Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #21 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) The gilded box seemed clear, Raidou takes care to open it watching for any trigger activating. There was no trap but Raidou was not one to act without caution. Within the container lie a small bag of coin, a couple more hunks of ore and a couple of small parcels concealed in a wrapping of white linen with twine holding it shut. Strange given the exterior of the box, but it was of no matter Raidou had yielded quite the haul already so the contents of the container hurt him not in its scarcity. This, however, did give him a bit more wind in his sails. Retrieving what was in the box and finding a place for them among his belongings. Raidou made for the town of beginnings before taking himself upward to more difficult floors, utilizing the warp gate in a flash of blue light that drops him in the mining town he had been at before: [Raidou Moves to Floor 21] ID# 136783 results: Loot: 6 Contents: 50*Col 2*T1 materials uncommon consumable #136783a uncommon consumable #136783b Edited February 27, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #22 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) Exiting the walls of the settlement on floor 21, littered with gemstones of light that fill the darkened cavern around him. Raidou presses on through the cave to the garden of sorts contained on this floor, moving through spires of stone attached on the ground and overhead. Moving around moistened walls, wet with condensation from some unseen source of water, passing through small passageways that were hidden along the walls. Raidou found his way to a small circular grotto littered with a familiar site of undisturbed clumps of untapped resources in a scattered pile of a rainbow tinge. Finding his way through the pile Raidou begins to harvest them one by one focused on one in particular. Picking away at a familiar set of white herbs, topped with ivory leaves that protrude from the rough stone underneath his feet. They were similar but the quality was much more notable amongst the pack of them, a tag on his HUD labeling them as [Third Tier] as he retrieves them. ID# 136784 results: Craft: 5, Loot: 15+(5/3/3)=26, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +1 Bonus Material 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 3 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #23 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) Removing each he could find one by one, the familiar gilded sheen that could be seen if you looked close enough at the tufts while brushing them with your hand giving away the maturity of the crops. A snap with each pull Raidou manages to peel up quite a load so far, and it appeared the pile was more or less completely mature and Raidou would have no issue exploiting it for the resources he needed. With each removal being added to a pouch that began to build a bit from each extraction, the red wanderer endured on with each one. Around him, the walls had small glowing prisms of light, producing just enough to see where he was aimed in shades of reds and blues that emanated outward a few feet from where they were placed. A beautiful sight, to many it would be but the nomad paid them no mind keeping himself on the task at hand. ID# 136787 results: Craft: 12, Loot: 1+(5/3/3)=12, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +3 Bonus Material 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 7 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #24 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) Continued extraction in the silence of the small cave he found himself within, in the light provided by the walls in a variety of colors. Each break of the roots that attached the foliage to the rocky uneven flooring echoed off the walls of the cave around him, creating a rhythm with each pull and tug of them being removed. Pulling the final white plant from the patch, leaving nothing more than a barren patch of dirt under him and a small pile of quite a number of them at his side. Raidou scoops them up one at a time adding them to his pouch carefully, taking the time to dab them free of any liquids before adding them gingerly to the pouch. Leaving this empty node, Raidou moves on to a small outcropping of stone and removing his blade gets ready to begin breaking it down to look for metals that may be contained within its shell. ID# 136788 results: Craft: 7, Loot: 6+(5/3/3)=17, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +2 Bonus Material 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 11 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #25 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) Heaving his blade down along the hunk of rock, it pops to small chunks of jagged pieces. Raidou begins to sift through the remains with a turn of each stone. The nomad's attentions shifting over them with each one moving in his hands claiming a few from the ground that had rich glimmers of metal within its body, breaking up the grey with a sharp line of gold that made its way throughout the chunk showing its value. Placing this chunk and a few others nearby that he manages to find of similar composition into a tan linen bag that he unties from his belt and adds them into softly as to not tear a hole in what he intended to carry them in, Raidou leaves the bag on the stone surface underfoot and continues to check through the remnants of what once sat here in this grotto painted with odd colored light. ID# 136789 results: Craft: 11, Loot: 13+(5/3/3)=24, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +3 Bonus Material 5*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 16 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #26 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) After a few more pieces are found among the wreckage, looking through each and every piece in a form of segregation as he moves them aside with each one being determined valuable or not. Raidou adds the few more he finds to the bag at his side, the rest just being a simple rock in shattered pieces. Raidou was content with the few that he did find, given that mining was not something he considered himself proficient given his trade but would be sufficient enough hopefully to aid Griswold in the formation of weapons and armor. Retrieving the small linen sack and moving around through the grotto to another location. Finding his way to a flattened surface of rock along the back wall, the faint glimmer of what Raidou assumed naturally formed gems pressed into the skin of the wall. Staring back at him were colors of green red blue and the like. ID# 136792 results: Craft: 1, Loot: 9+(5/3/3)=20, Success! 2*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 18 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #27 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) it appeared as though the variety of what was here was great, given the sheer number of different colors were stuck within its surface in a myriad of hues. Raidou begins to wedge the point of his blade between each jewel. Pushing it into any cracks that he could find around them, among every piece on the wall. Some fought against an exit in a silent resistance while others seemed to break free with little, pebbles falling free with each as it pops free from its enclosure on its surface and Raidou claims them with his fingers from the wall before softly dropping it down on an unoccupied portion of the linen sack at his side. An emerald, a diamond, a ruby, an amethyst, and a sapphire Raidou assumes as he retracts each one at a time taking care to not bang them together when he adds them to the pile. ID# 136793 results: Craft: 11, Loot: 7+(5/3/3)=18, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +3 Bonus Material 5*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 23 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #28 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) After the final few he could seem to find the space to remove them, Raidou decides the rest would be to difficult to remove without more proper tools. Raidou wasn't convinced that the end of his blade would serve him well in chiseling out the rest from there entrapment in the surface of this cavern wall and decides to leave them where they were deposited, possibly to the next player that would grace this place with their presence. Leaning down over the small sack with a pile of now eleven small gems of all assortment of shades and color, Raidou carefully shuffles them onto the stone flooring before picking them up and softly adding them in place to the rest of the contents of said bag. Layed within with the hunks of gold, Raidou started to contemplate the notion that maybe his range of collection could be much broader then he was used to doing. ID# 136798 results: Craft: 9, Loot: 11+(5/3/3)=22, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +2 Bonus Material 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 27 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #29 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) Moving away from this prospect of gems littered along with the chamber of stone, Raidou leaves the rest for another to claim taking to a hunk of crystal formed in jagged edges that protrude out from some center point. Each seemed of glass taking on a pearlescent reflection of color of all hues, Raidou had seen a few of these before noting them as recording crystals used to store a produced song to abuse its effects in combat without disruption. Another item that would prove of use in endeavors to come, as each effect would compound people's success in the field. Placing his index and thumb on one that stuck out Raidou began to wiggle one and with a soft pop, it snaps free from attachment. Raidou takes care to remove a second satchel and place it here, to keep the denser ores and gems from scratching or potentially breaking this presumably fragile prism of glass. ID#136799 results: Craft: 12, Loot: 7+(5/3/3)=18, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +3 Bonus Material 5*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 32 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #30 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) A survived scour over the small glass cylinders of myriad color, Raidou continues the same extraction process that proved correct the first attempt he had made. With ease they are removed one at a time and gingerly added to the linen sack Raidou has prepared for them, taking care to not allow them to walk within and bump together. The removal of a final one as all that is left is this odd oval stone with small sockets where these small shards of crystal were contained, a small pile of pebbles left in the wake of their evocation. Satisfied with the result, while staring over the now stale node bearing no fruit Raidou stands and leaves it with the time to regenerate. Taking a query among what he had gathered so far, a soft count of each Raidou takes note of what was missing within each bag. Coming to a conclusion Raidou starts a scan of the area. ID# 136800 results: Craft: 4, Loot: 18+(5/3/3)=29, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +1 Bonus Material 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 35 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #31 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) His inventory complete, Raidou noticed a lack of two more types of resources were not of ample quantity inside the containers he had been compiling them in. Scanning the area of this small crevice of wealth, Raidou takes his eyesight around looking for something that could be of use for a tailor. Settling his gaze on a small bunch of shrubs, small billows of white jettisoned along the branches. Moving to them and scanning them carefully before pulling a small bundle free Raidou deduced they must be cotton blotches and began to pick more of from the tendrils of brush with each snapping free after a tug. Collecting a fair amount in his hands, about a hand full before it manifests a small bag and then updates in his HUD as <<A Bag of Cotton>> which affirms his beliefs while he endures the process of extrication that was being performed. ID# 136801 results: Craft: 9, Loot: 16+(5/3/3)=27, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +2 Bonus Material 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 39 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #32 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) Dropping small bags containing a fair bit of cotton to his feet with each being manifest after removing enough from the branches on this small brush that was a tad out of place in this location, Raidou looks at the small containers and points an active tally out taking note of what lay on the cavern floor. Raidou keeping an active tally in tandem in his head took note he may need a few more to offset what he had already, a persistent effort of removal from the bush of fabric components. Compiling them each before adding them to the small collection at his feet, letting them pile into a small mound of the small softball-sized bags at his feet. Pulling the last clump from the cords of green manifesting into the last bag to be used to create bolts for tailoring, Raidou looks on to a pathetic empty looking bush. ID# 136802 results: Craft: 7, Loot: 14+(5/3/3)=28, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +2 Bonus Material 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 43 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #33 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) Claiming each and tossing them into the bag with the recording crystals, in aims that the softness of the contents of small containers would shield the recording crystals from any potential jarring that could deal harm to them. Pulling the sack shut with a yank of a small cord wrapped around its neck, Raidou affixes it to his belt on his back left, a good 5 inches or so from the bag with the heavier materials. A stare upward to the ceiling on the crags of stone that protruded from it, Raidou takes note of some webbing that seemed stretched between them. With a shrug not sure of the use it could have, figured he might as well try to claim it. Drawing his blade and using it as a rod to collect them down, it was a bit tough to maneuver his blade overhead like this. Finally guiding the point of the blade to where it needed to be, he started to try and pull it down. ID# 136803 results: Craft: 5, Loot: 2+(5/3/3)=13, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +1 Bonus Material 2*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 45 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #34 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) After some effort and a bit awkward movement trying to get his blade where it needed to fall, Raidou manages to get it positioned correctly near the stalactite that found its way down from above. Catching his point on the edge of the webs overhead Raidou pushed against them, discovering them to be surprisingly thick and tough to remove, having to put more weight behind his pushes and pulls until it eventually begins to snap free like the breaking of a rope. Spinning his weapon to collect the entirety of the cable on the edge of his weapon, Raidou slowly retracts his blade down keeping the adhesive away from his body. Taking a bit of fabric from his pocket, Raidou begins to wipe the adhesive cords from his weapon in clumps until it pools in a pile in this small rag. Folding it up like a napkin and applying some twine to keep it shut, Raidou adds it into his satchel. ID# 136804 results: Craft: 2, Loot: 12+(5/3/3)=23, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +1 Bonus Material 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 48 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #35 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) Now on to the last type of material he still needed to attain, Raidou thought to himself having just pocketed the small bundle of a spider web's into his satchel. Raidou took a quick glance around the enclosure looking more and more barren as time passed on and he stripped away at it. In the corner of the cave near the dripping of some water littering the ceiling of the cavern, a small grouping of brown mushrooms more than likely worthless for brewing potions but may have some use in the cooking of food. Accepting the gambit that may come from eating such an undisclosed fungus and descending down over the top of them Raidou begins to snap the small stems that held the bloom aloft and collected them into a small pile as he removed them with relative ease. Looking at the modest pile with a running tally Raidou deduced he needed a few more to even the counts. ID# 136806 results: Craft: 12, Loot: 19+(5/3/3)=30, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +3 Bonus Material 5*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 53 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #36 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) Plucking a few more of the small brown fungi from where they lay, drying the tops of them off of the water that beaded down from a small protrusion overhead. Wiping them on the thicker exterior on his red robe to polish off the water, as the robe was more weather resistant and could accept the water without issue Raidou began to add more of them to the pile one at a time. Scooping the final count up with little remaining in the location from which they were retrieved, Raidou began to add them to the bag where he had the cotton and crystals hoping that they were durable enough to survive a journey back as he was now out of sacks to divide them into. Retracting back to standing from his knelt position, Raidou surveyed the area and checked the status. The place looked to be vary empty minus a few more spots, giving Raidou a sense of completion given the state of the place. ID# 136815 results: Craft: 8, Loot: 10+(5/3/3)=21, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +2 Bonus Material 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 57 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #37 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) Raidou finds himself into the center, in a few golden plants with tufts of gold showing their presence to the rest of the area. Kneeling down being back in his element begins to scan for mature ones in the pack, but it appears that these are a bit tougher to remove than he was expecting. They were golden thread to be sure but they were fighting extraction something fierce. Adding a bit of heft behind his pull it finally breaks free with a hard snap, showing that the roots ran much deeper into the ground. Raidou found this peculiar, given the ground was more stone than soil but was not going to let this deter him from attempting to pick the patch clean of all that was worth plucking from it. Lifting himself back up and back over the next few Raidou started to scan each carefully for another to remove. ID# 136819 results: Craft: 1, Loot: 7+(5/3/3)=18, Success! 2*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 59 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #38 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) Raidou struggles against the roots that adhered these plants to the floor, enduring through the strain and pulling against them in fervor to break them free. One more is loosed with a fight, Raidou falls back again with the sheer force of the upheaval that causes dust to assail the cavern wall with debris. The upheaval that has to be performed to extract it from the stone and soil. "I don't get why they are growing so deep here." Raidou remarks looking down at the displacement of the dirt with the reflection of his spectacles in the strange lighting. Raidou takes note of how large of a divet is present with each one taken from the ground as if small craters from an impact. Dropping this one that was in his grasp into a pile with a few more Raidou continues to work at removing them, despite the difficulty in doing so. ID# 136825 results: Craft: 7, Loot: 2+(5/3/3)=13, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +2 Bonus Material 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 62 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #39 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) The last few fought just as much as the first, Raidou managed to claim them one by one from the dirt with a glorious fight with each extraction he performs. With the final one pulled free, each having been removed into a small pile of gold to his side. Raidou takes a deep breath to clear the air and fight against his exhaustion before he collects up the materials he had obtained from the cavern floor. Content with his yield and tired from the consistent effort he had been pouring out in these last few hours Raidou was determined to head home and add the haul to the guild vault for the others to utilize. Claiming remaining his remaining bags from the area around him and taking a final look back at the now picked clean grotto devoid of materials that now lined his inventory in the success that he had. ID# 136828 results: Craft: 1, Loot: 13+(5/3/3)=24, Success! 2*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 76 Total T3 Materials: 64 Edited February 28, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted February 27, 2020 Author #40 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) The cave was empty and left in its wake was a dimly lit cave of shattered stone and patches of barren soil, and Raidou was gratified at the fact that it was his doing and he had the entire contents in his possession. Finding his way out of paths and through small breaks in the walls that he had traveled in getting to the grotto, Raidou makes his way back to the mining city placed precariously on floor 21. In the glimmer of the city's odd lighting, Raidou beats a path to the warp gate and having completed his journey and although tired was better for it. A familiar flash of blue energy drags him to floor 3, and a few minutes later Raidou opens the door of his shop. Entering to soft candlelight and dropping a few bags of materials onto his countertop he finds a seat and takes a well-deserved rest. Placeholder: Looking for chest ID# 136829 results: Loot: 3+(5/3/3)=14, Failure! Edited February 27, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
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