Original Mythsong and Lorestockapalooza

Mythsong and the Road to Lorestockapalooza

Mythsong City has grown around a valley whose acoustics make music part of everyday life. Its colored Singing Crystals each sound a note, while musicians from across Lore gather for the week-long Lorestockapalooza festival. Dorian Mode welcomes the hero and points toward the first interruption to those preparations: Mozzy Mogbourne has lost control of the Lead Zeppelin that brings the bands to Haven.

Jake and Elwood Bruise have seized the vessel, and monsters have made the Stairway to Haven unsafe. The hero clears Grateful Undead and Rock Lobsters, recovers the mossy stones that hold the stairway together, and retrieves matches for Mozzy's guide fire. Defeating both Bruise Brothers returns the Zeppelin to its captain. Mozzy remains puzzled: the brothers have their own band and ordinarily take part in the festival they have disrupted.

The Great Godfather of Soul presents another apparent threat to fair competition. He claims that Lord Ovthedance has beaten him in the annual dance-off by wearing enchanted shoes. The hero fights through the Beehive's Stingers, obtains Royal Honey from the Killer Queen Bee, and uses the promised delivery to reach Ovthedance. Only after defeating him does the hero discover that the shoes are ordinary. The accusation was a trick to remove the Godfather's rival.

Ovthedance is now too battered to enter the contest himself, but offers to teach the hero. A training mat replaces the grand training montage the hero had hoped for. Taking the lesson into the dance-off, the hero defeats the Great Godfather of Soul. The former champion responds with a threat: one day, with Discordia's help, he will recover what he has lost.

At Orkestra, Don Giovanni offers information about the supposed Chaos Lord in exchange for rescue from his own bargain. Faust promised him wealth, romance and pleasure for the rest of his life, followed by the underworld. Don accepted without seeing the invisible fine print that limited that remaining life to one week. With the deadline approaching, the hero gathers Fire Fleas, cannon powder and the Mozards' supposedly lucky claws, then defeats Faust to recover the contract. Don burns it and promises to change his ways.

Don's account casts Discordia as a gifted musician who sought a song capable of winning every heart. He says Drakath offered a shortcut, turning that ambition into music that controls its listeners. Don has heard that the control can be broken, but cannot say how. The hero takes this warning toward Lorestockapalooza, where a performer with such power could reach an enormous audience.

Discordia openly commands an army of Music Pirates. Mozzy reports that the musician's devoted fans were the first to change, and fears that awakening a Chaos Beast will spread the corruption far beyond Mythsong. The pirates threaten both the music and the musicians traveling to the festival. The hero joins the struggle, even turning a guitar against one of the attackers.

The route to the concert becomes a battle through the Lead Zeppelin. The hero clears the pirates from its successive sections and confronts Captain Livefire before moving on to Lorestockapalooza. What began as the work of getting bands to a festival has become an attempt to stop the festival itself from carrying Chaos across Lore.

Kimberly and the Flying Concert

At Lorestockapalooza, the hero fights through the creatures blocking the stages and defeats Discordia. Kimberly of One-Eyed Doll stands beside the hero as the apparent Chaos Lord is confronted. The hero believes they have stopped him before he could summon his Chaos Beast. Discordia, however, seems bewildered. He remembers working on a composition, hearing extraordinary music and losing control of his will.

His accusation first appears to point at the hero. When hero and musician change places, the intended target becomes clear: Kimberly. She admits that she is the real Chaos Lord. Discordia has been acting under her musical influence, while the hero has pursued him as the source of the threat. Kimberly's band begins to play as she turns her attention toward the hero.

She introduces a little plastic dinosaur with the improbable name Pony Gary Yellow. The hero doubts that even a Chaos Lord would carry such a thing, only for the joke to be answered by an image of someone doing exactly that. Kimberly uses her guitar to open a time portal and sends the hero into the encounter with her dinosaur. The hero defeats Pony Gary Yellow, the Chaos Beast, but the concert is still far from over.

The stage rises into the sky with One-Eyed Doll still performing. The hero catches the rising structure and continues the confrontation above the crowd. Junior, the drummer, and Mr. Socks, the bassist, each stand between the hero and Kimberly. Their defeats lead into the final fight with the real Chaos Lord.

After the hero defeats her, Kimberly says the battle has cleared the Chaos tune Drakath planted in her head. She will no longer act for him, though she has not abandoned her own chaotic character or every ambition of her own. For now, she would rather make music. The hero accepts the end of Drakath's control without treating it as a promise that Kimberly has become entirely harmless.

Kimberly still has a show to finish and insists that the hero stay on stage. The band resumes playing, the winged stage takes flight, and fireworks shine above the audience. The threat that drew the hero through Mythsong ends with a place in the concert rather than another performer silenced.