Year of the RPG: Chrono’s Big Adventure, Pt 1

It’s me, Chrono. Do you remember how you said that if I ever needed some advice, I could come to you? Well, I’m in a bit of a bind. And by bind, I mean prison. I’m in a bit of a prison. I know, I KNOW. But listen, in my defense, I’ve had a hard go of it recently. I met the love of my life, played some carnival games with her, and then her great, great grandmother got kidnapped and my new girlfriend popped out of existence. Ugh, I feel like I’m rambling. Let me start over.

Ok, so I was having this great day with this really cool girl I met at the Millennial Fair. Her name is Marle. Athena, seriously… girl of my dreams type situation. The thing is, she had this pendant thing and when we were playing with this teleportation device (wait, it gets weirder), something happened and she got sent back in time and the people thought Marle was her ancestor Leene. Turns out Leene was the one who was kidnapped.

Don’t panic, we found the missing old lady and brought her back. Fat lot of good it did me. When I got back to my normal time, THEY ARRESTED ME. They were going to KILL me Athena. Like, dead. Done-so. Thank goodness Marle and Lucca got me out. Yea, no… different time I was in jail there. That was like.. an in-out kinda thing….

Moving right along.

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So we took this time portal to the FUTURE! Should be really cool, except everything is completely destroyed. It turns out that there was this Lavos thing that straight up destroyed the world. So of course we decide that we need to save the world. We can’t let everything we know die, right? So we teamed up with this robot and a super old magical guy, and somehow he makes it possible for us to travel through light beams, and wiggity wackity, we’re back on track-ity.

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Listen, I don’t want to bore you with the details, but we have a sword wielding frog and a chief of the loka tribe with us, and we’ve made some mistakes, and fought some Reptites, OH, and found out that Lavos is really an alien. *Mind-blown* So anyway, we’re in 12,000 BC and we find this Queen Zeal who is obsessed with becoming immortal. She thinks she figured out a way to do it too! She is going to use this machine to drain power from Lavos and take it for herself. She has to be stopped Athena, and more importantly – we need to get out of here!

So you’re all caught up with me now. I sure could use any wise words you have for me. Or a lock pick would work too. Please Athena, what do we do?

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Your friend (who really wishes you were here),

Chrono

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P.S. I have no idea how to get this to you… maybe that old wizard guy and his light beams can help…

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Athena put the letter down. Her friend had certainly landed himself in quite the adventure! She needed to write back to him, and so she picked up a quill, dipped it in ink thoughtfully, and paused, tip hovering over the paper.

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“Dear Chrono…”

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~ BadgersAndBowties 

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