Eyes open for the first time. [Open]

[Shepard Dagon]

Shepard opened his eyes just to realize he was somewhere familiar.

Almost instantaneously I knew something changed radically around me. As the air I perceived was different to the one of the crowded city and the views were not the same, but peculiarly similar, the place felt like the center of London, but I was sure it wasn't of, at least, the London I once knew.

Walking around the city made me feel somehow renewed. It was not the old London I came to hate in the past, I was somewhere else, and then I remembered myself login in the game before everything changed, this was Elder Tale.

People around seems happy, doing chores, enjoying the city parks, kids playing in the streets, and a few groups of adventurers refilling their supplies, everyone was minding their business without messing with me, i felt, for the first time in what I recall years, peaceful and free of fear.

After getting to the main plaza and taking a look of the several market stalls and seeing how empty my pockets were, I equipped the starter gear I had in the inventory and sat under a tree to check which were my treats, skills and powers. Shaman was the class that best suited me as it has many similarities to the Shinto Buddhism and was a supporter role, which meant assisting rather than fight.

Half an hour of resting and looking up the menu went by until I decided to take a look for some quest or ways to make money, since this was the place I’ll be from now on.

-Thought-
This will be quite interesting, isn't it?

Hours went by, I've looked over the whole town mostly but found nothing, most of the town people had it's problems solved or being solved by other adventurers, even living here was hard for those who get in much later, but I had no time to complain about it, and so kept looking for something I could do in here.

-Thought-
My last chance is joining a party
...
I'll have to deal with people
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Seems like I don't have a choice.

[Eden]

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Eden walked closely to Tsu, she hated being in the city. The noise always seemed to make her more anxious than she needed to be. The city was definitely modeled after true London, the streets, the smells, the sights everything was extremely similar. Making their way to the Main plaza Eden stood back arms crossed in order to allow Tsu do his thing and pick out the ingredients for the days meal. Shi, and Loki their normal counterparts in their party were off on some other adventure or other. 

Eden liked Traveling with Tsu much better though, he was very gentle and could hold his own in any fight, having saved her many times over now. Her nose twitched furiously as she caught the scent of another Wolf hair. Eden looked around surprised, most people in the game tended to choose human as their race, well when this was all a game the stats stated that at least. She looked through the crowd spying the lone Wolf hair. After Tsu was done, picking ingredients none of which she understood, she only knew that his nose and taste buds were amazing at picking out the best ingredients. She made a note to point the Wolf hair out, " Tsu, another brother wolf. He seems to be fairly lost."

She would leave the approaching and discussions to Tsu he was always better at when they came into the city. She was much more likely to be sent to the Abbey due to her nerves.

"Skill is;Craft"
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Skills
Outrage

Equip
Str GreatShield Str Buckler
Platemail

[dokaragral]

The smacking sound of a small stone can be heard near Shepard as it was kicked along the ground. A low, grumbling voice was to follow "Where am I going to live? How am I going to eat?". The little stone pattered and rolled past Shepard. A Dwarf came into view and eyed the tall, pale man up and down. He made a fist when he spotted Shepard's wolf ears and unkept dark-blue hair "Keep yer fleas to yerself!" The hairy Dwarf adds " ..And do you call that a staff?! You are holding nothing more than a branch! Barely any work has gone into that!" Dokar had nothing equipped on show, no hammer, nor great shield or platemail. Just an adventurer in sturdy and dull, grey clothing. The exception to dull was thick, sharp-angled embroidery upon the edges. He stood at three foot, eleven inches. His dark blue eyes searched the floor for the tiny stone. The pebble was no where in sight. He took hold of a metal hair ring in his beard and rocked it. "Tell me, stray. Do you have a home? Maybe some lucky gold? Food even?" The short, muscular man peered up at Shepard's grey eyes from under all the long, brown head-hair that covered his own face. Before Shepard could answer, he scratched an itch on his shoulder which sounded like loud rasping against his tough grey tunic. He spotted Eden at a distance and exclaimed "How many of you flea-bitten, howling beasts are there?!" Dokar glared at the grey haired woman, then up at Shepard for answers!

[Shepard Dagon]

Shepard was being the center of the attention, he hated that.

As the plaza began to get crowded and many town people and adventurers went to the mercantile district, Shepard's comfort decayed dramatically to the point he was willing to leave the city and retreat to the woods outside. As he stood up, the feeling of being watched invaded his entire body, a feeling he knew and wasn't fond of at all.

-Thought-
Don't be troubles...

An itch in his nose made him realize other player was much nearer that he first thought, as he raised his head and managed to see another wolf hair looking at him from one of the food stalls, what make him feel quite uncomfortable. She was apparently talking to another player about it, without taking her eyes of him. Once again he felt like a prey and began to walk slowly backwards, trying to hide in a bunch of people that was passing through the plaza.

-Thought-
I hope I can lost them.

Yet the young shaman's pleas were far away to be heard.
A little pebble hit his foot catching his attention towards it, he took the pebble to observe it, and when his attention went back to the environment around he, a dwarf got near.
Shepard was numb for a moment, as the dwarf looked at him with hard eyes, that act shut a mechanism in him, like a reflex, his sight became cold and the nerves disappear just to bring indifference and distrust, something he wasn't expecting that soon.

The dwarf started to criticize, shout and protest, Shepard just looked at him with the coldest eyes he could in silence until the small adventurer stopped, then he dropped the pebble he was holding and tried to make an answer.

-Shepard-
You better learn some manners before getting closer to people.

A second and more detailed look revealed that the dwarf in fact didn't had anything equipped on, maybe that's the reason he was so mad to begin with. Didn't he knew how to open his inventory?

-Shepard-
Frustration, I understand that, yet I usually ask before going aggressive with everyone.
No, I have no place to call home, nor gold or food if that's what you ask, I'm as lost as you.

Even distrusting the aggressive being, Shepard took a little time to send him some instructions about how to open the inventory and get him geared up, at least that would make him some time to leave. The message pop up in front of the dwarf, in that moment the Wolf Hair realized he was still being observed, knowing that after all, getting out of that situation wouldn't be easy at all.

[Kurai Kari-shi]

MP: 100%

HP: 100%

Equipped:

Starter Fist and Kick| Starter Cloth Armor

Skill
Iron Body

 Shi could stand many annoyances in her life, even Loki despite his honey and velvet words of chaos and unending prattle about this and that. Shi had managed to separate from Loki after a few battle with the local wildlife and some ruffians to boot. She parted ways with her heading towards a major town near London central. Shi arrived near dusk and she made short work in securing a room for herself and spent the night in uneventful bliss lost in thought about her new found acquaintances that she had made. She ate some of food she ordered prior hand, and stripped naked to lay in her soft bed.

“Ah such a luxury.” She thought as her body for once sunk into the folds of the mattress. The softness brought a small smile to her face drifting off into peaceful slumber. Moring came quicker then she would have wanted it to. The first daybreak sunlight danced upon the windows clear glass broke through into the room. The blaring bright light seemed to kiss Shi’s face with its rays of golden light and beckoned her to wake up to a brand new day of warmth and happy, happy, joy, joy’s. Even the bird, perched outside the window, seemed to be an annoying alarm clock in her ears. The noise was too much for her as she sat up and growled loudly at the annoying bird.

“Will you shut up already dammit! I hear you, your annoying chirps are like nails, being scratched down a chalk board to my delicate ears you!” Shi was in a huff of anger enough to scare most people away and yet the bird pays no mind and kept chirping away, it didn’t care one little bit. No cares were given on this morning for poor Shi from this bird.

“Okay Mr. Bird that does not care about me at this point, you roused the wrong she wolf dammit!” She spoke softly and slowly crept from the bed onto the ground. Her small frame made it easy to sneak over to the window in an attempt to surprise the now chirping bird.

“Oh yea that’s right you enemy of peaceful slumber you’re gonna be my damn breakfast for waking me up so damn early.” Shi slid against the wall her muscles tensed as the first sweat graced her skin. Looking up and waiting to hear the bird chirp one more time and if it did it would be most delicious computer code she has ever eaten. “I mean after all this is a game right? So if I ate it, I would be eating computer code per se. This will a treat compared to that flat wet sand-paper food I eat all the time.” Shi convinced herself or was trying to and justify eating this damned infernal alarm clock.

The bird indeed did chirp one more time and that was all the motivation Shi needed to act upon. Slow and steady she rose up to the tip top of the window sill as her ears came first and then her eyes. Those dead locked golden eyes of cuteness. The bird stared at her and her at it. “Buddy your mine now, dat chirping ass is all mine to eat muwwhauhauh.” Shi laughed manically at the bird. It looked at her not even caring and turned its backside towards her and hops about closer to the edge of the window sill.

“Oh yeah just turn that lil ass around in playful jest huh, we shall soon see yellow alarm clock bird.” With that Shi opened the window and back up some. Forgetting that she was naked from the night before, she leapt through the window and caught the bird in her hands. It was a struggle but the bird won that round and took off. The wing was slightly injured and it couldn’t fly very well. “Oh hell no!” She yelled and in an angry voice none the less. For some reason her eyes shifted color from gold to a bright red hue. The chase was a foot or leaps in a manner of speaking. Shi was on the hunt and she was serious over this slumber breaking flying alarm clock.

Bounding out the window and onto the nearest tree limb she made a jump onto the nearest building roof top. She had her prey still in sight. After much bounding and a few close calls with not falling she finally caught the bird in mid flight about to escape. Shi rolled onto the ground in the middle of town, naked as the day she was born, or would have been if she was a wolf hair Lander in this world. She felt no remorse for doing what she did next as she placed the bird into her mouth and made one huge chomp to crush the little bird into twain.

Closing her eyes as she made a blank expressionless as the sounds of munched and crunched could be heard from her eating it and not caring one single bit. She was victorious on this day. The problem is she attracted a lot of attention as well. The Landers were all staring at her, some moving faster away from her and other didn’t know what to do at this time.

Something like this had never happened to most normal people in the town. Shi rose up and stared blankly at everyone, lucky for her modesty was not a strong suit of hers at all. She confidently rose to her feet and gave a cowed look those that stared at her for too long. She tried to remember where she stayed at the night prior and hopefully didn’t attract the wrong people with her stunt. 

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[Darko Lipowitz]

A young boy just walked out of the library after a grueling work on the improvement of a grimoire. That work gave him a lot of knowledge about sorcery and the ancient scripts, but he had slept close to none for that work, and it was now morning. As he stretched his arms upward, he gave out a short yawn. Thinking about having not much sleep yet the mind was very much awake he just scratched under his ear, thinking that it was odd. Maybe he would just take a small walk and a nice breakfast before continuing on researching until his eyes close, in which event he would search for some inn and sleep until his mind awakens once again to continue his researches. As it was morning, he could see many people walking outside the places where they stayed to have some breakfast, to take a jog around the streets of Londenium, or even just to stroll around and find some companions to talk with. The third one he did not prefer on doing, since it might spell danger when someone talks with him. He would mostly shun those persons he met, uttering very blunt words so that they would not try to talk with him again. It would only endanger them if they would try to socialize with him, and that's what he did not want.

He was about to walk towards the nearest restaurant when a rock suddenly dropped on his foot. It might have hurt much if he was not wearing his boots, but it still hurt anyway. He stared upward, and he saw the sun, which might have blinded him had not a figure blocked it from his sight. His eyes widened at the sight. It was another Lander that he saw, and he saw she was naked. His face blushed as he saw something that which must not be seen, but what was seen cannot be unseen, and he tried in vain to cover his eyes with his right hand. He then saw otheer people staring at the nude Lander, some of them had their jaws dropped, and others even had their saliva dripping on the ground.

Why do the people of this planet have a different sense of morals? There are some places where all actions are appropriate, and some actions are not proper for another Lander when displayed in public. They ought to consult with other kinds of Landers what actions could be displayed in public, or the Landers must know the habits of the races different from theirs.

He then moved his fingers to take a small peek on the nude Lander, and he saw that it was a wolf-hair, and the figure was glorious enough that it could be said that even censorship was not needed. He could just only imagine that it was a very beautiful humanoid canine munching on a bird, and it was not much as erotic as staring at an animal.

However, the wolf-hairs could be excluded from the clause of not appearing nude in public.

The boy then took a metallic cylindrical thing from his bandolier, and it seemed like a canteen of some sorts as he drank from it as he stared at the nude wolf-hair without a shard of erotica in his mind.

[Eden]

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Eden's nose twitched horribly as the scent she knew well entered her nose. Shi. She looked around worried, why she wasn't exactly sure but she knew as soon as she laid eyes on the little demon of a she-wolf. A low growl of exasperation escaped her lips, there standing without a care was the 5'1" she-wolf bird feathers hanging from the corners of her mouth and looking around as if the world was wrong for giving her the looks she was receiving.
If Eden was a shade lighter she would have been as red as a beet. A growl on her lips she began her begrudged march over to Shi. She knew the wolf wasn't ashamed of her sculpted figure, neither was Eden for that matter, she rather enjoyed the sight.
Wrapping her arm with her great shield around shi and grabbing her tail.Eden whispered," Must you be so lewd?" She took a deep breath partially to smell Shi partially to clear her mind. "Y-you are in public a-and, UGH!" she trailed off  and simply attempted to drag Shi out of the public eye.
Eden mumbled as she walked trying to keep her shield in the way of prying eyes. 
"Bloody, canines such a bloody inconvenience. Causing trouble and being lewd." Eden looked around seeing the other Wolf hair she began to make her way in his general direction. waving the hand that wasn't attempting to hide the other beast of a she wolf.
"Oi, mate mind giving me a hand here," she called out as she got closer, "Might I be able to borrow your cloak or something?"
Turning to Shi, "Where are your bloody clothes anyway?"

"Skill is;Craft"
Words
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Skills
Outrage

Equip
Str GreatShield Str Buckler
Platemail

[Shepard Dagon]

Chaos, you say? No, just people.

Thing were "slowly" getting weirder for each second that passed by, Shepard felt like he was being harassed by the destiny itself and started to sweat a bit when he saw that the pebble he dropped ended in someone's foot near him. He tried to apologise as fast as he could, yet a loud noise of crushing bones crossed his ears giving him a very big chill all over his body.

It took him some time to recover from such experience, his ears keep listening a long, continuous whistle as he looked around to find the source of such ungrateful sound.

-Thought-
Does this people at least know how to to behave? And how did I get in this to begin with?

When he finally recovered all his senses and the chill fade away, Shepard realized that the answer to his question wasn’t something he expected, instead, for the last second he was able to think, he told himself that he wouldn’t be able to look at that person to the eyes ever again, because what he saw at that moment was another player, a girl wolf stripping naked in the street, and if that wasn’t enough, the crushing sound came from her mouth, every munch she made resulted in some feathers falling to the ground. It was a lot for the poor Shaman, who became as red as one could be, what covered him wasn’t a simple blush, but a great redness.

Shepard quickly moved both his hands to his neck and belt, noticing that neither his necklace nor his belts buckle were there to calm him down, that was in fact the first of many dominoes that fell.

Being at those temperatures and with its blood rushing his brain changed again into another mechanism, it was like a block out for him, slowly shutting himself down from reality as he kept there, paralyzed, while his brain was trying to do some kind of poor memory wash without too much success. It felt as his spirit was being ripped from his body and he was going into a state of full numb.

All the odds gathered in the same moment he got in, like some kind of practical joke the destiny did to him just to let him know that wasn’t a safe place after all.

Shepard’s system failure was about to end, but something went entirely wrong as the first Wolf Hair he saw began to getting closer with the naked one. Such act ended at Shepard’s mind rushing in about twenty opposite directions all at the same time, with a catastrophic result.

The Wolf Girl committed the mistake of asking Shepard for the cape that he got with his starter armor.

Being in the automatic mode made him move only one hand to reach his cape and handle it to her like if he was a robot, but after finishing such movement and with the cape holding from his hand, the inevitable happened and Shepard fell to the ground entirely, with his brain shut down, ending completely knocked out in just a few seconds.

The face he had at that moment said it everything, the look of guilt and shame in his eyes, his petrified expression, the extended hand with the cape in it, the almost silent repetitive sound coming out from his mouth, it was too much for him to bear, probably he won’t recover soon and that experience will surely leave some marks on him like a trauma, that was something that never happened before, at least by this way.

[Shaz]

Shaz Half-Alv HP:100% MP:100% SwshBklr: Lvl 1 Scribe: Lvl 1 Scholar: Lvl 1 ☒ Shaz @errone ✐ 289 ✉ #CLICKBBCTHEME MightFluffMyPostUP MADE BY ★MEULK OF GS

A large gale of wind would flush into the square coming from the east. Thousands upon hundreds of scrapes of paper would flood into the square. The paper only reading 3 Letters in thick black Text. "BBC"  The paper swirling at the feet of the young adventurers before forming into a slight whirlwind from the tight confines. A brown cloak would be seen emerging from the whirlwind of paper. The cloak would open raising into the air would be a single slender arm wrapped in tight black leather armor. In his palm rested a white book the binding and cover made of pale white flesh. The head of the cloak slowly raising to look at the two adventurers infront of him. Specifically Eden and Shi, His mouth would shift eyes hidden by thick black locks. A pearl white smile would come onto his lips. His hand moving to the clasp of his cloak, Undoing it before swinging it around his head. He would release it letting it drop. If allowed to onto the shoulders of the nude wolf in front of him. Having exposed his body fully. The tall Half Alv being of 6'11 in height. His body was toned to muscular perfection he would let his right hand rest on a worn sword on his hip. His left hand tucking the book into the pouch on his hip. "Quite a show you're putting on so early in the morning Young Wolf. Alot of eyes around here. Modesty is a weakness not well akin to freedom. Shackles controlling a collar to bind. Live free under your own choice. Do not become shackled by a guild. Live for adventure. Live for gold. Live for happiness and friendship. Join The BBC."

[dokaragral]

Dokar hummed, grunted and mumbled as he read the message window in front of him. He had not seen the game interface quite like this! It was a big surprise. Menus and windows of information, all hovering freely in the world. His attention had been so drawn by the new experience, searching his inventory and viewing his character window, that he was completely oblivious to the people around him. The Dwarf took a moment to assign his cheap hammer, platemail and great shield to his Hotkey Slots. He needed them ready to bring forth, but not to wear right now. Dokar then proceeded through his Friends List.. but as everybody had new characters for the Unfounded Kingdom server, he hadn't met them yet. His Friends List was empty with no names to recall. As Dokar went through the interface, he was not aware of the bare Wolf Hair Shi, or the taller Human boy Darko, nor the shielding Wolf Hair Eden, and the collapse of Shepard, not even the rustling entrance of Shaz until... " ..Blah blah.. ..show.. ..blah blah.. ..here.. ..blah.. ..weakness.. ..blah.. ..Shackles.. ..blah.. ..choice.. ..blah.. ..shackled.. ..blah.. ..for.. ..blah.. ..gold.. " ..gold?.. Gold! The Dwarf closed all the windows and was horrified to find Shepard down on the floor. The unconscious Shaman was surrounded by a dark, towering Half-Alv and a tall Wolf Hair wielding a great shield. Shi was hidden behind the shield. He felt his blood boil with rage, and strongly pointed an accusing finger up at the two "HEY! I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU AVOIDED THE ROYAL GUARDS, ASSASSINS! BUT I WONT LET YOU SMASH PEOPLE WITH YOUR SHIELD LIKE THAT!!!" He makes a fist and continues "JUST YOU WAIT UNTIL WE'RE OUTSIDE THE CITY!!!"

[Darko Lipowitz]

The boy stood on as things quickly escalated as he watched on, as if the nude wolf-hair chewing on a live bird was not enough for him to watch on. Suddenly another wolf-hair went forward, and hugged the nude creature of her own race as she dragged her out of the sight of the public, the former's large shield covering the latter as the former carried the latter away... towards his direction? As he watched the two as they moved towards him, he wondered why, since they had not even met each other to start with. As it turned out, there was another person beside him who seemed as if he was at a loss, and they went to that man, who was also of the same race as those two. By the time the wolf-hair with the shield addressed the person near the boy, the person was able to respond, took off his cape, and handed it over to the shielded wolf-hair. But after the shielded wolf-hair received the cape, the person collapsed like a puppet with its strings cut off, mumbling nonsense uncontrollably. He might have a phobia of being surrounded with too many people, but he did not have a way yet to know if it was true.

It would not take long after such shocking event that another event unfolded before his very eyes, as a huge number of pieces of paper bearing the letters "BBC" came down flying into the air until they materialized into a cloaked figure wearing a black leather armor beneath his cloak. As he watched the sight, it piqued him much, for this behavior that the man displayed was like the behavior displayed by those advertisers who were also determined to intrude the privacy of the common people by inserting random advertisements all around the place, even when the people wanted nothing to do with those advertisements. It was much more prominently displayed when the man moved towards the two wolf-hairs still standing and said something about not joining a guild... and then went on to suggest joining his clique? That was the most ridiculous thing he heard in his whole life. Guilds, cliques, groups, riding parties, they are all the same in the aspect of influencing others to do what they want to do. And he himself would not join any of these anyway, since there would be danger if he gets too close to others. And after that event comes another: a dwarf, who seemed to think that the advert-man and the shielded wolf-hair had hurt the person who just collapsed recently, moved forward to challenge them to a battle outside the city. His hysterical manner of speaking seemed as if he was taking his character too seriously.  He just sighed, shaking his head as if he was disappointed.

"People, really."

He then moved towards the dwarf first, and then said sternly, "No one had hurt the other, so stop shouting there like a baby bawling." He then glanced at the tall man, and then said, "Nice advertising campaign you got there. It's too much of an eyesore that it really stood out."

[Shaz]

Shaz Half-Alv HP:100% MP:100% Theme: Shaz's Theme #3 ☒ Shaz  ✐ 000 ✉ notes MADE BY ★MEULK OF GS

Why do I keep living? His eyes shifting around coming to rest onto that of the small human boy. His eyes lighting up pressing his hands to his own cheeks. "SQUEEE" He would quickly grasp his cloak. His body moving like a phantom caught in the deep snow. He would swirl the cloak around the small Scholar tucking the small boy close to his own form. He would open his Grimore the flyers would swirl around the two scribes. Darkness would fill the area leaving only a void where the two once stood.   /Exit

[dokaragral]

Darko stated that none of the players present had made any hostile actions. The Dwarf was not easy to convince though. Dokar gave a dismissive grunt at the boy. He kept a close eye on the gathered players. His arms folded and he shot a look of scornful expectation around. Sadly, the Dwarf was not going to find out the mystery of how Shepard came to be on the ground just yet. The tall, dark man used his skills to disappear with the boy. Dokar could only watch in disbelief. "The youngling!! That charcoal stick is going to put him in shackles and ransom him for gold!" He fires a look of contempt at Eden "Your group wont get too far, I see what your game is! I am going to come and bang all your heads together!" Dokar reaches down in an attempt to gain a sturdy grip around Shepard. The Wolf Hair will be carried over the Dwarf's shoulder, but with Shepard's feet dragging across the floor, to a tavern - as long as nothing intercepts him. "Come, you flea-bitten beast. Let's get you to somewhere safe... It seems the city wont protect us from shield-wielding assassins" If all went well, Shepard may find himself in a small tavern. The room would be half full with a dozen people of the land. As far as Dokar could tell, there did not seem to be any other players there. Although, that does not mean there were none. The place was lit up with candles atop basic chandeliers of rough wood. There was a pleasant smell of alcohol, nothing like the nasty smell of a drunkard. It was mild, and the tempting aromas would invite the likes of Dokar to drink, socialize and relax. The thin, leather sofas would be sufficient comfort for Shepard - as he would be lying unconscious. Dokar could enjoy a hard, wooden stool. His beard resting on top of the shared table between the two adventurers. If all went to plan, the Dwarf would watch and wait for Shepard to rise...