Zahak (Aspirant)'s Missions
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| The Fallen City of the Desert pt. 1: Dessert Roadtrip | Aug 22, 2026 | Success | The agents, Suzie the Hotshot, Zahak the Thunderbird, and Clair the Ardent arrived near an outpost. They approached it and received orders from the commander to escort Adrien the technician to the city gates. They drove down the road, and got into a scuffle with three Technical vehicles, trucks armed with large mounted guns. They successfully managed to fight their way through with a few bumps and bruises. They then arrived in the town and managed to fend off a horde that charged at them, in large part thanks to Zahak and his storm giant form. Adrian managed to break through the defenses. Badges pinged |
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| The Family Rocks | Aug 8, 2026 | Success | The Agents, Zahak the Thunderbird and Jack the Lithomancer, arrive at the base of a steep cliff on an island floating in the sky. Zahak senses a powerful energy coming from the top of the cliff. They scale the cliff, evading falling boulders and slinking lightning. Upon reaching the top, the agents encountered a gigantic obelisk made of shimmering metal. It is giving off a message- "Rock to Rock." Jack uses his tremor sense, revealing that this monolith has roots in metal veins that extend all throughout this floating island. Zahak touches the obelisk, and is able to interface with it, and he realizes it is powered by living lightning. The lightning reveals that they serve the Khan. When asked which, it does not understand the question, leaving Zahak to realize that it serves Lucifer Morningstar, the First High Kagan of the Khaganate. This lightning was cast from his bolt many many thousands of years ago, and the energy still remains, supporting these floating isles in the sky. Over time, their size has dwindled, but once they were an empire whose size rivaled the Khaganate itself. They now sought to reclaim the rocks of their former empire, many of which now make up the Khaganate itself. Jack and Zahak tried to negotiate, going as far as to use their powers (magnified by the environment of the Khaganate and the lightning) to tear an island from the sea and attach it to the floating lands. This intrigued the lightning, but they still did not respect Jack and Zahak. It gave them a show of its power in the form of lightning, and then challenged the agents to battle, which they accepted. Four stone ninjas emerged from pillars and attacked. Through a tough battle with some serious bumps and bruises, the agents managed to prevail. However, after this, the stones coalesced into one titanic stone warrior, with a conical hat and gigantic electric staff. Zahak engaged his storm giant form and as he did the energy also coursed around Jack as he absorbed the rocks he had raised from the island below. They both grew to gargantuan size and an epic battle insued. Jack lost an arm, and Zahak had most of his tail flattened, but in the end they managed to break through his guard (after he was overprotecting his groin due to an abundance of crotch shots in the first round), and sent the titan careening off the island. This impressed the lightning enough that they agreed to negotiate. Zahak told the island of more rocks in ocean ruins, a great power source from the trapped thunder God Momaqaldiroq, and a home out in the stars on a forsaken former racetrack (See Mission: Rings Around Dharossi). Zahak used the obelisk to contact the Khaganate, and a massive cohort of its leaders and technicians came. Jack pinged out as Zahak steered the rock to the location of the ruined isles. Jack pinged back in with a massive teleporter array from the Enclave and Zahak called the leadership of the Khaganate together. Together they facilitated a massive exodus of the lightning continent to the rings of Dharossi. Badges Pinged |
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| Sundae and the | Invalid date | Success | (by Reece) Lor, an Aspiring Fascinator, Morgan Darillium, an Illusionist, Wolfgang Stormgard, a Thunderbird, and Zahak, another Thunderbird, port-in to a strange candy realm upon a hilly plain lush with greenery made up entirely of candyfloss. Huge chocolate buttons are scattered across the field, and are being harvested by faceless workers resembling golems made from oversized, red-and-white peppermints. Wolfgang taste-tests the candy floss, confirming that it’s minty, then the agents debate whether to first investigate the factory in the nearby town where the chocolate buttons are being delivered, or confront the CEO whose recent recipe change is likely connected to some cases of food poisoning in town. As the squad crosses the field, Wolfgang samples a chocolate button, finding it to be regular milk chocolate, though with a bitter, unpleasant aftertaste. After Morgan warns him against eating strange food in a fae-like realm, Wolfgang drops the button. They speak with a peppermint worker, who explains that the CEO—Lord Sundae—lives in a small hut by the forest rather than in the fancy manor he owns in town. On their way to the hut, the agents notice small chocolate animals hiding in the candyfloss grass. There are a few species of arboreal mammals, all frightened and confused, but none of the agents know what to make of their presence here, so simply continue on their way. Upon arrival, a pair of peppermint guards stop them and demand identification before allowing them an audience with their lord. The agents don’t actually have any identification, but after some discussion, the guards give in and one of them fetches Lord Sundae anyway. He emerges wearing a mint-leaf suit, an ornate candy crown, and necklace of spooky sweets. He’s just as faceless as his employees, though his body is composed of mint imperials rather than peppermints. Wolfgang attempts to pitch a new product idea to him, but Sundae just directs the squad to speak to his company’s marketing department. The other agents then try to ask about the forest, the factory, and the recipe change. Sundae explains that the old recipe used mint-chocolate lumber from the mint choc trees in the nearby Peppermint Woods, but that he switched that out for the easier-to-harvest chocolate buttons, with extra mint extract to compensate for the difference in flavour profile. However, as the conversation goes on, the vagueness of his explanations make the agents suspect that he has never actually tasted the chocolate buttons himself. After agreeing to speak to the marketing department and leaving him in peace, on their way to town the agents discuss whether Lord Sundae is merely an incompetent businessman or could somehow be being influenced by a curse on either his crown or necklace. At the town gate, Lor uses her fan’s compelling motion to help disorient the guard, and the group are able to enter by posing as tourists from the neighbouring land of Allsugar, the denizens of which are all gingerbread people. Inside, they find clean, white streets, mint buildings, peppermint citizens, and a castle that they learn from a passer-by is the factory they’re looking for. They debate disguising themselves, forging proof that they have permission from Lord Sundae to enter, or splitting up to each infiltrate independently, before finally agreeing to impersonate peppermint workers carrying chocolate buttons into the factory. Morgan uses illusions to disguise Wolfgang and Zahak as peppermint people, but the group still needs chocolate buttons as props, so Lor lures a worker into chasing her, causing him to drop several buttons while she dances through alleys and eventually escapes onto a roof. Meanwhile, Wolfgang, Morgan, and Zahak try to follow along and locate the dropped buttons, but locating Lor proves challenging, so all three combine their magics to summon a tremendous storm in a ritual involving guitar playing, singing, tribal dance, and the ritual sacrifice of a chocolate button. Their efforts are successful and the conjured candyfloss clouds rumble with thunder and lighting, while unleashing a deluge of lemon & mint soda rain. On the bright side, one of the lightning bolts forms into ball lightning and guides them all to where they need to go, leading them through winding alleys and side-streets towards Lor. On the less-bright side, another lightning bolt strikes the castle’s flagpole with enough force to partially collapse the central tower. Ignoring that for now, they follow the ball lightning and are soon reunited with Lor, whom they find standing under an overhang, having managed to keep dry. The agents then head back across town to the castle, with Wolfgang & Zahak managing to convince a shaken gate guard that the gingerbread tourists need shelter from the rain. They’re waved inside, and Wolfgang drops off the chocolate buttons in an abandoned production area, while Morgan, Lor, and Zahak search for management offices. They come upon a large hall where factory workers are being assembled to ensure no one was hurt when the tower was struck, which they’re able to talk their way past, being granted entry to the administrative section… within the damaged tower. Wolfgang soon catches up with the rest of them, and together they climb through the unstable, caramelised ruins. At the highest level of the tower that’s still standing, the squad finds some crucial evidence: Wolfgang discovers correspondence linking Lord Sundae’s crown to under-the-table dealings with a supplier in Allsugar, while Morgan uncovers records showing that during early trials, the new chocolate made an unusually high number of testers ill, only to be was rolled out anyway. Most of the agents decide to set off at once to confront Lord Sundae, but Morgan stays behind to impersonate him and convince his employees to revert to using the healthier recipe. With illusions disguising him as Sundae, Morgan descends the tower again, before singing his decree to the assembled workers, which has the additional effect of magically making the new chocolate smell and taste rancid. The peppermint people believe that the product is spoiled and immediately begin disposing of it, and while they’re working on that, Morgan has an employee lead him to the town’s garrison, where he gathers a dozen guards by claiming that an impostor Lord Sundae is hiding in the field hut and has corrupted the company, while he is the real one. He leads them out as reinforcements, just in case the three agents are unable to defeat one businessman alone, as unlikely as that may seem. Meanwhile, Wolfgang, Zahak, and Lor race out of town and dash across the field, stopping only when the guards outside Sundae’s hut order them to halt. Once again, they get the lord called out to speak to them, but this time the confrontation escalates quickly, with him refusing to surrender his crown or necklace after they accuse him of knowingly poisoning people for profit. When they attempt to subdue the CEO, though, an unknown force lashes out at them, forcing Zahak to leap out of the crater he was standing in which was definitely there all along. Lor and Wolfgang aren’t quite as fast, both sent tumbling when something massive slams into them, the impact powerful enough to fracture one of Lor’s ribs. As if that offense isn’t sufficiently disheartening, Lord Sundae proves equally well-defended, when Zahak unleashes a devastating spell, dive-bombing the mint imperial after taking the form of a storm dragon with a body of living lightning… only for his assault to be suddenly halted, his power seemingly expended against nothing at all, for there isn’t even any sign of a barrier shielding the man. After hurling a couple lightning bolts at the lord to no avail—one of which he infuses with ice in case Sundae’s strange spell only guards against electrical attacks—Zahak is unsure what more they can do against this inexplicably insurmountable foe, until Wolfgang realises that there must be something going on here that they’re not seeing, so in a desperate effort to clear his mind, discharges a lightning bolt into his own cranium. Deciding that they have little left to lose at this point, Zahak follows suit, with both of them sent flying and suffering third degree burns to the face as a result. However, that desperate act is sufficient to temporarily shock their brains free from the grasp of the mental magic that has been passively affecting everyone in the area, allowing the Thunderbirds to perceive the presence of a titanic, two-hundred-metre-tall hydra in their midst… which in keeping with the theme of this inchoasis, is made of fruit gummies rather than flesh and blood. As they throw off the effect, they realise that what they’ve conquered isn’t actually something so simple as a mere invisibility spell, but rather that they were being continuously forced to forget the creature’s existence entirely, even whilst looking directly at it. Alas, Lor is both too sensible and too lacking-in-lightning-bolts to join in with the self-inflicted shock therapy, so remains unaware what she’s up against, and spends almost all of her remaining essence on a powerful magical strike, conjuring a lance-like cyclone of scarlet wind that she launches straight for Lord Sundae. Zahak & Wolfgang can see clearly what happens next, as one of the hydra’s heads darts down, swift as a striking serpent, interposing itself between Sundae and Lor’s lance. Her spell annihilates that head, but in just a matter of seconds, the stump of the neck splits in half like an amoeba replicating, then regenerates, granting the beast two new heads in place of the one it lost. At this point, Morgan finally arrives with his contingent of town guards, whom he orders to pretend to assist the “false” Sundae, but actually surround him and at Morgan’s signal, dive at him and tear off his spooky necklace, which Morgan has told the peppermint people is the source of their foe’s dark powers. When the guards approach Lord Sundae, he attempts to have them help subdue the agents, but they act incompetent while attempting to sidle closer to him. They’re not entirely successful at first, but then Zahak unleashes his full power, transforming himself into a mighty storm giant, not quite as large as the hydra, but towering over everyone else present. This stuns the lord sufficiently that Morgan spots the opportunity and shouts to his men, having them all dive onto Sundae. In but a moment, they’ve torn his necklace to pieces, scattering skull-, ghost- and pumpkin-shaped candies across the ground. No sooner is the necklace destroyed than a ghostly peppermint woman formed from insubstantial, shimmering mist manifests in midair and lunges at the lord, choking him to death with her seemingly solid hands whilst his own limbs phase ineffectually through her body, preventing him from shoving her away. When he finally perishes, whatever magical force held together the mint imperials that made up his form ceases to function, and he reverts to nothing more than a pile of minty sweets in a leafy suit. The agents’ badges start pinging, and the ghost thanks them for their aid, explaining that the necklace they destroyed was a ward against the undead, with which the CEO had kept himself safe from her after she came back to haunt him following her untimely demise due to a severe case of food poisoning. Wolfgang helps Lor pingout, as she’s practically delirious from essence exhaustion, then pings himself out as well, whilst Zahak realises that the Gummy Hydra is not malicious but merely lonely, since so few people can see it—ordinarily only whomever possesses the crown, which wards its wearer against mind magic—so he comforts it and promises to arrange for some acquaintances of his to come by after the mission to recover the creature and deliver it to the Khaganate he owes fealty to, in which there are fey beings immune to mental manipulation who should be able to give it the loving home it longs for. The hydra doesn’t show any sign of understanding his promise, but his tone is friendly, so it nuzzles against him and when Zahak pets it, the creature’s heads jostle against one another, each trying get the most head pats for itself. Zahak then pings out as well, leaving only Morgan, who takes the time to properly thank the guards he recruited, then dispels his disguise an instant before pinging out, leaving them all to stare in stunned silence at the spot he occupied, as they realise with horror that they’ve collaborated in slaying their province’s rightful lord. |
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| Rings Around Dharossi | Jul 19, 2026 | Success | The Agents, Formac the Hotshot, Zahak the Thunderbird, and Clara and Talon, both Freerunners, ported in to the finish line station, situated high above the space in the ring between the tracks (aka the margin). They nominated Formac as their racer for the inner track and Clara as their racer for the outer track. The starting countdown went off, and the racers began moving forwards on their respective tracks, as a trapdoor opened in the floor of the station, sending nearly all the racers to their immediate death, but Zahak was able to fly and carry Talon down to the floor of the margin. On the floor was a massacre, as thousands of sacrificial employees had plummeted to their death. Those who had managed to keep going were being picked off by Qaldi runners, foot soldiers formed out of lightning clouds, carrying lightning swords. One charged Talon, but he managed to take it by surprise, vaulting off of it and continuing ahead. Zahak flew amidst the icy comets, taking out several runners who tried to ambush him. Formac summoned a Tron-esque motorbike, deftly weaving around the other racers and some Qaldi runners by activating a magnetic grip to cling to the side of the wall. This did, however, draw in the electrical energy from a few runners, but Formac activated his emergency brake, stopping his and the bikes' momentum, but sending his assailants flying. Clara made use of some shoddy leftover construction to navigate her way over the crowd in her lane. There was a large group of Qaldi runners, some even on thunder motorcycles, but she managed to deftly knock them down with her shockwaves. A large gathering of runners on an asteroid began moving in quick circles charging up a laser beam to fire at Zahak, but he charged it straight down, burning in the process but smashing the asteroid and the runners as the agents all reached the first checkpoint. Clara was the first to reach it and the first to see this new area, with much more vertical racing lanes the margin filled with asteroids and inhabited by 40-foot tall titanic "Roc Hurlers" They made sport of supercharging the asteroids with lightning before throwing them at unsuspecting runners. One such impact landed behind Talon and the resulting impact sent him flying up into the asteroid field with Zahak. Talon managed to take down a Roc Hurler by stomping it in the noggin and then stomping it in the noggin again but harder. Zahak felled another with a well-placed axe to the eye. Formac made use of the slopes on his track, using the hills to boost him over the valley, dodging rocks from a hurler that appeared above him. Coming up to the top of the last hill, he saw a barricade of Qaldi runners. Straining extra essence and making use of the electric currents refracting around him, he shifted his bike into a Tron tank while still maintaining control, bursting through the barricade. Clara was pursued by three hurlers, flying through the air using wings made up of many Qaldi runners. Clara taunted them to come down and chase her and they took the bait. With her perk she enraged them even more, and they began infighting, attacking whichever of them was lagging behind. Eventually, the three of the hurlers were engaged in a full on Asteroid fight, and Clara managed to slip away to the second checkpoint, just a bit ahead of her teammates. After the second checkpoint, the lanes gave out, as the asteroid field became more dense, streaked by lunar flares originating from Dharossi's surface. As the agents fought the last dregs of the runners and hurlers, Formac reached the end of his tunnel and found he could go no further, and was also beginning to hallucinate that he was in Mario Kart due to essence exhaustion. Nevertheless, he managed to activate the propulsion mechanism on his tank, allowing him to fly forward. Ahead, agents encountered the Momaq Serpent, the foremost of Momaqaldiroq's aspects, wreathed in flame and lighting and over a mile long. An intense battle ensued with the freerunners jumping between the flaming asteroids and the serpent itself, Formaq firing upon "Bowser" with his cannon, and Zahak hitting it with lightning blasts. In the end, a combination of Zahak's "Fury of the Storm Dragon" combo and a... "Spiny Shell meteor missle" from Formac was enough to decapitate the beast, as the agents passed through the third and final checkpoint. The tracks resumed after this, and it was pretty much a straight shot to the end... except for one thing. The agents saw a blistering light appear behind them, followed by a terrible roar, as Momaqaldiroq himself appeared, a draconic lightning phoenix deity more than a dozen miles wide. Clara booked it as fast as she could, crossing the finish line. She didn't look back as she kept running, beginning a second lap. Formac was still lagging behind. As Momaqaldiroq approached, time seemed to slow for him. Nearly out of essence, he was heavily hallucinating, but managed to keep his foot on the gas, pulling of a cool maneuver to regain just enough essence to activate his boost engines, giving him enough momentum to carry him over the finish line. Talon ran ahead of him, barely holding on after burning through all of his energy drinks. Zahak realized that if he didn't do something big, Momaqaldiroq would catch up to Formac. He turned around and revealed his hidden storm giant form, over a mile high and surging with near-godlike power. With determination, he charged Momaqaldiroq head on. Momaqaldiroq opened his mouth and revealed that his power (and hunger) came from the miniature black hole in his maw, bristling with electric energy. The bird god fired an iridescent beam at Zahak, tearing the legs from his body. Still Zahak fought on, charging at Momaqaldiroq with another Fury of the Storm Dragon. This took the god by surprise as he was pinned to the floor of the margin before... it cracked, as the air drained from the tunnel and the pair, still locked in combat spiraled off into space. Zahak managed to keep struggling, landing another mighty blow with his hammer, but as he looked down, he realized something horrible... he'd been stabbed through the heart by Momaqaldiroq's claws. At that moment, Formac crossed the finish line Even in Momaqaldiroq's clutches, Zahak Found the strength to power through the immeasurable pain and ping out. Mission Success |
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| I Met Myself Just Yesterday | Jun 14, 2026 | Success | Agents arrived outside the abandoned estate and encountered Ava, the client, clearly distressed. She told the agents that her friends had recently gone missing, and gave them her phone, which had the suspicious "Two Roads" app installed. As the agents approached the building, they found they all had phones appear in their pockets, with the mysterious app installed, of course. It prompted them to choose between two doors, the "Easy Way" and the "True Way." Agents dawdled for a bit before the app decided to choose for them while playing an unskippable ad. Morgan and Skjaldmaer were assigned to the left path, where they noticed they were being followed by a shadowy figure. They went into a room that had a buzzing noise, and were greeted with illusions, the battle where her mother gave birth for Skjaldmaer and a casino with debt collectors for Morgan. Meanwhile, Zahak and Magpie went in the other door and were also followed. They took a more head-on approach, attacking and defeating the shady spirit. Upon doing so, Morgan and Skjaldmaer's illusions faded, and the agents coalesced in the room beyond. There they encountered facsimiles of themselves who claimed to be the "real" agents, calling the PCs "NPCs." They moved in to attack but were dealt with handily, with all slain save for the false Magpie who the agents allowed to escape further into the compound. Beyond that, the agents found two mysterious beings, one a child and the other slightly larger, both offering their hands. The agents split in a similar fashion to before and went into their respective illusions. Zahak encountered a false storm god and Magpie a scarecrow that she'd had trouble with previously. Morgan and Skjaldmaer were together in the casino and Morgan distracted the debt collectors while Skjaldmaer engaged in combat with the warriors from her battlefield. In the end, all agents made it through. (At some time around this point, Zahak located one of the hostages, mostly unconscious.) In the final room, the agents stepped out into a grand arena, with more mysterious shadowy beings in the audience. Magpie put on a big distraction while Morgan attempted unsuccessfully to blend into the crowd, instead slamming into an invisible barrier. Skjaldmaer found some computers and employed her "computer hacking" skills, specifically the variety involving a very large axe. She then uncovered a core behind them including tech and a massive heart. Spurred on by fellow agents, she threw her spear and destroyed the foul construction. Immediately the reality around the agents came crashing down. Zahak had the hostage in tow, Morgan tried a slapdash plan to make phones that would protect them, and Magpie used her map to find the way out. They only barely made it before the whole thing went kablooie and all that was left was a perfectly normal abandoned compound. The hostage awoke and reunited with Ava, along with two other mysterious figures that emerged from the building. Morgan, suspicious, investigated these new beings and found them to be inhuman and operating on some sort of code. It was too late however, and Ava drove off with her friend and her two "friends" Mission Success? |