New Steps [Open] {COMPLETED}

[Xhy Lynn]

Xhy nodded unsure, shocked form the sudden appearance of a guy who had saved her from another sudden charge, this time by a level 5 dire boar, rather then the level 3's they had originally attempted to hunt. Xhy took several steps back and a small shaky breath. Realizing she was growing orange and her health was regaining at the time. "T-thanks I guess..." Xhy couldn't look at the guy as she said it, so she simply looked at the boars, and heard him sheath his weapons. Upon hearing her name Xhy quickly drew up her scythe in arms. "You're crazy Shaz..." Xhy said, looking blankly after him as he ran, before grabbing the said plants he wanted, and going back to stand near Jojo. After doing so Xhy took a glance at the guy who stood not to far away looking like he was ready to spring again, since a high foe had turned up. "Perhaps get a another healing spell ready." Looking again, as some of the boars aggression was still trained on her. Thinking again of trying to activate her subclass skill Xhy darted in between where the boars were, yet still close enough to the Treant. "Pacifying Dance!" Xhy called, clipping her scythe again on to her back, and hurriedly taking the first steps, before gracefully spinning around in a circle, taking on the next series of steps, which lead her like a ballerina on a stage, her arms swinging in long arcs, her feet moving nimbly to and fro as Xhy danced on until the skill's limit exhausted. Current Aggression of all monsters within range, is null. (lasts two thread posts from this one, unless monster is aggravated by a player before the duration expires.) ~Health = 97% <> Healing skill cast by Jojo: Reactive Heal ~ Mana = 40% ~Aggression from boars. ~Skill activation: Pacifying Dance Shaz Xhy Lynn @jojo Kumori 263 :Word count Xhy Lynn | Bard Dancer | Pharmacist

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Jojo had been let go at least, let go long enough for her body to hurriedly jump up and over the ground and onto the sleeping tree beast. However, that did not last long before she found herself feeling the ground shake, her eyes looking down at the man she kicked in the gonads just moments before. However that was not the only thing, she also noticed a green blip, and her eyes drawn to it as she widened her eyes. She had begun to whisper the name in such surprise, “Kumori…” Ideally, it truly was a surprise that she had no idea it was going to happen. Indeed, her very skill in magic was supposedly vast yet she held no true strength over it when given the aspects of all this. Her mind formulated and plotted in the difficult assignments until her tattoos began glowing with the use of her mana to an extreme measure.

“I only know the one spell, sadly you must be hit to access it but at the least it is a worthy spell. Nonetheless, all of you need to get out of here. Run to the north, to the fire stone flower bed, no tree will attempt to get to you there, I’ll draw the tree in the other direction.” Reckless, yes she was. It was in fact the most reckless thing she had ever done and pretty much after performing reactive heal once more and the magic blanketed all of them, she stabbed her stave into the eye of the tree beast and ran in the opposite direction yelling out obscenities that were unbecoming of a maiden cleric such as her. However her position and small frame running through the trees only gave her that much more of an edge to rush and knew that soon she would either die or be rescued, only if the other three actually followed her plan and went towards the fire stone flower bed, easily identified on their mini-maps.

60% | ╡ MP
100% | ╡ HP
Reactive Heal: Utilized and now blankets all allies and the user.

Credit goes to Ryosuke of NFRP.

[Shaz]

The tree would stop slowly opening it's mouth charging the natural mana of the earth. It would expel a hardened shell towards the back of the female Cleric. The Tree's ability known as Seed Cannon would tear through the trees towards the exorcist. Shaz would dig his blades into the ground rushing forward through the trees. Jumping forward behind the back of Jojo. Pushing his feet into a nearby by branch next to the female, Crossing his blades behind his back and rolling into the path of the cannon round. The seed slamming into his blades shattering them upon impact.His katana's durability fully used to block. His eyes would widen as the round would strike his back shoving his body forward path of Jojo sliding along the ground roughly rolling over and over until finally his body came to rest in a clearing. The Ent would stay back in the trees not chasing them any further. Shaz's body would be encased in an orange light. His body healing to leave him only with 1% of HP due to the protective blanket cast by the cleric. He would lay there blood pouring out his mouth coughing and choking on his blood. He would press his hand to the ground dropping the hilts of his broken blades.

"A-Ah neep.. Ah neep.. Ahh.. neep."

His eyes dulling over as he would shakily stand hunched over. Holding his chest he would fall to his knees the top of his leather armor slowly falling off from it's durability being fully depleted. He would sit there on his knees slowly tucking his hair behind his ears. He would let out a primal scream from his lungs. His body shaking he would bring his hand to his hair. Tears running from the side of his eyes.

"I feel alive!"

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Word Count:274
Tags: Shaz Xhy Lynn @jojo
Shaz:
HP:1%
MP:70%

[Kumori]

Kumori HP: 100% MP: 70%

"In order to live, I will continue to fight. In order to retain my humanity, I will continue to destroy those who mean to harm my friends."

You people don’t know when to run when you should, Ryuu thought as he saw the Seed Cannon rip through the trees of the forest. He unsheathed his weapons once more and saw that the man named Shaz had taken the brunt of the attack, only to be saved with a single bar of HP from Jojo’s spell. They were all trying to take command and sacrifice themselves as level 1 adventurers. He knew his chances were slim, but he did have the skill set to evade and to attack the Tree Ent without sustaining too much damage. The only problem with this was that he had to make sure the other three did not draw the aggro, so the situation was delicate. Ryuu began to shout orders to the two females so that they’d know what to do. They were level 1, so he knew they only had one battle spell that would be useful to him. “Leader of the group, add me to your party. Xhy, keep your song going and grab Shaz from that area. I’ll draw the tree’s aggro. Jojo, keep using your healing spell for Shaz until he’s back to 100% and then shift to me when I drop below 50%. And move back. I need you guys away from the Tree Ent while I fight. I can’t do what I need to if I have to focus on the aggro.”

He shook his head as Jojo tried to be a hero as well, stabbing her staff into the Ent, attempting to get it's attention and run in the oppossite direction. In order to keep her from dying as well, Ryuu had to act without delay, and against the tree Ent. “Don't throw your life away so easily..." he said with passion, almost anger as she was about to readily give it to the Tree Ent His higher level and his damage output would definitely grab the attention of the Tree Ent. This would give enough time for the other adventurers to vacate the area so he could concentrate on his hit and run tactics. He hoped that the three would continue to fight the boars that were present so that he wouldn’t have to deal with them, but it may have been too hopeful. Regardless, the situation at hand was getting worse and worse as it progressed.

The good thing about Seed Cannon is that it was a channeled skill for the Tree Ent. He saw the Tree Ent preparing it again, aiming it at the almost dead man. He was contemplating whether to allow him to die, but it wouldn’t sit right with him if he did. The fact that people still didn’t know if death did anything significant to one’s body or mind, it was still dangerous to undergo such a phenomenon. He used his quick draw again, this time approaching the Tree Ent. His attack cancelled the Ent’s Seed Cannon, and thus putting the aggression on the assassin. The Ent swiped at his feet, but because his agility stats were higher than the Ent’s he had a significant advantage in evading his attacks. This would provide time for the three to move elsewhere where it was safe.

Each successive attack would be difficult, but he would have to be tenacious about sticking onto the Ent and making sure that it only attacked him. Ryuu activated Accel Dance to speed up his attacks so that every time he had a chance to attack, he’d be able to put in more strikes as well as returning to attack the Ent more often. He hoped that the three would move away from the battlefield like he asked, or else he could not guarantee their safety.

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Made by Sifr of GS, Synesthesia and Adoxography.

[Xhy Lynn]

Hearing her name called from the stranger, her mind grew into focus. "He's the leader..." Xhy said, while going again to load her sub class skill, Pacifying Dance, coping the same arcing movements with her hands as before, catching the attention of all monsters within range. She spun in a circle, and began to step into place, dancing as if it came naturally, her body falling into each new motion, before being carried away again in the next series of foot work and technique. "I'm not sure he can add you, exactly... Since this is the current position at the time." Xhy was beginning to tire, the step getting blurry since her mana was almost gone. Forcing on her breathing Xhy continued the steps til the end. Dragging out her scythe, she leaned against it, feeling that prolonged effects of battle nesting inside her body, causing Xhy to breathe heavily, and sag her shoulders with income fatigue. Turning her head toward the area in which Jojo was laying besides Shaz's body, which seem to be covered in his own blood, most of which cam from a nasty wound caused by the Ent. Xhy looked at shaz's health painfully at 1%, but slowly going up. Turning around Xhy stepped into stance to get ready to use her skill once more, when the effects wore off and she was needed again to hold the aggression of the monsters at bay. ~Health = 100% <> No current healing ~ Mana = 20% ~Pacifying Dance, All aggression is halted for two posts, unless attacked by player. Xhy Lynn Shaz @jojo Kumori 239 :Word count Xhy Lynn | Bard Dancer | Pharmacist

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Jojo had no healing spell she could use at the moment after having found herself onto the ground, her white cloth armor had blood on it but it was not hers. No, her eyes were widened and she was struggling with which she struggled with her major mental image about this. Struggling more now, she was widening her eyes and could not understand just what was happening. Her hearing shot, her eyes widening until finally she felt herself screaming. The blood did not seem to stop, and her eyes were not on that healing spell that was slowly increasing his healing while she herself was struggling to see what she could aid. This however just was destructing her own patience, her own calm, and her own necessity of thought. Was there any way she could aid him even with all the blood that was around. Blood transfusion skill was not under her power, nor was the healing spell.

Looking at the blades he had, she instantly grabbed one of his swords and slit her hand, so the reactive heal ability she had under her own power would take effect. She placed her hand to his wound, allowing her blood to go to his own wound, hoping this would increase the rate he would heal now that there was a reactive heal from himself and then also from her own blood to heal him. There was just no other way to fix this, and her healing power to transfer was not effective as she began to start crying. Something of which she was crying and her own cut healed over but the party leader could not be healed by this power. She looked over at the tree beast and then thought in telepathy to Kumori, a skill that friends in the game have in ability, “I have no more healing spells.

“I can’t use reactive heal for him either because the next hit he would take would kill him before my healing is fast enough to get to him. Please, just get him and carry him away because I can’t even do that.” She stood, looking at the tree beast but went on to watch Kumori do his work against the beast, but then also she was only hoping that no one would die even though she could do no more healing spells other than reactive heal. Since that, she was still crying without any real manner of understanding why she could do something in this virtual world. She was weak and had no real skill or anything in any other potential manner than to do something that could easily refer and destroy her. She just wanted to keep everyone going and healthy.

60% | ╡ MP
100% | ╡ HP
Skill used: Telepathy used for Kumori

Credit goes to Ryosuke of NFRP.

[Shaz]

He would just be sitting there on his knees. Exhaling from his lungs he would slowly press his hands to his knees. He would feel let drops of warm liquid coming onto his form that was not own his blood. He would turn to see the lime haired female sobbing silently to herself. He would stare at her dull eyed dim, Exhaling once more his hand coming to tuck his hair behind his ears. His right hand extend to press against the female's cheek wiping away the tears streaming from her eyes.

"I told you, I won't let you get hurt, Minty.."

He would grasp the hilts of his broken blades pressing his feet to the ground struggling to stand. Shaking a bit he would open his eyes watching the Ent approach. Before seeing the beast get drilled by the Assassin. He would close his right eye, Bringing his index and middle finger to his forehead. A white light coming from his eyes. The skill EVALUATE activating. The Target's HP would be halfway down. It's aggression focused fully on the assassin. He would scan the beast focusing on a single area.

He would raise his hand swiping it around rapidly accepting the party request of the assassin. He would being to speak into his mind walking over towards the battle.

"The Ent has a weak spot on it's back. It's a Crit+ area. I want you to keep focusing it attention away from me. I'm going to carve my blade into the spot with an X and I want you to use your strongest skill on it."

The scribe would then slowly take into a jog. Bringing his legs forward shaking a bit. Holding the broken bladed hilts in his hand he would rush forward. Crossing his arms activating the skill of straights. His blades would glow a bright golden extending to four feet in total. His body rushing forward he would swing The blades in a cross drilling into the back of the ent.



"CRITICAL STRIKE" would appear on his screen. Pressing his feet into the ground he would twist his hips using the delay of the strike to swing around and slash again into the Crit+ zone. Digging his heels into the ground. He would leap backwards Stepping back as the Ent turned exposing it's back fully to Kumori. He would Stand there watching the ent's health drop to 28% praying the Assassin would strike true.

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Word Count:408
Tags: Shaz Xhy Lynn @kumori @jojo

[Kumori]

Kumori HP: 100% MP: 100%

"In order to live, I will continue to fight. In order to retain my humanity, I will continue to destroy those who mean to harm my friends."

(OOC: Just an FYI, Evaluation only tells of a monster's elemental weakness. I let it go, but for future reference, it's something you should know. In addition, you're a level 1 swashbuckler against a level 18 Tree Ent. I doubt you would do 22% damage, even with 2 crits on a skill. At least to me it doesn't make sense, so I changed your damage output so that it was miniscule, and that I did the majority of that 22% damage)


With each hit he made, he had to dodge and evade a lashing from the Tree Ent. While he was largely successful and minimizing the damage taken, he still took a few good hits to his body. It was impossible to dodge every single one of the branches of the Tree Ent, making it difficult to evade all of the strikes. Each hit did about 4% of his health and he had taken 4 hits from the Ent. He was having a relatively easy time disposing of the Tree Ent without involving the other adventurers in the nearby area. Maybe it wasn’t completely necessary to ask for an invitation to the party, but to make sure that he knew their stats and location at all times during the fight, it was a necessity. He wouldn’t risk anyone getting hurt, especially if the initial cause was partly due to his actions.

Any time was as good as any to get invited into the party. This allowed him to have every single one of his party member’s stats to appear at his top right of his heads up display. The HP of Shaz was dangerously low, however it was recovering slowly, but this did not stop the Swashbuckler from doing something reckless. He shook his head at the orders given to him via telepathy, but in order to ensure his safety, he’d have to follow it. “You damn fool, there was no point for you to jump into the fight…” he’d mutter under his breath. The swash decided to make his life even more difficult. Instead of allowing the assassin to do away with the Tree Ent by himself, he wanted to be a part of the fight. Only 28% of the Tree Ent’s health remained, mostly because of his doing. While the damage to the Ent caused by the swash was pretty insignificant (with a level 1 swashbuckler), he was successful in drawing the aggro of the Ent (most likely because of the critical strike spot). As soon as the Ent turned, he activated Hide Walk and then combined his Deadly Dance with it. The words CRITICAL HIT appeared in front of him, and the Tree Ent burst into bubbles of data. Ryuu’s demeanor was not the happy-go-lucky kind that he was normally seen with, rather it was one of anger and furiosity. Ryuu sheathed his daggers once more and walked straight up to Shaz, attempting to grab at his collar to pick him up.

“Do you want to die?!” he yelled at him with as much anger behind his voice as possible. “Why go back in when you’re nearly dead?! I told you to get back; away from me so that I could deal with it on my own!” He shook his head and would put him back down if he was able to pick him up earlier. “Don’t throw away your life so easily. Run when you should run, fight when you should fight,” he said as his voice level normalized. “Your life may be infinite, but I’m still not letting anyone die in front of me,” he said calmly. He would let go of Shaz’s collar if he had held onto it, and would push him away from himself. He shook his head. “I’ll escort you all back to town. Try not to use any more of your spells and get back to town,” he said.

Ryuu took his right dagger out and slayed the remaining boars from the area that were going to be aggroed back to the group in a few seconds. He took them out with ease and then began to lead the part back to the road which would lead them straight to town. They were ripe for PKs now, but Ryuu was there, so at least there was still someone to go through before it happened.

OOC NOTES: 643 words

Made by Sifr of GS, Synesthesia and Adoxography.

[Xhy Lynn]

Xhy Lynn

Xhy relaxed her stance as she saw what happened, the male snapped at Shaz and then killed the Ent, then had gone and really snapped at Shaz grabbing him by the collar. He had rushed to the boars, that were beginning to pick up aggression again, he finished them easily. Xhy began to slowly follow behind the male who took lead. Looking to Jojo for a explaination, seeing as she figured Jojo knew him because Jojo didn't seem to shocked. If Jojo was also following Xhy matched her steps with Jojo and asked her quietly, "Who is he he's a bit scary." Xhy kept her face down, and drew a cold stare at the back of the guy's head. He seemed rather over the top at the moment, Although Xhy didn't know much about any PKers going around. Still she trudged on not wanting to be snapped at by the stranger.

~Health = 100% ~ Mana = 20%

Xhy Lynn Shaz @jojo Kumori
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Xhy Lynn | Bard
Dancer | Pharmacist

ღ CREDIT: By Requiem of Remoor! N Shaz of Log Horizon

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Jojo eased up, having looked at Xhy during that question and only giggled more while her body jumped behind Shaz, catching him in his fall where she would use her arms to body lock while carrying the boy with her. She began to carry the boy while thinking calmly and mentally steadied as she telepathically sent the message over to Xhy in a calm manner, ~He is a friend of mine, pretty strong and powerful for an assassin. I only hope you don’t get on his bad side, because it can still get pretty hectic if he finds something to dislike.~ She eased up a bit, her body carrying the boy as she sighed lightly and kept at her walk, looking at the individual in the same similar manner without really any particular thought flowing through her mind. That was the easy stuff to understand and even so a smile to her lips kept her happy.

Jojo only giggled lightly at some of this while she kept going on and easily wondered lightly more about this while she easily grinned and soon found herself smiling even more now with which she looked at the destruction of this place and soon she was on the trail she would lower the boy back onto the ground sighing. Her eyes turning to Xhy with a smile and then also to her other friend, “Thanks for coming to our aid. Guess it was a joy that you came along and saved us.” She smiled before looking to Xhy and grinned with a calm thought to herself in the same manner. Jojo herself could not help but think a small and simple steady gathering of the individuals like now would be primarily anything but that of a casual meeting. She was grateful that they were all safe at the least while she would wave off, “Well if I am no longer needed, I think I’ll be heading out now.”

Attempted Exit

100% | ╡ MP
100% | ╡ HP

Credit goes to Ryosuke of NFRP.

[Shaz]

Shaz Half-Alv HP:1% MP:15% SwshBklr: Lvl 1 Scribe: Lvl 1 Scholar: Lvl 1 ☒ Shaz  ✐ 523 ✉ notes MADE BY ★MEULK OF GS

He would stand in front of the female Cleric on guard in chance of an attack from the Ent. His knees wobbling a bit he would stare at the Plant beast watching it expand and explode into thousands of Bubbles. His knees would buckle under him his head hanging low exhaling a deep sigh of relief from his lungs. He would hear footsteps his eyes closed before his body was roughly tugged forward his eyes shooting up his hearing slowly coming through. Hearing the words idiot and death. He would stare at the short male holding his collar. He would open his mouth spitting a thick spray of blood into boy's face. He would be shoved back. His mouth opening only slightly . "I'm not a coward, My life means nothing if I break a promise." Bracing for the impact of the ground he would feel himself brace against a soft surface. His golden optics fluttering open he would open his eyes looking to the shoulder of the female cleric. He would let out a slightly laugh, His right hand coming up to caress his finger tips along her cheek. "I guess I failed you then, Minty.." He would slowly sit up his tender tan lips brushing against the pale flesh of Jojo. He would lean a small kiss on the under side of her neck,A light drip of blood resting against her tattooed skin. He would slump over into her lap his arms resting to the side. His body then hoisted onto the back of the female. Some time would pass as he slowly opened his eyes looking around to find himself still being carried by the female as the sun slowly set behind Londium. He would slowly slide off her back bringing himself to standing his eyes staring down at the female. His hand coming to caress her cheek once more. "I will need your support more then ever.. Will you agree to be mine and no others. To be my healer, my maid, my chef and my support?" The brief flashback would end. The scribe sitting at his desk inside of the London Public library. A lantern glowing in the darkness his fingers moving etching a empty book filling the pages with text and lines. The darkness of the library would be flicking in the light of the dying lantern his fingers stopping setting down his quill his body covered in bandages from head to toe. He would grasp the quill one more time scribing into this tome the rest of his story. "You may ask what happened of me and minty but that is another book within itself. I will scribe my adventures in this world so it can serve for a future generation knowledge. But may you ask what happened of Jojo? Well I-" His writing would be cut off by a sudden rap upon his head, His eyes looking up to view young housekeeper holding a tome tapping it against his head. A soft smile coming over his face once more as the candle blew out. Leaving only a fading darkness on this chapter in his life. /Exit/

[Kumori]

Kumori HP: 100% MP: 100%

"In order to live, I will continue to fight. In order to retain my humanity, I will continue to destroy those who mean to harm my friends."

He shook his head as the blood spattered on his face. Only a fool would believe that courage means to sacrifice yourself. When there is already someone keeping you away from harm, there is no need to put yourself in a more dangerous situation. Ryuu thought. He felt his reply would go unheeded anyways, so he figured it was futile to attempt to tell him otherwise. His health was literally a sliver, and so Ryuu had the chance to simply end him now and force him to face the reality of death, but he stayed his hand. He wouldn’t like it if someone did that to him, so he decided to treat him as he would like to be treated.

The journey back to town was a quiet one. He was too angry to attempt to start a conversation with the other members of his party. Without further incident, they made it back to town. Ryuu looked at the rest of the members and removed himself from the party. “You have no need to thank me, but please, next time don’t be so reckless. I know you wanted to run off and sacrifice yourself, but do not take death lightly. Next time, just run towards town, together,” he said to Jojo.

He then looked at the pink-haired girl who seemed frightened by his presence. “It was not my intention to scare you with what I did earlier. I rarely get mad; however I will not apologize for yelling at him for being careless. If you treat this like a game still, then you will face consequences. This is no longer a game. This is our reality,” he said, “don’t take it lightly.” He sighed and he turned around. He probably did not make a good impression on Xhy, but that was currently the least of his worries. “My name is Kumori. I guess I should have introduced myself earlier… it was nice meeting you,” he said as he acknowledged the girl did not know him. He turned around and waved his hand as he headed back towards the training grounds.

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Made by Sifr of GS, Synesthesia and Adoxography.

[Xhy Lynn]

Xhy frowned as the male looked at her, introducing himself. He had turned away walking off, and Xhy puffed out her cheeks before calling out. "I don't care that you had snapped in such a way at Shaz, its only that you seemed that you were more unsettling by the fact you so readily did it. Which is frightening that you lose you emotions easy." Xhy said to Kumori's back as he walked away most likely on his walk back to the training grounds, unsure if she had been heard by the male, she scowled in his direction slightly. Feeling a bit frustrated and in need of working off some steam, Xhy turned to where Jojo had been left standing."Take care... I'll see you again sometime." Xhy smiled slightly and waved, before heading off in the direction Kumori, not exactly following him but not heading away from him. She didn't want to be in the city, it would be crowded with other players and the NPCs, she just didn't want to run into anymore people for awhile. So she as well go back out a ways, not close enough to the monsters and just begin to paint seeing she was an artisan after all and she needed to practice some. She took off traveling and when she thought it was a good place to stop, Xhy sat in a small patch off grass relaxing. End~ ~Health = 100% ~ Mana = 22% ~Out of Battle: Mana Regeneration Xhy Lynn @jojo Kumori 235 :Word count Xhy Lynn | Bard Dancer | Artisan