Legends Are Born

an adventure starring Lucien, Runii, and Skirmish. 
Tweet length description: Join Runii, Skirmish, and Lucien as they enter the annual Niqamui fighting tournament in a quest to repair the Guildhall Roof! What lies waiting for them at its end, and will they even survive long enough to see it? 
Setting: Niqamui 
Non Player Characters:
* Maxim Dumare
* Taylor Stitches
* Joseph Mendelsson
* Pateeo Lanturns
* Olwen "Crumb" Lauge
* Kōnane "Flakey" Pinelopi
* Austin Number 459
* Anaril Evanara
Plot Summary:
The day begins for Skirmish, Lucien, and Runii in the Firebreathing Kittens guild hall. It’s surprisingly empty, but the group doesn’t notice too much as Lucien excitedly tells Skirmish and Runii about a project of his. As he leads them to his shed outside, fireworks startle the group. A throng of people surges towards the port. One of the bystanders tells them that it’s the annual Niqamui fighting tournament and the Kittens’ ears perk up. Lucien hurriedly shows his friends his project, the Mecha Skirmish, and teaches an excited Runii how to pilot it. During the training, one of the arms slams into Skirmish and the guild hall wall, causing 300,000 gold worth of damage. The three decide to enter the fighting tournament to win the 1 million gold prize to pay for guild hall repairs. 
It doesn’t take long for the Kittens to sign up and pass the contestant entrance exam. Runii and Lucien engage in a test of intelligence while Skirmish engages in a test of strength. All three move on to a waiting room where they scope out the other contestants. When they try to intimidate them, the Kittens are soundly embarrassed, though Skirmish assures everyone that they’ll at least be underestimated. 
Once all of the contestants are chosen, everyone is directed to a sky ship that travels through a magical fog above the stadium. While on the sky ship, the rules of the tournament are explained: falling unconscious are dying disqualifies you from winning, and the game ends when the contestant at the top agree on how to split the prize earnings. Then the sky ship doors open and contestants are welcome to jump out to begin the competition. Only a small handful leave at first, but the Kittens drag some others along as they jump out of the sky ship with Lucien and Runii in Mecha Skirmish and with Skirmish flying (courtesy of a Fly spell from Lucien). 
As they land, the fog clears and a giant, multi-tiered pyramid full of activity rises before them while a magical wall of light closes around them like a net. Mecha Skrimish heads to the pyramid and digs its hands into the stone and begins climbing, while Skirmish tests the force field and realises that it destroys weapons and completely knocks out contestants. He soon follows behind Mecha Skirmish. 
The Kittens fight against time, environmental hazards, and other NPCs as they race to the top! The first level involves a test of skill as the party tries to navigate through falling boulders barreling straight towards them. The second level contains pits of lava. The Kittens almost get knocked into one by a pair of contestants they’d tried to intimidate earlier, but luckily they are able to avoid a very painful death, albeit narrowly. They race to the next level, which was filled with more magical fog. Lucien briefly gains True Sight and sees a lone figure, who Skirmish soon realises is Austin Number 459. Though Skirmish tries to reason with him and prevent a fight, Austin is so filled with rage that he immediately attacks Skirmish. The Kittens deal with Austin and escape before the force field washes over them. 
On the final level, they rush to agree on how to split the gold and claim victory, but there’s already another person there: Anaril. At first shocked and upset, Runii argues with Anaril and almost gets into a full blown wizard duel before Skirmish stuns Anaril and Lucien opens up 20 foot deep pit to force Anaril out of the top spot on a technicality. Anaril breaks down crying, saying that Runii always gets everything and is always good at everything: magic, embroidery, making friends. Anaril cries that she doesn’t have any of that and that she only ever was decently good at magic and wanted to make that her own. Skirmish goes down into the hole to comfort her, saying that he’ll be her friend and that she’s always welcome at the Firebreathing Kittens guild hall. Anaril brightens up, hopeful, and Skirmish and Runii help her out of the hole, with Runii making amends with her sister. 
In Jishoap, Stella and Maelaurian are on a date. As they ride a roller coaster, Stella’s disaster orb falls out and crashes onto the ground, sending a chaotic blast of magic and natural disasters upon Niqamui. As Lucien and Runii are declared the winners of the fighting tournament, all hell breaks loose. A massive rumbling occurs as an earthquake rocks the city and the sea, and soon hoards of zombies and a kraken arrive. Lucien immediately jumps into action. He transforms into a dragon and goes out to sea to fight the kraken. Skirmish follows suit, descending into the stadium and the city to protect people from the approaching zombies. Runii is torn between saving her and her sister and saving the rest of Niqamui. She asks Anaril what she wants to do. Anaril says that she wants to show everyone the power of the Evanara sisters. Runii then takes her sister’s hands and uses a Wish spell to give her and Anaril the power to protect the people of Niqamui. In a surge of power, Runii and Anaril dissolve into dust, gaining the power of godhood to always watch over the people of Niqamui.
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