Raidou 1 Posted March 7, 2020 Author #41 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) Finding his way through the city to the quest board and undertakes this floors variant of the quest he was performing, eager to get started here and finalize the journey with quite a load. The quest board wasn't too difficult to find, and Raidou moves from it deeper outside the walls of the city. This area was much more empty than the prior, which was more to the swordsman's style. The nomad chocks this fact to the floors difficulty may be deterring others from frequenting it, which was fine by him given it more than likely meant less disturbed sources for him to hit. Back down recognizable pathing, through varied holes and cracks within the cavern walls leads to the hidden cove of the garden he had hit with Ceres. It seems to be just as bustling as before. Without a moment to waste, Raidou moves to the back wall and begins to harvest. ID# 137281 results: Craft: 11, Loot: 3+(5/3/3)=14, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +3 Bonus Materials 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 4 Edited March 7, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 7, 2020 Author #42 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) Heading toward the back wall Raidou inserts his arm into the crack here. Arm deep in the small crack that he had found multiple gemstones prior, Raidou shuffles about inside hoping his sense of touch would find something within. A few pats along the back walls and around his grip finds a small sphere. Grabbing ahold of the object and with a hearty tug, it breaks free with the sounds of pebbles bouncing down just out of sight. In his palm the glow of an uncut diamond in the dim multicolored light of the cave he was in dances in its state, a beautiful sight of reflecting color. Placing this stone at his feet, Raidou shoves his arm back into the crevice to find others that may lay just out of his vision in this dark passage. With a bit more success Raidou retrieves a ruby and some black glass-like material. ID# 137282 results: Craft: 3, Loot: 11+(5/3/3)=22, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +1 Bonus Materials 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 7 Edited March 7, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 7, 2020 Author #43 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) The wall continues to offer up uncut stones for jewelry, ones that Kasumi or another artisan could surely use to create fine pieces. All of which Raidou drops into the pile, creating a collection of sapphire, ruby, diamond, this blackened glass, emerald and the like. This doesn't halt his momentum though and without pause, Raidou shoves his arm back in. Flailing about within the confines of the hole on this wall Raidou locates more contained within and takes note of what he extracts. Assumed that there would only be but a couple more to extract, Raidou prepares himself. This was fine by the nomad, as the load he had attained so far was more than sufficient but he was also interested in how far he could take this journey before starting to become tired from the affair. Worming around in its confines still, looking eagerly for more nuggets inside he could take. ID# 137283 results: Craft: 7, Loot: 14+(5/3/3)=25, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 11 Edited March 7, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 7, 2020 Author #44 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) His suspicions confirmed only happening upon two more stones inside the grottos rock wall, retrieving these from inside and adding them to the accumulation of the same at his feet. They all reak of the quality expected of this floor, much more hefty and large then the floors before. Pulling free the sack tied on his belt Raidou begins to scoop them up and takes a gander at the rest of the area in the process. It is apparent that the herbs here have been left untouched since his last stint here, and Raidou aimed to claim those next in the chain. Wrapping up what he had, as the last is added to the bag which is then adhered to his belt Raidou moves to the lush sea of white color that these herbs had painted on this cavern floor. It seems the cardinal had chosen to grow cold-ivory here today. ID# 137284 results: Craft: 4, Loot: 3+(5/3/3)=14, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +1 Bonus Materials 2*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 13 Edited March 7, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 7, 2020 Author #45 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) With experienced hands and an experienced mind, Raidou begins to process the patch in a mechanical rhythm he's built upon in time as he sections off mentally and starts to take each in a grid-like pattern. The task of retrieval is trivial to the nomad, having done this for what seemed like a million times before it had become second nature to him as he starts to compile them into a small stack with soft tosses as he continues to dig away on the followed unit. After a few moments, a nice size stack of them lay to the side of the rounding, in haste that comes from a skill built from intervals that have long past. Left in its wake is about a half a dozen materials that were expertly picked and now lay ready to retrieve, in what seemed like seconds in a flash of insight in a show. ID# 137285 results: Craft: 2, Loot: 17+(5/3/3)=28, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +1 Bonus Materials 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 16 Edited March 7, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 7, 2020 Author #46 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) A few more skitter to the side upheaved and tossed underhand to meet the rest. Raidou wipes a bit of sweat and grime from his brow with his right sleeve, still leaning in to get a closer inspection of the job, his eyes darting about as his hands drag across the tufts and cause that obvious golden sheen in the multicolored light in this cavern. One purveys its maturity and with the quick snap of a root, its broken and tossed to the rest. Raidou was in his element, this is what he did day by day after all, and it showed in how effortless the task appeared to those that would look on. The patch began to hollow out, running low on ones to fetch and in its wake small divets of disturbed earth and obviously immature children. This small garden of potion-making material had served its purpose though, and that's all the swordsman hoped for. ID# 137303 results: Craft: 2, Loot: 7+(5/3/3)=18, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +1 Bonus Materials 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 19 Edited March 7, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 7, 2020 Author #47 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) Removing himself from the kneeling position he was in, returning to his feet and dusting himself off Raidou moves to the pile of herbs he had picked and pulled from the patch of white. Scooping them up into his satchel with a free hand, Raidou checks his surroundings for another node which isn't too difficult to find. There seemed to be a small node of dark blue metal on the back walls, comprising the wall of the back of this grotto. Finishing his pick up of the resources he had, Raidou moves to the wall and begins to inspect it, curious if he should attempt the same methods he had taken before given this was the cave wall and not a simple protruding stone as before. Taking a gambit and hoping not to cause a cave-in, with a bit of reluctance and ready to bolt if things go south upon impact. ID# 137304 results: Craft: 9, Loot: 1+(5/3/3)=12, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 21 Edited March 7, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 7, 2020 Author #48 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) Raidou heaves his heavy broadsword down along the wall in attempts to break some of the ore vein free for pick up. With great success, the gamble works with a crash of steel on stone. Breaking just enough off the surface of the rock as to not cripple the caves' integrity while at the same time knocking a few pieces of rich in metal ores free from the wall with his downward stroke. Littered about in halves and chunks of darkened black stone, the metal within shines a hefty dark blue back at Raidou's pupils through the lenses on his nose in their purity in the reds and blues of the crystalline lighting here in this backroom cavern hidden from the masses. Shifting them around and aside based on the content he could readily see within, Raidou picks quite a few out of the stack and sets them away from the remaining hunks that fell. ID# 137305 results: Craft: 10, Loot: 16+(5/3/3)=27, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +3 Bonus Materials 5*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 26 Edited March 7, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 7, 2020 Author #49 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) With a repeated blow, Raidou fells more of this wall. A winch and with shut eyes, half expecting to have to flee if events sour and he is forced to flee to escape the crumble of this safe haven but is pleasantly surprised that it stands the test of structure to a repeated impact. Raidou makes the choice that what was left would be sufficient not wanting to press his luck and overextend the walls harvest and destroy this place in his greed. Sheathing his sword in a quick flip and flourish and checking the stones that were claimable to take with him with a turn of each in his hands, Raidou began to sort through the wreckage. As before finding the ores from the rocks was becoming second nature, Raidou had found himself becoming accustomed to gathering metals, gemstones, and fabrics just as readily as the herbs he was so fond of milling about in. ID# 137306 results: Craft: 8, Loot: 4+(5/3/3)=15, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 30 Edited March 7, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 7, 2020 Author #50 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) The last few stones after scanning what remained proved to be nothing more than rock, the twelve or so that Raidou had would have to suffice. Bagging these and tying them to his belt, Raidou moved on to the next category of resources he could lay eyes on. A small collection of cave lizards had nestled in what appeared to be an overgrowth of mushrooms that were sprouting out of one of the stalactites that jutted from the ceiling. Waving his hands to frighten the small critters from where they were feasting, Raidou shooed them away and started to check this collective for some that he could take for the guilds rising chef. They smelled of an almost cinnamon spice scent, reddish-pink in color with a tan stock. They looked a bit imposing and Raidou was a bit reluctant to assume they were edible before his HUD confirmed them as cooking ingredients. ID# 137307 results: Craft: 6, Loot: 8+(5/3/3)=19, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 34 Edited March 7, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 7, 2020 Author #51 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) Despite them being confirmed as an ingredient, Raidou questioned if he would partake of anything cooked from them in fear for what his stomach might say afterward. Even though he wasn't convinced it was food, even with the cardinal labeling it as such Raidou kept on gathering from the pillar of stone. Hoping the smell wouldn't attach itself to the rest of the more normalized food that was already in his possession, Raidou began to add them to his back while picking them off this stone. There were quite a few here to pull out even with the local fauna tearing into them, which Raidou made sure to carefully inspect where he put his meat hooks as to not accidentally grab one of these small lizards instead of what he was after. The scent was still strong even in the linen bag they were placed in as the smell pushed outward from inside. ID# 137308 results: Craft: 10, Loot: 12+(5/3/3)=23, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +3 Bonus Materials 5*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 39 Edited March 7, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 7, 2020 Author #52 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) Raidou felt he would need to bathe after this otherwise he would smell of cinnamon for quite a while post this event. Finally complete with the transaction he had with this column of rock that found its way down from above, Raidou washed his hands of the area eager to escape the smell that was pungent. The smell lingered however as it emanated from the bag on his belt, and usually, such a scent wouldn't be so jarring except it seemed concentrated enough that it could punch through the container it was stored in. Moving on and away toward a bundle of webs that found a network between varied rows of stone, seeming abandoned by the creature that had produced them. Carefully using his sword to clump them up and using a sheet of fabric to wind them in, as to not get it stuck to his fingers Raidou bags the unwoven silks. ID# 137309 results: Craft: 2, Loot: 8+(5/3/3)=19, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +1 Bonus Materials 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 42 Edited March 7, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 7, 2020 Author #53 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) There was more here than first thought, and Raidou made short work of the first batch and moved to the second section of the same webbing. Followed by a twirl of his blade to bunch it up and careful procedure to bag it up, keeping it from adhering to everything inside as it had to the stonework here in this grotto Raidou communes more and more of this unrefined silk into his inventory. Despite the gathering of what he could find, the more he pressed forward into the small openings between the stalagmite that jutted upward from the floor, it seemed to keep going back deeper than he perceived it to be. Whatever had woven this tapestry of sticky string had done a glorious job of bulking tons of it into the small nook it found shelter in, obviously making its respective home here in this small pocket in this darkened cavern. ID# 137310 results: Craft: 12, Loot: 2+(5/3/3)=13, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +3 Bonus Materials 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 46 Edited March 7, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 7, 2020 Author #54 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) It seemed as though no end was in sight through the network of sticky string in this crack between the stone, Raidou poured his hands and blade within and kept on retrieving more and more of these spooled up clumps of the stuff from its interior despite how much had been removed already. Accepting the fact that if it wanted to continue to provide, Raidou would take what it had to offer him. Another wrapping of linen rag around another bundle, Raidou had quite the count and kept pouring himself in with no end in sight as of yet. At least the task was simple, and the events could have transpired worse off leaving him returning empty-handed and for his fortune, Raidou was grateful that the garden he had frequented was so filled to the brim with fruit to him to add to his stash and pass on to the other members. ID# 137311 results: Craft: 5, Loot: 8+(5/3/3)=19, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +1 Bonus Materials 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 49 Edited March 8, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 8, 2020 Author #55 Share Posted March 8, 2020 (edited) The webbing start to find an end, Raidou's blades point finding the back of the pocket this webbing was confined within with a scrape against the stone wall that lay behind it. Spinning the grip of his sword to spindle the remaining attached string from the walls around them and gather them to a more dense sphere of the material for storage, Raidou bags and tags the last of it with a bit of care as to not fasten it to his appendages in the process. A hop down from the platform he had found himself upon to reach this small alcove and back to a more solid surface, flourishing his black bladed sword and sheathing it the same as it was drawn. A bit of fatigue was setting in and becoming obvious, the day was surely coming to finality as he had been on this journey for quite some time now. ID# 137322 results: Craft: 1, Loot: 20+(5/3/3)=31, Success! 2*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 51 Edited March 8, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 8, 2020 Author #56 Share Posted March 8, 2020 (edited) The harvest proved to add quite the count to his collection of tailoring resources he had acquired this day, Raidou took the bag open and took note of the some odd thirty or so materials that would surely overwhelm his young upstart known as Setsuna. It would prove of use to the girl, however, if she intended to do what was required of her and the others she would need these unwoven fabrics Raidou was sure. Another mental count with the vague twiddle of his fingers as if moving the beads on an abacus that was not present, Raidou denotes that it was Performing recorders he was lacking in a rounding of the categories he needed and began a perusal of the area in attempts to find such a source. With Success, the stable reflective glass of these small devices to take in sound and reverberate it back show themselves. ID# 137323 results: Craft: 6, Loot: 19+(5/3/3)=30, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 55 Edited March 8, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 8, 2020 Author #57 Share Posted March 8, 2020 (edited) Found on the floor of the cave in a node of rounded stone, these jutting shards of reflective color find themselves upward in a tree of sharp points. Rebounding the dim-lit colored light from the atmosphere around them, twisting it to different shades as it finds its way through the clarity and casting them out in a spectrum at was truly a sight to behold if Raidou was one to take interest in such things. A small jostle of the points of these protrusions they begin to wiggle a bit before popping free from their stone cages, graced with the small ricochet of pebbles against the damp cavern floor beneath them as they break away. Setting them down beside him and persisting his extraction of each, Raidou struggled a bit to keep his eyes open as tiredness was starting to press into his psyche as a preying dream to lull him to sleep. ID# 137324 results: Craft: 8, Loot: 20+(5/3/3)=31, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 59 Edited March 8, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 8, 2020 Author #58 Share Posted March 8, 2020 (edited) Harvesting a few more of these clear prisms of color, fighting his eyesight from blurring Raidou could not help but shake his head a bit to sharpen his eyesight back to focus. Adjusting the frames on his with his left hand as his right continued to meticulously autonomously do the task subconsciously without his cognitive input. He felt as though he could execute this exercise in his sleep at this point, with the slightly blinded vision it seemed he still had little issue achieving a successful retrieval. To his right the crystal kept on piling up as he kept on pulling them from the stone they were affixed in, each one being of a usable state for his newfound musician Shiina to sing into. A slight smile painted on his face of the neighbor he had not acknowledged before now being trapped in here with him. It seemed that fate was funny that way. ID# 137325 results: Craft: 9, Loot: 16+(5/3/3)=27, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 63 Edited March 8, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 8, 2020 Author #59 Share Posted March 8, 2020 (edited) The last few pulled from the rock and added to the yield that had come before these final pieces, leaving but a pocked sphere of grey earth in its wake. Raidou bundles these up and pops something in his neck as he stands to his feet. The haul he had produced would have to suffice, he could feel himself fading and needed to return before he found himself unconscious here outside a settlement and he assumed that rest on a hard rock floor would not be comfortable. Adjusting the robe on his shoulders and taking a final look to the garden he had pillaged, it was pretty well swept clean for now but would surely regrow. A soft whisper to ears that would not hear him "Thanks for the meal." Raidou chuckled before pressing himself through the small entry that built its way into the stone grotto from the floor. ID# 137326 results: Craft: 3, Loot: 12+(5/3/3)=23, Success! [Gathering Activated!] +1 Bonus Materials 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T1 Materials: 98 Total T2 Materials: 37 Total T3 Materials: 66 Edited March 8, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted March 8, 2020 Author #60 Share Posted March 8, 2020 (edited) Heading back to the city from the hidden alcove he had found his way to, the one he had journeyed into with two prior Raidou was well versed in the path to and frow. The mining town still found itself empty of players, Raidou couldn't help but wonder if the place was fueled with absence for the entirety of the day or he had somehow avoided the activity. But this intrigue was quickly subdued by his setting fatigue as he let loose the matter and moved to the warp gate. "Floor 4" the nomad spoke as a flash of blueish energy tore reality around him to the familiar mists of the forests that encompassed floor 4. Taking himself to hermit's hermetic's, the red wanderer finds rest among his alembics and glasswares, having beat himself to the bone with his efforts but with it a haul that would last at least a few more days. Looking for Chest: ID# 137327 results: Loot: 1+(5/3/3)=14, Failure! Edited March 8, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
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