And then there were two...

Your recent adventures:

To recap: So you all went to what you thought was Khul-Than Forge. There you meet up with Ankar and his men and to make a long story short, you release some skeletal dragon from its prison, get Ankar's son killed (okay, not really your fault) and hightail it out of there and blast the place shut.

So in an effort to figure out what was going on, you went to the library of Alessia and then to the Misarlon Temple. Seems you released Esai-En-Dar, better known in old lore as Lord Essenar, an Elven Runelord - well, obviously not Elven. Although details are lacking, it seems that the popular belief is that Essenar and this Dwarf, D'Barok, had something to do with the Cataclysm.

There was discussion of what to do next; go after Echo's prize, Necros, or find Celeros? Celeros it was, which was in the possession of Ulves Falcon's son. You manage to “stealth land on his keep and then infiltrate you way inside to his inner sanctum. Quite a team effort! And Landros did quite a number on several of Falcon's men. Celeros nearly gives Falcon an edge, but nearly isn't good enough and so you rather quickly end the Falcon problem and acquire Celeros.

You re-board Theoninn and are confronted by a conundrum. If you all pursue Esai together - right now - you will probably find him, and you will probably get your collective asses handed to you. Maybe getting Necros and Vaka would make more sense, but that would give Esai time to gather strength. So M7's mission must be a simultaneous forked approach. And this means the party must split up.

One half will get on the ground and infiltrate Esai's effort on a grassroots level. Hopefully they will learn much about Esai while also keeping him on the move, which should slow down the process of his recovery.

Meanwhile, group two will go off (perhaps off-world) in search of other runic items that might prove useful against Esai. This includes kicking Echo's ass...at some point.

You will all play out both sides of this story and determine the ultimate outcome. More than likely, there will be alternating between storylines at certain points. For now, the majority has decide to get on the ground and pursue Esai, so that is where we'll start. That group is:

Agar Prime – (Matt)
Farallon – (Chris)
Treasda – Lodos (Rudy)
Silus – Rök (Lewis)
???? - (Tamiko)

Tamiko can choose to continue with Oki, or choose to be Mirella, Ginsberg, or one of the Skedic soldiers (create a new character).

At some point, everyone will also play members of the other group. For example, if Oki joins the ground crew, then when we have an alternate-night ,you will all take over for Mirella, Ginsberg, Landros (Rudy gets his primary back), and two surprise guests.