Time for some bonding!

[seadevil]

Who: The crew of the Katabami
Where: At sea -> Port Chance
When: After leaving the fortress and covering the month of February
What: Catch-all log
Warnings: The usual grumpy, dumb, awkward and maybe some spooooooooky ghost stories
Style: Any
Status: Closed to crew and anyone that may be in the Port Chance area

Itinerary
- Welcoming our poor, formerly-possessed pals back on board
- Visiting Port Chance, finding all their booze, and drinking it
- The subsequent drunken crew bonding time
- Traumatizing Ragna forever

Comments

[wanderer_from_ys]

I guess I did come in the middle of a pretty large quest. *At least he's had time to get acquainted with how the boat runs and amazingly they didn't shipwreck at all!*

I don't know if I have any ghost stories but I have stories.

[seadevil]

Any sort of story is welcome! I know I have quite the repertoire myself. We can't all be Ragna with his complete lack of excitement in his life, after all.

[Motochika's good moods also tend to improve exponentially the more he drinks and he got an early start this evening. Any story will probably entertain him at this point.]

[wanderer_from_ys]

Well...I could tell a story about what I did in my own world. I traveled to a land suspended in the sky and brought it back down to the earth. *He's not even boasting, just being matter of fact about it.*

[seadevil]

[Motochika's eye goes wide.]

That sounds like quite the tale! How could we not want to hear it? A land suspended in the sky, you say?

[It sounds fantastical, but he's inclined to believe just about anything these days.]

[wanderer_from_ys]

*He nods and takes a bit of a drink from one of the many bottles of booze around. Just a little bit as he knows he's a lightweight.*

I came from a little village and left home at 16 to make my own way in the world. I found the town of Promarock that had a port out into a giant sea and within distance was another island nation called Esteria surrounded by a dark mist and storms but you could see a gigantic tower that stretched to the sky called the Tower of Darm.

[seadevil]

I see? So you had to climb the tower?

[Motochika is listening intently.]

[wanderer_from_ys]

Eventually. I sailed to Esteria and I braved the storm in a little boat by myself. The boat sank and I washed on the shore. *Start paying attention to the amount of shipwrecks and harsh landings in his stories, captain, because it might happen to your boat too.*

What I learned from the people of Esteria was a long time ago, the land used to be called Ys ("ease"). Terrible monsters covered the land and in order to save a few people, two goddess along with seven mages launched a land high above the clouds. The monsters somehow built the tower to try to chase them but couldn't close enough. That's all that anyone ever knew about Ys until I arrived.

[seadevil]

So it was all a great mystery, eh?

[It sounds like a fairy tail to him.]

[wanderer_from_ys]

Pretty much. When I got there, after hundreds of years, the monsters had returned and that's about when the storms circled the island. People had to stick close to their towns. But between a seer and the members of city watch, we found out that the mages had left behind tomes that might be able to solve the mystery of what was going on in the land.

Because I wasn't from there, I could go out and search for answers without taking protection away from any of the towns.

[seadevil]

[It truly does fanciful, but Adol tells it with enough conviction for it to be believable.]

I suppose that would make sense.

[wanderer_from_ys]

They didn't really have a lot of adventuring sort of people. Probably because they lived on an island and the mainland wasn't really that far away.

So I traveled all over and I met two girls who helped me along the way while I got the volumes. Their names were Reah and Feena. I didn't spend as much time with Reah as I did with Feena. *He can't help but look fond whenever he says Feena's name.*

[seadevil]

Sweet on that one, are you?

[He'll have to keep that in mind. He's not above teasing his crew about the ladies waiting for them back on shore.]

[wanderer_from_ys]

We did hit it off when I was taking a break between finding the volumes. *However, there's definite "but" in that story.*

Eventually, working with people on the island, we found out that there was a person responsible for bringing terror on Esteria and he was using the Tower of Darm as his base. So I started to climb up with the help of my friends. The man who was doing it was waiting for me because I had all but one of the volumes. He had the last one and was hoping to collect all of them to access all their power.

[seadevil]

Not a bad strategy, that. Not what I'd go with, but it gets the job done.

[wanderer_from_ys]

So I fought him on the top of his tower in an epic battle. He was a sorcerer and I don't know how I survived, but I lasted long enough to give him the final blow and then take his book. *It's accurate, given that it's one of the hardest and most bullshit boss fights in the history of the franchise, but we digress.*

Once I got the volumes together, they started using their magics. Reah and Feena appeared but they turned out to be the two ancient goddesses from long ago. Then we flew into the sky together.

[seadevil]

Is that so?

[He'll give Adol a big smile for that one, but he doesn't believe a word of it. Goddesses? Truly a fairy tale after all.]

[wanderer_from_ys]

*Clearly Motochika doesn't have half the crazy supernatural shit that Adol runs into on a regular basis.* Yes and then we went to the sky together and I landed somewhere and when I woke up, I was in a village and we were in the land of Ys.

[seadevil]

[No, he really doesn't. He's seen some magic, of course, but no flying and goddesses and lands in the sky and whatnot.]

Sounds much like a dream to me.

[wanderer_from_ys]

*That's just in the first two games. It just goes on from there.*

That's kind of what I thought. But when I wandered around the village, at the very edge you look down through the clouds and to the earth. I think the enchantment that kept it up in the air hid it from view.

So now that I was in Ys, I found out it wasn't all safe. I had to figure out what was going on here and find Reah and Feena.

[seadevil]

I shouldn't think it would be safe at all, up in the sky like that. I'd fear falling off the edge more than anything else.

[wanderer_from_ys]

I think there was some kind of enchantment around but I didn't really want to test that. *Adol continues with his story, which consists of going through any number of landscapes packed onto the floating land, about the size of a kingdom which include -- a snowy glacier, a lava land and a vast palace of where the ancient Ys people lived, but now it was overrun by monsters.* Then with the help of all the friends I'd made, I made it to the center of Ys and it was...just strange.

[seadevil]

Oh, now you begin to think things strange! I suppose the rest was quite normal for you.

[Really, with the flying and the land floating in the sky and whatnot.]

[wanderer_from_ys]

*Adol laughs a little, at the comment and because of the alcohol Motochika made him drink.*

I guess even stranger than a floating land. In the center of it was just...metal and things glowing on the walls. You could also touch a certain point and it connected back on Esteria inside a deep mine, which was where the thing behind all the attacks was hiding.

With the help of the goddesses, I finally defeated the evil and the magic was destroyed. Because of that, Ys floated back down to earth and fit right back where it came from.

[seadevil]

It fit right back? After how many years? This story becomes more and more farfetched as you tell it! Surely something must have filled in the space!

[wanderer_from_ys]

It was a giant crater in the ground. No one really wanted to go near it, plus the Tower of Darm stood right on the edge.