Vigil StarGazer Posted February 10, 2003 Report Posted February 10, 2003 Luna: A world on the Moon. Luna, a world on the moon orbiting on the planet Soi has been peaceful and prosperous for all its known history, and the demons are all but stuff of legends. Nine giant spires rises up to the sky generating a force field to hold the atmosphere from escaping into space while craters on the Luna surface creates vast perfectly circular seas and lakes. Lunan ‘day’ began when the moon orbits out of the Soi’s shadow and faces the sun. It turns toward ‘night’ when once again Soi’s shadow covers the Lunan surface and a huge crescent of white and blue and green that turned slightly dark with sparkling lights can be seen travelling across the sky. The people of Luna are divided into three states: the Elconians are the masters of mining, the Uranians are the people of technology, and the Cornelians are the people of prosperity. The three states took up parts of the Lunan surface but leave alone the Great Dark, the lands behind the surface of the moon where the light could never be reached. Since the beginning of time the people on the three state runs a succession of queens to rule, each bloodline wields powerful Guardian forces from the essences of the land to protect their kingdom. To ensure protection, wisdom, and competence in the line of succession a fraternity of male known as Furst is formed. Each male child is selected from birth to be raised along with the princess. The sworn an oath of brotherhood uphold honor, to protect each other and the princess at all cost as they trained, educated and then specialized into one particular talent within the sanctuary. With the coming of age for the princess, she must call Casamento, which is a ritual to choose one of male in Furst to be her mate. The Fantasy begins… Disk I: The story begins with Raven, the protagonist in the story and a Furst blade specialist being put into action when the sanctuary are under attack by a mysterious force. The nine Furst in sanctuary, sworn with their life to protect the princess, broke out of the surprise attack with only the princess and Raven alive. The willful Princess Adrianne began to journey to the Queen’s palace for protection and guidance from her queen mother only to find out that the perpetrators were the Royal Guards themselves! Meanwhile Raven was being accused of kidnapping the princess and the slaughtering his Furst brothers. Under disguise, Raven and the Princess began a fierce flight to the safety of the backward Elconian State. During their escape Raven ended up meeting an old man who gave him an ancient exotic gem imbued wrist sword as well as his Furst brother and Best friend Ganja’s soul stone, and directed them to an unguarded tunnel across the Cornelian border. There was no safety for them even after the fled from Cornelia; The Elconian succession mysteriously disappeared a generation ago and Elconian fell into destitution for decades from monsters ravaging the land to heavily exploitation of their neighbors for their resources. Once across the border bandits ambushed Raven and Adrienne. In rage, Adrienne reveals to the bandits that she is the princess and that she’ll bring peace and prosperity for Elconians. Although unconvinced, Some of the bandits were inspired by her speech while others sees the gold offered on the returned princess and Raven’s head. The leader Scar gave a signal to some of his trusted bandits to kill off Raven, but now that Princess Adrienne is not under attack and somewhat safe Raven was free to released the full fury of his blade skills and sliced through the mob and killed Scar. Without their leader the rest of the bandits either fled or too frighten to do anything except staring at Adrienne. A young bandit, Zephyr, stood out of the crowd and ‘hold’ them in custody but promised no harm would come to the Princess. The Princess agreed and called Raven to sheath his sword as they were escorted back to Zephyr’s tribe. Once in the mining village, Princess Adrienne was appalled by the poverty of the Elconian people; the ground was deficient of minerals after centuries of mining that other kingdoms bought cheaply. The soil was almost too poor and could only make are bare living from farming. The people were forced to live in the mineshafts for protection against the overpopulation of monsters. Princess Adrienne felt partially guilty and sympathetic to the people. She began to reflect what she said back there and decide that while she did say those words to save herself from the bandits, she meant every word she said about doing everything to help these people. Meanwhile monsters attacked the tribe again, and while the bandits had always been acting as guards to protect the village, they didn’t have enough men to stop the attack. Zephyr was especially angry and yelled at the princess for her ‘gullible talk and false promises.’ Adrienne retorted and swore that she will go out there with the men to defend the tribe with her life. Zephyr lead 1/3 of his men, Adrienne, Raven, Zephyr’s trusted friend Wolfgard and Zephyr’s sister Valisha to attack the creeps and lead them away while the rest of his men protects the tribe folks in a hidden cavern. The ‘bait’ team was successful in leading the full mob of monsters away giving the tribe folks time to retreat into the safety of the cavern but the monsters were chasing them too close! They could not escape from the relentless pursuit, and just when things are getting hopeless they blindly stumbled upon an ancient ruin which taps into the Luna core creating gravity. Adrienne devised a plan to trap the monsters in to the ruin by re-activating the artificial gravity mechanism to hyper gravity level thus sucking all the monsters down the gravity well. They herded the monsters into the gravity chamber and everything went as planned until Adrienne almost got sucked into the gravity well. Zephyr grabbed onto her hand at the last minute and saved her life. Disk II: The map of Elconians map is available after the party leaves the ancient ruins and a few side quests are made available: “The Evil Quest” is where you save a man that got lost within the caravan in which you got his gratitude and nothing else. He turns out to be a spy and later an enemy later in the game and he’ll remind you that you saved his sorry ass before and now he’ll repay you with a quick sweet death. He only shows up later and fight you if you helped him and completed the quest. “The futile quest” is where an automated mining machine went out of control and plowing its way into another unaware tribe just happening to set up camp on its path. Your mission is to either destroy the machine by fighting it or running ahead to warn the tribes people. You’ll be unsuccessful either way (the machine is almost invincible and plow through the earth too quick/ the elder of the tribe refuses to listen. The reward of the quest is that you get to see the tiny tribe grinded to death and you picked out a few items from the bloody debris. “The Merchant’s Quest” is where you saved a Uranian merchant’s life and defeats another band of bandits to retrieve his goods. He will be grateful and from time to time he will pop up and offer to sell items at a lower cost. His nephew Tiga also ended up joining the party later on. The tribesmen were happy that their ‘warriors’ made it back in one piece and begins a celebration in which the princess actually joined their dancing and had fun for the first time in her life. Then a tribe scout came rushing in the party with news: A few Cornelians troops had come across the border to ‘rescue’ the princess. The elder agreed to protect Adrienne at all cost but the Adrienne does not want to bring the burden to the people she began to love and decide to spirit away. The elder suggested meeting them again at the old city of Eros where in seven days at the New Soi festival where all Elconian tribes will gather. Adrienne and Raven depart on that very night, Zephyr and Valisha came after them to join the two and together they complete more optional side quests. They were soon captured in the night by Cornelian soldiers and were lead back across the border. While imprisoned they learned that the Cornelians are going to use the opportunity to invade Elconian. The Cornelians will launch their surprise attack on the festival of New Soi and begins the ethnic cleansing. Luckily the guards were in need of supplies and ran into the merchant Adrienne previously rescued. Tiga picked the lock and rescued the group on the condition that he gets to hang around them for adventure. By now they were already far off from Eros they need to make a shortcut across the Underground Mushroom Forest to make it there on time. No one was seen coming out of the forest alive and Valisha was extremely fearful but it seems to be the only option. The forest was strangely devoid of monsters, and as they reached the heart of the forest they found an ancient shrine with a black mage guarding the entrance. Xal was sworn to guard the entrance to the Sacred Shrine and after being defeated he refused to tell the shine’s secret, but managed to convince the group to go in and face the next guardian. As they entered into the Shrine the old man once again appeared, telling them how to defeat the next guardian. In each of the six corners of the shrine there is a guardian force guarding the seal. They must remove all six seal to sap the power from the last guardian in order to defeat him. The last guardian turns out to be Odin and when he was defeated the spirit of the Last Elconian Queen Alexandra came out and told the party that a forgotten evil force known as the demon attacked her pretty much the same way Adrienne was attacked on the sanctuary. The demons have neither shape nor body but can entered into other people’s mind and make it do its bidding. The demons tried to enter into the Queen’s mind but her loyal Fursts destroyed her body and preserved her spirit in a soul stone. The queen’s spirit ordered Odin to protect Adrienne always, handed her two soul stones, and disappeared. The Black Mage Xal was surprised to see the party coming out of the temple alive. Adrienne told Urn the story and Xal nodded saying that he was the last Furst who killed the Queen’s body and preserved her soul in soul stone. Although it was right thing to do, he never really forgave himself and thus he stayed inside the forest hoping to enter into the shrine but for a strange reason Odin refused his entrance and defeated him each time. Xal plead to join the group and redeem himself. As Adrienne accepted the offer Raven caught Xal looking at him in a moment in shock but the expression quickly faded away in his hood. Adrienne got to the festival of Soi just in time to warn all the elders about the Cornelian invasion. Some elders were spectacle when they all noticed that the air is getting thinner. The Cornelians sabotaged one of the spires that hold the atmosphere near Eros. In no time the party reached the foot of the spire and the party split into two: one party goes underground to reactivates the power source while the other group fight their way up to the control room. If you had previously rescued the old man he will turn up as a Cornelian agent scouting out the Elconians before the invasion. After the first group defeated him on top of the spire they relay the controls to retune atmosphere pressure near the Eros sector. When the people sees the open hostility from their neighbors they began to listen to those that saved them. Adrienne told them the fate of their last queen and summoned Odin to prove her testament. Some of the elders were governors that once served their queen and was dishearten when their heard, but they knew it to be true and decide to do what they had never done in 3000 years: electing Adrienne as their new queen. Deep into the night of the celebration of the new queen, Raven disappeared from the crowd and the old man confronted him. This time the old man handed Raven’s own soul stone and remind him of his ‘duty’. Before the old man left, Raven turned out and shouted a name that came out soundless. The old man just smiled and disappeared. Meanwhile Adrienne is facing a dilemma: if she becomes the Queen of these people, she must then declare war against her former kingdom. She would also have to call Casamento, which means she would have to choose Raven since he is the only Furst left. Unfortunately Adrienne and Zephyr fell in love with each other. Adrienne went back into the Shrine in the Mushroom Forest to decide and when she came out she accepted to be the Princess of Elconian. Then she declared to restore her Furst by adding Zephyr under her ward and call Casamento, putting Zephyr and Raven into an open battle. Although Zephyr had improved during the course of this adventure Raven defeated him. Just before the critical blow Adrienne jumps out and stood between the wounded Zephyr and Raven’s blade. Disk III: It was in a dark surrounding where a mysterious person met up with another figure in the dark with strange glowing red eyes. Mysterious person seems vaguely familiar as they spoke betrayal to Elconian’s new Queen and her troupe. When the figure asked about reward he was lifted up from the ground. A horrid, sobering voice told him that ‘loyalty is his own reward, but soon he’ll be paid in full.’ In the next scene Raven woke up alone in an Elconian tent, he wakes up and the plan has all been set up. The Elconians faked a coronation while Adrienne sneaked out to infiltrate into Cornelian to either convince her Queen Mother to stop this madness or the Elconians; lead by her daughter will be forced to retaliate. As soon as they were set out they got this errie feeling that they were being watched. Meanwhile Raven was strangely solitude as of late. The secret journey was too eventful; they hardly saw an enemy on their secret mission. As they successfully sneaked into Ur, the capital of Cornelian and right into then Queen’s Palace. There they confronted the Queen herself, unguarded and seemingly waiting for them. As Adrienne was trying to talk to her mother they were surrounded with guards! The fighter black mage Thamaris, the queen’s Furst and Adrienne’s father defeated the whole entire group and placed them in the dungeon. Apparently someone in the group betrayed them to the Cornelians! As they were escorted to their separate quarters Raven managed to escape, and after a few guile and brutal fights and sneaking around he found everyone except the Princess. Meanwhile the whole party is very suspicious that Raven betrayed the group, but Raven could not remember anything after the dual with Zephyr. As they broke out of jail they’ve heard that the princess is going to be executed by tomorrow before sunset. It was another trap to lure their prisoner back, but this time the group is ready. Everything went well until Thamaris showed up and forced them to retreat into the prison complex. By chance they (literally) stumbled upon an ancient subterranean passage underneath the prison complex after venturing deeper they discovered an ancient spacecraft. After clearing the ship off from monsters and the ship’s defense systems they entered into the ship’s control deck. Tiga managed to access the databanks and the whole mystery to the origins to the Lunan reveals. About 3000 years ago, the whole world of Soi fought for their lives against an entity known as ‘demons’. It was a hopeless battle for the demons have no shape or body, but spirit whom possesses other people’s body and wreck destruction on their own. Humanity held their last stance with the demons where the human army, lead by a powerful human named King Tamaris led a desperate battle against the demons. With the power of the soul stones those brave men contained the demons within themselves. While King Tharmaris’ orders was to destroyed the demons along with them so the demons would never prey on the human race again, the queen does not wish to see her consort die along with the thousands of soldiers who so valiantly defended the world with their lives. Therefore she ordered the demon infested soldiers be contained in cryo-stasis cells and be shipped to the moon until they found a way to segregate the demons spirit out of the humans. Unfortunately some accidents happened and the ship boarding the cyro-stasis cell crash landed on the moon surface. The demons were freed, the crew of the ship fled, and the computer system went into auto-defense mode before it went offline. The ship named “Hyprion” was powered by two guardian forces: Leviathan create water and thus produce life support for the crew while Omega weapon :dragon4: powers the ships hyper drive. In order to re-activate the ship’s engine the group must defeat Leviathan first and then Omega weapon. Once Omega weapon is defeated and his soul stone is placed into the power core the ship automatically lifts off from underground, destroyed the prison complex in the process, and flew away from the city of Ur. The ship arrived back to Elconia just in time to see a full invasion in progress. The combined forces of Cornelians and Uranians slaughtered the hopelessly over-powered and outnumbered Elconia. Tiga ordered the ship to open fired at the invaders while the group prepared to join the battle on the ground when they found both Xal and Raven missing. The group found them near the engine room where Xal and Raven had this bizarre conversation: “You time had passed, why have you waited?” “I was still needed for her protection.” “She has his protection now. His love for her is an indestructible shield, which YOU failed to break. The Casamento battle’s outcome was final. Now prepare yourself.” Xal then took Raven’s soul stone from his neck and then raised his arm to stab Raven’s heart with the stone when Zephyr stopped Xal. The secret of the guardian force is revealed as Xal told them that after the Casamento, all those other Furst that was not chosen are to perform a ritual sacrifice, imbruing their spirit within the soul stone and thus create the Queen’s guardian force, protecting her until death. Quetzalcoatl was the child Furst that died when he was young. After the attack at the at the sanctuary the fallen Faust’s spirit are called into their soul stone and tried to make their way back to Adrienne. Since Adrienne didn’t choose Raven he must do the same and in his death he will turn into another guardian force. Adrienne dies not wish this to happen at all, especially in the heat of the battle. Adrienne does not love Raven at all. She was grateful that he protected her during their escape and that he obeyed even some of her arrogant commands when she was so obnoxious. She proclaimed that she needs Raven to fight this battle now and will sort out matters later. With the problem resolved the whole lot of them drove from the ship’s rail and leaped right into the melee while the Elconians citizens were loaded onto the ship. The battle became intent as the ship was constantly under attack from the Nephuan hovercycles. Adrienne was going to fight till the death for her people and was engaging battle with a veiled figure when Raven swooped down with his stolen hovercycle, got Zephyr and Adrienne on, and make it depart without him. The spaceship was packed full with as many Elconians as it could hold and once the princess got safely on board the Hyprion departed leaving a large group of Elconian fighters and Raven hopelessly surrounded by the Uranian’s fighting force. The Uranians calls for them to surrender and here Raven makes a desperate gamble. Raven calls Casamento on the Uranian princess, and was received with humiliating laughter. A floating ark arrived and out came a figure with a silvery veil draped to the ground. Her voice had an amusing tone as she asked Raven what rights a fallen Faust from another kingdom has to call the Casemento. Scornful laughter again fills the air, but Raven just shrugged and made a sharp reply. With a wave of her hand a wave of black garbed soldiers began to assault Raven. Raven fought them all one by one and with every skill and cunning Raven managed to won all of his opponents. Some of them are mechanized units, while others are human with mechanical implants; still some are mages and mutants. Raven was forced to kill them as they all fight to the very death. Then at last Raven faced an opponent he never would imagine fighting against. It was his Faust brother Ganja and Raven thought he died while defending the sanctuary. Ganja was a blade master like himself and they used to spar with each other ever since they were young. Ganja wielded the same weapon he used to: a double-sided curve saber, but it was electrically charged to shock his opponent as it strikes. Apparent Ganja took the Uranian cyber enhancement and now half his body was robotic mechanized. Already showing battle fatigue Raven managed to disable Ganja’s shield, and as Ganja pulled out his ultimate overdrive move which reduces Raven down to one hp. Raven thrust his right arm forward to throw off Ganja’s attack while stabbing Ganja with his friend’s soul stone with his left. The two of them rushed toward each other; Raven got his sword arm cut of but Ganja’s spirit got sucked into his own soul stone and dies with a brilliant flare and a wisp of black smoke. Raven collapsed after the rigorous battle. Disk IV: In Raven’s white hazy dream he saw a pair of purple eyes staring at him. Her sweet lips gave a gentle smile as soft hair draped over his face. When he woke up Raven found himself in Uranian custody, his wounds was healed although his right arm could never be re-attached. He was free to walk around the Uranian palace but Raven could sense that he was being watched at every moment. A servant came out and places food in front of him and when Raven ate with a sharp appetite the servant tried to suppress a giggle. Raven tried to find out what’s going on and so he talked to this servant. The servant, whose name was Aria, was surprised that Raven didn’t know he defeated all the Fursts Urania had to offer. She told him that he was in Zion, the capital of Urania. While he won the battle fair and square he was not Uranian and thus creating huge debate in the senate. No one knew what to do with Raven, (and Raven snickered at that, no one in the world does anyway; not even himself.) Raven wanted to escape this place and he asked if Aria if she wants to come along since he needs a guide. Her eyes went wide in response and said she’ll have to think about it, and she fled before a guard comes informing that Raven needs to see the Princess and the council. Raven took his time and when he arrived he saw the Princess still draped with the silver veil. Raven hated the senator at first sight but he didn’t say anything as the council explained that he won only his right to be a Furst. Raven would now be the protector of Princess Arianna until her coronation in which it would be an open battle between anyone who challenges him. Raven was made to take the Furst oath again and it conjures memories of the time when he was first made to take the oath in Cornelia. Now he was back in the cycle again, swearing to another person he does not know and probably does not feel. It was alright when he swore then because it was duty, but now after seeing a world where things are not as black as white as it seems he began have doubts. Raven asked about what happened to the Elconian that was captured during the battle. The princess seems uneasy when being directly asked a question, and the senator replied for her that since the kingdoms are at war, Elconians are being treated as prisoner of war and thus was made to do smelting iron in a nearby mine. It was deep into the night when Raven met Aria again in a garden within the palace and they chatted while walking around the lily pond. Aria started to ask Raven some questions to how people are like in the world outside. Raven answered and was reminded to rescue the Elconian slaves in the mines. “They are free people, just like you and me Aria,” Raven told her. At last she was persuaded to come along. In their escape and few side quests Raven noticed a few rare things. In the hotel where they stayed a few guards were teasing Aria until they saw the sparkling red gem on Aria’s neck. Then those soldiers bow and scrap and apologize and then promptly fled the scene. Also Aria apparently doesn’t know too many things outside the palace, and finally Aria disappeared in a night. When the time of the coronation came Raven wanted to avoid it all and fled across the border along with the rest of the Elconians, but Aria zestfully convinced Raven to stayed because of all the good he can accomplish as the chosen Furst. Remembering Princess Arianna, Raven thought it would take a lot to convince her. He promised Aria that he would stay though, and in return Aria told him to remember her always by the red gem she had on her necklace. The Princess’ Coronation was full of people cheering for Arianna and booing on Raven. It was no surprise that the senator would challenge Raven to be the chosen Furst. It was during the battle that things became seriously wrong. Just when Senator Apache seems beaten, he changed into a demon! Raven was ready for that, however, and sparked soul stone on his blade. The dust burns the demon-possessed senator as the blade struck the senator’s body. Just when Raven executes his finishing overdrive blow, Aria appears in front of the senator protecting him. In this moment of Déjà vu Raven froze and was stabbed by Aria herself. From the throne Princess Arianna fires her weapon at Aria. Raven could only watch as the huge bloodstain grew and soaked through Aria’s dress. A black mist evaporated from the senator’s body as a million scenes of Aria flashed across the screen. The screen turned black, echoing Raven’s scream. (To be continued: Disk V, character outline, magic and combat system.)
Gyrfalcon Posted February 11, 2003 Report Posted February 11, 2003 Pretty good outline, though it's missing a few standard final fantasy elements at the moment- Disk 5 and the 'player' still hasn't had the opportunity to fly the airship? Too few side quests- extremely linear. (There's only been... three, all at once, and no options for more) Where are the mini-games? The casino? the fun things to blow all that money you'll have at the end on? *grins* Otherwise, excellent outline. I want to see it in a game.
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