Raidou

The shared sense of honesty, after all this time and so many disagreements. The irony in the fact that it was Raidou hiding from 'Hidden' after all these years, just out of eyesight and playing the part of silent watcher. He'd watched her affairs with Adrian, with the other members of laughing coffin and her little affair with Rosa. From the dark, he watched as she narrowly escaped ATP and pulled strings to aid in her attempts. Even still, members kept seeking her out in all the wrong places. The secret conductor pulling on strings and rigging the game from the beginning. "Not really into bird

As the girls saunter into the back after his measurements were taken, Raidou would began to peruse the bolts of silk layered within the shelving as sounds could be heard in the back. It was clear that Elda was still a new and unknown fixture in Aradennia and as a result the wood elves or sun elves really were not sure how to take her. The same applied to him when he had first arrived here quite some time ago. Most did not visit this upper half given that the main warp gate lead to the dark elven settlement below. That and there wasn't much in the way of quests or grind spots this far up. The f

The notification draws itself vocal as it competes with the classical style jazz music prancing off the walls in his abode, followed by the gentle turning of a page. The wanderer turns and reaches for a bookmark and tucks it neatly into the spine of the brown covered book. "I wasn't expecting any more..." His sentence breaks off into no end. "Freyd?" The man murmurs as he lifts a small cylinder of tea towards his mouth, offering a singular point into the blue circle causing it to grow into a fresh window. Eyes dart down the length of the message, quickly parsing it at break neck speed. "I supp

Watching in silence as Elda made herself comfortable with one of the local fruit stall merchants, helping her collect what the elves had an absolute nightmare to obtain. Not much grew on Angel's point given the soil was so dried out, but it was shifting albeit slowly. Raidou and the Sun Elves had Nemo to thank for that one. As the woman would join back at his side, they'd walk with direction but the pace eluded to leisure. The wanderer scans the walls and windows, porches and the landscape with a serene yet long reaching gaze. "Sakuda works really hard, there is only a handful of living trees

The sudden surge of blue light sees the center of Aradennia glow with a sharp sound. A few of the sun elves that are wandering the square are a little jarred, given the fact they hardly ever receive visitors and these last few days has the most this gate had been used in a while. "Have you been waiting long?" Raidou remarks with a smile, adjusting his gloves as his signature red robe wasn't on his back. The sudden ring of a message sees him pause, shifting the brown paper bag in his offhand to pop open his inventory screen. He begins to parse it before he tilts his head and looks past at his s

Tilting his head, he couldn't help but reciprocate her jubilance with a grin of his own. "Most fulfilling feeling in the world, doing something as trivial as picking apples out of a tree for someone else. Of course we're contributing, even if it seems small in the grand scheme it makes all the difference. The Philosophy of picking up trash in a park at its finest. It takes a small amount of effort, but if everyone did it then the park would be clean." The man takes to another lemon square from the plate, trying to sponge up some of this tea before he'd need a bathroom break. "Have you tried th

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Sliding open his inventory, Raidou produces a handful of small lemon squares as an offset to all the tea he'd drank up to this point. Paired well with pastries although the man wasn't exactly born with a sweet tooth. He'd slide the plate that was in the pocket with it closer to his conversation companion, because Aincrad was weird and you could carry an oil drum around in your pocket without a second thought. "Yeah, your probably right. Although I will say its only from an outside perspective that you can appreciate the nuance for someone's actions when they are normally taken for granted." Pl

As a result of our recent changes within the 3.1.2.5 New Mechanic Systems Release/Rework Patch, up until August 31, 2024 GMT all players will enjoy the following benefits: 1. Refunding Weapon Skills and their respective mods/addons will not incur a col cost or count toward your normal 50 SP per month limit. This is to allow players to make a swap to one of the new weapon types if they choose to. These refunds are undergone in the same skill refund evaluation process otherwise. 2. A player may re-evaluate an existing item into one of the new or altered Item Types (Rapier, Throwing Weapon

"And here I was going to charge you a fortune, guess I'll swing pro bono." Raidou jests with the most straight face and a gentle gesture toward the back of the bar with an extended finger. "I can't really say the same. Although you do have a bit of a 'teacher' aura." The wanderer gestures down to the yoga pants, with a sense of acknowledgement. "I wish I was half as brave as you back then. Truth was, I was very withdrawn. Used books as a way to divorce myself from the world. I can admire that bravery." But his focus locked to his cup, as with that remark his heartstrings stung just the slighte

The soft crunch of snow underfoot, a pleasant conversation had finally come to a close. With it, a few small bottles of caramel apple cider for a future gift. A ping on his HUD draws his attention. The footfalls stop and with a whisk of his hand from right to left sees the familiar menu opened. The tiny flashing blue icon denoting a message received and with a tap of his index it expands into a much larger window. Eyes scan the contents of the message, it seems as though Eruda was starting to get a little stir crazy. Understandable given they were always on the move up until now, and perhaps R

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NPC Compendium based on Floor: Floor 1 Marv Ol' Pete Floor 2 Anna, little girl who likes getting lost like Koko does (literally head canon'd name based on old Let there be Light) Floor 4 Alexander, tough bartender type with a sweetspot for his wife and frequent fliers (Lessa's head child, yet borrowed a few times for proofing) Margaret, Alexander's sweet-heart who can break that gruff man and wrap him around her finger Floor 6 Teoi Floor 18 Gyrard Floor 21 Nemo, the quest NPC for Nature's Treasure to which Raidou formed a Druidic style understandin

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Hello All, Its that time again for some QoL improvements. This time we are releasing something new and adjusting existing mechanics to link them in consistency. First off the frying pan.... Some keywords have been made for the sake of clarity: [True Level] = Player's Level + Player's Paragon Level (at the start of the thread) [True Tier] = [True Level] / 10, Rounded Up These should look familiar to you, given these are the same numbers used to calculate experience earned at the end of a thread. These values do not change regardless of what conditions a system may imply and are st

Custom Skill: ► Ill Omen in Red Cost: 10 SP Passive Restriction: Parry must be owned and equipped, usable only if the player is wearing only cloth armor Effect: Players with this skill ignore imposed mitigation enhancement caps on armor skills, the armor still must follow normal mitigation enhancement slot caps (I.E. Cloth Armor cannot have more then one on a single piece). All missed attacks against the player are now flavored as a "Parry" given you choose to stand your ground and make the opponent miss. Description: A good swordsman knows that a sword can be as effective a

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Overview: Hello Incarcerated Citizen's of Aincrad, Time to address one of the elephants in the room: Armor Skills. There has been noticed a small amount of confusion but a drastic amount of inconsistency across the board in regards to these passives. It has lead to a 'meta' in the shape of light armor and it discourages variety. This patch aims to rectify this. Original Skills: Originally our Armor skills looked like this: Change Reasoning: Now first lets look at the worst offender in overtuning, Light Armor by comparing the other two skills: Cloth Armor | Can

Approved (Ticket #0033)

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Overview: Given the state that support archetypes are currently in (we know, staff as a whole is trying to find a good way to approach the problem) we've discovered that most supports have little to use their post actions on. We'd like to address that by looking to one of their only non-heal based post actions (action economy is everything, and we want players to spend it in a meaningful way.) Likewise, we'd also like to address the difficulty of obtaining equipment. As it sits we feel as though our current avenues for gearing and preparing a 'frontline ready' character is a little t

"Vague threats with little proven backing, in stark colors on a stranger..." Raidou remarks taking in the sunshine that bled through the window pane, gesturing a bright morning toward an afternoon. Everclear skies peaked past, not a cloud in view. His attention peeled to Bahr, finding a curiosity in the near lack of recollection on his demeanor. Perhaps the man was forgetful, or perhaps something had disjointed his memory. "That I do, and what I understand the Tarot share the same sentiment." He'd nurse a kettle to refresh his cup. "That's why we are allies. You do remember?" Placing

Now that all is said and done, we'd like to plug the community and see how the material was received. This is an attempt to cater future content to the desires of the community. Below is the outline of the design process behind Wushen and the Ronbaru Roundtable companion event. Wushen: Too big to hurt, he was supposed to embody the idea of facing a titanic monster that easily dwarfed the players involved. Based around the Wuxing cycle, he was the embodiment of a Boss that had access to Incarcerate/Trickster builds and was really DoT heavy. Phase 1: Does low damage, attacks ava

The glimmering white floor of marble glared in light from a round sunroof of muraled glass, that stunk of the sun elves ode to extravagancy. A centralized statue in feminine form embraced a garden beneath its feet held fast in a gate. A seat beyond his tastes, but the furnishings were provided so he'd accept them and stave off the need to do any shopping. The man wasn't the sort to furnish a building, his last being so gracefully bare and empty for the longest time. The sudden inclusion of a man he'd not seen in some time. A voice spoke over the classical music that seemed to ring from th