Final Fantasy Journal 4

Tali-ho,
It has been forever and more since I posted here. I have started a Yahoo group for the RPG guys to discuss stuff, and all of them are too lazy to read anything I write anyway. So this will probably be the last post for another long while. Mostly since the group has stopped playing right now, 8 players is a bit too much, even when they don't all make every week, and every week is a bit to often to plan a 6 person session.

I am also participating as a player in 3 other RPG's. A group of 'Magic: The Gathering CCG' players that I know from work has started a DnD campaign that meets about once a month, I'm a Half-Elf Wizard that will eventually cross-class to a Monk. Exciting. Then there is the WarHammer RPG, it's in lieu of Pat's L5R rpg that slowed down during kotei season, I'm a Dwaf Rat-catcher named Aghar (10 points if you understand that one) with only 23/100 Intelligence, I actually chose to be a rat-catcher. Lastly there is nother group of L5R guys that has started a RPG, I'm a Monk of Osano-Wo named Goro in that one, was thinking about being a Kenku (crow-person), but the GMs character is a Naga (snake-person) and would probably eat me.

So yeah, pretty busy lately. My first day off in three and a half weeks this Saturday, and guess what I'm doing? L5R rpg in the afternoon, and DnD in the evening! True to form I am The Geek.

Now on to what you have all been waiting for........ ::Looks around empty storage closet:: .......... The continued adventures of our ever-expanding Final Fantasy Party, I guess it is kinda staying true to FFVI.


Players

Telemic Rhade- Ronso Warrior- played by Nate.
Terissa Ju'nai- Human Rogue- also played by Nate.
Wawlimus Purtuk- Ronso Warrior- played by John.
Zaragos- Ronso Rogue- played by Brad.
Kenji- Human Warrior- played by Jeremy.
Ruggar- Moomba Rogue- played by Ferris.
????- Moogle Chemist- played by Aaron.
Rei- Were-Tiger Rogue-played by Mitch.
Morgoroth- Wood Elf Warrior- played by Chris.
Lorana- Wood Elf Archer- played by my lil sis, and later by me.

Ok, too many.

When we last left our insepid adventurers they had just wiped out a cluster of Imps and were resting, recovering their wind and allowing the imps plenty of time to organize, which doesn't say much.

The party just decides to charge straight up the middle, the imps camp is nestled in between two ridges that project from the skirt of a large grouping of mountains. As they move slightly up hill the remaining imps flee before them, squealing cries of fright before the bloodied blades of the heros. The hills close in on either side and then suddenly widen out agian, revealing the bulk of the imp encampment.

To the left Ruggar notices a large wooden cage containing three figures, but the rest of the party pays it no mind and charge the nearest group of disorganized imps, still wondering what the cry of alarm meant. Blood flies forth, imps, dead from the first stroke, fall to the bloodsoaked ground in peices. But again the party has a difficult time dealing with the Nakks that leap for their throats.

Meanwhile in the cage a Moogle, Human, and weretiger struggle to break free and join the fight, the Moogle tries to give out a telepathic cry for assistance, but the fighters are so enraged none heed it.

Telemic breaks free of the Nakks and charges forward again, seeking new foes. He is met then by better armed and armoured imps, the champions normally held in reserve. Three of the brutes engage him while another three charge past to engage his allies, trailing more Nakks. The fighting is severe, and the arrival of the Imp Champions encourages the remaining imps to turn back to the fight.

Frustrated beyond belief at the stupidity he sees before him, Rei struggles at the bars of the cage, trying to make his way into the fight. After some straining and use of his weretiger power he breaks the cage door off and slips away to find his weapons. They are located in a nearby tent and he brings the ones belonging to the Moogle and Terissa out to them. The Moogle grabs his trident and flies off into battle mixing a big banger on the way, and Terissa follows close behind with her bow.

Telemic, having dispatched two impa champions on his own moves to the third, but a few lucky blows from the imps club stun him, and a vicious lunge from a Nakk tears out his throat. He collapses to the ground just as Kenji moves up beside him to kill the Nakk. The other party members then finish off the remaining champion and the last straggling imps and look to their fallen comrade. Kenji reaches down and takes his katana, tucking into his belt, and walks away. Rei meanwhile has been slipping silently along the side of the camp and plans to take the imps unawares from the rear.

Having no time to bury their fallen friend the rest of the party follows Kenji, while the moogle and Terissa seek some privacy/treasure in a tent. Approaching the end of the camp and nearing the high mountains the party sees a terrible battle standard stuck into the ground, it is not scary, just terribly made, as if by a child with only two colors of paint, rust and brown. Before this standard, glaring menacingly at them in hideosly mismatched armour, is a fat, slobbery coal skinned imp. To his sides are at least 15 cowering imps wielding crude weapons and rocks.

And of course the group charges straight up the middle, cutting a path through the imp fodder to the main badguy. Every time an attack would hit him, however, he grabs one of the other imps to act as a shield, but soon after the battle starts he notices his supply of imp-shields is running low, and looks of to the side. There, with his weapons spinning in his hands stands Rei, methodically slaying imps with quick jabs to the throat eyeholes, earholes, noses etc. Soon the Imp Cheiftan is forced to fight fairly, and though it is a long and difficult fight, when the imp has fallen, all the party members still stand.

They then proceed to search the area for any treasure, don't find much except for a strangely well crafted signet ring on the fat imps finger, Ruggar is determined to wear the imps dilapitated armour, and strips the stinking body. While everone is busy talking and looting what isn't nailed down, the imp chieftan jumps up, looks around, and runs off into a large cave in the mountain at the end of the camp. Everyone looks at each other and sighs, and then the moogle and terissa show up, and the moogle projects some vivid images into the other guys minds. They all laugh!

KUpo KupO! ;)

End of session.

Maybe I'll have to do another soon. oh well.