Kagero begins training under Chizuru, learning techniques to fight the Orochi threat, Daniel trains his abilities to kill Ravenna while his heart turns ever blacker, and a new pastry sweeps the west coast with its tasty sensation (not to mention addiction).
The characters foil the Shadoloo plot of General Maxim and Dr. Hans Daunpans to spread the taste of the mad doctor's Krunchy Buns across the world.
Las Vegas
(Alt Storyteller)A massive tournament in Las Vegas turns into trouble for our heroes. The secret of Yummy Cakes is revealed, Chun Li is saved, a really really mean guy (Mean Mark) turns out to work for Interpol, two of our heroes are kidnapped (Alexi and Sarah), and Chun Li's fight vs Balrog is rigged. Alexi and Sarah later reappear (masked as mystery figures) in a tourney fight against Bara and Kagero. Alexi suffers an accidental blow to the brain which will kill him. A man by the name of Chapel smiles in the crowd. This man, who the characters later realize to be a vampire, is responsible for the brainwashing of Alexi and Sarah.
Alexi's life is saved in the nick of time by the recovery of Sarah and her Chi Kung Healing, no thanks to the Ler Dritt Spanish Ninja, Rachel GuyCarlo. Overall, the characters get to add plenty of experience with Shadoloo, Vampires, Hoover Dam, and hurt, pain, and suffering.
From Canada to Venice
The characters head to Canada to foil General Maxim's scheme to steal Chi from innocent people. While inside his temporary base, the characters meet Vance, a Shadoloo middle-management agent who knows "that the pen is mightier than the sword" and Teleport. From his computer, the characters find that a sniper is to assassinate an important lady at the KOF tournament in Venice. To make a long story short, the characters foil the sniper, save the lady undercover Interpol agent, and see Roy O'Bannon get into an extended brawl with Vance across and into the canals of Venice.
Cairo
(Alt Storyteller) Roy drags the party on a mission to recover some sort of thing. In New York, a werewolf private eye heals Barahime of a gunshot wound. She makes a point to repay the mafia for their lead gift. A match is held in Cairo for the rights to the item. Barahime unleashes her Burning Wheel on Mean Mark. Roy and Dan battle "powerful kick lady" Rachel GuyCarlo and a man who delusionaly talks to a mannequin head, Al. Kagero reveals that the Head is possessed.
Chi Lin Appears
Also in Canada, Daniel and Roy infiltrate an inner city gang tournament
(fighting to be Shadoloo's #1 in the city since Shadoloo is taking over).
They come across Chi Lin, a Chinese man devoted to killing those responsible
for the murder of his family by one of the Triads - specifically, the Triad
leader called Yang Shi. Chi Lin is in town hunting down Max Pain, leader
of the Lords of Pain gang, member of the Syndicate, and one time associate
of Yang Shi. Daniel (still with a broken arm), Roy, and Kagero defeat the
Lords of Pain with the help of Chi Lin who fights with a Desert Eagle and
a deadly bokken (wooden sword).
The Amazon
Enroute to a KOF tournament in Brazil, the Hino private jet carrying
the party crashes in the Amazon due to a bomb planted by one of their many
enemies. Fortunately, the Ikari Team is there on a mission and help pull
the survivors from the wreck (although Barahime is unconscious). The party
learns the history between Rugal and Heidern, Daniel is healed, and Leona
fixes Dan's phone lifted from Rugal. Also, one tribe runs the party out of their village perhaps for something to do with Leona. After assisting the Ikari Team in
their mission, the players proceed with the Ikaris to the pick-up point
from their mission and are air lifted from the Amazon.
Vina's Tragedy
To the KOF tournament in Taiwan. Vina masquerades as one of Iori's teammates
to gather information on fighters. The rescues a pretty lady by the name
of Ling Xao, member of the Thrashing Dragons. They are treated to dinner
and run into Chi Lin. The party joins him in his hunt for Lung Tsao, enforcer
of Yang Shi and member of the Devil-Tigers Triad- those who attacked Ling
Xao. Vina is delivering weapons on the docks to Lung Tsao as part of the
inter-Syndicate trade. Alexi, Kagero, Daniel, Roy, and Chi Lin attack.
Lung Tsao mysteriously disappears and the party faces his two personal
guards. Meanwhile, Kagero and Daniel face Vina who eventually tries to
escape without success. In the aftermath, Vina slowly gets to her feet
and sickly mutters, "She gave me some of her power. I can use it. Let me
show you!" while gagging and coughing blood. Screaming, a geyser of blood
erupts from her head, and she dies. The Orochi presence was massively overwhelming.
Conquering Miami
After a Street Fighter tournament in Miami, the party finds that Daniel
actually tracked Rugal to a fine restraurant from the tournament and "had
dinner with him." Gloria, the cousin of the late Alandra, telepathically
urges Daniel to run. Rugal is no longer there when the party is assembled.
The party gets Guile's help although when he arrives there is nothing to
show him. Gloria introduces the characters to a mostly-Cuban resistance
group formed with the help of the Miami mafia tofight against Shadoloo.
Shadoloo was pushed out and now the Mafia wants to eliminate the Cuban
group (led by El Guapo) who are stepping on the toes of the mafia (bring
in illegal aliens without putting them into slavery). In any case, one
of Rugal's secretaries, Vice, is helping the Mafia eliminate the Cuban
group. The party defeats Vice and her group of killers and manages to turn
the Mafias on themselves. Later, Guile shuts down a Syndicate base of operation
on the outskirts of Miami.
Dismantling the Ministry of Pain
(Alternate Storyteller) In Fort Lauderdale, the party is drawn into a trap
laid by Rebecca Maxwell, a vampire who controls shadows and manages the
team called the Ministry of Pain. Barahime comes to really dislike Rebecca,
and looks forward to hitting the vampire with her flaming attacks. Also
some leads are found about the mystery of the disappearance of Roy's girlfriend,
Frostbite who is possibly being forced to work for Shadoloo.
Roy spots Mature with his commander who is later found dead. He had
recently been briefed by that same General about Rugal's secretaries and
shown many pictures of Ravenna, who apparently is linked to most major
catastrophes around the world (where those incidents were caused by militants).
Unfortunately, the General had no pictures of any other secretaries otherwise
he wouldn't have gone a date with Mature who killed him.
Guile accepts an invitation to fight Rugal aboard Black Noah. The US military sends along a SEAL team to infiltrate and destroy the stolen Aquarius carrier.
Castle Lockenhaus
The party travels to Burgenland, Austria for a Street Fighter tournament
at Castle Lockenhaus. It turns out that possibly both Mature and Rick were
spotted in town. Night before the tournament, Sarah vanishes. The morning
of the tournament, Kagero, Daniel, and Roy are captured when the snoop
around the castle and find it is a base for The Hammer Empire, a sort of
Neo Nazi secret army. After locating the underground base holding several
dozen military vehicles, they are captured by automated giant suits of
Knights Templar armor (and some guards with guns).
After the tournament, Alexi and Barahime are invited to a special tournament
held for the Lords of Castle. And so, General Maxim of the Hammer Empire
(ally of Shadoloo), forces the party to fight against fighters of his choosing
in a plan to break the PCs bodies, spirits, and then minds. Balrog is there
with his protege and Rick watches on a viewscreen. However, the party does
much better than Maxim had hoped for, despite leveling threats at their
families and offering bribes. Roy defeats Edge. Kagero beats some mysterious
ninja spirit. Alexi crushes Maxim's personal Spanish Ninja, Sonya D'Abo.
Barahime is KO'd by Balrog after she pummels his protege (despite being
fireballed by Maxim during the match). Daniel blows away an agent named Adam with one shot
of his Repeating Soul Spark. At the end, Maxim personally KO's Daniel after
the fight, disgusted by the incompetence of the fighters under his command.
Fortunately then, Mature and the Syndicate surprise attack Castle Lockenhaus,
allowing the PCs to escape. They are worried by Sarah's re-occuring display
of odd powers performed without her knowledge (freeing herself of ropes
and setting the guard next to her on fire).
Roy is called to Tokyo to meet with his employers at Sega (he designs
videogames when not working for the Army), and all the rest of the players
journey to Tokyo for their own reasons although Barahime is in business
meetings after just shutting down a business rival of Hino Heavy Industries.
The rival had actually been a front for Rugal's Syndicate and after being
identified was hunted down by the USA.
The Deadly Tokyo Night
Daniel and Gloria are investigating reports of Ravenna in Tokyo. Possible
vengeance for Daniel's friend and Gloria's cousin could be close. However
once they actually arrive in Tokyo, there is no actual sign of her, except
for some sightings by people who Kagero senses are lying. That night, every
party member is attacked by ninjas of the supposedly mythological Yomi
no Shinobi. Sarah is saved from a ninja driven car by a mysterious figure
leaping into front of her crushing the front of the car into the street
and filliing it with a massive energy blast. The giant figure, draped in
rags, spoke to Sarah "Be careful, Master," before leaping into the crowd
and vanishing. The figure appeared burnt. The dread conclusion was that
Saki, is back. Also, Kagero catches a glimpse of a figure who could be
Ravenna in the distance during one of the attacks.
The next evening, the entire party attacks the secret temple base of
the Yomi no Shinobi, a Shinto Temple hidden from this world, parallel to
the actual temple hailing back to Edo - built under the orders of the despotic
shogun, Nobunga Oda.
The night has just begun . . . The Yomi World
Hands from the Yomi world reach up through the mud to drag the party to their hell.
Gloria pulls everyone to safety, almost. Roy is dragged into hell where the Shikomei tempt him.
Before he falls unconscious, the ninja leader grabs Gloria's arm, and he says, "She'll be waiting for you." Ravenna is perched atop the temple watching, when another menacing presence makes her flee. The other presence fades into the shadowy greenery.
Dan and Gloria go to the place to meet Ravenna's challenge along with a wounded Alexi and Kagero. A horde of Yomi no Shinobi hide at the top of an abandoned building. Dan and Ravenna enter the circle of sacred combat, a fair fight ensured by the legion of ninjas - enough to hack the party to pieces - hiding in the shadows with their glimmering blades. Rugal Bernstein hijacks the airwaves, telling how the USA has committed treachery against him. He exacts vengeance upon them by using their own Treaty-breaking warship upon them. He launches an ICBM at Salt Lake City. Rugal thought a large pane of glass would be amusing.
Upon the party's return, Chizuru has an idea on how to save Roy. They hurriedly convene at her temple in Kyoto where the spirits of the party enter the Land of the Dead and retrieve Roy, cutting a deal with a Yama Queen, the Iron Empress, to send her a specific man within one year (or ten other suitable souls). The man is Yang Shi, the evil Triad leader whom Chi Lin hunts.
Black Noah
The party then questions Barahime's staff at the hospital. Shortly thereafter, the party receives personal invites to Black Noah for a martial match and chance to reclaim their comrade. Although not invited and the invite says no uninvited guests, Sarah convinces the party to let her come along.
The party arrives on Black Noah to be greeted by Mature and numerous soldiers. They aim rifles at Sarah, thinking to eliminate the uninvited guest, but Mature waves down their guns. She bids the party to journey below to the room where Rugal awaits them.
Rugal waits for the in the master control room. He bids Vice to bring out a figure draped in a cloak. He then returns Barahime who sheds the cloak. The mindcontrolled industrial princess attacks the party with her full fury. After the characters take her down with no small effort, Rugal fights them. The party finally beats Rugal and his panther in a grueling battle. A disturbing energy then radiates from the monstrous Rugal.
Orochi-blood awakened Omega Rugal rises and trounces the party, but a mysterius figure appears, M. Bison!. Omega Rugal smacks Bison around after being smacked around himself. A horrible power awakens in Sarah, and she fires a blast at Bison that inserts him into the wall. Being in between the two, Alexi ducks in fear of his life.
The Ikari mercenary team brings the Black Noah back to the surface, having attached their
craft to the bottom of the party's boat without the party's knowledge. Read: Stealth Transformable Submersible Aircraft Carrier with caterpillar drive and nuclear strike capability. After finding the museum of Rugal's brozned defeated opponents, the party leaves the ship with a Guile statue. They leave without a berserker Barahime who is sucked out of the ship through torpedo holes made by an unseen attacker.
That night on the news, it is reported that Mri Ganka was bombed, and
that US fighter planes shot down three unidentified aircraft in the area.
Mri Ganka declined humantarian aid. Roy surmises it was probably Rugal's
forces attacking from Black Noah, his stolen stealth aircraft carrier which
Roys fears is actually much more than merely that.
Chizuru hops on a flight to Tokyo when she hears the Yomi no Shinobi
mentioned, but she is ambushed and crushed into a mangled mess (-9 agg
damage) one floor down from the party camped out in Kagero's apartment.
The culprit, a horrifyingly strong figure dressed in rags who growled in
a female voice. Sarah uses her power to heal Chizuru.
Alexi plans the capture some ninjas, but the party finds they are apparently
capable of willing themselves to die when one does so under the telepathic
probe of Daniel. The party tosses the rest of the proud unconscious ninjas
into a dumpster.
Upon returning to Kagero's apartment, they find that a group of ninjas
were killed in the lobby in the style of the rag-dressed figure (smashed
into walls and other objects).
The fight ends with one character, Gloria, left standing with one health level.
The fight is quick and deadly, taking mere moments. Ravenna's charred body is launched from a top floor window into the wall of an adjacent building where it falls to the ground, collapsing in the sewer below. The party gives up looking for a body.
Also, Barahime Hino is kidnapped, her car destroyed and staff injured.
Mature and Vice leave the ship, bidding Rugal "and this part-time job" farewell.
Omega Rugal exceeds his body's capacity to withstand his power, and he explodes, showering himself over the room. Roy disarms the machine set to nuke the world.
Recoveing the Hellcat
Through their relentless efforts, the party finds Barahime two weeks later in Thailand, fighting as a slave in underground kickboxing matches. She has become a vicious fighter, like a caged animal they release to the gladitorial pits. Kagero manages to release her and lead her to the midst of the party where she uses all of her strength to resist attack for a few brief moments during which Alexi restrains her, Daniel heals her mind, and all is well. Plus, the party managed not to catch the ire of Sagat who was nearby.