Nari-Lanreth

It all started well, and Nari found herself dropping into the typical rhythm of conflict, a dance of death and blade, that felt familiar to her after all the time she'd spent engaging in Aincrad's dangers. She could see, out of the corner of her eyes, as the others went about their own personal conflicts, but she found herself focusing on her own - knowing that dangers that came with getting distracted. They'll need to take care of themselves for now, just as you need to take care of yourself. "This is going to take a few moments...and damn, but you hit hard..." Not that she was overly

She could feel the heat on her face as the embarrassment became more than just a feeling inside of her, and she found herself looking away in an attempt to calm herself as Jevi questioned her unease. Taking a few seconds to collect herself, when Nari did respond, it was with her eyes averted, and a somewhat uncalm tone in her voice; the words quivering as if she were on the verge of laughing, or tears. "I get nervous around...certain people. Like you. I, uhm, yeah...nervous. Because...anyways, the quest!" She tried to forget the moment that had passed, the unease she'd felt and the overal

"A lot of things hit hard, just cause I can take it doesn't mean it's not hard-" She stepped to the side as the fight had pushed in her general direction, allowing Morningstar more room to move as he required. She followed the general flow, giving space to the other two where appropriate, but stepping in between the two when her form could handle the blows. She was running low on energy again, and knew that she'd need to do something about it sooner, rather than later. "You know, that did sound very backhanded. Almost insulting, if you ask me..." She stepped in towards the man, bringing

Nari gave a soft sigh as they prepared for the next step of their drive through the Cave, knowing that it was only going to get more dangerous the deeper that they went. Although her eyes flitted backwards towards Wulfrin every so often, she didn't transfix on the man - realising that she would do more good focusing on the dangers ahead, rather than the individual behind her. She'd already concluded that she'd need to focus on protecting the newer player, regardless of the cost, and that meant focusing on the fight - or fights, rather - to come. The pair of golems were upon them faster t

She fell silent as Freyd explained his perception on everything; a perception that Nari found interestingly dismissive of the possibilities that lay within itself, and yet somehow also encompassing all of the counter arguments that came to mind for her when she listened. For a while she walked in silence, simply following Freyd's lead as they made their way back to the grove, content to fall into her thoughts and consider everything she'd heard from the man. She didn't necessarily agree with everything - nor did she disagree with it all, and while she knew there was things should could say in

She felt herself hum in response to the outburst of humour from Freyd, her face blushing softly in response to the jesting. She knew it was in good nature, as much surprise that she'd reacted the way she had. Not that she felt she had to defend herself, and yet she found herself speaking anyways - determined to clear the air to some degree before moving onwards. "I wasn't really expecting it to rip it's own head off...and you know, ick. I mean, I'm all for like...fighting and stuff, but...it handed me it's head. Like it was nothing. That's like...eeiiickkk." She stopped talking as she shi

Just when Nari thought they were going to get a break, another voice spoke up. It was calm and controlled enough that she knew it was going to belong to someone of a somewhat more collected nature - but when she saw the individual in question she knew that there was little chance they were going to be able to talk their way out of fighting them. A soft groan of disappointment escaped past her lips even as she readied her shield and spear once more. "Wouldn't it be nice if they would, you know, give us a small break in order to recover a bit. That would be the fair thing to do, don't you

Aoda | Approved. Total EXP: 3,513 Total SP: 40 Current Level: 8 Paragon Level: - Notes: EXP Calculation SP removed from several threads due to incompletion and/or not meeting completion requirements, including the following: A Group With A Mission (EH) | The Emerald Harbingers, A Power Amongst Powers (EH)

She gave a soft laugh at the comment, shrugging slightly and deflecting another stab towards her torso. The shield clanged slightly as the deflected blade rang along it's side, before slipping down and away from her form entirely. "You know what? That's fair, they did start it. And there's no way they could've known if we were pirates or not. I mean other than the fact that we were with the late Ryland, who shouted about them being bad people, and doing bad things, and all that...so I mean, no way whatsoever they could've known." She deflected another few shots towards her form, sidestep

Nari paused to glance over at Morningstar, slowly catching the joke and shaking her head in response. Although a slight smile touched her lips, her voice was entirely devoid of amusement when she answered the suggestion that had been almost immediately back peddled. "I'm glad you came to your senses quickly on that one. We're good at hunting them down, but I doubt we'd make good pirates...I mean, don't you need to not hunt down and murder pirates to...you know, be a pirate? Isn't there like a code or something about that?" In fairness, she was far less familiar with the pirate code than

Shaking off the feeling of numbness that had begun to trickle through her meditative moments, she stood up and gave a soft sigh. Already she could see the jump in her statuses, and felt a moment of refreshment at the change in her situation, knowing that she was better off than she had been a few seconds ago. Smiling towards Morningstar, she gave a nod towards the pirates, not realising that he'd even spoken while she'd been focused inwardly in an attempt to recover herself. "What do you say we finish this lot off, and then we can consider a prison...exploration...thing...? Honestly not

Nari winced slightly at Freyd's commentary, giving a soft nod and whispering back towards him as she tried to keep some semblance of awareness of her doings. She had no doubt that she deserved, to some degree, the tone that she'd received from the other player. "I forgot that the dungeon opens based on my leveling, and not the collective...it's a mistake I made that could've cost him his life - not that I'd allow it." She cut off her words, knowing that there was nothing else she could say. She'd made an error, and one that she wouldn't make again. Best to learn from it and move on. Turn

Nari held out her hand as the Mourning Guard approached her, her hand open and awaiting the cypher rune's placement upon her palm. She watched in slight horror, ever growing, as the thing before her reached up and ripped off it's entire head, placing the piece of it's body into her grasp before collapsing to the floor. Silence stretched for a few seconds as Nari's brain tried to process what just happened. When she was able to think - to a degree - again, she slowly turned to Freyd with a horrified look on her face, and opened her mouth. "Gross...gross....GROSSGROSSGROSSGROSS! TAKE IT! TA

She considered the question for a few seconds, wondering what would be worse. Her answer came slowly as she dodged around a few weaker attacks made by the pirates that had continued to swarm forwards, the monotonous, empty expressions a reminder that they were little more than just shells sent to beat them to death by Cardinal itself. A fact that likely would've been unnerving had Nari been paying any attention at all to the individuals in front of her, and not lost in her own thoughts and considerations. "You know, my immediate response would've been death - because that's it, that's th

She couldn't help but laugh at his concerns regarding being arrested, shaking off another weak attempt to bypass her defences as she clicked her tongue back at him in response. "Really? We're getting swarmed by what appears to be the underworld of the skyports - and there's definitely an irony in that, let me tell you - and you're worried about getting arrested before you can break and enter into some locked away area of the map? An area that you're not even sure you can enter...am I getting that right?" A quick glance upwards brought Nari's attention towards another concern, one that sh

They'd gotten into a rhythm now, and as the last of the guards fell beneath Morningstar's blade, Nari began to feel a moment of hope for their success. Although more of the pirates continued to rush forwards and towards them, they were easily being batted aside by the pair - their attacks little more than a nuisance compared to the devastation that Morningstar was bringing to their rank and file. Even her small amounts of technical attacks were helping to quell the tide, even if only slightly. Her gaze slid past the immediate trio of pirates, noticing that the once large wave beyond had

Nari's attacks may have been in vain, however she couldn't help but notice that her efforts were at least giving Morningstar a bit of breathing room to deal with the aspect of overwhelming the pirates and guards that continued to swarm towards them. She kept her shield close, prepared for any attacks that might try and sneak through, all while waiting for an opening that would allow her to lash outwards again and take down a few more of the bandits they were facing. "You know...this may be a bit of a late observation...but I'm starting to think that...staying here and facing off against

"Yeah, I'm okay. A bit more damage than I would've liked, but these shits are as nasty as I can be - maybe not to the same degree, but nasty nonetheless. Adds up over time..." She gave a small huff of laughter at the commentary of the guards becoming pushovers with the captain gone. "You're right, they're going to become a lot easier now that we can stun them. Although I wouldn't say they're entirely pushovers...still have a bit of a bite to them. Best if we bring them down as quickly as possible. Although, I'm not going to be super great at that...I'm built for taking hits, not necessarily gi