Our intrepid adventurers began the
day’s journey with one of our last cooking battles of the game, appropriately
against Jinkai, the former head of the Black Dragon Group (an elite four-man
group comprising the top chefs in the world, of which Hai Yo is a former
member). The enormous Jinkai brought only his apprentice Anami to assist him,
and the judges were called for this epic duel.
This aged General loves his food
served with sake! It’s Reuben!
The crown princess of Tinto, its Lilly Pendragon! A proud patriot, she
loves all her homemade Tinto food!
This wandering scroll maker
couldn’t find his favorite foods if you drew him a map! It’s Percy!
Queen likes to act like royalty,
eating only the finest French foods!
Appetizer: Steve’s Soup (Steve’s
soup+no spice): Royce, Daisy: 10,10,10,10
Main Course: Tempura Don
(Tempura+hot sauce): Harold, Hai Yo: 9999
Dessert: Red Velvet Cake
(cake+salt): Sciath, Kuarjav: 7778
Total: 102
Anami’s Peking duck 6666;
Jinkai’s Kaiseki Dinner 7777, Red Velvet Cake 8889
Total: 81
As you can see, Recipe #4 “Peking
Duck” and Recipe #49 “Kaiseki Dinner” were our prizes, and the battle was won.
Back to business, Caesar outlined
his plan of attack for our first offensive inside Camaro itself. He sent a
decoy force against Fort Dorton in the north to distract Camaro while our real
forces attacked Iron Beach in the South. First, some Duck Troops from the
Grasslands created floods, and then we marched in against Hilda and Gears’
all-human forces and quickly wiped them out with the power of our True Runes. The
slaughter may have seemed excessive, even cruel, but “war is
cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it
will be over.” – William Tecumseh Sherman. Upon her surrender, Hilda
explained that she’d had to fight for Camaro before because they had been
occupying her hometown of Iron Beach, but now she would work for us as the new
invaders. Not really the ideal reason for joining us, but hopefully she will
come to see the benefit of allying with us. A quick exploration of Iron Beach
after the battle netted us Hamasis, the final kraken sibling. We also found the
play script “To Kill A Queen”.
We bowed to Lydia’s nagging in
the comment box and decided to put on a play on her stage. Our first choice was
Neclord’s End, the story of the Dunan
heroes (including Daisy’s father Viktor!) finally beating the dreaded vampire
Neclord once and for all. Daisy played her father of course; Kuarjav played
Kahn the vampire hunter; Royce was Riou, the hero of Dunan; Sciath took on
Sierra the coven mistress’ role; Sun Crystal and Vasuki shared the role of
Lilly; and Harold donned the fancy cape of the evil vampire himself. The show
was a great success (who knew that Kahn actually forced Neclord to Repent?), so
as an encore we also put on the Battle of Chi Bi, with Kuarjav as Sun Quan,
Harold as Zhou Yu, Royce as Huang Gai, Sciath as Cao Cao, Daisy as Zhuge Liang,
and Sun Crystal playing the Narrator.
Daisy went to the infirmary to
check up on Octavia, only to find that her condition was not improved. Roy said
that she could slip away at any moment, so Daisy asked Royce and company to go
fetch Octavia’s daughter Sophia while she spoke with her one last time. The two
women talked a bit and were on fairly civil terms by the time Sophia arrived;
mother and daughter were left alone together until the end, while Daisy stood
guard outside. Sophia explained that they had come to some measure of peace,
though they had spent many years hating each other. She took her mother’s body
back to the Beast Village for burial, and that chapter of Daisy’s life came to
a close.
The next morning, we awoke once
again to the castle alarm and noticed at once that every dragon save Vasuki
(who sleeps in Royce’s room) was missing. Milia and her frantic dragon riders couldn’t
see any indication of how it had happened, or how all the guards had been
knocked out during the night. However, Milia had the power to track down the
dragons, and we followed them to the Deadlands in Camaro where we had to fight
many vultures and other creatures. We also fought a lion, but Daisy took pity
on it and healed it up after we fought, so it decided to join us. Inside one of
the deepest caves, we found Felicia surrounded by the stolen dragons, who all
looked very confused and befuddled. Felicia demanded that Milia hand over the
True Dragon Rune, which wasn’t going to happen, so Royce instead challenged her
to a duel one-on-one, rune for rune. Felicia lost badly, but when Royce asked
Kuarjav to remove her Conqueror Rune, she tried to attack him and her dragon Felix
stepped in to defend her. Milia then used her True Dragon Rune to release the
captured dragons from Felicia’s spell and Felix stepped back, recognizing a hopeless
situation. With the Conqueror Rune removed, Felicia was easily subdued and
teleported back to the Dragon’s Den for her trial. As per Dragon Knight rules,
Felicia was promptly executed for her crimes, and her dragon Felix was
euthanized out of pity. Royce, meanwhile, was promoted from 4th
Knight to 3rd Knight for bringing Felicia to justice and spent the
duration of her public execution hitting on Milia’s daughter Sharon.
In Hai Yo’s famous kitchen, both
Retso and Gyokuran of the Black Dragon group were ready to challenge Hai Yo in
our penultimate cooking battle.
She’ll dance her way into your
heart with her fair judging! It’s Amber!
Gabi and her pets come from Caleria,
home of spices! Give her the hot stuff for a win!
This silent hero loves Gremio’s
cooking best, but he’ll settle for something Italian! It’s McDohl!
This renowned cook only picks at
food he hasn’t cooked himself, making him one of the hardest judges we have!
It’s Gremio!
Appetizer: Garlic Bread
(breadsticks+salt): Royce, Sciath: 10,10,10,9
Main Course: Tempura Don
(Tempura+hot sauce): Harold, Hai Yo: 10,10,10,9
Dessert: Chocolate Chip Cookies
(cookies+chocolate sauce): Daisy, Kuarjav: 7776
Total: 105
Squid 8887, Sashimi Combo 9998,
Kid’s Bento Box 8887
Total: 101
The chefs bowed their heads in
defeat and handed over their greatest recipes: Recipe #21 “Squid” and Recipe
#48 “Sashimi Combo”.
We sped off on another tangent
and tracked down a shop that had cheaper prices than May’s shop, a Medicine
shop in Cerock castle. May rewarded us with any one item from her shop that we
desire, which we have yet to choose. Our victory over Marcus in was of
quite a different nature – we all teamed up against him in mock battle and just
barely eked out a win – but the prize was the same. We still have two special
items to choose for next time!
*****TWO free items to choose!
Recruited: Hilda, Gears
(non-star recruits): Hamasis
Investigations: Hilda, Gears, Fred,
Rico, Zelda
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