[F21-PP] An unexpected additive (Feeding your enemy)

[Raidou 1]

An early morning like most others with brightened yellowed light cast through a drawn window pane. It reflects softly off the wood it connects with to illuminate the room Raidou was resting in. Rousing to consciousness, his eyes break open quickly. A shift from the bed sheets he was under, swinging his legs off the side of the platform and reaching for his glasses. He holds them for a moment between his fingers, by the rods that hold them to your ears. A form of meditation with them as a focal before he places them onto his face, and slides off the bed.

Just a little more, I just need to be a little stronger

he travels downstairs, pulling the now dried dish from the strainer. Cleaned the night before it was now fit for use for this morning's meal. Consuming his recurred morsel fit for aiding his gathering attempts. Finishing it at a quickened pace while looking over the guild vaults ledger, checking its contents in comparison and he found it mortally lower than he wished it to be. It seemed that his aim for growth had torn away at the stock more than he had hoped it would. A hand to his red robe pulls it from the back of the chair it had spent the night upon, a flutter ripping it around his shoulders.

Seems I have work to do

Placing the dish away, submerged in water, and peeling the black book from the table he notices Eruda sleeping soundly in one of the chairs. He leaves her be, she had earned her slumber. Raidou moves for the door and with a ginger turn of his wrist exits the guild hall. Through the fields of coral and into the center of town he takes the gate away to where he was destined, floor 21 had ample resources to which to load the vault up. The highest of quality proving far more fruitful than that of lower locations.

It's quiet today

Raidou parades through the mining town after a flash of light places him there, playing with the quest board for a moment before exiting. To his familiar alcove he would travel, for it was what he knew would provide what he needed. Taking the robe to his mouth, he shields his lungs from the toxic fog that hung in the air as he pressed through it. He finds the slotted break in the wall, dropping low and squeezing his frame through the opening he is met with the location he had become accustomed.

Raidou Consumes: Familiar Song (+2 LD, Familiar), Lemon Berry Palmiers (+3 LD), Pheromone (+1 CD, Familiar), and one charge of Spyglass (-5 Post length for finding Dungeons/Familiars [2/3] remaining)

Raidou | HP:960/960 | EN:96/96 | DMG:4 | EVA:3 | VAMP OFF:96 | PARA:1 | TAUNT | LD: 8(10) | BH:48

Spoiler

Raidou, The Red Wanderer
Level: 48
HP: 960/960
EN: 96/96

Stats:
Damage: 4
Evasion: 3
BH:48
VAMP OFF:96
PARA:1
TAUNT

Equipped Gear:
Weapon: The Black Star - Genesis [T1/Perfect/1HSS]: Taunt, Paralyze 1, Vamp (Off) 1
Armor: Onyx Spectacles [T1/Perfect/Trinket]: +3 Loot Dice
Misc: Red Wanderer's Robe [T1/Perfect/L.A] +3 Evasion

Skills:
Gatherer [Obtained]
Searching [Rank 5]
One Handed Straight Sword [Rank 3]
Parry [Obtained]
Howl [Obtained]
Battle Healing [Rank 5]
Fighting Spirit [Obtained]

Extra Skills:
Concentration

Battle Ready Inventory:
Auric Sol [T2/Perfect/1HSS]: Damage III
Teleport Crystal*1
Swordsman's Gauntlet [T2/Perfect/H.A] +54 Damage Mitigation

 

[Sam 0]

Sam wakes early still leaning against the wall in Eruda's shop. The room was still empty as Sam thinks of what was said last night. Looking at the time it was just about 7 am. "Crap, I was supposed to meet Eruda's sister at the fountain," she said as she quickly gets out of bed and gathers her things and runs out of the shop almost hitting the door frame not being awake yet, closing the door behind her. 

Sam sits on the edge of the fountain in the town of beginnings for a half hour and no one showed up. "Oh man Eruda won't like this but I can't just sit around all day waiting," saying with a frown painted across her face. Thinking that if Eruda asked what happened she would tell her that no one showed but until then she would move on with her day as planned. Sam was going to the caves today before Eruda said anything to gather things for the guild vault knowing that she could help with at least that. Stepping to the warp gate saying "Floor 21," Sam reappears on the designated floor and makes her way quickly to the caves that she was so familiar with. Covering her face with the fumes in the air she slides through the hole in the rocks landing in the cave. Seeing a red robe glow through the dim light she knew that it was Raidou in the distance. She hesitated for a moment before saying "Do you mind if I join you today" hoping that he would be okay considering the previous conversation that they had, the same that Eruda yelled at her for.

Spoiler

Name: Sam
Level: 15
HP: 300/300
EN: 30/30

Stats:
Damage: 10
Accuracy: 3

Equipped Gear:
Weapon: Grand Cleaver - Stone: Damage 3 (3 Base)
Armor: Fire Brand - Din: Accuracy 3
Misc: Silver Band - Farore's Wind: Loot Dice 3

Skills:
Two-Handed Battle Ax [Rank 4]

Extra Skills:
Concentration

Battle Ready Inventory:
Sapphire Ring - Nayru: Prosperity 3

Edited June 17, 2020 by Sam

[Raidou 1]

A voice at his back as he moved into the roughened circle of stone, it was Sam's. He turns for his vision to meet hers, his robe swaying as he does. "No, feel free." Raidou remarks before his attention shifts back to the task he was performing. He moves into the center and kneels down over some rising foliage. A sea of reddened color, cataloged in his memory as blood boosters. His hands begin to shift and weave over the tops of tufts, seeking out those which would be worth picking. After a moment or two of this a few begin to give off a golden shimmer.

"There we are." Raidou whispers having found what he was looking for.

Removing the robe from his shoulders and laying it out like a tarp, a reddened square in the center of the place. This was to create a point for which that which was wrought could be placed without having to constantly deposit it, the system recognizing the robe and all upon it as belonging to the nomad. It also served as a buffer to prevent the rough floor from dealing with durability damage to the pieces.

"And now." Raidou returns to the place he was at prior, taking his knee down to the ground once again. The sounds of breaking roots as he begins to pile them up on the surface with an underhanded toss.

ID# 153680 results: Craft: 7, Loot: 19+5+3+3=30, Success!

[Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials
3*T3 Materials Obtained
Total T3 Materials: 3

 

Edited June 17, 2020 by Raidou

[Sam 0]

Sam smiles as he okay's her being here with him. She was not going to mention anything about last night for now because the day was going to be free of tension. Scanning around for something to gather, her eyes catch upon a bright patch of yellow herbs just a few feet from Raidou. Heading that way and kneeling to one knee on the damp ground, she was not worried about getting dirty. Cleaning her clothes and a shower would be an option later.

Using the technics that Eruda showed her before she was sorta rusty for she hasn't been out gathering for a while. A keen eye looks at each individual fiber as she sees a slightly brighter herb amongst the patch. Gently taking it between her fingers, it snaps free from the damp soil but crumbles in her hand like dust. "Dam," she says as she continues looking through this patch for more.

ID# 153681 results: Loot: 9+3=12 Fail

0*T3 Materials Obtained
Total T3 Materials: 0

Edited June 17, 2020 by Sam

[Raidou 1]

Sam was doing the best she could given what she had at her disposal. She should not let her inability to perform at the level that Raidou was, sway her attempts to stagnant. An anthem of snapping roots begin to pile more upon the surface of his robe, proving his expertise as he began to bolster his numbers once more. It would not be long now before the patch was picked bare, in a typical fashion of the nomad who wanders.

"And one more." Raidou remarks tossing the last he had wrought to the reddened square, a wipe of his brow with his sleeve to keep it dry.

A brief pause before he began to tear further into the growth, along the crags of protrusions broken from the stonework. It begins to show empty sections of soil, with the roots being pulled causing the smoothed age worn surface to become broken and dislodged. A shifting step while remaining hunched Raidou moves to account for how rapidly he was harvesting. A hand to his face fixes his glasses as they try to slip from the bridge of his nose.

ID# 153684 results: Craft: 11, Loot: 10+5+3+3=21, Success

[Gatherer Activated!] +3 Bonus Materials
4*T3 Materials Obtained
Total T3 Materials: 7

Edited June 17, 2020 by Raidou

[Sam 0]

Sam focused more on the coloring of the fiber. Finding another that looked viable she picks it carefully with a sounding snap. This time it stayed whole and with a smile, she places into her satchel. As she observes the patch more her HUD chimes. Knowing that it would eventually she opens the message which was from Eruda as she already expected saying: "Did Freya show up?" Sam quickly responds with "No I waiting for a while and no one appeared. Sorry! I couldn't wait any longer." Sams HUD chimes once more as the message was sent. Sam was holding her tongue trying to decide whether she should tell Raidou just in case Eruda goes into freak out mode like she has a few times before. She could only imagine what Eruda's reaction to her sister would be. Sam tried to refocus on the patch in front of her as she wipes her brow finding it hard to do so. 

ID# 153687 results: Loot: 12+3=15 Success

1*T3 Materials Obtained
Total T3 Materials: 1 

Edited June 17, 2020 by Sam

[Raidou 1]

He was wholely focused on his task but out of the corner of his peripheral, he manages to catch a glimpse of Sam playing with her menus. Seemed she may have a problem with focus, in affairs like this it would not prove of detriment so he would let the dogs lie. As long as it did not happen in more fleeting instances of danger it would be alright. He was making rather short work of this section of plant matter, reducing the lot to no more than exposed dust. A brush of his fingers along what remained confirmed his fears. They were unripe and unfit for removal, as expected the quantity he had yielded usually caused the node to run dry. "I guess that's it then." Raidou whispered with a tap of his hands together and standing albeit slowly as his legs stretched having become leaden from his hunched position.

ID# 153690 results: Craft: 9, Loot: 3+3+3+5=14, Failure!

Total T3 Materials: 7

Edited June 17, 2020 by Raidou

[Sam 0]

Sam shook her head to get everything out of her mind. She didn't want to make a fool of herself in front of Raidou. She had done enough of that in previous encounters. She managed to focus enough to find another plant that looked of value but when picked, it crumbled in her hand again. "There has to be more here than just one herb," she says determined now to get another from this patch. "So do you have anything else planned today?" Sam says as she starts observing the coloring of each fiber trying to decipher the true nature of how to notice the ripe ones from the others that were not. She knew that the smaller ones were not ripe and that the glowing ones were potential picks but what was she missing. Sam moves her hand over the patch to try finding what that main element was. The key to success, there had to be something that she couldn't wrap her head around.

ID# 153692 results: Loot: 11+3=14 Failure!

1*T3 Materials Obtained
Total T3 Materials: 1

Edited June 17, 2020 by Sam

[Raidou 1]

He knew there would be more on the agenda but it was the furthest thing from the forefront of his mindset. He kept such things on paper so he could remove them from focus until it was necessary. "Perhaps, but I am here now, and I plan to focus my attention on the here and now." Raidou responds as he draws his blade, moving toward the back wall. Scanning a hunk of rock carefully showed it was absent of metals. This was peculiar, as usually stones of these types showed something of worth in their spherical shape. "Strange." Raidou mutters, flourishing the black star and sheathing it on his back. "On to the next, I suppose." As he moves to a crack in the wall, which usually housed gemstones and more obtuse metals from his experience. The nomad then jams his right arm into the crevice, feeling around for anything that may lay dormant in the darkness. He begins to unearth blackened rocks of what appears to be polished glass.

ID# 153708 results: Craft: 7, Loot: 12+5+3+3=23, Success!

[Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials
3*T3 Materials Obtained
Total T3 Materials: 10

Edited June 17, 2020 by Raidou

[Sam 0]

Sam looks intensely at the patch with a hand slowly going over fiber. Slightly listening to Raidou, she can't help but smile. A larger herb comes into sight as her hand waves above it. She examines it against the others around it. Thinking to herself it's bigger than the rest and it does have that deeper glow to it, so all I have to do is look for the large ones within the faint glow herbs...Noted. Sam picks this one with a snap of the stem from the damp soil. She couldn't hold her other's thoughts any longer as she looks up to Raidou saying "Eruda might have a hard time soon. She was supposed to meet with her sister this morning but she never showed," Sam pockets the herb and looks back down to the patch. One last attempt for this patch then it was on to the next. 

ID# 153709 results: Loot: 13+3=16 Success!

1*T3 Materials Obtained
Total T3 Materials: 2

Edited June 17, 2020 by Sam

[Raidou 1]

The crack seems rather empty, there being only a paltry some materials contained inside. Raidou begins to extract his arm from the shadows when a strange hiss causes pause. He feels a tug around his wrist, and quickly he rips it back, and with a splatter a lump of blackish material like the stones he was peeling free lands in the cave. Around his appendage is almost a cable of black webbing wrapped around it. "What in the..." Raidou's sentence falls flat as he is confused by what had just transpired. Sam's words fall on deaf ears as Raidou maintains fixation on the thing extracted from his usual harvest point, this being the first time he had found such. It skitters and quivers before it seems to thin out, its some sort of liquid as it begins to pool out from the source increasing the surface area it was covering.

ID# 153712 results: Loot: 3+3+3+2+5=16, Success!

Edited June 17, 2020 by Raidou

[Sam 0]

Getting those thoughts out of her head seemed to give Sam a clear state of mind. "Finally," she says as she was able to pinpoint another herb from the patch. Placing it into her bag she here's Raidou say something and she looks up toward him to see a black goo fall to the ground from where Raidou was standing which wasn't but a few feet from Sam. It started to form a puddle of sort across the ground, extending and getting bigger within the floor of the cave. Covering the herbs that Sam was working on she jumps to her feet and slowly steps back. It didn't try attacking them though which was weird because it was moving like it was alive. "What the hell did you just find," Sam calls out as she was amazed by this thing of black goo. Not sure what to do she steps back toward the wall waiting for orders from her guild master.

ID# 153717 results: Loot: 16+3=19 Success

1*T3 Materials Obtained
Total T3 Materials: 3

Edited June 17, 2020 by Sam

[Raidou 1]

"I have no idea." Raidou looks on to the creature as it scatters around on the ground. The piece still adhered to him falls loose and drops to the floor. It then begins to slink toward the center, where the main pool was. "Stand back." he remarks beckoning the girl to caution. He steps upon his robe, and without realizing it disturbs one of the pockets in his approach. Out rolls a vial of a failed mixture, nothing more than an attempt to broaden his scope and understanding of potion making further.

Black sludge in a bottle, as it rolls into the liquid what happens next is either a miracle or a horror depending on perspectives. The mass writhes as strings of the liquid seem to respond and lash away at the bottle which breaks. The liquid inside begins to disperse into it, as it gains shape and solidifies into a more rounded mass. A coo is heard as the failed potion is consumed wholely. "Interesting..." Raidou remarks and adjusts his glasses, a fired cable latching the pool to his body before it engulfs him. He was not afraid for he could heal through the damage it could deal with and had a teleport crystal in hand, thankful that it targeted him instead of Sam.

He expects to watch his HP begin to drain, but to his surprise, the cables begin to pour into his armor and vanish into his clothes. Opening his menu he notices that his mitigation value has changed color. What in the world was he dealing with?

ID# 153726 results: Craft: 12+1=13, It's so tamed It's potty trained

Edited June 17, 2020 by Raidou

[Sam 0]

Sam walks slowly to Raidou looking him over closely trying to figure out exactly where it just went. Glancing up to his health pool, but it seemed to be fine. "I have never seen anything like this either, even in the other games I've played. It's doesn't seem to want to hurt you or me for that matter... Maybe you just gained a new slimy friend??? Try calling it out or summoning it or something. See what happens." Sam raised a brow highly confused at the situation trying to give out options that might help them figure it out. Slowly walking back she looks down at the herb patch shakes her head twice and looks for something else to gather.

Sam seemed to be way too interested in what just came out from the hole Raidou tried to gather from. She looks to him to see what he does next with this thing he found.

ID# 153891 results: Loot: 6+3=9 Failure!

Edited June 18, 2020 by Sam

[Raidou 1]

It was hard to tell the thing was even present, Raidou shuts his eyes and concentrates for a moment. A subtle click of his tongue to small to hear causes it to dislodge and pool out under his feet. "Strange, it is symbiotic." Raidou answers with his best way of describing exactly what he was perceiving. A moment passes, he takes a step away from the liquid and it stays completely still. It seemed as though his more dominant change in personality was allowing him an alpha like state for this creature as if it knew. Raidou moves to a material node and begins to harvest, more of a test then to actually gain anything. He cannot concentrate keeping an eye peeled over his shoulder. A turn and extend of his arm causes a tendril to fire from the fluid and it rips toward the connection. It pools over his skin before vanishing as quickly as it shows.

ID# 153893 results: Loot: 2+3+3+5=13, Failure!

Total T3 Materials: 10

Edited June 18, 2020 by Raidou

[Sam 0]

Sam's eyes grow wide as she watching the sludge peel from the ground up Raidou's arm, disappearing into his clothing. "Okay, I am officially freaked. I am really curious though how this creature will help with fighting or something." Sam rubs her eyes trying to wrap her head around what she just saw. Sam searches around not wanting to give up on gathering just yet regardless of what she just saw. Seeing a different her patch that wasn't engulfed in slime came to view. She heads toward it and gets to one knee, feeling the wetness of the ground against it. 

Moving her hand above the green base herbs, Sam finds a large one that was glowing brighter than the other around it. Smiling, she picks it with a snap of the stem off the damp soiled ground. Sam places it in her satchel and starts again. Looking to Raidou with a worried but smirk painted on her face she says "You're not going to randomly explode are you. That thing looked crazy dangerous. We have not the first clue of what it is capable of. Just be careful with it okay?" Sam looks back down at the patch with a smile.

ID# 153899 results: Loot: 15+3=18 Success!

1*T3 Materials Obtained
Total T3 Materials: 4

Edited June 18, 2020 by Sam

[Raidou 1]

A look at his HUD beckons a response to Sam "It causes my mitigation values to shift color, I would assume this coupled with the fact it has chosen me as a host means that it needs me to survive and will do its best to protect me. An amicable arrangement if there ever was one." Raidou kneels and removes another failed potion from his robe pocket, he now had a use for these instead of pouring them out. A swell of black liquid begins to pool, on the other hand, he turns it over and in his palm was a manifestation of the creature that engulfed his entire appendage up to his elbow. "It's yours." Raidou says with a pivot of the bottle in his left fingers, and a small spherical head appears looking rather tame. It then bends and contorts to a jagged set of teeth and a long tether like tongue that wraps around the vial, removing the cap as the gelatine slides into it and laps up the fluid. "Now a repayment, for exchange?" Raidou asks to see what the response would be. A blackened cable fires into a piece of stone and tears free a hunk of stone rich with metal, as two more splinters off and do the same. "To the robe." As they are dropped upon its surface he had set aside. "This will work out nicely."

ID# 153905 results: Craft: 9, Loot: 15+3+3+5=26

[Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials
3*T3 Materials Obtained
Total T3 Materials: 13

 

Edited June 18, 2020 by Raidou

[Sam 0]

Sam looks to Raidou as this weird creature gathers for him and also takes another crap vial of his. "I like it...I want one now..." she stares at the goo mesmerized at its actions. "Maybe not that guy but...I want one." She looks back down at the herbs and back to the slimy figure. "I really am no good at this gathering thing, well not as good as you. Maybe I could get a friend of my own that buffs my damage output a bit more. I find myself being better at combat than this." Sam sighs and starts to wave her hand over the base herbs again trying to find another one to collect.

Not able to find much more than what she already had she frowns saying "See, no good," as she gets to her feet with a small yawn. "When you actually go to train that thing I want to tag along if you don't mind. I would really like to see how this whole thing unfolds. Now if you don't mind I am going to get cleaned up. This experience has made me feel a bit gross. If you decide to do this later today let me know and I will be there." Standing there she shivers a bit thinking about the whole thing waiting for a response before leaving to clean up.

ID# 153908 results: Loot: 2+3=5 Failure!

Edited June 18, 2020 by Sam

[Raidou 1]

Raidou looks it over after its harvest it had pulled free without his input and proving to be a fair trade. "That is sufficient. Your debt is paid. You already are Sam, I will not leave this cave until I can prove this thing is not dangerous. You can help me test the fact." He looks to the girl and back down to the creature as it vanishes into his frame, hiding from sight now fed. "I will wrap up these last pieces for transit and then we will get to work." Raidou comments and moves to his robe, beginning to lift what was placed here by the creature and himself. A pull of white sacks set aside for such activity he begins to commune what was here into them, depositing them within and tying them to his belt one after another. Pulling his now empty robe around his shoulders, the emboldened red takes hold of most of his body.

ID# 153912 results: Craft: 8, Loot: 13+3+3+5=24

[Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials
3*T3 Materials Obtained
Total T3 Materials: 16

Edited June 18, 2020 by Raidou

[Sam 0]

"Okay, you have a point there. Bringing that back to the team without knowing its true nature would be stupid. Tell me what I can do to help and I will do my best." Sam says with confidence in each word said. Sam looked back down to the patch of herbs and gets to her knees. Waving her hand slower over the herbs looking for one of value to her. With a small huff not finding anything of note, she stands back to her feet and looks to Raidou. "This is way more interesting now. Let's see what you got Little buddy." She walks to the closest wall and leans her back against it looking toward Raidou wondering how he would prove that it was not a danger to others.

Sam starts to think of the things that she would have to do after helping Raidou with this task. Checking on Eruda and asking Simmone about sharing shops with her so she could learn Simmone's ways of being a Merchant knowing that she still had a lot to learn before she could consider herself as a true merchant.

ID# 153913 results: Loot: 7+3=10 Failure!

Total T3 Materials: 4

Edited June 18, 2020 by Sam