[F1-PP] Nothing Gained (Third Lessons)

[Celeste 1]

An early rise and beginning morning, Celeste was still stricken with the taste of disgust. The redhead was still trapped in tutorial quest limbo, her stats reflecting how weak she still was. Finding her way to Hanna and disregarding most of what the girl had to say, assuming the reward would equally as abysmal. The NPC beckons her to a cavern to collect a gemstone, which smelled of an obvious trap. Celeste cherished the thought however, perhaps it would be a good fight.

Shifting feet through the wilds as she follows a loosely drawn nav under her feet, shuffling toward the mouth of the respective cavern alone. Eerie echoes bleed from its entry and as a response, she raises and waves her right hand. A pulse and flash of light draw the cleaver from space, attaching both arms across a large handle. A few more clattering heels as she presses in deeper the confines, quaffing a bold orange drink in her hands as she does.

Celeste consumes: Immolation 1, 10 Thorns upon non critical successful attack taken.

Celeste | HP:120/120 | EN:12/12 | DMG:7 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | THRNS:10

Spoiler

Celeste - The Crimson Tide
Level: 6
HP: 120/120
EN: 12/12

Stats:
Damage: 7
Mitigation: 18
Evasion: 1
Accuracy: 3
BLD:12

Equipped Gear:
Weapon: Adrenaline Billhook [T1/2HBA/Perfect] - Damage 2, Bleed 1
Armor: Red Woven Wave - Stampede [T1/Light Armor/Perfect]: Mitigation 2, Evasion 1
Misc: Platinum Buckle [T1/Trinket/Perfect]: Accuracy 3

Skills:
Two Handed Battle Axe [Rank 2]

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

 

[Celeste 1]

Low Light Penalty Triggered: Players receive -1 ACC

Breaching the cavern and ushing down into the center through dim lighting, the woman finds a small ruby amongst the rough. Leaning down and claiming it forces a few large boulders to swell. They roll and begin to culminate near the center as well. Crashing and slamming against one another as it begins to form a constructed frame of stone. In response, Celeste drops the uncut gem and blasts the rock titan with one sideward blow. It connects and rattles the chamber with thunder. A shower of stone as it's reduced to nothing more than asphalt, clattering to the interior at high speed. "Pathetic." Celeste quips allowing the axe to fall to her right side, cutting a grove as it does. A simple fold of her abdomen she plucks clean the ruby that was at her feet, to bestow it to Hanna upon her return. For another awful reward that she didn't need.

Ultimate Breaker [x3] vs. Cave Guardian, -3 EN

ID# 181511 results: Battle: 4+2=6, Hit vs. Cave Guardian dealing 7x3=21 DMG

Players:
Celeste | HP:120/120 | EN:9/12 | DMG:7 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:2 | BLD:12 | THRNS:10

Mobs:
Cave Guardian | HP:20/20 | DMG:50 (1st)/5

Edited January 24, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Low Light Penalty Fades

Sliding back out the way she came, through the birth of the floor at the speed of about a half an hour she moves for Hanna. The NPC smiles through mirrored lenses, opening an empty hand to which Celeste drops the gem into it. "Thank you, one moment." Hanna remarks as the quest fades from the side of the redheaded player's screen. A minute passes with a growing impatience before Hanna offers Celeste a ring. Taking the object from the NPC, she stows it assuming it trash.

"Gee thanks." Celeste drops an obvious sarcasm. But Hanna was not done, as she begins to shuffle through a bag on her hip. Producing an impossibly large white parcel, like a stick in a sheet. "Can you deliver this to Ol' Pete for me?" The player takes it reluctantly, with a sigh. "I guess..." She exclaims in ire walking away with the forced addition of the next in sequence. It was highlighted on the side of her screen.

[Celeste 1]

A new trail burned beneath her feet, showing a yellow line drawn on her map the same as it leads toward the shore of a lake. She looks to the only gentleman playing with the docks. "Can I help you?" The crotchety old man asks. "I brought you this from Hanna." She retaliates with equal anger, to which the old man eyes her with a twist. "So?" Ol' pete asks her back. She was flabbergasted by the response. "Take it, you old bastard."

"Why?"

"Why!" Celeste yeets the pole at him causing it to unfurl as it makes contact like a flag. It bounces off his shoulder and falls. "What was that for?" Ol' Pete remarks as he leans down to pluck it from the ground. "I don't know, what was that for you old fucker?" Celeste was fuming, leaving the rod in his care as she stormed off quickly.

Edited January 24, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

This shit had to wait, the others were marginally easy to deal with. But this dude had pressed all the right buttons. Leaving him to play with his rod as the quest tracker swapped from delivering the parcel to speak with Ol' Pete. "He can fuckin' wait, learn some manners." Celeste quipped to the fact she was playing delivery boy to a doosh. Finding a way to let off some steam, she heads out of the town of beginnings, making that guiding line longer and longer as she does. Finding a ripe fat boy, a walking dollar sign she storms the beast as quickly as it's found. Her cleaver finds purchase, clipping a fair chunk off the animal in a crash. It cries in outrage being blindsided by the girl rather miserably. It shifts to a few hefty trots under heavy hooves. The weapon in her clutches shift across and instantly whirs with another blow, she was dumping her newfound stamina into it again.

Ultimate Breaker [x3] vs. Boar #1, -3 EN

ID# 181513 results: Battle: 4+3=7, Hit vs. Boar #1 dealing 7x3=21 DMG

Lol whoops:
ID# 181515 results: Battle: 10, Major Critical vs. Celeste dealing 20-18=2 DMG!

Players:
Celeste | HP:118/120 | EN:9/12 | DMG:7 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | THRNS:10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:39/60 | DMG:18

Edited January 24, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

As it passes through clean, she flips her grip and returns the head in the opposing direction in another wide arc. It digs deep clipping heavily at the boar's side causing it to outrage in anguish as it does. Celeste follows through blindly, ripping the serrated tool through and forcing a sharp decline of the beasts available HP. She wanted its head and all that it would offer her and she'd take it by force. Unfortunately for it, she still had quite the bit of lingering anger held by the NPC prior. The crimson tide was pumping a bit more into the weapon than usual, and it showed. The impact alone could be heard for nearly a mile away, it was devistating. Her memory stuck to Ol' Pete like glue, damn old codger teasing her in the way he had. If she could replace this thing with him, she'd probably do it in a heartbeat.

Ultimate Breaker [x3] vs. Boar #1, -3 EN

ID# 181514 results: Battle: 9, Minor Critical [+1 DMG] dealing 8x3=24 DMG and applying BLD 12/2

ID# 181516 results: Battle: 3-1=2, Missed vs. Celeste!

Players:
Celeste | HP:118/120 | EN:7/12 | DMG:7 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | THRNS:10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:3/60 | DMG:18 | BLD:[12/1]

Edited January 26, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

The boar rushes away, a sense of fight or flight causing it to flee. The programming knew that it was on its last legs and it was trying to get the hell out of dodge. It only makes a few feet before it succumbs to its given wounds. Dropping like a stone it slides before detonating like a grenade. This sends a spray of digital shrapnel into the sky above, and with it a notification. Celeste's HUD floods with contents, a nice chunk of loot as a reward for its demise. "Damn straight." Celeste comments with a smile and a spin of her heel. She wanted more, more col more gear, and crap to pawn. Without pause, her massive steel cleaver washes with red light, no target but there would soon be one. Celeste finds another target and with a kneel and a shift of her feet apart, she was ready to spring for another kill.

Celeste takes no action!

Boar #1 takes 12 from BLD and expires!

Loot Roll:
ID# 181517 results: Craft: 1, Loot: 19

Players:
Celeste | HP:118/120 | EN:8/12 | DMG:7 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | THRNS:10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:3/60 | DMG:18 | BLD:[12/1]

Total Loot:
180*Col
4*T1 Materials
T1 Perfect Consumable #181517a
T1 Rare Trinket #181517b

Edited January 26, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Ass blasting it with power, causing it to reflex and rake her chest simply out of fear. Celeste takes it and offers her own swing in enough gravity to rattle the place in anger. A mix of bloodlust and promise of reward forced her forward, and it was an unstable mixture. Her stamina held an ode to the strength she was gaining more and experience under her belt did not help. The redhead felt as if she was on the precipice of change, getting closer and closer to her desired self. Celeste felt she was better than what the game had limited her too, and as a result, she was fighting back against the imposed restrictions the system had forced on her. Landing square with a slide, a slight trail of dust disturbed under her feet. The crimson tide anchors a heel and shifts her shoulders painting the grim letter with red again.

Ultimate Breaker [x3] vs. Boar #1, -3 EN

ID# 181711 results: Battle: 5+3=8, Hit vs. Boar #1 dealing 7x3=21 DMG

ID# 181712 results: Battle: 9, Minor Critical vs. Celeste dealing 19-18=1 DMG

Players:
Celeste | HP:117/120 | EN:6/12 | DMG:7 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | THRNS:10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:39/60 | DMG:18

Edited January 26, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Another cataclysmic swipe forces power into the whole place, causing the trees to shift under the weight of her swing. She was definitely finding power through these tutorial quests she hated. The creature that was giving her a hard time, despite still being worth some coin was starting to become more trivial to fell. Nothing more than a walking payday by this point, now if she could just deal with her damn energy issues she'd be golden. But that would come with time and experience, and she hated it. The girl was impatient and wanted her rewards now, not later. A twist of her wrists and a drop of the head of the axe, it drops to the soil and burns bright in crimson. Held low on the handle like a golf club she leaves it anchored and shuffles toward the attempting to run boar, to smack its ass like she was wielding a bat.

Ultimate Breaker [x3] vs. Boar #1, -3 EN

ID# 181713 results: Battle: 8+3=11, Hit vs. Boar #1 dealing 7x3=21 DMG

ID# 181714 results: Battle: 3-1=2, Missed vs. Celeste!

Players:
Celeste | HP:117/120 | EN:4/12 | DMG:7 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | THRNS:10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:18/60 | DMG:18

Edited January 26, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Heaving and twisting her hips with intention, she drops a foot down heavily and swings for the fences. A wave of force and a shoot for the stars, it clips a hind leg of the beast and sends it airborne. It travels but only a foot or two before exploding into glass-like light. "Batter up." Celeste smirks before allowing her shoulders to relax, feeling a burning in her chest that eludes to a failing energy pool. "Fuck again?" The redhead objects rather quickly, doing a mental tally and notably only making it through like three dudes before having to take a gardening break. "What is this shit?" she speaks toward the display directly, but it was aimed toward the inhibiting system. She hated being a damn vegetable almost as much as she hated having to rake them up, but at least they would line her pockets a bit. "I have to gather again, seriously?"

Ultimate Breaker [x3] vs. Boar #1, -3 EN

ID# 181715 results: Battle: 9, Minor Critical [+1 DMG] vs. Boar #1 dealing 8x3=24 DMG

Loot Roll:
ID# 181716 results: Craft: 11, Loot: 3

Players:
Celeste | HP:117/120 | EN:2/12 | DMG:7 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | THRNS:10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:18/60 | DMG:18

Total Loot:
360*Col
8*T1 Materials
T1 Perfect Consumable #181517a
T1 Rare Trinket #181517b

Edited January 26, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

OOC Full EN restore: [1/3]

Dismissing her axe rather quickly as she struggles to reclaim the breath stolen by the cardinal system. She wanders around rather aimlessly for a while, looking for one of Zackariah's signature pile of weeds. After a few minutes of walking in circles, she comes up completely short. "Where did they go?" Celeste asks the air, the trees who knew. What mattered is that the gathering spots from just a day ago had seemingly vanished from their spots. "Well, that's annoying." The redhead remarks looking about with a shift, sliding her vision around trees and through the brush. It was as if someone had uprooted the whole damn thing and shoved it somewhere else. Could they do that? She wasn't experienced enough in the mechanics of the system, so she presumed it must have been some d-bag player that had done her dirty. With a press of her wrists to her hip, she started to think.

ID# 181717 results: Loot: 2, Failure!

Edited January 26, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

OOC Full EN restore: [2/3]

If she were a plant where would she be? The notion was as offputting as it was confusing. She had no damn clue as nothing came to mind. "Screw this noise." Celeste barked as she trailed about spending another few minutes trying to stumble her way into success. The redhead again came up completely empty handed. "I swear this game hates my guts." A pause between the phrase for a moment before she twists her head. "Good, I hope it does. Serves it right for trapping me here." She'd yet to admit it until now, but she kinda wanted the hell out of here so she wasn't quite playing it like a game. Nope, she was just pushing her limits to see herself out of this mess. The only one she could count on was herself after all. And apparently, that road was littered with a million tiny energizer bunny power stations, given she had the battery compacity of a lamp with no bulb.

ID# 181718 results: Loot: 5, Failure!

Edited January 26, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

OOC Full EN restore Triggered!

Working through her discomfort and confusion. Celeste was giving it her all, trying her damnedest to be a damn farmer despite how irritating the action was.  Simply for the fact that it was a good use of her time while she was tapped out when she could do it. But now her fortune seemed abysmal, unannounced to her that this early in the morning, by comparison, had much more player activity. As a result, most nodes near the town of beginnings had already been picked clean by the players that had come before her. Here she thought they'd been moved but in actuality, they were just shredded by the players before her. It was no surprise to the system and her writer that she came up empty handed again, the fourth wall had been broken because it's really hard to rationalize anything more than anger for the red headed wench when it came to this activity.

ID# 181719 results: Loot: 9, Failure!

Edited January 26, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

With that awaited ping triggered, the small sound alerts Celeste to the regeneration of her stamina bar. "Phew." She exhumes wiping her head with her right arm, she'd succeeded just about none of what she had attempted. The redhead did not expect to however, she knew full well she blew ass at gathering. The girl didn't have the patience to do anything less than combat, it was the only interesting part this game really had. Although she couldn't wait to abuse the fruits of her labors to live like a queen, get her ass out of the slum that she'd been staying in since conception given how paltry the system provided for them. The first thing on her list: A home of her own, cause god forbid she hated bunking with all those smelly dudes that wouldn't shut the hell up every night. As quick as the first few, the girl sets upon a boar once more.

Ultimate Breaker [x3] vs. Boar #1, -3 EN

ID# 181720 results: Battle: 7+3=10, Hit vs. Boar #1 dealing 7x3=21 DMG

ID# 181721 results: Battle: 8-1=7, Hit vs. Celeste dealing 18-18=1 DMG, Sustains 10 Unmitigated via Thorns!

Players:
Celeste | HP:120/120 | EN:9/12 | DMG:7 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | THRNS:10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:29/60 | DMG:18

Edited January 27, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Chasing down the culprit aiming heavily for its death, it rushes by as quick as its hooves can carry it. Elusive it peels away rather abruptly causing the swing Celeste was holding to fizzle and fade. She grimaces and twists into a glare, burning her available energy just that much more into the red. "Get back here you little shit!" The redhead bursts with anger. It huffs some soil below it in a cloud of sand, building a small pile of dust. It seemed rather unenthused by her rebuttal and continues to stamper away. It wished to escape and the tide would need to rush it down quite quickly else it would. With a shift of her feet and a change of the head, she pushes closer with faster steps as she was more than aware of its intention to flee. A rip of energy paints down the steel cleaver, quite obvious her intention known upon its surface.

Ultimate Breaker [x3] vs. Boar #1, -3 EN -2 EN

ID# 181722 results: Battle: 2+3=5, Missed vs. Boar #1!

ID# 181723 results: Battle: 2-1=1 Missed vs. Celeste!

Players:
Celeste | HP:120/120 | EN:8/12 | DMG:7 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | THRNS:10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:29/60 | DMG:18

Edited January 29, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

As she advances she catches its backside, cleaving in deep a dark red line as the light fizzles and fades away. It drains her pool just that much more but it was starting to keep with her usage just a bit. A heavy inhale to stem the coming tide of exhaustion to the decree of a connected blow. The boar squeals and a small tick shows the HP receiving damage. It would only be a matter of time now, this damn thing wouldn't escape. Not if the redheaded girl had anything to say about it. A single blow follows in the chain and as she drags the weapon up in an upheaval of soil. It grinds as she twists her hand on her handle, dragging her grip tighter and tighter. With a violent scream of the battleaxe as it charges, her opponent would fall sooner than later. Electrically fueled static dance down the length of the steel.

Ultimate Breaker [x3] vs. Boar #1, -3 EN

ID# 181724 results: Battle: 3+3=6, Hit vs. Boar #1 dealing 7x3=21 DMG

ID# 181725 results: Battle: 3-1=2, Missed vs. Celeste!

Players:
Celeste | HP:120/120 | EN:6/12 | DMG:7 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | THRNS:10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:8/60 | DMG:18

Edited January 29, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

A wide sweep of to her left side, before dropping it like a bolt of lightning that racks the floor beneath them both. The boar expires in a shatter of digital glass. These shards spray in a quick discharge in all directions aggressively. With its destruction was her own dwindling energy pool, to a day that still had more to achieve. Righting herself with the crimson letter vanishing. A prompt floods the side of her screen with rewards, as she walks softly to the tone back toward the town of beginnings. Celeste needed to turn in the quest she'd undertaken and was more than convinced that it would trail to some other obnoxious bs. Back to Ol' Pete to see how far the rabbit hole went. Through the lush greenery and spires of old wood, under the canopy that did quite a number to blot out the blazing sun above.

Ultimate Breaker [x3] vs. Boar #1, -3 EN

ID# 181726 results: Battle: 5+3=8, Hit vs. Boar #1 dealing 7x3=21 DMG!

Loot Roll:
ID# 181727 results: Craft: 3, Loot: 8

Players:
Celeste | HP:120/120 | EN:4/12 | DMG:7 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | THRNS:10

Mobs:
Boar #1 | HP:8/60 | DMG:18

Total Loot:
660*Col
10*T1 Materials
T1 Perfect Consumable #181517a
T1 Rare Trinket #181517b
T1 Uncommon Consumable #181727a

Edited January 29, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

Through the narrow walks of the town of beginning abustle and ripe with activity. The thoroughfare was ablaze with multiple faces rushing about to the tune of a day's chore. The redhead pays them little mind, to which she passes easily through the crowd that ignores her as well. Down toward the docks she'd extracted herself from so readily and hastily prior, a lingering scent of saltwater played on the waves of the sea as it moved up to meet her. A pause in her step, as she shifts to look back and forth. For that old codger that hadn't given her anything more than a sour reception. "Hey!" she yells as she spots him fiddling with a rope acting anchor to a fishing vessel off the side of the rickety old dock. The old man does nothing more than look at her and then back to what he was doing.

Edited January 29, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

The single response drives her back up the wall. "I am talking to you, you ass!" Celeste quips to him to which he looks back and proceeds to shrug. "You get it out of your system?" She begins toward him, contemplating shoving his old ass off the side. "I guess, you got your damn rod. Is there more are am I just done?" The girl asked curiously a bit irritated trying to convince herself to continue. "Yeah, I need a fish." Ol' Pete responds rather short.

"A fish?"

"What are you deaf? Yeah a Fish, can you fish?"

"Never tried."

A smile on his face as he rose and peeled a limp rope from the horn cleat. "Well hell, no time like the present. But you sink my boat and you'll be swimming back and be paying for the repairs." Hopping off the dock into the small vessel. "Damn it."

Edited January 29, 2021 by Celeste

[Celeste 1]

With a bit of reluctance, she hops in as well, finding a place to sit on this rickety old hunk a junk. She was unconvinced that it would stand up to the lake as Ol' Pete began to shuffle it toward the center. It looked as though there was one more damn tutorial quest to undertake, another huge chunk of time she'd never get back. At least she was beginning to notice that despite the horrible material rewards: The crappy weapon, the crappy ring, and the crappy potions. That at the very least the experience reward was adequate enough to sate her palette. Whoever she'd bought this information from needs to be shot, wondering if she should chase them down and give them a piece of her mind. A twist of her wrist to manifest her weapon causes the NPC to stir. "What you fishin' with a hatchet, what you dense?"

Quest Complete:
4*SP (1 Thread Closure, 1 Event Bonus, 2 Quest Reward)
1060*Col (400 Thread Closure, 660 Dropped)
10*T1 Materials (10 Dropped)
[T1/Uncommon/Trinket] Trash - +1 Accuracy
T1 Perfect Consumable #181517a
T1 Rare Trinket #181517b
T1 Uncommon Consumable #181727a

Edited January 29, 2021 by Celeste