Final Fantasy IX: The Fall of Mages RP

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OOC: Want to get a story overview what has happened so far, then check this http://www.finalfantasyforums.net/t...e-fall-of-the-mages-story-overview-33041.html

The story takes place 100 years after the events of Final Fantasy IX. The beautiful and quite peaceful world from before is on the edge of extinction. The population of Gaia has grown dozen of times. The towns and villages from before have grown in to big cities, full of thieves, mercenaries and beggars. The former cities now are the true capitals of the world, holding more humans in them than Gaia total population once had been. But that all brings Gaia closer to its inglorious end.
As the cities grew, the new empires were formed and the old ones got stronger. New aggressive empires unfolded a great row of wars, which showed the fearless civilization of Mist Continent, that the life isn't as easy as it seems at first. Then, after 40 years of deadly wars, everything calmed down for a decent or two, but now, the Great Empire Of Oeilvert, the empire of assassins, thieves, murderers and selfish rulers, started the war by attacking Daguerro towns in Forbidden Continent. Oeilvert is getting ready for war against Daguerro and when they once attack, no-one is safe from their ambitions.
Once, a war with that size would harm the cities and city life, but now, when the technology is quickly surpassing the power of magic, the world is slowly moving towards a total war, which means a total chaos. The technology and bombs now are able to blow up whole cities, what once was nearly impossible by magic.
Tho, everything has a brighter side. The advancement of technology and magic using, has made the cities the true centers of culture and education. The new towns and cities, new buildings and castles, all are as glorious and beautiful as one could imagine. The life everywhere besides Oeilvert is shining. Never before has the world of Gaia been so varied as it is now. But the sad fact is, once the Oeilvert comes with its destruction and death-spreading, this slowly grown up life will end and will be replaced with chaos and fear by the way, it now is in Oeilvert.

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City profiles: ( More added soon)
The Grand City of Lindblum-
Population: ~130 000 (citizen)
Emperor: Regent Tom Fabool II ( Age: 41)
Major: Lord Henry ''Tantalus'' Grey ( Age: 61)

Lindblum, it is called as the center of the world. It is most populated and varied city in whole Gaia. It is still famous because of it's airships and as one may presume it now holds the biggest army the Mist Continent ever has possessed. It's the great home of trading, entertainment and working.
The city itself is divided in to many sectors. Starting from the old Lindblum and ending up to the areas near former Pinnacle Rocks.

The Old Town of Lindblum now known as the Noble Castle-

1st district- Lindblum Grand Castle( which once was the biggest castle. Now it is easily compared to all other castles of big empires). It's the same old castle of Lindblum. Nothing has changed besides some newly built mansions and upgraded airship docks. (It now contains 4 airship docks, before it had 1). Also a bridge from Castle moves to Airship factory which now has improved a lot. It's more than 5 times bigger than before and now has 14 airship docks inside it for developing new airships. ( Tho, it isn't used as much as it once was, because of the new factories in other sectors).

2nd district- The Royal Theater District. It has now grown in to the entertainment center for all Lindblum 1st Sector/ Noble Castle. It is divided in to three main theater areas-
The Tantalus Entertainment Group- It is the biggest and the finest area of whole theater district. The buildings are fine architecture accomplishments, the buildings in this area contain many expensive shops and inns and Three Tantalus Theaters.
1st is the Theater of Zidane Tribal. It is well known for its size, being the biggest theaters ever created for remembering the great deeds of Zidane Tribal. It mostly plays the greatest of plays once in a month and most of the richest nobles from all around the world gather to watch them, paying thousands of gold coins to see the play, which contains comedies and tragedies. It has only one hall, but the size of the hall is bigger than the Great Colosseum of Lindblum. It is so popular and famous, that to get to watch one play, you must buy the ticket half year before the play.
2nd is the Theater of Baku, for reminding the great starter of the world famous actor group Tantalus. This theater is the most active theater of Tantalus group and has three plays in a week. It's a well built theater, containing a lot of ancient accessories and furniture. It has three halls, because it usually has the same play in all the halls, but with different group. The most known plays are played in Great Hall.
3rd is the Theater of Tantalus- It plays only the ones that are made by Tantalus group members, and because of that, it only has one play once a week. Still it is famous and pretty popular, as all the theaters are.
The Tantalus Entertainment Group area also contains the biggest chocobo racing area in Lindblum 1st sector. This racing arena is very popular among the citizens of Lindblum and so has races twice every day. The races are free, but the Tantalus Group earns hundred of thousands with betting function.
The second is the Royal Theater. It contains mostly the houses of famous actors and writers. As well it contains many rich merchant and warrior houses. Besides this, it contains a smaller chocobo arena, which only has races once in a week. It also contains three famous Inns. The inn of the Travelers, where the rich travelers stop and rest. The inn of Regent Cid Fabool IX, where the richest of the richest sleep and rest when visiting Lindblum. And thirdly, the inn of Lady Eiko. A homely inn it is, which always has some rooms free even for middle class humans.
This area only has one theater, the Theater of Royal, which has plays once every day. It's the busiest of the Theaters and visited by many famous people. Tho it has a limitation, it's only for nobles, and because of that, it pays a lot. Around 4 000 gold coins one play, but you can buy a monthly ticket for it, which pays only around 20 000 gold coins and so you can save up to 40 000 gold coins.
Lastly, the Free Theater area- The lower class actors and writers live there. Also it contains great amount of shops and inns. It has a great market , where the lower citizens trade and buy items and food. Also it contains three theaters and one chocobo racing stadium ( a small one tho). The Theaters are small and cheap, but that doesn't mean that they are bad. They have some really talented actors there.
Besides the three areas, The Theater District has a main square, where you can enter Air cabin station. The main square is pretty busy all the time and all the buildings around it are filled with shops and inns. Only a few are rich enough to buy a house to that square.

3rd District- The Business district.
After the theater district, there is a business district, the home of all trading, entertainment and life. It now holds both, the old industrial district and the old business district together with many residence areas. It contains thousands and thousands of living houses, but still, the number of shops, markets and inns are near the number of the living houses. The most famous areas are the Central Square of Lindblum. This the greatest square in whole Lindblum, called '' The Great Market Square'' having a radius around 1 mile. The great cathedral of Lady Eiko lies in the northern side of the square. The square itself is filled with different shops and and circuses. In middle of the square, there is a big stage, for free theatre and other activities. Also a band of Tantalus group plays there most of the time.
The edges of the square are filled with many big markets and shops. There is a byword about this market: '' You can find everything in there, and if you cannot, you are not in The Great Market Square.'' Besides that, the Business District contains the biggest Lindblum arena, The Grand Colosseum of Lindblum. It has fights more than twice in a day and is the famous spot all over the world. Many legendary fighters live there and earn money there.
There is one big chocobo racing arena in Business District too, which is as big as the Tantalus one, but is more favored by middle class citizens than the nobles.

After the Noble Castle, there comes 2nd sector.
The second sector is built against the Noble Castle. It is a diagonal sector, which contains mostly living areas. It is also known as the Residence sector. It contains three districts:
Residence district- This is the place, where around 60% of middle class live and some nobles live there too, who aren't as rich as other nobles. It contains few theaters and dozens of shops and inns. Despite of its size and population, it lacks anything else than living houses.
Market district- This is half of the size of residence district and contains mostly inns, shops and living houses. It has around 3 theaters and 1 chocobo racing arena. It's pretty active and the buildings are big and beautiful, but not as beautiful and great as Noble Castle ones.
Industry district- This District contains the biggest building of Lindblum, the Great Airship Factory. It has more than 70 airship docks and dozens of weapon shops and army houses inside it. Besides the Great Airship Factory, this district contains a lot of bars and few inns. It contains the workers houses mostly. The other big building is the Weapon Factory, where around 500 smiths work and make equipment for soldiers. These weapons and armors are sold everywhere around the world. Despite the big buildings, it is one of the dirtiest districts.

3rd sector a.k.a The Outer sector. This sector contains three areas and contains the areas from 2nd sector to Pinaccle Rocks.
The area is the public sector, divided in to three districts:
1st- The Residence district- This is where the most of the lower class and many medium class citizens live. It contains big markets, inns and bars, as well three gladiator arenas and 2 chocobo racing arenas. This is pretty active city part too. It has the three great Airship stations, which each contain 50 airship docks. The airship stations contain dozens of restaurants, inns, shops and travel agencies. All traveling to Lindblum, besides the royal ships, land there. Because of that, the main street to Noble Castle is always filled with the travelers.
2nd is the big Industry district- Most of the workers live here and some poorer citizens too. It has few inns and shops, but contains around hundred bars, because of the workers. It has one low chocobo racing arena and one theater for the higher workers. This area contains a airship factory, weapon factory, dozens of small factories and a big mine, where Lindblum gets 50% of his iron.
3rd is the area of low citizens and poor people, called ''Slums''. 50% of it people aren't citizen. This area contains many markets and dirty job houses. It has more than 50 bars and few inns. It's not likely, that a noble will find his way to here. Tho, many workers live here, as there is a big mine, where Lindblum gets around 25% of the iron he needs and 70 % of coal they need. Slum isn't beautiful place, but if you don't have any other place to live, you will find a home to here even for 30 gold coins.

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The city of Alexandria
Population: ~53 000
King: Kuja Alexandros Tribal I ( Age: 94, but looks like 60)
Major: Lady Dagger Tribal II ( Age: 71, but looks like 50)

The capital of peace, splendor and beauty. Alexandria is looking still as beautiful as it once was, but now, it contains some of the biggest and beautiful structures. Alexandria itself is divided in to 3 regions:
1st is the Great Castle of Gaia. It is the biggest castle ever built. It is so huge that it can be spotted from everywhere around the town. It is also the most well-built and finest crafted building in whole Gaia. It has the main structure of the old castle, but it is a lot huger and detailed. It is as big as the Town of Alexandria once was and it lies next to the mountain near old Alexandria fields. The castle has a big crystal like tower in the middle(like the old one had, but now just bigger) and four towers around it. (the distance between them is pretty big tho).

2nd is the Great Market region. It contains mostly the new territory of Alexandria city. It has the same architecture style buildings like the old town part has, but it contains many elegant and huge buildings. The biggest building of this area is the Great Dock. It is a castle like building and contains 45 airship docks. It is beautifully built and has dozens of shops, inns and restaurants in it. All the airships coming to Alexandria normally land here, so it contains many travel agencies and is pretty populated all the time. It also has two theaters in it. 1st is the Noble theater, which is a bit bigger and more expensive than the other theater, Public Theater.
Besides the great docks, which also can be seen almost everywhere around the town, there is a great cathedral of Garnet Til Alexandros. It's the place, where most of the humans go to pray every morning and remind Queen Garnet. Zidane let it built after the death of Garnet. It lies in the Great market square, as big as the one in Lindblum, but it is more elegant and has more noble and good-willed people trading there. The biggest theater is the Theater of Tantalus. It's in the border of this territory and the residence territory. It is as huge as Zidane Theater in Lindblum, but it also is able to board Theater ships and has a special stage for acts from theater ships. It has plays three times in a week and everyone who can afford to watch the plays, goes to watch them at least twice in a month. Besides that, the Market Region is filled with shops, inns, restaurants, bars and living houses. It also contains a Big Chocobo Arena, where all the chocobo races take place. Some of the fastest chocobos race in that arena and because of that, it is pretty famous. There are three main streets in there, which contain the biggest shops and buildings. The Pluto Knights street, Royal street, which leads to the port from where you can go to castle and lastly, but not least is the Queen street. All the streets lead to the main square, where the cathedral of Garnet is.

3rd territory is The Residence region. It contains as much as inns, shops, bars, restaurants and theaters as the Market district, but it is further away from the airship docks, so it mostly has the citizens hanging around there. It also contains the old castle, which now is the residence of the major and princes and princesses all around the world. The biggest building besides the castle in there, is the Arena Of Alexandria. The only fighting arena in Alexandria. It is pretty popular and nobles from Treno always hang around there.

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The Great City of Burcmeria

Population: 55 000
King: Lancelot '' Dragon lord'' Crescent ( age: 41)
Major: James '' Spearhand'' Black ( age: 45)

The Great City of Burcmeria is known as the land of mysteries, knowledge and power. It's the home territory of rat-like human race. They possess the great Dragon Knights and world- known scholars, who seem to prefer Cleyra, but also teach at Burcmeria. Burcmeria city is divided in to three four quarters- The north, West, East and South Quarter.
South quarter is the quarter of business and knowledge. It contains hundreds of shops, inns, markets, theaters, restauraunts, schools and churches. The biggest and most famous building of South Quarter is the great South Dragon Tower, being one of the four biggest towers ever built. It is as big as Lindblum Castle Region and as populated as one could presume. It is able to hold around 45 airship in same time and each airship dock could have an invinsible in it, as every dock is as huge as the Lindblum castle dock once was. The tower itself, besides the docks contain dozens of traveling agencies, banks, shops, inns, bars, cafes, few theaters and restauraunts. It is the center of the activity in SQ ( South Quarter). Besides the tower, Burcmeria SQ also holds the university of Burcmeria, one of the top universities in whole Gaia, known as the University of warcraft. It has four possible things to study- Warcraft, History, Engineering and Politics. The top generals have studied in this university and some of the best generals still study there. Last, but no least, is the Theater of Sir Fratley. The most respected and famous theater in the eyes of Burcmeria citizens. It holds plays three times in a week and never has a free seat.

The second quarter, known as West Quarter, is the quarter of entertainment and nobles. It mostly contains the living houses of nobles, dozens of inns, shops and bars, around dozen theater, two chocobo racing area, which both are really famous around the Mist Continent and the Great Colosseum of Burcmeria, being the second biggest building in WQ. The biggest building is The West Dragon Tower. It is as big as the SDT ( South Dragon Tower), but is able to board around 30 ships, but each of the docks is able to hold even bigger ships, so that all the nobles and big airships stop there. The tower contains mostly the same societies as the SDT.

The third quarter, known as East Quarter, is the home of warcraft. More than half of the Burcmeria soldiers live there, it is also the most rusty and ruder quarter. It has many bars and inns, as well some schools, two theater, few arenas and two chocobo racing arenas, where mostly the soldiers take part to show off their skills with their chocbos. The EDT is as big and beautiful as the other three towers, but this one contains only docks for warships, few airship factories and soldier barracks. It is pretty popular, but non-soldiers almost never need to visit it.

The fourth quarter, The North Quarter, is the quarter of the castle, royals and greatest warriors. It mostly contains the houses of the officers and famous people. It has few inns and hotels, few shops and markets, but mostly only for high rat people. The NDT is the greatest of the towers. It is the finest in terms of beauty and architecture. It has only 10 docks, but the greatest of the cruise ships stop there. When it's full, the ships go to WDT. Besides the houses and the tower, this area holds the castle of Burcmeria, which is huge in terms of territory, but isn't anything in terms of height. It is one noble and fine castle. Also this area holds the Cathedral of Freya Crescent. The finest built cathedral in whole Burcmeria Kingdom.

Extra information:
Burcmeria also uses aircabins as Lindbulm uses. It has four main streets, which are filled with noble shops, squares, markets and churces. The biggest of them, Street of King Barku, starts from the red dragon gate ( the entrance to Lindbulm) and moves straightly to the main square of Burcmeria in the NQ. The other three main streets start from this street. The one that moves to WQ diagonally, is called street of Black Dragon. It also holds the University of Burcmeria. The one that moves diagonally to the EQ, is called Cleyra Royal Street and the third one, which moves trough this street and connect EQ and WQ, is called Triasus Alley.

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Daguerro: The home of wisdom.
Population: ~17 000- 20 000
Minister: Rick Pure VII

Daguerro is one of the three centers of knowledge, together with Clerya and Madain Sari. The city contains people from everywhere around the world and is really well built. Unfortunately it's not good to survive wars, as it is built as a culture center, not as a war center. The town is divided in to four sectors.

1st sector: The Holy Cave.
It's the home of the rich and well-educated people. The cave contains thousands of homes and dozens of schools and shops and libraries. It's really well decorated and is connected with different caves. The most populated place is the Heart of Daguerro. It's a huge hall inside the cave, filled with different shops, markets and inns. It can hold thousand people in it same time, so it is really huge. Also, the statue of Richard is there, in the middle of the square. The main transport vechiles are underground trains, like the ones in Lindblum Dragon Gate.

2nd sector: Upper city
It's the home of merchants, traders and thieves. It contains dozens of shops, markets, inns, hotels and other places like that. It also contains hundreds of houses. The biggest building is the Royal Airdock, where all the ships heading towards Daguerro stop. It is as huge as the dock of Lindblum and well crafted. It also holds 10 warships all the time, ready for any conflict. The second building in size is Theatre of Royale. It's as famous as is Zidane Tribal theatre in Lindblum and it holds many plays each day. The main square is right next to it and is called the Square of Leviathan. There is a statue of Leviathan in middle of the square.

3rd sector: Lower city
It's home of most people and contains many inns and shops. It's located on the lower part of the islan. It doesn't have any big buildings or anything special besides the University of Free People. It's one of the top notch universities in world.

4th sector: Outside city
It's located everywhere on the islands around the main island and contains different kind of buildings, inns and shops. It's rarely visited and isn't very populated atm, as people are afraid of war.

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The city of Dali -
Population: ~ 10 000
Major: Lord Marcus Befocia II ( Age: 41)

The City of Dali is known as one of the biggest entertainment and vacation towns. The city is probably closest to the nature of all big cities. The amount of trees, parks, farms and ponds make it a popular place to relax in. But the true source of Dali's popularity is Chocobo Racing arena's. The city itself has 3 areas.
1st is the Center City where lays the Royal Mansion of Dali. The center city also contains Dali Air Dock which can hold up to 15 airships. There are dozens of shops, inns, bars, restaurants, schools, libraries and other things like that. But the Center City is probably most known due to the Royal Academy of Chocobo. It's the world only school that teaches how to breed and hw to ride chocobos and most of it's graduates get work as chocobo breeders or racers. Also, next to the Royal Mansion of Dali is the Cathedral of Black Mages, to remind the past of the city.
2nd is the Tourist City. It has three biggest Chocobo Racing arena's in the world. The Stadium of Choco Rocko is the biggest and most known of them. Only the nobles and rich are able to visit it due to the high ticket prices. The Stadium of Choco Mocko is the second in size and first in popularity as the ticket prices are a lot cheaper there. The third is the Olympic Stadium, the first chocobo racing arena in Dali ever. It's a historical landmark, yet there are still races once a month. Besides the chocobo racing arenas, there are many civilian buildings in the area and also one fighting arena, called The Arena of Black Mages. It's a famous arena due to the fact that only mages fight in there.
3rd part is the Outern City. It is the part of Dali that has tons of parks, farms and things like that. Also, the biggest Chocobo Breeding Companies work there. Dali farms also produce 80% of the food that Alexandria needs. Outern City also has many smaller Chocobo racing arenas and chocobos are the methods of transport in the streets of Outern City.

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Wish you good luck and hope you will save the world :D Enjoy your time!
 
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As Jacel observed the ring of soldiers that surrounded him he tried to quickly think of a way to get away from the guards, he couldn't beat this many on his own. The walls were too high to climb over and the guards were too heavily armoured and experienced for him to defeat any. the gate was already beginning to close however so that would be his only remaining option. The gate was already halfway closed so he had to hurry if he was going to leave. Having nothing better to do in Alexandria he ran for the guard directly in front of the gate and jumped clear over her head and dive to the floor and roll under the gate as it slammed shut.

Looking back on the other side he saw the guards calling for the gate to be lifted so Jacel made a run for it, after running straight east for a short while he came to the edge of the cliff, having no other alternative he carefully climbed down the cliff until he came to a small cave in the rockface. the cave had been abandoned from what he could tell so he settled down until the search was over. It was still light so he had no reason to sleep yet.
 
It was a beautiful day in Lindblum. The sun was high on the sky and nobles were walking all around the Theater District. Today was the one day in a month, where there was a play in legendary and famous Theater of Zidane. Today, all the other theaters in Lindblum were closed and a great play, called: '' Memoria.'' was starting soon. It was the play about the legendary crew challenges in Memoria. Richard had seen it once before, so he wasn't interested in it. Besides, going to the theater filled with nobles, he surely would met some of his enemies there. Richard just walked down the alley to the center square of Theater district. It was busier today than normally, as the merchants were all trying to sell something to the nobles, but the nobles seemed to be more interested in the shops around the square, as their products were more trustful. Richard stopped at a bargain table and noticed a glowing pumice.
'' Hmm.. a fake one probably.'' He thought. Still he took out a bag filled with gold coins and bought the pumice for 1 000 gold coins. He then put the pumice to the bag and walked slowly away. The merchant shouted something, but he didn't care. Slowly he made himself to the aircabin station. Walked next to the cabin heading to the castle and entered it. Soon, the cabin started moving towards Castle.

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A hour later-

Richard was in the castle territory. He was walking trough the alley of royal houses there. It was pretty active at the moment, as the royals were moving to the theater district mostly. After some minutes of walking trough the beautiful alley, he made his way to a great mansion. It had the building style of Alexandria and was pretty huge when compared with other buildings except the castle itself. Richard walked next to the door and took a key out from his bag. Slowly, he slide the key to the keyhole and opened the door.
'' Home, sweet home.'' He mumbled quietly enough, so that no-one else on the street heard it. Then he entered his house. He was in a really homely room. There were sofas next to the walls and the walls itself were covered with paintings and trophies. A big fireplace was also in the wall. Richard slowly walked next to the sofa in front of the fireplace and sat down. Soon he was sleeping.
 
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Within the shadows of the basement chambers of Lindblum castle, Shera "The Black Lotus" lurked, only a few knew her by her title and fewer still knew her by her real name, she sat quietly in the shadows as a couple of young hopefuls searched for her....

She pounced out and grabbed the one closest to her and judo flipped him to the ground, then kicked her leg backwards stopping short of the second ones throat, while leaning over the floored one with a short blade held to his throat.

She relinquished the blade and lowered her leg and put the short blade back into its concealed compartment within her suit....She wore a classical black ninja suit with all the usual tools that you would expect someone of her proffession to carry knives, throwing stars, potions, bombs and a katana...

She helped the young aspirant from the floor and he stood with the other.

"You two have to do a lot better, If that was out in the field of duty, and had I have been an Oeilvert operative...you would have been dead by now" She stated as she paced back and forth

"Yes Mistress we will try harder" They both reply

Shera notices an offical representative of the king has entered the basement and turns back to her disciples. "Thats it for the day...Dismissed!"

They begin to leave as she approaches the representative, she bows before him and he returns the bow, he then hands her a letter marked with the kings seal and he leaves without either exchanging a word...Shera opens the letter and reads it to herself.

"Black Lotus...
We Have Reason to believe that we may have a new spy in our midst attempting to procure information for our currently allied kingdom Alexandria, we are uncertain what this means but we would like you to follow him anyway and keep an eye on him for the sake of your kingdom.

The Kings office"

Shera folded the letter up and placed it back in the envelope, before placing it on a nearby table and heading into a room on the left, In this room there were several old wooden combat dummies and hordes of equipment and tools...Shera pocketted several throwing stars and smoke bombs, as well as removing the katana from her back and placing it on a katana rack and removing the one from the top and attaching the scabbard to her band that was slung over her shoulder and proceeded to exit the basement via a secret exit tunnel to begin her mission....
 
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Suddenly a big boom sounded. A second later, Richard was standing at his two feet, death-serious face and sword unseated. He was ready to attack the intruder but then, his face got calm and cold again. It was one of the generals of Daguerro. Richard smiled to him and said with a quite irritating and offended voice:
'' Hello, what are you doing here lord?'' It was pretty normal that Richard was offended, after all he was having a good nap and now someone rushed in to his home. Besides, his relationship with the man was far away from good.
'' Oeilvert has started moving their forces. It will take around 2 months for them, to get ready to launch a full attack on Daguerro. Around a month they should be attacking our fortresses in forbidden Continent.'' The old man, around the age of 60 wearing a black uniform with the image of Daguerro Elite Clan, with a blade on his back, said with quite fraught voice. Richard then walked next to him and smiled:
'' I will aid Daguerro, not you. Give me one month and 500 000 gold coins and you can count with the best men you will find in Gaia.'' Richard said with so powerful and straight tone, that the general was too afraid to ask for lower price.
'' Thank you, our hero!'' He said with a pleased tone and left down the alley with his 4 bodyguards. Each of them had fought together with Richard and because of that they nodded to Richard. But Richard only gave a look on them for a moment and then sat down on his doorway.
After a minute, he lost sight of the general and stood up. Slowly he started walking down the alley towards the aircabin station. On the way to there, after about 5 minutes of walking, he noticed some dark mass slowly and carefully moving on rooftops.
'' Hmm... the Black Lotus...'' Richard wondered and did as he hadn't noticed anything. Then he walked slowly towards the cabin and entered it. Soon it started moving, Richard stood up and walked to the back of the cabin. As slowly and quietly as he could, he opened a hatch at the back of the cabin. Then he jumped down to the railway a meter lower than the aircabin. First, he swept off the dust on himself and then gave a look to the cabin. Someone was still sitting carefully and unbeknownstly on the roof of the cabin. Richard mumbled quietly and jumped away from the railroad to a platform in theater district.
'' The play seems to be over.'' He thought while looked around. Whole Tantalus group territory was filled with nobles and royals from all over the world. Most of them were heading towards the central square of theater district. Richard melt one with the mass and walked to the aircabin station. There were no signs of the follower. Slowly he entered the cabin and sat down there.

After ten minutes of travelling, the cabin stopped. Few together with Richard left the cabin. It was the last stop in business district. The building itself was quite big, but not as modern as the other ones were. It had a statue of Richard in there. When Richard noticed it, he started smiling and slowly left the station.
He was on a quite empty alley, only few mid-class customers chattering with merchants. With moderate tempo, he started walking towards the central square of business district.
After walking a while, he noticed a woman, who had been walking around twenty meters behind him from the station. Richard sighted alone and turned away from the alley to a small cafe street, filled with cafes, brothels, inns and restoraunts. The street itself had only few beggars on it, but all the buildings were full of life and humans. After a minute of walking, he still hadn't noticed the woman from before. He felt a bit releafed and entered a inn, called : '' Richard, the god of pain.'' Once he had stepped over the doorway, everyone besides a hooded one welcomed him with a big hurray.
'' Hehe, if it isn't the Richard himself!'' The barkeeper mumbled quite loudly. Richard smiled to him and walked to the barkeeper.
'' This hooded one in the right cornern... did he came here a second before me?'' Richard whispered. The barkeeper gave a look on the one and answered.
'' Yeh, half minute before you. Why asking? A spy?'' The barkeeper asked.
'' Don't worry... I wont kill her here...'' Richard sighted, nodded to a black mage standing next to a wall and walked next to the hooded one. Then he sat down, so did the blackmage. In same time, the barkeeper had took his gun ready.
'' So, doing the job of Black Lotus huh? I have to warn you, if you enter the room in the back, I will kill you!'' Richard said with so strong and powerful and loud voice, that everyone in the bar heard it. Now it was certain, it was a spy. Richard stood up together with the old and rusty blackmage and walked to the room in the back. He didn't care a bit what the spy did, he even didn't know if she left, but one thing was sure, the spy had to choose, to leave, or to get her ass kicked by the strong elite warriors in the bar. This bar actually, was the bar of unemployed mercenaries, fearsome soldiers, thieves and assassins. It was quite possible, that Shera herself had stopped there too once, to get some jobs when she wasn't the founder of Black Lotus yet.

OOC: Pretty good post you had... and sorry that I god-modded you a bit =) Just thought this way it would be the best.
 
Shera stood in a dark alley to the side as her apprentice came out of the Inn and came over to her location...

"theres a lot of them in there, I had to leave as they were going to kill me" stated the young apprentice...

"thats fine, you have done enough for me today, go back to your quarters and rest" She replied flipping him a coin which he promptly caught.

Shera reached into one of the pouches hung from her belt and pulled out a grappling hook which she fired onto the roof and climbed up, she stopped at a window at the top floor that was left slightly open and snuck in...

The room was a typical rustic inn room, with old wooden floorboards and shoddily built nightstand wardrobe and bed, she crept up to the pillow and lifted it reaching into her pouch pulling out a black lotus concoction and poared it onto the pillow, she then pulled a lavender ball out of the back of the wardrobe and placed it over the bed to mask the smell of the black lotus....

She then climbed into the wardrobe and removed the back, revealing a secret passage that led to the room next door, she placed the pannel back as she entered the new room and hid in the room in wait....
 
Richard marched to a meeting room together with the blackmage. In the middle of the room there was a big round table. It had 10 seats. Richard slowly walked to the top seat and sat down, while looking at the face of the blackmage, who was staring a closet were Shera was hiding. Than the blackmage turned his face away.
'' Anything disturbing?'' Richard asked with a worried tone. The blackmage smiled to him and sat down in the other top of the rounded table.
'' Nothing...'' He said with his weak and old voice. Then, the door was kicked open. A man with four hands, a piece of red cloth covered his eye, his hair was read and uncovered body was muscular, entered the room. He was wearing brown trousers and had a gun on his belt.
'' Mister Richard... I heard you got a nice job!'' He shouted and sat down on the chair next to the blackmage. The blackmage nodded to him. A second later a pirate-like man entered the room. He had two sharp blades on his back. He started laughing and shouted:
'' Son of Amarant himself huh? Hope your father name will save you in battle huh?'' He said with insulting tone. The four-handed man only sighted for a second and looked around the room with calm face. In a minute, the room was filled with ten veterans of war. The best that Lindblum had to hide. Then, the blackmage started talking:
'' Richard... you called us together, what you wish?'' His voice was tired and pretty weak, but no-one was talking while he was talking. He seemed to be well respected.
'' Yeah... tell us!'' A man with Pluto Knights armor spoke.
'' Patience my dear friends!'' Richard said with strong and powerful voice.
'' We have one missing...'' He then said, in the same time, a white haired man had teleported in to the room. He was wearing beautifully carved golden armor and had a smile on his face.
'' Sorry I am late!'' He said. His voice was so soft and beautiful, that if they would been in a public area, every girl would fell in love with him.
'' Sorry for the missing chair... it seems as barkeeper thought that you wont come.'' The blackmage said, raised up and shaked hands with the knight.
'' Now we can speak about business. I got the best job you would get in years... Oeilvert is going to attack the fortresses of Daguerro in around one month and then, about few weeks after that, they should be ready to launch a full attack against Daguerro. So I am offering 20 000 gold coins to face and 5 000 to your crew. Of course, this would be for a month in war! The longer it lasts, the more you get'' Richard said with powerful voice. When the numbers were told, everyone started laughing.
'' Huh... Daguerro has money to spare huh?'' A old thief-like man said.
'' Last time they didn't give me more than 1 000 gold coins...'' He than mumbled.
'' And so... I get enough men to destroy Daguerro if they wont pay us... fine?'' Richard then said with a bit worried tone.
'' I join... I don't care about the money, but I will only join if they give us alliance... The eastern Outer Continent surely needs it.'' The blackmage quietly said while staring the closet where Shera was hiding. It seemed as he knew from the beginning that someone was there.
'' I will join!'' The son of Amarant said. In next 5 minutes everyone had said that they will join besides the golden knight.
'' So... Markus Tribal I? Going to take part?'' Richard asked from him. The man smiled and aswered:
'' For 75 000 I will get ya 20 warship and around 100 Alexandria soldier!'' He said and started waiting for the answer. Richard started laughing and answered quite eagerly:
'' Why not...'' Then the topic went from one to other. For an hour or two they chatted, about money, womans and everything else. Then Richard raised up and left the room. Soon others followed him... only the blackmage was left behind. For a minute he was quiet, then he said:
'' You may come out! I highly recommend you not to speak who were here... only tell to Lotus about their objectives, nothing about the persons here. Otherwise it would cost your life.'' The blackmage said with a serious tone and then left the room.
'' oh... don't steal anything.... it's not nice.'' He told at the doorway.
 
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Shera sneered to herself as she looked over the bed and saw that noone had laid on it "hopefully one of them will stay here tonight, I have a plan" She sniggered to herself as she snuck back through the secret compartment in the closet...

She approached a shoddy looking trunk in the corner of the room and opened it up, inside were various expensive and exotic dresses, she picked one out and proceeded to strip off and put on the dress, she took her band out and let her hair drop down, and attached a necklace that plunged between her bust complimenting it...

After she had gotten herself changed she walked up to a nearby mirror and took a look, Shera was a highly attractive young woman sporting an hourglass figure and eyes that men would lose themselves in, she had a cute button nose and dazzling smile, she made sure her hair was adjusted to cover the top of her ears to avoid any notice...She had put on a red dress that dropped down below her ankles, the braizer of the dress pushed her bust up to bring attention towards them...

She practiced walking for a moment, as it had been a good while since she had used her femanine wiles as a tactic and took her a few moments to get her steps just right.

After finally deciding on a plan, she made her way to the window and lowered herself down to the next window and climbed down onto the street and made her way in the front door....

As she went in she was immediatley given lots of looks of attention and lust...

she smiled slightly before walking up the bar and announcing "Which of you fine gentlemen would like to buy me a drink?" She quietly sniggered to herself as she put the plan into action!
 
The woman really made the bar crazy... everyone was dropping gold to barkeeper to buy her a drink. Almost every man was watching the beautiful lady as her kind didn't visit bars like that much. For 10 minutes, all the eyes were stuck on the girl and then, the blackmage came from kitchen. He quietly walked next to the girl and sat down.
'' I thought you left...'' He whispered to the ear of the girl and then stood up and left the bar. These words seemed to shock a bit her, but soon she seemed to forgot that event. Still, Shera noticed only three of the men from before, the pirate-like one, who couldn't get his hands and eyes away from the woman. The son of the Amarant who was talking with his subordinates at a corner of the bar and didn't give much attention to Shera and a old thief-looking man, whose eyes also were stuck on the face of Shera. In mere minutes, the men paid more than 1 000 gold coins to the barkeeper to buy drinks to everyone, not only Shera, but Shera was the center of attention.

OOC: You may take someone who wasn't in the meeting or the old thief-looking man :) Tho I have no idea, you want information from them or to kill them...
 
Shera walked up to The old thief looking man and looked at him "Not jumping all over me like the others...I like that in a man" she walked back up the bar and bought herself and him a drink and sat down next to him and said "cheers" and clinked her glass with his, she took a small sip of the drink and took note of how quickly he finished it, "someones thirsty" she said with a giggle and a wink then got another one, again she took a sip of hers as he finished his off in a gulp, the same pattern insued for a few hours until he was complete intoxicated.

She took him by the hand and stood up "Well I have a room if your interested" to the amazement of everyone in the bar, as she led him upstairs and to the room...

She lied him down on the bed, and the black lotus poison began to seep in and take hold....

She grinned, and pulled a short-blade from her garter and climbed on top of him holding the blade to his throat....

As he laid there with a look of shock on his face, Shera began to question him..."Tell me, who are you working for, tell me everything about who you hired and I may let you live and give you this!" Shera reached into her dress and pulled out a purple vial containing the antidote to Black lotus poison and waved it at him mockingly as she waited for him to talk still holding the blade to his throat....

[OOC: she isnt going to kill him just yet, but if he tries to tell anyone her identity she will kill him before he gets a chance]
 
The thief suddenly started laughing:
'' You know... this was a mistake... but if you got 50 000 gold coins, then I will slowly start to talk!'' He shouted, as loud as he could. He hoped. that someone could hear him.
The dagger raised back to his throat and was pressuring now more.
'' Wait, wait... I may tell you something, but I highly...'' The man burped loudly and rudely and continued:
'' Recommend you not to get yourself involved. But 5 000 gold coins should be fine...'' He said and slowly started to lose conscious.

OOC: You thought that he will give you information easiliy? Richard always hires the best men, even if they just work for money :D
 
Shera shuck her head in disgust at the man, and climbed off of him.

"No matter, you have little or no choice but to start talking anyway, the Black Lotus poison that is currently making you unable to move, will probably kill you within the hour anyway if you dont tell me what i want to know" She laughed and moved back towards him and began to play with the vial, pretending to drop it in front of him and catch it...

"Woops, cant drop this now can we? I wonder how much you wont want to talk when I tell you that the Black lotus poison causes a slow and painful death, the first effects your feeling right now are numbness and being unable to move"....She continued.

"The next effect will be you will feel your left arm getting sore and itchy, followed by coughing up blood as your lungs begin to react violently to the poison"

"Finally while you cannot breathe because your lungs are beginning to fail, you will suffer a massive heart attack which will be made all the worse by the fact the you cant breathe in the first place" She laughed again as she put the short-blade back in her garter...

"So what will it be?, tell me what I want to know now, or ill just sit here and watch you suffer a slow agonising death...your choice!" as she pulled a stool up to the bed and listened with a sadistic grin on her face like she was enjoying her work...
 
The thief's face got death-serious and worried for a moment. The alcohol surely had a effect on him. His mind wasn't clear, but then, just before he was losing control over his body, he was gone from the bed.
The face of Shera was shocked. Then, she could hear the shouting at first floor. It seemed as the thief was stronger than Shera had thought, he had used his thief abilities and flashed away with some kind of unknown technique. A moment later the door was kicked down. The four handed man was there together with the blackmage. The man had all of his 4 swords unseated, his face was furious and the blackmage, he was glowing and some crazy amount of energy was pressuring Shera. Then, he sent out a paralize spell with great speed. Somehow, Shera managed to bounce the paralyze spell off and then she jumpe out the window befoere the next spell, which seemed to be many times powerful, made its way to him. But the shock was even bigger at the street. It was Richard, with his big unseated blade standing in front of him. In mere moments, everyone around her were warriors with their swords unseated. She was cordoned off by the fearest warriors.
'' Give the antitode and I let you go!'' Richard shouted.

OOC: Look what happens if you plan to kill my guys :D Don't worry, just give your answers and give the vial or not, I let you escape in my next post ;)
 
"You want the antidote?" She snapped not hoping for a reply "Fine...your going to have to catch me for it!" as she finished her sentance she lowered her arms and let the magic within her flow....her eyes began to glow yellow and her hair flicked upwards with the backdraft of the power revealing her elven ears...

She smiled and raised her hands above her head "TELEPORT!" She screamed and with a flash of light vanished from sight...

She re-materialized in the room ajoining and quickly stripped off the dress and re-donned her ninja suit and equipment, she peered out of the window to see the men all stood in the alley...as she reached into her gi to pull out a shuriken and throw it at the four-armed man she remembered what she had been told...

"Dammit, I'm not supposed to kill anyone!" She muttered under her breath and replaced the shuriken in her gi....She took the vial and leaned a little more out of the window

"Here catch!" she yelled as she threw the vial to richard who caught it...

"mark my words, I have my eye on you dont even think of betraying him!" She yelled again, as her eyes once again flashed yellow before teleporting again onto the roof, she fired her grappling hook onto another roof and made her escape over the rooftops of the city towards the castle...
 
The blackmage was now standing next to Richard. He started talking with strong and powerful voice:
'' A mixture of two great magician races. I am sorry, if I would have known it at first, I would have killed the Black Lotus in second. If you wish... I catch him.''
Richard than smiled to him and said:
'' No need... I could have stopped him by myself at the beginning... but didn't see it necessary. Tho... she poisoned Tom... '' Richard said with his noble voice and then he shouted:
'' I allow you all to do with the woman what ever you wish... And I am sure Tom will haunt that woman... but I will stay out of it. Just don't get killed. I am moving to Burcmeria tomorrow together with Vivius.'' The blackmage smiled to everyone and left. Richard gave the antidote to a pirate-like man and started following blackmage.

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A hour later, Vivius and Richard were at the castle. They had went to the airship dock. A big and noble ship was waiting for them. Richard quietly walked next to a sailor and shake his hand.
'' Let's move out now... Tom wont come. He had some trouble.'' Richard said quietly. The sailor smiled to him and run on the board of the ship. Richard and Vivius followed him. Soon the big airship started its engines. It made quite a lot of noise, so many of the sleeping soldiers started cursing them. A minute later, the ship flied trough the great gate of Lindblum.

OOC: While Richard is away... the thief will start haunting you :D
 
Shera made her way to the throne room after a summons from the king, she seemed a little nervous about it at first, then shook it off with a dismissive word "He knows I didn't mean to nearly kill him, if the stubborn bastard has just given me answers..."

She knelt in front of the throne as the king took his seat escorted by armed guards...

"Shera, it seems our mutal friend is making his way to burmecia...while he is away from Lindblum I want you to lie low for a while, the incident at the inn has reached my ears and im disapointed that you were almost caught" he stated...

"Im sorry my king, I only tried to get the answers that you so desperatley desire, In my job you have to take risks, if you dont take these risks you will never get anywhere" She replied with a humble tone to her voice

"And this is why I let you serve me, although I dont agree with your methods, you do seem to get the results just be more careful next time, those war veterans are dangerous people and wont hesitate to kill you next time" He carried on, seemingly sympathetic towards her.

"I understand, I will do as you command" with that Shera came to her feet, bowed and left the throne room and headed into the basement quarters below the castle...

It was dark and silent as her apprentices has been given leave to be with there families....something Shera has not known all her life so she found it hard to understand what family ment....as she sat alone studying various old parchments and aged news articles about "The General that was killed in Oeilblum" she began to let her mind drift back to that fateful day as she has done many times before...

She crumpled the article in anger as she remembered his death so vividly it seemed as though it was happening again right in front of her, suddenly she heard a sound behind her....

"Who's there" she quickly replied as she came to her senses moving off the chair and into a crouched position with one hand planted on the floor and her other reaching back for her katana....
 
'' Hello Hello... Look who is hiding here!'' A powerful voice told. It was one of the war veterans, now one of the king personal bodyguards. He had dark messy hair and was wearing Lindblum war-equipment. His blade was seated and he didn't seem to be angry.
Then he started talking:
'' You know... Vividus warned you... and you didn't listen to him. I noticed your shadow already at the meeting, but I didn't think that you would harm anyone... but you did, Black Lotus. And this has a price. Tom sent me to ask 10 000 gold coins from you, or he will come and start haunting you. And of course lower that katana, killing me would bring you problems with king.'' He quietly told. Shera seemed to be a bit surprised. Then, the man sat down on a chair and continued:
'' Actually.... I will pay the money to Tom myself if you do a job for me... I had ordered two very powerful crystals... summoning crystals together with two sword. Those sword don't make me worried, but the crystals. I paid high price for them.... So if you get them back for me, I would be thankful and with that you would repay the loan to me, when I pay 10 000 gold coins to Tom. So, the objective is Jacel, a young man. He currently is hiding somewhere around Alexandria. The ship from Business district airship dock no.2 will go out at two hours from now. It wont leave without you, so don't worry. The exact describtion of the boy are written in this document.'' The man said and gave a letter to Black Lotus. Then he left, while smiling to her.

OOC: You need to travel to Alexandria I presume ;)
 
Shera took a look at the document and pocketted it before making her way to the airship dock...

She had put on a coat that covered her outfit and took her mask off, as not to attract suspision and boarded along with everyone else, she quickly made her way to her designated cabin and closed the door.

As the airship roared into life she put her head down on the pillow of the matress of her bunk and drifted into a sleep, as the journey to Alexandria was long and she hadnt slept since yesterday morning...

She slept and dreamed about many things, the main dream being of The General when he was still alive.....
 
Richard walked to the captain deck. Quietly he walked next to the captain and started talking:
'' Hello Max, how long until we make our way to Burcmeria?'' The face of captain got happy and he answered:
'' We are over the Gizmaluke Grotto now, so it should take around hour and half.'' The man said. Richard seemed to be relieved.
'' Max, you got 4 warships right?'' He asked then with a more serious voice.
'' Yeah.. if you don't count this... why asking, got any jobs?'' Max asked with curious voice. Richard smiled and said:
'' Yeah... Oeilvert will soon start attacking Daguerro... a month from yesterday at best. And I would pay around 30 000 for it. Fine?'' The face of Max got happy.
'' 30 000, that's something nice. You know, we captains mostly get around 7 000 gold coins for a year in Lindblum service... but yeh fine. Just tell me when I have to head out?'' Richard looked thankfully at the face of his friend and answered:
'' Hmm... you know... if you head out two weeks from now to Daguerro with 4 warships it would be fine.'' Richard said and took a bag of gold from inside of his armor.
'' 1 000 gold coins here... for this trip.'' He said quietly. Max took the money and smiled.
'' I can take you to Alexandria after Burcmeria too for this money. How long you will stay in Burcmeria?''
'' Around day and half... and thanks!'' He said. Max smiled and said:
'' Than it's deal... see, a dragon flying there.'' He pointed at a grand dragon flying trough the nose of the ship.


The bodyguard of King walked to the inn. In a second someone shouted:
'' Got the money?'' The man smiled and called his servant in. The servant gave the big bag filled with gold coins to the barkeeper, who slowly put it to the safe room.
'' One rich woman she is... assassins must have nice life!'' Barkeeper mumbled.
 
After he heard the silenced steps of the alexandrian guards Jacel departed from the cave, for now he needed to lie low somewhere. When he had climbed down to the bottom of the cliff he dusted off his clothes and surveyed the environment, he saw a gate nearby which could lead him straight to burmecia, the news of his thievery shouldn't have reached their ears just yet. He entered through the gate and headed straight for the transport, another 15 minutes later and the transport started to drive to the burmecian gate.

Taking this short time to relax himself he observed the scenery outside the window, it was still slightly bright out though as he neared burmecia it began to darken as heavy rain began to pour. Another 10 minutes later and he arrived at the other side, he didn't waste much time in leaving through the gates and departing into the rainy fields. To his right he saw the city of Burmecia, he proceeded immediately towards it and snuck within the city walls. As it seemed quite late now he proceeded to the inn to rest, he payed his tab and proceeded to his room on the next floor and entered it before locking the door. After pocketing the key he laid himself on the bed and quickly fell asleep.
 
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