Quick recap of story so far.

Daniel, a blind orphan gets cured from his blindness by a mysterious man going by the name "Miracle Lord". To thank him, he leaves his home to learn magic.
In capital Joros of Joros, he becomes apprentice to satyr Nxisa, who teaches him counter-magic. After year of training, they defeat a rogue translator-necromancer and novice elementalist together.

Later on they move to Nxisa's homeland Daciht. Nxisa needed to participate in capture/kill of Dark Archmage Ingram who is seeking ancient flying fortress Xjaal. However, she told Daniel that they'd be only going there for work.
Their airship is however shot down by the passing Dark Archmage and his black dragon Gaia.
Daniel, Nxisa and other survivors continue the travel by foot. After long trip, they reach Daciht and hear that ambush was a complete failure and most of people participating had been killed by Gaia and Dark Archmage. Nxisa disappears to mourn her dead friends, while Daniel helps a local satyr to find his lost brother in the mountains. The brother was eaten by mountain troll whom Daniel kills in combat.

When Daniel gets back, he and Nxisa get job to shoo away some Cultists of Edel from abandoned church of sun. They manage to reason with the cultists, and no violence was involved.
After two weeks of training, Daniel and Nxisa participate raiding a draconian camp in the mountains. The raid is a failure. Nxisa gets seriously wounded by a huge draconian. However, Daniel manages to lure him and throw him off a cliff.
They manage to get back to city, and Daniel strikes a deal with Miracle Lord Edel. Nxisa gets healed. As price Daniel has to find his machine in the Xjaal before the Dark Archmage can. Since Xjaal is flying, he also makes a deal with local wimpy dragon Kalim, promising him share of the treasures found. Daniel concluded the day by going scarf-buddying with a cultist of Edel.

Okayeh.
I am having a pretty damning headache here. Sent the letter yesterday. I invited Nenonen with us as he is more experienced with these kind of things.
Nxisa told me that we will resume my training for next two weeks. She asked whatever I want to focus more on combat ( she will teach me one spell ) or spellcasting ( two spells ). In fact, she gave me short list of spells that she could teach.

Banish ( Send things to their home-plane. Difficult, might not work on stronger foes )
Dispel Undead ( Erodes magic that animates the undead. Dunno about this one )
Paralyze ( If succesful, paralyzes the opponent for some while )
Induce Headache ( Strange one. Nxisa told that it can make spellcasting much more difficult for enemy )
Anti-Magic Field ( creates an aura of sort that weakens magic. Makes spellcasting more difficult when it's on. )
Imbue Weapon ( Creates temporary enchantment based on other spell. )

Nxisa also told I could see local mage academy if I wanted to learn some other spells. It's not free though.

Daniel's answers lie with the Eye of Denali.

Dispel Undead

we're going to be fighting a lot of necromancers, right?

Paralyze seems pretty useful, especially if we're going after bounties and the like.

Paralyze

Banish, Dispell Undead, Paralze and Anti-Magic seem like the most useful.

Right when I'm about to go to sleep, I find this. I thought you forgot about us OP!

Anti-magic field. We need to be able combat the Dark Archmage if we ever get into a situation in which we end up facing him. Combine this with combat training. Sounds like a counter-mage combo to me.

After two weeks of hard work, I learn paralyze and improve my swordplay a lot. Nothing particularly special happened during two weeks.

Nenonen arrived day ago with Qu. I guess she's his assistant. He told me that he managed to find some information regarding the possible position of Xjaal. It might hover near the edge of desert of Zere. Supposedly Archmage Am's assistant ( Jehra-Vera ) had found some neat tidbits from old books.

So, we have a good plan now. I, Nenonen and Qu will use Kalim's help to aboard Xjaal and possibly turn of the invisibility-veil. We should recover machine first and get it quietly to Daciht. From there we will take an airship and personally deliver the machine to Jania.
Nenonen said that they will take care of the machine in Jania, probably will lock it up like many other powerful artifacts.

Should we invite anyone else with us? And should we buy any specific equipment?

>>18694474
Don't forget to buy rope, if you don't have any, yet.
Also: equipment enchantment status?

sweet, I thought this quest was gone

your art is getting better and better

Hm, enchantments should be fine. The enchant on armor has been a blessing so far. I recharged sword recently. The robe doesn't need any recharging as it is made from materials that naturally protect from offensive magic. I could get myself a whole new enchant...
I have 300 pien to burn after all.
Overall, my equipment is in good shape. I could buy spell-scrolls ( one use ) for really sticky situations or something. Or potions or something? Hiring help might work too.

>>18695628
potions are always useful. Do we have any right now?
Some general restorative/healing potions are always a must.

>>18695628
I don't suppose there's something like a powder that could confuse our enemies with something like smoke, thunder or bright light? We do seem to be fairly squishy and rely on hit'n'run and opportunities if they arise, and the orb of light hasn't been all that reliable on offense. Which may be just our luck tho.

Is our featherfall spell enough backup if something really bad happens to our dragon friend?
Otherwise, yeah check what potions are available.

(great quest by the way)

Featherfall should be enough for. Qu can glide and Nenonen knows slow featherfall as well so eh, no problems with that I guess.

Anyway, I found a shop that sells all kinds of potions.
Healing potions, potions of mana-restoration, berserker stuff, love potions ( what ) etc.

Healing Potion - 12 pien
Mana Potion - 15 pien
Berserker potion - 40 pien
Toughen skin - 60 pien
Stasis - 40 pien

They don't sell poisons for some reason. Something with string of murders few years ago. And yeah, I think I found something like you described:

Bottled Flash - 10 pien
Bottled Thunder - 10 pien

>>18695903
great.

I think we got all we beed

>>18695903
I meant rope for climbing up, not down.

can we still learn an extra spell from the magic academy or is it too late?

>>18696473
we choose to train swordfighting, so no.

Buy a couple of healing and mana pots. Those stuff are always useful.

I bought rope. With the potions, I have 100 pien left.

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Few days pass travelling around and searching. We picked Kalim with us, who seems to be very anxious. He carries bit of our equipment ( food and other ). He was offended when we told him to carry the stuff. Took bit of negotiating and shit.
So, it is I, Nenonen and Qu. Nenonen and Qu are experienced in searching ruins and stuff.

After a night, I think we finally found it! A massive invisibility-circle. If we go inside the circle, the Xjaal should be revealed to us. It is slowly drifting east. The circle looks fragile, I am pretty sure I might be able to disrupt it if I get close enough. The resulting energy-flare might alert unwanted people though...
Then again, breaking it might break some other circles, so it might be easier to move around.

Okay, what do?

>>18697097
Keep the invisibility circle up for now.

>>18697097
Up on the Dragon, and into the circle.

Welp, hope we're not in an area populated with winged beasts then. Guess it's no use to wait until the island moves elsewhere since it'll always give off a big flare in the middle of the friggin sky, right?. Especially in a desert (?) where it not even a storm could cloak it.

Well, I guess it is better for it to be invisible while we are on it.

Here we go-!

>>18697643
Reach the stars
fly a fantasy
Dream a dream and what you see will be.

Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds
And there upon the rainbow is the answer
To a never ending story
story~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khTntOxX-k

We pierced the veil and now we can see the Xjaal! It is huge! Holy fuck!
There are even minor forests growing on it ( I think those were originally small gardens )

Landing was a success. Invisibility-veil did not break.
We need a plan. Kalim wants to find treasures now, and I am not sure if we can stop him. Nenonen wonders how in hell is this thing still invisible and flying. It would require ridiculously powerful artifact to fly thing this big this high for 1000 years.
So, any ideas what should we do foremost in Xjaal? It is quite big, so exploring will take some time. Qu also reminds that there might be some monsters inside. Magical guardians or something along those lines.

What should we look for?

>>18697775
We need to find the control room/bridge/whatever. From there we will determine what to do. Hopefully we can operate this thing.

Where were we supposed to take it anyway?

>>18697775
Find a defensible area and set up a proper camp.

lets travel in a group for protection and grab some loot while we're looking for the artifact

just something quick I did to stop my fingers from F5ing.

>>18698325
Awesome!

>F5ing.
Use 4chanx. It's amazing.

We make camp outside. Should be safe enough with invisibility-veil and such.

>>18698325
[Thanks very much! It is awesome!]

>>18698583
Investigate the door closer

One thing good about Zere was that they had massive hard-on for magic. Almost every trap has had a magical component, making them easy to detect. However, traps have been... powerful. Lucky for us, 1000 years have done things to this place. Malfunctioning traps etc. We accidentally triggered an explosive trap, but it did not go off because it was too old.

After some searching, I think we found the bridge or whatever. It is locked and requires a key to open ( or certain magical spell ). Nenonen could try to force it open though, but... I am worried, the door is trapped.

wander around looking for the artifact

lets shoot some magic at it

try some spells, shoot some magic, smoke some weed

Full spell list please?

Well yeah, I guess it wouldn't hurt to just test if I can open the door with simple spell. Maybe we can work from that.

The simple bolt of fire hits the door. There is creaking noise.
Something falls!

oh shit, what is it?

>>18698682
Did it sound like something breaking or falling into place? Also, where? Investigate!

>>18699050
FFFFFFfffffffffffffffff

We were almost crushed by...
this... thing.

>"Jihzal mori neneja xuul?"

... I have no idea what it meant. Nenonen might know. Nenonen is thinking hard. He tells us to prepare ourselves for battle, he will buy us some time.

Also, spell-list as it was requested.

Disrupt
- Disrupt enemy spell / circle
Break Barrier
- Annihilate enemy barrier. Might require multiple uses.
Destroy Mana
- Deplete enemy mana. If enemy has no mana, it has no effect.
Barrier
- Create a protective barrier around caster. Efficient against spells.
Heal
- Close wounds.
Orb of Light
- Create a small orb of light. Lasts 20 seconds, can be moved around.
Elemental Bolt
- Fire a bolt of fire/water/ice/lightning.
Extract Water
- Extract water from air. ( exhausting )
Slow Fall
- Slows fall for 5 seconds.
Paralyze
- If succesful, paralyzes target. Results can very.

>>18699098
>>18699202
It seems to be powered by magic.
Lets use disrupt, it might be effective against it.

Destroy Mana on him

>>18699098
Show him your eyes. Make a show of it, hopefully it'll accept that as a right to be here. If not... Disrupt away.

>>18699256
This... Actually isn't too bad of an idea. If memory serves, the eyes of the Miracle Lord looked quite similar.

>>18699202
Thanks for posting up the list.

this guy looks suspiciously like one of those furfags from tgchan

Well it did seem to ask a question, so I say let's try negotiating first then battle. Showing eyes might just be crazy enough to work.

>>18699644
But enough about you, back to Daniel's Quest.

>>18699644
Nah, he's one of the less furry ones from that particular den of yiffing.

You can tell because the protagonist has no tails nor cat ears.

>>18700063
Yet.

>>18700105
>>18700063
>>18699875
>>18699644

Enough of this. Who cares that OP going on tgchan. This quest is here, it's interesting, and has good artwork to go with it. Let's just wait for OP to return and continue.

>>18700105
Some of them have as many as nine tails.

Nine. Count them.

>>18699376
AND the Miracle Lord gave us those eyes. We're marked as affiliated.

I show it my eyes!

>"... Zerel... Edel Zerel..."
>"Ramie nio Edel... Ji zarovio ELIS! LANZAAAAAAAN!!"

>>18700431
Get ready to dodge if that construct tries anything funny.

If not... try to say hi?

>>18700431
"Ayup."

The guardian berserks!
I narrowly avoid a deadly swipe!
"What the shit?!"
>"I don't know! It said something about Edel and then just screamed 'daystar'!"

Fuck, what now?!

>>18700477
DISRUPT. Aim for the red magic circle

>>18700477
Try to dispel on of the guardians enchantments after another. Begin with the red one.

OHSHIT! Mental note: Keep goggles on and don't show eyes to golems around this place.

Okay, stopping updating for a while. Going to sleep, continuing after. Thanks for reading!
Feel free to suggest/discuss/whatever.

>>18700664
Awesome picture

So I assume daystar refers to the sun and this guardian is working for the sungod that doesn't like Edel or his eyes very much? So either Edel blatantly lied to us about this mission or the machine is something the sungod took from him because he deemed it too dangerous in the wrong hands.

If that leap was true we might already be in a battle of the gods and just don't know it yet.

Well let's just hope Edel doesn't gain some sort of control over us via these weird eyes. Would suck for us if it turned out he reincarnated into us but was too weak to become the dominant personality or some shit like that.
Evil trickster gods do tend to like these tactics tho. Not sure about "evil" trickster gods that heal people tho.

Thread archived. Now lets hope this is still around when OP wakes up.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/18692940/

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>>18700827
>Would suck for us if it turned out he reincarnated into us but was too weak to become the dominant personality or some shit like that.
Well, we met him in person, so I don't think reincarnation is a thing.

Disrupt is successful! Spell is interrupted and the unleashed energy damages the thing slightly.
Nenonen is preparing a spell, Qu is trying to get on the guardian.
The enemy seems to have its attention fixed on me.
Any ideas?

rolled 5 = 5

>>18708546
Dodge you glorious bastard. Dodge! The others seem to know what their doing!

>>18708546
Try to communicate to the thing that we are NOT Edel.

"Heyhey, I am not Edel! Not Edel!"
No response. I narrowly avoid getting smashed by the guardian.
It won't listen.

Nenonen's fire blast hits the middle of the guardian, cracking the armor slightly and staggering it.
Qu has landed on top of the thing and seems to be searching for something.

>>18709547
Cast barrier and keep dodging. That circle on the chest is tempting but probably barriered to hell. You have allies though, let them do their thing.

>>18709547
Disrupt on its torso

I got lazy half-way through, but I hope it's alright despite COLORFUL BLURRY LENS FLARES EVERYWHERE.

Qu manages to do... something. Jammed a sword in a weak spot. The guardian looks more sluggish. I use the opportunity to cast a barrier and disrupt the chest. It has no effect. The circle on chest is way too well-protected for disrupt to have effect. If I concentrated for a while, I might be able to cause damage to the circle. I would be only protected by my barrier though...

Nenonen seems to be preparing another spell, it appears to be freezing kind.

>>18710188
Holy shit, that is glorious. Thank you very much!

>>18710204
Is that sword still inside the thing? If so go with our usual tactic and shoot a big blast of lightning into the sword.

>>18710188
That's amazing

>>18710204
Staying alive is our top priority so lets not stop to concentrate and hope our barrier stops those Huge Hands, keep dodging

Okay, I keep my guard up!
Aaand another dodged swipe! So sluggish.
Nenonen unleashes elements upon the guardian, freezing it in place! I take my chance and run behind the guardian, zapping it through the sword!
It screams in pain.

The guardian is having trouble moving.

>>18710830
Have Nenonen tell it to surrender since he seems to understand its language.

>>18710830
Get back and hit it with a Paralyze and hope it works, if it does either get Nenonen to try and talk with it or begin working on breaking it's enchantments.

I try to paralyze it, but it doesn't work. I guess it only works on 'normal' creatures.
Used disrupt on the circle on the head. It weakens it. I disrupt second time. The circle breaks and the head falls limp. The shock and Nenonen's blasts must have weakened it a quite bit.
Nenonen asks it to surrender. The guardian replies and Nenonen translates:

>Nenonen: "It doesn't want to surrender. I think it is broken, Qu jammed a sword through its soul-binding circle, so it has hard time operating. The shock damaged the circle further."
"So I guess we'll just have to kill it?"
>Nenonen: "Yeah. Qu can finish it off."
>Guardian: "... Xajus vaas exal Edel..."
>Nenonen: "To protect world from Edel...?"

The guardian falls silent. It still trying to weakly unlodge itself from the ice.
I guess we are done here.

>>18711411
Ask it why it needs to protect the world from Edel if it can still talk, if not finish it off and get going again.

to the artifact

>>18711411
I'm kind of sad now.

>>18711411
Finish it off and high five or fistbumb your team-mates. Also wonder where your cowardly dragon companion has gone.

It doesn't talk, so we simply finish it off by breaking the soul-binding circle. The guardian falls down and melts into black goo.

"... This is normal, right?"
>Qu: "Ye, normal. I've dealt with two similar things. They have souls of executed and are controlled by circle. Time was rough on this one."
>Nenonen: "We can expect more. This place is big, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were 10 or 20 more of these things, some even more well-preserved than this one."
"Too spooky."

Kalim is probably still trying to find treasures. The door to the control room is still closed, but it won't be too hard to bust through it.

>>18711778
Did it drop any loot?

>>18711778
Try to open the control room.

loot and door

Bam, Nenonen blew the door up.
This place looks gorgeous! Everything is operated through magic. Nenonen said that it isn't -that- amazing, considering Zere was pretty much 'land of magic'.

Anyway, we figured out some stuff.

Guardians:
We found a panel to disable them all. There were 200 of them guard-duty.

Location:
It looks like Xjaal is going circular path ( old capital of Zere being the center ). I think we might be able to set a new course, but that might screw up the veil royally.

The heart:
The located 'heart' of Xjaal. The artifact, maybe?

We also located the treasure-chambers.

>>18712016
Soo, disable those Guardians first, then go get the loot from the treasure room, making sure that the dragon gets his share before going on to see the Heart just in case it is what we need and taking it causes the island to begin crashing down.

>>18712016
Are we supposed to take the fortress anywhere?

can we just see where the other guardians are and disable them in places we plan to go? like the treasure rooms and the artifact location.

>>18712079
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfqpMsPYGfU

Our goal is to recover the artifact. Which might be problematic if it is also 'heart' of the damn fortress.
I disabled all of the guardians. It is much safer this way. There still will be traps and other nasty things.

Oh well. Nenonen said that he will stay here and figure out this shit. That leaves Qu and me. We'll go check out the heart.

>>18712093
...w-what does this have to do with anything?

>>18712192
If we have to take out the heart, wouldn't the whole thing come crashing down?
Can we land it before we do that?

So yeah, pretty much don't mess with the heart if it is what we're after until absolutely necessary and all precautions are taken.

I found Kalim. He was in the treasure-chambers. There were little amounts of wealth inside. I guess they forgot all the treasure back where-ever.
Anyway, I'll leave dragon to swim in the small pile of treasure.

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So... this is the heart. Edel's Machine... I know it for sure.
It is kinda big. Bigger than I thought it would be. It is powering the Xjaal, meaning that if we try to take it, this whole thing will fall down. Argh!
I am not even sure what it does! It just stands there! Or well, it flashed when I entered the room.
Man, what should we do...?

>>18712411
See if there are any documents left. Get a clue for what reason Xjaal was built.
Spending a day or two investigating will probably not get us our leg broke.

>>18712411
Don't touch it

The Dark Archmage isn't the only Archmage around. Fly to wherever the mages are, but do NOT disable the Guardians. If the baddies show up we need them. Can you control them?

>>18712411
Fly to the guild.

I leave the heart to be.
We found some walls with images and writing. The writing was incomplete ( and parts were ruined ). It helped us to understand the history a bit.

Constructions were started after sealing of 'daystar' ( refers to Edel ). He had left a tremendously powerful artifact. High-priest received command to build a giant ark ( Xjaal ) to keep it away from mortals. It also says that the Xjaal was intended for other uses ( housing royal family, chapel for their gods, etc. )
It took 100 years to construct Xjaal, and that wasn't enough. There is some writing about a great calamity ( Nenonen says it refers to fall of Zere ), which forced them to lift Xjaal earlier than planned. From that day Xjaal has been floating around invisible.

That's about it.
So, Xjaal is actually unfinished.
The defenses were weaker than planned and such. Cool for us I guess.

Anyway, yeah. We'll reactivate the guardians and set course to Jania ( the current archmage is there ). The veil will be kinda fucked, but I am pretty sure we can make it before Dark Archmage notices us.

>>18712931
Might want to warn Kalim to get his share of the loot and get gone unless he's willing to help us fight the Dark Archmage and probably his dragon friend Gaia.

>>18712931
While we are flying towards Jania lets go mess around with the heart some more since it reacted to our presence.

>>18712931
Does the ark have any other defences? Maybe we should modify their setting and turn them on?

We managed to set course towards Jania. The veil broke, but we should be fine. I am not sure about other defenses. Nenonen said that the ship should be capable of creating a powerful barrier.

We'll stop in Daciht to get some supplies and to drop the dragon. I also want Nxisa to come with us to Jania!

[ Ending the session here. Thanks for playing. Kinda fell apart in the end. And extra-thanks for the awesome fan-art. ]

>>18713146
See you next time!

Thank you for the quest