[F1-PP] Nothing Changed (Second Lessons)

[Celeste 1]

A single delivered parcel to Lyle has him direct her to his task, to collect a handful of boar tusks from tiny boars like the ones she'd just slaughtered. With the promise of reward the girl heads for the gate out to the birth of the floor, manifesting an axe in her clutches and keeping an eye peeled for her culprits. Littering the place are small packs of them ringing the whole of the place. To finish at a fair pace she'd take as many as she could on at once, pushing into the thick of them all in earnest. Celeste was not one to take her time, and she wanted this over long before it began. The promise of power and growth was the only thing driving her to continue this charade, and the reward had best be worth the effort. For Lyle's sake for she was not one for crap pay.

Celeste Consumes: Raspberry Smoothie [T1/Dessert/Perfect] - Loot Dice 3, Immolation [T1/Unique] - Thorns 10

Celeste | HP:80/80 | EN:8/8 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:6 | THRNS: 10

Spoiler

Celeste - The Crimson Tide
Level: 4
HP: 80/80
EN: 8/8

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

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:
Raspberry Smoothie [T1/Dessert/Perfect] - Loot Dice 3 *1

 

[Celeste 1]

A single blow rattles all of her respective targets save one troublesome one who squeals and attempts to flee. The impact can be heard from town, like a bolt of lightning it makes the ground shake beneath it. In the small crater formed were her three items, at a rapid pace, she'd more than cleared the objective with ease. As it turned out the last mission from Zackariah had bolstered her strength, much to her surprise. "What the hell?" Celeste remarks looking to her palm as the flare of energy disperses with a fizzle, leaving a scattering of red light in a bolt away to the weapon. A smile painted on her face she leans down and begins to pluck up the boar tusks that littered the hole. The lonely remaining pig eyeballed her in horror from the ring, debating if it wanted to start anything or flee for its life.

[x2 AoE] Whirlwind, 8 EN [ 2 + 6 {3 Hits} ]

ID# 181430 results: Battle: 10, Major Critical [+2 DMG] vs. Boar Pup #1 dealing 8x2=16 DMG
ID# 181431 results: Battle: 10, Major Critical [+2 DMG] vs. Boar Pup #2 dealing 8x2=16 DMG
ID# 181432 results: Battle: 9, Minor Critical [+1 DMG] vs. Boar Pup #3 dealing 7x2=14 DMG

ID# 181436 results: Battle: 1, Missed vs. Celeste!

Loot Roll:
ID# 181433 results: Loot: 10+6=16, [+1 Boar Tusk]
ID# 181434 results: Loot: 7+6=13, [+1 Boar Tusk]
ID# 181435 results: Loot: 17+6=23, [+1 Boar Tusk]

Players:
Celeste | HP:80/80 | EN:0/8 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:6 | THRNS: 10

Mobs:
Boar Pup #1 | HP: 5/5 | DMG:3
Boar Pup #2 | HP: 5/5 | DMG:3
Boar Pup #3 | HP: 5/5 | DMG:3
Boar Pup #4 | HP: 5/5 | DMG:3

Edited January 18, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Collecting her gains she notices the one lonely pig still horrified and eyeballing her. Celeste flips her grip and leans down "What are you looking at porky? Wanna start something?" It huffs and begins to backpedal with the idea to charge. Dumping the axe with ease it smashes the tiny pig flat, causing a discharge of data and leaving nothing behind. "Guess I am finally getting there. Bout damn time." Celeste quips eyeing the point of the destruction of the last for anything it may have left behind for her to claim. With nothing left, she debated and weighed her options. Given how fast she'd cleared this, perhaps a bit of playing with her new amplified abilities was in order. The thought was sweet to the palette, Lyle could wait a damn second while she tried herself on for size and see how it fit. She was excited as all get up.

Basic Attack [x1] vs. Boar Pup #4, -1 EN

ID# 181437 results: Battle: 9, Minor Critical [+1 DMG] dealing 7x1=7 DMG

Players:
Celeste | HP:80/80 | EN:0/8 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:6 | THRNS: 10

Mobs:
Boar Pup #4 | HP: 5/5 | DMG:3

Edited January 18, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

OOC EN Rec [1/3]

Her brash attempts to run rampant are quickly dismissed by the electronic buzz of her HUD, alerting her she was out of juice. "Damn you, now of all times?" Celeste remarks eyeballing the flashing bar outlined in red on the left corner of her screen. A soft exhale and a look to the ground, a little bunch of plants like the ones Zackariah had prescribed not but earlier today. "Fine, instead of standing here like an idiot might as well do something." She grumbled before folding her legs, fiddling with the dirt with a definite disgust. At least the system allowed this much, for her to do something productive to occupy herself while she waited for a damn invisible timer to tell her it was go time. Plucking free one tiny piece of flora that looked as though it was diseased, but in its imperfection it held strong. Adding itself to her inventory with a flash, she was one material richer.

ID# 181446 results: Loot: 19+6=25, Success
+1 T1 Material

Edited January 19, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

OOC EN Rec [2/3]

A sense of impatience washes over the redhead as her eyes constantly find her energy bar, and the fact it was still empty. "Still...?" She mutters rather irritated, paying little attention to the patch and the plants she was unknowingly trampling underfoot. Her boots cause one to expire, the durability drained entirely by her weight as it flickers and vanishes. She attempts to take a deep breath, trying to find some semblance of calm but the more and more she had to wait before getting to the good part was agonizing. Celeste couldn't wait until she finally had big enough numbers that this crap wouldn't happen nearly every time she swung her axe, it was still too much for her low level avatar to handle. Taking it slowly simply was not good enough for her, and this game's restrictions were driving her nuts. Just a little more tutorial quests, then I'll finally be out of the damn prologue.

ID# 181447 results: Loot: 4+6=10, Failure!

Edited January 19, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

OOC EN Recovered!

Celeste palms up one more trying her damnedest to distract herself from the waiting game she'd been thrust into by her own pathetic stats. A flicker in crimson red as it enters her inventory, producing a prompt that flows from the chatbox assaulting her vision. As it does a small ding like an oven finished and waiting to pop open, her energy bar rings showing that it was back at full speed. "Jesus that takes forever." The redhead quips and takes to a stand, lifting her right hand in front of her to force the axe to appear. "Now where was I?" Looking off toward the walls of the town, her aim was the heads that had yet to roll. Celeste wanted to test all this bestowed strength, on a bunch of hairy crash dummies that would line her pockets a bit at the same time. Good things come to those who wait.

ID# 181448 results: Loot: 13+6=19, Success
+1 T1 Material

Edited January 19, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Like a bat out of hell, she rushes down the first thing she sees, the notably larger beast in comparison to the others she's faced. Colliding with it with enough force to damage them both, each sustains quite a bit of damage from the impact alone. Her attack pattern this time around differs, the aim was to not have to wait for a damn eon for her stamina to recover. Early on it seemed that she had to swing for the fences with one guy, else she is stuck twitling her thumbs in a bush for a while. That shit just wasn't her style, and both her and her target could feel that. "That's more like it!" She squeals with excitement, eying the hulking fat bacon with a grim smile. "Come and get me big boy, lets see what you've got on tap!" The crimson tide goads wanting and lusting for more.

Smash [x2] vs. Boar #1, -2 EN

ID# 181449 results: Battle: 9, Minor Critical [+1 DMG] vs. Boar #1 dealing 7x2=14 DMG and applying BLD 12/2!

ID# 181450 results: Battle: 9, Minor Critical [+1 DMG] vs. Celeste dealing 13 DMG!

Players:
Celeste | HP:67/80 | EN:6/8 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:6 | THRNS: 10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:14/40 | DMG:12 | BLD [12/1]

Edited January 19, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

A slide of her frame with a fully ablaze hunk of steel and ferocity ringing in her grip, the boar shifts and rushes past. Dropping the hatchet into its back cleaves it in twain, the rocking output punch through into the ground beneath it. "Right the fuck on!" Celeste exhumes in astonishment, finding joy in how she performed and how the weapon responded. Right in a twist to sweep that massive cleaver back to her shoulders, her gaze eagerly hunting the next in tow. She wanted more, and had more than enough energy to spare. A kid with a new toy, and finally with some batteries left to swing it around. The training wheels were coming off and she could feel it, just wanting to strap in and let loose. An ode to the future, when the girl would be laying to waste entire armies with a flick of her steel.

Basic Attack [x1] vs. Boar #1, -1 EN

ID# 181451 results: Battle: 7+3=10, Hit vs. Boar #1 dealing 6x1=6 DMG!

Boar #1 Sustains 12 DMG from BLD and expires

Loot Roll:
ID# 181452 results: Craft: 8, Loot: 12+6=18

Players:
Celeste | HP:67/80 | EN:6/8 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:6 | THRNS: 10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:8/40 | DMG:12 | BLD [12/1]

Total Loot:
280*Col
T1 Rare Consumable #181452a
T1 Rare Armor/Shield #181452b

Edited January 19, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Right to the next in her line of sight, slamming the cleaver into its backside. It snorts and cold clocks her, raking her with two elongated and sharpened tusks that protrude from its gullet. She didn't care in the slightest, and the beast was already reeling from the damage she had pumped into it. Carrying through the momentum she twirls ass over tea kettle, using the spin to rip the axe clean and allow it to charge again. A blazing maroon with high pitched hum, burning a trail through the air like a glowstick during a rave. Excitement and pride on overdrive, she was having the time of her life and could not help but maintain that smile. The boar attempts to flee, finding her quick and timely return to full swing potentially lethal, its A.I. was smart enough to move the hell out the way before she was allowed to drive the steel in again.

Smash [x2] vs. Boar #1, -2 EN

ID# 181453 results: Battle: 8+3=11, Hit vs. Boar #1 dealing 6x2=12 DMG

ID# 181454 results: Battle: 7, Hit vs. Celeste dealing 12 DMG and sustaining 10 DMG from Immolation!

Players:
Celeste | HP:55/80 | EN:5/8 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:6 | THRNS: 10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:18/40 | DMG:12

Edited January 19, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

The guillotine drives hard into the floor, causing a smattering of soil to upheave and fly backward. Her target had moved, and her power discharges into the ground alone. Celeste lands just deftly enough to get raked by a stampeding beast moving the other direction, using her exposure to its advantage and drawing a rather deep line of red across her torso as it passes. As a result her HP plummets rather sharply, causing her to take a defensive pose but that smile doesn't fade. The crimson tide was livid with the exchange, the excitement was so sweet. Celeste could feel the power coursing through her hands with every release, each swing could not come fast enough. Anchoring her feet and twisting her waist, she shifts the axe head off to her right side allowing a pulse to claim its surface. Her feet shift apart as she rips the handle across her lower back.

Smash [x2] vs. Boar #1, -2 EN

ID# 181455 results: Battle: 2+3=5, Missed vs. Boar #1

ID# 181456 results: Battle: 9, Minor Critical [+1 DMG] vs. Celeste dealing 13 DMG!

Players:
Celeste | HP:42/80 | EN:4/8 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:6 | THRNS: 10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:18/40 | DMG:12

Edited January 19, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

A pivot allows the head to pass through cleanly, slamming it into the side of the beast like a lumberjack to a tree. It digs deep, creating a wedge and forcing the boar to cling to it like a handful of wet paper. It becomes limp, dragging its weight across the long weapon and with it causing her to shift. Her dance had ended, and her energy was finally drawing to a close as she pants. "Hell yeah." Celeste mutters beneath troubled breath, more than pleased with her performance. Her HUD rings with the additives that were nothing more than an afterthought, but a pleasant one. It adds quite the tiny nest egg into her inventory and would offer her just that much more to exploit and push herself even further beyond where she was stuck now. It would only be a matter of time now before she began to ramp up, and she could taste it on the tip of her tongue it was so close.

Smash [x2] vs. Boar #1, -2 EN

ID# 181457 results: Battle: 9, Minor Critical [+1 DMG] vs. Boar #1 dealing 7x2=14 DMG and applying BLD 12/2

Boar #1 Sustains 12 DMG from BLD and expires

Loot Roll:
ID# 181458 results: Craft: 6, Loot: 13+6=19

Players:
Celeste | HP:42/80 | EN:3/8 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:6 | THRNS: 10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:4/40 | DMG:12 | BLD:[12/1]

Total Loot:
480*Col
2*T1 Materials
T1 Rare Consumable #181452a
T1 Rare Armor/Shield #181452b
T1 Perfect Armor/Shield #181458a
T1 Perfect Trinket #181458b

Edited January 19, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

OOC Regen: +10 HP, +1 EN, Full Restore [1/3] HP:52/80 | EN:4/8 

Back was that annoying buzzer, burning a hole through her attention with its blitzing sound. Energy drained out again, she went a little to ham on that last fight. "Oh for fucks..." The sentence breaks off midway as she conceals the axe in her clutches. A shift away from any potential aggro, to give her annoying little timer some time to cool off. Again she had to put on the breaks, because a little bar had told her to. Fondling some tiny clumps of grass in a veiled attempt to prove she knew what the hell she was doing, getting used to this routine of forced 15 minute breaks that she couldn't stand. There had to be some way to reduce this shit from tapping her out after only a few swings right? Because this shit wouldn't fly, it seemed as though as soon as she started going she had to take a trip to the toilet, and boy was it infuriating the inconsonance. 

ID# 181468 results: Loot: 19+6=25, Success
+1 T1 Materials

Edited January 19, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

OOC Regen: +10 HP, +1 EN, Full Restore [2/3] HP:62/80 | EN:5/8 

Fiddling with the small pile of green that was beneath her, at least these ones she could keep and perhaps sell. Celeste couldn't wait until she could put such trivial crap behind her, once she had a few levels under her belt and wouldn't become completely drained after a few pathetic swings. Subtly her mind wandered to wondering exactly how long that was going to take her to achieve, pondering on the possibility of expediting the process somehow. A mental note to ask around and trade some col for the information, someone had to have a damn way to skip all this BS that was holding her back. A flash of light as the next piece of plant matter gets rigged into her digital bags, to collect dust until she was able to pawn it off to someone else for some cash eventually. Celeste didn't need them, and never would.

ID# 181469 results: Loot: 18+6=24, Success
+1 T1 Materials

Edited January 23, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

OOC Regen: +10 HP, +1 EN, Full Restore Triggered HP:80/80 | EN:8/8 

In roughly the same amount of time as the first, the notification of her HUD showing her stamina fully recovered. A sigh of relief adding another hunk of green junk to the pile in her bags. "Back to it then." Celeste remarks trading the plowed piece with an axe in a quick instant. An eye on the prize always, these tiny breaks that were being forced on her were aggravating and nothing more. It felt as though the wind was being ripped out of her sails, someone was pressing the breaks and deliberately slowing her down at every turn. It was glaring, the obvious weakness that came with her low level and the aura she was letting off kept those that would speak to her at a distance. The redhead was unapproachable by association, no one wanting to deal with that temper that was visible at the length they stayed.

ID# 181470 results: Loot: 13+6=19, Success
+1 T1 Materials

Edited January 23, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Like a bullet, it was clear where her drive lied, a thunderous clap of power as she moved toward her target. It glances off its hide and rattles a standing tree with a hefty swing. A parade of leaves falls as it connects, showering her with green as the large four legged beast offers a huff in disagreement. "One day." She barked rather fueled with rage, the fact she kept whiffing constantly was getting to her. Celeste's blood was boiling with each tiny setback, her patience that was already super thin was drawing even thinner. Using her right foot to pluck clean the cleaver from the spire of wood, cradling it back and forth before jerking it clean she rights herself facing the beast. Allowing the head to dangle near her right hip, she sizes it up and offers a goading wink. The redhead wanted it to charge her down, curious if it would take the bait.

Smash [x2] vs. Boar #1, -2 EN

ID# 181491 results: Battle: 2+3=5, Missed vs. Boar #1

ID# 181492 results: Battle: 6, Hit! vs. Celeste dealing 12 DMG, Sustains 10 via Thorns!

Players:
Celeste | HP:68/80 | EN:6/8 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:6 | THRNS: 10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:30/40 | DMG:12

Edited January 23, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

The taunt works, and with a sudden shift and begin of stampeding hooves it blazes toward. The crimson tide as it passes drops the head into its back, causing it to wince in feigned pain. It shakes as it rips clean the latched arm, carving a line in red down the length of it and racking its remaining health. "How'd yah like that?" Celeste quips with a grim grin on her lips. Only truly enjoying her stay in aincrad here in the mix of combat, else was nothing more than a waste of time. Quests were boring, and all these goofy little stores and shops proved only a distraction. She'd have it all in time, taking it from the clutches of the system as a whole. Peeling back the weapon as it dug a small trough through the soil as it fell, dislodging it and sprinkling the attached sediment as it raised.

Smash [x2] vs. Boar #1, -2 EN

ID# 181493 results: Battle: 5+3=8, Hit! vs. Boar #1 dealing 6x2=12 DMG

ID# 181494 results: Battle: 2, Missed vs. Celeste!

Players:
Celeste | HP:68/80 | EN:5/8 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:6 | THRNS: 10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:18/40 | DMG:12

Edited January 23, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

One more quick swipe causes it to explode, in a blinding crash that cuts the beast in twain. A huge ark in red dumps a surprising amount of energy behind the handle, cutting the oh so valuable stamina from her bar in an instant. Each point mattered and she was starting to become painfully aware of its presence, like a tiny ticker until the boring part. Celeste was slowly learning to hate its very existence, it was annoying having this little kitchen timer tell her that it was time to quit. An eye to it shows it in yellow, at half mass she still had some but not a ton left on tap. "Damn it." the girl mutters, debating if she should even try to continue. A single inhale finds her moxie to keep going, despite what the little beeper was screeching at her in excess. It was what she wanted.

Smash [x2] vs. Boar #1, -2 EN

ID# 181495 results: Battle: 8+3=11, Hit! vs. Boar #1 dealing 6x2=12 DMG

ID# 181496 results: Battle: 6, Hit! vs. Celeste dealing 12 DMG, Sustains 10 via Thorns and dies!

Loot Roll:
ID# 181497 results: Craft: 2, Loot: 14+6=20

Players:
Celeste | HP:56/80 | EN:4/8 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:6 | THRNS: 10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:6/40 | DMG:12

Total Loot:
760*Col
2*T1 Materials
T1 Rare Consumable #181452a
T1 Rare Armor/Shield #181452b
T1 Perfect Armor/Shield #181458a
T1 Perfect Trinket #181458b
T1 Perfect Consumable #181497a
T1 Rare Trinket #181497b

Edited January 23, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Right into a broad stroke that connects with the next most adjacent target causing it to assume hostility and target her. It snorts rather aggressively in response, the sudden attack leaving a bright line upon its side. The damage causes the bar to clip down in a large section, just above half in an instant. Celeste pivots on her heel, drawing the letter across and up in mirrored opposition of the first swing. It draws high above her shoulders, the guillotine ripe for the claim of a head. The dark brown fur stained in red light begins to move, out of fear of retaliation and running its routine programming. The crimson tide just wanted the fat loot that it held in that body if his, as she closes the distance and slides her feet apart for a more centered gravity. Her axe screams with another triggered art, engulfing brightly in her signature blood red.

Smash [x2] vs. Boar #1, -2 EN

ID# 181498 results: Battle: 3+3=6, Hit! vs. Boar #1 dealing 6x2=12 DMG

ID# 181499 results: Battle: 5, Missed vs. Celeste!

Players:
Celeste | HP:56/80 | EN:3/8 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:6 | THRNS: 10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:28/40 | DMG:12

Edited January 24, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Before it can even respond or build any space between them, Celeste drops the hatchet in a grand swipe. It connects and a squeal affirms it as the solidarity of the blow riddles down the length of the cleaver. It bisects and clips it in two, forcing both halves to assail a few feet before detonating like a grenade. The blue shards spray at an angle and vanish in the air like ash. Panting Celeste had used the last bit of juice she had, and she was starting to become physically exhausted by all this crap. The gardening was more draining then the actual combat mentally, and she wanted a bath. Lifting the grim letter up, it disappears to the sounds of prompts flooding her menu. For the walls she beats a path, bound for the damned smith that had better have a half decent reward for his leg of the tutorial nonsense.

Smash [x2] vs. Boar #1, -2 EN

ID# 181500 results: Battle: 10, Major Critical [+2 DMG] vs. Boar #1 dealing 8x2=16 DMG and applying BLD [12/2]

Boar #1 sustains 12 DMG from BLD and expires!

Loot Roll:
ID# 181501 results: Craft: 9, Loot: 13+3=16

Players:
Celeste | HP:56/80 | EN:2/8 | DMG:6 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:6 | THRNS: 10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:12/40 | DMG:12 | BLD:12/1

Total Loot:
1040*Col
6*T1 Materials
T1 Rare Consumable #181452a
T1 Rare Armor/Shield #181452b
T1 Perfect Armor/Shield #181458a
T1 Perfect Trinket #181458b
T1 Perfect Consumable #181497a
T1 Rare Trinket #181497b
T1 Perfect Weapon #181501a

Edited January 24, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Into the light tan walls of stone, past the parade of players who were working their respective ways as well. The sun was setting, and a short conversation with Lyle offers a crappy reward and an extension. Celeste dreaded the thought of an additional chore, she had had enough for one day. Finding her way toward a district with cheaper shelter and the purchase of a key for the night offers it to her. A few measly 10 col pays for her room and board in a shoddy slum of a building. The crimson red haired girl couldn't wait to escape her own finances, and as she shifted through all she wrought for the day, despite the crappy weapon. It places a smile on her face, her butt pressed to low thread count linen that held a strange sent like dust. "Guess I'll go meet Hanna in the morning, and get this all over with. Seems its working." The redhead quips as she looked at the denomination and it read back enough to buy this room 100 times over with one afternoon used.

Quest Complete:
4*SP (1 Thread Closure, 1 Event Bonus, 2 Quest Rewards)
1440*Col (400 Thread Closure, 1040 Dropped)
11*T1 Materials (5 Gathered, 6 Dropped)
1*T1 Trash [Uncommon/2HBA] - +1 DMG
Safeguard [Unique/Potion] - (Usable in 3rd Lessons, Negates First Instance of Damage Taken)
T1 Rare Consumable #181452a
T1 Rare Armor/Shield #181452b
T1 Perfect Armor/Shield #181458a
T1 Perfect Trinket #181458b
T1 Perfect Consumable #181497a
T1 Rare Trinket #181497b
T1 Perfect Weapon #181501a

Edited January 24, 2021 by Celeste