[F9-PP] New Found Hope (The Iron Guardian)

[Sam 0]

Sam lays in her bed of her big empty house. Her mind was stuck on the conversation from an old friend and everyone else in her past was erased from existence. Everything was cleared up now and though her mind was at ease, her emotions were out of wack. She gets up from her bed and looks out her bedroom window. This world was so much bigger than what she has ever seen before and she grasped such a tiny part of such thing. Unlike every other game that she had played, this one held gravity. It was difficult to progress and more dangerous than ever imaginable. The undying feeling that she might not make it out alive if she continued the path she was on was overwhelming as she clenched her hand into a fist and punch her bedroom wall... She closed her eyes and opens them after a moment walking to the bathroom to stare into the mirror. "What happened to the girl who used her smarts to evaluate a situation," Sam starts to talk to herself in the mirror looking into her reflection. "What happened to the girl that thought before she act and planned out everything before running into a battle." She frowns as she stares deeply at her reflection. "I need to get back to her. It's the only way that I can fill these shoes properly, to become who I once was but better..." glaring now looking back at herself. 

She pushes off the sink within the bathroom. Sending a quick message through the guild chat with details of a quest she knew she hadn't taken yet, she heads out the door toward floor 9 with a clear direction and a path to work toward. To find herself once more...

Sam | HP:840/840 | EN:82/82 | DMG:16 | MIT:12 | ACC:3 | BLD:24 | REC:2

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Name: Sam
Level: 41
HP: 840/840
EN: 82/82

Stats:
Damage: 16
Mitigation: 12
Accuracy: 3
BLD:24
REC:2

Equipped Gear:
Weapon: Serrated Guillotine - Bloodlust {T2}: Bleed 1, Damage 2
Armor: Assault Division Bracelet: Rec 2, Acc 1
Misc: Fire Brand - Din: Accuracy 3

Skills:
Two-Handed Battle Ax [Rank 5]
Fishing [Obtained]
Light Armor [Rank 3]
Hiding [Rank 3]

Extra Skills:
Concentration
Familiar Mastery: Fighter R1

Mods:
Finesse Rank 3
Ferocity
Athletics

Battle Ready Inventory:
Sapphire Ring - Nayru: Prosperity 3
Silver Band - Farore's Wind +3 LD
Teleport Crystal*1

Housing Buffs:
Well Rested: -1 energy cost for the first three expenditures of each combat
Squeaky Clean: The first time you would suffer DoT damage in a thread, reduce damage taken from DoT each turn by 25% (rounded down)
Hard Working: +2 EXP per crafting attempt and +1 crafting attempt per day
Filling: Increase the effectiveness of a single food item consumed in a thread by +1 T1 slot.
Item Stash: +1 Battle Ready Inventory Slot
Delicious: Turn 3 identical food items (same quality, tier, & enhancements) into a Feast. A Feast contains 6 portions of the food items sacrificed.
Relaxed: Increases out of combat HP regen by (5 * Tier HP) and decreases full energy regen to 2 Out of Combat Posts.
Col Stash: +5% bonus col from monster kills and treasure chests
Angler: +1 material gained when fishing
Advanced Training: +2 SP to a thread. Limit one use per month [0/1]
Multipurpose: Gain +1 to LD, Stealth Rating, Stealth Detection, or Prosperity to one post in a thread. Can be applied after a roll
Decor [Potted Tanabana]: This buff affects the player and their choice of up to two party members.

 

Edited March 4, 2021 by Sam

[Kasumi 0]

A flash of light in her palm as she combines a few petals together, using her artisan skill to forge a rather quick vanity trinket. A smile on her face as she offers it to a small blonde child, an NPC next to her mother. They both share in that grin as the child seems to explode with her own so large it threatened to escape her face. "Thanks miss!" she extrudes as she reaches out with both hands and takes it, bringing it near her face to get a closer look. A pop up catches Kasumi off guard, but as always the guild was lively and motivated. The whole thing seemed to buzz on the daily with every kind of job imaginable, and Kasumi had already handled her early morning routine. She could jump to help Sam out.

Kasumi peels out the lengths of ribbon and begins to spin them on each hand, quickly swapping from just a girl to something far more terrifying. The crashing wave. Adding a response toward Sam as she ushered through the settlement of Delilah toward the gate past NPC to which she offers a gentle wave of the hand in hello's. They were beginning to recognize her as a member of their little society.

Kasumi | HP:860/860 | EN:86/86 | DMG:14 | EVA:3 | ACC:3 | BLD:24

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Kasumi, The Crashing Wave
Level: 43
HP: 860/860
EN: 86/86

Stats:
Damage: 14
Evasion: 3
Accuracy: 3
BLD:24

Equipped Gear:
Weapon: Mugen's Lineage - Growth [T2/Perfect] Damage 2, Bleed 1
Armor: Mugen Tenshin Decree [T1/Perfect] (3 Accuracy)
Misc: White Red-trimmed Gee [T1/Perfect] (3 Evasion)

Skills:
Martial Arts [Rank 5]
Light Armor [Rank 3]
Hiding [Rank 4] + 1

Extra Skills:
Concentration

Mods:
Finesse Rank 3
Ferocity
Athletics
Vanish

Battle Ready Inventory:
Teleport Crystal*1
Vocal Augmentation - Resonation [T1/Perfect/Support/Instant] +60 HP*2
Bird Seed (T2/Rare/Snack) Vitality 2*1

Housing Buffs:
Well Rested: -1 energy cost for the first three expenditures of each combat
Squeaky Clean: The first time you would suffer DoT damage in a thread, reduce damage taken from DoT each turn by 25% (rounded down)
Hard Working: +2 EXP per crafting attempt and +1 crafting attempt per day
Filling: Increase the effectiveness of a single food item consumed in a thread by +1 T1 slot.
Item Stash: +1 Battle Ready Inventory Slot
Tasty: Turn 2 identical food items into a Lesser Feast. A Lesser Feast contains 4 portions of the food items sacrificed.
Relaxed: Increases out of combat HP regen by (5 * Tier HP) and decreases full energy regen to 2 Out of Combat Posts.
Skylight (Hiding): +1 Rank to the Hiding skill.
Advanced Training: +2 SP to a thread. Limit one use per month [0/1]
Multipurpose: Gain +1 to LD, Stealth Rating, Stealth Detection, or Prosperity to one post in a thread. Can be applied after a roll
Decor [Potted Tanabata]: This buff affects the player and their choice of up to two party members.

Guild Hall Buffs:
Lucrative: Reduce LD needed for Salvage by 5 (10+ for Alchemist crystals, 6+ for everything else). +2 EXP per craft. Rank 9 crafters receive +1 crafting attempt per day. Rank 10 crafters receive +2 crafting attempts per day.
Col Deposit: +5% bonus col from last-hit monster kills and +10% bonus col from treasure chests.

 

[Griswold 0]

Atop an anvil was a scattering of sparks as he pounds away with heavy blows, in a rhythmic clank and clink of his mallet. Gaius was rounding an impossibility, and somewhere along that route he was working to make the smith proud, trying his damned to get these two pieces together to no avail. No metal seemed to take, they just would not conjoin together...yet. He gives up for now as a message pops into his view, Sam needed some backup and it was in his backyard no less. Allowing the pieces to cool, he'd have to return them to the dragoon and keep trying on the daily. It wasn't easy, but eventually may just hone the secret he needed, it was a challenge he was more than willing to take head on.

Shuffling into the back of the chamber and donning his armor in segments, hunks of cobalt blue panels attaching to his frame one after another rather easily. He tells Vulcan to stay put for today, he was going to attempt and isolate his own skills from the beast once again. It was easier to tell when there was a control.

Mega Slime Farm Activated: +2 SP Upon Thread Closure

Griswold | HP:930/930 | EN:90/90 | DMG:9 | MIT:84 | ACC:2 | THRNS:36 | REC:2 | TAUNT | BH:18

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Griswold, Fist of Anvil
Level: 45
HP: 930/930
EN: 90/90

Stats:
Damage: 9
Mitigation: 84
Accuracy: 2
BH:18
THRNS:36
REC:2
TAUNT

Equipped Gear:
Weapon: Fist of Gaia - Incline [T1/Perfect/Warhammer] Taunt, Accuracy 2
Armor: Forgemaster's Rattlecage - Juggernaut [T2/Perfect/Heavy Armor] (Mitigation 3 [+54 Mitigation])
Misc: Titanic Wall - Foundation [T2/Perfect/Shield] Thorns 2 (36), REC 1

Skills:
One Handed Warhammer [Rank 1]
Block [Rank 3]
Heavy Armor [Rank 3]
Howl [Obtained]
Charge [Rank 5]
Battle Healing [Rank 2]

Extra Skills:
Concentration
Familiar Fighter R3
Survival

Mods:
Mark
Shield Bash
Athletics (Heavy)

Battle Ready Inventory:
Teleport Crystal*1
Reinforced Chisel Head [Tierless/Perfect/Trinket] (+3 Loot Dice)

Housing Buffs:
Well Rested: -1 energy cost for the first three expenditures of each combat
Squeaky Clean: The first time you would suffer DoT damage in a thread, reduce damage taken from DoT each turn by 25% (rounded down)
Hard Working: +2 EXP per crafting attempt and +1 crafting attempt per day
Filling: Increase the effectiveness of a single food item consumed in a thread by +1 T1 slot.
Item Stash: +1 Battle Ready Inventory Slot
Delicious: Turn 3 identical food items (same quality, tier, & enhancements) into a Feast. A Feast contains 6 portions of the food items sacrificed.
Relaxed: Increases out of combat HP regen by (5 * Tier HP) and decreases full energy regen to 2 Out of Combat Posts.
Skylight (Extended Mod Limit): +1 Rank to the Extended Mod Limit skill.
Advanced Training: +2 SP to a thread. Limit one use per month [0/1]
Multipurpose: Gain +1 to LD, Stealth Rating, Stealth Detection, or Prosperity to one post in a thread. Can be applied after a roll
Decor [Potted Tanabata]: This buff affects the player and their choice of up to two party members.

Guild Hall Buffs:
Lucrative: Reduce LD needed for Salvage by 5 (10+ for Alchemist crystals, 6+ for everything else). +2 EXP per craft. Rank 9 crafters receive +1 crafting attempt per day. Rank 10 crafters receive +2 crafting attempts per day.
Col Deposit: +5% bonus col from last-hit monster kills and +10% bonus col from treasure chests.

 

[Simmone 0]

Simmone eyes the strange globe of crystalline glass, it spins with a weird fog as she peers into it like a fortune teller. It was a rather odd object that was intriguing her to no end, every time she peered into it the thing seemed to appear differently. Like the large platinum mirror that always showed you some semblance of yourself, but not quite 100% correct, this place had quite the most obtuse objects. Each one of them drew her eye and her curiosity. A message received from that slacking apprentice of hers, but it was fine. Business was slow today and Moro and Maru should be able to handle who ever walked in alone, it wasn't until there was multiple orders where they started to fret. Leaning off to her side and plucking her rapier from its leaned position, she'd get ready and from floor 4's cold she'd usher up to the flames of floor 9. Remembering it from last time, the heat was still just as unbearable as before.

Mega Slime Farm Activated: +2 SP Upon Thread Closure

Simmone | HP:880/880 | EN:88/88 | DMG:1 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:5 | KEEN:1 | REC:4

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Simmone, The Black Lotus
Level: 44
HP: 880/880
EN: 88/88

Stats:
Damage: 1
Evasion: 1
Accuracy: 3
BLD:12
LD:5
KEEN:1
REC:4

Equipped Gear:
Weapon: Ornate Quicksilver Rapier [T1/Rare/Rapier] (Bleed 1 [9-10{12 Dmg over 2}], 1 Keen)
Armor: Cat's Gaze [T1/Perfect/Trinket] (3 Accuracy)
Misc: The Black Lotus - Expedition [T2/Perfect/Trinket] Recovery 2, Evasion 1

Skills:
Searching [Rank 5]
Picking [Obtained]
Energize [Obtained]
First Aid [Rank 5]

Extra Skills:
Concentration
Familiar Mastery: Assistant

Mods:
Hyperactive
Dismantling

Battle Ready Inventory:
Teleport Crystal*1
Misperception [T1/Perfect/Debuff/Instant]*3
Bird Seed (T2/Rare/Snack) Vitality 2*2
Vocal Augmentation - Resonation [T1/Perfect/Support/Instant] +60 HP*2
Gilded Lotus [T1/Perfect/Trinket] (+3 Loot Dice)

Housing Buffs:
Well Rested: -1 energy cost for the first three expenditures of each combat
Squeaky Clean: The first time you would suffer DoT damage in a thread, reduce damage taken from DoT each turn by 25% (rounded down)
Hard Working: +2 EXP per crafting attempt and +1 crafting attempt per day
Filling: Increase the effectiveness of a single food item consumed in a thread by +1 T1 slot.
Item Stash: +1 Battle Ready Inventory Slot
Delicious: Turn 3 identical food items (same quality, tier, & enhancements) into a Feast. A Feast contains 6 portions of the food items sacrificed.
Relaxed: Increases out of combat HP regen by (5 * Tier HP) and decreases full energy regen to 2 Out of Combat Posts.
Col Stash: +5% bonus col from monster kills and treasure chests
Advanced Training: +2 SP to a thread. Limit one use per month [0/1]
Multipurpose: Gain +1 to LD, Stealth Rating, Stealth Detection, or Prosperity to one post in a thread. Can be applied after a roll
Decor [Potted Tanabata Plant]: This buff affects the player and their choice of up to two party members.

Guild Hall Buffs:
Lucrative: Reduce LD needed for Salvage by 5 (10+ for Alchemist crystals, 6+ for everything else). +2 EXP per craft. Rank 9 crafters receive +1 crafting attempt per day. Rank 10 crafters receive +2 crafting attempts per day.
Col Deposit: +5% bonus col from last-hit monster kills and +10% bonus col from treasure chests.

 

Edited March 5, 2021 by Simmone

[Sam 0]

Arriving on floor 9 as her mind races. She needed to stop giving a damn about what others thought about her. It was getting in the way of what needed to be done. She use to be the one that just went with her gut. Lately, though it's been difficult to do so. Why... Why did she care so much now, but not back then. She was finding it hard to work with a team, but maybe that was because she spent two years without a team and she was rusty on the subject. She was determined to try now. She would take what Eruda told her with a grand assault and actually try. It was the only way she would get back to normal. That and maybe having Lium join the guild. She always worked in sync with him. She grabs the quest from the board and waits. Her thought becoming clearer as she thinks out every scenario in her head. Piece by piece she was becoming her again... Baby steps...

[Kasumi 0]

Stepping up onto the pad she offers the location name and floor, causing it to trigger and engulfed in bluish light. There was still a bit more for her to begin to accept, but once her hand wraps were on she was starting to seem almost different entirely. Landing within floor 9's fires, that same burning ball of smoke lingering above. Her mind races to guardian's with Setsuna, and sense they've been sparring. It was grueling and unforgiving, the girl was almost impossible to keep up with. But in the end, Kasumi always ended up outpacing her. It surprised the yin on the regular just how effective Kasumi could be, giving her run as an adequate rival and pushing them both to the brink. The hunts that came after, well those were much more surgical as well. Kasumi was changing. A glance to Sam with a final tug locking that ribbon against her fist. "Whats the job today?" Kasumi asked with a signature bloom, with an essence of urgency.

[Griswold 0]

Across the floor of fire, heading for the settlement where the others would surely arrive after not too long. Stepping through the gates after a short few minute trek, he notices the two girls had moved and were beginning to form up a pile in the center. "I'm here, what's the plan." Griswold barked righting himself and slamming a slotted visage of a matched helmet over his dome. A flick of his fingers seals the gap with a latch, making his suit of plate fully covering. A raise of his left arm produces a wall of steel from shoulder to thigh, curved slightly in the shape of a kite. A mallet ripe on his hip, he was ready to let this shit play out. To see just how it was that his weird recently discovered skills operated, without his familiar present. How much of it was stemming from the creature, and how much of it was purely coming from him alone. He needed to know.

[Simmone 0]

The last to join the group, sizing them all up and recognizing the lot of them. "Seems like a rather well rounded party I must say." Simmone spoke to them, looking to Griswold as he donned his helmet. "So Sam, what are we using as an excuse to slack off today?" Her glance shifts to her apprentice with a slide, joking of course. If only slightly. "So send us an invite then." She continued the jest toward the girl, this quest wasn't well going to complete itself. Simmone was eager to get started and get this show on the road. Looking off into the large cloud of soot that lingered in the sky. It was almost impossible to see what time it was through the air, and a bit of that heat began to press on her chest. This place was truly abysmal and unforgiving. At least hopefully they'd be free of this place much quicker.

[Sam 0]

One by one a team was formed. As they arrive, they would see that Sam is looking intensely at her black book. She took it upon herself to copy all the notes from the quests that Raidou had marked down. With all this content inside she would soon need to get a second book. She quickly sends invites and quest shares to everyone here. "I can assure you Simmone this is not one of those days." Right after she said this she realized that what Simmone had said was in a joking tone but she already said what she did... "Iron Gaurdian. It should be easy enough with this team. Let's get moving." 

A broker with an edgy walk approaches her. Speaking of the quest has he talks. "Kool we will be back..." she says, giving the dude no emotion or reaction to what should have been a creepy demeanor. Sam walks by him like he was nothing as she starts to head out to the field as she reads through the quest notes carefully.

Glancing at the map accordingly to her quest marker given, she was at the destination. The other were behind her as she turns back to check. Good. Sam puts her black book away and pulls out her Giant Axe. Even though she has had this weapon for a while, she was still not use to the weight. She was getting there though. 4 Iron knights pop one by one in front of them. "Right," and in the blink of an eye she was gone. She appears in front of the first that she slices right through the first in half and turns to swipe at the second using the weight of the weapon to carry her through as the top half of the body slides to the ground. The third she vanishes and reappears in front of it slicing upward carving right through its makeshift armor as she carries through with a turn slicing downward... This last one though catches her Axe mid air. She hears a loud growling scream behind her. "Kasumi the boss, Griswold a little help," she calls out to the team as she was fighting with the remaining Knight trying to get her weapon from his grasp. The dead explode into data as the boss starts to raise his weapon at Sam.

Using Concentration, Explode Catapult [x14] -19 EN [14-3 (Finesse) + 8 (Hits 4)], Concentration CD [0/3]

ID# 186402 results: Battle: 8+4=12, Hit! vs Iron Knight 1 Dealing 16*14=224 Damage, Killing it!
ID# 186403 results: Battle: 5+4=9, Hit! vs Iron Knight 2 Dealing 16*14=224 Damage, Killing it!
ID# 186404 results: Battle: 1 Critical Miss! vs Iron Knight 3
ID# 186405 results: Battle: 4+4=8, Hit! vs Iron Knight 4 Dealing 16*14=224 Damage, Killing it!

Players:
Sam | HP:804/840 | EN:63/82 | DMG:16 | MIT:12 | ACC:3 | BLD:24 | REC:2
Kasumi | HP:860/860 | EN:86/86 | DMG:14 | EVA:3 | ACC:3 | BLD:24
Simmone | HP:880/880 | EN:88/88 | DMG:1 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:5 | KEEN:1 | REC:4
Griswold | HP:930/930 | EN:90/90 | DMG:9 | MIT:84 | ACC:2 | THRNS:36 | REC:2 | TAUNT | BH:18

Enemy:
Iron Knight 1 | HP:72/72 | DMG:120 | THRNS:12 | BLD:12 (MD 9-19)
Iron Knight 2 | HP:72/72 | DMG:120 | THRNS:12 | BLD:12 (MD 9-19)
Iron Knight 3 | HP:72/72 | DMG:120 | THRNS:12 | BLD:12 (MD 9-19)
Iron Knight 4 | HP:72/72 | DMG:120 | THRNS:12 | BLD:12 (MD 9-19)

Edited March 25, 2021 by Sam

[Kasumi 0]

Sliding her feet around the creature as she appears next to Sam, mirroring the slight silver light of Sam with the pink of her own. A bit confused when Sam had picked up the same little trick, it was a welcome sight. The cleave sees through the lot, The blossom almost skipping forward as the weapon headed her direction. A wind of her hand sees a solid crash against the creatures breastplate, cutting her skin but with it. It shatters into fragments, revealing a bare but massive barrel of a chest. "It's open." Kasumi yells, as the boss raises a fist to back hand her. Its aggression sees no purchase, as it slides past her face and she ceases to exist. A glimmer of that soft rose light, and where she vanished a spray of tiny petals. No connection, she was still solid and unfazed. A success, and the boss was damn near dead.

All Might [x15], -14 EN (17 - [Finesse 3]), Concentration Activated {+1 Accuracy}, Concentration CD [0/3]

ID# 186410 results: Battle: 4+3+1=8, Hit vs. Iron Guardian dealing 14x15=210 DMG, Sustains 12 from Thorns

Players:
Sam | HP:804/840 | EN:63/82 | DMG:16 | MIT:12 | ACC:3 | BLD:24 | REC:2
Kasumi | HP:848/860 | EN:72/86 | DMG:14 | EVA:3 | ACC:3 | BLD:24
Simmone | HP:880/880 | EN:88/88 | DMG:1 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:5 | KEEN:1 | REC:4
Griswold | HP:930/930 | EN:90/90 | DMG:9 | MIT:84 | ACC:2 | THRNS:36 | REC:2 | TAUNT | BH:18

Enemy:
Iron Knight 3 | HP:72/72 | DMG:120 | THRNS:12 | BLD:12 (MD 9-19)
(0,1,0,0) Iron Guardian | HP:10/225 | DMG:200 | THRNS:12 | BLD:12 (MD 9-19)

Edited March 26, 2021 by Kasumi

[Simmone 0]

Simmone slinks in at a rather strange speed for the woman, normally she never lifted a finger. But now seeing that Sam was trapped and Kasumi had failed to finish it off, she drew a long and thin rapier from her hip into her left hand. "Helm Splitter." she murmurs allowing a violet light to play down its birth. To crack the rest of its armor, she bolts forward and plunges the long thin sliver of metal through the plate seeing it broken to pieces. It had stopped her damage, but that always the expectation. "Not applied, shame." Simmone quips to the group, knowing full well they wouldn't know what it meant. A flourish and pivot away, a slender suit of armor on her skin slowing her none. With grace she was away from the potential rebuttal. A look to the rather large smith "Finish him would you kindly?" The black cat asks of him, seeing playing from a massive set of shoulders unbridled flame.

Basic Attack [x1], -1 EN, Concentration Activated {+1 Accuracy}, Concentration CD [0/3]

ID# 186411 results: Battle: 7+1+3=11, Hit vs. Iron Guardian dealing 1 DMG, Sustains 12 from Thorns

Players:
Sam | HP:804/840 | EN:63/82 | DMG:16 | MIT:12 | ACC:3 | BLD:24 | REC:2
Kasumi | HP:848/860 | EN:72/86 | DMG:14 | EVA:3 | ACC:3 | BLD:24
Simmone | HP:868/880 | EN:87/88 | DMG:1 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:5 | KEEN:1 | REC:4
Griswold | HP:930/930 | EN:90/90 | DMG:9 | MIT:84 | ACC:2 | THRNS:36 | REC:2 | TAUNT | BH:18

Enemy:
Iron Knight 3 | HP:72/72 | DMG:120 | THRNS:12 | BLD:12 (MD 9-10)
(0,1,1,0) Iron Guardian | HP:9/225 | DMG:200 | THRNS:12 | BLD:12 (MD 9-10)

Edited March 26, 2021 by Simmone

[Griswold 0]

A single step forward sees a detonation akin to the inferno cavern, blinding the other players in the vicinity. The creatures wince beneath the fiame, and in that instant of it clearing shows Griswold slam his skull against the boss. It forces the creature to turn, before offering a fist of his own across Griswolds head. A spit, and a clench of his teeth. "That the best you got?" Spinning his hammer and slamming his shield across the iron guardian builds a moment of reprieve. "Sam, he got your weapon?" He looks to her, reaching over the girls shoulder who almost matched his size but not his girth. Grabbing the handle he forged, and slamming the mallet into the head sees it carve through the hand attached.

A mace finds his back, the boss wasn't done. He grimaces as he body blocks like a shield for the girl. It triggers those flames again like wake. Once it ends, that weapon. Sam's weapon held his flames and it caught his eye. "Finish it." Griswold barks as he spins leaving the armless knight to her. As his attentions shift to the boss, and a jab of his fist spins the thing around in a slink and weakening. A pull of his massive arm up the back of the things head sees it driven into the floor beneath with a snap.

Howl (+3 Hate), -8 EN

ID# 186433 results: MOB: 4, Missed vs. Griswold
ID# 186434 results: MOB: 6, Hit vs. Griswold dealing 200-84=116 DMG, Sustains 36 DMG via Thorns

Players:
Sam | HP:804/840 | EN:63/82 | DMG:16 | MIT:12 | ACC:3 | BLD:24 | REC:2
Kasumi | HP:848/860 | EN:72/86 | DMG:14 | EVA:3 | ACC:3 | BLD:24
Simmone | HP:868/880 | EN:87/88 | DMG:1 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:5 | KEEN:1 | REC:4
Griswold | HP:814/930 | EN:82/90 | DMG:9 | MIT:84 | ACC:2 | THRNS:36 | REC:2 | TAUNT | BH:18

Enemy:
(0,0,0,3) Iron Knight 3 | HP:72/72 | DMG:120 | THRNS:12 | BLD:12 (MD 9-10)
(0,1,1,3) Iron Guardian | HP:9/225 | DMG:200 | THRNS:12 | BLD:12 (MD 9-10)

Edited March 26, 2021 by Griswold

[Sam 0]

Concentration CD [1/3]

Sam watches as her Battle Axe ignites with Griswold's flames. Her weapon's head drops to the scorched ground. A quick glance to the enemy as she evaluates his movement for only a moment before her hilt is plunged into the knight abdomen hard as it backs up without air to it breath. Sam right then repositions her weapon's head upwards into the knights chest. Upon impact the knight screams out in pain as he backs away dragging her weapon across his own chest to get away, as his chest glows bright red like his insides were burning from inside out. Right then he pops into data. With a smile she looks to Griswold as the flames go out on her weapon. "Cool, you should really use that more often. It is really powerful when used right, like now." Almost instantly her eyes turn to Kasumi. "I need you to teach me what you know. I don't feel like I am in the right category for the guild, now that I have my head on straight. Will you teach me?" She puts her weapon away now and walks toward Kasumi.  

Using Explode Catapult [x14] -13 EN [14-3 (Finesse) + 2 (Hits 1)]

ID# 186435 results: Battle: 7+3=10, Hit! vs Iron Knight 3 Dealing 16*14=224 Damage, Killing it! Craft: 4 {No Proc}

Players:
Sam | HP:792/840 | EN:50/82 | DMG:16 | MIT:12 | ACC:3 | BLD:24 | REC:2
Kasumi | HP:848/860 | EN:72/86 | DMG:14 | EVA:3 | ACC:3 | BLD:24
Simmone | HP:868/880 | EN:87/88 | DMG:1 | EVA:1 | ACC:3 | BLD:12 | LD:5 | KEEN:1 | REC:4
Griswold | HP:814/930 | EN:82/90 | DMG:9 | MIT:84 | ACC:2 | THRNS:36 | REC:2 | TAUNT | BH:18

Enemy:
(0,0,0,3) Iron Knight 3 | HP:72/72 | DMG:120 | THRNS:12 | BLD:12 (MD 9-10)

Edited March 26, 2021 by Sam

[Kasumi 0]

Just like that, it was over. The heat of the floor came as a rush to the senses, as that adrenaline from battle began to fade. Sam had asked her something, and glance to her Kasumi could tell she was serious. "I don't know if I am quite a good teacher for that." Her mind raced against the fact that she was still dealing with her own inhibitions that was slowing down her progress. The best she could assume is she'd just end up slowing down Sam's growth. "I would ask Raidou, he would know better where you belong." the blossom laid it out rather carefully, yeah her cousin was busy. But she knew that if Sam were to ask him, he'd spare the time to help her. He was a much better teacher, and if he couldn't help her he'd see her to someone who could. With an adjust of her hand wraps, she kept a plain stare as a confirmation that she was heard.

Edited March 26, 2021 by Kasumi

[Sam 0]

Setting a hand softly on Kasumi's shoulder, she says "Thank you, and I am sure that someday you will be a great teacher. Keep working at it and that day will come. I am sure of it." A smile given to Kasumi as she turns. Her eyes catch Simmone's and her smile turns to only half of what it was. "I still want you to be my mentor, but I can't keep pretending anymore. I hope you understand." There was strong feeling attached to these words. Simmone had helped her in more ways than one. Just being there and helping her learn what being a merchant truly was meant the world to her. She closes the distance between them and gives Simmone a hug. She stands there for a moment with her eyes closed. The feelings that Sam had for her would surely never fade and maybe in another lifetime, it would be different but she had Kat now. Letting Simmone go of the hug she turns with a sigh. Opening her HUD she composes a message to Raidou:

To: Raidou From: Sam I need your help. Where and when can we meet. It is important...

A chime of her HUD as the message was sent to him. Turning back to Simmone she says "I will meet you back at the Odysey. There is something that I have to do first. Hope to see you all again soon," as she turns to the others as she says this. A small inhale as she turns and begins to walk back to the main settlement on this floor.

[Simmone 0]

Accepting the embrace from the girl, her apprentice was growing up just a tad. Finally a direction from her, instead of having to force her into an activity. The shop had in a way helped her find her way. "Don't take too long dear." Kasumi was right, the man had an idea matched with experience greater then they all had. If anyone could understand her plight it would be him. A glance to Griswold who had been tapping his hands together. "I believe that I should finally take you up on the offer, I'd like to see that store of yours. Given that a good portion of what I sell comes from that hole of yours, I should see what its like." She offered coyly, hiding that it was something she'd been excited about doing for quite some time as of late. Unlike the others, Griswold always seemed so focused on his trade.

[Griswold 0]

A nod in response to Simmone, as Sam was on her own journey. As it would seem was that everyone was dealing with changes, a fact that Griswold couldn't help but see. Here was Sam going through something very similar to himself, trying to find her identity and place. A notion he could respect. "It's just outside the settlement, near the largest mountain." The smith told the cat, offering a loose direction. "Mind the flames." Simmone appeared as though she wasn't quite as comfortable in this heat, like a flower wilting under too much sun. A few heavy footfalls to make some distance, keeping an eye peeled on the woman to make sure she was keeping toe with him. Wandering through the paths to which he was familiar. Seeking the last leg of their journey as both had seemingly forgotten the second step of the quest. Into his shop, Vulcan begins to rise.

Edited March 26, 2021 by Griswold

[Kasumi 0]

Concentration CD [2/3]

A wander through the streets with a crystal of support in her hand, knowing full well that this needed to be delivered before the quest would be finished. Producing it and offering it toward the robed male NPC, who eyes it precariously in her grasp. "That it?" He asks her, a bit cautious in his delivery of the statement. "It is." Kasumi offers her signature smile, extending it out to him. A sudden rip of his blade toward her, She slides beneath the attack, on her face was almost a horrified look. "What are you doing?" The blossom asks of him in a plead. "Take it, you don't want this."

A moment of silence as the guy begins to eyeball his sword with a raise.

"Of course I do, you were trying to trick me weren't you?" Rushing toward Kasumi with fervor, another attempt on her life. A snap of her frame sees the blade stopped dead inbetween two hands. The crystal he sought clatters on the floor beneath her feet. "Stop..." Kasumi pleads of him, wishing for him to take a different course before she was forced...

All Might [x15], -14 EN (17 - [Finesse 3]), Missed -2 EN

ID# 186728 results: MOB: 8-3=5, Missed vs. Kasumi!

ID# 186729 results: Battle: 1

Players:
Kasumi | HP:860/860 | EN:71/86 | DMG:14 | EVA:3 | ACC:3 | BLD:24

Enemy:
Mysterious Broker | HP:150/150 | DMG:200 | BH:50 (CD10+) | Para:1 (MD 9-10)

Edited March 27, 2021 by Kasumi

[Sam 0]

A step to the warp gate, she makes her way back to the guild hall. In chance that Raidou would be there, but he was a very busy person. Sam needed this though, she finally knew what direction to go in. She just needed the jump start to do so. Lium was that jump start. She wasn't going to hold back anymore. She was going to do everything she could to keep Firm Anima safe in the only way she knew how to. God knows that it was much too late for the other people that she called her friends. Sam knew though that no one was to blame for that, but the jerks that think that they were above everyone else. The people with orange icons that felt like they were entitled to more things than others. Her blood boils just thinking about it. In that moment she realized that she walked away before the broker showed. She knew that Kasumi could handle it though... She takes out her book knowing that the itch could yet be dealt with without more information.

[Kasumi 0]

Concentration Refreshed!

A harsh tug on his blade as Kasumi releases it, another lunge sees her displaced in a flash of pink light. Her heart sinks as he charges her again, taking another swipe of his steel toward her peach colored hide. "Stop!" Kasumi yelps toward the broker "Just take it." Trying her best to defuse the situation, to get him to end this assault. An attempt at a stab sees the girl disappear and end up behind him, grappling him around the collar. "Don't make me." The choked breathing coming from him, as his weapon still swung off to each side as he bellows "I'll kill you!". Clawing at her arms, trying to break her grasp. "I'm sorry." Kasumi couldn't help but feel the tears starting to flow as her face felt hot. A sudden jerk sees them both collapse, a crunch with it. It was over, but not in a way she wished it to end.

Left within the alley that the quest had started, was a girl that had just taken a life with the blood still on her hands. A burning of regret in her breast, matched by the chill of the stone and a small crystal still pulsing with energy. "I'm sorry." choked out with a river of tears. This puppy was actually poisoned.

Vanity Tag: @Freyd

All Might [x15], -14 EN (17 - [Finesse 3]), Missed -2 EN

ID# 186730 results: Battle: 5+3=8, Hit vs. Mysterious Broker dealing 14x15=210 DMG

Players:
Kasumi | HP:860/860 | EN:58/86 | DMG:14 | EVA:3 | ACC:3 | BLD:24

Enemy:
Mysterious Broker | HP:150/150 | DMG:200 | BH:50 (CD10+) | Para:1 (MD 9-10)

Quest Complete:
Sam
4*SP (1 Thread Closure, 1 Event Bonus, 2 Quest Reward)
Crystal of Support [T1/Perfect/Crystal] Mass Heal
Kasumi
4*SP (1 Thread Closure, 1 Event Bonus, 2 Quest Reward)
Griswold
6*SP (1 Thread Closure, 1 Event Bonus, 2 Quest Reward, 2 Mega Slime)
Simmone
6*SP (1 Thread Closure, 1 Event Bonus, 2 Quest Reward, 2 Mega Slime)
400*Col (Thread Closure)

Edited March 27, 2021 by Kasumi