Street Fighter Campaign

[Aerin, the half-elf priestess]

Day 1 - Gathering a New Team

After showing success as a Cleaner in Europe, the UN gave me a new assignment. They sent me to Thailand to begin gathering members for a new team. We’ll be taking care of terrorist activities while higher-ranking members handle other issues.

I arrived in Thailand and received information about a gang planning to steal drugs from an incoming ship. I wasn’t supposed to interfere with the attack, but capture a few enemies for interrogation. The UN had no interest in stopping the attack, but instead, gathering intel about where the drugs would be taken and who’s in charge.

That night, I met Lute. He’s a crazy man with a death wish. He actually saw Sagat face-to-face! Sagat was the leader of the gang who attacked the ship. They stole drugs and guns. They fought against Lute and his two partners. Lute escaped, but they followed him and jumped him in an alley. Luckily, I arrived on time and saved him. I also caught a bad guy and took him with Lute to a secret UN base in Thailand.

My friends interrogated the criminal and found out Lute was a criminal as well. They attached a brace to his ankle that will track him like a GPS and explode if Lute violates UN laws. I trained with Lute and discovered that he had absolutely no defenses! I knocked him unconscious numerous times during training and began teaching him blocking skills.

The next day, Lute got into trouble again. He found out the hard way that his name was on an assassination list! Four men came to assassinate him and they almost succeeded, but this time he ran away, hid for a while, and waited for me to arrive and help. He used smart tactics and we defeated the enemies. One guy tried to run away with a smoke bomb, but my blindsight allowed me to see and disable him. We returned to the secret UN base and awaited further orders.

[Aerin, the half-elf priestess]

Day 2 – Dealing with gangs and Birdie in England

It was another rough day full of rookie mistakes and scars. Lute and I flew on a plane to England. There was a man named Baskaro who supposedly uses magic and fights crime as a policeman. We met him and he immediately wanted a raise in pay and a promotion in rank. What a greedy bastard, but he’s got the right idea. In addition, he wanted to capture Birdie, a dangerous and ruthless gang leader who has killed many policemen.

Using UN satellite technology, we quickly tracked down Birdie in a major crime area. We went back to a secret underground UN base and got prepared. Make-up artists changed our clothes and hair to look like gang members. They also gave us a beat-up, crappy car. We drove our “new” car and followed the satellite tracker straight to Birdie’s gang turf. We parked the car, got out, and immediately had gang members eyeing us. Even though we looked like gang members, they knew we weren’t part of their specific gang.

I should have cast magic and prepared myself for battle, but I forgot and was too distracted by the rookies. One of them actually walked up to a car, bought crack, and got shot! I had to heal his dumbass while the others tried dealing with the shooter. Unfortunately, they escaped and the other gang members began circling us. They started shooting guns and charging in with crowbars and knives. We fought back, but things quickly escalated when Birdie jumped out of the 2nd floor of a nearby building and attacked us. He was vicious! He used metal chains to smash and grapple opponents. He also smashed us into each other. He knocked out a rookie cop and then me.

When I woke up, the battle was over and Birdie had a heavy pick in his head! Yet, he was still alive and complaining about the pain. Baskaro did a great job against Birdie; I was very impressed with his fighting skills and he healed me with magic too. Lute also did well by attacking the gunmen outside and inside the building, but the rookies sucked. I called the UN and they immediately flew overhead via helicopter, sent two guys down ropes, tied up Birdie, and took him away. We drove back to our UN base to wait for further instructions.

[Aerin, the half-elf priestess]

Day 3 – Training and Girls

Today was a great day, certainly one worthy of God himself. I woke up and did my usual morning routine: pray, shower, and eat. I walked around the UN base and found both Baskaro and Lute training. I watched Lute beat down Baskaro by sucking his life away! It’s weird and disturbing to watch Lute fight.

After healing Baskaro, I fought next and whooped Lute’s ass. He fell down unconscious, then woke up and tried to attack me again. That bastard! I knocked him out good the second time and make sure he didn’t wake up again for quite a while. After healing myself, Baskaro wanted to fight me. I wasn’t too excited about that, but he gave me no choice. I beat him down too, healed his wounds, and left the training area. Baskaro and Lute followed me out and suggested going to the nearby bar. I didn’t feel like a leader, but I sure felt like a bad-ass.

We hit the bar and had a few drinks with a red-headed female bartender. There were a few thugs, who wanted to mess with us, but Lute scared them off easily and we took a few drinks back to UN base with us. Most agents were working, except one guy and two girls. Lute gave the guy a drink and he took it like man, but soon left. One girl was scared of the drink, but the other girl took it down hard and fast. She got drunk as a result. I took the drunk girl back to her room and helped her in more ways than one. I made her feel better and gave her great sex! Baskaro had his way with the other girl.

Ironically, it was all thanks to Lute that we had a great time and yet he didn’t get a girl at all. We checked out his ankle tracker and it turns out that he went back to the bar and tried hooking up with the red-headed bartender, but failed.

[Aerin, the half-elf priestess]

Day 4 – Oil Problems

There were rumors in China that trouble involving oil might occur in the near future. Sinopec Group Headquarters is developing new technology and changing policies, which isn’t making other companies happy. The UN wants us to go to China and investigate. We took a plane and went to China, then entered their UN base and met Chun-li. She gave us a beat-up car and gang disguises. We rent to the Red Light District.

When we arrived, we met prostitutes who gave us information. How did we get that info? Lute decided to have a threesome and interrogate them while having sex. Lute found out that something was going on at the docks. We went there and got into trouble with gang members and the mafia. They were being paid to keep everyone out of the docks. There were also two punk street fighters: Yun and Yang. We almost lost the fight against them and their minions, but Fei Long came out of nowhere and beat some ass! He also had photographers flashing pics of the action.

After Fei Long left, we interrogated the bad guys and they told us about an oil rig being attacked. We took a boat and went there as fast as possible. There were boats parked, sounds of people dying, and a bunch of bad guys. Two street fighters of particular interest were Lee and Dan. They attached a bomb to a large oil tank and we had to stop them from blowing up the oil rig.

Baskaro and I started fighting against them and Lute decided to pull shenanigans. He destroyed all of the boats, including ours, and then snuck by everyone to deal with the bomb. Unfortunately, Lee noticed and left the battle to attack Lute. Lee had unique pressure point and blinding attacks. Lute could not disable the bomb and panicked. He cut the oil tank metal plating and took it with the bomb attached. The oil blasted outward, sending Lute flying into the water with the bomb. However, oil was now flowing everywhere and Lee decided to light the oil on fire. Everything started exploding!

Baskaro and I jumped into the water, but realized that we had air walking as a divine magic spell! We were able to walk on top of the water and go beat-up the bad guys. They were swimming and unable to defend themselves. We knocked them out and Lute found us as well. We cast magic on him and we all air-walked back to land, which was about 3 hours away.

Upon returning to the UN base and hearing the news, Chun-li was annoyed. Even though we caught the bad guys, we failed to protect the oil rig and Sinopec Group Headquarters lost millions of dollars. Rescue services managed to save a few people, but many workers died during the attack. What made things worse was what happened late at night. While we were asleep, Lee and his two nephews (Yun and Yang) escaped! Chun-li was furious! She made us all stay up for the rest of the night training. We got stronger, but it certainly wasn’t fun. Chun-li personally whooped all of our asses.

[Aerin, the half-elf priestess]

Day 5 – Fei Long Movie Fiasco

After a tiring night with Chun-li, we slept in a bit, then awoke again with a surprise! A new street fighter named Lee Sin has emerged! Chun-li wanted us to recruit him pronto. He was working on a movie set in China with Fei Long! We arrived there quickly and watched a few scenes. Fei Long was fighting against Lee Sin and other martial artists and bad guys with guns. All was well until Fei Long got shot by a real bullet! It’s a movie set, so they’re not supposed to use real bullets.

I’m Eric Lee and I know divine magic, so I ran toward Fei Long to heal and save him. The bad guys turned out to be assassins and attacked me! The other martial artists were two girls named Maki and Karin. They were angry because Fei Long hooked up with them in the past and then never spoke to them again. They wanted revenge against Fei Long and prove they were strong fighters. They attacked Lee Sin and Lute while I took on the assassins and healed Fei Long.

Those girls put up a damn good fight, but luckily I saved Fei Long and he was pissed! He jumped into a fight with one of the girls and destroyed her with a super combo! We soon won the battle and Fei Long thanked us by giving us thousands of dollars! We returned to our UN base with Lee Sin, who willingly joined us. Chun-li congratulated us on a job well-done and took us to the technology center of the UN base. We upgraded our weapons and items.

[Aerin, the half-elf priestess]

Day 6 – High School Blues

Lute went crazy in the morning and decided to go into the women’s showers. Chun-li found him and kicked his ass out, literally. Then Lute and Lee Sin got together and went out for coffee while I stayed back at the UN base. While they were gone, an explosion occurred at a high school in China. Lute and Lee Sin went to one side of the school while UN agents and I went to another side. During the incident, an annoying person kept talking on the school loudspeakers, so Lute and Lee Sin investigated the main office/administration building.

There were numerous students/terrorists with high-grade military guns. They kept us busy for a while, but Lute and Lee Sin caught a lucky break. They beat up a kid and found out about a classroom in the History building that was overtaken by terrorists. They arrived at the classroom and numerous girl students were standing at the windows, screaming for help and crying, but they were all alive. Police arrived on scene to help, but they had no visual into the room.

Lute and Lee Sin thought it would be a great idea to sneak up and throw a smoke bomb into the room. They did this and suddenly everyone heard numerous gunshots. It sounded like an assault rifle, unloading an entire clip! Girls were screaming and blood splattered everywhere. Lute and Lee Sin jumped through the window, charged toward the gunshots, and knocked the kid out. Unfortunately, the damage was done, and it was severe. 7 girls had been fatally shot. I managed to save two girls with my divine magic, but the other 5 died of blood loss or instant death.

After that horrible failure, Lee Sin was furious and brutally beat down the kid from before, asking where the rest of the terrorists were. They were all inside the boys P.E. locker room. Lute and Lee Sin wanted to use more smoke bombs to get them out, but the cops absolutely refused. They told them to go inside alone and deal with the situation personally because they did not want more kids to die like the innocent girls in the History building.

Lute and Lee Sin went inside first and the terrorists triggered an explosion that made the hallway collapse! They barely made it inside the locker room and were forced to fight against the terrorists alone! The terrorists were forcing school boys to participate in a fight club situation against Yun and Yang! Lute and Lee Sin fought and almost died! Fortunately, the police and I managed to drill a through the locker room wall and get inside. We took out all the terrorists except Yun and Yang. Lee Sin finished off Yun and Lute attacked Yang, but Yang blocked and counterattacked with a critical hit! He punched Lute so hard that his face bent inward and his body launched across the locker room like a ragdoll. The police and I took out Yang, and then I healed all injured students and my friends.

We felt stronger after that incident, as if we all learned valuable lessons from the day’s events. As a result, Chun-li felt it was time for us to receive special training to unlock our full potential. She introduced us to a mysterious man named Dhalsim. He was from India and had mastered the art of Chi energy. He taught us how to concentrate and unleash our power in a focused manner, unlocking our first super combo! Lute learned how to fire a massive projectile. Lee Sin learned a movement-based super attack. I learned a stand-still, melee super attack. After our lessons, we all sparred against each other and then relaxed for the rest of the day.

[Aerin, the half-elf priestess]

Day 7 – Oil and Guns!

This day started with a ridiculous incident. Pardon the vulgarity, but Lute and a new recruit got into a fight and ripped each other’s dicks off in the showers. The new recruit is a nameless half-orc who likes to fight and Lute gets bored sometimes, so they went at it for quite a while. They both have regeneration, but it will take about a week or two for them to regrow their dicks…like I said, ridiculous.

While all of that craziness was happening, I was training with Dhalsim. He taught me that if I wanted to improve myself, then I had to let go of my past. This means I have to accept the fact that I’m not a Cleaner anymore, but a Street Fighter who’s expected to be trained and ready to handle heavy combat situations. With that said, he helped me retrain a bit.

I met another new recruit named Ryno. He’s also a half-orc, but very smart and interesting. We ate breakfast, talked a bit, and then alarms went off in the UN base. We reported to Chun-li and she told us that terrorists were attacking Sinopec Group oil headquarters in Beijing. We jumped into a car and drove there. When we arrived, we saw SWAT team going in, then we heard gunshots and men were being thrown out of windows! Some died and others were severely injured.

We went inside the building and entered the elevator shaft. The half-orcs were big and strong, so Lute and I held onto their backs and they climbed up the elevator shaft with their bare hands. It was a 20-story building and we needed to reach the top. At the 4th floor, the elevator doors opened and enemies began firing guns at us! I cast my Wind Wall spell and sent the bullets flying back at them, then Ryno threw me up at the enemies! I started fighting them off and the other half-orc threw Lute up to help me as well. We defeated our foes, but the last asshole popped a grenade! I was forced to jump down into the elevator shaft and cast Air Walk, then I had to slowly climb back up. Luckily my friends avoided the grenade blast and fought through a few floors with terrorists by climbing stairs.

We all met up back at the 7th floor and Lute joined me going up the elevator shaft while the two half-orcs continued climbing stairs. We all fought through terrorists, whom had guns, but one also had a rocket launcher! We all took our fair share of pain, but the half-orcs took a lot more damage and had to take a breather before entering the 20th floor. They narrowly survived because all the terrorists had guns. However, they were smart enough to use giant file cabinets as shields to block gunfire. SWAT team also arrived and helped the half-orcs. Meanwhile, I healed Lute and myself quickly and we charged into the main office.

Inside the main office, there were corpses everywhere, all very bloody with slices and gashes. A woman named Juri, wearing all purple and covered in blood, was holding Wang Tianpu (President of Sinopec Group) against the back wall. She also had six henchmen who looked horrified with what they saw, assuming that they saw this woman kill all the SWAT team and security guards by herself. We tried to approach, but she told the henchmen to put their guns on us. We tried to talk to her, but she got angry, shot a laser beam out of her eye, and blew a giant hole through the wall! We could now see the sunlight, clouds, and outside clearly, as she threatened to throw Wang Tianpu out of the building.

Lute knew that I could Air Walk, so he told me to rush over and save her. I tried to run, but there were corpses everywhere and I almost tripped. As a result, Juri yelled at her henchmen to kill us. They all turned and fired guns at me. With little time to waste, I started spinning my quarterstaff and blocked a few shots, but took hits to the back. Lute slid under the crossfire and charged at Juri! They both flew out of the building and fought in mid-air.

The two half-orcs rushed into the main office. Ryno found a fire hose, grabbed it, and jumped off the ledge after Lute! Juri kicked Lute twice into the building and jumped off him. She tumbled onto the roof of another building and Lute barely held onto the side of the oil building. Ryno came down with the fire hose, snagged Lute, and tried swinging toward Juri, but she was too far away. Juri angrily looked up, saw Wang Tianpu at the ledge, and fired her laser beam at him! Thankfully, the other half-orc grabbed Wang Tianpu and charged away from the ledge. Ryno also threw Lute into the air and he took the laser beam to the face!

Juri escaped and everyone eventually returned to the 20th floor main office. We defeated the remaining terrorists and took the survivors into UN custody. Ryno interrogated Wang Tianpu and found out why the attack happened. Wang Tianpu had a weapons deal with Bison, but he betrayed Bison and Juri was sent to rectify the situation. This also explains how students at the local high school got their hands on such powerful guns and attacked the school. We all reported back to UN base for rest and debriefing.

[Aerin, the half-elf priestess]

Day 8 - Cuban Revolution!

We played TIER/Street Fighter campaign last weekend and it went very well. It was short, but a lot of cool stuff happened. We all trained and fought against each other again. My character, Eric Lee, defeated both Lute and Ryno in battle. Our other half-orc friend defeated them as well. I chose not to fight against the half-orc because he already beat me once and I wanted to finish training with Dhalsim. After training, Cuban revolutionaries contacted us to help them overthrow Fidel Castro once and for all, as a secret mission without UN permission.

I pulled a few strings and got us into Cuba. I fought on the battlefield with the Cuban revolutionaries while Lute, Ryno, and the half-orc went through a secret tunnel leading into Fidel Castro's mansion. There they fought tons of bad guys with guns and grenades. After narrowly surviving and taking everyone out on the 1st and 2nd floor, they decided to pause there before entering the 3rd floor. We'll finish that mission next time we play.

[Aerin, the half-elf priestess]

Side Quest in Thailand!

We had a small number of players tonight, so we played a side quest, assuming this quest took place sometime before going to Cuba.

In the early morning, I was training with Dhalsim and Lute approached me with a request. He said his friends from Thailand contacted him with information about an upcoming bank robbery involving Sagat! Together, Lute, Dhalsim, and I caught a helicopter ride to Thailand and went to Lute’s old bar where he used to work. It looked like a mess, as if they needed help, so we stayed a few hours. I healed the poor and provided free food, which attracted more customers to the bar, all while Lute was cleaning, making drinks, and being a great bartender. He also gathered more intel about the upcoming bank robbery.

After a few hours at the bar, Lute wanted to go to the black market and buy flashbang grenades. Dhalsim and I stayed behind to relax. After an hour, we tried looking for Lute, but couldn’t find him, so we went to the bank at night to stop the robbery without Lute. When we arrived, the bank seemed fine, except one window was opened very carefully without setting the alarm off. We entered through there and began fighting against Sagat and his minions.

Sagat destroyed me in battle, but I got a few licks in before going unconscious. Dhalsim fought him for a while and then Lute came to help as well. I woke up towards the end of battle and tried defeating Sagat again, but he blocked my attack and almost killed Lute. However, Lute came back with his super combo and took out Sagat. Dhalsim fell unconscious against the minions, but Lute took care of them as well while I healed Dhalsim and myself. It was a team effort, but Lute took MVP this time.

We did all of this without UN permission and Chun-li got real angry at us. Later on, however, she softened up and congratulated us on a job well done. We each received a $7,000 reward for capturing Sagat and stopping the bank robbery. Chun-li also gave Lute a discount on combat equipment. All’s well that ends well.

[Aerin, the half-elf priestess]

Day 9 – Cuban Revolution (Continued)

The party showed up ready to kill Fidel Castro, but he wasn’t alone. They tried entering through the front door and their enemies were ready. Dee Jay fired energy attacks and Blanka used his roll attack as the group tried entering. T. Hawk and El Fuerte were there to protect Fidel Castro as well. The fight stayed at the doorway and was one-sided in favor of the enemies for a while. However, Lute threw two grenades into the room and changed the odds into an equal battle.

As the battle continued, Fidel Castro decided to get in on the action with an assault rifle. He started shooting and both sides were fighting hard. Eventually, Lute was the only hero left standing, but Blanka, El Fuerte, and Fidel Castro were still fighting. Somehow, Lute pulled through. He readied actions to avoid attacks and he capitalized on opportunities. He took out everyone else except Fidel Castro.

Luckily, I just finished leading the revolutionaries across the battlefield. We successfully made it to Fidel’s mansion and I went inside to help my friends. The rest of the revolutionaries were waiting outside the mansion waiting to lynch Fidel Castro. I reached my friends and found them all on the floor unconscious. I healed them up and Ryno angrily charged and punched Fidel Castro through the balcony door! He fell down, we heard gunshots, then cheering. Fidel Castro was officially dead and Cuba was now a free country.

The UN contacted us immediately, telling us to get out of Cuba. I went to the airport and my friends preferred taking a raft back to Miami. They got caught in a storm and ended up in the Keys, but luckily Baskaro just learned a new magic spell “Word of Recall”. He teleported everyone back to the UN base in China. I got stuck in a long line at the airport and I too learned the same spell, so I teleported to the UN base in China as well.

We all arrived at relatively the same time and we brought the four street fighter enemies with us. Chun-li and other agents at the UN base were shocked. They had never seen teleportation magic, and neither had I until the first time casting it. Chun-li told us to go to sleep and we’d debrief tomorrow morning.

Next morning, we all met up and Chun-li explained everything to us. She said that normally she’d be extremely angry at us for helping Cuban revolutionaries without UN permission. However, it all worked out in our favor. Nobody knew who we were and nobody found out that the UN was initially involved. Actually, the news media reported that the UN came in after Fidel Castro was killed in order to help stabilize Cuba and bring in peace and democracy. We each received $9,000 for our work and discounts on combat equipment. Lastly, Guile found out about our success and contacted Chun-li. He requested that we come to America for training and missions with him.

[Aerin, the half-elf priestess]

Day 10 – UN Invasion!

We had just returned from our mission in Cuba. Chun-li finished her debriefing and we were relaxing for a few minutes. Suddenly, alarms throughout the base began buzzing, lights flashed, and chaos began. Chun-li yelled for all of us to mobilize and get to the prison room. Enemies began flying in from all directions and she told us to keep going while her and other UN agents fought against the enemies.

We reached the prison room, but it was locked. Ryno and I beat-down the door together and gunshots blasted us. I defended myself, but Ryno and our orc friend took a few hits. We entered the room and I filled it with wind so that no more bullets could hit us. There were about 20 enemies with large shields, guns, and swords. They were walled up in a strange box formation, so we busted into their ranks!

Ryno and the orc charged the enemies head-on and took massive damage. I actually had to heal them a few times, then I started attacking the outer ranks. I utilized new spells and attacks to defeat 4 enemies at once. We wore down the enemy ranks and then another enemy appeared, a really fast girl with a two-handed started running in and out, attacking us mercilessly. Eventually, Ryno got smart and readied actions to intercept her. I kept healing allies while Ryno and the orc pummeled her down. Unfortunately, the other enemies spoke to Blanka, who was in one of the prisons, and he willingly went with the enemies.

After defeating her, she begged for her life and called off the enemies’ attacks. She stayed, but the rest of them escaped the room. Then she did something unexpected. She set up a table and offered a gambling game for us to give her money and gain mystery magic items. All my friends participated, except me. I heard Chun-li on the radio say she was fighting a bunch of enemies in other parts of the UN base. I also heard that there was a lot of damage done to the base, so I went to help her fight, heal her, and use my magic to repair damage inside the base.

I returned hours later and heard these guys gambled with the girl, arrested her, and tried interrogating her for information. They failed to get info and Dhalsim had to spend 12 hours using mind powers to probe her brain. Meanwhile, I slept for 4 hours and improved my gear afterward using my magic and UN technology.

[Aerin, the half-elf priestess]

Day 11 – Finding Bask’s Spirit Animal

Bask returned from his hiatus and trained a bit at the UN base. He asked Chun-li for any missions and he asked me (Eric Lee) to join. We drove to two different areas in China where there were high school kids doing Street Fights. Our job was simple: stop the Street Fights. Thankfully, Bask can be intimidating, so the job was pretty easy. We pulled up in our vehicle and Bask scared them off! Quick, easy, and amazing! It was probably the easiest mission ever.

We returned to base and Bask asked me what I wanted to do. I mentioned that I needed to find an earth elemental. As a person who casts magic, I understand the world’s magical creatures and elements, so I want to transform into an earth elemental because it’s my spirit animal. When I asked Bask about his spirit animal, however, he did not know what it was, so I showed him how to find it.

We both are spell casters, so we have a spell called Commune, which allows us to ask our god “yes” or “no” questions. Bask cast the spell, asked his god questions, and found out about his spirit animal and where to find it. It was a red dragon located near Shanghai in the Huangshan Yellow Mountains. Truthfully, neither of us knew anything about dragons or the Huangshan Yellow Mountains, which is why this mission was crazy fun and difficult.

We took a plane to Shanghai and got mobbed by news media. They asked questions about the UN, Cuba, and the oil company incident. Bask avoided answering questions and eventually wanted to get away from the media, so I cast Wind Wall and made everyone’s cameras fly into the air. We ran away during the panic, then Bask cast Wind Walk and we both transformed into wind and went to the mountains.

The mountains were quiet, peaceful, and full of beautiful green trees and plants. We traveled up the mountain, looking for the red dragon, but eventually ran into indigenous people who lived on the mountain. Bask started talking and forgot that we were still in wind form, so the tribal people thought Bask was a god! Bask asked them to hunt food and do other things to help us attract the red dragon. Bask also found a bear and I successfully hunted and killed it.

After setting up the perfect bait, we waited 8 hours and the dragon didn’t show up! Bask told the tribal people to go back to their homes and let us take care of it. Two hours later, the red dragon finally showed up and it was a heck of a battle. He clawed, tail slapped, and bit us with his huge teeth. He also burnt us with his breath weapon. He even picked up Bask into the air and tried eating him! Luckily he managed to teleport out of the dragon’s grasp before he bit down.

Once we got the battle onto the ground, I cast Wind Wall to protect us against his fire breath weapon. Then we beat that dragon down with my quarterstaff and Bask’s heavy pick. However, the dragon knocked Bask down twice, fully unconscious! I probably could have defeated the dragon myself, but I respected the fact that this was Bask’s spirit animal and quest, not mine, so I felt that he needed to finish the dragon off. In the end, they both knocked each other down, so it was a Double KO.

I healed Bask once more and helped him stand up. We joked with each other about whether or not that was considered a victory. The tribal people returned and found out we were just regular people, but they heavily respected us for defeating “The Great Dragon God”, as they called it. They invited us to their homes for a celebration. They were happy because they used to hunt and provide food for the dragon so he would not eat them. Now they are free of the dragon’s tyranny.

We ate, danced, talked, exchanged gold/goods, and had a great time with the tribesmen. They even offered a beautiful woman to Bask for his victory, but Bask refused because he’s already married! I never knew! Bask kindly gave the woman to me and we had a fun night together. At midnight, we finally returned back to our UN base. The next day, Bask and I spent time in the Research and Development section of the base. Together we crafted and improved our items.

[Aerin, the half-elf priestess]

Day 12 – Finding Big Foot

After hearing about Bask’s adventure of fighting a dragon, our friends wanted to find their spirit animals too. However, they had no idea what their spirit animal was, so they decided to find the most popular creature in existence…Big Foot! The computer nerds at our UN base in China tried finding Big Foot, but failed miserably. Luckily, Guile contacted us and their American base knew exactly where Big Foot was, in a forest in Montana.

We arrived in Montana via airplane and instead of landing like normal people, our group wanted to jump out of the plane and go sky diving! Everyone did a great job with their parachutes and landed accordingly. My parachute, however, did not pop! Thankfully I can cast magic, so I Air Walked all the way down to the ground.

My friends killed a bear, skinned it, and created a bait area using all of the bear meat. They asked me to create net traps and I did, but the group never used them. Usually our team is very successful, but today was full of failure. We spent 8 hours waiting for Big Foot to come, but lots of bears, wolves, and dear came instead. We killed most of them and added their meat to the traps.

Eventually, the Big Foot showed up, and he wasn’t alone. It was a whole family of Big Foots! Our group was hiding in trees, but they smelled us and leaped at us! They knocked both Ryno and Shrug (our other orc friend) to the ground. They failed to knock me out at first, but then the beast charged my tree and knocked it down, so I ate the floor and spent the whole battle fighting on the ground.

I protected myself well and dealt enough damage to my Big Foot to make it run away back into the forest. When I stood up and looked at everyone else, however, they were all getting trashed. Lute was hiding in the meat bait pile and tried fighting the biggest Big Foot leader with little success. Both Ryno and Lute missed their super combo attacks! Nothing was going right for our group and there was a good chance that one or more of them may die. So I made a tough decision and transformed our team into wind, forcing everyone to leave the battle.

Everyone was disappointed and Ryno was particularly angry at me. It was a rough ride home, full of insults and drama. He was convinced that we were going to win, but that couldn’t have been further from the truth. When we arrived at the American UN base, I forced our group to the training room immediately. I had a lot on my mind and very important things to discuss and teach our group, before meeting with Guile. I wanted to make sure we were in tip-top shape to make a good first impression.

They were angry, annoyed, and unwilling to learn at first, but we fought through it all together. We began discussing what went wrong. At the beginning, we all should have stuck together to cover our backs, especially when dealing with an unknown enemy. We also could have called the American UN base to give us satellite surveillance. They could have warned us of incoming enemies, how many there were, and their physical sizes. Knowing this information would have also allowed me time to cast spells and buff the party. The party could have also requested weapons from the UN base to help fight the Big Foots.

Once battle began, numerous mistakes were made. The group never once attempted to throw enemies into the net traps that I made. After trapping a single opponent, it would be helpless or at least struggling and we could have easily beaten it unconscious. The group also never called for my assistance. I was dealing with an enemy, but if needed, I would have left my enemy and gone to help an ally in need. I noticed our allies using poor battle tactics, trying to jump into trees to attack Big Foots, instead of simply rushing over to work with allies and double-team the enemy. The one time they tried using teamwork was to engage the largest Big Foot leader, which was a poor choice. Always better to take out the small fries first and engage the largest one together as a full team. The funny part was that the Big Foot leader had no intention of fighting at all. He spent the early part of battle eating food from the bait, but Lute attacked and angered the leader, causing him to stop eating and engage in combat. This means Lute could have easily helped allies double-team against enemies instead of engaging the largest and most dangerous creature alone.

Alternatively, the party could have set part of the forest on fire in order to trap, scare, or confuse the Big Foots. Lastly, the party could have attempted to befriend the beasts, but even I’ll admit that it may have been very difficult or impossible to accomplish that since none of us handle animals and beasts regularly.

My friends and I all contributed ideas and together we strategized for hours. Afterward, we engaged in combat training. I particularly focused the group’s training on defensive fighting. I noticed in battle that my friends are all extremely offensive and deal high damage, but they get hit by their enemies easily. The Big Foots kept knocking my friends around and almost sent Shrug flying into our own net trap! The lack of defense was unacceptable, but it can be improved.

We trained for hours and my friends were still having trouble with their defenses. Nonetheless, they came up with their own unique blocking technique. It did not always work, but when it lands, it also hurts the enemy, almost like an offensive style of defense. They learned how to occasionally block a melee attack, absorb some of the damage to heal themselves, and knock the enemy away! This technique was called an Alpha Counter. It was different and maybe not as reliable as my own defensive techniques, but it was powerful and more in-tune to their style of combat, so I encouraged it. It will take them time to master though.

After training, Guile approached our group and commended us. He heard everything that happened involving the Big Foots and was proud of us for training and trying to correct our mistakes.

[Aerin, the half-elf priestess]

Day 13 - MGM Battle Royale!

We finished training together and Guile congratulated us, but he wanted to take our training to the next level! He forced us to do 10,000 push-ups without stopping! Normally this would be an impossible task, but we pushed through and got the job done. Lute performed particularly well, and so did I, but I purposely stayed quiet and played myself down a bit so others wouldn't notice. I didn't want any unnecessary attention and had plans after the training.

Once we finished training, everyone was exhausted, but I cast Restoration magic on myself and went to the Research and Development section of the American UN base. I met all the crafters and helped them for a bit, then Shrug visited me and asked me to craft an item for him. With the help of other crafters, we created a helmet that helps Shrug understand and speak all languages and makes him more charismatic too.

The next morning, my friends did exercises in the training room, including a jumping obstacle course. It has two walls that reach up to 100 feet high. You can jump from wall to wall to attempt reaching the top. However, it gets harder and harder as you go higher. Guile has reached the 50 ft. Point. Chun-li has reached the very top! My friends were totally hyped the beat the records, but Shrug and Lute only made it 30 feet up. Ryno, however, made it to Guile's point! It was pretty awesome. Lute tried cheating later on when nobody was looking, using a magic item to fly up and break a hole in the ceiling, but cameras recorded him and I was ordered to use magic to fix the damaged ceiling...I wanted to kill Lute. Bad karma, however, happened to Lute as he walked into the showers and Rufus threw him into the same shower as Shrug. Shrug forcefully gave Lute a gay back rub scrub-down as a joke, which made me laugh.

After the shenanigans, Guile gave us a mission! We flew to the MGM in Las Vegas for a famous boxing match! Many people were fighting that night, but the headliner was Balrog vs. Cody. We were sent there to protect celebrities from a possible assassination! We had pretty good seats, but we were all spread out around the arena to keep our eyes open for danger. Shrug had the best seat, right behind Ken! He had beautiful women and was buying drinks for everyone in his row!

Unfortunately, Lute, Shrug, and Ryno had too much fun that night. They gambled for money, played lots of Blackjack, drank alcohol, and got caught up with prostitutes and sex! They were all very distracted and I was summoned by an Earth Elemental! He sent me a magical message, asking for my attendance immediately, saying that it was direly important for the salvation of the world! Thankfully my friend Bask arrived and took my place. He's a fine divine magic caster and warrior, so I felt safe leaving the MGM mission in his hands.

I ventured out into the desert and met up with an elder earth elemental. He took me to his underground cave. He was huge-sized and powerful, but he wanted my help. He said a powerful man named Urien became an earth elemental years ago and gained great power as the leader of the Illuminati. Urien now plans on destroying the world and this elder earth elemental wants me to stop him. He also wants me to transform into an earth elemental in the near future. We talked for a while and I totally agreed to help, he even trained me for a few hours and taught me the ways of the earth elementals.

At the end of training, however, I told him that we had to fight. He was not fond of the idea, but I explained that I needed to fight him to know where I stand in terms of power and whether or not I had a chance against Urien. The elder elemental agreed and I quickly began casting preparation spells before he charged at me with his huge rock fists. I blocked and the battle was on! I continuously swung my quarterstaff and cast quickened spells to continue buffing myself.

He soon realized that my defenses were strong and he couldn’t punch me to death, so he began trying to grapple me. However, I also had cast Freedom of Movement, making it very difficult to grapple me, so that didn’t work either. I did surprisingly well and wore him down, continuously attacking and knocking bits of rock off him with each hit. Then he started moving underground and attacking from below, but I readied my divine fireball attack (hadouken) and hit him each time his earth arms came up to grab me.

The elder earth elemental was nearly defeated, so he made the ground and entire area collapse upon me. Amidst the chaos, he finally grappled me and I could no longer use my quarterstaff, so I had to fight with my bare fists and kicks. I punched through his body enough times that I finally defeated him. His rock-hard grip grew weak and I immediately healed him. We spoke after battle and he thanked me, realizing that he indeed chose the right disciple to take on Urien. He also allowed me to take a bunch of gold and gems that he had lying around in his underground cave. I thanked him very much and eventually teleported back to the American UN base.

While I was busy, the rest of the group completed the MGM mission. It turns out that Ken was the target for the assassination! After all the boxing matches, Balrog, Cody, Joe, and Mike (all Street Fighters and boxers from the matches that night) came up on stage to talk and thank everyone. They also wanted to thank specific sponsors and celebrities for their support and attendance. Angelina Jolie, Bill Gates, and a few others stood up and said a few words. Then Ken was asked to come on stage since he was the winner of a recent World Street Fighter Tournament.

Ken walked up, said a few words, and then got shot by a sniper using Stunning Strike! Immediately after, a metal cage fell down, trapping Ken inside the boxing ring with the other 4 fighters! They grinned and beat the shit out of Ken! Thankfully my friends were there and jumped into action. At the beginning the fight was not going well, but then Bask found a way to turn off all the lights in the arena! That’s when the battle turned and my friends started whooping ass.

Most of the enemies could not see in the dark and got confused. The sniper had night vision goggles, but Bask cast Wind Wall magic that deflected his bullets. However, Balrog did knock Shrug out of the ring, allowing the sniper to stun him a few times. Thankfully, Bask found the sniper hiding in the ceiling and took him out. They wrestled and Bask eventually threw the guy off the ceiling, killing him instantly when he hit the floor and arena seats below.

Ryno busted a hole in the metal cage earlier, so he managed to grab Ken and get him out of danger. Bask eventually healed Ken and saved his life. Ryu arrived and thanked my friends for their help. He also forced Ken to pay the group extra money for saving him. The UN came and arrested everyone involved. Shrug and Ryno interrogated the fighters and found out that they were hired by Urien! Urien wanted to kill Ken and ensure that Ryu attended the upcoming World Street Fighter Tournament. My friends celebrated with more gambling and prostitutes. Lute became very close with a blackjack dealer named Claire. They went off to a fancy hotel for the night while Shrug and Ryno continued gambling. They each made $100,000!

Back at the UN base, I purchased Boots of Speed. I also teleported to my old church and donated my remaining $8,000. I had a lot to be thankful for, and they deserved the money. My old church trained me in the art of Divine Magic; they’re the only reason I am able to do my job and help others. I teleported back to the American UN base and had the best sleep of my life.

[Aerin, the half-elf priestess]

Final Session

We ventured to New York, fought off German terrorists, and saved the Statue of Liberty. Basically this campaign is over and we are moving onto a Harry Potter campaign!