Final Fantasy Journal

Here it goes, get my typing gloves on, there. Besides keeping my hands warm on cold nights while I type, my typing gloves also provide a layer of material between my skin and the touchpad on my laptop that prevents me from accidentally moving my cursor to another part of the page. Don't help with spelling though.

Here I will try and keep a regular post going about the happenings in my RPG, that's my RPG, the one I created. Anyway, I'll do it in summary form as each session tends to carry on into pages in narrative form and I don't have that kind of time on my hands. But I have gloves on my hands. :)

The Players:

Nate- Plays a Ronso Warrior, Telemic of Clan Rhade from the western continent, he's foreign and so is still trying to learn common from another Ronso in the group. Telemic is on a quest to rescue his sweetheart, a High Elf maiden...? Ok....

John- Plays another Ronso Warrior, Wawlimus of Clan Purtuk, he's the son of the High Chief who rules a bunch of local Clans. Wawlimus is on a mission to gain leadership experience and to grow up before he has to take over the Clans. Very prestigious.

Jeremy- Plays a Human Warrior, Kenji, from the town of Wutai, which was destroyed a short time ago, he appears to be the only surviving member of that town, thanks to a magical blade.

Ferris- Plays a Moomba Rogue, Ruggar, from the Shining Claw Tribe, located north of the town of Byfree. Ruggar has a bit of lore in spellcasting due to the tutoring of a mysterious red-cloaked mage who afterward disappeared.

Brad- Plays a Ronso Rogue, Zaragos, who watched his family get slaughtered by pirates and only survived by joining their crew. Zaragos was betrayed by those same pirates and now merely seeks adventure, and hopes for revenge.

20 Years After the Tale of Byfree Part 2

1025 AG

It started with a storm, Kenji, Wawlimus, and Telemic were aboard a ship in this storm, the latter two as guests. The ship ran aground and shattered, the crew panicked and it was every man for himself. The Ronso worked together and secured a large section of flotsam for themselves and Kenji did the same. They were the only ones able to make it to land, the rest were devoured, alive or dead, by sea trolls.

The three awake in warm beds to the smell of hearty broth and the smiles of a rotund woman and an attractive young lady. They are now in the town of Byfree. The villagers talk about the storm and how they now have more helpers to secure the harvest. Ruggar, ever the mischievous sort, is curious about the new arrivals, especially the fact that the Ronso can understand to a degree his chirping dialect, and he follows them around.

Apparently the villagers don't consider it an option for the three to leave, and suspecting some sort of strange cult the party bolts out of town and onto the only road out. Kenji is not trusting anyone and so tries to distance himself from the Ronso and Moomba, but when confronted by some strange shelled creatures after the road becomes overgrown he is glad for the added security a party brings.

After surviving the encounter, the party decides to head into the forest, following a more well-traveled path. This leads them to an encounter near a large log cabin, with a small group of Imps, which they finally dispatch. After the battle they meet up with the owners of the cabin, Pladar and Leogar, brothers and woodsmen, protectors of Byfree. They stay the night with the two Gigantos in their cabin and are told the story of why they will not be able to leave Byfree. (Ref Tale of Byfree parts I+II, Nate did not read this story so doesn't know what happened, it fits cause his character can't understand Common anyway.)

The next morning they go with Pladar into the forest to hunt some more Imps and have a great huge battle against a whole band of them, this takes pretty much the whole session. Afterward Pladar is in stitches after watching them bumble about haphazardly while trying to work as a team. Ruggar makes an impressive display of getting a head shot with his bow on an annoying Imp Shaman who was causing them some trouble.

Afterward they head to the Moomba village a little further into the forest, Ruggar's village, and are treated to a traditional lunch feast of fried root paste, fish, rabbit, and dark brown fermented palm leaf ale. They then head back to Byfree with Pladar to see what needs to be done around town, but they are determined not to stay long.

They meet a many of the towns inhabitants and do a bit of shopping in the local shops. Interestingly enough there has been another survivor of the shipwreck found, Zaragos. How he survived that long in the ocean with sea trolls about is a miracle. They get to know each other and Pladar leaves them promising to that if they still want to attempt to leave the peninsula they need to get stronger, and he will show them to places where they may fight more than just Imps.

The next morning after some confusion about misplaced weapons Pladar shows up to guide them through the forest, but this plan is short lived as Louise, a young lady who runs the Item shop with her twin sister Thelma, reveals that Imps have kidnapped little Nancy, the towns sweetheart and the only girl to be born in 20 years. Needless to say this takes precedence over any leisurely monster hunting that may have been planned. So off into the woods everyone goes, hunting down the Imps that had the gall to kidnap their precious Nancy.

The party stays together an navigates the twisting forest pathway quite well, trying to get all the treasure and defeat all the monsters, before rescuing Nancy. They run into a Lesser Hill Troll who nearly wipes them out, but they use some Phoenix Downs and get back in the game, dealing many critical blows to the savage beast before it has the chance to regenerate. Unfortunatly they forget to decapitate it and cauterize the wound and soon after they leave it regenerates and heads off into the forest holding onto a big grudge. They then easily cleave through all enemies until they come across the Gigantos and a troupe of Moomba hunters who have found where Nancy is being held.

The battle is fierce and swift, over 25 Imps are either killed or routed and Nancy is rescued very quickly, the powerful Gigantos brothers holding nothing back. They then return to Byfree with Nancy and everyone has a party, but not before they search the rest of the forest paths for treasure they may have missed. Everyone is happy to have Nancy back safe, but the leaders of the town suspect something strange is going on with the Imps to have them perform so bold an attack. They resolve to investigate the matter as soon as the Imps settle down and return to their natural habits, which should take a few days because the huge defeat they suffered will make them skiddish for a while.

to be continued.........