Age of Destruction: Fire Emblem CYOA

"Nevyn!  Go help them!" Rand calls over.

"Understood!"  Nevyn takes off towards Alice's group.  He stops as he passes Mina and tries to bite into the cavalier trying to attack her from behind.  He chomps into the cavalier's armor.  It doesn't seem to do much more than inconvenience him - but that's enough to draw his attention away from Mina.The cavalier tries to stab him, instead, grazing his shoulder.  Mina takes the chance to run past the thief, trying to get to Rand.  She stabs him as she passes, dealing some serious damage.  The thief tries to stab her, but it glances off her armor.

Eun'ji, Quinn, and Rand all gang up on one of the Risen pirates and bring him down.  Kurt quietly slips past the enemy lines and stabs one of the mages in the back several times.  Hyun'ji slices through a pirate.  Fei attacks one of the Revenants while Judoc holds the mercenary at bay.  She misses, and receives a slash to her stomach in return.  On her next attack, she feels a subtle urge to impress... someone...? and brutally hacks into the monster.

Across the town, Alice directs her group to fall back.  She clumsily hurls a gust of wind at the nearest cavalier and starts staggering back.  One of the cavaliers starts to bear down on her, but Sorina leaps in the way and bashes him with her shield.  The cavalier staggers back, stunned.  Suarrure, and Allune all swarm the cavalier as he tries to regain his balance.  Surprisingly, he's able to fend them both off, even deflecting a hatchet from Rhett as the other cavaliers move to help defend him.  Carin heals Alice, and her bleeding slows to a stop.  Sylvia tosses a fireball at another cavalier.  It has unimpressive results.

Two of the cavaliers target Sorina, forcing her back from following up on their ally but barely denting her armor.  A nomad launches an arrow at Sylvia, but her armor absorbs the blow.  The two troubadors advance, healing the injured nomad and the stunned cavalier.  Allune takes a small cut to her leg.

The Risen swarm at Rand's group.  Rand fends off the fighter, then bashes it with his axe to finish it.  Fei presses up against the revenant as it attacks tries to slash her, robbing the blow of its power and dragging her axe blade against it.  The mercenary looks at Judoc, swings his sword in a taunting manner, and tosses it into the air.  Judoc braces for the mercenary to strike down, but he leaps past Judoc and drops down on Fei's back, instead.

Critical hit!

Fei chokes out a pained yelp and drops to one knee, then lets out an enraged yell and blindly swings her axe as she whips around.  The mercenary easily drops back out of her range.

"Fei!" Judoc calls out in a panicked voice.

Fei coughs and forces a pained smile.  "I'm not... done yet.  Let's take him down so you can patch me up again...  And you owe me a nap."

"I don't even know what that means," Judoc says.  "I think the blood loss is getting to you."  Hyun'ji calls out, and Judoc turns to parry the myrmidon baring down on him.

"Yeah...  Probably..." Fei admits quietly, bracing herself to fight the mercenary.

Eun'ji takes aim at the Risen fighter.  "Go in peace," she whispers as she twirls an arrow and nocks it.  She draws the string back, pauses to adjust her aim, then fires an arrow that passes inches from Quinn's back to imbed itself in the fighter's head.  Quinn isn't phased by the arrow shooting by, leaping at the mage.  The mage desperately tries casting a spell, singing Quinn's fur before the laguz destroys him.  Hyun'ji slashes through the myrmidon's back, leaving Judoc free to help Fei.

Judoc tries to stab the mercenary in the back.  The mercenary manages to avoid the worst of the stab, but continues to focus on Fei.  Fei takes a defensive stance, letting the mercenary make the first move.  The mercenary lunges in and stabs at her.  She deflects the blow and swings back, both blows failing to connect.  The two fighters drop back a bit.

The thief tries to stop Mina from escaping.  She deflects his knife with her lance, then twirls it around and stabs it through his chest.  The thief begins to dissolve, freeing her weapon.  Nevyn and the cavalier continue to fight, stopping him from pushing through to Alice's retreating group.

Suarrure continues to trade blows with the cavaliers.  Suarrure injures one of the cavaliers and a now-recovered Alice focuses on him.  She flings a gust of wind that knocks him off his mount.  He doesn't get up immediately, so Alice turns her attention elsewhere.

Allune lets out a shriek.  "How dare you!" she demands of the cavalier that injured her.  She dives towards him, then pulls up at the last second and loops around, plowing through him.  The cavalier falls from his horse, apparently dead.

Rhett throws a hatchet at a cavalier.  He deflects it with his shield, and levels his sword at Rhett.  "Uh-oh," he says.

"Rhett...!  Stay behind me!" Sorina commands, forcing herself between them.  The cavalier starts advancing, but Sorina brings around the flat of her lance around and bashes him in the head.  The cavalier loses control of his mount and it veers off-course.  Sylvia slashes at the cavalier, then turns in time to see a nomad aiming an arrow at her.  She pulls out her fire time just in time to answer the arrow, injuring the nomad as she takes a small injury herself.  One of the cavaliers takes advantage of the confusion to charge at Sylvia. He slashes her arm and moves past before she can deal any serious damage.

Carin guides her horse behind Allune.  "Be calm, Allune..." she says, waving her staff across her wounds.

"You're... right.  Thanks," Allune says.

"Come, now.  We need to help Sylvia," Carin urges.

The enemy troubadors move up and heal one of the nomads and the stunned cavalier.

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Rand: 13/14
Quinn: 8/12
Fei: 4/16
Judoc: 10/14
Mina: 12/14
Nevyn: 13/15, Transformation 25%
Sylvia: 7/13

Alice can now promote!

(A) Mage
(B) Dark Mage
(C) Nun (female Monk)

Rand's Group:
(H) Finish off the last enemies, then move to help Alice
(I) Leave a small group to finish the last mercenary (choose who)
(J) Have a beach party, Alice's group is fine
(K) Leave the wounded members to heal at the forts, then help Alice

Alice's Group:
(P) Continue retreating
(Q) Turn and attack the enemies
(R) Try to force past and attack the troubadors
(S) Try to force past and retreat towards Rand's group

K and P then afterwards Smexy beach party

Oh and class ehh I guess Dark Mage

Judoc lunges forward and quickly stabs the Risen mercenary in the back before it can swing at Fei again.  "Ha...  Thanks," she pants.

"Go patch up, you two!" Rand orders, pointing at the forts.  "Everyone else, with me!"  He kicks Hector into the air and begins charging towards the cavaliers.  He slows enough to swing at the cavalier that's separated from the rest, dealing a glancing blow.  The cavalier turns to stab at Rand, but Hector's quickly continues out of his range.  While the cavalier's turned, an arrow thuds into his back.  Mina tries to stab at the cavalier, only to be turned away as the cavalier whirls around and slashes his own spear across her breastplate, leaving a small gash.  Kurt takes the opportunity to throw a knife into the cavalier's flank, easily punching through a softer point.  Kurt winces in pain as the cavalier falls to the ground, dead.

Rand's group continues to charge to aid Alice's group.  However, Alice's group is retreating, drawing the enemies further away.  They form a rank near the edge of the village - Sylvia knows better than to try to flee from the cavaliers across the open plains.  Carin heals Sylvia's wounds as the party braces for the enemy's charge.

Alice feels a strange, burning sensation in her chest.  She can feel magical energies surging through her body.  Instinctively, she reaches for a tome.  She pulls out a Flux tome tucked into her sash and allows the force to engulf her in a surge of blinding light.

As the glow subsides, Alice finds her dress has disappeared, replaced by a new outfit.  A choker adorns her neck, golden as her free-flowing hair, with matching bracelets on her wrists.  A thin gown runs from her wrists to shoulders, its hem dipping low to display the top of her breasts.  The royal blue garment is translucent, creating a striking contrast with the milky-white skin beneath; it hugs her lithe form, accentuating her well-toned muscles.  A white band is bound across her chest, its ribbon serving to simultaneously conceal and draw attention.  Her white sash is wrapped around her waist, a thicker, gold-hemmed, royal blue cloth hanging down its front.  Golden, high-heeled shoes adorn her slender feet, with golden ribbons bound around her ankles to hold them in place.

"This feels...  ama-ack!"  She trips in the unfamiliar shoes and gracelessly falls to the ground.  As she rises to her feet, one of the cavaliers charges her.  Alice goes to the ground again, this time purposefully throwing herself, as the cavalier's sword raking her flank.  Alice desperately rolls to the side, struggling to pull herself up as she recites a passage from the unfamiliar tome and unleashes a ball of black shadows.  It explodes around the cavalier, but a troubadour quickly runs up to heal his wounds.

A nomad takes a shot at Allune.  The arrow bites into her chest and she lets out an angry shriek.  The other nomad takes a shot at Alice as she staggers to her feet.  Alice manages to duck the missile without falling on her back again, and sends another ball of shadow racing along the ground.  She fails to account for how much slower it moves than wind, and the nomad is far out of the way by the time it emerges from the ground.

Sylcia exchanges blows with the other cavalier, but neither's able to find an opening.  The other troubadour heals the cavalier's wounds.

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Alice: 10/13
Nevyn: 12/14
Rand: 12/14
Mina: 8/14
Judoc: 10/14
Fei: 4/16
Quinn: 8/12

Alice's Group:
(A) Continue defending
(B) Try to break through and join Rand's group
(C) Try to break through and attack the rear line

Rand's Group:
(1) Continue moving towards the fight (2 rounds)
(2) Give up

Oh... Hm. She's 4 below max. 10/14?

Alice points to Rand's group. "Break through... Everyone, go!" She hurls a ball of darkness at one of the cavaliers and charges forward. The ball bursts, and Alice takes advantage of the cavalier's dodge to slip past.  Sylvia follows her example, hurling a fireball at the cavaliers. It bursts into a wide firestorm, inflicting enough damage to give the others a chance to slip past. Sorina shoves past, twirling her lance to bash one of the troubadours. Rhett follows through behind her, pausing to finish off the troubadour.

Allune and Suarrure attack one of the nomads. He shuffles between the two of them, barely taking a scratch. Nevyn comes running through the enemies, pouncing on the distracted nomad and throwing him from his mount.  Carin tends to Allune's wounds, and Alice takes cover in the fort as the enemies rally and attack.

A cavalier attacks Rhett.  He shuffles back behind Sorina, then throws a hatchet at the cavalier as he passes.  Another targets Carin.  She screams in panic, flailing back at him with her staff.  She knocks his spear thrust to the side, and a stab that should have pierced her chest instead grazes her underarm.  The nomad takes another shot at Allune; she easily rolls out of the way.

The other nomad takes aim at Alice.  He takes a shot at her, and she ducks down against the wall.  Alice throws a shadow at it, but misses.  A loud crash behind the nomad followed by a wyvern's shriek signals Rand's arrival.  Rand brings his axe down into the nomad's back.  Eun'ji takes a shot at the other troubadour, Kurt throws a dagger into the cavalier's back.  Hyun'ji enters the battle like a whirlwind, lashing out at any enemy he can reach.

After a few moments, the last of the enemies falls.

"Are you OK?" Rand asks no one in particular.

"Yes, nothing we can't treat," Alice answers.  "And yourself... um, milord?"

"Oh...  You... know who I am?  Wait.  I feel like... we've met before, haven't we?" Rand asks.

"I... believe so, milord."

Rand closes his eyes and thinks.  "You're... from the Sefa Forest.  The Guardian's daughter!  It's... Alice?  Is that right?"

"Yes... Prince Rand."

"Haha...  I didn't even recognize you," Rand says.

"Well, we were still children back then..." Alice points out.

"But... what are you doing here?  How did you... know we needed help?" Rand asks.

"The spirits guided me.  I didn't know why, but I suppose I know now."

"Sorina!  Carin!  Thank the gods you made it...!" Kurt cuts in.  "What of the others?"

"Dead.  Or separated from us," Sorina says.  "I'm sorry."

"It's... not your fault," Kurt says.  "If I'd arrived a few minutes earlier, perhaps..."

Sylvia throws an arm over Kurt's shoulder.  "Don't beat yourself up over it, Kurt.  Thanks to you, my brother's alive.  And that's something I'll always be grateful for."

"...Yeah," Kurt says.  "Yeah.  But... what in Naga's name are you doing here, Syl?"

"Yeah, I'm... kind of curious about that, too," Quinn asks.

"We were still in the village when Alice started going on about her spirits.  And, well, you know how it is.  Always listen to Alice when she's going on about her spirits."

"Spirits...?" Rand asks.

"Yes," Alice says.  "The spirits of nature guide me sometimes."

"Spirits of... nature, hm?" Hyun'ji mutters quietly.

Nevyn clears his throat.  "Ahem.  Not to... ruin this happy moment, but we need to ensure these new corpses don't... become Risen.  As much as the thought of desecrating a corpse... disturbs me, we must burn them, or destroy them beyond repair.  Sweep the rest of the houses.  Look for... Search the beach for remnants from the dignitary's ship.  Perhaps we'll even be lucky enough to find some survivors."

"Right..." Rand agrees.  "There'll be more time to talk later.  For now, let's form into groups and get started."

Rand/Mina B
Rand/Nevyn B
Rand/Fei B
Alice/Sylvia B
Mina/Eun'ji C
Mina/Hyun'ji C
Nevyn/Judoc C
Nevyn/Rhett C
Eun'ji/Kurt C
Rhett/Carin C
Suarrure/Sorina C

I support all of the votes this handsome person with great tastes in waifus has made!

What are you talking about, that is clearly an authentic CYOA-Verse disguise user!



But if that were my alt, I would assume that CDM would have the common sense to identify an obvious joke (unlike a certain someone) and not-count-it accordingly.

Rand/Mina B
Rand/Nevyn B
Rand/Fei B
Alice/Sylvia B
Mina/Eun'ji C
Mina/Hyun'ji C
Nevyn/Judoc C
Nevyn/Rhett C
Eun'ji/Kurt C
Rhett/Carin C
Rand/Alice C

Could have sworn that I voted in this must have gotten erased or not saved.