[F02][SP] Breaking the Unbreakable

[Hinatao 0]

 

 

Well, Hinata had been asked to help out in this building by a friend who recommended that she get acquainted with all it had to offer. Spending time in a library wasn’t the worst thing she could be asked to do. She had spent plenty of time here in her youth. It was her dream to unlock super secret and special techniques and skills which was exactly not what she would find in a library of general knowledge. But then she got a message telling her to go to a hut to break a rock. Who was she to say no? She ditched this library BS to go to the hut. Once there, she was told to break a rock as warned. She had to take off her dagger but she could still wear her other gear, she guessed. So she punched it, because why not? The worst she could do was miss it ugh.

 

 

Taking this quest: 

 

 

My damage is only 1 unarmed

Gear:

 

Spoiler

Name:	Obsidian Feline - Grace
Profession:	Artisan
Rank:	7
Roll ID:	137732
Roll Result:	11+1
Item Type:	Trinket
Tier:	1
Quality:	Perfect
Enhancements:	Accuracy 3
Post Link:	Here
Description:	A strange black and almost glassy gloss material taking the shape of a cat with orange gemstone eyes, in its paws a ball of yarn. Adorable and distracting from possibly life threatening situations, being a source of focus to sharpen ones senses and remain calm when the world is overwhelming..

 

Name:	Magnified Quicksilver Spectacles
Profession:	Artisan
Rank:	7
Roll ID:	138142
Roll Result:	11+1
Item Type:	Trinket
Tier:	1
Quality:	Perfect
Enhancements:	Loot Dice 3
Post Link:	Here
Description:	A bright silver pair of visually enhanced frames, designed to improve ones sight as to not miss more finite details that surround them. Extremely low profile and uncompromising they form fit to the wearers face without hindrance.

 

1 damage

rock health: 49/50
 

ID# 142182 results:

 Battle: 5 + 3 + 2

 Craft: 10

 Loot: 1

 MOB: 1

Edited April 17, 2020 by Hinatao

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Hinata walked around and looked around, wondering how much time she could possibly stand to burn in this place. She was someone who regularly sought to spend as little time on studies as possible when she really thought about it. She was more of a, go do something or go gather something type of girl. The effort to begin to even attempt to sort out all that needed to be done was crushed by a wave of nausea that could have submerged her when she thought about all the time she had spent here against her will in her past life. It actually became a matter of fair importance for her to roll her eyes as she thought about having to put books on shelves and did her best not to get too drowsy. But here she was in front of a rock. This was somehow just as boring as doing library work. She swung… and missed…

miss...
rock health: 49/50

ID# 142183 results:

 Battle: 1

 Craft: 6

 Loot: 9

 MOB: 6

Edited April 17, 2020 by Hinatao

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She walked around in the great outdoors, standing in front of this huge rock that she was going to use as a method of showing others how martial arts worked. She was going to show how to break this rock using her guts. But she still had some time till others showed up. She was happy that she was all alone up here and she punched the rock for good measure. Except it didn’t do much to break the rock. She just hurt her own fist. And the same wave of nausea perpetuated the ugly cycle. She was unsure of how many heaves she endured before her body became accustomed to this new goal of hers. But there was information to garner, even in such demeaning positions as lying on one's side in the gutter, trying to avoid soaking in your own throw up, while the movements necessary to prevent it only bring more up.


1 damage 
rock health: 48/50

 ID# 142184 results:

 Battle: 7

 Craft: 4

 Loot: 14

 MOB: 10

Edited April 17, 2020 by Hinatao

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She struck at the rock again and felt the pain of the exertion fill her mouth with vomit. The acidic sour of stomach acid, present in most "upheavals" was replaced by an odd chalky, mineral neutrality of flavor. Hinata would have laughed if it would not have made her seize up again. Had it really been so long since she had such a physical workout that she was vomiting at this level of exertion?

 

At least it wasn’t a lot of vomit. Well, obviously this woman did not know anything about striking so she didn’t know how she was going to do a good job demonstrating to other people. Didn't it occur to her that something that has to go through the timely process of fighting this rock was not going to suddenly make her better at anything. The puzzlement of wondering how she had then been saved naturally followed this line of thought.


miss

rock health: 48/50

ID# 142185 results:

 Battle: 1

 Craft: 6

 Loot: 8

 MOB: 10

Edited April 17, 2020 by Hinatao

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Then she recalled the burning in her muscles. Maybe she could use that as a means to show everyone else the dangers of overtraining? That was probably going to be a good lesson to teach. Anyone else showing up would not know what she was doing and simply gone with the flow of things. If it was not for the debilitating effect of being just as inexperienced as those she wanted to teach, she'd have hugged her knees and let out a few tears for taking on a task too much for her to handle. She was alive, after all. That meant things could be worse. Oh god, was she really thinking like this now? She wanted to just go home and give up this task.  

 

She struck at the rock again. Not doing hardly anything to dent it again. She felt like she was going to be here for a very long while.




1+2(crit) damage

rock health: 45/50

 ID# 142186 results:

 Battle: 10

 Craft: 1

 Loot: 1

 MOB: 9

Edited April 17, 2020 by Hinatao

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She laughed at the grizzly humor of it all, choking and retching emptiness as she did. Fortunately, the actual voiding had been done so quickly after ingestion that full recovery did not take long. Those garments soiled by the ordeal, were conveniently able to be switched with corresponding items. She looked back at the rock just as others started to show up. “Oh, I think we’re supposed to learn a lesson or something. Are you going to teach us?” they asked. Of course she had to say, “yes, just watch and observe,” as she squared up to the rock. “Watch as I split this rock with one punch!” she shouted. She struck the rock and it didn’t budge at all. What an embarrassment this was for her! “I mean, it’s not like I meant to break it, but still. It was showing you proper form. You all can try to break the rock if you want. Practice your form and try to remember the striking basics.”


1 damage

rock health: 44/50

ID# 142189 results:

 Battle: 2 + 2 +3

 Craft: 3

 Loot: 6

 MOB: 5

Edited April 18, 2020 by Hinatao

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Hinata was enjoying the peace and quiet, as much as one could enjoy the quiet when one was forced to be in the environment. She took the time to sort out what she wanted for dinner and the nice flavored food she would get to try with all the money she had been saving up. But then that all went down the drain when someone started shouting about. It was a redhead who was shouting for people to be quiet. It was no doubt someone she was supposed to work with so she poked her head out behind a corner and said, “hey, I think that’s me,” in a loud whisper that was nowhere near as loud as the boy who was shouting. She almost didn’t notice a little boy trailing behind who was also supposedly going to be doing the same thing she was doing. “Well hi to both of you. Now help me break this rock.” She and the others all took turns hitting the rock but it wasn’t doing much good.



1 damage

rock health: 43/50

 ID# 142191 results:

 Battle: 6

 Craft: 1

 Loot: 10

 MOB: 1

Edited April 18, 2020 by Hinatao

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Striking the rock over and over didn’t do much to show that she knew what she was doing. Every punch she threw at it seemed to do next to nothing, though she could see that it was slowly cracking open. “See, this is a lesson in persistence. If you try hard enough and long enough, anything is possible!” Not many people were convinced that she was a good teacher or that she knew what she was talking about. She thought about what else she could try to teach these people, not much came to mind. As Hinata gave her impromptu accessorizing as critical an eye as the situation allowed, she gave a smile to the noobier people. "I must confess I am at a bit of a loss. I do not generally find myself able to teach very well. Nor, to be honest, able to do very much of anything.

 

1 damage

rock health: 42/50

 

ID# 142192 results:

 Battle: 4

 Craft: 12

 Loot: 3

 MOB: 1

Edited April 18, 2020 by Hinatao

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“When are you going to show us something good?” someone asked, “yeah we came all this way for this? This is a waste of our time.” Hinata sighed, slamming her fist against the rock again, as if it would somehow break and she could claim to have known what she was doing all along.

Unfortunately nobody was convinced, as per usual. She tended to focus so much more on intellectual pursuits that didn’t mean that she was ready for a fight." She checked her hand casually for blood. Finding none, she extended it to her expectedly disappointed guests, "I must also confess I am delighted to find that I can’t teach you very much of anything. She was not necessarily an impatient person, but now there was no denying her anxiety. She just wanted the day to be over with as fast as possible. She pucnehd the rock again, to no great change in damage. 

 

1 damage

rock health: 41/50

 

ID# 142193 results:

 Battle: 3

 Craft: 12

 Loot: 1

 MOB: 9

Edited April 18, 2020 by Hinatao

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She just wanted the day to be over with as fast as possible. “Maybe I can show them a bit of feinting,” she thought. She threw a left hook then feined a right hook follow up just to follow up with a kick which made the rock crack a little. Would that work? She got some oohs and aahhs when she pulled it off. Maybe they could be taught after all. “See, it’s not everything as it seems when it comes to playing mind tricks on your enemy. It’ll come in handy if you come against any really tough people that are out to get you, or animals, mind games work on most everyone if they’re not expecting them.” Now everyone was paying attention like she knew what she was talking about, which she still didn’t to her great dismay. She just had to bullshit her way through this until the rock broke and then she was done.
 

1 damage

rock health: 40/50

 

ID# 142194 results:

 Battle: 7

 Craft: 1

 Loot: 8

 MOB: 3

Edited April 18, 2020 by Hinatao

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Why did she volunteer for this mess, she wondered as things didn’t seem to get much better. She couldn’t help but think that literally anyone would have done this better than she was doing. She felt her teeth grit against her will and she looked around for some way to escape and hide for a little while. She said, “okay, how about you all take turns practicing some more. I’m going to be back really quick.” She sighed and thought about whether it was right to teach combat anyway, in the name of peace. Look at any battle, any war. Is it not always signed with the symbol of a large organization? It was a concept that many had thought about getting rid of in the past. The people who had attended soon had sweaty hands. She joined in, smashing her hand against the rock with ease, but not getting much of anything out of it other than some painful knuckles.

 

2 damage

rock health: 38/50

 

 ID# 142195 results:

 Battle: 9

 Craft: 4

 Loot: 2

 MOB: 9

Edited April 18, 2020 by Hinatao

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Despite everything, despite this feeling that they had done the right thing, and despite the fact that they had nothing, they were still afraid. When you are brainwashed for a lifetime, when you are told that they only had one option to survive, and that just thinking of attacking the status quo was heresy, it always keeps an imprint on the brain, on the soul. As she thought about all this Hinata struck the rock, doing minimal damage to it.

Soon someone came out to observe what was happening. This was someone of importance, much unlike Hinata. He said, “It is thanks to people like you that the world of tomorrow will be better, that there will be no more battle, that we will no longer be trapped in this system. Your sacrifice is not really one. If everything is done as in the plan I gave you, you will all survive, and you will all have a hideout towards to avoid the fallout. You can find a normal life in a small village, with your house, your farm, and who knows, your future family.


 

1 damage

rock health: 37/50

 

ID# 142216 results:

 Battle: 6

 Craft: 6

 Loot: 14

 MOB: 9

Edited April 18, 2020 by Hinatao

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“You just have to fight for us, make us stronger, make it so all other forces are obsolete. Then, you may rest.” He turned back to the window again. Behind him, the students, completely reassured, looked at each other confidently, encouraging each other in silence. After a few seconds, you could hear an owl hoot. It was the signal. It left Hinata with big shoes to fill in a mostly quiet setting now. “Ahem, so yeah, illusions are neat, but there’s other stuff too. Like using martial arts skills can break rocks too, if you didn’t know. Who am I kidding, of course you know.” Someone who had completed the quest already came by and punched the rock but put force behind it, shattering it even more. That was what they wanted to see. The needed to see this glimmer of hope because crushing such a large rock was nearly pointless. Hinatao also wanted to crush it, but she wouldn’t know the skill until after she sat through all this. She pucnedh it again, only succeeding in hurting herself again.

1 damage

rock health: 36/50

 

ID# 142217 results:

 Battle: 5

 Craft: 4

 Loot: 10

 MOB: 9

Edited April 18, 2020 by Hinatao

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Hinatao was more than happy to see that others were also amiable to teaching her as she was to teaching them. And for free? That was nothing more than an afternoon or two out doing nothing. A boy came up and showed her that she was punching with her fist all wrong. He was practically giving the intel away. Maybe all that time she had spent proving her loyalties to this game had not gone unnoticed? She nodded at his first words and took the seat she was offered afterwards when it was clear that he wasn’t quite done talking. The boy asked her what she knew of punching. “Browsing the libraries and speaking with other users of the art, I have learned some karate in my other life. Nothing fancy, as I’m sure you know, but I thought those good places to start.” She then demonstrated with a punch on the rock which just made her hurt more.

 

1 damage

rock health: 35/50

 

 ID# 142218 results:

 Battle: 3

 Craft: 7

 Loot: 17

 MOB: 7

Edited April 18, 2020 by Hinatao

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“I then learned a nifty way to amplify the power of my attacks using my own momentum and it’s used in conjunction with only to find that I had little to nothing to pair it with. I quickly found that there was a lot of fighting styles out there that just wouldn’t do me any good. Many seemed to be based around specific dogmas and others seemed… lackluster. When I think of throwing hands I think of wanting to end a fight quickly but it’s been quite the hassle to find someone to teach any of this to me.” After her explanation she crossed her legs and straightened her back and hit the rock again to deal a massive one damage to it. She was eager to hear the boy’s response and even more eager to start learning something useful. All the while other people kept trying to break the rock, as if they could manage.

 

1 damage

rock health: 34/50

 

ID# 142297 results:

 Battle: 4

 Craft: 7

 Loot: 1

 MOB: 5

Edited April 18, 2020 by Hinatao

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One of the others had actually made their fist bleed from trying to keep hitting the rock that she had demonstrated on. What a load of barnacles that was. Could they not see that she was showing restraint and that they should follow suit? She nodded to the speech person and went off to deal with this mini crisis.  She knew that medicine could not be rushed, and recovery was often a slow and steady process. It was especially true in an environment such as this. Nevertheless, she wanted to get this injured kidd off to the side as soon as possible. She wasn’t sure just how far the injury went, but she suspected that it would not lead to a good time for her if people found out that she had encouraged this behavior. After a few minutes of tending to him she ran back to the rock and smacked it to deal one more damage.

1 damage

rock health: 33/50

ID# 142298 results:

 Battle: 4

 Craft: 5

 Loot: 7

 MOB: 8

Edited April 18, 2020 by Hinatao

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On the other hand, she thought maybe people would think better of her for making people push their boundaries. There was no winning when she thought about it in more detail. She was lucky she couldn’t face trial for something simple like this, or at least be questioned for an extensive amount of time. Time she could use for more proactive activities like doing her job.

 

She’d have carried the boy to a room if she could, but she’d rather not risk straining herself. Not that the pain in her abdomen would even allow her to carry out such tasks anyway. She was too busy working on her current task and she didn’t want to distract herself too much. She sighed and walked around, wondering what to do. She jogged back to the rest of the people after assuring the boy that he would be okay. She punched the rock for good measure.

 

1 damage

rock health: 32/50

 

ID# 142308 results:

 Battle: 6

 Craft: 3

 Loot: 14

 MOB: 5

Edited April 18, 2020 by Hinatao

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It was with no small amount of relief that she saw the boy come back a little while later, his eyes opening just barely to show that he was going to be alright. I mean, he had just gotten his knuckles a little bloody that was it. Barely was enough for anyone to really cry about, barely meant she had done something right at least. “So yeah, to wrap up this lesson, I guess we will all practice our forms. Don’t punch so hard that you hurt yourself, that’s never good. You want to distribute the force along your two big knuckles and then you won’t hurt as much.” She hoped that would be enough for a lesson for these people.

She’d done what she’d come here to do except for breaking the rock, though she was sure she left a lot feeling a bit lackluster. She had a feeling that she wasn’t going to get paid for any of this. She’d done what she thought she could though and that was what counted. She had plenty of time to improve her approach and make sure that people had a better time of things down the road. It wasn’t like her life depended on teaching these people or something.

 

1 damage

rock health: 31/50

ID# 142309 results:

 Battle: 7

 Craft: 7

 Loot: 5

 MOB: 5

Edited April 18, 2020 by Hinatao

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Soon someone very loud and obtuse came walking along to the rock. “Oh brother,” she couldn’t help but think as she rolled her eyes at the obtuse quest taker. She didn’t dislike him, because it did add a touch of humor to the boring quest. However she had to keep up appearances. She didn’t want to get chastised because of him. She kind of wished that she picked any quest but this one as she walked around attacking this rock her job dictated because he seemed like an interesting person to talk to. He looked at her and told her that she was cute too, that was always a nice compliment. Just thinking about that made her blush, even though the kid was much younger than she was.

 

Over the course of attacking the rock she asked the redhead, “so, what’s your name? I take it you’re a nooby player too like me?” she wanted to keep conversation quiet.

 

1 damage

rock health: 30/50

 

 ID# 142311 results:

 Battle: 2 + 3 +2 

 Craft: 12

 Loot: 5

 MOB: 6

Edited April 18, 2020 by Hinatao

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Hinatao went home for the night and then woke up the next morning. She hiked all the way back to the giant rock that stood there with just the small cracks she had made in it still. Cleaning up after a big mess was always more hassle than it was worth. Today it wasn’t worth much at all and she couldn’t figure out why she had been committed to doing this in the first place. After all she had been made to do this cleaning at the most inopportune time. Today she was feeling a bit sick, that’s why. This very morning she had started spilling all her stomach’s contents, and then just continuing to retch without anything coming out. Hinata raised an eyebrow at the laughter cut short by more retching. Still, she struck the rock and looked to see if she made any impact into its surface at all.

 

 

 

1 damage

rock health: 29/50

 

 ID# 142312 results:

 Battle: 2 + 2 +3

 Craft: 5

 Loot: 4

 MOB: 6

Edited April 18, 2020 by Hinatao