[F1-PP] Dreams, Reality, Confusion (Earning a Living-Gathering)

[Eruda 0]

Starting on Floor 22

A sleepless night yet again. All her thoughts causing her to lie awake in bed. Raserei snuggled against her leg, her leg twitching like she was having a running dream. Eruda softly pats the side of her head with a small smile. Moving her to the side, Eruda gets to her feet. She felt exhausted but she couldn't calm her mind enough to rest in peace. A grab of her new blade, a touch of the door knob, she walks out the door. A click of the lock, Eruda walks to the warp gate in the town of beginnings. In her travels and with the help of Raidou's notes of each floor, she was able to find a peaceful place to think when she needed it. It was really early, the sun had yet to shine in the dark sky, but she had to get some of these thoughts sorted. She was unsure if she could, but she had to try. A soft whisper of "Floor 22" as she steps to the teleportation pad. 

Her feet fall soft against the grasslands on this floor. Wondering through the silent settlement, she makes her way out of the gates in the familiar direction of the Firm Anima Guild Hall. It didn't take her long to get to where she was heading. A large river, she was unsure what this was called, but she had found Sanctuary on the rooftop of a small abandoned fishing cabin near by. Climbing a ladder that she had built after finding this place, she gets to the roof of the shack taking a seat on the tiles. Taking a deep breath as her mind races.

A heart inside a ring at the bottom of a tea cup that was empty, Raidou and the last places they went together. Romance filled the air that night and it bothered her so much because she knew what they felt to a reason but they didn't understand it. Shiina's big reveal where she lived, just inside the walls that she wasn't allowed to enter. Just inside those tall barriers, Raidou... It pained her to know that the one person in the world that she felt safe with lived just beyond her reach. A new sword in her grasp, one that burned with the flames she felt inside her. Everything was unsettling at this very moment. Eruda's watches as the rising sun reflects against the river water. It was beautiful... She was unsure if she could talk to Raidou, Haine or anyone else about what she was thinking. She didn't know if they would understand because she knew for sure that she didn't. Wrapping herself in a blanket as the chill breeze hits her skin, Eruda watched the sun rise...

Eruda | HP: 760/760 | EN: 88/88 | DMG: 3 | MIT: 147 | ACC: 1 | BH: 38 | BRN: 56 | TAUNT | LD: 3

Spoiler

Eruda, The Rising Phoenix
Level: 31
Paragon Level: 20
HP: 760/760
EN: 88/88

Stats:
Damage: 3
Mitigation: 147
Accuracy: 1
Battle Healing: 38
BRN: 56
TAUNT
Loot Dice: +3

Equipped Gear:
Weapon: Consuming Pyre - Surt T4: (Burn 1, Taunt, Accuracy 1)
Armor: Reinforced Plate - Lily T4: Damage Mitigation 3 (+72 Mitigation)
Ebon Tether - Beauty (+3 Loot Dice)

Skills:
1HCS R2
Heavy Armor R5
Battle Healing R5
Fighting Spirit
Howl

Active Mods:
Iron Skin
Rampart
Focused Howl
Steadfast

Inactive Mods:

Active Extra Skills:
Block R5
Leadership R3

Inactive Extra Skills:

Battle Ready Inventory:
Teleport Crystal: 1
Misc: Stalwart Defender T4: (Thorns 2, Recovery 1)

 

Edited April 18, 2021 by Eruda

[Raidou 1]

An early morning, a breaking dew that played upon the grass in the dim bluish light of a dawning sun. Raidou was hard at work, desperate to tame his faltering skills and get them back underneath his command. Roads traveled and journeys made would not be left to waste. He'd push through whatever that Shadow had done to him in those final moments, when it faltered and died to the might of the frontline group that had seen him to a grave. Another compass passed into his hands from the NPC in question, he would find his foundation to begin again. Without any intervention, he'd find that path he walked once more. To lead back toward the fire and brimstone, with a blade in his hands and a world desperate to bury them all at his back.

Kaiba and this damned system had another thing coming.

It would not stop him, and he'd find that gravity to which to continue to stride forward. Ruri was making motions, Haine was getting better. So why couldn't he? He had what he needed in this world, and he had a clear focus on what needed to be done. Any change imposed would be met with equal opposition, and he'd fight through it all to the end or die trying. That was his truth, and low and behold it all began with a compass and a drive to move past this. Giovanna Tarragon takes the helm of the conversation, speaking to the wanderer that could easily play her duplicate. "I tend to move around quite a lot, but someone always finds me. I suppose you are looking for some herbs?" Raidou pays her a silent nod, a man of few words. Offered a device with an acceptance of his attempts to start over "You may borrow my compass. Dark magic has made it capable of locating an incredibly rare item called a Demonic Shard. Should you find one, and bring it back to me, you will prove yourself worthy of my teachings. Take care, and may good  fortune travel with you." No words but another nod before he takes his leave. It chimes with a resonance almost immediately, and within moments he finds what it was he sought. Returning to the woman and offering it to her sees his beloved skill, the starting point to which he began everything returned to an actual rank.

This world had forgotten just what he was capable of and he would remind it.

ID# 189339 results: Craft: 9, Loot: 20 (Demonic Shard Obtained)
+2 Materials Obtained

Raidou | HP: 860/860 | EN: 104/104 | DMG: 22 | MIT: 97 | EVA: 3 | ACC: 3 | BH: 47 | LD: 5

Spoiler

Raidou, The Lost
Level: 31
Paragon Level: 60
HP: 860/860
EN: 104/104

Stats:
Damage: 22
Mitigation: 97
Evasion: 3
Accuracy: 3
Battle Healing: 47
Loot Dice: 5

Equipped Gear:
Weapon: Auric Sunlight - Finality of Faith [T4/Perfect/2HSS] +3 Damage
Armor: Robe of the Red Wanderer [T1/Perfect/Cloth] +3 Evasion
Misc: Tactician's Gaze - Ogma [T1/Perfect/Trinket]: +3 Accuracy

Skills:
Searching R5
Fighting Spirit
Howl
2HSS R5
Battle Healing R5
Extended Mod Limit

Combat Mastery: Mitigation (+72 Mitigation)

Active Mods:
Detect
Focused Howl
Ferocity
Vengeful Riposte
Tracking

Active Extra Skills:
Forgotten King’s Authority
Parry
Survival

Battle Ready Inventory:
Iron Will (Tierless/Unique/Salve) Bloodclot: 1
Terra Firma Scale: 1
Darkness Salve: 3
Mass Heal Crystal: 5
Mass Heal Crystal: 5
Teleport Crystal: 1
Inert Pillar Fragment [Vanity/Broken Glowstone]: 1

 

[Eruda 0]

The sun was fully raised now and the reflection upon the water was nothing more than a glare upon the large pool of liquid. The day was bound to start, as she gets off the roof now with the blanket still wrapped around her shoulders. New potential skills were added to her roster and she had a choice to make. Gathering or fishing, and there was only one obvious choice. She would learn to gather the right way from Raidou. Maybe in the mean time get to know him a bit. There lives were interlocked now more than ever and she wasn't going to let anything get in her way now. Stepping to the warp gate of floor 22 she says "Floor 1" as she vanished into data. Landing on solid ground, she picks up the earning a living quest from the board and has a conversation with the lad with a pouch on her hip. Eruda receives a compass to find a shard. This shouldn't be that hard right...

Eruda walks out the gates and stares at the compass... The pointer was spinning around in circles... "How do I..." Eruda glares at in confusionly and she bangs it lightly against her other hand still wrapped in her blanket.

ID# 189340 results: Craft: 4, Loot: 3 Fail!

Edited April 18, 2021 by Eruda

[Raidou 1]

A simplistic twist of his hands and show of them against plants, a familiar suit of blonde upon a head. Eruda. Trying her hand at this in the same way as she had during first lessons all that time ago. The compass was a new addition, and as expected it was to be difficult for her to get the grounds of what she needed to obtain what she was after. A glance to the woman as she struggled, Raidou leans down near her and begins to slide his hands past into her peripheral. "They give way to what you seek, look for that gold glimmer. It betrays what is and what isn't ripe enough to take." He murmurs toward her, still somewhat sheltered and exposed. But they were still in this mess together, and he may just need her now more than ever. Plucking free the first after turning it toward her, to prove the point he was trying to make to her.

ID# 189341 results: Craft: 1, Loot: 18
+1 Material

[Eruda 0]

Eruda looks to the familiar voice, had not the slightest clue that he was even here, Raidou. She would have thought he would have done this already and been in the cave gathering. Biting her lip, knowing how pathetic she looked trying to make this new thing work within her grasp. Taking his advice though she places the compass in the palm of her hand now. Keeping it still now she lets the contraption do its thing. Looking for the golden glow that Raidou had mentioned. If she tried hard enough and kept at it, there was nothing that she couldn't do. The red hand thing was still spinning in circles though. It was clear that she was now far enough out now to get an accurate reading. Giving a nervous chuckle, looking like a fool that had not the first clue what she was doing. "I have never really been the gathering type, not like you. I will get it down though... I've come this far," giving him a smile she begins to walk further into the floor, hoping for something... Anything...

ID# 189342 results: Craft: 4, Loot: 4 Fail!

Edited April 18, 2021 by Eruda

[Raidou 1]

"No one is the gathering type, it isn't something easy first hand. It takes persistance and determination to succeed it. With time it becomes much more second nature. They will evidently speak to you, give off what is needed and welcome you to claim them." Raidou spoke to his experience with a slight film of white blocking his amber eyes from view, taking a glance to her compass that seemed to be fighting her attempts. As she would usher away, the wanderer stays planted. Moving too frequently on a flight of fancy is the quickest way to miss out what may lay beneath the rough, a lesson to impart to Eruda as quickly as any other. Too many assume that there was nothing at only a glance, it was the determined that peeled beneath that veil and found what lay dormant underneath. He'd teach that to her, without a word but his actions.

ID# 189344 results: Craft: 8, Loot: 3

[Eruda 0]

Turning to Raidou as he spoke. He was at the same patch of herbs. She was reminded from back then that he did the same thing in the cavern he frequented. He was not so quick to move onto the next until he was sure that there was nothing left. The compass is her hand glows slightly, then nothing. Almost like it was trying... "Hmm" glancing down at the thing in her hand. Her eyes look everywhere around her now. More in depth than before. More focused now, she just needed to get her bearings. Empty her mind and focus on the task at hand. Like time and time before this when she was with the others getting ready to go on a quest. Getting to the creature safely and making it out alive was the only thing that mattered at that time. In this instance, it was one in the same. She just had to get her head on straight for this task, and it alone. A glance to compass now, N, E, S, W marked the directions. The pointer was in the north, east direction, she positions her body that way and looks into the distance.   

ID# 189347 results: Craft: 7, Loot: 11 Fail!

Edited April 19, 2021 by Eruda

[Raidou 1]

Another subtle glance to the girl as she would return, her attentions so wholeheartedly focused on that contraption in her hands. "That will only work to blind you, trust your instincts and intuition first then use that as nothing more then a confirmation." Raidou offered her, knowing full well that it was his own senses that he relied on the regular then allowing the skill to fill in the final end. There was quite a bit of normalcy in how the game operated, and his own prior knowledge worked to prove of more use. Another lesson that he had learned through time, spoken and hopefully received by the blonde tank in full. If she wanted to make an honest go at learning his methods then he would play the part of teacher greater than any NPC would, he had done this very task to no end and in most cases there was none the wiser.

ID# 189352 results: Craft: 4, Loot: 10

[Eruda 0]

A glance to Raidou with words of wisdom. Gathering came natural to him, it was clear that he knew what he was talking about. Taking a quick inhale, she sets the compass to her side, removes the blanket from her shoulders and puts it back into her inventory. Trust in her instincts like she would if she was in battle. The quick thinking at a whim without hesitation. That gut feeling that she would get, and at that moment just knew what had to be done. This didn't come natural to her like fighting did, but she wanted it to. She needed to take a step back and concentrate. She closes her eyes, feeling that small breeze upon her face. Taking a moment for herself, to get into the right head space she needed to get this item, hell any material. Opening her eyes, she glances around. A bush with a lizard running out of it. Something near this, a herb patch similar to Raidou's. Each glance with each more intense. She was looking for that glow, that shine within an interior. 

ID# 189354 results: Craft: 5, Loot: 1 Fail!

Edited April 19, 2021 by Eruda

[Raidou 1]

Within her silence, Raidou could sense understanding mixed with frustration. But this ordeal would work to increase her understanding, and she would reflect on this in the future knowing full well that she would be able to do this once she could overcome this barrier placed in front of her. "Listening and watching, the steps seem so simple but so difficult. You will understand with time. Let your senses control your direction, do not rely to heavily on what is given to you. Use what you had already. Hands and eyes, vision and hearing. They will serve you better, when all is lost you will always have these." Raidou offers his philosophy and how he does what he does. When his skills fail him, his sword does not. When his profession does not respond, its his determination that helps him push through. Motive, the urge to move forward despite any circumstance. That was no skill, that was the human condition.

ID# 189359 results: Craft: 3, Loot: 8

[Eruda 0]

Without looking at Raidou, but hearing each word with meaning behind them. "Using what I have..." and first she was taken back by what Raidou said, as if there was more meaning behind it than what she was actually comprehending. Her eyes lay upon that first bush she saw with the lizard. "Nothing is what it appears to be," saying to herself, but if Raidou was listen, he would hear this from her soft voice. She walks to this thicken leaf plant fiber and gets to her knees. At first she just looks at it, then her hand outlines the interior of the bristles. at the corner of her eyes, she sees a faint glow from her side but then nothing. She chooses to ignore this though. She couldn't keep relying on other objects to get her through the rough times. She had to believe, she had to really want it. At this point she did, Eruda wanted to be more than what she was to the group. She wanted to discover everything about herself, the only thing holding her back was herself. She wanted to find herself and figure out what she was capable of.

ID# 189361 results: Craft: 10, Loot: 6 Fail!

Edited April 19, 2021 by Eruda

[Raidou 1]

As Eruda would lower, Raidou would do his best to watch her movements. Seeing if she could discern the small differences. She continues to glance over that which was claimable, unknowingly passing by what could very well be taken. He would allow these mistakes, allow her to find her vision to see what was and wasn't. It was through these trials and tribulations that he had learned to find his own eyes, his glasses were a reflection of everything he had seen, shown back on repeat toward his eyes and worked to bring them to a focal. A million roads, a million paths that always seemed to come to the same place. It was a journey through hardship that brought expertise and understanding, and he'd not deny the future potential tank this. She'd walk his path and learn the road, and in the end she would know the way and where it lead.

ID# 189362 results: Craft: 9, Loot: 10

[Eruda 0]

Concentrating on this bush, her hand still creeping around it. An intense stare within this plant. Moments later a chime from her belt and a glow of gold within the interior. Eruda takes a deep breath and smiles. Taking grasp of the Shard, as her HUD chimes with an update. It was clear that she had found what was needed to complete this quest. Taking the compass in her hand to verify what was found, she smiles as the results were true. It stays in a constant gold glow, Eruda places it back on her belt and gets to her feet. Walking to Raidou now and getting her knees on another set of herbs that was mere inches from the patch he was gathering from. Without looking at him, "I want to share this with you Raidou. I want to continue learning from you. " Her hand raises above the patch as she looks for that same glow within the patch. She wouldn't leave this spot till she knew that the node was fully empty...

ID# 189363 results: Craft: 7, Loot: 18 (Demonic Shard Obtained)

+2 Materials

Edited April 19, 2021 by Eruda

[Raidou 1]

"I believe you will find whatever you wish to, as long as you maintain the stance to keep looking." Raidou offers his own conjecture in regards to her demand. It was all too few that were discouraged by the simplest moment of the system disagreeing with their actions. It was pleasant that Eruda was wise enough to see it through, finding what he had within its interior and claiming what it was that she needed to get started. Now she was ready to learn from him, knowing that tempering her actions was the quickest way to develop her skills. As she would palm that small gilded leaf that she had claimed, to present to Giovanna and finish and obtain the very skill that Raidou was an old master at. Adjusting his robe on his back and looking to Eruda. "We should get that to the NPC, so you can finally get started." he offered her the revelation, now it was finally time to begin.

ID# 189364 results: Craft: 9, Loot: 10

[Eruda 0]

After a moment of not finding anything in this specific patch, she looks to Raidou. I wasn't really a no to teach her. She was hoping to get more out of this though. Rather that just the gathering and teach, she was hoping that she could get to know him a bit more. Getting to her feet, she dusts off her knees. They begin to walk toward the settlement to find Giovanna, so that she could offload the demonic shard. They eventually find her and have a short conversation as the gathering skill was given to them both. The gal walks off to do their own thing and Eruda turns to Raidou. Biting her bottom lip softly she asks, "What did that last thing in the tea cup mean..." she was never told and it's been on her mind since then. It was clear by his reaction at the time that it meant something, but nothing was said about it...

ID# 189365 results: Craft: 7, Loot: 6

Edited April 19, 2021 by Eruda

[Raidou 1]

Keeping pace with Eruda as they moved to the NPC in the cart, for her to turn in the shard that she should to turn into her. But the NPC returns it back to the girl, the goal was simply to find it not to turn it in. As both players give back the compass as they were required to, having no need for it any longer. As they would leave her behind, Eruda couldn't help but question a time from the past. A memory of a china cup on a platter, a reading from tea leaves with symbols aplenty staring back at them both. It was then that the girl played the part of seer as he translated what it was she saw. "Marriage. That is what the rings meant." Raidou offered bluntly, still unsure what it eluded to. It was something that he had never possibly considered in this place, and he'd not lie to the girl in the slightest.

ID# 189366 results: Craft: 2, Loot: 7

[Eruda 0]

Marriage... "I..." she clears her throat as to find her voice again. Geeze that fortune tea cup stuff was no joke... Eruda's face turns red at the thought. It was way too early for something like that. "Lets just get back to, this." She was unsure how to take in such thing. She knew now why Raidou didn't mention it right away like the other detailed descriptions. He must be just as confused as she was. Eruda takes out this blanket and lays it on the ground next to the same patch of herbs she was trying to gather from previously. Gesturing Raidou to come sit next to her, she starts to attempt to find the glow. Some small part of her regrets asking but she knew was glad that she could get at least that off her chest. She tries her best to make ends meet and without saying anything else, as she had not really a clue to what the future would bring. All she knew right now was that she was enjoying Raidou's presence right now.

ID# 189367 results: Craft: 7, Loot: 4

Edited April 19, 2021 by Eruda

[Raidou 1]

A soft cough from him to deject from the sudden sense of uncomfortability that bled through the air, trying his best to focus through it. But it was more difficult than he wished it to be, the answer beckoned his own questions at what fate had in store. He was hardly the type to believe in faith, but it seemed the last while proved impossibility possible. He struggled convincing himself otherwise. The plants beneath him had difficulty speaking to him at all, his perceptions were blurred as he continued to steal glances at Eruda. She'd be the only one that made sense to be what the fortune could have been referring to, who else would fit the bill? They had been through quite a lot together and she was growing under his guidance on the daily. He forced his hands to continue to move on autopilot, trying his best to push it from his head.

ID# 189368 results: Craft: 3, Loot: 6

[Eruda 0]

She focuses on the plant reddish plant fiber, her face still a bit red but i was fine. She gently takes a leaf between her fingers as as that same red herb glows gold. Her eyes light up in excitement as she plucks in softly from the soil. A glance to Raidou holding the herb to him. "I have no use for this, but you. You continue to amaze me at every turn. What ever happens will happen. Lets just enjoy each others company okay?" With a smile, she takes Raidou hand and sets the red herb in his hand. She lets his hand go and looks back to the patch. Taking a deep inhale then exhale she starts working the same patch. She felt as though she was getting a hang of this gathering thing. She knew that she was probable not made for this, but she would work hard to get good at it.  

ID# 189369 results: Craft: 7, Loot: 19
+2 Material (Gives to Raidou)

 

Edited April 19, 2021 by Eruda

[Raidou 1]

Accepting what was bestowed by the girl, they spend the rest of the day handling what was needed. Raidou was finding some semblance of balance with the blonde tank at his side, a gravity returned to his steps. There was a simplicity of understanding shared between them and in that simplicity it was easier for the nomad to clear his head. Pocketing the plant knowing full well what it would be used on in the future. There were new tiers and as such new consumables to be forged once he began to refine the processes required to make them stronger. But that started here with what they were obtaining, and throughout the rest of their time spent before they would part ways he had a fair portion to get started. That same would be offered to the bluenette who was also receiving training from the grandmaster alchemist. To impart his knowledge to others was always the ideal passage of time, and welcomed Eruda under that tutelage. 

ID# 189377 results: Craft: 9, Loot: 19
+2 Materials Obtained

Quest Complete:
Eruda:
1100 EXP (800 Page Reward, 300 Quest Reward)
Gatherer Profession
1*Demonic Shard (Quest Reward)
2*Materials (Gathered)
Raidou:
1133 EXP ((800 Page Reward, 300 Quest Reward)*1.03 (Paragon) = 1133 EXP)
533*Col (400 Thread Closure + 1133 EXP*.1=133.3 [Paragon])
Gatherer Profession
1*Demonic Shard (Quest Reward)
7*Materials (Gathered)