butt-walk-running away, obvious to everyone that he's speaking for himself. Suddenly the mutant fires a blast of energy at CHRIS stopping him in his tracks. CHRIS loses all of his HP. He collaspses.
Mutant: "Nobody is going anywhere!!"
AXEM: "Who the fuck are you??!! What the hell do you want?!!"
Mutant: (to TRITHAL): "You better tell that rockstar reject to silence that mouth of his or the last thing you will see is blood splattering all over his face."
THRAX: "Goddamn it, start talking!! What is your fucking problem?!"
Mutant: "I am Visaggo of the Shadows... right-hand man to the great Liiche of the Cold. You see, I was looking forward to over-throwing the mountain castle, but Liiche was defeated...by this miscrient!!! Now I am without my leader, and you all will pay!"
Ali: "How do you know all of this?"
Visaggo: "You need not concern yourself with that right now."
AXEM: "Look, you punk-mothafucker, let him go or suffer the wrath of the Stone Pillar!"
THRAX: "...and the Hell Fire!"
Visaggo: "Make one move and you will end up like that plant-fucker over there!"
AXEM: "WHAT THE FUCK?! Who are you and how do you know so much about--"
Visaggo: "Silence!"
Visaggo attempts to use the same move on AXEM and THRAX as he did on CHRIS. Due to quick thinking from THRAX and quick reflexes from AXEM, THRAX chants a quick spell which repells the blast. At the same moment AXEM has leapt over Visaggo to appear behind him. He ninja kicks the knife out of his hand and tackles TRITHAL out of the way, leaving Visaggo to absorb the blast. Visaggo disintegrates the same way Liiche did when TRITHAL killed him. A orb of energy is seen leaving the mutant corpse. The orb first races over to AXEM and attempts to assimilate him and is unsuccessful, then tries THRAX, then Ali, then arrives at Evan. Evan is an undeveloped fighter so he is vulnerable. Evan is assimilated by Visaggo. Suddenly the body of Evan is morphed into somebody cool-looking like a FINAL FANTASY VII character with long perfectly-stringy hair, evil eyes, and bad-ass clothes.
Ali cries out, "EVAN!!!!"
THRAX: "Oh, shit, if I wasn't a part of this damn game, I would be thinking that Evan looks fucking stomp now!"
Visaggo (in a slightly warped voice from before): "This ain't over muthafuckas!"
Quickly Visaggo dash-rushes from where he's standing at the back of the church at warp speed, moving too quickly for our heroes, knocking them all on their asses. Everyone loses 5 HP.
Before Visaggo exits the church and leaves the scene of the atrocity, he glances a sadistic look at TRITHAL as he is reeling from what just happened. Visaggo then dash-rushes away.
BATTLE MODE OFF
This is yet another one of those moments where everyone is stunned at the events of what just happened. Although this time, nobody stays silent while they watch animals fuck on TV.
TRITHAL (once again letting on like he doesn't know more about what's going on than he actually does): "Damn... I guess the insurgents are more pissed, motivated, and powerful than we had anticipated."
AXEM: "Uh.....ok. That's all you have to say? After all that?! What do you know about this?"
TRITHAL: "Pfff. Why do I always have to be the guy with all the information?"
AXEM: "Because you usually ARE the guy with all the information! Plus I think you get a high off of being that guy."
As TRITHAL takes a deep breath and then exhales, he reluctantly agrees to tell them what he knows about what just happened. AXEM and THRAX help him up.
TRITHAL (34/41 HP; 30/32 SP; 697/3000 EXP)
AXEM (35/43 HP; 18/40 SP; 704/3000 EXP)
THRAX (17/26 HP; 50/58 SP; 366/3000 EXP)
CHRIS (0/37 HP; 31/46 SP; 657/3000 EXP)
Ali (5/30 HP; 10/20 SP; 638 EXP)
So now our once-again 4-membered party has a whole new set of problems: a princess' assimilated fiancee, a dead fourth of the quartet, and a bad-ass looking dude who has it out for our party. AXEM breifly comforts a tearful Ali for the loss of her fiancee then walks over to CHRIS with THRAX following behind him. TRITHAL picks up his pizza knife off the ground while AXEM and THRAX somewhat-gingerly pick up CHRIS' corpse. AXEM is on one end, and THRAX is on the other. Before the two could walk two steps with CHRIS in their care, TRITHAL notices what the two are doing and says, "Wait. Put him back down on the ground."
AXEM and THRAX somewhat-carefully lay him on the ground. TRITHAL grabs one leg and tugs away at it. He then starts walking toward the exit while dragging CHRIS' carcass ass behind him over the dirty, sharp terrain. AXEM and THRAX look at him kinda funny, as to which TRITHAL replies, "Hey, this is what he gets for letting that pud-whack Visaggo almost kill me."
They feel he makes a good point and allows him to continue to drag CHRIS. TRITHAL spots the Inn and opts to head that way where they will figure out what to do about their new set of problems and of course, hear what TRITHAL has to say. AXEM and THRAX concur and start to make their way over to the Inn. Ali is frozen in disbelief about what just happened and doesn't move and simply stands there in silence.
AXEM: "Hey, you guys keep going to the Inn. I'll meet you in there in a few minutes."
AXEM runs over to Ali as it is obvious that she needs more comforting since neither TRITHAL nor THRAX is really any good at it.
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