Alex Homeward Bound

Story
"Chris"WORLD: Acrea

MISSION TYPE: Homeward Bound

MISSION OBJECTIVE: Retrieve Alex's brother and daughter.

PARTICIPANTS: Alexander Varias, Christopher

"Ok Alex, first up, where EXACTLY are we going? You have a house you want to go to, I could maybe find the last place you were in before you came here, what's up. What do you want?""Alexander Varias"“I’m not entirely sure how this whole thing works, but the last I saw my brother was right before I arrived at the Archive. There’s 8 towers in the Capitol. One for each member of the Council. We were in my Brother’s tower, he’d built a portal of sorts and we were about to go through it, we can start there?”"Chris"Chris nods and waves his sonic screwdriver lazily. A magical screen appears playing a very familiar video - it appears to be the mission footage from when you were recruited. He fast forwards and rewinds through the video for a while, occasionally taking notes down. He keeps opening little portals, poking his head through, and shaking it as he pulls it out. You try to say something as he does this and he ignores you, seemingly lost in thought. After a couple minutes, he makes a sharp exclamation, and opens up a blue rift. "Got it, took a second but I got it. Hey, what's this city called, anyway?""Alexander Varias"Watching Chris do this was confusing and difficult to track for Alex, so once he realized he was being ignored, the Elf just sat back and watched as he worked. It was always interesting watching the God do his thing, and at some point you had to realize there weren’t answers to your questions. Not ones that would make sense anyways.

“Harbinger.” He answers. “The city’s name is Harbinger. You found it?”"Chris""Yup, even got the right tower you got pulled from even. Ready? Rifts open for you.""Alexander Varias"Alex takes a deep breath, nods and steps towards the rift. “Let’s get this done.” He says, still a little nervous as he steps through."Chris"You step through the portal and into your ancestral home. It's hard to describe, but just taking one large inhale of the air here feels... right. Like you hadn't been breathing correctly for months now. However, the whiffs of smoke you smell... are less comforting. You look over the side of your tower and the city of Harbinger is on fire. The air is thick with black smoke and ash. You look down to the streets and they're filled with people, but they aren't reacting to the fires. Not a single one seems to even notice. Everyone is mindlessly wandering, wringing theirs hands, walking into walls. You hear a sharp scream occasionally but see no one in imminent danger. You have no idea what's wrong, but something nags at the back of your mind... You've seen this before... Roll intelligence."Alexander Varias""Chris"Not only do you heal the people around you, but you heal the island itself. The fire inherent in your music melts away the permafrost created by Nicolai's transformation. Everyone cheers for you, the High Mage of The Phoenix.

Nicolai smiles, "Where'd you learn to cast spells like that, Alex?""Alexander Varias"Alex smiles as he looks at the island. As far as he knows, this is the last refuge. The last resistance against the Tar. He's glad that his magic was strong enough to return the island to normal before he left.

Alex smiles at his brother. "I've been learning a lot of things recently, there's a lot to talk about" He says, picking up Bailey and walking towards the portal, "But they're things we can talk about more later. Let's go!" He smiles widely at his brother."Chris""We better." Nicolai said, smiling nearly as wide.

Chris smiled as he looked on the scene, happy he could be part of making this happen. Together, the four of them walked through the rift back home.

MISSION COMPLETE!