Xena

It was a unusual day, one of which Xena wouldn't soon forget, a notification displayed on her hood from the Greek God if lightning, undoubtedly a quest line. One she didn't think she should have, the tigress pulled her hood down as she read the letter, it was one of a dozen letters sent out to players, the gods called. And they seemed talent. Funny, Xena hadn't even finished her shop completely, sighing she quickly grabbed a bag of materials off her counter, the event activation was in about 2 hours and it was all the way on floor 17. Maybe a bit more leeway would of been nice, the fur hood bl

Xena had sighed, she supposed there was no avoiding it. She was in too deep now, and the euphoria being pet seemed to of given her clouded her judgement. "I go by a few... Tigress... some call me The Tiger Lady... but my name, the one my friend calls me, is Xena..." She didn't expect any of them to know the name at all. She was but a small info broker and performer. "And you... if from what I've heard and can deduce correctly is right... you're the Red Wanderer... aren't you?" She tilted her head looking up at him, a gaze much of innocence in her eyes, innocence and curiosity, for once droppin

Her head did try to move back again as he went to touch them. It was weird, almost like she could feel them being touched, they twitched a bit under the gardeners soft hand, Xena herself felt calmed by the touching in fact, though she certainly still didn't enjoy the group she was a part of. She didnt make any noises but did close her eyes, the cat tail behind her seemed to just curl now dropped downwards. Her head tilted somewhat towards the hand as this went on. "You'd pull them because some people are mean... but you probably already know more then I could ever need to explain about that...

Xena continued listening to their conversation until she was brought up, she never did reveal her name so it was difficult to even refer to her, but she could pretty easily tell when they were talking about her, her tail waved silently back and forth behind her as she leaned against the labyrinth wall a good 4-5 feet away from the group, keeping her distance for obvious reasons she could assume they'd understand. Nari had began speaking to her, she very evidently wasn't a fan of their words. "And this is why I try to do things alone..." Simply muttering to herself, in all likelihood all 3 of t

Another day another attempt at making more songs, today felt off though, as if everything was going to go wrong, it seems that feeling was right as when Xena began crafting both crystals simply shattered in her hands, one of which she hadn't even closed her hand with yet, what hell is that luck. She decided it may be a better idea to try again tomorrow, today lady luck seems to be saying fuck you. Plopping back onto her sleeping bag she wondered if this was even worth it, she's made one sale, at least it was extremely profitable. Maybe she should import her info selling business into this shop

Familiar Obtainment Thread Familiar Name Amber Familiar Description A small tiger cub, their fur is a mixture of orange and black with tufts of white. Their eyes are a bright ocean blue. Familiar Image

Xena had heard the bat before they even entered, it wasn't exactly quiet. Hopping backwards with a bit of a flip as it went for its dive attack on snow she didn't attack, snow wanted to draw aggro first and who was Xena to not let her. "I hope you know what your doing..." She simply commented quickly looking around the cave for the child with no sign of them they'd have to kill this bat first before they could actually scout the area. The bat seemed content moving around the area and attacking snow so Xena stood at the cave entrance, maybe she could get them to fly into the light. Would help

Shop Post: Transaction Date: 2/12/2022 Cost of Transaction: 1 Material Crafter's Profession: Performer Crafter's Rank: 1 Item Name: Relic Song Item Tier: 1 Item Type: Support Song Item Rarity: Rare Item Enhancements: HP Recovery 2 Craft/Appraisal/Obtainment IDs & Rolls: 203643 CD 11 Item Description: A calm song one of the Relic's of the past, infused into a melody that heals the soul.

Picking up some materials she sighed setting them on the table and just flopping on the pillow she had for a chair. She rubbed her eyes her tail curling around on the floor behind her. "Man me being this tired is gonna flunk this crafting ain't it..." She mumbled taking two the crystals standing up, with a yawn she began to sing a soft melody, one of her palms however accidentally tightened to much cracking the crystal in it making it useless, whatever. The other crystal seems to of been enchanted just fine. Glowing a soft blue holding it to her eyes it was a rare, better then nothing atleast.

Xena sighed coming above ground to the counter placing a small package on the counter with the name 'Monarch' inscribed on the top, should it be opened a flawless recording crystal was placed inside, laying down it was encased in foam to prevent scratches. Going back downstairs Xena sighed to herself flopping on her sleeping bag yawning. She wanted to sleep but she had work to do, damnit. Why couldn't she just sleep SAO away, rubbing her face in the pillow she sat up walking over to the materials, maybe crafting again would be a useful waste of time. She didn't have anything better to do.

Xena's eye's had only finally gazed up when she felt the hug like grab behind her, holy shit that was a lot of big cats. With mild panic as she was forced to fall backwards the world just, turned to void somewhat, Xena had never had the pleasure of using a corridor crystal before, they were a tad out of her price range at this moment. Simply hugging the small tiger cub the world seemed to shift and change, almost sporadically as it suddenly came to a normal vision, that of the tree line and the sky behind it, the only issue was about 2 seconds in the started getting further away, and Xena real

Xena wasn't exactly paying attention rubbing and patting the smol ball of fluff, she had managed to tame it after actually getting closer to it, having picked it up she feels a tug on her cloaks hood pulling it off having her tiger ears pop out as the rather large amount of tigers is brought to her attention, she didn't even look scared she looked like she wanted to pet them, that wasn't until Freyd practically began to drag her out of there. "Wait but the kittiesssss!" Xena simply stated watching them shrink further away, she was holding a ball of floof in her arms though so she was happy bei

Xena shrugged, her opinion was her own, and so was there's, there was a respect in that. "Can't say i understand your connection too NPC's, a few of my acquaintances feel the same towards them, pitying them and all that. But, you can't feel bad for someone in a preprogrammed loop, that kind of worry will melt at your mind." It was a bit of free advice from her, she wasn't that high of a level but she had a decent idea of what happened to the mind under amounts of stress, some turn to insanity, like quite a few players in this game. "Promised a friend huh? Heh, something about that's familiar."

"Well duh that's kind of why I picked it." Xena seemed to be just trying to ignore everything that just happened as she looked off into the treeline. "Although, I don't appreciate the teasing about me liking tigers." She simply commented in a pouty tone, she crossed her arms facing him now. "So, your the person with the searching skills, you wanna help me look for one or not heh." As she stated that she looked up at the mongoose giving the two the creep eye. "By they way i think your pet may be hungry, they've got that kind of look in their eyes." Stating that she looked back towards you, her

Xena had kept her line of thought together as she had listened too the girl, supposedly she reminded this lady of something, could just be a mistake who knows. She shouldn't press for details though, with a shrug she nodded. "Can't say i've met anyone lookin like me." She turned her sight for a moment hearing the grass around them moving, it was a lovely sound. Turning back to find snow in her menu a spear had appeared next to her, it was rather ornate and flashy, not the kind of thing you'd find Xena dead with. "Bit of a eye dragger ain't it?" She commented not meaning any harm simply asking

Xena's cheeks did grow a bit rosy as he mentioned the ears, she had been doing her best not to even make them noticeable though with her hood coming off and on so often it didn't really matter. One of them twitched the second they were even mentioned which Xena shrugged. "I was, planning to see if there was any tiger cub familiars, I doubt it but." She simply shrugged it off, turning away. If it would be anywhere it would be in a jungle, that was her line of thought. "I don't think familiars can go past a certain size sadly, heh I'd kill to have a nice big tiger as my familiar, it'd be so fluf

Crafting Shop Post: Transaction Date: 2/12/2022 Cost of Transaction: 1 Material Crafter's Profession: Performer Crafter's Rank: 1 Item Name: Swan Song Item Tier: 1 Item Type: Support Song Item Rarity: Perfect Item Enhancements: Familiar's Sight Craft/Appraisal/Obtainment IDs & Rolls: 203615 CD 12 Item Description: A calm song with very little in the way of intensity, but all the same moving. Shop Post: Transaction Date: 2/12/2022 Cost of Transaction: 1 Material Crafter's Profession: Pe

"Whelp, lets try this again." Xena had awoken from her sleep in the bag in the corner of the basement, coming back up to find a order she took it down and just tried to craft a perfect crystal, if she could do that she could infuse the song wanted into it, but that was the issue, she didn't entirely know how to work with crystals yet, and so getting a perfect recording crystal would be its own pain in the ass. Holding two crystals in each hand and singing a melody she had came up with both of her hands glowed as the crystals inside them changed, one had had a perfect recording crystal i

Xena just stood there, her legs clearly still shaking. "You're... you're just too kind..." After commenting that she signed softly removing a gauntlet and rubbing her eyes with her cloth sleeve. She finally calmed down, but this just didn't feel right anymore. "Thank... thank you for putting up with that..." Xena had sighed pulling hood down, looking over at Freyd, slowly walking over she simply hugged him. "I'm glad you find me worth while..." She stated softly, she didn't want to make him accidentally fall off the tree stump so she let go after about 5 seconds. She pulled her hood back up lo

Staying a decent distance from everyone for her own safety Xena scratched her head quietly as the group talked, she didnt typically enjoy being called cute, she was very certain almost no one did, she glared at nari for their commentd as the ears twitched slightly on her head causing her too scratch them pulling a small black book out of her cloak, she decided to mind her own business and not eavesdrop on the trios conversation, they seemed to be friends after all. Standing at least 7rl feet from the group she had wrote a few things quickly into the book with a quill before it snapped shut and

Xena certainly began to tear up by this point, she just couldn't understand it, friend or not she had been acting like a terrible person for a good portion of this trip, she just could not understand why he was being so nice. This personality of hers in fact was why she was alone so often, she was a difficult person to be friends with due to her having a rather brash and easily angered personality, and Freyd was actually the only person to take it in strides that she's has met and she just couldn't understand it. "Why... just why are you... Why are you so nice!" She had muttered the first few

Xena seemed to shiver and twitch a tiny bit still coming out of that spasm, she felt the need to apologize despite him saying there was need, she didn't want to upset him anymore then she already had though, or that she thought she had, the entire quest point was honestly null to her at this point, she wanted to just do something fun with Freyd, and this kind of thing wasn't it, but she knew changing the entire day around would lead to issues later. "I-I..." She just stood there thinking, honestly this place was her element, she loved jungles in real life and she loved this floor in general, s

Xena certainly didn't seem amused, she had never seen this girl before and here they were apologizing to her like she had just done something wrong. Xena was a provocative type but she wasn't that harsh, she rather bluntly said. "No worries, just don't tend to like being stared at by strangers, then again the whole Neko thing kind of forces that, Is why I usually keep my hood up." She shrugged one of the two ears twitching before she pulled up the hood, no need to have them just out and about. Someone might grab at them, it's happened before and it caused her to be an orange player for about a

Xena just stayed there for about 5 minutes, her body trembling as she went through what was likely a sudden panic attack. Certainly the first one she's experienced in Aincrad, her eyes felt like they were going to shake right out of her skull. She was whispering to herself, it sounded like she was just saying. "Be calm" Repeatedly, trying to force herself out of this sudden situation, it was only occasionally interrupted by a short nervous giggle, she knew it was all in good fun but the sheer suddenness had just, ruptured something in her head. Feeling the hand on her shoulder she suddenly re

Xena had sighed to herself, she had been walking through second floor holding a book in her hand, it was a small blue one, inside she had been jotting down lyrics the entire day. Taking floors, preferably low ones for inspiration she found herself on the second one, ironically it was the floor that put her in a depressed spiral the past 1 or 2 years. She wondered how her real body was doing, how her cat was doing, hopefully both were well, she imagined that she couldn't be here in the game if her real body wasn't alive. It wasn't until that thought crossed her mind that a NPC walked up to her,