Celeste 1 Posted February 8, 2021 #1 Share Posted February 8, 2021 A bitter chill took the whole place by storm, after all the entire floor was a dang popsicle. Why she'd decided to come here of all places eluded her, but as she held that familiar tightly and let it wash over her skin like a syrupy turtleneck it did wonders to keep her warm. A glance at the board as she perused all it had available to her, she found one. "The hell is an Avalanche." Celeste spoke it out phonetically. Nope wasn't ringing a bell, but she'd smash its face in regardless. Nice and simple, why ask questions when you could just shove an axe into the thing that tries to attack you. Short sweet and quick. Accepting the quest from the board, it's accredited on the side of her screen. She'd just punch this thing into a fine powder and reap the rewards. Just like that and then she'd get the hell off this snowstorm. Celeste | HP:260/260 | EN:26/26 | DMG:9 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 Spoiler Celeste - The Crimson Tide Level: 13 HP: 260/260 EN: 26/26 Stats: Damage: 9 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 3] Extra Skills: Familiar Fighter (R1) Concentration Meditation (Untrained) Battle Ready Inventory: Raspberry Smoothie [T1/Dessert/Perfect] - Loot Dice 3 *1 Immolation [T1/Unique] - Thorns 10*1 Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 8, 2021 Author #2 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) Following the given line, that lead her right through the frosted tundra. Snow almost up to her knees, as she shuffled through the soft powder. It reveals an almost glass and glossy sheet of ice. She takes one step out before a shaking tremor through the mirrored surface begins. Celeste seeks its origin as she glances left and right, a few what appeared to be stones were huge jagged pieces of ice. One slams into her back as it starts to form, leaving a nice sized slash just above her butt. With ire, the girl rips out her axe and chases that single piece. It begins to form a construct, a golem of ice. Right before Celeste knocks it into pieces like a child curb-stomping a snowman. The parts that had just created a whole get yeeted out in all directions, forcing them to slowly crawl their way back to center. Crimson Blood [x6], -6 EN, Concentration Activated (+1 Accuracy), Concentration CD [0/3] ID# 182414 results: Battle: 9, Minor Critical [+1 DMG] dealing 10x6=60 DMG and applying BLD 12/2 MOB: 9, Minor Critical vs. Celeste dealing 41-18=23 DMG Players: Celeste | HP:237/260 | EN:20/26 | DMG:9 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 Mobs: Avalanche | HP:28/100 | DMG:40 [BLD:12/1] Edited February 8, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 8, 2021 Author #3 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) Concentration CD [1/3] Leaping for the one piece she saw was the main body just before blasting them all over, Celeste slides slightly as she lands. Struggling to keep her balance she dumps the billhook through it, clipping the heart of the golem in twain and providing the girl an anchor as it latches to the ice. It disperses, the other parts failing to move before they disappear completely. QUEST COMPLETE, aggressively attacks her vision like a spring loaded fist. The girl begins to wave her hand helplessly trying to get the prompt removed. "Yep, no more snow." Celeste barks out and begins to shuffle her feet back to solid ground. It was a short jaunt back to Snowfrost, the journey took longer than the kill. One way. She wanted somewhere less freeze your ass off and well she'd checked out a few of the other floors with no issue, she opens her menu of the locked floors as she stood on the pad, shaking. Smash [x2], -2 EN ID# 182415 results: Battle: 5+3=8, Hit vs. Avalanche dealing 9x2=18 DMG Avalanche sustains 12 from BLD and expires! Players: Celeste | HP:237/260 | EN:19/26 | DMG:9 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 Mobs: Avalanche | HP:10/100 | DMG:40 [BLD:12/1] Edited February 8, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 8, 2021 Author #4 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) Moving to floor 16 Concentration CD [2/3] "Screw it let's try this one Zugaikotsushima Floor 16", Celeste comments forcing the gate to quickly bounce her up a huge amount of floors in an instant. It goes from cold to hot in a flash, from ice to volcano. The sudden shift catches her off guard. "Holy hell." Celeste removes the familiar with a commanding wave of her hand. She didn't need any extra heat. As she shuffles past variable structures composed of bone and tar. It was like being in the stone age like she'd traveled back in time. "Heathens." Spoken as she breaks out of the gate toward the main mass of the floor. Eyeing right as she clears safety, with a slack jaw spin of its teeth was a large black furred gorilla. It had found its way out, something had pushed it from the forests line. That suited Celeste fine, having plenty of other forests in her memory already. "Battle?" Celeste twisted her head before mockingly mirroring the gorilla's face. It pounds the ground in fury, and Celeste peels out her axe. BATTLE! Crimson Blood [x6], -6 EN ID# 182416 results: Battle: 1, Critical Miss vs. Berate Ape MOB: 4-1=3, Missed vs. Celeste! Players: Celeste | HP:237/260 | EN:18/26 | DMG:9 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 Mobs: Berate Ape | HP:162/162 | DMG:39 Edited February 8, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 8, 2021 Author #5 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) Concentration Refreshed! A lunge forward as they both charged, Celeste ducks under a massive punched aimed square for her face. The axe head held low she cleaves upward drawing the edge against the monkey's elbow causing it to recoil in feigned pain. It hops in aggression pounding it's fists on the ground in small tufts of dust and ash. It lunges for Celeste again who quickly proceeds to pivot and roll around its back, allowing all of its force to carry long past where it was aimed. "Gonna have to try harder to hit me sucker." Celeste goaded it keeping it tilted, it was fun taunting the big monkey. As long as it didn't come full circle and bite her in the ass, but that wouldn't happen would it? The axe was held just around her midsection, the head off to her left. It hums with energy with what little Celeste had left to give it. Crimson Blood [x6], -6 EN ID# 182417 results: Battle: 8+3=11, Hit vs. Berate Ape dealing 9x6=54 DMG MOB: 2-1=1, Missed vs. Celeste! Players: Celeste | HP:237/260 | EN:13/26 | DMG:9 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 Mobs: Berate Ape | HP:108/162 | DMG:39 Edited February 8, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 8, 2021 Author #6 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) The girl was enjoying the throes of combat and this whole exchange, slinking beneath another haymaker by the huge primate. The air alone eluded to the force behind that punch, and she'd not let it hit her directly. Although maybe a little for the fun of it. Extending her right arm as she tore the head up and dumping it over the monkey's shoulder. The jagged point digs in just a bit before she rips it back, slicing clean a nice size chunk of its shoulder. She was really giving this thing hell, and it was beginning to weaken already. "Don't give up yet, com'on wheres that fight!" Celeste barks as she drags the head against the obsidian beneath her boots, a spray of tiny glass shavings as it does. Off and behind her, lying flat upon the ground she was raring to go again. The question was could the big boy handle it. Crimson Blood [x6], -6 EN, Concentration Activated (+1 Accuracy), Concentration CD [0/3] ID# 182418 results: Battle: 5+3+1=9, Hit vs. Berate Ape dealing 9x6=54 DMG MOB: 2-1=1, Missed vs. Celeste! Players: Celeste | HP:237/260 | EN:8/26 | DMG:9 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 Mobs: Berate Ape | HP:54/162 | DMG:39 Edited February 8, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 8, 2021 Author #7 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) Concentration CD [1/3] It begins to rampage toward her, using large knuckles as its front legs. It bears a jagged set of teeth, curved slightly and misshapen as it bellows out in heavy pants. Celeste does nothing more than a smile with the right corner of her mouth. It closed the distance one, two, three steps. A high pitch whir like a pull of a trigger, she pulls that weapon around so fast the light leaves a trail. It smacks into its right cheek, becoming implanted there as all forced motion simply stops. A solid thunk as it becomes lifeless, cascading and bringing the axe with it as the girl shifts slightly in a right sidestep. It grinds away at its left side, a corpse with momentum left to carry it forward. A few slow and steady steps sees a boot placed on its face, covering eyes and a solid tear back a spray of red before the frame distorts, becomes like static on a TV, and then ceases to exist. Crimson Blood [x6], -6 EN ID# 182419 results: Battle: 6+3=9, Hit vs. Berate Ape dealing 9x6=54 DMG Loot Roll: ID# 182420 results: Craft: 11, Loot: 17 Players: Celeste | HP:237/260 | EN:3/26 | DMG:9 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 Mobs: Berate Ape | HP:54/162 | DMG:39 Total Loot: 972*Col 4*T2 Materials T2 Rare Trinket #182420a Edited February 8, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 8, 2021 Author #8 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) OOC EN Regen [1/3], +10 HP, Concentration CD [2/3] A bit of a heavy pant from the girl, for the first time she agreed with the little ringing bell. Celeste felt pretty winded after that last fight, running on damn near empty and not just almost like before. The crimson tide swaps modes, from kill everything you can see to lets see what this place looks like. A few clicks of her heels parade across the glassed floor, noteably finding eyes on a set of woods at the base of a spire like mountain. "I take it your the volcano. Probably the reason everythings so hot." Celeste mumbled out, through stressed breaths. A glint catches her eye as she attempts to look away from the huge natural boulder. Celeste quips "What's This?" as she moves it and leans down with her left. Plucking it from the ground and brushing it with her thumb, she removes a layer of ash from an emerald in like a sheet. Like a gemstone panel. ID# 182421 results: Loot: 20, Success! +1 T2 Material Obtained Edited February 8, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 8, 2021 Author #9 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) OOC EN Regen [2/3], +10 HP, Concentration Refreshed! Oddly just slightly off the first is another, and she takes a glance left and right. It struck her as bait like something had placed a trap for some unsuspecting player to wander and go 'ooh look a shiny.' But Celeste was ready to deal with that crap when it came, she wanted that loot. Moving to the next was another slab, this one was red. Rubbing it on her sleeve shows a ruby panel that matched the other. They were no thicker than a touch screen phone, about the size of a deck of cards in height and width. "Hmm, wonder what the heck they are supposed to be?" The girl's first thought was some sort of quest item, but they weren't labeled as such. "Who cares, mine now and maybe can be smashed into a ring setting." Right to the ability to sell it with this one, a raise of her palm makes them both disappear. ID# 182422 results: Loot: 18, Success! +1 T2 Material Obtained! Edited February 8, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 8, 2021 Author #10 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) OOC EN Regen Triggered: Full EN Restore!, +10 HP That greedy little set of eyes scour more, scenery was grand at all but she could hardly sell a memory. That crap wasn't going anywhere but these little finds could very well do so. A recall of the mushrooms that actually stood up and ran off, she'd nab the little bastards before they could. A glance around with a peeled eye offers her nothing to what she was seeking. It wasn't until her stamina boinked her on the shoulder, telling her it was ready to start swinging again that she had stopped. Undocking the axe that had been held behind her neck all this time, guess time for cramming things in her pocket was done. It was killin' time again, and those things were a giant blob of loot and rewards. Much more worth the effort then some single panel, from her experience which although short was starting to get the jist of things. ID# 182423 results: Loot: 13, Failure! Edited February 8, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 8, 2021 Author #11 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) Moving closer to the canopy at the base of the mountain, a faint yell can be heard from within its confines. That was common for these woods, but it puts Celeste on edge regardless. Mainly because she wanted in on the action. Spotting another ape not unlike the first, chewing on the edge of a single sapphire panel. "You little shit..." Celeste mutters that was by all rights hers. As she starts to chase toward it, the monkey becomes alert and perks up. A solid pitch of the very crystal it hardly knew what the hell it was beans the red head good just above her left eye. It leaves a nice triangle shaped cut with the corner that had struck her. Right through the attack, Celeste blasts it with her axe catching the crafty little jerk in the stomach. It howls being winded by the wedge of steel, dropping down and falling prone. Crimson Blood [x6], -6 EN, Concentration Activated (+1 Accuracy), Concentration CD [0/3] ID# 182424 results: Battle: 2+3+1=6, Hit vs. Cheapskate Ape dealing 9x6=54 DMG MOB: 10, Major Critical vs. Celeste dealing 41-18=23 DMG Players: Celeste | HP:237/260 | EN:20/26 | DMG:9 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 Mobs: Cheapskate Ape | HP:108/162 | DMG:39 Edited February 8, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 8, 2021 Author #12 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) Concentration CD [1/3] Celeste rears back and starts a downward strike, the monkey sucker punches her in the gut. Repayment for the attack that she'd just paid it. This one was a bit more of the sneaky variety. Where the other was an aggressive and predictable sort, this one was all about cheap shots. It begins to heave in excitement before Celeste repaid the chuckle with a drag of the cleaver across its face and cutting clean an ear that explodes above them. The thing clutches the lost spot, the right half of its face becoming nothing more then a sheet of red exposing the data beneath. It limps off to one side, that joy quickly fades and twists to desperation. "S'matter? Thought it was funny a moment ago. Laugh it up chuckles." Celeste spat, having her fun at its expense now. Latching low on the handle of her axe, she drops the edge down to the piecemeal grass beneath her. Crimson Blood [x6], -6 EN ID# 182425 results: Battle: 8+3=11, Hit vs. Cheapskate Ape dealing 9x6=54 DMG MOB: 10, Major Critical vs. Celeste dealing 41-18=23 DMG Players: Celeste | HP:214/260 | EN:15/26 | DMG:9 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 Mobs: Cheapskate Ape | HP:54/162 | DMG:39 Edited February 8, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 8, 2021 Author #13 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) Concentration CD [2/3] A single step toward the thing as it tried to back away, lifting its right hand in front of it in defense as it clutched the exposed part of its internal network that showed. A bit of the light shown through its fingers. "Hit me again. You were so ready a moment ago." Celeste leans foward causing it to flinch and takes a deep inhale through her nostrils. "You smell that? What is it, I can't place that scent?" The thing pulls up both hands and shields its face from the player. "Oh I know what it is..." Celeste takes two more steps closing the gap between her and this comedian. "That is feeeeaaaarr..." she drags the word out as a taunt before leaning back and offering a scorning laugh again. "Guess all that cleverness went right out the window once I cut off half your face, didn't it. Boring." Crimson Blood [x6], -6 EN ID# 182426 results: Battle: 1, Critical Miss vs. Cheapskate Ape! MOB: 6-1=5, Missed vs. Celeste Players: Celeste | HP:214/260 | EN:14/26 | DMG:9 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 Mobs: Cheapskate Ape | HP:54/162 | DMG:39 Edited February 8, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 8, 2021 Author #14 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) Concentration Refreshed! Celeste ushered the point of her handle out to her right side and tightened her hand around its pommel. The axe head engulfs in crimson as she slowly shifts her left to it. A drop of the thing like a hammer, a guillotine cuts clean through its defenses letting them flop to the floor. A spray of red buries Celeste behind its curtain, its opacity completely causing her to vanish for a moment. Then it disperses, carrying with it the diseased as the system began its respawning process. There was something so exquisite about those little moments before they realize it was over, being enveloped in the data that was once their physical form. The prompts flood the side of her screen again, another lovely addition to her wallet as the icing on that cake. Lifting her axe and tossing it on her right shoulder, just a little more for the road. Crimson Blood [x6], -6 EN ID# 182427 results: Battle: 4+3=7, Hit vs. Cheapskate Ape dealing 9x6=54 DMG Loot Roll: ID# 182428 results: Craft: 1, Loot: 18 Players: Celeste | HP:214/260 | EN:9/26 | DMG:9 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 Mobs: Cheapskate Ape | HP:54/162 | DMG:39 Total Loot: 1782*Col 8*T2 Materials T2 Rare Trinket #182420a T2 Rare Consumable #182428a T2 Rare Weapon #182428b Edited February 8, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 8, 2021 Author #15 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) OOC EN Regen [1/3], +10 HP Dipping deeper into the forest to see what it had to offer, it was as thick as it stunk of sulfur. The volcano above must have got stuck on the trees, the ash forever tainting them with that scent. Celeste started to spot more and more totems littered throughout the place as she pressed inside. Moving close to one and eyeing it more closely, a skull upon a sharpened stick. Various animal hides wrapped around a horizontal stick, that had been bound to the central column with a bit of sinew since dried. She reaches out and grabs the piece faking arm. Wobbling it a bit shows that it was actually on there pretty good. "How do you do." Celeste joked, realizing this must have meant there was some kind of humanoid style enemy in here instead of just apes. "Must be some tribal dorks, like the bone in nose types like the settlement." ID# 182429 results: Loot: 1, Failure! Edited February 8, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 8, 2021 Author #16 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) OOC EN Regen [2/3], +10 HP Celeste lets her hand slide off of the thing as she moves to dive in deeper, aiming to get to the base of the mountain. The line begins to grow denser as she travels into it, the vegetation surely affected by the richness of the soil at the base. Celeste starts to notice more and more sharpened sticks as if there was some sort of fight that had happened here. Whatever humanoids were here, they were probably at ends with the apes and whatever else was within this volcanic jungle. Any hesitation the girl may have had, any concerns died once she saw the bits of sharpened twigs that were playing the part of these things weapons. They could probably barely pierce her leather armor with this pathetic dribble, they should invest in something with a bit more bite in its edge. The girl didn't realize that in video game mechanics, sticks were basically cannons. ID# 182430 results: Loot: 5, Failure! Edited February 9, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 8, 2021 Author #17 Share Posted February 8, 2021 (edited) OOC EN Regen Triggered: Full EN Restore!, +10 HP Dumping the thing in the pile with all the rest, she peers toward the peak of the mountain. A reddish glow at the stem of a huge column of black smoke and ash, it was active. Celeste wondered if there was ever an instance of it actually erupting, imagining all the little people in the barbarian village freaking out and praying to fake gods as they scattered like mice. It was a humorous idea. She smirks. "Like that'll happen, but hell I'd pay to see it." A familiar chime, that little queue that it was time to start enjoying the game again. Celeste shifts around 180 and begins to head back through the forest, hoping to get in a tussle in its confines. She was a bit eager to find one of these pointy stick-wielding tribal dorks and see what he had on tap, she'd love to womp something with some ability to defend itself other than a sucker-punching primate. ID# 182431 results: Loot: 2, Failure! Edited February 9, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 9, 2021 Author #18 Share Posted February 9, 2021 (edited) A rumble in the field of weapons, like a herd of elephants it draws her attention and forces her to pause. A much larger ape, with a pounding fist as it hoots and hollers traversing the location. Insert the destroying of whatever army used to hold those stick spears. Celeste rips her arms back and appears her billhook, without warning or any sort of pause to think about her action before she took it. She cold clocks the thing with the head, right upside the head. A split second, it turns and glares at her with a head that easily outpaced her entire frame. "Hi." Celeste quips right before she's slammed into the dirt with a slap like a flying insect. The ape lifts its hand to see what remained of the girl. A crumbling lumps of dirt as it moved free a furred hand. Celeste coughs and peels her face out of the soil. "Asshole..." Celeste mutters out with another cough. Crimson Blood [x6], -6 EN, Concentration Activated (+1 Accuracy), Concentration CD [0/3] ID# 182736 results: Battle: 3+3+1=7, Hit vs. Greatest Ape dealing 9x6=54 DMG MOB: 10, Major Critical vs. Celeste dealing 41-18=23 DMG Players: Celeste | HP:221/260 | EN:20/26 | DMG:9 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 Mobs: Greatest Ape | HP:108/162 | DMG:39 Edited February 9, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 9, 2021 Author #19 Share Posted February 9, 2021 (edited) Concentration CD [1/3] The large primate balls that hand into a fist, and storms down with it like a hammer to put an end to the player who was still partially prone. Celeste drops and rolls, narrowly avoiding the incoming blow, spinning up to her feet and carrying with her a high pitch whir. Like a blender, she twirls before dumping the head into the creature's massive right wrist. It digs in and she drops burrowing a hole with a crunch. A vault over as she uses the new opening, she drags it across the top half of its arm. It was agile as crap for her level, an ode to the girls risk it all mentality. Once she finds outside its huge arm span she tears away the newly sliced half circle around the hand that had struck her. A spray in red in all directions as a reaction, that fist would no longer be of any use as it dangled limply. Crimson Blood [x6], -6 EN ID# 182737 results: Battle: 2+3=5, Missed vs. Greatest Ape! MOB: 5-1=4, Missed vs. Celeste Players: Celeste | HP:221/260 | EN:19/26 | DMG:9 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 Mobs: Greatest Ape | HP:108/162 | DMG:39 Edited February 9, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
Celeste 1 Posted February 9, 2021 Author #20 Share Posted February 9, 2021 (edited) Concentration CD [2/3] Recoiling once it had realized what had happened, outrage with a mix of concern. Balling up the left hand in an attempt at defense, a rocketing fist the size of a train. Celeste leaps as it plows into the ground, a dishevelling of soil. Her boots connect with fur, a slide, and a drop of her knee against it as she moves toward its inner armpit. A metallic bitchslap, slamming an axe like a bat just below its eye with enough power behind it to cause its head to turn. "For something so big, you sure are easy to predict." Celeste yelped as she dangled from the handle dragging a huge tear down past its mouth and chin before it came loose. Like a zipper undone, as its head corrects you could see some of its teeth where it was textured, else exposed framework. It flapped like a flag in the wind. Crimson Blood [x6], -6 EN ID# 182738 results: Battle: 6+3=8, Hit vs. Greatest Ape dealing 9x6=54 DMG MOB: 5-1=4, Missed vs. Celeste Players: Celeste | HP:221/260 | EN:14/26 | DMG:9 | MIT:18 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 Mobs: Greatest Ape | HP:54/162 | DMG:39 Edited February 9, 2021 by Celeste Link to post Share on other sites
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