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She is an advanced alien from the future in disguise, duh!

Didn't you listen to the briefing?

Oh right, I promised swordstar to tell you what stuff you missed:



The singular chest held a Physic staff; the two chests on the right had Angelic Robe and Body Ring.

However...



...approaching the left treasury would let a character notice that the banner was dirty, as mentioned by the note in the money chest at the beginning of the map.

If someone would approach it, they would get time-travel teleportizing to FEF2 Secret #3, and visit...

"HELLO! Didja miss me!?"

Anja and her Extradimensional Secret Shop!

"You didn't come visit me, though! How rude of you! For that I'm going to taunt you with my inventory and prices lists!"

Killing Edge: 540 gold
Killer Axe: 580 gold
Killer Lance: 560 gold
Killer Crossbow: 600 gold
Lancereaver: 320 gold
Axereaver: 330 gold
Swordreaver: 340 gold
Hanon's Tune: 500 gold
Nevan's Strings: 500 gold
Disarming Swing: 500 gold
Bolting: 850 gold
Shadowshot: 850 gold
Purge: 850 gold
Angelic Robe: 650 gold
Energy Drops: 650 gold
Magical Ring: 650 gold
Secret Book: 300 gold
Goddess Icon: 300 gold
Talisman: 400 gold
Dragonshield: 400 gold
Speedwings: 650 gold

"Well! This is second time you missed my shop. You guys are TERRIBLE at finding me, tsk tsk! Cya in the third one, and maybe this time you will do better! Toodles~!"

I bet Swordstar is now happy

(19:16:27) BMM42: So what did everyone not in the void room see
(19:16:48) Hatkitty: a split-second asplosion of black smoke, then that reversed, and aserbaena dying

FINAL LEVELS EVER OF FEF2!

36, max, -, max, 4, 10, 49, 71

Ciera: +HP, LCK, DEF

12, 46, 51, max, 92, 38, 55, max

Cyra: +HP, STR

50, -, max, max, 53, 44, 89, max

Fezz: +HP

9, 42, 85, 66, 77, 60, 24, max

Grifen: +HP, RES

40, 59, 68, max, 25, 33, 7, 80

Julius: +HP, LCK, DEF, RES

2, max, -, max, 99, max, 14, 69

Miguel: +HP, RES

max, max, 85, max, 63, 83, 74, max

Sheila: nothing

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24, -, 61, 40, 63, 15, 91, 98

Ram: +HP, DEF

And yes you can do inventory management now that I has updated QL's as well v;

Hit: 153+15+15+10-15-10-75 = 93
Hit roll: 21, hit!
?Strange Pendant? flashes! No damage!

Ciera strikes once more!
Hit: 153+15+15+10-15-10-75 = 93
Hit roll: 35, hit!
Damage: 42+2+1-25 = 20dmg

Charge roll: 8! //crap

Ciera strikes again!
Hit: 153+15+15+10-15-10-75 = 93
Hit roll: 24, hit! //fuuu
Damage: 42+2+1-25 = 20dmg

Ciera attacks once more!
Hit: 153+15+15+10-15-10-75 = 93
Hit roll: 66, hit! //FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Damage: 42+2+1-25 = 20dmg
Ciera gets Elixir (2/3) but no inventory space! Elixir (2/3) has been discarded!

//Dingdingdingding!!

"G-gah! No! My... magicks!" Commander Aserbaena collapsed on her knees, propping herself with her blade. The void swirled and then collapsed into a cloud of smoke that dissipated.

"I... I was almost sure... g-ghh-" She then faceplanted the carpet as the delicious air filled the lungs of those once trapped with her in the Void.


The sounds of the combat downstairs went quiet after a while. Then, General Carlinn and others caught up with those at the gallery's entrance.

"Julius! The reinforcements will harass us constantly. We, or at least you people should continue into the Upper Keep immediately. Upper Keep is connected with the Lower Keep, but not the Right and Left Wings of the palace. One needs to fight through these two corridors, by the audience hall and the armory, to get upstairs. If you order us to, me and Magister's mages will hold the passages. Commander Fyra will go with you to show you the way to the Throne Room, or if the Emperor won't be here, to his personal quarters. What are your orders?"

//If General Carlinn is ordered by Julius to stay, you lose support of him and the mages, but Commander Fyra, Ram and Renault Istair will continue along with you.
General Carlinn's blockade will stop Infinite Reinforcements from occuring in the next chapter, and will be able to stop or at least greatly reduce any other reinforcements that might show up.
Discuss and decide, but remember that Julius (Furtuka) has to pass the decision ICly!

Yeah, ultimately all footsoldiers from ancient times will promote to Musketeers; all Catapults into Cannons; and all mounted units into Dragoons. Same for the ships; those on transportey side will turn into Transports, and all old warships will end being Destroyers.

~~Enemies Turn!~~

Commander Aserbaena looked over the ones in the gallery, then raised her sword... and darkness arrived to engulf them, their friends noticing the burst of dark smoke just for a brief instance...

Everyone inside the darkness began to choke as the air was very thin! And their motions were slowed!

"Welcome to the Void, another of the ingenious traps made by my ancestors... There's almost no air for you to breathe. You're separated from your friends. One by one, I shall slay you, then watch your lives expire, and then I will drag your friends in... till last of you rebel filth perishes. Embrace your suffering, because that's all you have left!" She then drank a portion of her elixir as her pendant flashed once more!

//All units outside the Void are 'paused'.
//Ciera Zephyr, Cyra Hayes, Efa Llewellyn and Fezz Scordato are the only ones active now!

Ciera Zephyr cannot breathe and loses 15HP!
?Strange Pendant? flashes! Commander Aserbaena does not lose any HP!
Cyra Hayes cannot breathe and loses 15HP!
Efa Llewellyn cannot breathe and loses 5HP!
Fezz Scordato cannot breathe and loses 15HP!

Objectives:
Slay Commander Aserbaena and hope that's enough to break the Void!
Tip: Regenerative abilities of any kind lower Breathless damage from 15 to 5 instead of healing you! Your MOV is halved inside the Void (and so is Aserbaena's).

"My first thought if I was a bystander hearing such a name would be thinking that the voidship hosts at least a small band of cultists and demon summoners. But that's just me." Richard rubbed his splendid moustache.

Update 5: The Pirates of Japan



SUDDENLY JAPANESE INSTEAD OF ZULUS!

After a tech trade, they demanded another tech, which I refused to give, so they declared war.



Pity that the only unit they landed on our coasts was a Settler; the Beijing archers took care of him. However we will need to build some Triremes, if only to stop Catamarans from fetching over actual Japanese forces. I mean if all they gonna do is throw Settlers and Catamarans at us, we can laugh at their direction with impunity.



I take that back.

Our brave Archers rushed outside Beijing and even with 2/3 strength they obliterated the Japanese chariot. I bought a Trireme you see in the corner which then... got counter-sunk by the visible Catamaran.

China cannot into sea apparently '<.

Next Trireme that I've bought had better luck though. I also switched from Great Wall to Lighthouse, so we will have an advantage in terms of sea-safety and-



Dammit. Back to Great Wall then.

Next turn our trireme spots Japanese trireme transporting 2 chariots!



They don't land on our coast. Awww yes! China can into sea after all \o/


Our trireme found their capital city of Kyoto. Actually, I wonder if they have any other cities *at all*. Unfortunately that Trireme of ours got jumped out by Japanese one that left Kyoto next turn.

And yes that is a Horse Archer of ours there. I've decided to build a fortress and station them there, so they can easily respond to any coastal landing from there.



Just after we finish the Great Wall of Beijing, barbarians attack! I've sent the Horse Archer to kill the horsemen and try to catch the barbarian leader; they pay you 25/50/100 gold in ransom if defeated.

PS: He got away and disappeared two turns later. Aw.



We get Invention! Leonardo's Workshop is very nice Wonder; it automatically upgrades all the units you have into their newest version - unfortunately it also deprives the upgraded unit from Veteran status if their predecessors had it. In my mod, it also lets you create Crossbowmen:




As you can see, they're very good units at this stage of game but they're expensive. Their immediate replacement, Musketeers, have more hitpoints (thus twice the staying power) and you can buy 2 Musketeers for 1 Crossbowmen unit; also Musketeers replace almost every unit from the Ancient times (Phalanxes, Legions, Archers, Pikemen, and my Crossbowmen, if we go details).

Unfortunately Gunpowder wasn't on the list of available topics, which saddens me. I've decided to go with Navigation.

Next 10 or so turn are spent on irrigation and road networking. Not much happens, and the Japanese emissary struck a cease-fire with us.



This also happens. Recently the city finished its Aqueduct and population reached 10; at this amount people are getting upset if you don't have anything else than simple Temple to appease them. As Beijing is our capital, I had to buy them a Colliseum to keep our government running.




Next turn we research Navigation and besides vanilla Caravel, my mod adds Galley; it's a tough little ship, albeit slow and can sink from storms (only 12.5% chance, as we're at Navigation already). Unfortunately it has only 2 transport spaces compared to Caravel's three (and Galleon's four).



Shanghai soon finishes it's Copernicus Observatory. We're on the way to roll over research before all others.



Barbarian uprising rustles my jimmies, but...



...we now have access to Gunpowder. It is 500BC and Chinese can make musketeers! That means that with Leonardo's Workshop built (in teh future that's it) or meek Phalanxes will soon be tough, musket-wielding footsoldiers of invicibility.


However, we need to solve The Japanese Dillemma. They continue to harass my triremes with their own from time to time but they hardly transport anyone to our coast. We're currently at cease-fire but it will eventually expire ($5 that Japanese will break it and attack us much earlier than that anyways).

What do we do with the Japanese? Shall we lay siege to Kyoto and end the threat to our borders or just let the nuisance ferment on its own tiny island?

Youuu decide - it is poll time!