Since it can be hard for new people to get a sense of an ongoing plot, I've decided to start posting summaries for things. Also I like writing.
Summary of Act Zero:
As Ishgard reopened its gates to the world, heralding the last saga of the Dragonsong War, her estranged daughter Evangeline Primrose had a plan. Ishgard needed funds, and there was a perfectly good shipment of Ishgardian Steel last seen located in the belly of the icelocked river freighter, The North Star. Acquiring the assistance of a sympathetic Temple Knight, Martialis Heuloix, the two tracked the ore from the stricken freighter, finding it stowed within the doomed fortress of the Dusk Vigil.
The two fought their way inside with the aid of companions, making their way through the monsters that had grown to infest the place. When they came upon the steel though, they found they were not alone. A strange airship had entered through cracks in the ruined walls, its crew securing the steel while they kept the adventurers pinned down with a hail of grapeshot. Still though, their airship was damaged in the exchange, leaving a trail of smoke behind as it fled with the steel. Evangeline and Martialis returned to Ishgard glumly, believing their mission had failed.
Summary of Act 1:
The strange airship could not make it hope, the damage done by the adventurer’s was too great. Beset by a leaking ceruleum tank, it landed in the hills of northern Thanalan, sending out foragers to siphon off fuel from nearby camp Bluefog. Several engineers from the plant went missing, prompting a call for adventurers. Most notably among them, Lady Xanadu Mol, freshly minted Inquisitor of Ishgard. They found the engineers dead, and defeated the bandits which were siphoning off the fuel.
Driven by the question of where these thieves came from, the adventurers scoured the area. Kale Aldieron of the Flames joined the group in their discovery of a crashed Garlean airship. The band of ragged survivors and their rusted magitech colossus put up a valiant fight before being defeated, leaving behind their Aetherial Tracker.
Using the Aetherial Tracker, the location of the enemy airship was found. Klynzahr and her brother Ginshaw led a diversionary attack with the help of Lieutenant Kale, while the others prepared for a different battle. Inquisitor Xanadu had used her considerable resources to rent the services of an airship “Halone’s Teatsâ€, preparing it for an aerial battle. Dragging a field gun onto the deck, they sailed for the location of the enemy vessel, just in time to find it relocating. A fierce battle ensued, cannonballs and grapeshot sweeping the deck as both ships attempted to board the other. V’aleera Lhuil Dragoon of Ishgard was able to leap across and with the support of Corporal Jana, slay the majority of their crew.
With the crew slain, the ship was quickly looted of what could be carried, and, as they tried to tow it as a prize, it broke its moorings and vanished into the clouds.
Summary of Act Zero:
As Ishgard reopened its gates to the world, heralding the last saga of the Dragonsong War, her estranged daughter Evangeline Primrose had a plan. Ishgard needed funds, and there was a perfectly good shipment of Ishgardian Steel last seen located in the belly of the icelocked river freighter, The North Star. Acquiring the assistance of a sympathetic Temple Knight, Martialis Heuloix, the two tracked the ore from the stricken freighter, finding it stowed within the doomed fortress of the Dusk Vigil.
The two fought their way inside with the aid of companions, making their way through the monsters that had grown to infest the place. When they came upon the steel though, they found they were not alone. A strange airship had entered through cracks in the ruined walls, its crew securing the steel while they kept the adventurers pinned down with a hail of grapeshot. Still though, their airship was damaged in the exchange, leaving a trail of smoke behind as it fled with the steel. Evangeline and Martialis returned to Ishgard glumly, believing their mission had failed.
Summary of Act 1:
The strange airship could not make it hope, the damage done by the adventurer’s was too great. Beset by a leaking ceruleum tank, it landed in the hills of northern Thanalan, sending out foragers to siphon off fuel from nearby camp Bluefog. Several engineers from the plant went missing, prompting a call for adventurers. Most notably among them, Lady Xanadu Mol, freshly minted Inquisitor of Ishgard. They found the engineers dead, and defeated the bandits which were siphoning off the fuel.
Driven by the question of where these thieves came from, the adventurers scoured the area. Kale Aldieron of the Flames joined the group in their discovery of a crashed Garlean airship. The band of ragged survivors and their rusted magitech colossus put up a valiant fight before being defeated, leaving behind their Aetherial Tracker.
Using the Aetherial Tracker, the location of the enemy airship was found. Klynzahr and her brother Ginshaw led a diversionary attack with the help of Lieutenant Kale, while the others prepared for a different battle. Inquisitor Xanadu had used her considerable resources to rent the services of an airship “Halone’s Teatsâ€, preparing it for an aerial battle. Dragging a field gun onto the deck, they sailed for the location of the enemy vessel, just in time to find it relocating. A fierce battle ensued, cannonballs and grapeshot sweeping the deck as both ships attempted to board the other. V’aleera Lhuil Dragoon of Ishgard was able to leap across and with the support of Corporal Jana, slay the majority of their crew.
With the crew slain, the ship was quickly looted of what could be carried, and, as they tried to tow it as a prize, it broke its moorings and vanished into the clouds.