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The Utopian Federation story now shifted towards the struggle between the Nobles and the Commoners.

The enemy is not the only thing that awaits the adventurers, as the real culprit carefully crafted their schemes from behind the shadows and pretentous faces which hides their true intention of taking over the Utopian throne...

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Part 3: Tales From The Crossroad Cafe'


Legend has it that an ancient race founded Utopia…build it cities, taught the people science, commerce, agriculture and arts.



Before long, human had a firm hold on civilization. The Utopian city flourishes. Traders from all over the world flocked into Utopia.



There was peace…


…never had the ancients taught human how to take arms and wage war.


It was purely our own instinct; the human lust for conflict and bloodshed…it is our darkest nature.


…and under the reigns of the 3002th generation ruler of Utopia: Queen Rasa…the once peaceful Utopian people bathe in blood.


The whole carnage ended. The smell of blood and burned filled the air...the rebellion under the leadership of a defecting noble that turn against his own queen...
 
...has failed.
 
All that's left, on this barren land are bodies of the dead and dying.
 
 
I was there...witnessing the gruesome side of the human nature.
 
By commands of Lord Mana, two members of the Utopian Inteligence Inquisition were summoned to the Battlefield of Zelagross minutes after the end of the battle.
 
 
Divinekid, was the name of the other person...is in charge of salvaging the battlefield of weapons and machineries....
 
While i was given the task to record the whole events...strangely under Lord Mana's personal request.

 
"The nobles shall remember not of this day...for it is a day of shame; yet relieved to see that in the end they could continue to grab hold onto their foolish power and status. The commoners had lost everything, Lord Velther had lost everything...the war here sees no justice at all. However i will remember this day, and you Lady Junna shall record this sorrowfull events for me." ...says Lord Mana
 
 
...it does make sense, no nobles participating in this brutal campaign against their own people will ever wanted to be reminded of this day.
 
To avoid biased in my reports i started my research by disecting information from a neutrals point of view. Those who swear loyalties to no one...nor the nobles, not even the peaseants.
 
...the mercenaries.
 
It is during this investigations, Bunny Two...i happened to stumble across statements made by neumerous people claiming that they had a brief encounter with your long lost aunt....or to be exact; your "Sister-In-Law".
 
 
I had talks with one of the mercenaries taking part that day at Zelagross. His name is Alonqexe...and this is his report;
 
 
Three Days Before The Battle Of Zelagross Plains
 
 
The Crossroad Café,

Eastern Block, Utopian Spaceport,
Route 2A-872 Utopian Domestic Level,
00W WDE4 Utopian Federation Zone 3



True to its namesake and address, the café itself is a cross-junction for any visitors going in and out of Utopia.

…and after that heroic open channel speech made by Lord Velther together with his bands of rebel bandits, people will obviously going out of Utopia rather than going in; avoiding the coup de tat. Nobody is foolish enough to stay behind amidst the chaos that’s going to happen here. Things will get pretty nasty here in Utopia. I wonder if this café would still be here tomorrow morning.


Strange, while more and more people are checking out of this country, my partner Lutherniel and I checked in…

…we are looking for fortune, and opportunist riding the storms of conflicts and laugh at people’s misfortunes; admiring the cold hard cash, spending and savoring every last pennies; hunter of precious stones and diamonds.

…at any price as long as you pay, your wish is our command. We are the black vultures of war…we are MERCENARIES!

Are you familiar with the comic characters “Batman and Robin”? The same thing goes for me and Lutherniel. He’s Batman while I am the Robin. We are the best dynamic duo around, we plot and we do almost anything together.

…what kind of service are we doing? Everything! From babysitting to firearms robbery, assassinations to escorts…as long as the money’s good, we will be there.


With a list of almost infinite numbers of crazy kind of job ever being done by the two of us, nothing is as crazy as Lutherniel had suggested to me on that fateful day at the Crossroad Café…

Alonqexe: Let me get this straight…YOU wanted to get the two of us to participate in the Utopian Noble War against their own rebelling people?


Lutherniel: That’s right partner…and you know what, the Utopian Nobles are damn desperate on manpower, they are paying 3 Billion Utopian Credits per person. People hated them so much, even their own National Army had turn tails and join…whacammacallit…err…

Alonqexe: Lord Velther.


Lutherniel: Yeah…that guy… Lord Vader.

Alonqexe: Velther!


Lutherniel: Yeah…whatever. This is our chance man, after this whole rebellion thing is over…not only we are gonna be rich, the Queen might become so pleased and Knighted us as nobles herself! That’s for saving her arse…

Alonqexe: Okay, genius…who’s gonna save our backside then? Lutherniel, for your information…we are not messing around against angry peaseant with broomsticks here. We are fighting people that are fully supported and financed by the defecting nobles themselves. Surely they won’t be that poorly equipped.


Lutherniel: We just watch our backs. We are more into firearms so don’t have to charge up front with the rest of the hot blooded losers. We make sure our side wins; we get the cash and kiss the queen goodbye. Easy!


Alonqexe: I don’t know…I had a very bad feeling about this. We did a lot of crazy stuff together man, but this war, on the open grounds…anything can go wrong.

Lutherniel: Come on man! Think about the money, diamonds, pearls…anything the noble would offer us in exchange of saving their pitifull lives…


Alonqexe: Let me finish my meal first Luther…I'll think about it…

Lutherniel: …think of becoming an Earl…Baron…such prestige coming from the Queen…


I leave Lutherniel lost in his grandeur and wild fantasies. I looked across the spaceport café…a group at the café mini bar caught my attention…

…wow what do you know, an all girls group.


As a matter of fact, the ones in pink is waving at us!

Lutherniel: Assasin Cyborgs from the Neo Avalon Industries.


Alonqexe: Wha…are you serious?

Lutherniel nodded…


No doubt this whole Utopian Conflict is attracting more and more interesting people. Some for the money, some are representatives of the Utopian Allied Nation. I wonder…if there any more suprises to come?





TO BE CONTINUED...


13 comments:

Tailgunner said...

The third episode is up guys!

Enjoy.

Tangerine Lim said...

eh?

the last picture ^^ could it be...

DPS tq for fixing alonqexe dolls for me ^^V

Penelope's Den said...

u know suddenly at this third installation of the AIC story, lotsa characters were dumped into it unlike the prev where mostly 2 or 3 were introduced per episodes..

it's gettin merrier

min-desu said...

yeah.. o wo

alonq pose is all "I'm a macho man.. " XD

junna said...

alonq "I'm a macho man" ??? rofl.
love the cute cups.
Interesting, the way this story is progressing...

Diana T said...

Alonq the macho man. But seriously, i was surprised to see him there. But looking good there Alonq~ ;D

And, thanks Tailgunner =3

Tailgunner said...

hey Silver, the ones in pink is u. Alonqexe is not the only one making his - her debut for this post.

Tailgunner said...

..alonqexe owes DPS teh tarik for numerous macho statement.

Unknown said...

the wind is blowing.

:)

Nihja Tenuk said...

+1 Lutherniel is funny

min-desu said...

is it me or... Silver's right hand looks.... weird? o wo''

Tailgunner said...

silver had "robotic hands" just like classic cyborg stories from the 60's

min-desu said...

oh~~ :3

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