That was how Major Duchense described the situation during the briefing to all available Special Exploratory Groups. A thief of preeminent skill managed to rob a Coalition transport moving dangerous goods away from the ruined city of Tolkeen. The thief left everything behind except a simple ring box.
Yet, there was nothing simple about the rings inside. These were seven of the legendary Nine Rings of Elder. Powerful magic artifacts wrought of rare metal and gems. Each of the seven rings was worn by a key General in Tolkeen’s army, and cut from their fingers by Coalition Special Forces in the waning days of the war. The final two rings remain unaccounted for.
Whoever controls all nine rings would control ancient and powerful magics that have been locked away since the dawn of the Megaverse and have the capacity to unleash terrible evils upon the world.
With all haste the 1st SET, along with many other units, left Castle Refuge to track the thief before they could leave North America via dimensional portal. The Coalition was also in hot pursuit. It came to a showdown at a ley line nexus. The CS had killed the shifter the thief needed to escape but not before the Shifter could open a massively unstable portal. The ensuing ley line storm engulfed everybody on the field of battle flinging them across the far reaches of the Megaverse!
As the mystic energies fade the 1st SET finds themselves in unfamiliar territory. The forests and trees of the Magic Zone have been replaced by ice and snow. It is dark, only the light of the small nexus overhead cuts through the blackness. High cliffs of sheer ice surround them on three sides. A single set of tracks moves northward through the snow. The thief! All is not lost. Not yet anyway.
What do you do?