Editing LoH/story/Crisis in Kruna: Part 2

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{{LoH/StorylineTopBar|issue=Crisis in Kruna: Part 2|prev=Crisis in Kruna: Part 1|next=Phantoms of Phaeton}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Issue}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i13_page11_panel7.jpg
|text='''Helios:''' I just want to be left alone. I have done too much harm in the guise of helping.<br />
I want Daddy-O to have been my last fight.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i13_page12_panel4.jpg
|text='''Helios:''' After he used his spores to gain control of my barbarians.<br />
As well as my former students Cornerstone and you, ''PlayerName''
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i13_page12_panel6.jpg
|text='''Helios:''' The combined powers of these two worlds was enough to finally eradicate Daddy-O and his mental grip on all of you.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Fire Fist}}
|text='''Helios:''' It is time for you to go and leave me here. This world suits me.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

== Fire and Shadow ==

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Ember Hawk: Scout}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Fire-Worshipping Barbarian}}
|text='''Helios:''' I will fly you out of here one by one if need be!<br />
Help me, ''PlayerName''!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Fire-Worshipping Barbarians}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Fire-Worshipping Barbarian}}
|text='''Helios:''' I have an army here and while I don't want to fight you...
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Torch Bearer}}
|text='''Helios:''' I will, if that is what it takes to convince you to leave me be.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Helios: Dragon Slayer}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Billet of Fire}}
|text='''Helios:''' You were always an attentive student, ''PlayerName''.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Billet of Fire}}
|text='''Helios:''' You must know this is a test you cannot pass.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page2_panel1.jpg
|text='''Helios:''' I understand if you want to call in sick!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Riftwalker: Non-Stop}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Dismount}}
|text='''Johnny Tinker:''' Getting pretty tired of this sob-song old man.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Stoking the Embers}}
|text='''Johnny Tinker:''' You are coming back with us even if it is on the end of a skewer!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Stoking the Embers}}
|text='''Johnny Tinker:''' What the?!? Who the heck is that?
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Riftwalker: Non-Stop}}
|text='''Riftwalker:''' Gggrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!<br />
'''Johnny Tinker:''' Ummmm...is he growling at us? What is this guy?
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Chronarchivist: Timekeeper}}
|text='''Chronarchivist:''' I recognize his chronal signature!<br />
He is a Riftwalker; capable of traveling between dimensions.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Chronarchivist: Timekeeper}}
|text='''Chronarchivist:''' They are one evolutionary step below the Chronarchs.<br />
I am trying to read his timeline but I am only seeing a red angry haze.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page3_panel5.jpg
|text='''Helios:''' Instead of reading his timeline, how about we end it?
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Minify}}
|text='''Helios:''' Zeus's beard! He is a Non-Stop!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page4_panel2.jpg
|text='''Chronarchivist:''' Tinker! Cornerstone! ''PlayerName''!<br />
He is attacking...can't think...straight...
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

== Deadly Crystal ==

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Area|Deadly Crystal}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page6_panel2.jpg
|text='''Cornerstone:''' Who is this guy? And why does he have emergent powers?
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Tendrils of Darkness}}
|text='''Cornerstone:''' He took out Scarlet Tiger and The Chronarchivist with Non-Stop powers...
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Riftwalker: Sculptor}}
|text='''Cornerstone:''' And now he is sculpting simulacrums of them out of the crystals in the ground.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Thunder Liger: Sculpted}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Thunder Liger: Sculpted}}
|text='''Cornerstone:''' Don't tell Scarlet Tiger when she wakes up...
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Pounce}}
|text='''Cornerstone:''' But I have never been a cat person!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page4_panel7.jpg
|text='''Cornerstone:''' Heads up, ''PlayerName''!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page4_panel7.jpg
|text='''Cornerstone:''' Put this cat down!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Chronarchivist: Sculpted}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page4_panel8.jpg
|text='''Cornerstone:''' It can do everything a real cat can...<br />
...except swim. Good job!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Chronarchivist: Sculpted}}
|text='''Cornerstone:''' But we still have this crystal Chronarchivist to contend with!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Bookmark}}
|text='''Cornerstone:''' And it looks like she is throwing the book at us!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Riftwalker: Sculptor}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page2_panel2.jpg
|text='''Riftwalker:''' Rrrraaaaaawrrrr!<br />
'''Cornerstone:''' I don't know what this guy's deal is but his attitude needs some adjusting.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

== A Dark Mind ==

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Cornerstone: Controlled}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page6_panel1.jpg
|text='''Team Member:''' Has anyone seen Cornerstone? Where is he?
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page6_panel3.jpg
|text='''Helios:''' There you are... There you are...
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Bust Open}}
|text=
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Head Toss}}
|text='''Helios:''' ''PlayerName''!<br />
He must have acolyte powers too! Cornerstone is under his control!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Molten Manticore}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Strafe}}
|text='''Cornerstone:''' Great! Now we are being strafed by crazy creatures from this world too?
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Book Club}}
|text='''Helios:''' It must be with the Riftwalker.
'''Chronarchivist:''' This is a Molten Manticore that is supposed to be erased from this timeline.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Beast Rider}}
|text='''Scarlet Tiger:''' Let's send it back to the storybooks!
'''Cornerstone:''' Who is with me?
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Riftwalker: Acolyte}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Molten Manticore}}
|text='''Chronarchivist:''' Every time we fend him off he comes back with another emergent power.<br />
Guard your thoughts! He is as powerful an acolyte as you have ever faced.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

== Food for Worms ==

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Worms}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Book Club}}
|text='''Chronarchivist:''' This book contains the entire history of multiple universes so it may take me a moment to find my place.<br />
But I think I know what is going on with this Riftwalker. And if I am right...
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i13_page6_panel3.jpg
|text='''Cornerstone:''' Hold that thought!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Worm Riders}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i13_page6_panel2.jpg
|text='''Cornerstone:''' Not even Pesticide would like these creepy crawlers!<br />
Right, ''PlayerName''?
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Riftwalker: Strongharm}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Tectonic Activity}}
|text='''Riftwalker:''' Rrrraaaawwwrrrr!!!!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Granite Glove}}
|text='''Helios:''' Strongharm, of course he is!<br />
'''Johnny Tinker:''' Oooooof!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

== Here Be Dragons ==

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Area|Here Be Dragons}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Page Turner}}
|text='''Chronarchivist:''' Gasp!<br />
Now I understand who the Riftwalker is and why he must be decades older than the last time we saw him.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page8_panel3.jpg
|text='''Chronarchivist:''' Aloysious Zeroth is the Riftwalker!<br />
When he tried to come here with us he was rejected by the timeline for all the ways he has manipulated it to his own end.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page8_panel4.jpg
|text='''Chronarchivist:''' Long ago the elder Chronarchs created a world for the leftover bits of time and space that inevitably occur in our efforts to maintain it.<br />
That is where Zeroth ended up. As far as I knew, no one had ever returned from there.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page8_panel5.jpg
|text='''Chronarchivist:''' The nature of the world will erase all memory of your former reality.<br />
Somehow over the course of decades he willed his way back to us.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page8_panel3.jpg
|text='''Chronarchivist:''' Zeroth has Chronarch genes in him. Combined with the full fury of his emergent powers, he has returned.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page8_panel6.jpg
|text='''Chronarchivist:''' Getting back to us was the only thought he was able to maintain and now that he is here everything else has been replaced with fury and resentment.<br />
We must find Coax if we are going to have any chance of restoring his mind.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Ember Hawk: Scout}}
|text='''Helios:''' I have been doing some aerial reconnaissance and think I can help in that regard.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Ogre: Guardian to the Dragons}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Ogre: Guardian to Dragons}}
|text='''Helios:''' Coax is being held captive by a dragon, which is being guarded by an ogre.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page9_panel1.jpg
|text='''Johnny Tinker:''' Are we there yet?<br />
'''Helios:''' I think I see something.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page9_panel2.jpg
|text='''Cornerstone:''' A big and ugly something.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Impasse}}
|text='''Ogre:''' No need to be insulting! Have you gazed upon your own reflection lately?<br />
There is a calm lake over those hills which should be perfect for that.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Impasse}}
|text='''Ogre:''' And since I am not about to let you pass...<br />
'''Cornerstone:''' Oh yeah?
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|With the Dragon Tattoo}}
|text='''Ogre:''' I tried to be civil!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page9_panel5.jpg
|text='''Bethany:''' His dragon tattoos are coming to life!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page5_panel5.jpg
|text='''Johnny Tinker:''' ''PlayerName''!<br />
While they fight those flying phantasms you and I will knock some sense into this erudite ogre.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Zeva: Acid Spewer}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page9_panel8.jpg
|text='''Ogre:''' You may have vanquished me but that flapping of wings I hear portends only one thing...
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page10_panel1.jpg
|text='''Ogre:''' And I don't think you are going to like it!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Acid Reign}}
|text='''Bethany:''' Watch out!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Zeva: Acid Spewer}}
|text='''Ogre:''' It is a true pleasure to introduce you to Zeva the Acidspewer.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Coax: Distressed Damsel}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Helios: Dragonslayer}}
|text='''Helios:''' Excellent job, ''PlayerName''!<br />
Perhaps my time at the Phaeton Project was not wasted after all.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page10_panel7.jpg
|text='''Helios:''' While I pin this specimen you have captured let's find Coax and get out of here.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page10_panel8.jpg
|text='''Cornerstone:''' I am coming to rescue you Coax!!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page11_panel1.jpg
|text='''Cornerstone:''' Or not!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page11_panel2.jpg
|text='''Cornerstone:''' Oooof!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Coax: Distressed Damsel}}
|text='''Coax:''' Idiot! What makes you think I need rescuing?<br />
I was controlling Zeva with an illusion of gold and jewels beyond the dreams of avarice.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Revenge of the Worms}}
|text='''Coax:''' I can never fix what I did to you all and I just want to be left alone!
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|Beginning of Fight|Zeroth: Riftwalker}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page11_panel6.jpg
|text='''Bethany:''' But you can make things right Coax!<br />
'''Chronarchivist:''' I don't know that we can defeat Zeroth Riftwalker but if we can subdue him temporarily you may be able to restore his mind.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Zeroth: Riftwalker}}
|text='''Coax:''' Wait! What's a Riftwalker?<br />
'''Riftwalker:''' Ggggrrrrrrrrrrr!!!<br />
'''Coax:''' <big>Oh!</big>
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Riftwalker: Strongharm}}
|text='''Chronarchivist:''' With all his emergent powers and the ability to traverse time we can only hold him at bay.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page12_panel2.jpg
|text='''Bethany:''' We just have to slow him down long enough for me to hit him with my spell but I can only do it once so we can't afford to miss.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Epic Showdown}}
|text='''Helios:''' Easier said than done! Zeroth is more powerful now than he ever was before.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}

{{LoH/DialogueBegin|End of Issue}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Deus Ex Magica}}
|text='''Bethany:''' I think you did it, ''PlayerName''!<br />
Now I have to do my part.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page12_panel6.jpg
|text='''Zeroth:''' Guh!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Unearth Memory}}
|text='''Bethany:''' Quickly Coax, before he recovers from the spell.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Unearth Memory}}
|text='''Zeroth:''' I...remember...you...all.<br />
You left me to rot on that world!
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page12_panel8.jpg
|text='''Zeroth:''' With those abominations.<br />
I will destroy you all and everyone you have ever known.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art=LoH_Dialogue_i14_page1_panel7.jpg
|text='''Bethany:''' He's gone. Where did he go?<br />
'''Chronarchivist:''' I fear he has returned home.
}}
{{LoH/DialoguePanel
|art={{LoH/CardArt|Stone and Steel}}
|text='''Chronarchivist:''' He may be more dangerous now that his memories have returned.<br />
He is maddened with blind rage and I fear for the worst.
}}
{{LoH/DialogueEnd}}