Armoring time (Aeon/Closed)

[Stryke]

Some time had passed since the apocalypse and the people in the streets of London were finally starting to comprehend that they weren't going home anytime soon. That collective thought was enough to finally shake up some of the people that were still living sluggishly in the city, that was fortunate because many of them didn't even try to find a way out and resulted more of a burden than anything.

Leo felt a bit relieved after finally seeing some life in the city, adventurers finally started to actually go and explore some areas, grind out in the fields and even relaxing a bit with the crafting system, the city wasn't enveloped in a completely good vibe but at least now there was some movement in it.

Leo walked carelessly around ST. Pancras Station, there weren't many people, just a group of adventurers sitting outside an inn, conversing in a light manner and 2 others holding each other's hands while walking on the other side of the street.

Leo feigned a half smile when he saw that couple, they were a good example to the ones who were still depressed over being transported to this world, just by looking at them it was obvious that they didn't let the apocalypse take away their spirit, it wasn't like all everyone was being tortured here anyway, they just had to get used to this new life till someone found a way out, it wasn't so much of a tragedy like everyone was making it seem.

When the couple crossed the road and disappeared from his field of vision, Leo turned his head forward and led his eyes on the ground, his train of thought quickly shifted to his experiences since he was transported here. Leo couldn't really complain, in the days that followed the apocalypse Leo got to know some definitely interesting persons and also had his first taste of combat, which was surprisingly beginning to become more and more fun each time he fought a battle.

In the end Leo wasn't having such a bad time at all, his free time was also void of boredom thanks to the crafting system, if he just had one of his guitars with this would have been quite a good vacation for him to be honest.

Thinking of combat and crafting, Leo suddenly remembered something, during his adventures he managed to level up in a constant pace but he still had to improve his gear.

He was now a level 12 swashbuckler still in starter gear, he had to upgrade his gear if he wanted to survive against more high leveled monsters. Gear drops were extremely rare and with his usual luck it was completely out of question to depend on it, the only remaining rout was to have someone craft gear for him or buy some low level armor form the NPCs.

Leo decided to start upgrading his armor, his current armor was of the chain type and Leo detested it, it was too heavy and being a starter level gear it didn't provide good defenses either. Leo wanted to try something different, maybe one of those cloth type armor he had seen on some players, they looked free to move in those clothes and it would also be more fitting to his developing combat style made of quick movements.

Leo made up his mind, he didn't have anything to do anything that day, he was free to look for a crafter and was also in the right place, the station was a popular gathering spot for crafters. Without wasting any more time, Leo turned around and walked in the direction of the station in the hope he would find some good crafters.

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"What? 2000 Just for the armor?"

Leo said extremely annoyed to a crafter he found inside the station, he was a man tall man incredibly skinny for his size,

"That's the price, you can still buy one of those noob gears from the people of the land if you don't like it"

Leo raised an eyebrow and then turned around,

"Something tells me you don't get a lot of costumers, do you?"

Leo said while walking away to search another crafter who wasn't a complete gold digger, the skinny man looked at Leo for a moment with an angered look, then he scoffed and resumed to whatever he was doing before.

The place was big there were many crafters, Leo could surely find a good crafter, he just had to find it between this whole mess of gold diggers
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[Aeon]

Aeon, had come back after a few days of battle, the sarum operation wasn’t something that was for the faint heared, being only half up for it would get you killed, and to get all your gear back in top condition required heading back to London for materials and such to patch up the emergency work.

Emergency work was as such only emergency’s, it also proved rather useful for patching people up who had major bleeding wounds of course, Aeon was sure shoving a needle through someone’s arm must hurt that person like hell, but hey it was rather fun.

Aeon’s armour had needed repairs after the battering of rocks from those damned golems with their spiny rock forms bombarding people tearing up cloth arm with swirling doom and power.

Of course the mask fared far better they bounced off with ease at least that was a perk of metal you didn’t get clattered by stones in the face.

Aeon felt a soft breeze on the streets of London, it wasn’t too warm but for the season it was great weather the sun was out and the temperature was good to, let’s hope you don’t get sunburn in this world otherwise it will be a pain in the backside. Without damn suncream.



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[Stryke]

Even if Leo didn't find what he was looking yet he was having a good time walking around the crafting the station. The thing that interested him the most was how everyone was so focused on their crafting attempts, everyone tried their best to create new pieces of art or equipment and looked like they were having a lot of fun too.

The crafting system was truly a blessing given the current circumstances of this apocalyptic London, there wasn't anything really interesting to do here except hunting and grinding for levels. It was kinda ironic that the main drive to play an rpg would soon become boring and redundant when it basically becmae the only thing you could do to pass the time.

Thanks to the crafting system everyone had at least a choice to do something else than slaughter poor beasts all day and they could also contribute to increasing the living standards of the city, which right now wasn't in good conditions at all.

Leo looked around and saw a group of artisans collectively working on a large stone sculpture, the piece of art was still in its early development phase but Leo could definitely recognize the figure they wanted to give to the stone, a large lion with an angry expression.

Leo curiously looked at their technique, being an artisan himself he also tried to carve little stone sculptures from time to time with horrible results, the fact that he had no prior knowledge about carving stone and his low level didn't help in the slightest.

It was clear that those artisans were on a completely different level than him, they were able to carve the stone with such precision and elegance that Leo wondered if it was thanks to their high levels or because they perhaps were used to sculpting in real life. To be honest Leo didn't really understand the leveling system for crafting activities, would you become automatically more adept at carving stones with a high enough level or it would only enable you to craft higher level materials? Leo feared that even if he was level 90 he would still make abominations, level 90 abominations that is.

Leo was more of an action guy, he liked to fight and grind level his main class but he was surprisingly attracted to the crafting system those days, maybe he was beginning to feel the repetitiveness of grinding. After walking to the southern section of the station, something caught his attention once again. He saw a cloaked figure diligently working on his workstation, the main reason Leo looked at him was because his workplace was that of a tailor, just Leo was searching for.

Leo walked in his direction, after nearing enough distance he then spoke to the working tailor,

"Hey, you're a tailor, right? If so, Do you do commissions? I need a cloth armor crafted, I'll provide all the materials and a payment too of course"

Leo said to the man with the cloak, now the only thing left was to pray that his prices weren't as absurd as the other tailor he encountered before.


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[Aeon]

A man approached him, he was moderately armoured, multiple weapons, come standard for those swashbucklers, those nimble fighters who use your strengths make them weaknesses and opening your weaknesses more, they were a primary support class a class that takes some strategy to play but powerful when played well.

Aeon listened to the man speaking to him regarding his trade.

Aeon answered from behind his mask, “yes I am a tailor, is there something that you require sir, I do take commissions but that will depend on what you seek overall, for I only make cloth and leather. I can’t produce everything in the world you see, otherwise I would be far to wealthy”

If you could see his mouth you would have seen aeon smirk at his own remarks.

“now I don’t believe it will cost you take much, if you providing materials id say 50 gold would be fine for my time”

Aeon waited for the mans response.



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[Stryke]

Leo waited for the cloaked man's response, fortunately the tailor was willing to take commissions for Leo's desired armor type. From the way he talked he appeared to be a reasonable guy, that alone reassured Leo a bit, after some seconds then his doubts were completely crushed by hearing the tailor's prices.

Leo looked at him with a questioning look, why on earth would he charge just 50 gold for a whole new piece of armor? The reason why he couldn't really believe that price was real lied in him knowing all too well the limits of his own luck, which apparently that day it decided to finally grant Leo a bit of fortune.

Leo shook off his head and responded promptly to the tailor,

"Well, it's a deal then"

He said, trying his best to not point out how much that price was so absurdly low. Leo didn't like to take advantage of other people but who knew when another chance like this would show up, also he was sure that the tailor set up those prices knowing well that they were much lower to the standard, he didn't look like a fool at all.

After a moment of hesitation he then continued talking, it was time for him to give the tailor some basic guidelines on how the armor's final design should have been. Another reason to get your armor crafted was for the possibility of customizing its looks to fit your style, in fact the equipments you could buy from the people of the land were scarce and not so good looking either, if Leo had to stay in this world for a long time then he wanted to at least feel comfortable with what he wore.

"Alright, I was thinking of having a wolf themed cloth armor, sleeveless and with a hood on the back. For the design itself I'll leave it in your hands, just stick with something simple but interesting, for the color I'd like it to be dark brown or a similar one."

Leo finished, he then remembered another particular that might also solve his inner turmoil of taking advantage of the tailor's price,

"I forgot to ask you something though, are you capable of making enchanted gear? I was thinking of adding a special effect to the armor, an agility or movement speed boost. Of course I'll pay an extra for it"

Leo hoped that the tailor could indeed craft enchanted gear, he was already that lucky to find a tailor with such low prices and usually lucky events come one after the another, maybe that day someone really buffed Leo with a lucky spell or something, given how he was transported inside a game he wasn't even sure he could discard that possibility as well.

Leo looked away for a brief moment, his eyes rested on the lion sculpture he saw earlier, those guys were working fast and with a precision that wasn't even comparable to Leo's, they already finished carving the head and were now moving on to refining the details, that made him wonder if one day he too could craft things with such speed and precision like them.


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