The Ultimate Fate of the Characters

[Astrobot7000]

Since 8bit is over, and there is serious doubt as to when an epilogue will be made (probably never). what do you think is the ultimate fate of the characters? Specifically the Light Warriors and White Mage?

I guess you can almost look at the question like, "Whatever happened to X a year later?" Where X is the character.

[Ecks]

Black Mage - Allowed to live just so he can suffer some more, because killing him would not, in fact, be punishment

Fighter - Took over Vargus School, taught a new generation of slothful airheaded warriors.

Thief - Went back to Elfland, made his nation (and himself) much wealthier, ensured the extinction of the dwarves, and put up wanted posters for the other three nitwits he traveled with.

Red Mage - "Deborah" is that pretty dancer you saw at the strip club last week.

White Mage - Looking for Sarda, and wondering why he disappeared right when the world needed him most.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Black Mage - Allowed to live just so he can suffer some more, because killing him would not, in fact, be punishment

Fighter - Took over Vargus School, taught a new generation of slothful airheaded warriors.

Thief - Went back to Elfland, made his nation (and himself) much wealthier, ensured the extinction of the dwarves, and put up wanted posters for the other three nitwits he traveled with.

Red Mage - "Deborah" is that pretty dancer you saw at the strip club last week.

White Mage - Looking for Sarda, and wondering why he disappeared right when the world needed him most.

Pretty much the most accurate outcome for each of those character this may see for a long while.

[Astrobot7000]

Thief's and Fighter's seem quite logical, except Fighter would likely cling to Black Mage until one of them dies. Or maybe not anymore after what happened with White Mage and the murders.

Black Mage's fate intrigues me. What is hurting him (I assume everything) and how is his life miserable? Details are required.

As for Red Mage... I see him trying to restart the order of the Red Magi... maybe dancing on the side. Although I don't see that as his end point, maybe a half way point.

[Carteeg_Struve]

Black Mage - After years of attempting to retrain himself to the strength to cast level 2 magic, BM finally runs into the actual old man who took his gold and pointed Fighter and BM off to the Cave of No Return. After a massive stab-fest, BM is finally arrested and sentenced to prison for a life of dag. Much to WM's dismay, BM becomes a published author detailing his life living with stupidity stupid people and their effects on others. To BM's dismay, all of the money is funneled off to a charity.

Thief - After returning to his homeland, Thief discovers that his father has instituted the IRS successfully. Unfortunately, due to Thief traveling abroad for so long, the Prince was now viewed as a foreigner and subject to all international taxes. To pay these taxes, Thief channels all of the novel profits BM made into his own personal charity fund. Years later, Thief's family is overthrown by the Snahp'krakal'pop Syndicate from who had been operating out of the black market for years.

Red Mage - Becomes the most powerful and successful PC in all of creation. He reaches five divine ranks and rules an immortal god for all eternity... on his character sheet. This comes to and end when he is run over by Queen Sara's carriage when she almost mistaken RM as a psychotic hobo transvestite prostitute blocking her way. She was only 'almost' mistaken him as a drunken hobo transvestite prostitute due to the fact that in truth, RM was a drunken hobo transvestite prostitute.

Fighter - After failing to guilt trip WM for not telling the truth, and failing to keep BM out of prison (he testified at BM's trial as a defense witness... 'nuff said there), Fighter "finally" creates his sword-chucks. He opens a school, which closes after Fighter's first demonstration results in the death of all of the students, the school's staff, and three people who were eating at the Bistro across the street. Apparently, even Fighter can't kill himself. Eventually he combines his skills as a short-order cook with sword-chuckery to open a restaurant where he can slice and dice food the customers order right in front of them, giving them a fantastic show... before he accidentally kills them. One of his victims turns out to be the Dwarven King who was in exile from his still-burning lands (damn those fires and the ore mines). The world heralds Fighter as the greatest evil of all of the lands for his massacres ("I'm a famous, hero! Weee! Everybody loves me."), except for in Elfland, where he is herald as the one human who is not quite as inferior as the rest of them. In prison, -- see above -- Black Mage learns of the world's fear of the evil Fighter, and weeps.

White Mage - She is praised by her order for her efforts to save the world from Chaos, but then they chastise her for failure in turning the Light Warriors away from their reign of terror. She is unfairly tossed out of the order, forcing her to try to seek a normal life somewhere. On that quest, she fails miserably.

King Steve / Princess Sarah / Drizz'l - Steve massive stupidity becomes partially overshadowed by the fact that his inane claims turn out to be correct in regards to both mana-energy and foreign affairs. This puts Corneria into a severe depression, killing local economics and morale. Sara manipulates her father into believing that he was voted out of his kingly position, but the plot backfires when the populace votes the piece of string onto the throne. Drizz'l plots from the background, rending the string a puppet. After several bad puns on the oddity of calling the string a puppet, Corneria sinks even further into economic depression, even though the string's popularity ratings shoot sky high. Sara realizes that although her father was incredibly stupid, the world population wasn't that far behind him. She manipulates Drizz'l into several errors that result in the string's term of office being cut short (yeah, more bad puns). Giving up all hope for the future, she takes the throne. Five years later, she finally gives it back and is also made queen.


I'll blabber on about other characters if I think up anything.

[Nuklear Waste]

The Blight Warriors stick together because they lost their demigodly powers and no longer have the luxury of being believed to be heroes and so they suffer forever and ever except for Fighter who gets to live happily ever after like in the Shrek films until the next sequel comes out but then there is still a happy ending for each sequel so I guess my point is mute because you see he actually enjoys the company of his ultrabuddies unlike the rest of his so-called friends Fin.

[Si Civa]

They die. That's quite ultimate if you ask me.

Except Thief. He cheats Death so he can live happily after other jerks have kicked the bucket and continue screwing people over which means every single one of you and me. That's your goddamn happy goddamn ending goddamn people. Be goddamn happy now.

[Neni]

As for White Mage, since her faith in the exitence of Good in all People was utterly shattered by some miserable little spellcaster who's name I don't even have to say, I guess she decided to became an Abomination hunter exorcist, who dedicated her life to Clean the World of every person even remotely simmilar to afformentioned spellcaster.

But that's just my opinion.

[Astrobot7000]

I liked your idea about prison Carteeg. How about this for character fates?

Thief nullified the contractual pull he held over his fellow travelers after the Dark Warriors took credit for saving the world. He returned to Elfland to find it brutalized by King Steve's mana-enhanced army.
"I don't suppose I should be surprised." (Thief is in front of Elfland while it burns. Royal Guard chases Messenger Hank in background)

Red Mage attempted to restart the order of the Red Magi, but no one was interested. He then became King Steve's military strategist. He was subsequently fired for insisting that Onrac would make a good barracks for his campaigning troops.
"Heh' oops." (Red Mage in front of Onrac being destroyed in enormous explosions)

After failing the Dark Gods' prophecies of being a nexus of worldly destruction, BM was used as a scapegoat for his group's rampaging. He was sentenced to 4,057 years in prison.
"At least I never have to see those 'holes ever again." (Black Mage in a jail cell)

After failing the Light Gods' prophecies of being the world's savior, Fighter voluntarily joined his best friend in prison.
"Yay! Now we can be together forever!"
"Whyyyyy?"
(Fighter and Black Mage in the same jail cell)

(Real Light Warriors at a circus with elephants performing in the background)
" "My cousin Gary can get us a job," you said. Thanks a lot Barry. Now we shovel elephant shit for a living."

(Dragoon and the golden chocobo in the forest where Chaos was defeated)
"Am I on time for the final boss?"

The End!

[Clord]

Black Mage - Probably continues to spreading chaos around him.
Fighter - If his INT stat becomes positive even few points he probably would realize he is only good guy in the party and what has been going on during their journey.
Red Mage - No idea, he has been mostly doing plans anyways for party.
Thief - There is world to conquer for profit.

[i64ever]

Black Mage - Frustrated with life, Black Mage kills himself so he can once again try and rule Hell, the only time he was truly happy. Unfortunately, Darko is still upset about BM's failure to meet any of the goals assigned to him (other than random violence) that he sentences BM to heaven. Black Mage spends eternity bored out of his mind and complaining that "All the hot chicks with wings got nothin underneath their robes...NOTHING!!"

Thief - Starts the largest Ponzi Scheme ever and gets every last Gil in the known realm. He is then brutally lynched by his investors who did not care that they had signed a "Ha, Ha, I Screwed You!" waiver. Not even his Law Ninja could save him.

Red Mage - Finally decided that Charisma is the ultimate dump stat and removes all his points from it, rendering him unable to communicate in anything other than grunts and whistles. King Steve makes him his new campaign director, and Red Mage leads him to a landslide, finally wrapping up the crucial spagehetti vote.

Fighter - Is wooed by Evil Princess Sarah as she pretends to love him only to use him as cannon fodder in her long awaited coop. She is victorious, of course, and when Fighter somehow survives by dumb luck, she marries him and sets him up as a puppet king so she can rule as the power behind the throne. That works until Steve's right hand man Rodney launches a counter-coop that even Sarah doesn't see coming. They both die in a bunker underneath the castle, though somehow Sarah's body is never found. Satified that he has been defeated fairly by Rodey's surperior strategy and cunning, Fighter dies in peace.

[venuspriestess]

Wasn't there some subplot way back where Black Mage was some kind of ultimate evil being who could destroy the universe?

[wx4caster]

I think that was a temporary infliction.

he got better

[Meister]

Yeah, he turned back into that, then gathered more power, then Sarda jackassed it all away.

[HisshouBuraiken]

Thief and Red Mage will talk about how they're all left with nothing.

Fighter will say something to the effect of "We'll always have each other".

Black Mage will stab Fighter in the head.

Cue the end credits.

You think BM really had some kind of horrible non-euclidean facial deformity or was he just a pimply nerd with mussy hair and angry eyebrows like the Black Wizard sprite?

EDIT: Or did his nightmare come true and he looks like Fighter?

[...]

Well, here's one that covers pretty much every character I think:

After the defeat of Chaos and having their powers stripped, the four warriors of light left to go on their seperate ways, each one of them depowered and delevelled, and aware that in the end they had made no difference in the world.

Black Mage attempted to become a small time criminal, but without any of his former powers was unable to kill even the weakest of people. He was never caught by the guards, and so spent the rest of his life ineffectual and poor, every day despising the day he had let Fighter sign them up to be Light Warriors. He eventually was caught in the time portal made by Sarda and went back in time to a bit before the adventure started, and sold his only possession, a map to the cave of no return, to a person who reminded him of Fighter in return for enough gold to buy food. He later was killed by a person in a blue robe while visiting the old folk's home in Cornelia, unloved, depressed, and alone.

Fighter eventually realized his friend, Black Mage, was evil, and left him for good. He eventually trained enough to regain all of his former powers as a great Warrior, and Swordopolis granted him his class change to Knight back, due to his pure intentions and good heart. He traveled the world for a while, eventually stumbling into the time portal made by Sarda, and ended up travelling back in time, though not as far as Sarda, where he, unbeknownst to himself due to his stupidity, became his own mentor in the past. He later opened up a weapons shop so he could sell his massive collection of swords to budding warriors.

Red Mage's ability scores were too low to do anything much, so he dedicated his life to studying the numbers involved in how the universe worked. He eventually found a way to become the ultimate min/maxer and become the most powerful God at level 1, but do to being permanently stuck at level 0 he was unable to do anything with it. A record of his method survived however, awaiting the day when someone, or something, would find it...

Thief returned to Elfland, where, due to Black Belt being crowned king, he was unable to convince anyone that he was the rightful ruler. Meanwhile, Drizz'l had used his status as a warrior of light to regain status for the dark elves, a state which Thief was unable to accept. With nowhere to turn, he eventually returned to Red Mage, and became they became a couple. Thief made moderate success making a film adaptation of his adventure, the rights to which were bought from Black Mage, and lived happily ever after with Red Mage and a moderate sum of money.

White Mage returned to her secret cabal of healers, where she remained for the rest of her life. They later saved the world from an emperor who took over hell, a cloud manifestation of darkness, an evil Lunarian, the evilest tree in the world, and many others, all the while staying behind the scenes and unknown by the public. She also set up a charity for orphans and rebuilt Onrac for good, until it was crushed by a giant space flea from nowhere.

Black Belt stayed dead forever and ever. And he never came back to life.

The Onion Kid discovered Red Mage's method for becoming a God, and carried it out, becoming Sarda and going back to the beginning of time to put the story's plot in action.

The Dark Warriors became known as the warriors of the dark, who defended the world against a great evil, the light warriors. As it was passed down eventually the story was distilled into the warriors of dark defending the world from being swallowed by light. They were later called upon to assist another four warriors of light in defeating an embodiment of darkness.

Garland eventually killed King Steve and became ruler of Cornelia. He married Princess Sara and they drilled for mana for years afterward. Drizz'l became ruler of Elfland, and brought in a new era of peace for both the elves and the dark elves, during which they teamed up and obliterated the dwarf kingdom completely. Vilbert went back to his mom's house and finally finished his LARP game. Bikke bought another boat, which he sank five times before actually managing to get on it. The four still met regularly to schedule charity dinners and run kitten shelters and pet rescues.

Cleric and Rogue went on to refound the other warriors, Cleric brought Ranger back from the dead and they recruited Druid as a new member, who was obscenely overpowered.

Dragoon rode down from the moon on his chocobo, but due to his jump ability did so much damage on the way down he tore a hole in the universe and was sent into a dimension of nonexistance.

Black belt got lost on the way to the afterlife and wandered into another dimension in the future, where he met dragoon, bard, and berserker. The four eventually used their combined powers to rip a hole in the fabric of the universe, and emerged in a new time, where they would eventually become known as the warriors of light and defend the world from being swallowed in darkness.

But that's another story.

[Hanuman]

Red Mage - Finally decided that Charisma is the ultimate dump stat and removes all his points from it, rendering him unable to communicate in anything other than grunts and whistles. King Steve makes him his new campaign director, and Red Mage leads him to a landslide, finally wrapping up the crucial spagehetti vote.
The point of a minmaxer using cha as a dump stat is to use his RL charisma to deal with situations and try and strategically dodge anything that would involve using a check.