[F1-PP] Nothing Learned (First Lessons)

[Celeste 1]

A whole kit of gear purchased based on hearsay and picked up in passing, a keen ear upon a seat in Hummingbard Inn. With a quest log five quests fat, she had what she needed and what she aspired to. What a beginner needed to do was laid before her, and although the thought in an exponential burst in strength was almost too much to bear. The requirement was appalling, the mediocre dribble she'd have to wade through to obtain it was less than ideal.

"What a worthless waste." Celeste comments to the droves of buffoons as she exits the walls of the town of beginnings, into the lush fields of greenery that served the perimeter and birth of the floor. Unsheathing a gruesome-looking weapon that appeared almost too much for the girl to handle, a polished steel dual headed axe as she flicks her right arm to one side. A cast of crimson makes it manifest with a slight sound like a pulse makes it appear. Without a moment to spare or a second thought, she starts out swinging.

Spoiler

Celeste - The Crimson Tide
Level: 1
HP: 20/20
EN: 2/2

Stats:
Damage: 6
Accuracy: 3
BLD:12
LD:3

Equipped Gear:
Weapon: Adrenaline Billhook [T1/2HBA/Perfect] - Damage 2, Bleed 1
Armor: Red Omamori [T1/Trinket/Perfect] - Loot Dice 3
Misc: Platinum Buckle [T1/Trinket/Perfect]: Accuracy 3

Skills:
Two Handed Battle Axe [Rank 1]

Battle Ready Inventory:
Spring (The Four Seasons) [T1/Support Song/Perfect] - Familiar Sight*1
Berry Crumb Bars [T1/Dessert/Perfect] - Loot Dice 3*1
Raspberry Smoothie [T1/Dessert/Perfect] - Loot Dice 3 *2
The Stars Collide [T1/Salve/Perfect] - Pheromone*1
Immolation [T1/Unique] - Thorns 10*1

[x2] Smash, -2 EN
ID# 181074 results: Battle: 6+3=9, Hit vs. Boar Pup #1 dealing 6x2=12 damage

Loot Roll:
ID# 181075 results: Craft: 1, Loot: 9+3=12

Players:
Celeste | HP:20/20 | EN:0/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

Mobs:
Boar Pup #1 | HP:10/10 | DMG:3

Total Loot:
30*Col
4*T1 Materials
T1 Rare Trinket #181075a

Edited January 5, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Celeste | HP:20/20 | EN:1/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

As the creature expires, Celeste checks the tracker on the side of her screen allowing the battle axe to loosen and drop in her grasp. To a newly painted outrage on her face, it reads back to her.

<<Gather T1 Materials [0/5]>>

Her gaze then slides over as she lifts open the chatbox, and clear as day she'd got 4 from the kill. "So what, the damn loot dropped from creatures don't count?" the girl outbursts, as if screaming at the window itself. An annoying buzzing of her Stamina being empty, like a damn faerie in another game she'd played as a child 'listen, look' trying to alert her to being drained. "Guess I am picking damn flowers or some shit because apparently, those don't count." 

Sliding to a tree and spinning the massive cleaver, a dangling red apple she stares up at. A slam of the weapon causes it to shift and sway but holds on tight. "a prop then." honestly confused by the hell she'd gotten herself into.

ID# 181099 results: Loot: 6+3=9, Failed!

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

A snort of a boar nearby causes her to twist. "The hell are you looking at porky, mind your business." She was irate and somehow she felt as though this thing was laughing at her. Spinning the weapon over in her grip and a single downward pounding causes a spray that silences it, a quick squeal before it explodes. "Serves you right." Celeste quips lifting the weapon out of the small impact hole she'd produced that allowed her to blow off some steam. "And that's another 4." She quips to the sudden notification and another look to the side of her menu. "And of course that shit doesn't count either, so I am supposed to what. Pick flowers like a pretty girl?" as if she was circling the system with sexual stereotypes. A sharp exhale to force her energy recovery to start, with that last blast she'd emptied out every point she'd gotten back.

[x2] Smash, -2 EN

ID# 181100 results: Battle: 9, Minor Critical dealing 7x2=14 DMG to Boar Pup #1

Loot Roll:
ID# 181101 results: Craft: 5, Loot: 19+3=22

Players:
Celeste | HP:20/20 | EN:0/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

Mobs:
Boar Pup #1 | HP:10/10 | DMG:3

Total Loot:
60*Col
8*T1 Materials
T1 Rare Trinket #181075a
T1 Perfect Armor/Shield #181101a
T1 Perfect Consumable #181101b
T1 Perfect Consumable #181101c

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Celeste | HP:20/20 | EN:1/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

Beneath the felled beast was a single solidarity patch of herbs, damaged quite a bit by the impact from her swing. Leaning down and plucking clean a bit of the plant that remained causes her tracker to update:

<<Gather T1 Materials [1/5]>>

"That's it then, you want me to do boring and tedious flower picking." Celeste inhales just as sharply with a bit of a glare peeled toward the menu, irritated by the thought that she was being forced to gather. A flash of crimson adds the plant to her inventory, and with a sigh, she looks about for more. "Like hell is I just going to ignore the other loot pinata's wandering around the place. Guess two birds with one stone." A high pitched whir plays on the quality steel hatchet in her clutches, and with a grin on her face dumping her regained fervor into it. "A little more bacon, here piggy piggy."

ID# 181102 results: Loot: 19+3=22, Success
1*T1 Materials Obtained [Quest]
Total T1 Materials [1/5]

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

A sudden tear forward alerts the beast in question, and it shuffles away as quickly as the girl ascends. Startled it rushes just out of reach, the blast causes a layer of dirt to cover them both. "Come're you little shit." Celeste barks taking a step closer as the skill stasis fades, her body instantly feeling sluggish and drained. "Wow, guess I am weak." Celeste comments to the annoying little buzzing that was trying to show her the empty gauge. "It's your little ass that will fix that problem." She twists and pushes a foot forward, heavy like wearing concrete shoes. A single tick of her stamina removes the anchor, and a wash of red shows her intentions. Celeste was painfully aware of how crappy her pools were at this level, but it wouldn't deter her from continuing. The boar pivots on its heels and a rather fearful look twist to an angry glare. The battle of the ages, one level 1 vs. a boar pup. Who would win?

[x2] Smash, -2 EN

ID# 181103 results: Battle: 1, Critical Miss vs. Boar Pup #1!

ID# 181104 results: Battle: 1, Critical Miss vs. Celeste!

Players:
Celeste | HP:20/20 | EN:0/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

Mobs:
Boar Pup #1 | HP:10/10 | DMG:3

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

It begins to rush the girl, and a lift of her cleaver blocks the incoming blow on the handle. A push back with grit teeth and a held stance forces the stampeding although adorable boar pup off to one side. She attempts a counter and whiffs hard, the weight of the blade causing her to spin. "Jesus how difficult is this supposed to be, do your damn job." Celeste yells at the hatchet or the system, which was unclear. What was important is that she blew it, and neither party had done anything. Such was noobies trying to take on boars: as aged as time itself, who knew how many had fallen to their kind? It was uncanny how bad luck could be when the target's name included the word boar in it, but it was an ordeal that all that wish to overcome adversity must face before gaining power.

Basic attack [x1], -2 EN, Missed!

ID# 181105 results: Battle: 1, Critical Miss vs. Boar Pup #1!

ID# 181106 results: Battle: 4, Missed vs. Celeste!

Players:
Celeste | HP:20/20 | EN:0/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

Mobs:
Boar Pup #1 | HP:10/10 | DMG:3

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

A sudden lurch forward bridges the gap and crushes the target flat beneath her weapon. "Gotcha you little burger, pain in my ass." Celeste barks to the newly formed crater of modest size. "Fickle damn system, guess you either suck or overkill everything. Some middle ground would be nice." Lifting the heavy hatchet from the pocket formed allows some loose dirt to fall beneath it. "This quest of course would have some strange requirement that I cannot just brute force my way through. Not that it looks like I can do any real brute-forcing yet." Speaking out loud to herself like a crazy person. With reluctance, her mind immediately starts to seek out more goofy flowers or bits of salad that would meet the expected thresholds. A mix of using her stamina when full and picking tiny lumps of grass when it wasn't seemed ideal to her, given she was much better at killing than fiddling with dirt.

Basic attack [x1], -1 EN

ID# 181107 results: Battle: 9, Minor Critical dealing 7x1=7 DMG and applying [BLD 12/2]

Bleed 12 [1/2] Triggers, Boar Pup #1 dies before action.

Loot Roll:
ID# 181108 results: Craft: 6, Loot: 13+3=16

Players:
Celeste | HP:20/20 | EN:0/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

Mobs:
Boar Pup #1 | HP:10/10 | DMG:3

Total Loot:
110*Col
10*T1 Materials
T1 Rare Trinket #181075a
T1 Perfect Armor/Shield #181101a
T1 Perfect Consumable #181101b
T1 Perfect Consumable #181101c
T1 Rare Consumable #181108a
T1 Rare Armor/Shield #181108b

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Celeste | HP:20/20 | EN:1/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

To no prevail, the only patch found that seemed suitable was already long destroyed and smeared into a green paste. Celeste was unconvinced that such soylent green mush would serve of any use to anyone again. "Well I tried." She quips as a way of convincing herself that she had given her best effort and her eyes peel quickly back to another head to claim. The thought of killing and beheading these little goobers was much more interesting to her, trying to make excuses as to why she was making it her primary focus when simply put she enjoyed it better. The paint of the huge silver axe with red, her stamina causing it to scream and force her to kneel low. "Get in my wallet, you little bastard!" She lets fly from her lips, and eyeing her was a tiny maybe foot tall pig that snorts uninterested in what she had to say.

ID# 181109 results: Loot: 4+3=7, Failure!
Total T1 Materials [1/5]

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Another rocket forward and a swipe that goes far too wide, cleaving clean over the tiny creature's frame. It was uninterested in a way that was as if it knew that she was going to eat it. Her feet slide out beneath her, the dust and dirt offering no solid footing. The massive cleaver finding no purchase serves as a pendulum that robs her of the ability to stand. "Oh for fucks sake." She yelps as the weapon skitters and plants heavy in the dirt with enough force to knock her on her butt. "Screw you buddy." Celeste barks toward the pig who huffs once and begins to trail away from her, as if the redhead was interrupting her meal with her insistent screaming. "This game really has it out for new players, just going to screw me over left and right aren't yah?" spoken as she tightens her grip on the hatchet and begins to wedge it free.

[x2] Smash, -2 EN

ID# 181110 results: Battle: 2+3=5, Missed vs. Boar Pup #1

ID# 181111 results: Battle: 3, Missed vs. Celeste!

Players:
Celeste | HP:20/20 | EN:0/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

Mobs:
Boar Pup #1 | HP:10/10 | DMG:3

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Ripping it clean and rushing down her would be money bag, she plants a heavy axe just off center. Given the stature of the beast, it whiffs just as easy and as she struggles to peel it free it rakes her shin with tiny tusks. The scratch deals a decent chunk of damage before she pushes it back by its face. "This game really does just hate me I guess. Get away from me, you little idiot." a hefty push builds a bit of distance and stops it from dealing anything more. "This crap is rigged, the hell does this skill even do?" Celeste remarks opening her menu and reading back her skill provided with the weapon when it was chosen, assuming that it would have allowed her to be proficient with the damn thing enough not to get it stuck on every other swing. Another sharp huff from the boar pup as it eyes her with ill intent.

Basic attack [x1], -2 EN, Missed!

ID# 181112 results: Battle: 1, Critical Miss vs. Boar Pup #1

ID# 181113 results: Battle: 7, Hit vs. Celeste dealing 3 DMG

Players:
Celeste | HP:17/20 | EN:0/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

Mobs:
Boar Pup #1 | HP:10/10 | DMG:3

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

With the distance built she makes another attempt and finds even more purchase in everything but her intended target. It was as if the beast had some sort of force field that was protecting it from harm, the cardinal was giving the damn thing plot armor or something. "Are you a quest target or something you little ass?" Celeste yelps out finding another displacement with a thunk of her axe into the ground beside it. Another snort causes her to put a newly freed hand to its face and hold it back like a bully on a playground. "Keep that shit to yourself, thanks." using her right to jostle the implanted hatchet back and forth to work it free while keeping it at bay with her left. One solid pull and shift back and the weapon which seemed to be ampler and ampler to kill soil then actual mobs is freed.

Basic attack [x1], -2 EN, Missed!

ID# 181114 results: Battle: 2+3=5, Missed vs. Boar Pup #1!

ID# 181115 results: Battle: 3, Missed vs. Celeste!

Players:
Celeste | HP:17/20 | EN:0/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

Mobs:
Boar Pup #1 | HP:10/10 | DMG:3

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Shoulder checking the thing forces her to take another tick of damage through the impact alone. The thing flails and falls and a single downward swipe shreds a fair portion of the tiny creature's health bar. "That's right you little fuck." She yells out as the HP she lost drains slowly from the green bar on her HUD, a gambit that had paid off slightly. It rolls a bit like a turtle before returning to its feet, a tenacious little oinker. It was still going and still eyeing her for an attack. "Come on, come get me." Celeste goads the little sucker, waving a hand in a gesture toward her with a grin. This was far more interesting than gathering anyway, and she'd long let herself become distracted from what she originally came out into this field to do. Zackariah would just have to wait his turn, right now she was cutting her teeth on the system.

Basic attack [x1], -1 EN

ID# 181116 results: Battle: 7+3=10, Hit vs. Boar Pup #1 dealing 6x1=6 DMG

ID# 181117 results: Battle: 6, Hit! vs. Celeste dealing 3 DMG

Players:
Celeste | HP:14/20 | EN:0/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

Mobs:
Boar Pup #1 | HP:4/10 | DMG:3

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Before it could respond, as it pivots and turns to face her she smears it with a cataclysmic slam of the weapon as if her bold move had triggered something within the weapon. Like a landmine, a spray of soil, and the sound of a broken frame bursting and preparing to respawn. A faint flicker of shards of data in blue emanates from the hole. "That's more like it, why not do that the first try?" Celeste looks down toward the hatchet as if the cause of her misfortune was its issue, not hers. The prompts flood her inventory, even more materials and loot that didn't meet the requirements. Silently she hardly cared, really enjoying the thrill of the exchange and the destroyed beast. She was no coward, and everything is dumped into her hands would more than help line her intentions with a bit of coin. A single sigh as she recalls that she still had to gather plants like a farmer.

Basic attack [x1], -2 EN, Missed!

ID# 181118 results: Battle: 9, Minor Critical vs. Boar Pup #1 dealing 7x1=7 DMG

Loot Rool:
ID# 181119 results: Craft: 4, Loot: 12+3=15

Players:
Celeste | HP:14/20 | EN:0/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

Mobs:
Boar Pup #1 | HP:4/10 | DMG:3

Total Loot:
180*Col
10*T1 Materials
T1 Rare Trinket #181075a
T1 Perfect Armor/Shield #181101a
T1 Perfect Consumable #181101b
T1 Perfect Consumable #181101c
T1 Rare Consumable #181108a
T1 Rare Armor/Shield #181108b
T1 Rare Trinket #181119a

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Celeste | HP:20/20 | EN:1/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

Beneath the destroyed pile and wreckage, lies her target and culprit. A bit bent but the durability would suffice, a single red tipped plant that once plucked from where it lie added itself to the counter on the side of her screen. A twist causes it to vanish, a faint flicker of red as its stowed away into her inventory. "Two down." She quipped With a retract of the rather imposing looking barbarian esque weapon still held with her right. A heave tosses it over her shoulder, the head resting behind her dome. "But I am going to keep on these little four legged bacon. They seem to be a better use of my time." Celeste comments with a faint memory of visiting the odyssey making the materials dropped worth quite a penny once sold away. She didn't need them but the cash she could surely put to some use.

ID# 181120 results: Loot: 8+3=11, Success!
+1*T1 Materials [Quest]
Total T1 Materials [2/5]

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

As quickly as she can approach a new target, as before it does its best to avoid and ignore her. She was not quite on the level to do much about it yet, and the adaptation to the skills provided by the system was still quite the experience. Celeste was unfamiliar with all the game had to offer, her own skills given by it was alien and odd. The girl was still off-put and disconnected from how they were expected to operate and she was not quite the reading type to learn. Her target simply avoids her and huffs, walking on as if she didn't exist. This irks her as times before, that something so small could offer such a dismissal of her like a nuisance. But this is what it meant to be a new player in aincrad. To be awful at everything until you gained some skills and eventually weren't.

[x2] Smash, -2 EN

ID# 181122 results: Battle: 1, Critical Miss vs. Boar Pup #1!

ID# 181123 results: Battle: 5, Missed vs. Celeste!

Players:
Celeste | HP:20/20 | EN:0/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

Mobs:
Boar Pup #1 | HP:10/10 | DMG:3

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

A drop of the axe like a hammer, glances and finds purchase in nothing more than the turf. A disturbed soil and a disturbed beast infant, a snort and a turn before its head butts her open and exposed shin. "You have got to be shittin' me." Celeste offers a quick and vocal objection, the simple difficulty of this crap made it seem like nothing more than a coin flip. Here she was prepared for the whole damn thing, and couldn't reliably hit the broad side of a red painted building. Lifting the foot and leg being raked and scratched by the little bugger, she boots it square in the head. Not proficient in any way for it to deal damage, it does manage some distance built but nothing more. "I am beginning to hate this damn game." The redhead swells with outrage, as it seems as though all the odds were stacked against her.

Basic attack [x1], -2 EN, Missed!

ID# 181124 results: Battle: 1, Critical Miss vs. Boar Pup #1

ID# 181125 results: Battle: 8, Hit vs. Celeste dealing 3 DMG!

Players:
Celeste | HP:17/20 | EN:0/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

Mobs:
Boar Pup #1 | HP:10/10 | DMG:3

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Using her planted heel as leverage, she sinks it and peels back the hatchet. A high pitch whur spending whatever trickle of stamina that recovers to slap it like a golf ball. It skitters and slides, a soft squeal that leaves it prone and complacent. "How'd ya like that you little..." Celeste pauses, noticing now that she was dropping a ton of the same insults and couldn't quite come up with anything new on the spot. "Forget it." she quips steadying herself and raising the rather hefty axe back to neutral on her right side. The burning star above casts the polish into a bright glimmer, but it was long before she would have a strong hang of this whole hit for hit crap the game had as its foundation. She was not afraid of what may happen, more pissed that it was happening to her of all people. Celeste assumed she was above such obvious failure, which was perhaps the very reason it had occurred.

Basic attack [x1], -1 EN!

ID# 181126 results: Battle: 8+3=11, Hit vs. Boar Pup #1 dealing 6x1=6 DMG

ID# 181127 results: Battle: 3, Missed vs. Celeste!

Players:
Celeste | HP:17/20 | EN:0/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

Mobs:
Boar Pup #1 | HP:4/10 | DMG:3

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

A flare of red with outrage, as if she was pissed at the overstacked odds against her. Fuel to the weapon, dumping the single regenerated point of stamina into the battle axe she dumps the head clean through carving the target in two. Two floundering halves of boar pup squirm for a moment before shattering in an airborne spray of blue shards. More loot added, but she was happy only in her success. The reward was second fiddle to actually getting her damn equipment to operate. "Maybe I stow this shit for a while, get some power outside of combat. As much as I hate the idea." she wanted to become a force to be reckoned with, and couldn't see how picking flowers or brewing a damn potion was going to get her there. But if it was what must be done, these damn fetch quests then so be it. A glance to her health bar "Yeah soon enough, this shit won't be happening."

Basic attack [x1], -1 EN!

ID# 181128 results: Battle: 6+3=9, Hit vs. Boar Pup #1

Loot Roll:
ID# 181129 results: Craft: 3, Loot: 11+3=14

Players:
Celeste | HP:17/20 | EN:0/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

Mobs:
Boar Pup #1 | HP:4/10 | DMG:3

Total Loot:
210*Col
14*T1 Materials
T1 Rare Trinket #181075a
T1 Perfect Armor/Shield #181101a
T1 Perfect Consumable #181101b
T1 Perfect Consumable #181101c
T1 Rare Consumable #181108a
T1 Rare Armor/Shield #181108b
T1 Rare Trinket #181119a
T1 Rare Trinket #181129a

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Celeste | HP:20/20 | EN:1/2 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:3

Trying her best to gather materials... outside of combat, it does nothing more than piss her off to no end. Plant after plant shatters in her grip as she peels free sections of the stuff in large clumps. "This is so stupid!" she shoots up like a bullet, stomping her foot and grinding one of the dormant stocks to a paste before it explodes. Whoever's bright idea it was to make the first quest a player was going to do be so damn unforgiving needed to be unplugged. That damn Kaiba and his sick and twisted joke knew no end. Here she was stuck with 14 that didn't count and 2 that did. "What difference does it make if I get it off a body or out of a bush?" Celeste squeals at her menu, filled with angst and disgust. A few surrounding players slow in their tracks, a pause in their own grinding.

ID# 181130 results: Loot: 4+3=7, Failure!
Total T1 Materials [2/5]

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

A slight exhale with an attempt to calm herself, taking an honest step away from the dorky little tufts of green. It was as if they were taunting her, her eyes narrow to a glare. Just sitting there, as if they were so easy to claim from the floor. But every single one she plucks doesn't last more than a few seconds before expiring. It was as if she was missing something major, but it wasn't in her mindset to check the quest objectives or anything quite of that caliber for anything she may have missed. Nope, she'd sit here and brood throughout the length of the quest until she simply succeeded through unneeded and unnecessary conflict and turbulence. It was only a matter of time right? she thought to herself, feeling like she was going slightly insane with how troublesome the lot of this affair seemed to be despite her doing everything she heard about.

ID# 181131 results: Loot: 9+3=12, Failure!

Edited January 7, 2021 by Celeste