Guild Wars II: The Summary (Rated T - the finale)

 
 

(I’ll just write this summary in roughly chronological order. If someone wants to rearrange it, go ahead. And yes, I skimmed over some details. This is already over a page long on MS Word.)

This summary currently covers: posts 1 through 261.
Commander Strife is in his office, when a soldier is called in for questioning. When the two begin to argue over Strife’s policies in Spacefleet, the soldier eventually attacks Strife, who then subdues the soldier and has him thrown in the brig to await execution. Strife shows his desire to dominate the planet NTWF.
Keng is in Spacefleet labs, and is soon going to be sent to the planet. Ethan is attempting to find out more about his identity, going through records of people named Ethan when his dog, Siber, wants to be fed. Amneiger is working on adding extra security to his lab, and is being called on the same offworld expedition Keng is going on. Zari is working in her lab.
Fraze is in his quarters trying to find his flechette gun, which he realizes he left on the planet’s surface a day or two before. He takes a dropship to the surface, where he thinks he left his gun in a sack. He finds a magical gem also in the sack, which begins shooting lightning and causing a storm. Fraze thinks he recognizes the gem, so he follows the mages to try to find a way to take it from them. Fraze sends a message to Spacefleet saying this.

Strife gets a message telling of the storm. He is told that it is near where Leoness is. When he finds out that Fraze is also on the surface without his permission, he orders the station to be put into lockdown.
When hearing the order for lockdown, Keng asks for access to the satellite images of the storm. She is told that it may be magically caused, so she tries to contact Urchin, who she knows has experience with magic. However, she cannot find Urchin. Ethan decides to find the other ‘Fleeters to try to find out more about the lockdown, and starts speaking with Keng. Strife sends a message to Amneiger to go down to the surface and, if he finds Fraze, to return him to Spacefleet for questioning.
Zari is told to go to the surface. She teleports there and meets up with Fraze and the rest of the convoy with the gem. Fraze tells Zari that they should try to get the gem, so Zari gets a stasis box to put it in to keep it safe. Kat wants to move somewhere safer for Nature, who had been hit by one of the gem’s lightning bolts. Zari tries to convince the mages to give her the gem, but does not succeed. Kat teleports away, taking the gem with her. Hades confronts Fraze about breaking Spacefleet’s secrecy, then sends a somewhat exaggerated message to Spacefleet telling of the break in security, seemingly intended to cause discord.

Speck, following an armadillo through the woods, discovers the dropship he left and finds her way in. After she fails to say who she is, the ship sends a message to Spacefleet and Fraze, telling of the breakin. By the time Fraze and Zari get to the ship, Huntress, Zylaa, and Rider are already there. The pirates see them, and tensions flare. Hades follows them to the ship, and tries to spark conflict by shooting different people while remaining hidden. Both Fraze and Zari try to get the pirates to leave, but neither are successful.
Keng heads to security, where she finds out that Fraze’s dropship has been discovered. She contacts Commander Strife to tell him of the security breach. She realizes the people at the ship are her former pirate crewmates, and uses the ship’s comm system to try to get them to leave. The pirates do not realize they are speaking to Keng.
Strife is infuriated when he finds out about the secrecy breach. He goes out to the moon’s surface and practices his earth magic on the surrounding landscape, while worrying about the safety of Leoness, who is on the surface. After hearing the message from Hades, he upgrades the station to level 3 lockdown.
Amneiger arrives on the surface and begins monitoring the storm.
When they realize the White Weewoo is burning, the pirates run to save their ship. Hades comes out and taunts Fraze and Zari. Fraze listens to the message Hades sent to Spacefleet. Rikku, who had been hiding, sees Hades. Realizing he is a vampire, she attacks him. Zari and Fraze leave when Rikku attacks Hades. Zari realizes her armor is damaged from Hades’ laser shots and starts to fix it, Fraze sends a message to Keng saying they will be coming back to Spacefleet.
Strife is told that Zari and Fraze will soon be arriving back, and commands that guards take them to his office.

It is a normal day at the Ninja Dojo. PFA is busy at the Training Grounds, showing how she has improved much in throwing projectiles. Her uncle, Cat Assassin, is with her all the time to supervise and is a bit amazed. The mood of the day changes however when the feline brings up either a good or a bad news: that days ago he received a letter from someone who knows how to revive Vyt, a close friend who was killed during the first Guild Wars.

At the entrance of the guild however, trouble strikes as a pirate makes her way in. Not even having any manners at all, she quickly stabs a random ninja into submission as she mouths warning of an impending doom (no reference meant) approaching fast. PFA and Cat Assassin are just in time to see the scene, and quickly rush towards the fallen comrade. The feline noticed someone else just outside the entrance and sees Bluisa, the person who wrote the letter. Bluisa notes the two about a strange artifact that is rumored to hold the power to contact a soul from the other world. She also reminds them that they have to hurry, for others have already went into their own search for the mysterious object. She convinces Cat Assassin and PFA to come along.

With Bluisa's crystal ball at hand, the trio watch what is happening to the artifact they were looking for. Hints from the images revealed brings them to Castle Kestrel. Cat Assassin suggests they split up to search for the gem, in which PFA and Bluisa agree. However, they are stopped by a telepathy of a man who claims freedom of the demons. The voice brings up a deal in which no ordinary person should refuse: either they follow him as allies or suffer the consequences of being branded an enemy by everyone else. Cat Assassin and PFA however are not stirred by the empty threats, as they convince themselves not to partake in such a plan.

After some time, both ninjas have successfully infiltrated the Castle Kestrel. PFA confronts a girl named Celestial while Cat Assassin gets attacked by a rabid horse in the form of Shiva. Moments later, they each leave their respective enemies behind in search for a more important person: the black-haired man who was then currently holding the gem. Though they and Bluisa are able to find him, it is too late for them to recover the gem, for the new holder of the gem has teleported herself and all her cohorts somewhere.

Bluisa notes that her crystal ball may be able to reveal the new gem holder's whereabouts. A quick glance at the image inside shows the Mage Manor in the background. Noticing the poisonous gas slowly enveloping around them, Bluisa casts a wind spell that drives the three towards the place.

Upon landing near the Mage Manor, they are confronted by some of the people they saw last in the castle. One of them is the same person PFA has confronted. She takes the liberty of getting the gem and enters the manor, forcing Bluisa to go after her. However, the series of events that takes place before that leaves PFA in trouble and Cat Assassin in confusion.

For no obvious reasons, Cat Assassin finally notices what is really going on. He tells PFA that a certain girl is back and decides to go inside the Mage Manor, leaving poor PFA in the midst of former friends turned enemies.

Meanwhile, Bluisa confronts Celestial in a brief struggle before Cat Assassin arrives, demanding Bluisa to stop before she can initiate her plan. After another brief battle, Bluisa threatens the life of a young dragon with one of her attacks, in which Celestial blocks and risks her own life as well.

However, Bluisa turns to Cat Assassin as a mild girl again, giving him the crystal ball which will aid him in finding the gem. The mage mentions something about not really being who Cat Assassin thinks she is, and assures her that she has only embarked on the mission to revive Vyt and nothing more. Cat Assassin, convinced that Bluisa is telling the truth, gives his own assurance of finding the gem.

Back outside, PFA confronts a lot of people and encounters a series of life-threatening attacks. Seeing that she is pitted in a situation where ignorance will only lead her to death, PFA tries to convince everyone around her that she does not intend to hurt anyone and that she only needs the gem to revive Vyt. Hunty, who is the captain of the pirates, gives her an offer of temporary allegiance to the pirates and their cohorts in exchange for the use of the gem, in which she obliges.

Back inside the Manor, Bluisa releases her attack on Celestial and her dragon, concealing them inside a dense mass of black fog. Sev then arrives and, seeing that Bluisa is causing trouble inside the Manor, demands her to stop the attack. Noticing that having an angry phoenix and a slowly-recovering dragon as her enemies puts her in a tough position, Bluisa transforms herself into a very peculiar person.

Cat Assassin is the only person who knows what is going on, and warns everyone that "they have angered the only one who do". As soon as Cat Assassin escapes through a window, Bluisa emerges from the shadow as Subila, along with a very chaotic entrance that sends bookshelves toppling around.

A heated battle starts to brew, with the self-proclaimed "Queen of the Darkness" fending off against a very powerful phoenix. Unquenchable fire and light-proof darkness begin to surround the battle. PFA and the others are just in time to enter the library to see for themselves who is causing so much trouble. The battle is very intense, with both sides fighting off every attack, until a call of Subila's name from an unsuspecting mage gives Subila the power to transform once more into a more powerful form of herself, bragging that even a phoenix can no longer stop her from taking over NTWF.

Witnessing the carnage herself, Bluisa finds the strength to release herself from Subila after saying that the latter has only fooled her. Subila is forcefully splitted into two similar-looking mages, one of them painfully attacked by a barrage of flames. The other copy is in the mercy of a dragon that is Celestial, as she silently endured the scorching pain she receives from the dragon.

Only PFA is able to get out of the blind rage towards Subila, as she mentions something about one of them being Bluisa. Though confused, Celestial quickly removes her spell from the one she is attacking, screaming "Stop!" at Sev for them to check. However, the phoenix cannot undo his spell anymore, sending his Subila back into the alternate world. PFA and Celestial turn towards the remaining Subila and hope she is not the evil clone.

The mage stands up and thanks Celestial for saving her. She reveals herself to be Bluisa, the remnant of Subila's memories. In a fit of joy and relief, PFA runs and hugs her, forgiving what Subila and she have done.

Far away, Cat Assassin is on the move for the gem. Noticing the quick exchange of its holder, the feline does his best in searching for the place where the last holder may be in. This search ends at a cliff, where he witnesses the pirates using the gem to rebuild their ship.

Cat Assassin tries to get close, but a sudden wave of pain enters his mind. This renders the cat stunned.

Back in the Manor, PFA and Bluisa are offered by Celestial to hop behind her, since she is also on the lookout for the gem. The ninja and the mage happily agrees and clings on to Celestial as they swiftly soar into the air. Moments later, Bluisa notices the badge on her waist shining, hinting her that Cat Assassin is hurt and nearby. PFA jumps off Celestial and rushes towards Cat Assassin, who tells her the gem is attacking his mind.

However, Bluisa is caught in a strange mist and gets overthrown towards Cat Assassin. A hurt Bluisa then goes into a blind rage, screaming her dismissal. Cat Assassin overhears her voice and goes after her, slowly crawling with focused energy on one of his hand. PFA thinks the cat mistakes Bluisa for Subila and shouts to Cat Assassin to reconsider.

Cat Assassin reaches for Bluisa, but unexpectedly the energy in his hand is supposed to heal her stamina, not hurt her. This however risked Cat Assassin's life and puts him in danger of death. Celestial quickly comes over to heal Cat Assassin.

Cat Assassin's eyes wakes up, only to see another dimension. There, he confronts Vyt and both engage in a discussion about Vyt's failed revival back in the first Guild Wars. Vyt gives out his reason; he thinks he has led a bad life and does not want to return to cause more. This makes Cat Assassin angry, exclaiming that Vyt is only looking at a negative point of view.

Eventually, Cat Assassin convinces Vyt that he will return, but on one condition: everyone must understand why he has not returned in the first place.

Back in the real world, Bluisa changes her form in a fit of rage, only to be stopped by Celestial and PFA. Confused, she confronts them both, only to be bombarded by Celestial and PFA's allegiance towards the pirates. They board the ship, leaving a more confused Bluisa behind. After screaming out her emotional pain, Bluisa proceeds to guarding Cat Assassin, who eventually wakes up. After Cat Assassin's news about Vyt's approval, he and Bluisa follow the now-flying ship.

Inside the ship called White Weewoo, PFA struggles to stay standing inside the sheep and talks to the pirates about her allegiance. Overpowered by slumber, PFA thinks it best to find a spot for her to sleep on.

Moments later, the White Weewoo launches its attack on Castle Kestrel and eventually lands beside it. Bluisa and Cat Assassin sees this from afar and quickly goes over, only to be stopped by Celestial. Cat Assassin convinces the dragon that what they are doing is wrong, and notes her that the gem is actually corrupting everyone onboard. While the dragon agrees to this, she suddenly gets overcomed by pain and falls over. Bluisa feels she needs to guard Celestial and sends Cat Assassin alone towards the ship.

Cat Assassin lands beside Castle Kestrel and overhears the cries of battle. Thinking the ship will not move for awhile, the feline enters the castle and into the throne room. He confronts a large mammoth-like creature who is causing more trouble inside the room than anyone else and tries to stop the battle. After a series of attacks, the Blarf (as the pirates called it) escapes outside, forcing Cat Assassin and a marine named Fraze to follow.

Meanwhile, Celestial wakes up and tells Bluisa they will be going on a far away place. Bluisa reluctantly nods and follows Celestial as they are teleported in an unknown technologically-advanced place, where they are quickly confronted (and eventually ambushed) by the marines.

Back in NTWF, Cat Assassin places himself in an invulnerable (but severely underestimated) energy ball and goes in the ship, where he sees the recently-woken PFA. The feline quickly brings to her the news about Vyt's approval of revival and convinces her that the gem is actually corrupting the mind of the captain. Quickly, they talk of their attempt to snatch the gem off the pirate captain. PFA is chosen to go for the steal, as she has already gotten Hunty's trust and hence can get closer.

Plans go awry however, as minutes later PFA is found out and attacked by the pirate captain. Cat Assassin tries to go for the captain, but is blocked by the Blarf and a bounty over the heads of the ninjas. The feline quickly disposes of the former, but is confronted by a sole pirate named Leste.

PFA uses her hidden power to heal her wounds, as she quickly joins Cat Assassin in a fight against Leste. A brief battle ensues as mind games and underhanded tactics overrule the scene. Cat Assassin and PFA are able to take the pirate down, but the former thinks it best to leave her under his Signum Sanctuary to keep her from harm.

A hefty reward for each ninja proved to be a situation both ninjas never want to be in, as they are quickly confronted by more pirates. Cat Assassin manages to keep his composure while fighting Cyborg, Rider and Kat while PFA struggles against Midknight and Shado. Still, both ninjas are able to keep their heads intact for awhile before the numbers eventually start to take over the situation.

A white glow emerges from nowhere, stopping the battle between Cat Assassin and his assailants. After some preachings by the glow, everyone is able to come in peace. Rider thinks that Cat Assassin is bent on killing everyone, to which Cat Assassin do not reply, thinking that he cannot simply say so otherwise. Eventually, he succumbs to the former pirate captain, giving himself up to the pirates for imprisonment.

As the feline is brought up to the White Weewoo to be jailed, PFA looks at the glow with curiosity. It emerges to be Vyt the Yang, who is the ninja's real father. He states that he appeared to tell PFA about her newfound powers, which is confirmed by the ghost of Subila the Yin. Both entities try to empower PFA to continue what Cat Assassin has struggled to do: stop the war at all cost.

PFA agrees and approaches the captain, her powers now at hand. She plans to confront the captain once and for all, but is unsuccessful in doing so. As consequence, she was taken prisoner by the pirates surrounding her, but partially she intended to do so in order to rescue Cat Assassin who was taken prisoner as well.

In the brig where the ninjas are held captive, the Yin and Yang cooperate to bring them out of their cells. Cat Assassin starts to wake up and makes his move, while PFA soon follows. They meet just around the deck where the cat signals her and the spirits to stay low and strike when the captain is at her lowest guard.

They are not expecting her to simply jump overboard, so out of confusion Cat Assassin breaks his stealth. In doing so, he meets Bluisa, who is able to somehow escape from the ambush she and Celestial confronted inside the Spacefleet HQ.

As the ninjas regroup, the mercenaries spot them and begins to ask for an alliance. The ninjas decline eventually fight the mercenaries out of vengeance for betraying them in the first place. Bluisa finally manages to trap the mercenaries inside a cube enveloped by darkness while Cat Assassin and PFA confront Shado; the only "mercenary" remaining.

Inside the cube, Bluisa tries to drain the energy out of the mercenaries by instilling their fear, but her first target Jernath is persistent in succumbing to it. Eventually the actions of the mercenaries force the cube to act by itself, taking Bluisa over.

Page ONE

S: A dark hallway. A nervous soldier. How exciting! ^_^ Anyways, said soldier (Subcommander #12) meets The Commander (note: capitalised title, “The”) and informs him about Terrestial Entity #53, codenamed NTWF, residing on the planet NTWF (not a codename), which is comparable to a soft kitten. Under Jurisdiction 2-I of Spacefleet Protocol, The Commander charges #12 with acting against the primary objective and the two do a little dance number before the latter is dragged away by guards.

Ne: Down in a happy valley (a happy valley, not the Happy Valley), everyone is harvesting celebration—I mean, celebrating the harvest—in the peaceful wake of the Guilds’ War: Rising Shadows (COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU!). But one particular farmer, named Bob (srsly), isn’t quite so happy: A stray lightning spell burnt down much of his crops, and all he got was a box of chocolates. But under his cornfield, he found something amazing… Something that will change his life forever… Something that will change the fate of the world itself! [Cut trailer, go to voice over, scroll credits.]

Ma: A humanoid black dragon with white eyes falls out of his chair. Ouch. That had to hurt. Outside, the necromancer Rikku raises an undead sparrow…which flies away into the forest as she heads into the Mages’ Manor for something else to eat. Mmm, lunch. The sparrow would’ve tasted lifeless anyways. Elsewhere, chronomancer Scarven brags about magic being easy before accidentally changing himself into a cuddly black cat (comparable to the aforementioned NTWF, perhaps?). Later, he and his wife Aerisa are fruitless in their search for a cure, and after a bad experience with a bubbling brew, Aeri gives Scar a bath and turns herself into her true form, a Dragonbunny the same size as he is. Wait, did I say it was accidental?

K: Sixteen-year-old, violently-red-haired, lynx-eared Tralira Pirul, the Ivory Knight known as Trilly, finds herself lost in Dunburrow’s Castle Kestrel and holds a chat with her forest feyrie Feather about finding herself a little less alliteration of the F’s and L’s.

S: Keng studies a prototype portable shield in Lab 1. Her and her crew are preparing to go onworld, though no one quite knows why.

PMaK: Kalianne Triss Lunara (a.k.a. Kat), First Mate, Purple Knight, and certified mage (in’eresting how that last one doesn’t get capital treatment) insists on being multi-allegienced and, thus, completely and utterly destroying my perfectly-planned-out color-coding system. I shall, for the sake of it, make her orange. XD Disirregardless, she hears farmer Bob’s shouting and runs over to Dunburrow—wait, wait, WAIT! The Mages ATTACKED one of Dunburrow’s farms and I never declared WAR?! What is wrong with these people?! Anyways, when she gets to him, he drops all charges because—drumroll, please—he found an… end of post.

Ma: Nature (the Zafara, not the force) and her pet Freezemancer, an Elvish Dragon (no relation to Cornish Pixies), arrive at Kat’s side and inquire what’s going on.

MaK: Kitsune Ikkin, also destroying my brilliant concept of color-codedness (but not being color-coded orange), senses the magical artifact found by farmer Bob and flies to the throne room to tell King Wolf to investigate (I wonder, where was he when she spoke to him…?) and sends her pet phoenix to the Manor to tell them about it as well. *torched by furious flaming firebird*

Ma: Zafara Omi exercises.

S: Cyborg Ethan feeds his dog Siber.

K: Oran the black cat telepathically tells Tamia—enough with the alliteration—to stop daydreaming already. Something catches her eye and the Orange Knight, cat in tow, run after a man towing away a shiny.

Ma: Surf joins Bob and the mages at the farm. …So who was running off with the shiny?

S: Amneiger sets up security turrets in his quarters. And with that, the page is turned.


Page TWO

P: I’d like to see Zylaa weasel her way into this one! …Oh, wait, she just did. In fact, she weaseled her weasels all the way to her ship with the rumor of the “magic shiny” in tow. The small white brigantine (the boat, not the armour) sways under the weight of all these weasels while Huntress, the captain, holds a conversation with a Bloody Mary (the blue Meepit, not the drink) before Zylaa informs her of the shiny; Speck requests to join the brigade.

PMaK: Kat looks into Bob’s bag and almost faints. But we still haven’t the slightest clue what she saw.

P: Dragon requests to go to Artist Alley. Did she miss the memo that said to go to the farm? Regardless, Hunty grants her permission as she tells the others to start heading out.

Ma: Jasor the young mage practices water magic and takes a nap.

S: Fraze lands near the farm, approaches the group, and says not to touch the shiny: It might take off an arm.

P: The weasel General grows excited as he watches Fraze land and starts approaching him. Time slips can get so confusing. And this was hardly more than a minute in rewind. Psh.

K: Shino finally accepts that it’s begun. About a page late, too. -_- Anyways, Lord Shino, in his travels of six-months’ time, writes a memoir entitled “The Momentous Occasions” (on sale Tuesday) and dedicates it to King Wolf. Anyways, in returning to Dunburrow (I’m still a bit uncertain how he came alive again…though, admittedly, stranger things have happened in the Mages’ Manor *coughkitandikkin*), Shino finds himself face to face with… Lady Tamia!

PMaK: Kat inquires about the shiny. For Tienti’s sake already, WHAT IS IT?!

Ma: Drakhé, the humanoid black dragon, has lunch. Elsewhere, Surf echoes (much different than Echo surfing) Kat’s inquiry into Fraze’s unexpected entry.

P: Speck throws a lemon bomb at Zylaa. Why? She was thirsty.


Page THREE

Ma: Scar and Aeri frolic under the watchful (that is, perverse) eyes of a certain phoenix named Sev.

S: Fraze says the shiny is his flechette gun; he dropped it and wants it back now.

K: Zari flies out the window.

S: I’m not sure what Zari did, but certainly she didn’t just fly out a window.

K: Tamia realizes that the shiny she’d seen had actually been Shino’s sword (geez! Put that thing away, buddy) and happily welcomes him before realising he’s being followed.

S: The Commander, a.k.a. Strife, says farewell to his love Leoness before she departs to visit her sister Aeri at Mage Manor. She soon arrives and knocks on the door. I wonder, does she miss the convenience of doorbells…?

P: Zylaa catches the lemon bomb. Phew. And Dragon goes to the Arts Studio in Artists’ Alley.

Ma: Drakhé answers the door.

PMaK: Kat seems entranced and offers the flechette gun back to Fraze….

S: Fraze takes the gun and, as he nears his dropship, realises it’s not the only thing in the bag….

Ma: Sev kindly torches Scar and Aerie, fluffing them unkindly, and Surf returns home, stumbling upon both Drakhé and Leoness sprawled across the doorway. Drakhé professes his innocence before the sky suddenly grows dark purple and churns above them. In the field, Nature watches as a lightning bolt strikes the artifact Fraze is carrying away; the wave of dark magic pouring outwards causes Nature to pass out and I’m left to assume that, whatever the artifact is inside the bag, the flechette gun’s energy had kept it from reacting, and without it, it’s quite literally gone kaboom….

PMaK: Kat swoops down to assist the fallen Nature while she sends out a bolt of magic to throw the bag out of Fraze’s hand before conjuring a shield around all three of them.


Page FOUR

N: PFA trains with her uncle, Cat Assassin.

P: The pirates leave the ship and, somewhere in the midst of a forest between there and the other there, the sky darkens as black and purple clouds roll on by.

N: Cat Assassin says he believes there’s a way for them to revive Vyt without Sev.

Ma: Bluisa searched for Cat Assassin and heads off to the Ninja Guild to find him.

Me: Salamander decides boredom’s better than getting caught up in another war. Ohh, the irony.

S: Fraze thanks Kat for her shield and introduces himself; his silver skin shield slips up and he tells Kat that it’s…another kind of shield. ~_^

Ma: Jasor awakens and sees the sky darken. He scampers off to alert the others.

S: Leoness introduces herself to Surf and Drakhé.

Ma: Surf introduces herself to Leoness and Drakhé just before the sky blows over badly.

N: Zaha overhears PFA and Cat Assassin talking about Vyt.

K: Zari trains in the fields, which are unusually deserted. Cue darkening sky? Erm, no…not yet. How strange.

S: Zari talks with her clones. Boo-yah.

P: Speck suggests they use the storm as a diversion to snatch the shiny.

Me: Hades the cyborg approaches the farm and sees the gun lying on the ground with the pulsating bag still near it; he offers his assistance to those under the shield.

P: The General latches onto Fraze’s leg before he leaps under the shield. Come on, talk about a delayed reaction—what’s with this weasel? Regardless, Zylaa agrees with Speck: suicidal missions have resulted in getting treasure in the past, why shouldn’t they snatch the shiny now?

Me: Arista asks Salah what she’s doing.

N: PFA asks Cat Assassin how to revive her father.

P: Bloody Mary suggests that they don’t steal the shiny just yet but observe whoever has it, deciding if they truly want it or not. Hunty, however, says they should gather the weasels and plan a sneak attack to steal the shiny before making a run for it. Needless to say, they have no idea what they’re talking about. But then again, do any of us know what the shiny is? Hmm, such a fitting end for the first chapter: As night descends, the pirates are plotting, and everyone else is oblivious….

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(( EDIT ii :: added linkage ))

The first GW had about 100 pages of content, I think. So GW2 isn't at the half-way point yet.

Good luck, and hope you have fun reading everything.

Page FIVE

P: Dragon discovers a painting in the Artists’ Studio depicting an ancient war with blackened sky and lightning, all emanating from an ancient and [once-]lost artifact comprising a 5-by-3-by-2 inch black box. Almost immediately, the Alley kicks her out. Meanwhile, Zylaa contemplates being a Ninja.

Ma: A dragon coos with a Weewoo and hopes not to fight.

S: Leoness suggests they head inside the Manor. Ooh, they're invading!

Ma: Aeri begins leading the way to the kitchen. As if in the fountain wasn’t enough…. O_O

Me: Salah reads the March 22, 1992 edition of TV Guide.

S: Fraze realises a weasel’s riding him and sends a message to Spacefleet HQ.

Ma: Surf alerts the manor of the storm. Ouch, seems like she beat Jasor to the race.

P: Hunty quotes Hillel: If not now, when?

Ma: Rikku discovers the powwow in the doorway and rushes off to grab her raincoat.

S: Strife orders an immediate investigation of the sudden lightning storm with a side of station lockdown.

Ma: Jasor’s forehead tingles silver.

K: Pyro rushes to warn Wolf of the impending storm outside. Odd, no one ever really looks to see if I’m present before talking to me… Kinda sad, really.

Ma: Surf offers to get raincoats for everyone. Meanwhile, Rikku suspects black magic, overhears Sev, and announces that Ikkin found something interesting. Boy, rumors sure do get around fast. Best not tell a secret here. The walls have ears. So do the cornfields.


Page SIX

S: Ethan draws his gun. No, he didn’t draw it, he drew it. Come on, get a grip already. This is war, not art class.

Ma: Omni suspects Kat’s having a super-mage meltdown. Blue light special, anyone?

P: Zylaa spoons her weasels: half assault the shiny-man while a third head for the bag. So, where’s the last sixth of ‘em? Subsequently, Speck says she’ll stay behind for Dragon.

S: Leoness asks to stay in the Manor to find Aeria and Scar.

Me: Jernath joins Arista and Salah and tells them of the dark clouds hovering over that castle place. Oh, boy, I hope the insurance covers this.

Ma: Drakhé says it’d be best to stay inside and wait out the storm.

Me: Cyborg and Midknight, brothers, talk about being jobless. I’d much rather talk about minimum wage: Swear fealty, and you’ll be guaranteed a minimal amount of wages in return. Ah, manorialism is bliss.

MaK: Ikkin states the obvious.

Ma: Sev flies to the kitchen and states the obvious. Like master, like servant.

PMaK: Kat considers the integrity of her shield against a hundred-weasel army.

K: Shino assaults his stalker…leaving plenty of space between his sword tip and his stunned foe.

Ma: Surf announces she can fix the doorway, but that coats are still important.

P: Dragon approaches the Dojo. The Ninja Dojo.

S: Keng goes Cammando and tries to unsuccessfully contact Merc. Urchin.

Ma: Rikku puts the doors back in place and asks Surf to fix the hinges. Just then, Jasor asks if they should alert the other guilds. Should they? No, not really: They all already know. Well, maybe not the Ninjas….


Page SEVEN

N: The Nameless Ninja (TNN) answers the-Dragon-at-the-door. Upstairs, PFA pleads with Cat Assassin to tell her how to revive her father.

Ma: Surf fixes the hinges and says to ignore the other guilds.

N: Cat Assassin recalls a letter he received speaking of an artifact that could raze—I mean, raise—the dead.

Ma: Bluisa finds a teleportation scroll and teleports to the Ninja guild.

N: PFA goes to answer the door that TNN already answered.

Ma: Poor ol’ Scar realises he’s been unclothed this entire time and decides to do us all a favor by dressing himself.

K: Zari joins Ikkin and Pyro in the throne room and declares the lightning is not “ordinary.”

S: Zari teleports down to Earth…I mean, the NTWF, and joins Fraze and Co. No, that’s not a candle store.

K: Tamia steps forward and discovers Shino’s pursuer is a sharp-faced, pale young man; she seizes his belongings and discovers a scroll stolen from Castle Kestrel’s library. The man steps forward to explain himself, declaring that he's a follower of the Invisible Guild. This could further complicate my color-codedness.

S: Fraze tells Zari about the artifact, how everyone under (and over) the sun wants it, The Commander included. Zari says she hopes not, because The Commander wants them all to study it.

K: Trilly discovers a scrap of paper in the castle’s basement talking about the seventh guild and races off to warn the other Knights.

P: Dragon warns The Nameless Ninja and turns into a hawk to find the cornfield.

PMaK: Kat throws off the weasels and leaves Fraze to watch over Nature as she, Kat (not Nature), rushes off to take find the source of the storm.

S: Fraze retrieves the artifact, which registers as an energy source against his skinsuit (see, I told you so), and looks for a medkit to treat Nature.

PMaK: Kat takes the bag and recasts her shield.

S: Amneiger gets Strife’s message and volunteers to be the representative meteorologists that heads down to investigate the storm.


Page EIGHT

Me: Arista makes small talk about the weather.

Ma: Jasor fixes the Manor doors. Wait, weren’t the doors fixed on the last page?

N: TNN ponders the Pirate before PFA performs first aid and sees the swelling storm outside.

Me: Jernath makes more small talk about the weather.

N: Cat Assassin admits he’s a magical know-nothing and discovers an ill-looking Bluisa outside.

P: Hunty heads towards the ship with the others, leaving Bloody Mary behind with a mission….

N: PFA wants to know what Uncle’s talking about, so Cat Assassin fills her in on Bluisa as he carries the mage inside. Apparently, Bluisa is the contact who wants Vyt to come back, the very same who had told Cat Assassin about the artifact in the first place.

Ma: Bluisa wakes up in Cat Assassin’s arms and tell him the artifact has arrives. Doo DOO doo doo. Elsewhere, the dragon who’d hoped not to fight descends towards the Manour of the Mages. Ooh, how spiffy! ^_^

N: As Bluisa begins dragging off Cat Assassin, PFA runs after them, spewing questions like a rabid dog spews foam.

Ma: Bluisa whips out a crystal ball bearing an image of Kat holding the bag and shows it to Cat Assassin and PFA; the mage announces that this artifact is the key to opening the spirit world.

N: Cat Assassin suggests they quickly find where the artifact is, before the people escape. And with that, the three are out the door.

K: Shino tells the stranger to tell his story at last.

Ma: Omni eats beef jerky.

S: Ethan sends a short-range transmission through the station.

Ma: Celestial—said dragon descending towards the Manour—transforms into a human and lands, her WeeWoo, Overlord, landing on her shoulder but a moment later. They enter the Manour.

S: Keng answer her phone. Hey, it’s Ethan!


Page NINE

S: Ethan answers Keng’s transmission, making even more small talk on the weather. The Commander returns Amneiger’s message, telling him to investigate the storm with Ailden and bring back the rogue ‘Fleeter, whether willing or not. Planetside, Leoness is magically teleported to the kitchen. That was cool.

Ma: Celestial enters the kitchen and hopes to remain unseen. Yeah, right….

S: Zari asks to take the bag for a moment…yeah, just a moment.

Me: Hades recognises Zari and says he was once a ‘Fleeter before asking why everyone's planetside.

P: Speck finds a magical armadillo—it can transform into a rock at will!—and rushes towards the ship.

S: While his privacy is invaded by weasels, Fraze explains his situation to Hades.

Ma: Rikku fixes the doorhinges and requests that Surf makes a magic carpet on the fly—or was that a carpet fly on magic?—and follows Celestial into the kitchen, demanding that she's told who she is. Celestial turns around and says she’s a mage trying to find out why the storm is plaguing the planet. Seems reasonable enough.

K: Shade, whilst practicing her clairvoyance, senses the rising shadows (the storm, not the movie) and rushes to inform the others in the throne room. Y’know, it’s not polite to hold a shindig when the king’s out of town.

Ma: Surf makes a magic carpet fly. Yeah, that’s it. Anyway, she’s bored and impatient, so she calls for Rikku to hurry up. Meanwhile, Rikku is still uncertain about Celestial, so after grabbing a light snack, she asks the Dragon Mage if she’d like to join her on a magic carpet ride. Celestial quickly obliges, and after grabbing an even lighter snack, follows after Rikku. Must be dinner time already.

Me: Salah makes more small talk, but this time about the TV. Such a fitting way to end the second chapter, don'tcha think? After all, in the midsts of the writers’ strike, there’s nothing on TV and the mercenaries are jobless. Life is bliss, isn’t it? Well, not for all of us, it seems.

(( EDIT :: to fix color-coding error ))
(( EDIT ii :: to add linkage ))

I just realised I never finished the summary of the first Guild Wars RP, so I went back just now and finished it up for good. It's nothing amazing (gosh, I'm too humble :P), but I thought it'd be fun to tie the two together, using the last "scene" to zoom in on the hidden artifact. So, I did it. Yeah, that'll make an awesome movie clincher. ^_^

And...well...I know I'm not current in this yet, so a lot of the jokes I make probably aren't so funny any more because they're not so fresh anymore, but I miss the interactiveness that the last summary had that this one clearly lacks... -_- Even just the pop-ins who said I'd screwed something up and needed to go fix it were welcomed. Even then, they assured me that the summary had purpose, that people actually cared for it perhaps even a fraction of how much I cared for it....

Or perhaps the virus I picked up on Tuesday is making me feel overly sentimental. :-[