ROM 3: Shadows of Souls

Post by **shauni** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:21 pm

Josiah came over an patted Neo on the back "Nice work new guy!"
Unicoco now looked white, she had kinda hoped they woulnt find anything
The others began to pile into the cave that lead to the dark shrine, unicoco was running out of options, she eather followed them...or stopped then, she thought quickly
"Stop!" she yelled just as Silver was about to enter
Like they were in reverse they all came out
"What is it Uni?"
She looked into Josiahs eyes
"You cant destry that shrine...I cant let you""
But it will restor Orca, dont you want that?"
Unicoco looked away "If you destry that shrine...you will destry that dark world"
"Thats a bad thing?"
Unicoco looked back at them ".......I guess I have no argument that will stop you really...and I know am not match for all of you yet....so....I guess we go...but remeber, it will destry the dark world, and you dont know what consiquences that will have"
Josiah noded "Ok, we wont rush in, dont worry"
But unicoco would worry, she failed to mention a few things, like her getting weaker, but also the fact that the lord would not have left a shrine unguarded.....
"Um, guys, be carful...you dont know whats down there...."
((que zombie boss battle!))

Post by **Josiah** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:35 pm

((Bosses! Yay! Speaking of which, my Zodiac Sword is still missing so if anyone wants to have a bad guy find it...))

"Wow... This place is a total maze."

"Hey Gold, you know the way through, right?"

"No. Why would I?"

"Because you... Argh, forget it. We'll find it ourselves."

"So," *Josiah dropped back next to Neo,* "no offense but we've been tricked by bad guys pretending to be friends way too many times for me to trust you. I want to know who you are, how you got to Orca, and why we haven't met you before. Now start talking."

Monsters:
Electricutz - 3/3 - Electric --> Multi Striker, Electric Speed, Electric Heaven, Electricuter, Thunder Ball
Midnight Wing - 4/3 - Dark/Mutation --> Shadow Bind, Shadow Shroud, Omni-Mutation, Dark Radience, Drill Dash
Mogalmel - 3/3 - Ground --> Leaf Rain, Upheaval, Rock Crusher, Quaker, Multi-Fissure
Raydion - 3/3 - Light --> Shine, Light Power, Ultra Nova, Wrath of God, Holy Blades
Black Flare - 3/3 - Fire/Dark --> High Temp, Claws of Fire, Inferno Wall, Fireball Charge, Magma Ocean
Aquatica - 3/3 - Water --> Drench, Whirlpool, Hose-Down, Acid Rain, Tsunami Force
Ice Queen - 3/3 - Ice --> Icicle Rain, Snow Drift, Deep Freeze, Chill Wind, Freezedown
Valkyrie Virgo - 3/3 - Metal/Light --> Mecha Overdrive, Virgin Veil, Maiden's Healing, Strength of Heart, Heavenly Spear
Armor Dragon - 3/3 - Wind --> Supreme Guard, Dragon Breath, Updraft, Air Blades, Wind Tunnel

Post by **Neo Zanther** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 1:55 pm

"Well if you don't mind simi-long stories here I go."

"Well my name is Neo Qutar. I'm not quite sure how I really got here. Years ago I was just surfing the web for anything dealing with weather when I found an intresting weather game. Started to DL it and next thing I know I'm waking up looking at the sky in the middle of a field. I noticed these strange blank cards laying near me. I sat up for awhile. Soon some people discoverd me and took me in. I slowly begain to learn about the world around me and discovered it was a game of some sort.

Well as time went on I caputed afew monsters and tried to figure a way out of the game. Knowing RPG games usually end with the defeat of a Boss monster I went out to search for clues on who that might be. I also wound up as a protector of the NPC's. Years past and I kept hearing about a group of people defeating various powerful things. I tried to find that group but never could.

Then afew months back an area I was in was being attacked by something called a Zodiac. He defeated me but I didn't go down without a decent fight. From him I learned about Moen. He left cause he said he had to fight some group in a fortress. But I figured that Moen had to be the final boss and knowing RPG and how they tend to be in a cave or Castle and it happens to be in mountians, i headed for the nearest range to the east. I thought that just possible the group that I heard about may be heading there too sometime and I would join up and help. Well, the trip was a long one and along the way I met up with his armies and had my hands full. I was getting to the base of them when I was ingulfed in Darkness and wound up here.

So I guess I've answered all your questions. But I do have afew for you.

Who exactly was Moen? Who was this Hacker I heard about? Who are these shadow of souls and how you ended up here in this place and Orca?

Neo was abit out of breath after all this.

Post by **pokchu** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 3:03 pm

*While in the cavern, a voice boomed, as if over an intercom*

"STOP RIGHT THERE!"

"Huh? What was that?"

"You really thought you could just walllt right in there and destroy the shadow shrine? How idiotic."

"WHO ARE YOU?!"

"He is...my lord."

"Indeed Unicoco. I see project Black heart is going according to plan."

"'Black Heart' project?"

"I'm not going to explain it to the likes of you. UNICOCO, get them! And if she fails..."

*Suddenly, a zombie like creature appeared, standing 15 feet tall, with 20 red beaming eyes, a green and white pale body, claws like jagged butcher knives, and wore a black kilt. It had messy black hair, and feet suspended off the ground, with rusty knives as toe-nails*

"KILL THEM."

Post by **shauni** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 3:03 pm

((this should go before Pokchus post))

Unicoco nuged Josiah out of the way with her hips, and begsn to walk next to Neo
"Im the best person to ask"
Joisha looked a little peved, but he noded "Shes right, she'd be better telling you everthing"
Unicoco began to tell the story of the group
"Well, this whole thing technicaly began about 6 years ago, in your world. There was a young computer junior named Sutra Orcanna who lived in Manchester, England. She was quite good at computer coding and applied fora job at Square enix to work on games development, but they tured her down flat, I dont know why. But this sent her of on one, she began hacking into there computers and stuff, eventualy finding out about a peace of gaming software they were develping, that actualy left gamers be in computer games. She made hard copies of all the coding for this software and began to develope her own game, to sell first, taking creadit for the software. That world she named ROM: Capture the soul, and began to creat NPCs, locations extra, but her devlopment was slow, where as sqaure enix, with all its money was steming ahead with the same progect, so she wrote a computer virus she called 'Hellfire', and sent it out into there system, to slow them down, but the coding for the virus mutated before she sent it out, it began to murge with Square Enixs data, not delete it, and whats worse, it also infected her system. After a while, the hole of ROM was infected and began to mutae, greating people and places on its own, she tryed to stop it using an anti virus called "The organisation" but that fail also. After a few months Square Enix had closed there progect as it was so contaminated, but Sutra could not stop hers, one moth later the virus had become sentent, meaning it began to think for itself, it made to NPCs as a result, that new the world they were in was fake, Shaunicoco Aketchi and Moen....."

Unicoco stopped walking "And so begins how you and they got here, due to the nature of the software, people began to get sucked into the game, even NPCs from other games, until one day Shaunicoco figured out how to control it, bringing Josiah and silver to Orca, you see, she though she was human also, not a mutated computer virus. They went on a quest and began to play the game as intened, until Sutra tryed to wipe the game from her computer, not knowing people now lived there, it all come to ahead when Sutra herself come into the game to destry the virus, until she realised there were real life people there. She agreed to let them stay, however, they had forgotten the main point of the game, to beat the last boss, Moen, who had also been infected.
Two years later he had mastered how to summon people from the real world, and brough Sutra to him, turning her into a weapon to destry the gamers, who had begun to hunt him down. He also learned how to use the dark realm, also known as the data realm, which in essunce, is where deleted data goes, basicaly its a computer recylce bin, but a little more complicated. Moen retred concept coding Sutra was working on, manly the zodiacs. After beating them all we then took on Moen, when he was defeted, he used Sutra to create a hole link between Orca and the dark realm, Orca was cucked into this dark space, and is now merging with it, how I dont know why, but it is,"

Unicoco looked at Neo
"And here we are....a weird being her calling himself 'the lord' has used the data he gained from the cross over to make the shadow of souls, creatures which in essunce are the darkness in our hearts, as for him, I dont know his back story, but thats basically it"

Josiah began to tap his foot
"And"
unicoco frowed "I am Shaunicoco, I merged with my shadow of soul a while ago....now I am Unicoco..."
Neo looked speachless
"o...right"

*While in the cavern, a voice boomed, as if over an intercom*

"STOP RIGHT THERE!"

"Huh? What was that?"

"You really thought you could just walllt right in there and destroy the shadow shrine? How idiotic."

"WHO ARE YOU?!"

"He is...my lord."

"Indeed Unicoco. I see project Black heart is going according to plan."

"'Black Heart' project?"

"I'm not going to explain it to the likes of you. UNICOCO, get them! And if she fails..."

*Suddenly, a zombie like creature appeared, standing 15 feet tall, with 20 red beaming eyes, a green and white pale body, claws like jagged butcher knives, and wore a black kilt. It had messy black hair, and feet suspended off the ground, with rusty knives as toe-nails*

"KILL THEM."

Unicoco yelled up at the voice "I am not your slave, I will not do as you order me so!"

the voice began to laugh darkly "So be it....guardian shadow, destry them..."

Post by **Neo Zanther** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 5:33 pm

"Well if we have to fight so be it. Go Storm Furry!" Neo pulled out his monster card and soo Storm Furry was out in it's beautiful might. It almost resembled a storm cloud but sitting on top was a yellow creature with 2 horns on top sparking. "Use Thunder Wave." A spark came from the cloud and headed staight for the boss.

((hope that's a decent discription of it :) ))

Post by **shauni** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 5:55 pm

((Not bad Neo))

The attack did nothing to the shadow monster
"What? thats was powerful!"
Unicoco stepped up into the fray "Its a zombie type, its only weak against fire and light magic! Virgo!"
Josiah and virgo stepped foward "Dont worry, were on it"
Virgo noded "Guess its time to spring into action"
Unicoco noded "Yes...go Pyrococo!"
Virgo threw out the monster and it emrged in and explosion of coding
"Huh? pyro..coco? What happend to Pyrogoth?"
Unicoco tured anround and smiled "O, him and Omega were upgraded when I mereged, there now Nova level, pyrococo and Omegan"
Pirococo was much larger

Its colouring much more vivid and it looked powerful, Omegan soon followed, and he two was much different, it looked more human...

"Lets do this!"

((FWI<just to give the monster a face, i took this, no idea if this is what you had in minde pokchu))

Post by **Neo Zanther** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:01 pm

"Well in that case, Return Storm Furry. Go Drop!" Storm Furry returned to it's card while Drop came out. It looked like a large Rain Drop with Arms. "I know you are low but lets see what you cand do. Use 7 Colors!" Drops hands glowed several colors and it formed them together and a Rainbow of colors shot out. It headed straight for the boss.

((Hope that's ok : Note: edit...) ))

Post by **shauni** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 6:06 pm

((what type is droplet? fire or water?)0

"pyrococo used Blister of th sun! Omegan use Sin wash!"

Both the attacks powerded up the same, large balls of dark energry grew above them, then they tured there elementaly colour, and where fired at the same time
Unicoco followed it with her own snake bite attack and the monster was hit by all three at once, but it still stood
"What????"
Unicoco looked around, the cave walls were covered in runes that were glowing
"Its this place! Those runes on the wall, there making it stronger, nothing should have survied that!"

Post by **Silver** » Thu Nov 11, 2004 8:24 pm

"But... I thought only Fire and Light affected it?"

"Oh yeah... So only Pyrococo would have damaged it... still, it didn't do anything at all! It should at least be a little weaker!"

"Well, maybe we can stop it from being powered up any more! Raydion, Shine!" *The room became brighter so the zombie shielded its eyes, and the ruins stopped glowing... temporarily; Shadow Guardian attacked Raydion, causing the room to become dark again, also causing the ruins to glow.* "Use Shine again!" *Again the room became light and the Zombie became weaker, but Raydion was attacked again*

"Ok, Kojie, help out with Sun Shine!" *The room became light again, and even though Kojie was attacked, Raydion had a chance to light up the area again* "I think we've got him!"

"Have Pyrococo attack now!"

Post by **shauni** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 4:59 am

Unicoco noded to Pyrogoth "Use that speacial one we were saving, the Nova level attack, use SCORCHED EARTH!"
"What? A Legendary Attack?"
Unicoco tured around a smiled "Thats what they were all along! Nova level attacks! Thats why there so powerful!"
Unicocos hands began to glow "And my own light attack! Holy Draw!"
Josiah ran in also "Virgo! Do your stuff!"

Meanwhile.....
We enter a dark sence with one drab of light, the view follows he light down, to the zodiac sword, and a hand slowly clamiming it.....

Post by **Silver** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 10:27 am

"Ok Toshi, you help too! Extreme Flame!" *The three attacks along with Virgo's Light magic took the enemy down, but there was still one problem... well, two, actually...* "Great, the dead thing's blocking our way out!"

"Hey, uh... where'd Gold go?"

*Meanwhile...

"Ha, showing these guys around will all be worth it once I have the Zodiac sword..." *Sees someone else taking it* "Hey! Who-who are you?!"

Post by **shauni** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 10:58 am

"Ha, showing these guys around will all be worth it once I have the Zodiac sword..." *Sees someone else taking it* "Hey! Who-who are you?!" The figure was surrounded by darkness,
"Ha! Dont bother me dead creature, I have more pressing matters at hand"
The figured had picked up the sword, and it began to glow a blood red, all of the zodiac shards fell out and landed on the floor, dark mist began to flow from them, the firgure placed out a hand, and the dark mist began to be drawn towards it, into an orb on a hena blaclet on his hand...
After a moment the shards broke and the firgure stepped forward
He was covered head to two in armor, and the orb on his writes was glowing blood red, he threw the sword down to the ground,
"Its now just a normal sword, all the power of the zodiacs are in my gaunlets""
Gold tured even whiter than he was already "Who....what are you"
The firgure smiled, "my name is Emiel Orcanna, and am her to destry the gamers"
Gold frowned "And why is that..."
Emiel smiled "Because its there folt my sister died"
"And who was your sister?"
"Sutra"

((FWI I know its kinda a plot twist, but its not exactly dramatic really))

Post by **Silver** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:26 am

((Uh... but wouldn't we have known if Sutra had any siblings by now?))

"Uh... so is someone gonna get the dead thing out of the way?"

"Why don't you do it?"

"It might be cursed! I'm not touching that thing!"

"Can't we just walk around it?"

"THE CURSE!!!"

"Ok... then get one of the monsters to move it."

"Oh yeah... I never thought of that... Toshi, Flame Wing!" *Toshi's burning wing slapped the dead thing right into the wall where it fell appart and disintigrated*

Post by **shauni** » Fri Nov 12, 2004 11:34 am

((we never really found anything out about her in ROM 1 or 2, in ROM 1 she wass just 'The hacker', and in ROM 2 she was mute and never talked about herself except to say 'I am the hacker', so we would not have know she has siblings))

The sound of the monster hitting the wall distured Emiel "I dont have time for this, I'm not ready yet...."
He began to run down towards the dark shrine
"hay! get back here!" yelled Gold, he was about to follow when the gamers came up behind thim
"Ah, there you are Goldy"
Gold tured around "NEVER call me that again"
"What are you doing here?"
"erm....hay! There a guy in here calling himself Emiel Orcanna! He jsut took the power of the Zodiac Sword and ran thata way! get him!"
"What?" Josiah noticed the sword and reclamed it
"Heck, all the shards are gone!"
"He stole ther epower with this orb and some gloves!"
Unicoco thought for a moment, no one except her had noted the last name
"Did you say Orcanna?"
Gold tured around "hum...yes?"
"As in Sutra Orcanna, as in the hacker??"
Gold noded "Yes, he sparked of some rubbish about being her brother"
Unicocos eyes wided "She had a brother?"