Magical girls are creatures of hope and wonder -- but, in the Summerblossom Empire, most of them wind up working for the Dragon Empress. It's an easy job, for the most part: you fight anything...Magical girls are creatures of hope and wonder -- but, in the Summerblossom Empire, most of them wind up working for the Dragon Empress. It's an easy job, for the most part: you fight anything that needs fighting, use your magic to benefit the citizenry if you can, and the rest of the time you're on your own. Also, the pay is excellent.
You and your team are Empire magical girls. You're assigned to Greengrass Valley, which is ruled by Count Orvien Greengrass. Greengrass is all right, for a noble: he's obsessed with agriculture and farming projects, and otherwise stays out of the way and lets his valley run itself. You've seen him perhaps a dozen times; he usually says something like "thanks for dealing with that goblin problem, good work" and goes back to thinking about his farm projects.
Over the past year you've dealt with goblins, dire hornets, a fox cult, more goblins, disease-ridden ratmen, wolves, a really persistent goblin infestation, and a frost-themed rogue magical girl. (Greengrass also tried to deploy your team to the northeast farm project to battle an infestation of potato beetles, but there was substantial collateral damage and he hasn't tried it again.)
In this quest, you're going to deal with a more substantial problem.MoreLess
The Orb of Storms is an evil artifact, created hundreds of years ago by a very angry druid. The Orb loathes civilization, and it expresses its anger by controlling the weather. It calls downpours...The Orb of Storms is an evil artifact, created hundreds of years ago by a very angry druid. The Orb loathes civilization, and it expresses its anger by controlling the weather. It calls downpours when it is mildly irritated, scaling up to hailstorms and tornadoes when truly enraged.
The Dragon Empress, owner of the Orb, keeps it in a state of mild irritation and uses it for agriculture.
The elves of Cedar Valley have suffered a bad drought this year, and the Empress has dispatched the Orb to bring much-needed rainfall. Everyone was very happy, yesterday evening, when we saw a storm cloud coming up over the mountains and entering the valley. But we woke up this morning and the storm cloud is in the wrong place: it's hovering over the Federation town of Freehaven, across the canyon.
It looks a great deal like the Federation has stolen the Orb of Storms. Your mission is to cross the canyon into Federation territory, figure out what's happened to our artifact, and get it back before the Dragon Empress finds out it was stolen.
This is a job for a group of adventurers. But you're not just adventurers. You're magical girls.MoreLess
