Zajcica

With her shirt back on, Yuki looked over at the quest details that were on Night's HUD. It was easily the most dangerous boss that they would be facing in this entire quest line. This was the last one that they needed to do, then they could use the benefits of the statues of the wilds. That health boosting one had caught her eye.

But what caught her ear was the fact that Night wanted to go unbuffed. Why? She felt like they had barely gotten through the puma, but maybe Night wont freak out like she did. "Why go in unbuffed if I struggled with taking damage from the puma? Are you sure you're going to be able to beat it? Oh, well I guess that's why you want me to bring teleportation crystal."

Looking over at the fridge, Yuki opened it's menu showing the contents. She pointed to the total of vanity food - "325 Vanity Foods"

"Take anything you want."

The paladin rubbed her eyes as she transferred the plate of food over to the kotatsu with Crow. While she felt like they were on a pretty good touchy-feely ground, she didn't want to make him feel awkward with the constant contact. She sat to his side on the kotatsu, making sure to get her feet under the cover. It was breezy, so she made sure to turn the heater on low. 

"I think it's going to start raining soon." Yuki mentioned before stuffing one of the perfectly cook sausages in her mouth. It was seasoned perfectly for the food that they were eating even though Yuki was barely ten minutes awake. It had come as natural as breathing to her at this point. The eggs that Crozeph had made were pretty good. He at least knew how to make simple things pretty good. Maybe it wouldn't hurt to show him the ropes so he could make vanity food for himself.

"We can just stay here and relax." She mentioned remembering the events of what happened with Mari the day before. If there was something she needed right now, it was a break away from this death game. "I... I don't want to do anything but relax with you. I haven't taken a day to relax since I started this game. No better person to share it with." She gave him another warm smile and bit into the eggs he made her.

@Crozeph

Yuki readied her own spear just as quickly as her damage counterpart. She had nowhere near the experience that Ariel did, but she's done this song and dance more than enough times to fend for herself. Activating the light pink energy in her sword art, the power hummed with a low growl. With a solid swipe through every single target, the paladin had done not nearly enough damage compared to Ariel, but was able to activate bleed.

With retaliation, the wolves slashed at the tank angrily. Claw marks appeared over her arms and chest, lowering her health smidgen. The attackers found themselves regretting the attacks when thorns ate at their green bars bringing the entire lot into the yellow color. She grinned at her success. "Don't worry about me. I can fight too! I think I weakened them enough for you to kill them with your next attack. It might be close."

(154070 is Warg Wolf 1)

[1/4/3/4] Yuki: 705/840 -(175-112)+9 | 78/78 | DMG: 9 | EVA: -1 | MIT: 112 | ACC: 3 | DoT Restst: 25%+25%(1st proc) | Thorns: 36+20 | BH: 8 | Conc. CD: [0/3]
[2/2/2/2] Ariel: 1488/1490 -(175-79+92) | 146/146 | 19 (+4) | AA +6(7) BD | BH+HB: 92 | +5 LD | +1 Hate

Warg Wolf 1: 284/500 | DMG: 175 | MIT: 20 | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1
Warg Wolf 2: 256/500 -(8*4+24) | DMG: 175 | MIT: 20 | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1 | BLEED: (24)[1/2]
Warg Wolf 3: 244/500 -(6*4) | DMG: 175 | MIT: 20 | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1 
Warg Wolf 4: 192/500 -(8*4+24+56) | DMG: 175 | MIT: 20 | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1 | BLEED: (24)[1/2]

The peering daylight was shining through the open outside door on the other side from where Crozeph knocked. The girl groaned heavily as consciousness came back to her. Her thoughts were muddied from just waking, but she could barely hear Crozeph's voice muffled through the thin door frame. Lifting her head, the woman looked over at the door to see his darkened silhouette of the boy.

"Crow... Wath tim is iht?" The girl squinted her eyes to look at her HUD seeing that it's currently 6am. Honestly, she just wanted to go back to bed at this point, but she could faintly smell some eggs or something. Crozeph seems to have made breakfast which was nice of him, but usually she prefers to make her own food. Not that she was going to decline him or anything.

Finally, the paladin rose from her bed and stretched her back out. With a loud yawn, she looked out to the sky of the open door. It was nice right now, but it seemed like it was going to rain soon. The moisture was in the air. Her pajamas draped down low on her body, some of the baggiest clothes that she owned. She closed the outside door to her room and made her way to the second door that lead into the hallway of her home where Crozeph was waiting. Her eyes seemed tired and a bit out of focus.

"Mroning." The girl said giving him a quick, tired hug before making her way to the kitchen to see what he had decided to cook up for them. Eggs and coffee. Not bad. A simple meal that he did good enough on. Though it was missing some things, Yuki's voice cleared up as she began to speak again. "You made eggs but there's nothing good to soak up the yolk of the egg like bread or biscuits. Also, the dish lacks a main focus. Sausage or bacon would have been a good addition." She naturally starts putting sausage on the stove along with toasting some bread. It was a natural thing, not that she was trying to belittle Crozeph's attempt cause the eggs looked fine.

"The eggs aren't bad though. Thank you for the thought." Within no time the other pieces of the meal were done and now it was a breakfast with some reasonable girth to it. "There you go. That looks a lot more tasty, doesn't it?" She said with a smile.

@Crozeph

6 minutes ago, Iron_Lion said:

 

[Name]: Glowing Healing Salve
[Your profession]: Alchemist
[Your Rank]: 1
[Roll ID]: 153963
[Roll Result]: CD: 11
[Item Type]: Salve
[Tier]: 1
[Quality]: Rare
[Enhancements]: 2 HP Recovery [+40 HP]
[Description]: A small tray the size of an adult's palm containing teal blue salve which smells like moderately cooked mushrooms. The salve is made of a bone meal paste with glow shroom spores mixed into it.
[Post Link]: http://www.sao-rpg.com/topic/19601-f-r1-iron_lions-alchemy-tent-private/?do=findComment&comment=612093

 

[Name]: Glowing Scented Salve
[Your profession]: Alchemist
[Your Rank]: 1
[Roll ID]: 153963
[Roll Result]: CD: 12
[Item Type]: Salve
[Tier]: 1
[Quality]: Perfect
[Enhancements]: 1 Pheromones [+1 CD Taming Familiar]
[Description]: A small tray the size of an adult's palm containing a somewhat glowing teal blue salve which smells like well cooked mushrooms. The salve is made of a bone meal paste with glow shroom spores mixed into it.
[Post Link]: http://www.sao-rpg.com/topic/19601-f-r1-iron_lions-alchemy-tent-private/?do=findComment&comment=612093

 

Yuki scratched the back of her and looked down at the black shirt she was wearing. Where did she even get this shirt again? Hell she couldn't even remember at this point.

"Uh... Is it your shirt?" She asked, genuinely stumped. How would she have gotten one of Night's shirts? When? "Wait, when did I even get this shirt." She pulled the shirt out to inspect it more. Not satisfied with what she was seeing at this angle, she removes the shirt from her person, leaving her in nothing but her sweatpants and a tube top that sat on her loosely. Looking for anything that could signify who had ownership of this shirt. After careful thought she remembered that all items have tags showed who created them and who owned them. She opened the description for the item showed that the item did, in fact, belong to the paladin and was made by some low rank tailor in the town of beginnings who's name she couldn't even recognize if she tried. She must have acquired this shirt before she started leveling. "It's mine." She said, throw the shirt back on sipping her drink carefully.

She was actually pretty surprised when Ariel said that just being Tier 3 was well enough to go join the floor boss. Maybe she was over estimating the boss raids after all. Thought the way Ariel was making it sound was like she had a hard time adjusting to it.

"I'm worried to be honest." The girl started. "I want to move up as quickly as possible to help the progress go more smoothly, but I fear for my own life. I can't do hardly any damage, even if it's not supposed to be my focus and I'm no where on par with other tank players right now. I'll be lucky if these monsters don't maul me. I guess I would be if it weren't for the fact that I was bringing a pretty strong companion like you along with me."

Moving through the canopy of dark, gloomy trees the duo finds themselves face to face with the warg they were searching for. Blood Bane was not present.

Yuki: 840/840 | 78/78 | DMG: 6 | EVA: -1 | MIT: 112 | ACC: 3 | DoT Restst: 25%+25%(1st proc) | Thorns: 36+20 | BH: 8 | Conc. CD: [0/3]
Ariel: 

Warg Wolf 1: 500/500 | DMG: 175 | MIT: 20 | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1
Warg Wolf 2: 500/500 | DMG: 175 | MIT: 20 | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1
Warg Wolf 3: 500/500 | DMG: 175 | MIT: 20 | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1
Warg Wolf 4: 500/500 | DMG: 175 | MIT: 20 | ACC: 2 | EVA: 1

Even though she put out her apology, she didn't really think that Mari would accept it then and there and likely wouldn't want anything to do with her right now. The girl looked pretty defeated at this point with a sinking expression on her face. She sighed quietly as she turned from Mari and started heading back to the safe zone. She knew better than to try and continue arguing with the ginger haired DPS when she was riled up like this.

As she was walking away, though, she couldn't keep herself from saying one thing to her. "You could be nice... but you're not... I like that you won't sugar coat your feelings to save face. I'm sorry again." And with that, the pink-haired tank rushed back to the safe zone. After that, she really just wanted to go home and sleep for hours. There was so much she still needed to do, but perhaps Mari was right. She needed to take a break before she melted down from the tension... 

When she made it back to the safe zone, she opened her menu and started to compose a message to Crozeph.

@Mari

Yuki came out of her bedroom dressed in the most normal clothing that Night had ever seen her wear. It looked like she must have been hot under her blanket and like she had just barely woken up. She lifted the over sized, black t-shirt and fanned the heat out from her chest, which was much more toned than Night probably thought it was. Not like she would be thinking about those kind of things anyway.

"Ngiht, mroning." The girl was barely able to respond to her friend's concern. She needed something to wake her up, so she walked past Night heading into her kitchen and opening the fridge door to find something she had made with caffeine in it. After taking a quick drink, the girl shook off her morning woes and looked back to her friend. "Sorry, yeah, I always have a teleport crystal in my inventory. Is the next one that dangerous?"

@NIGHT

Yuki followed behind the front liner, eager to learn anything she can from her. She had gotten her chance to learn from Shield what the front lines are like, but she always loved varied opinions on subjects. 

"Yeah, I don't think I'll have what I need to be ready for the floor 25 boss raid. I'm still well off the level to come and join you guys on the front lines, of course. And I don't quite have the gear I need for it just yet. Perhaps if I pull a miracle and level up 25 levels and get some unique equipment, I might be able to join this boss raid. It's dangerous for sure, so I don't want to rush myself into the fray without being prepared. Would it be imposing if I asked you what your level is, and what level you think is good time to start thinking about joining floor boss raids? I'm not really sure when that sort of level should be. I was assuming around level 60-70."

@Ariel - The Crowned Lion

Zajcica: Hey, thanks!
Zajcica: This boss is a mean one.
Zajcica: These will keep me alive.
Zajcica: Oh, hey!
Zajcica: Tea!
Zajcica: Cool!

The feeling between them was tense, something like she was feeling with Mari lately, and she definitely didn't want their relationship to reenact her last visit with the orange player. After a moment, she was about to try and divert the conversation from that when Night spoke first. An apology, that she didn't feel was entirely warranted. She didn't necessarily ignore the danger, just maybe had forgotten about her friend for a moment. Night had always been there for her when she was in danger, though so she wasn't going to fuss about it.

"Hey, there's no need to worry about that." Yuki smiled, throwing her arm over the other girls shoulder for a moment. "Honestly, I found your passion for cats kind of cute. It would be hypocritical of me to judge you for your passions when I'm guilty of it too. I didn't even trickle below 50% so I wasn't worried. We've only got one more of these quests to do, right? Let's go get it finished so I can get the statue's benefits and get a little more tougher. Then maybe we can come back and see this boss again. Give you a bit more time to look at the cat without their being much of a sense of danger for me.

It seems that Night had just gotten a look at her health bar just as it ticked back up to full. The scratch marks faded from her body and she was feeling better almost instantly. She scratched the back of her head awkwardly. "That looked a little more than 'Just a little bit' to me. Looked like quite a bit."

Yuki was fine up to this point, as she could have taken a few more hits, though, she was beginning to worry about her companions interest with the beast overtaking her priority of the tank's safety. Her weapon formed back into the ether as the paladin turned on her heel and walked out towards the exit. She wanted to get out of here before the boss respawned and they had to fight it again.

Back in the darkness, the two walked back through the temple and made there way into the exit.

When the two girls go their feet, Night attempted to help the paladin to her feet, but when the tiny familiar jumped free of her kit Night's crip on Yuki ceased causing her to fall to the ground, again. She laid there quietly, still feeling a bit of the painful claw marks stinging her back. She didn't need to attack it anyway, she was going to kill it or Yuki would just tank another attack until her companion realized that she was about to die.

As she fanfare played, signifying their triumph over the beast, Yuki continued with her face laying against the stone. The girl sighed quietly as the pain in her back finally settled enough to stop stinging. She slowly got herself up into a sitting position as Night looked rather upset that she had to kill the big fluffy, albeit terrifying, opponent. She couldn't really muster much to say other than: "So... You seem to really like cats. A lot."

Night, basically spooning the over sized Nyanko at this point, was able to catch the beast before it stealthed away from them. That was good at least. She wished she would just finish the thing off at this point, any longer the she prolonged this fight was longer that the beast had to suffer under that a suddenly amazing vice grip.

While she had the moment, Yuki wouldn't waste her attack. She lit up her sword art and attempted to stab the pinned monster to the ground. Unfortunately, even with it being downed and pinned it was able to dodge her attack. It clawed at her leg, causing her to fall on to Night and giving it the moment that it needed to be freed from the girls insane choke hold. It didn't waste any time at clawing the living sh*t out of Yuki's back while she tried to recover from the fall.

On 6/15/2020 at 1:13 PM, Bistro said:

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Item Name:	Liquor of Light
Profession:	Alchemist | Rank 10
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Enhancements:	Damage III
Description:	A signature concoction of the Cintamani. The vial seems to glow a warm yellow, filled to the brim with translucent liquid sunshine. It tastes sweet when downed, reminiscent of maple syrup, though its flavour is diluted. Flows as easily as water.
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Item Name:	Dragon's Breath
Profession:	Alchemist | Rank 10
ID | Rolls:	153452 | CD: 12 | LD: 1
	153469 | CD: 12 | LD: 1
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Enhancements:	Crafter's Respite
Description:	A signature concoction of the Cintamani. There are no signs of liquid in this vial, only a swirl of periwinkle smoke seems to sit at the flask's center. When taken, however, it tastes of cool air, revitalizing the drinker's wakefulness and urges them to continue crafting; an alluring call from a foreign muse.
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Description:	A signature concoction of the Cintamani. There are no signs of liquid in this vial, only a swirl of periwinkle smoke seems to sit at the flask's center. When taken, however, it tastes of cool air, revitalizing the drinker's wakefulness and urges them to continue crafting; an alluring call from a foreign muse.
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Item Type:	Tier 2 Perfect Potion
Enhancements:	HP Recovery III
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Yuki couldn't help but chuckle a little as the little cat familiar reacted poorly to her master's affection towards the bigger cat. However, she wasn't about to lower her defense the same way that Night was. That went against everything that she valued in combat. (Which was not ending up dead.)

Since her Shield Bash was on cool down, she would have to resort to her regular sword arts instead. The golden, white lance hummed with a soft pink energy. The creature was already annoyed with the two enough with Night's constant swooning. It swiped at them both, missing Night, but nailing the tank across the best with it's claw. Her HP was getting close to half now, which was making her a bit nervous. She would be glad when the thing was put down for good, but maybe Night will feel differently about that. Surely she wouldn't falter and let her get closer to death for a big cat.

Yuki recoiled at the pure loving reaction that came from Night. She didn't think about it, but the puma did resemble Nyanko quite a bit. She must absolutely adore cats then. Should have been apparent from her familiar of choice. Again, no snakes are fine in her books.

That all being said, she really hopes that Night will forgive her for trying to murder the beast before it kills her. This time, she would switch it up. She had just learned a new mod and wanted to use it in an actual fight with the gear she acquired from Shield forever ago. A full armed gauntlet that was enough to cover her body for protection like a shield, but it's enhancements favored the shield bash.

Rushing forward, the paladin reached forward with her free hand, balled it into a fist and attempted to deck the black cat in the face, and not Nyanko. It was just a little too agile for her though, stepping out of the way and clawing back at her with no problem whatsoever. Her fist connected with the stone ground, causing enough damage to send the stone's flying through cracks around her wrist. Whatever, she's just drawing aggro. Hopefully Night wouldn't falter and try to spare or something.

The two quickly made there way to the exit. Once the gleaming light had settled on them, they notice that the area seemed to be a cut of garden that was the center of the temple. It was built into a ditch, making it somewhat difficult to find, but still provided a canopy for the sun to peak through. In the center was a pool of water that seemed to have collected rain water in a structure of stone. "This is interesting. At least we can see now." The paladin said, making sure that her weapon was ready.

Once they had reached the pool of water, the stalker that had been watching them made it's move. Leaping from the shadows, the puma jumped on the paladin, slashing her back in surprise. Already ready for anything, the girl tried to strike back with her own weapon, but it was too fast for her. "[censored]. Well, at least it's not a f*cking snake."

Zajcica:  Yuki | HP:830/960 (-250-111)+9 | EN:90/90 | DMG:9 | MIT:111 | EVA:-1 | BLD: 24 | H.M.: 1[Stack: 2DMG] | THRNS: 56 | TAUNT | PARA:2 | BH: 9 | DoT -25%+25%(First)
NIGHT:

Suterusu: 944/1000 (-56) | DMG: 250 | MIT: 25 | ACC: 1 | EVA: 3

Yuki still didn't like this. Her unease stemmed from the jungle-like for. For some reason, her senses screamed nothing but a snake type boss again, only since they were on a higher floor, she was fearing that it would be stronger than the freakin' Hebi. Nothing scared her more than that honestly.

At the offer of the two paths, Yuki really wanted to stay to the more well lit areas, but alas, she knew that this boss would be deeper into the temple wherever the darkness was. "I have a feeling the boss will be further down, unfortunately. It looks dark down there, makes me wish I actually brought a glow stone, but again I wasn't expecting a cave exploration." The duo walked down the steps into the darkness, instinctively, Yuki summoned her weapon. She couldn't help but worry that something was going to jump them and that it was going to paralyze and eat her.

The hall was completely dark down the stairs, but still the illumination of the floor above helped them see a little further than five feet past their faces. The vines were much more dense down here as well, not to mention the roots that came out of the ceiling above them. The must be far enough under the ground to see tree roots that had made their way through the stone. "I can hardly see." The paladin complains, straining her eyes to see further in the pitch black.

"If that's the case, the boss might have varying appearances? That or their just playing tricks on you. I think I'm going to to underestimate this boss without much information, so let's be careful when we see it. Don't pull any punches. If it hurts more than the Colossus, we can't take it lightly." She began to map out a strategy in her head. Most of them proved to be just split the bosses attention while Night nuked it from a flank, but still she couldn't help but worry as they made their way out of the safe zone into the field.

The quest guided them to the temple easily enough, however, from there, the objective only read "Explore the mysterious temple." She wasn't really liking this. "Everything about this is screaming my nerves. I don't like not knowing what I'm going to be fighting. Especially after what we just fought last time."

@NIGHT

Day 37

(1)Fail: 0
(2)Salvage: 2
(3)Uncommon: 4
(5)Rare: 2
(8)Perfect: 4

EXP: 58+60 Total: 3,085+118=3,203

<<Scent of the Wild: Puma>>

The paladin stretched her back out when the two arrived at floor 20. They were five quests in on this line now and she was starting to wonder how many more there was. After their last encounter with the Colossus, she wasn't too eager to figure out what was coming next. "Nee, Night? What's next? You have the information on all the bosses for this quest line, I thought, so how many more do we have to do and what are going to fight. If it's as bad as the giant, I'm afraid to see what could be next in store."

Floor 20 took a stark contrast to the rest of the green-covered floors below it. It was a giant jungle ridden with very jungle themed enemies: Big cats, insects and probably other similarly dangerous wildlife. Perhaps the next target was something themed off the jungle itself. That would be pretty interesting.

@NIGHT

As Night delivered the final strike to the Colossus, the head bowled over it's neck and down past it's chest. The girl clung to the giant's body as the head nearly took her down to earth with it. She sighed quietly as she realized she was safe enough at this point. Night warned her that they needed to get off of it before they fell to their death, something Yuki could get behind.

The two of them rushed their climbing down as quick as possible to get off the thing before it collided with the ground. It's knees bucked into the dirt, causing it to shake violently enough to throw the paladin off as they were getting close to the ground. Night was much faster than her, so she got off easily. Yuki on the other hand wasn't quick enough. The shaking through her off and she fell to her back taking a bit more fall damage, but not nearly as bad as earlier. When the two reunited and the giant was completely gone, she gave her damage buddy a thumbs up. "Nailed it."

Since she had forgotten about the fact that her not doing any damage to this thing would only make this fight longer and she spent too much time worrying about her completely capable friend Yuki made sure that she got her attack in this time around. Rearing back her heavy spear from it implanted position on the Colossus's stone pectoral, the paladin slammed it harshly into the weak point she was attacking. The damage came out to be a critical, doing a bit better damage than she did the last few times she had attacked it. Nice.

The bleed effect appeared above the Colossus's health points, making the job only just the slightest easier for Night. She looked up to make sure her friend was alright when the giant began to rumble. It looks like it was going to do another shake. She gripped onto her lance and hoped that it wouldn't be as bad as the one that shook them off earlier.