Returning the World's Magic (quest)

## Overview

A vengeful enemy from the past rises once more, this time with help.

## Summary

### Distant Past

Humans and dragons lived at peace with each other. However, humans were greedy. They started hunting dragons for their scales, teeth, gold, etc. Eventually, the dragons were driven out and went their separate ways. One white dragon, Corolith, hungered for revenge.

### 20 years ago

Corolith had been working hard setting up the Conduit, a device that would drain the world of its magic.She just needed some finishing touches and some allies. Taking a human form, she created the following party.

Teenage Beatrice - A spunky and powerful sorcerer

Arwin- A punk who often got in fights

Colonel Norwyn- An army man (dwarf)

Lieutenant Colonel Kestral- Norwyn's subordinate

Bruce- A Crimson Crew member that built machines

Dr. Hollow- A necromancer

Coroloth had them take the last part she needed from a cult, and bring it to the conduit. They celebrated at the winter festival first. Upon reaching the large cave containing the conduit, most of the party decided they didn't want to have the world's magic drained (only Dr. Hollow sided with Corloth). They did battle, and Corolith whipped out her dragon form. The party was forced to escape while Colonel Norwyn sacrificed himself to destroy the Conduit, but not before promoting Kestral to Colonel.

Teenage Beatrice grew up to be Beatrice Babius.

Arwin became captain of the guard.

Colonel Kestral quit and became a bandit, the Marvelous Misadventurers later killed him for shard #2.

Bruce retired and had a son, who joined the Crimson Crew and took on the name Bruce 2.

Dr. Hollow continued working with Corolith, and turned herself into a lich.

### Lady Avenue's last party

Madeline Avenue was the head of a large company after inheriting it, and as such she lived a rich and luxurious life. Her two younger sisters, Caroline and Eleanor, also owned portions of the company. However, Madeline was in charge as she was the eldest sister. Madeline was a menace. She would often abuse her workers, and order assassinations of people in rival companies. In order to stop her evil, Olivia Boulevard ordered her assassination via the Marvelous Misadventurers.

They planned to kill her at her big masquerade, as it gave them an excuse to wear disguises and blend in with a crowd. They went to her manor the night of the party and:

* TBD played Megalovania on the harp
* Sawysee got a servant fired
* They broke into all the rooms and stole stuff
* TBD had sex with Eleanor (it was ok)
* They poisoned Madeline's drink, killing her

During the party they found 2 strange security robots. After asking Beatrice, they learned that the robots were most likely made by an Arcane University dropout named Ivo.

### The source of the machines

With Ivo's location unknown, the party set off to track him down in order to prevent him from building killer robots. They went undercover to the Arcane University, where they talked to Ivo's previous classmates and learned the location of his workshop outside of town. They went there and were greeting by the same security robots that were at Avenues' party. They encountered Ivo, but he managed to escape. They found an old stone of far speech and tapped it to find recordings of Ivo talking with a mysterious lady (Corolith). These recordings revealed him to be at a tower to the East. Beatrice instructed the party to kill Ivo.

Upon reaching this tower, they did battle with mechanical versions of themselves. However, these robots appeared to bleed when attacked. Robot TBD escaped. When asked about his motives, Ivo said that he originally made machines for the common folk, to replace farmers and stuff, in an attempt to end poverty. However, the rich people didn't want poverty ended, as they would no longer be rich if there weren't poor people, so they shut down his research. In return, he started building robots for battle instead. They captured Ivo and took him to their basement.

At this point, all magic was lost from the world.

Ivo explained that Corolith had a device to drain the magic, but he didn't know where. She had nine generals (including him) that the party could get information from. He also provided them with the Basic Liquid Organic Ornate Distributor, a liquid that could transmit magic. An injection of it every day allowed the party's magic users to keep casting spells.

### The Nine Generals

The first general they fought was Zee, the general of conjuration. They went into the enchanted forest and fought him, during which he started a major forest fire with one of his traps. His combat consisted of archery, traps, and summoning the spirits of ancient soldiers. Karen didn't want to kill Zee, so they captured him alive. He lived in their basement eating chips, playing Ye Olde Fortnite with Ivo, and then got a job at Master Quasar's olive farm.

Next they fought Volaj. He stayed in an illusionary dream prison, where he kept people in coma's in order to feed off their memories. Upon killing him, Sawysee remembered that she was an agent working with the Defenders of Aronia's Shadows (DASH), an organization that protects the nation in secret from hidden threats.

Third was Lefty. They found him in counter clockwise cave behind a bunch of traps on the left wall. They convinced him to come with them, but Corolith impaled him with ice before he could leave, then Euro blew him up. After a battle with Corolith's human form, she transformed into a dragon and destroyed the cave, but the party escaped.

The party then embarked on a side quest, where they met Lance.

Lance guided them to a graveyard, where they saw Dr. Hollow. They fought her, some skeletons, and a skeletal dragon. Following Zee's instructions, they brought home her metal box, which she revived from a week later. After that, they had the location of Corolith and the Conduit.

### The Final Battle

The party grouped up with Beatrice, the Guard Captain, and the Crimson Crew. Magical Michael gave them some stabilizing goo, so that way the conduit wouldn't explode when they destroyed it. Finish this tomorrow.