Double Escort Quest?!?!

Every dungeon is bad.

"I caught up with Dogi, speaking with Rada and Ur, but I let the two old friends talk. I had a mirror to fix. Basham was planning a trip to Zemas, so he was busy anyway.

I returned to Redha Village and spoke to Olha. Everyone was preparing for the upcoming Alma Festival, so I just went to Olha. Isha and the kids were at the beach practicing a song, so I got a taste of it. Olha asked me if I was going to do anything for the festival, and I quickly pulled out the mirror fragment. Two birds; one stone! She broke down and started to cry out of happiness. Isha joined us just as Olha fixed her mother's memento. And then it started glowing.

A scene played out before us on the mirror. Basham, Rada, and two flunkies were at the white goddess statue on Zemolas Island. Basham wanted to investigate the colored orbs because he thought they were the key to stopping the Great Vortex. Rada objected. He had a feeling Geis placed them, and he trusted the guy in black. There must be a reason. I wish Geis had told me. It would have saved a lot of trouble and headache. Basham ignored Rada and told his underlings to remove them. This worried me, so I started the long walk to the island.

Everyone was knocked out. Temporarily paralyzed, actually, but they were on the floor. Unfortunately, the three fairies were mobile. They called themselves keys and floated around their representative colored orb, shutting them off in the process. Suddenly, everything changed. A shockwave erupted from the island, and the great winds that surrounded the Cannon Islands shut down. The Great Vortex ending is a good thing, but I felt that this wasn't how it should happen. Something ominous felt forthcoming. Rada, still stuck on the ground, told me to leave them here. They'd be fine.

I wanted to see what Ord felt about this, but...I couldn't. Radha was empty. Only Kevin was here, and he told me the Romn Fleet abducted everyone. Ord was around, but he wasn't doing well. His face was grievously scarred, and he was losing a lot of blood. I managed to get him to bed and patch him up as well as I could. It took a while, but his sheer force of will should keep him alive. That's what Rada said when he joined us. Once again, he told me to leave. He'd take care of Ord, and I had to free the Redhan.

Rimorage was fine if you ignored the Romn occupation. All the Eresians/Altaginians were free, but no one important wanted them here, Basham included. He, Terra, Dogi, and myself quickly whipped up a plan to free Olha and Isha. Basham would throw a welcoming feast for the gluttonous general. This would remove most of the guards from the fleet, giving Terra and myself time to find them. To split the invaders more, Dogi, Ladoc, and the remaining Redhans would keep the guards at bay. It worked.

Terra and I found most of the villagers on the first ship. Olha and Isha were nowhere to be seen, though. Terra assumed the admiral must have been keeling his favorites for himself. There was another ship, so Terra and I went there while the Redhans went home. I found Isha in a birdcage. She was glad to see me, but we almost became frog food before getting her out. Elizabeth, the lanaluna, is a three story toad. It spits green grease around and uses its tongue to attack. It also turns into a ball and rolls around. Its invisibility wasn't very invisible. I didn't find her particularly hard, but the admiral took her death pretty heavily. The banquet ended, and he showed up. He ordered his men to kill me and Ohla, but Geis stopped him in their tracks. It was time for us to escape. Terra wasn't thrilled to be with Ohla for some reason, but the three of us eventually got out. ...

As we reached land, all hell broke loose. Another shockwave broke through the islands, and a massive number of black obelisks rose from Zemolas Island. And then the Romn fleet exploded. Something in the waters destroyed the ships in mere seconds.

That night, Dogi and Ladoc talked to us in Baslam's house. They tried to stop the Romn CO, Ernst, from doing whatever it was he was doing. Ernst had kidnapped Isha, so that's reason enough. The three fairies flattered Ernst with their affection, even after he pulled out a long black emolas sword. That blade and the three I've been using aren't swords. They're keys. They control the emolas, stones from Alma. The black key destroyed the statue of Alma, and that's what caused all of this trouble. It summoned, what Dogi called, Napishtim, which wreaked the fleet. What is Napishtim, and who is Ernst?

More importantly, I returned to Redha with Ohla. She cared for her uncle, who was on the mend. He told Ohla and Ur to leave while he spoke to me. He told me a legend passed down between chiefs. There was a city beneath the Cannon Islands where all the Redhans descended from. They lived with Alma, a winged woman who came from the west, until tailless people ruined it. Did Duren and Frieda have long ears? They caused chaos on the planet, but Alma saved everyone. But she used her body as the seal, which Ernst broke. Ord handed me the Wyvern Talisman and instructed me to place it on a pedestal at Windseeker Heights. He didn't want Ur or Olha to know this, so I quickly left to save Isha."

- Adol

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The two girls who love Adol suck at staying alive against Romn troops. And Adol kinda sucks protecting them, so that part wasn't fun. If you're planning on playing, ignore the 30000 gold in the hard to reach chests. I do suggest picking up what was in the admiral's room, though. Final dungeon tomorrow?