“Listen up ladies! Your mommas ain’t here to wipe your noses. This is war!” Sgt. Ardale paced before your group of young battle mages, giving what he thought was a pep talk. “Now! Your job is to back up the infantry with cover spells. If I see so much as a sparkler out of you lot I’ll break your hands and ship you home.”

You take a deep breath and run through the spells you have prepared. In training you did better than anyone at shields and damage reduction, so you felt pretty confident that you’d do well today.

“Do your part to keep Pinnacle Tower from falling into the hands of the Dukesmen, and the first round tonight will be on me!” Sgt. Ardale finished, grinning as you cheered with everyone else. “Go on, get to your groups, trumpets’ll be sounding any minute.”

Running down the cobblestone street toward the 75th you catch a flash of blue out the corner of your eye. Dukemen Blue! What were they doing in the city?

Do you follow orders and get to the 75th? Or find out what the Dukemen were up to?