LU 2 - Space 2

March 18, 1046

I finally found that kingdom I've been looking for, which was kind of hard to find considering it was underground. When I got down to it, I noticed the large white building sticking out of a higher-up part of this cave system. So, I went up to it to see if I could find the ruler or whoever was in charge. Just my luck, this lady, Koratai, greeted me and asked for my name. We introduced ourselves, and she asked what I was doing here; I said that I followed the advertisement from the town, which Koratai seemed pleased about. She also asked what my life was like, and I struggled to give a response. I vaguely told her that I've been living in isolation, and she responded by saying she was glad I decided to socialize a bit. Then I asked her about the kingdom, and she explained that it wasn't really finished yet, and that it needed to be built up and expanded. I offered my help since I had nothing better to do, and she gladly accepted my help. Amathis tried to convince me to kill this lady since she was the unofficial queen of this place, but I refused; he pitched the idea of gaining her trust and working my way up the power ladder that way, and I actually liked that idea. So, I asked if I could by any chance stay with Koratai in a guest bedroom or something, and she surprisingly agreed to take me in; gaining power around here might be easier than I thought. After a bit of a walk, we got to her house and she let me in. I thanked her for her hospitality, then got some distance to talk with Amathis. Once "alone", I berated Amathis for whining about wanting me to kill Koratai, and he rebutted by saying how easy it'd be to just do that and gain power. I argued back that 1. that is the easy and quite frankly boring way, and 2. gaining her trust and going that way would be more fun and probably have a bigger payoff in the long run. For once Amathis actually agreed with me, and pointed out that my sudden burst of creativity might be his ways rubbing off on me. We also talked about his plan to overthrow the kingdom I lived in all those years ago, and I explained that I just didn't have the heart to kill Illios; the sword might've warped my mind beyond salvation, but that doesn't mean I'm a heartless monster. Sure I value the life of the average person a lot less due to witnessing generations of people rise and fall, but I still have a resemblance of a decent person in me. Anyways, we bickered a bit more about how he's stuck in the sword and how we're stuck together, then I decided to drown him out by going back to chat with Koratai some more; I will say, it's weird that her last name it calypso, but I'm sure I'll get over it. She welcomed me back into her house, and we made some small talk about how she recently moved here and stuff. I got my room situated in the basement of this house, and after some discussion we decided to spread some posters in the town I came from. So, we made our way there and started to plan a spot for them. We explored some buildings while there, like the zoo and the police station, and put up some posters. Eventually we ran out, but luckily Koratai offered to grab some more from the kingdom. So, to pass the time, I walked around and tried to talk with people. I ran into a couple people talking, Viktor and Dr. Thornberry, and decided to join them. I brought up the kingdom, and after some persuasion took these guys to it in order to show them around. There, I learned about Thornberry a little bit - he somehow created this metal box called a “radio”, and showed off how someone was talking through it. This person, Valthor, was apparently being held captive by Thornberry and was begging for help. Thornberry tried to reassure me that the Valthor guy was just fine, but the dude kept explaining what the doctor did to him - implanted “robotic” wings into him, changed his origin entirely to a bee, gave him a robotic arm, etc. I decided that I needed to know more about this, and asked if I could see the doctor’s lab. Thornberry seemed unusually eager to show me, so we made our way there. There, I was given a tour and found Valthor locked up on a bed. Thornberry asked me if I could put this guy in his cell, and I began to panic a bit. Instead of helping, I dicked around long enough for Valthor to escape his confinement and make his getaway. Thornberry seemed pissed, and dragged me along to find him. I decided to walk and talk, and asked Thornberry about how he changed Valthor into a bee origin. He explained that by mixing the “Experience Points” that a person drops when they’re killed with something dropped by an animal when killed, you could create a concoction powerful enough to change someone’s chemical composition; however, the downside is that Thornberry uses some kind of extraterrestrial force to make this potion actually work, so I can’t just try this on my own. I have to see how this guy does it, but to do that I got to earn his trust. If I can somehow figure out how to make one of those origin-changing potions from Thornberry, I could severely disable an enemy of mine or make myself even more powerful. So, I helped him hunt down Valthorn and some other guy named TV to get them back in captivity. Although, when I learned that Valthor could just get me the radios I wanted, I just had him hand me a couple and I sent him on his way. However, apparently TV was too dense to seize this opportunity because Thornberry came back and dragged him back to the lab. But luckily for him, Thornberry had to go somewhere so he trusted me with locking up TV; big mistake. With the sudden help of Valthorn, I sent the two of them off and wished them well. If Thornberry asks, they beat me up and got away. I decided to wait for Koratai in the town, but I ran into Viktor. He wanted to talk with me about Thornberry, and we agreed that the dude was incredibly sketchy. Despite that, the dude wasn’t our problem so we agreed to leave him alone unless he became our problem. Then, after sending him off to the kingdom, I finally reunited with Koratai. I explained everything that happened to her, and she seemed ready to hunt down Thornberry. I stopped her, and explained that I should try to get some info out of the doctor before we decided to exile him and whatnot. Despite deterring her from anything drastic, she still said that she’d have a word with him, which I was fine with. Then she pitched this idea she came up with - she could find someone in the town to make the posters look better to make them more appealing to the people around here. I was all for the idea, so we began to look around town for someone to help redesign the posters.