Francisco emerges in a Forbidden Zone in the uncharted expanses of the Wandering Roams in the northeastern part of the continent of Ai … though he has no idea about any of that, nor of even what world he's on. Awakening in a crater-pocked region, he explores, finding some strange objects in a crater, then abandoning them since he can find no clue as to what to do with them. He eventually meets up with a band of porcupine-and-armadillo-like nomads, experiencing some communication problems with their leader