LoH/story/Crisis in Kruna: Part 1

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Beginning of Issue
	Cornerstone: Tell me again what happened with Phaeton!
	Zeroth: I have told you three times already but you just don't want to believe me. We were fighting Phaeton and keeping him at a standstill but he was threatening to go 'nuclear' on us.
	Zeroth: Professor Helios seemed to figure something out and had Billy Stopless blindly open up a teleportal without knowing where it would lead.
	Zeroth: The Professor dove through the 'portal. He said he was saving us.
	Zeroth: And sure enough, as soon as he was gone, Phaeton began to just fade away. Like a bad dream.
	Zeroth: And then suddenly Coax was there, screaming like a mad woman.
	Zeroth: I don't know how her powers work exactly but breaking the connection with Helios seemed to cause her agony. And just before the rift could close she jumped in after him.
	Zeroth: And then she was gone. They were both gone. And we don't know where they went. I know you don't want to believe it but she was conjuring Phaeton to torment Professor Helios. And she went after him to finish the job.

Time to Go

Beginning of Fight: Zeroth
	Cornerstone: Take it back! Someone must have forced Coax to do that! If she even did it at all!
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Throw Down|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Zeroth: I am getting a little tired of repeating myself only to have you guys beat me up every time.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Face First|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Zeroth: I know Coax is your friend from when you were all freshmen here. But she sure looks like one of the bad guys now. And if I have to beat that into your skulls I will.

Beginning of Fight: Cornerstone: Gladiator
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Try and Stop Me|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Cornerstone: I! Don't! Believe! You! I am going to find her and prove you wrong!
	Cornerstone: Someone at this stupid school can tell me where she went! And I am going to keep smashing things until someone tells me what I want to know!

Beginning of Fight: Chronarchivist: Wizard
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Not Again|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Chronarchivist: I know where they both went. And I will need your help to bring them back.
	Chronarchivist: They went someplace unlike anywhere you have ever been before. I need to make sure you are up to the task before we can go.

Knight Rider

Beginning of Area: Knight Rider
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Time Slip|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Chronarchivist: Welcome to another world in another time. The population of Tor'gyyl ranges from lowly barbarians to a majestic race of dragons.
	Chronarchivist: We have come to the portion known as West Kruna. We will need every resource at our disposal to navigate this strange land.
	Chronarchivist: I have recruited Johnny Tinker and The Scarlet Tiger to help us on this adventure. We have another person joining us shortly as well.
	Cornerstone: That's all well and good lady but I am going to have to start attaching you guys to my wrists like mittens.
	Cornerstone: Because it sure looks like we lost another one. Where the heck is Zeroth?
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Lost Charge|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Chronarchivist: I should have realized... Zeroth has bent, battered, and broken the structure of time and space so many times...
	Chronarchivist: That time has developed an "immunity" to him. Almost like antibodies that develop in your bloodstream. Time has rejected him and sent him somewhere... Somewhen else.
	Chronarchivist: He will need to fend for himself for now while we find your other friends.
	Chronarchivist: We are going to need to alter our appearance in order to blend in.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Chronarchivist: Wizard|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Chronarchivist: I will take on the guise of a spellcaster.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Cornerstone: Gladiator|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Chronarchivist: Cornerstone will be garbed as a warrior.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Scarlet Tiger: Beastmaster|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Chronarchivist: Fittingly, Scarlet Tiger will take on the role of master of beasts.

Beginning of Fight: Johnny Tinker: Crimson Knight
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Johnny Tinker: Crimson Knight|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Chronarchivist: And Johnny Tinker shall be crowned the Crimson Knight with an iron steed befitting his rank. Johnny Tinker: Cool!
	Johnny Tinker: We have to try these new costumes out! Who wants to joust with me? Somebody fight me!

Beginning of Fight: Iron Steed
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Chronarchivist: Wizard|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Chronarchivist: Think you can handle my Iron Steed?

Beginning of Fight: Beastmen
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Heed the Call|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Scarlet Tiger: Some things sound the same on every world! That is the snarl of an animal in danger.
	Scarlet Tiger: Those Beastmen are hunting that magnificent creature. We have to stop them!

The Tiger and the Liger

Beginning of Fight: Scarlet Tiger: Beastmaster
	Scarlet Tiger: The animal is scared and angry but you must not hurt it. I will fight you to gain its trust. The others will deal with these wretched beastmen.

Beginning of Fight: Beastmen
	Cornerstone: I have been looking for an excuse to smash something for days now. You should try it!

Beginning of Fight: Thunder Liger
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Uncommon Bond|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Scarlet Tiger: My powers have allowed me to bond with this animal. He respects me and what I did for him.
	Scarlet Tiger: I am afraid the rest of you will need to earn that respect in battle if he is going to consent to join us.

A Kind of Magic

Beginning of Fight: Worms
	Cornerstone: Uh...guys?!? Beastmen and Ligers have been pretty normal so far...
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Worm Rider|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Cornerstone: But I think things are about to get weird!

Beginning of Fight: Worm Rider
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Cat Tricks|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Scarlet Tiger: The worms will overwhelm us unless we take out their riders. Worm Rider: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Beginning of Fight: Bethany: Secret Keeper
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Bethany: Secret Keeper|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Bethany: On one hand you have dealt with the worms... But now I am left to deal with this new infestation.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Bethany: Secret Keeper|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Bethany: It is not the first time The Chronarchivist has brought vermin back from her travels.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Hold That Liger|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Scarlet Tiger: Who are you and what do you know of us?
	Cornerstone: Make her tell us where Coax is!
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Arcane Maneuver|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Bethany: You will find I only do that which I choose to do. And right now I choose to show you the folly of attacking the most powerful sorceress in Tor'gyyl.

Pyrotheism

Beginning of Area: Pyrotheism
	Chronarchivist: Stop!!!
	Chronarchivist: This is Bethany, the most powerful sorceress in this land. As I am sure she already told you. As well as our friend and ally.
	Bethany: I put them to the test while I was waiting for you, old friend. They are formidable but easily provoked. Not a long-lived quality in West Kruna.

Beginning of Fight: Worm Rider
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/The Worms Turn|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Bethany: If you cannot even dispatch these Worm Riders properly then I am scared to take you into the bogs. But that is where we must go in pursuit of your missing friends.

Beginning of Fight: Hedge Men
	Bethany: Stories of fire-worshipping barbarians and a fire god that walks among them have been wafting from these bogs.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Hedge Men|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Johnny Tinker: Something is wafting all right but I think it is the rotting corpses that are attacking us.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Sticks and Stones|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Cornerstone: These Hedge Men smash pretty good. This should not take long.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Dragged into the Deep|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Scarlet Tiger: Smashing them does not seem to stem the tide at all. The skeletons seem to be a vehicle for the moss and lichen that coats them. I sense a familiar intelligence guiding them.

Beginning of Fight: Fire-Worshipping Barbarians
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Wizards and Warriors|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Chronarchivist: I think I figured something out...
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Wizards and Warriors|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Bethany: If you mean unleashing the full fury of our powers then I concur!
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Fire-Worshipping Barbarians|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Fire-Worshipping Barbarian: Cleanse the filth with holy fire!
	Fire-Worshipping Barbarian: You have dirtied the land with your tracks. You may come no further.
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Rumble|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Cornerstone: Dirtied the land? FYI, we are in a swamp!! As for going any further...
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Double Up|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Cornerstone: Try and stop us!

Beginning of Fight: Ember Hawk
	Team Member: What is incinerating those Hedgemen? And why is it coming at us?
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Ember Hawk|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Team Member: A hawk sculpted out of flame? The professor must be close at hand. Although the way that is coming at us tells me he is not ready to be found.

The Burning Man

Beginning of Fight: Fire-Worshipping Barbarians
	Cornerstone: Professor! Where are you? How many of these barbarians do we need to beat up on?

Beginning of Fight: Fire Sculpture
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Trailblazing|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Helios: Go back the way you came and leave me alone.
	Helios: I have done too much harm and do not want to be your professor any longer.
	Helios: I just want to be left alone!

Beginning of Fight: Helios
	Chronarchivist: I have seen this Fire Sculpture trick before. Bethany do you have any tricks to put that fire out?
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Water Conjuring|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Bethany: I have asked you not to trifle my sorcery as mere "tricks" before, old friend.
	Bethany: Let's wash away these fire beings and their warrior underlings and see what remains.
	Helios: I asked you...
[[Image:LoH_Cards_{{#varpull: LoH/cards/Boiling Point|LoH/Card|image}}|180px|]]	Helios: to leave me...
	Helios: ALONE!!!