User blog comment:Grand's Story Time/The Champions of Terra/@comment-28898344-20151129015327/@comment-28898344-20160116174837

Matthew watched as their Martian attackers were fried by thousands of volts brought down upon them by a great strike of lightning. Just as he was about to comment on the situation, men clad in power armor, upon which was inscribed runes of a language he did not now and a pentacle, burst forth from the vegetation, pointing guns at him and his cabalmates.

It took little deduction to figure out the obvious: they were mages. "But are they of the Right-Hand of Left-Hand paths?" the question burned into his mind, as the three magi asked him and his cabalmates his business on Mars. "I won't reveal the fact that we're also magi. I need to know if we can trust them first before I do." Hoping his next words did not end in his and his cabalmates' immediate disintegration, he opened his mouth to speak...

"We were aboard a transportation ship on a path to Jupiter. But we were attacked by those Martian bastards and ending up crash-landing here on Mars. I think we're the only survivors of our ship."