Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 #1 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) An awakening from soft bedding with a pour of early morning light that reflects itself from the lenses sitting on a nightstand to the right of the mattress he was resting on. Sleep was not something Raidou found easily but it seemed as though he managed a bit of sleep. Eating a bit of some varied food he had procured topped with some dessert that Gaius had prepared and left for him in the guild vault. Even more, taken back by the fact that such an untamed personality was capable of such minute detail that cooking would surely require. Raidou finishes the necessary nourishment albeit quickly and stands from the softened surface with a rub of his face. Retrieving his glasses from the stand and positioning them on his face, he aims to set out early so he may return early. Tolbana was empty this morning, as most mornings the players would come later. Raidou knew the fact and was half the reason he chose to come out so close to dawn. Consumed Lemon Berry Palmiers (+3 Loot Dice) Spoiler Raidou, The Red Wanderer: Level: 31 HP: 620/620 En: 62/62 Weapon: The Black Star - Genesis [1HSS] (T1/Perfect): Paralyze 1 (9-10), Taunt (+1 Hatred from Attacks/Howls, +2 on Focused), Vampiric [Offensive] 1 (Recover 10% of Total HP on 9-10) Misc: Onyx Spectacles [Trinket] (T1/Perfect): +3 Loot Dice Misc: Red Wanderer's Robe [Light] (T1/Perfect): +3 Evasion Skills: 1 Handed Straight Sword: Rank 3 Parry: Obtained Gatherer: Obtained Searching: Rank 5 (GM) (+5 Loot Dice on Non Combat Gathering) Concentration [Extra]: +1 Accuracy on next attack, 3 turn cool down Battle Ready Inventory: Auric Sol [1HSS] (T2/Perfect): +6 Base Damage Self-Heal Recovery Potion*4 Teleport Crystal*1 Swordsman's Gauntlet [Heavy] (T2/Perfect): +54 Damage Mitigation Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #2 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) With relative speed Raidou makes haste outside of the walls, he was not one to dally or procrastinate on such affair. As a man on a mission, he trails back in a sporadic low profile movement of softened footfalls outside of the city gates and walls, past the various NPC that scatter about in an almost clockwork fashion with little regard to the actual time. Raidou has little issue finding his way back to his small alcove of value, the place he was frequenting every day for the same nuggets that seem to always greet him morning or night depending on when he decided to return. Today was no different, and although what was here seemed changed in every occurrence, the fact that it was plentiful was obvious. Sliding under the wall and past the thick toxic yellow, Raidou enters his home away from home. This place meant the world to him, it was a means to an end. ID# 140387 results: Craft: 9, Loot: 2+[3/3/5]=13, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials [Eggs Collected!] +5 Eggs 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 3 Total Eggs: 5 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #3 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) Gracing the center most section today was the dimmed lightened orange tips of Tangerine dream, filling the grotto with a pungent citrus smell. This was a signature of the plant that made an excellent source of perfumes in lower doses and when used in paste antitoxins. Raidou had made a few salves of the stuff before, and given its protective quality topped with a rather enjoyable fragrance to boot it was rather useful. Pushing around in the small garden sprouted from the rocky rough terrain they were encompassing he started to extract what he could find agreeable and usable in his future endeavors. The removed ones start to gain birth as each is added to the prior, growing in mass as they begin to pile up with each successful pull from the nomad who had no issue doing such a task, he was obviously in his element and to those that would look on it showed. ID# 140388 results: Craft: 6, Loot: 16+[3/3/5]=27, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials [Eggs Collected!] +3 Eggs 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 7 Total Eggs: 10 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #4 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) The patch kept on offering up, and Raidou kept on harvesting in an almost symbiotic relationship of an alchemist and the material of his craft eagerly agreeing with his consumption. Although it was willing Raidou did a fairly quick job of completely bottoming out what was available, and after about ten minutes he was left with nothing more than barren dirt and immature unprepared herbs left. These would need time to prosper before they would be of use, anything they would be brewed into now would be inert. Tapping his hands together in a puff of dirt forming a cloud from the rather dry soil and filth he was digging in, with one quick stroke causing it to dislodge in a small cloud of tan. He then started upon his yield, bagging and tagging each with a mental tally and soft hands to keep track of what he had with a point of his fingers. ID# 140390 results: Craft: 8, Loot: 5+[3/3/5]=16, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials [Eggs Collected!] +5 Eggs 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 11 Total Eggs: 15 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #5 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) These would add to his prior collection and raise quite the diverse quantity of pieces at his disposal, giving him a much broader spectrum of brews and salves on his shelving. But for now, they would stay as dried leaves until he had the time to grind them down and start a concoction out of them, perhaps later today he would be capable of such but that remained to be seen. First and foremost he needed to complete this job before contemplating another, and a quick advancing glare locks on to a box of some sort. Simple flats of wooden planks hold together a solid content of the same make, proven before to have quite the array of woven fabric laden within. Unsheathing his sword and using it as a crowbar, Raidou jams the point into the first crack he manages to find on its lid with it bulbing upward at the attempt. ID# 140391 results: Craft: 7, Loot: 1+[3/3/5]=12, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials [Eggs Collected!] +5 Eggs 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 14 Total Eggs: 25 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #6 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) A shift and further push wiggles the blade deeper in the small opening between the container and its lid, each motion causing a creek and occasionally a popping or cracking noise as the box that had taken on age were finally being disturbed. Raidou knew this was nothing more than a gimmick, given the box was placed here by the cardinal and was not here yesterday, but gave the system at least got points for realism in this aspect. Finally, it gives way with a sudden jerk the lid pops free and falls off the side allowing exposure to what hid just underneath. First, the smell of dust and a time trodden funk before it revealed past a layer of soot powdered sugar sacks? Raidou tosses these away, as they were of little use to him revealing more deeper within. Fabrics, as he thought of royal blue color wrapped around wooden blocks. ID# 140392 results: Craft: 10, Loot: 8+[3/3/5]=19, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Gatherer Activated!] +3 Bonus Materials [Eggs Collected!] +6 Eggs 5*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 19 Total Eggs: 31 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #7 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) Heaving them over to the side, Raidou pulled them free one by one with a slight struggle. It seemed the fabric on these was a bit of a denser sort, might make good armor the swordsman thought given how thick and heavy it felt in his grasp. Setsuna would be responsible for determining exactly what they may become of use for, but Raidou was sure that they could be used for something along these lines. But he left the finer details to the girl, after all, he was no tailor and had not looked into the methods required of such a profession yet as to make such a call. For now, he would simply claim the bundles, move them to the guild hall and allow Simmone to hand them to the small girl 3rd party as he was far too busy to do it himself given how much he did every day. ID# 140393 results: Craft: 10, Loot: 16+[3/3/5]=27, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Gatherer Activated!] +3 Bonus Materials [Eggs Collected!] +6 Eggs 5*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 24 Total Eggs: 37 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #8 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) The box lays empty, to its left numerous shades of the blue fabric of heavy threads. Raidou hoped he could easily carry this mess, as it would be a shame for his daily accrual to be cut short on account of bolts of cloth over encumbering his inventory to the point he was forced to return. A bit skeptical Raidou pulls out a sack and opens the foot long sack and wraps its opening around one of the bottom of the linen bundles. Positioning it on his shoulder Raidou stands and lifts it upright and sure enough, it slides into the bag that is only about a third its size. Moreover, it becomes weightless as it enters to which Raidou cannot help but rub his eyes with his index and thumb under his frames. "Nonsense." Raidou whispers to the backdrop, repeating the method until no fabric remained outside of the satchel. ID# 140394 results: Craft: 9, Loot: 18+[3/3/5]=29, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials [Eggs Collected!] +5 Eggs 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 28 Total Eggs: 42 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #9 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) This finalized this category that Raidou needed to procure, at it also meant he would not have to climb up into the rafters and mess with cobwebs or spiderwebs today. A nice change of pace to be sure, he did not believe he could do such a thing every day as it was quite taxing. "On to the next" Raidou whispered softly as he tied the bag shut and laced it around his belt looping, on a brass hook or clasp on his belt in sections. A small modification he had asked Simmone to have Kasumi perform and it was proving useful in separating what he pulled up. To the subtle pond, Raidou wanted to try his hand at something more strange. At first, he was reticent to interact with the water, but today he checked its brims where it was shallow to see what it had to offer as he broadened his scope. ID# 140395 results: Craft: 7, Loot: 5+[3/3/5]=16, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials [Eggs Collected!] +5 Eggs 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 32 Total Eggs: 47 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #10 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) Here where the water was thinnest Raidou found some clams and lifting them out started to pile them on the shore. They were dripping wet with algae clung water, softly pattering with the droplets falling free. These shells of oceanic meats would serve of use to the guilds chef, Raidou was sure of it. Placing them down and shoving his hand back into the source, breaking the surface with some difficulty positioning arm where it needed to be given the refraction. But this doesn't slow his actions, although the method was in need of development he seemed to be progressing his way through to a degree of success. Raidou couldn't help but wonder if the very chef he was procuring these for would be capable of understanding how to utilize such an item, after all, he had a vague notion on the procedure for cooking something from these but did Gaius. ID# 140396 results: Craft: 8, Loot: 14+[3/3/5]=25, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials [Eggs Collected!] +5 Eggs 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 36 Total Eggs: 52 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #11 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) Time would tell if he could make anything out of these and the nomad looked forward to seeing what the chef would come up with. Dropping himself back to his chest pressed to the edge of the uneven water, bracing himself with his off hand and shoving his right back into the liquid. It stunk like an ocean, more than likely due to the green film that claimed a fair percentage of its surface. It was not salt water, painfully clear at how unclear it was looking through and the low light that was available made the task even more daunting. Gathering from this source relied heavily on feeling, which was rather numbed due to the icy cold temperature the water had taken on. To this end however, the swordsman clad in red doing a new task managed to complete a fair extraction, bagging up a dozen clamshells that seemed easily contained in the bag he had brought for them. ID# 140397 results: Craft: 4, Loot: 7+[3/3/5]=18, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Gatherer Activated!] +1 Bonus Materials [Eggs Collected!] +3 Eggs 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 39 Total Eggs: 55 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #12 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) Peering through the water to the best of his ability with the added benefit of his hands feeling about, they came back empty on his fourth and final attempt. Pulling his hand free and shaking it to knock loose the water that clung to it, Raidou decided to move on from this task to another. A quick hop to his feet pushing off with both arms in an almost push up maneuver, Raidou leans forward to avoid falling backward before his vision takes to his surroundings once again, the mushrooms were still growing where they always were but he was hesitant to add such a softer sort in a bag with shellfish and end up with pulp. "Probably not a good idea." Raidou whispers coming to the conclusion to leave these alone and look for another source, of a different profession's usage that he had yet to fill a bag for. ID# 140398 results: Craft: 2, Loot: 17+[3/3/5]=28, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Gatherer Activated!] +1 Bonus Materials [Eggs Collected!] +2 Eggs 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 42 Total Eggs: 57 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #13 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) The nomad sets his sights on one of the walls of where the entrance was, and it appeared that he had missed the subtle fact there was indeed premade metal instruments left here. Left in the dust and rubble by who knows what and when, and Raidou was curious if a process could be run to reduce them back into workable metal. A book came to mind from his intensive study that outlined such an effect, heating unused objects and converting them back to a liquid and turning them to something new. Maybe the same could be done here? Raidou thought and he took to them, starting to pick up these strange units and bag them to give the guild blacksmith a chance at doing just this. They were a bit heavy sheers or scissors, of a darkened blue color with some wear and chipping. There were quite a few odd bobbles here. ID# 140399 results: Craft: 9, Loot: 12+[3/3/5]=23, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials [Eggs Collected!] +5 Eggs 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 46 Total Eggs: 62 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #14 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) Raidou was content with bagging them all as he dropped them in the bag, with a hope they wouldn't pierce through in his haste and was pleasantly surprised as they fell inside without an issue. Some seemed to be pliers, cutlery and other odd makes with the occasional one springing open as he pulled them from the earth they had been left to decay and rust on. There was tarnish that Raidou noticed with further inspection, but strangely no show of oxidation on the pieces making the material akin to aluminum or something similar preventing such a thing from transpiring on them. Which begged an even further question, if they would not rot why leave them here given they would not age. Simply thoughts and scientific intrigue as Raidou moved to finish the harvest of the lot, not letting this query slow his progress but he could not help himself but wonder. ID# 140400 results: Craft: 7, Loot: 19+[3/3/5]=30, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials [Eggs Collected!] +5 Eggs 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 50 Total Eggs: 67 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #15 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) Picking up the final one: A darkened blue spoon perhaps used more in cooking then consumption of such given its size, a prime use of stirring then being used at a table. The last to his bag with the draw of a cable to tighten it and make it fit for travel back to the vault, Raidou straightens out with a pop of his back echoing through his frame from somewhere above the waist. This induces a few more bends to pop a few more areas and free his movement accordingly, a twist and lean to each side. Raidou lets out a sigh in response to this, the jolting feeling from each a mix of relief and shock making the efforts either valuable or detrimental. Then standing upright and a quick progressing scan of the remaining nodes in the grotto, which was difficult given the lighting in here was scarce. ID# 140401 results: Craft: 7, Loot: 13+[3/3/5]=24, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials [Eggs Collected!] +5 Eggs 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 54 Total Eggs: 72 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #16 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) Luckily his magnified glasses amplified what he could take in, making looking for something in particular or minute detail much easier than usual. In response to his attempts, a glimmer roars back to his vision from a blackened crevice, hidden in this small crack between two sections of walling. Raidou moves forward and as he did when doing this very thing with Ceres shoves his arm in hoping it would not bite his arm off. A few seconds of digging around without his sight to guide his hand, Raidou feels a small sphere contained inside and pulls it free with a bit of difficulty given the increase in the breadth of his now closed fist. With a bit of effort, he manages it free and with an opening of his fingers reveals a pink diamond or something those lines. It was not important and what was, the continuation as he dropped it into a bag. ID# 140402 results: Craft: 9, Loot: 19+[3/3/5]=30, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials [Eggs Collected!] +5 Eggs 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 58 Total Eggs: 77 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #17 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) Raidou shoved his arm back in to his shoulder deep, and minutes pass with repeated clasping and the successful removal of other brightly reflective crystallized materials that did quite a decent job of bouncing back the light that was present and would surely be a sight to behold when cut and presented in much fairer sources of light. Dropping the final few into the bag he had brought for them, taking their respective places aside the first pink one he had pulled free. A tie of this bag and efforts to adhere it to his waist next to the prior three bags and his own apothecary on the opposite side on his right hip. One source remained: Recording crystals, and Raidou looked to the spot they grew frequently on a day by day basis. Protruding from the oval stone the same as before, was the familiar rainbow colored prisms of days prior. ID# 140403 results: Craft: 5, Loot: 17+[3/3/5]=28, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Gatherer Activated!] +1 Bonus Materials [Eggs Collected!] +3 Eggs 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 62 Total Eggs: 80 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #18 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) They looked like oil in sunlight, bleeding back every shade of color in a swirl of them mixing on the glass like appearance in 6 sided flats with a sharpened point. They bloomed out like flower petals in all directions, creating hexagonal sockets in the stone they had been produced from. Wrapping his fingers around the top most one, near the very tip of it he began to push and pull gently to slightly pop it free. The oval stone that held it began to give, showing small cracks forming as some of the stone fragmented away and created room from each wiggle. Repeated motion: Back and forth then a tug upward, the first few show it was still firmly planted. But time pressed forward with a steady pace before it finally gives way, and slides out of the socket leaving a darkened hole where it was and leaving the collection in his grasp. ID# 140404 results: Craft: 8, Loot: 8+[3/3/5]=19, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials [Eggs Collected!] +5 Eggs 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 66 Total Eggs: 85 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #19 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) On to the next few using the same method, and this process was less brute force and a more subtle and meticulous procedure. It took time: about a half an hour or so later Raidou stands and leaves a barren empty pocked oval stone behind, with a nice dozen of crystalline rods where despite the shape no two looked the same as they each took to their own spectrum of refracted light. A flap of a bag from his pockets flings the empty container open, and carefully Raidou begins to slide them in with the focus to prevent harming them upon entry. Each with time disappears into the bag, the whole endeavor taking about an hour to complete from the harvesting to storage for travel. Standing up and taking a quick tally of what he had in his possession now yields a rather rounded count of each. This would be sufficient for today. ID# 140405 results: Craft: 1, Loot: 12+[3/3/5]=23, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Eggs Collected!] +2 Eggs 2*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 68 Total Eggs: 87 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 10, 2020 Author #20 Share Posted April 10, 2020 (edited) This was a good thing given how his surroundings appeared, being rather bare and tore up in his wake. To this end though Raidou was sure by this time or earlier tomorrow it would regenerate unrealistically and be ready for another round of picking. Adjusting his robe on his shoulders, which stunk loosely of the water he had been playing in and took on the scent of the grotto as well it was clear he'd need to have it cleaned. Turning to leave his peripheral picks up one final glimmer, and turning to face the source shows a pointed end jutting from some of the soil the herb patch had been protruding from. Moving to check it out, Raidou finds it to be the corner of a chest and with some effort breaks it loose from its concealment. Shifting around the box he checks it for designations that it may attempt to do him harm. Looking for Chest: ID# 140406 results: Craft: 11, Loot: 4+[3/3/5]=15, Success! Gathering with Full Energy: CD1-3: 2 Eggs CD4-6: 3 Eggs CD7-9: 5 Eggs CD10-12: 6 Eggs [Eggs Collected!] +6 Eggs Total Eggs: 93 Edited April 10, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
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