Blind Encounter (Tehm)

[Stryke]

It was early in the morning and the sun was beginning to rise, a feint light enveloped the inn room Leo rented for the night but even the light on his eyes wasn't enough to awaken him from his slumber. Leo rested peacefully on the side of the bed, one arm and leg falling down the right side, just like a sloth sleeping on the branch of a tree.

Suddenly a loud voice erupted from the other side of the room's door, a voice loud enough to be comparable only to that of Hades summoning his infernal hounds back for dinner,

"GET UP YOUR ASS, SLUMBERING PRINCE"

Leo opened his eyes wide and shrieked, the shout surprised him to the point where he fell over the bed after agitating a bit. Leo remained for a second on the ground trying to grasp the situation with his still slumbering mind, he could've sworn that a dragon just entered his room and made him fall over with a powerful roar.

Leo rested his hand on the head, he gave a nice head butt to the floor that left him with a slight bruise. He groaned and got up, his eyes half closed from both sleepiness and annoyance,

"This is the third time...."

Leo muttered while he dragged the palm of his hand on his face to finally wake himself up, the funny thing was that he was the one who told the innkeeper to wake him early in the morning, he just didn't expect her to wake him with the grace of a bull in a porcelain shop.

Leo groaned once again and started to dress himself up, the room wasn't really nice but it had all necessary things Leo needed, it didn't have to be a fancy room as he would only spend the night there. The room was basically a little square with a bed, a table and some decorations in the form of animal pelts on the walls, just your average rpg inn room.

Leo descended the stair that led to the inn's main lobby, the middle aged bear sized oman was behind her counter, doing her everyday work like always,

"Look who finally got up from his beauty sleep"

The woman remarked, Leo just stared at her with his eyes red from being awoken so abruptly and mostly for his hit with the ground,

"Do you always have to be that loud? I don't think a single soul in London didn't hear you a few minutes ago"

The woman didn't respond, she just smirked and laughed. Leo controlled for a few seconds his menu screen, then he made his way to the exit,

"Another day of hunting, little prince?"

The woman asked seeing him going away,

"Yep, gotta earn a bit of cash or I won't be able to sleep in this fancy mansion anymore"

He responded with a sarcastic smile before exiting the inn, once outside he could still hear the woman's strangely manly laugh. That inn wasn't perhaps the nicest one but it was cheap and to be honest he was starting to like that bear sized woman's company.

It took several minutes to reach the outskirts of the city and then the great plains of Windsor greatwood, it was a fairly good weathered day and the fields were already prospering with a lots of wild mobs to hunt for precious XP and gold. Leo raised his head to the sky to feel the warm sensation of the sun on his face, then he reached his swords from his back unsheathed them, another day of good hunting was just starting.


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Tag:tehm

[tehm]

tehm HP: 100% MP: 100%

+Battle Perception +Drunken Monkey -[BLIND] -[Drunk]

Today was the day!

Sarah was busy helping Mike, one of the lander children, repair the chicken coop which had been breached in the night by a fox or canine of some sort. Tehm was finally free to knock out the last of the windsor great wood so that he could finish his player map of the area and move on to the new area, Sarum. Grabbing his walking stick from the corner of the small room that he and Sarah stayed in at the inn in Brent, tehm set out towards the great wood.

Stopping at the brewers to refill his gourd, tehm walked quickly down the path leading from brent then crossed through the fields towards the great wood.

Mapping these areas was almost a delight compared to the Sarum area; having already identified all of the types of trees available here there was no need to stop at each one, rather he could just concentrate on filling out the map while staying on watch for any saplings of maple, yew, or pine that might be in the area.

While stopping under the shade of a giant oak near the walls of London for lunch, tehm heard the sound of swords being drawn from their scabards. Quickly popping the last of the spicy sausage into his mouth, tehm wiped his hands on his pants, grabbed his walking stick and set off in the direction of the adventurer.

Once, when he had first arrived in this strange world he had been terrified of such encounters, but having been in this world now for what seemed months, the excitement of talking to another person from Earth elated him, and as he drew close to the tall wolfhair, he hailed him:

"Hello there!"

Tehm's battle perception told him the swashbuckler's name was <Stryke>, and judging from his stance he was likely out scouting for slimes or some such creatures.

Tehm rarely fought any of the mobs in this world, it was not that they were terribly scary to him any longer, it was just that there seemed little point to it. He discovered quickly upon entering The Forgotton Kingdom that one could increase their primary class via exercise much as one could grow their crafting skills via doing odd jobs only vaguely related to the related profession. In fact, it seemed as if anything which made a check upon a specific skill was enough to gain experience towards it. Further, the money earned from fighting such low level monsters was abysmally low, the coin he could earn by entertaining the landers of Brent for an afternoon vastly exceeded what he could make in an entire day of adventuring.

Regardless, it seemed most of the adventurer's of this world spent their days much as they had when this was an mmo.

(Am I the only one who no longer sees this as a game?...)

Word Count: 484 Tag: Stryke

Made by Sifr of GS, Synesthesia and Adoxography.

[Stryke]

Leo arched his body forward and prepared for a quick sprint, a good surprising attack was the best way to start a battle with the upper hand, fortunately his experience with mmorpgs seemed to help him greatly in these battles.

Leo was ready to dash out in the fields when suddenly an unknown voice called him and he nearly tripped over as he forcefully stopped his body from accelerating forward, he regained his balance with little effort and then he turned around to meet face to face that voice's owner.

When Leo completely turned around and got a full look at the man behind him, he widened his eyes and stared at him like he had seen some kind of ghost.

This man's appearance was bizarre to say the least, his face especially looked like something a little child would draw, his eyes also weren't supposed to be that far away from each other...

Adding to the overall silliness of his face, this man sported a strange looking bowl cut and wore sack clothes, he also walked with a staff in his hands.

Leo tried to refrain from laughing loudly at him with everything he got, this man's appearance surprised him so much that it was almost impossible to resist. Somehow Leo successfully contained his urge of laughing out loud, he regained his usual cool and responded to the strange looking man:

"Ehm...Hello"

He said, praying the man didn't notice that he was on the brink of a maniacal laugh. Leo wondered why this guy looked like he was crushed under a boulder, was he one of the people who created a joke character to mess with the game for a while? Or his beauty taste was just that terrible?

Suddenly something appeared few meters behind the strange man, they were 3 serpentine looking mobs, their name tag classified them as lvl 10 [Nerpent satchers].

"Watch out, we have company"

Leo quickly said to the man, fortunately the young swashbuckler already had his weapons sheathed out and was already prepared for a fight.

Leo concentrated on his next movements and then quickly dashed forward thanks to his skill [Folder Step], which enabled him to cover a good deal of distance between himself and the mobs.

Leo was definitely making progresses with his developing battle style, he didn't even need to shout the name of the skill anymore, he learned to activate them just by concentrating on the animation of the skill he was about to use, which was incredibly efficient.

Leo dashed forward and when he had covered all distance that separated the two sides of combatants he quickly chained up another skill, [Viper Rise]. Normally this skill would aim at the victim's tendons but this serpentine mob obviously didn't have them, the skill was executed anyway by aiming on the lowering half of the serpent's body.

Blood began sprouting out of the wounds inflicted by the swords, Leo didn't really like the gory animation of the skill but it the bleeding damage over time was really useful especially if he was going to fight multiple opponents.


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