With the EPIC three part Live RP set out of the way, we'll wrap up the mission with the stories for our Mirrorworld side quest, along with a solo Shamus XTreme roleplay.

That's exactly where we start off, too.

There's a continuity note embedded in this, too.

The Jester King of Beasts's voice cackled with evil amusement. "Two down.. one large, stupid Viking to go."

"Indeed," Cattaras responded. "Though I'd rather kill this one outright."

"And waste our mirror?!" The Jester King responded, unamused. "After all, we've already used it to send that contemptuous hero Sebastian Dash and his two furred sidekicks to another dimension, one where they'll find things aren't quite as they should be!"

Cattaras growled at Jester. "You do realize I was standing right here when you did it, moron?" He then looked at Konall again. "It's too risky- From the way this one acts, his counterpart's probably some panzy wimp. We should gut him ourselves. More fun that way."

Catrina growled from the doorway seeing the JKOB and her brother standing over the downed barbarian. "You'll have to go through me to do it, brother- and from what I remember of a certain cave I've got a little advantage on you today!"

Cattaras took the scent of the air and purred. "It seems that everything in our plans are indeed on schedule."

Konall regained a bit of consciousness. He was past the point of pain. His body had given up on telling him he was hurt and pumped enough endorphins into his system that he felt as if he wasn't injured at all. But could he move? He struggled, focused his will on rising up, lifting his shield, pulling out his sword, and moving to attack. Nothing. He focused his will on crawling forward. He managed to lurch forward a few inches.

"And yet it moves," the Jester King said in a dark voice. He turned his mirror towards Konall, and laughed ominously. "Prepare yourself for the other world, my unworthy foe!"

The only way Konall would be able to do anything was to berserk, and so he did. It was a berserk that would have been shamed by a kindergartner's tantrum, but it was enough. He put his energy into his arm, and hurled a hatchet at the mirror. Jester King's eyes went wide as he threw up a weak shield. The hatchet shattered it, but was left with hardly any force as it bounced off the ominous mirror.

The reflection briefly changed to show Sebastian Dash having his head rammed into a wall by what seemed a dark version of himself. Catrina gasped as the dark reflection of Dash raised a ninja blade high above his head, ready to finish Dash off. Something caught his attention. That's the last we saw of this other image before it faded back to a simple reflection of the town.

Catrina roared her true love's name as she dove toward the mirror only to be intercepted by her brother who tackled her to the ground. "First I'm going to beat you until you know your place- and then I'm going to take advantage of the situation- as it were."

Konall struggled, and managed to get into a crouch. He was waking, his body beginning to heed his orders.

"I believe we've other.. plans.. for her," the Jester King warned in a surprisingly serious voice. Which quickly changes to a high pitched, amused whine. "But what the hey, if you think it'll help, fill 'er up!"

"Hey, you, that's my buddies!" A youthful female voice called out, accompanied by a sudden inexplicable ice storm aimed at Cattaras Whiteclaw!

Cattaras hissed as he was hit by the ice storm. The distraction was enough to let Catrina get her feet firmly planted in his gut- kicking him off hard. She then turned and faced the JKOB and his dark mirror. "What have you done to him, you worm?"

"Why, simply sent him to a world where he can face his darker half," the Jester King answered. "And soon, your friends shall join him! OW OW stop doing that, OW!" Jester King turned angrily to see a small attention deficit demon poking him with an annoying pitchfork. Becky Joy watched on, cheering and clapping.

Spaz continued poking the Jester in the face. "And that's what you get for being a clown!"

"You better get him out of there right now or so help me I'll shove your head so far up your ass that it'll come out your mouth!" Catrina roared.

"That doesn't seem physically possible," said Spaz.

"That's what the last guy said as I was killing him," said Catrina, "Though it was kinda hard for him to talk at the time."

Becky walked up, giggling. "Dying in painful ways is cool as long as it's funny!"

Spaz took a look at Konall, saw his damage, and went over to apply a healing potion.

"Anyway.. bye!" Becky blasted another ice bolt at Jester King of Beasts- this time it got turned right back at Becky! Becky whined, "No fair!" Catrina pulled Becky out of the way of the blast, which went over their heads.

"Hmm, your magic is too.. undisciplined to redirect properly," noted the Jester King. "Shame."

The Jester was tapped on the back, and he turned to look. SHAPOW! went Konall's fist in his face. The berserker followed it with a haxxor strike, but a random piece of rubble knocked him over and caused him to just barely miss.

Becky darted up to join Konall. "Hey, want me to freeze his face so it stays like that forever?!"

"I would love that," said Konall. "Spaz! Run interference." The demon poked, stabbed and fireballed the Jester, trying to distract him. Konall hefted his haxxor and went after Cattras, who had his sister held up against the wall by her neck. Catrina struggled, but wasn't able to get free.

Cattaras growled and threw her against the far wall, turning to face Konall. "Weren't trying to sneak up on me, were you, meat?"

"Hah!" said Konall. "I don't sneak up on opponents. I gave the Jester fair notice before punching him." He switched from his haxxor to his sword and shield, then gestured for Cattaras to attack.

Becky attacked the jester with ice spell, and Jester has to deal with 2 enemies. Jester would try to stop her magic, and usually deter it, but Spaz kept swooping in to poke him with that pitchfork of his. Suddenly, Jester turned intangible and danced out of their way. Becky shrugged and turned to help Konall, who was taking on Cattaras.

Cattaras leaped at Konall in a jump-kick, but Konall deflected the tiger painfully with his spiked shield. Konall kept Cattras back with sword and shield. When Becky's ice spell hit Catrina's estranged brother from behind, Konall leaped and drove his sword straight into Cattaras' chest. Cattaras grabbed the blade, a dangerous move but better than the alternative. Becky watched on and got kicked from behind with enough force to send her slamming into Konall.

"Now, move or begone, Cattaras!" The Jester King loudly commanded. Cattaras leaped aside at that inhumane speed of his as the mirror started glowed. Spaz flew in to help Becky even as the mirror shot a beam at them.

Seeing her chance, and seeing no other option, Catrina dove into the beam, which engulfed her as the others watched on, hopelessly. The thought came to her mind mere seconds before she touched the bean that, if the JKOB had devised this chances were that Catrina was not going to find it that pleasurable.

Oh well... Catrina just concentrated on Dash and hoped to make it through.

"You arrogant FOOL!" Cattaras cried out, seeing their ultimate plan unraveling before their eyes. "You should have let me kill my sister as I had intended!"

"Don't dare mock me!" the Jester King shouted, staring the much larger Cattaras down.

Konall hurled his haxxor toward the mirror, smashing it into a thousand pieces and slamming right through into the Jester King. He phased through the ground.

Becky laughed. "I guess he took a warp pipe!"

Konall glared at Cattras. "Come over here kitty, I want to pet you with my hammer."

Cattaras ducked, and in that same instance called forth his chi. Before Konall could stop the missed shot, Cattaras had kicked him in the back and vanished into the distance. "You're not even worth the kill, Viking! Soon my sister and her .. beloved.. hero will return, and then.. she's ours. It's too late for you to stop us, so I'll let you live to regret your blindness!"

Cattaras's laughter echo'ed around them, but Cattaras himself was long gone, having used the rest of his chi to literally vanish into the burning town.

Becky looked around; no more enemies but Catrina was gone to wherever Sebastian had gone. "What now, guys?"

Konall shrugged. "Beer?"

"I like moose," replied Spaz.

Konall looked around. "It's just you, me, and the imp. Huh."

"We gotta help Dash!" Becky thought to herself. "How we do that?!"

Konall thought for a moment, a challenging task. "We need to keep fighting the goblins and find Blah or Fluffy, maybe find someone to track them down."

Becky nodded solemnly. This on top of her not being able to find Zanther. They walked towards the next battle as she talked to Spaz, a bit sadness in her voice. "Well, Blahking'll help us find Dash and kitty if we take him to the mirror, I bet." She then thought about her other problem. "But I didn't find Wolf!"

They saw Fluffy Hamster, who'd obviously escaped from the Knob Goblins imprisonment somehow, but he didn't hear her. Someone else did, however; they were soon joined by Todd Blackpaws; the foxshape bard must have heard their failed attempts to get Fluffy Hamster's attention.

The Jester King of Beasts, having been inspired by Becky's off hand comment, watched them from afar. It would take all his magics to pull the trick off, but it would be worth it to get revenge on these interfering interlopers. He growled, but it turned into a chuckle. Soon the chuckle turned into full blow laughter, echoing across the buildings as he watches from nearby. A massive pipe burst up through the ground and engulfed Konall, Spaz and Becky, and send them into a subsection of Hey Daze- and into a fated brush with destiny.

The Jester King of Beasts fell to his knees, exhausted but still laughing. Dash, Catrina, Vixen, Lapine, Konall, the annoying ice mage and the bard were all out of the picture for the time being.. and if she returned, ohh, he would still be waiting to put his ultimate plan of betrayal into action.

Next up, we'll explore this 'dark world' a little and let Shamus have a turn before wrapping up the Dark World saga and getting to the Finale!