LoH/story/Crisis in Kruna: Part 1

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Storyline: Crisis in Kruna: Part 1

Time to Go

Beginning of Area: Time to Go
	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.

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: Iron Steed
[[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.