Hi everyone and welcome to my blog. The final chapter of
Iris, Sora, and Parrot is here! This is the final Part to their story that I journaled
using Ironsworn: Starforged’s rules. I hope you have enjoyed their adventures
and that it has inspired you to journal your own games! To start the adventure at the beginning, click here to find Part I.
Colossus Part VI
Iris, Sora, and Parrot reach the facility in a few hours and
hide behind some cover and wait for signals from the other Scouts. All is
quiet. They suddenly hear bird calls nearby. Other Scouts have arrived and
found cover. There are three guards blocking each of the four entries into the
facility. Each entry has a team of Scouts ready to throw a smoke grenade at the
guards.
Iris sounds the signal to attack, and they all throw their
smoke grenades. Parrot, Iris, and Sora take down the three guards in front of
the east entry and go inside. They enter a chapel with no less than a dozen
surprised Blessed Martyrs sitting in pews. Iris throws a smoke grenade and the
room explodes in fog. Using hand-to-hand combat, Iris and Parrot fight off the
cultists. The cultists charge at them recklessly, without fear.
Iris can’t see very well and is tackled by a cultist over a
pew. More cultists seem to fill up the room, though Iris can’t tell where they
are coming from through the smoke. Parrot pulls out his handgun and starts
shooting, and Sora tackles the cultist on top of Iris. Pretty soon the room is
full of over a dozen dead cultists. Parrot helps Iris to her feet. They can
hear the other Scouts fighting cultists in the distance. They move on.
They find the labs and dozens of animals in small cages,
most in various states of mutation or death. Parrot suggests they kill them out
of mercy. Regretfully, he and Iris do. They find some research papers and stuff
them in their satchels for Lotus. They can hear gunfire and yelling from other
parts of the facility. It sounds like the Scouts are winning.
As they enter the living quarters, a sudden gunshot rings
their ears and Sora falls over, blood pouring from his shoulder. Iris screams
and fires her bow in the direction the gunshot came from.
Crowley appears cloaked in smoke rising from the barrel of
his gun. Iris’s arrow hits his leg but he pulls it out easily and breaks it in
half with his hand.
“Aww,” he says. “Did I kill your cat?”
Iris screams in rage again and fires another arrow. This one
hits him in his missing eye. He grunts as he pulls the bloody arrow out. Parrot
fires his gun and Iris fires her bow. They both hit him, but he seems
unbothered. He fires his gun at them, forcing them to separate and duck behind
fallen tables.
Iris draws her knife, her hands shaking with fury. Crowley
tries to fire again but his gun jams. Iris runs up to him with her knife and
stabs him in the chest over and over. Blood seeps from his stab wounds, but
he’s still fighting.
Parrot joins the fray and stabs Crowley with his dagger.
Crowley is unbothered and tells Iris the reason he didn’t try to kill Iris when
he killed Sparrow was because she wasn’t worth it. He shoves the Scouts off of
him with amazing strength. Iris finds her feet before Parrot does an stabs
Crowley so deep that when she goes to pull the knife out the blade breaks off
from the hilt. Parrot, injured, tosses Iris his dagger. She catches it.
Crowley hits Iris in the face, shattering her cheekbone. She
tastes blood. But she leaps onto the front of Crowley, tackling him, just as
she’s seen Sora do to countless enemies before. She raises the dagger high
above her head and plunges it into Crowley’s good eye, piercing his brain and
killing him.
She checks on Sora, but Sora has died. She cradles the big
cat in her arms and mourns as Parrot holds her from behind. She cries and
screams until the signal comes from the other Scouts that it’s time to blow up
the facility. Parrot helps Iris to her feet and she says goodbye to Sora.
They leave the facility and meet up with the other Scouts on
a ridge overlooking the facility. The facility explodes while the Scouts watch
from a safe distance. The Blessed Martyrs and Crowley are no more. The Scouts
all go their separate ways, as is their nature. Iris and Parrot return to Quiet
City and take an airship to Crystal Heights and Lotus Headquarters so they can
deliver the research papers they found in the facility and report the mission
as completed.
Afterwards, Iris and Parrot spend time together in Parrot’s
apartment. Parrot tells Iris he loves her and she tells him it back. They share
a passionate night together. In the morning they visit the Scout cemetery and
Iris solemnly lays the hilt of the knife Sparrow gave her on his grave.
Memories of Sparrow and Sora flood her mind. Parrot holds her hand. Iris vows
to let go of the past and look forward to her future. Parrot and Iris leave to
go on their next mission.
The End.
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