Battleon meteor relocation

Moving Battleon

The twins appear while the hero is weighing familiar alternatives: serve Alteon and protect the world, or join Gravelyn and seek power. Xing argues for Evil, Xang for Good. Their competing advice leaves the hero ready to act, though the choice itself remains unstated. Then they seek someone else in need of guidance—and find Drakath considering his next Lord of Chaos.

Drakath recognizes an opportunity in the twins’ orderly opposition. He announces that he has made his choice. When he next asks whether Battleon should be flooded or burned, their counsel offers no refuge from destruction. Xing proposes a meteorite. Xang improves on the suggestion by proposing two. The threat to Battleon is set in motion, with a week until impact.

In Warlic’s shop, the defenders struggle to find an answer. A force field would break under the meteorites; blasting them apart could scatter destruction across other towns. Twilly offers a different approach, crediting the hero with the idea: move Battleon itself. Cysero’s proposals grow spectacularly impractical, culminating in a catapult powered by pulling down the moon. The answer the group finally chooses is teleportation.

That answer requires more magic than the assembled defenders possess. The hero promises to gather magic users for the attempt. Mercuria will prepare the levitation spell, Warlic the teleportation spell, and Nythera will find a safe site in Greenguard Forest. Drakath learns of the plan. At the twins’ urging, he accelerates the meteorites, and one changes course. Saving the town now means completing the spell while the danger closes in faster than before.

Flux is collected, and Battleon rises from the ground. A countdown marks the first teleportation attempt. The town vanishes before a meteor strikes the forest beneath it. Inside Warlic’s shop, the celebration begins: thousands of mages have joined their strength, and everyone believes the town is safely in Greenguard. Then comes a tremor. Cysero reports that a meteorite has hit the enormous pillow he prepared at the intended landing site. If that site was struck, the others realize, they must be somewhere else.

Battleon has landed on a mountain near Shadowfall, balanced so precariously that Warlic fears even a loud noise or a dropped fork could bring it down. Cysero has enough flux for one more move. Continuing to farm the elementals would throw the town’s energy permanently out of phase, he warns; a third attempt could be fatal. There is a chance to correct the first landing, but no safe prospect of repeating the process indefinitely.

The next spell must be cast while the town is kept in balance. If it tips, the casters must run to the pads on the opposite side. Cysero has also placed teleport pads below the mountain for anyone who survives a fall, though Shadowscythe forces and undead may stand between a fallen hero and a way back up. The rescue now depends on holding together a town that could topple before its inhabitants finish moving it.

The danger becomes immediate. Battleon slides toward Shadowfall as Gravelyn looks out from her fortress. Before the town reaches her, it teleports away. This time it arrives in Greenguard Forest. Warlic’s later account records the journey as a success and thanks the heroes who helped move their home. Battleon has escaped the meteorites, but only through a rescue that needed a second rescue of its own.