Spreading Some Warmth [CG: Eonis]

[Ryker]

Ryker - Level 1 - Cleric

HP: 100%

MP: 100%

It seemed that even with the help of his healing, Eonis was still losing health far too quickly even outside of battle. With a glance at the party list Ryker was able to establish why that was; Eonis was level one. That was also probably the main reason they were having trouble fighting the poisonous creature. The snakes were all above level one and out leveled both players by a small margin, however it was enough to nearly kill them and kept Ryker on edge every second they were fighting. Now the level difference was sinking in and Ryker felt utterly useless. Still, he kept healing his partner as best as possible. Though, there was only so much he could do with one healing spell. There was no telling how much damage Eonis would actually take in the time left and Ryker’s skill was resetting far to slowly for him to be sure the man would survive. His first battle and he was about to lose his first ally, wasn’t he?

“Oi!” The wolf-haired Guardian was apologizing to Ryker when suddenly the player began to tilt, his eyes closing for a fraction of a second as he took another bat of poison damage. Quickly, Ryker cast his healing spell and pull the man out of the danger zone. With only a few seconds left, that would be the last. With the out-of-combat healing as well as the effect of Ryker’s Healing Light, the Cleric was hopeful that the other player would survive, but it was still in the air. Even so, he could do nothing but watch so he stood up and stared at Eonis as he waited.

The man was speaking as if he was going to die, and Ryker didn’t particularly like it. Though he did not blame the fellow, not one bit. Seeing as he was level one, it was probably safe to assume that this was also his own first fight. Yet he did so lightly, as assuming anything was stupid. If it was his first fight, than surviving it would be crucial. If he died, Ryker could only hope that the man would have the guts to step out onto the field again. If he survived, than it would be a fun tale to tell. Ryker didn’t care which outcome it would be, personally. He had gained experience as both a Cleric and as a player. He knew his limits as a healer so he knew what he could do and what he couldn’t. As a player, he knew that the snakes were vicious and also about party-combat. Ryker had also learned that he sucked at fighting. He needed practice.

“Hey! Don’t black out!” Ryker shouted as Eonis was speaking and jolted forward. He would have smacked the guardian, but the fear of killing him held Ryker back. Instead he grabbed the man by the shoulders and quickly started to shake him.

“OI! OI!” The body began to go limp and Ryker watched as the player’s eyes closed shut. The poison notification vanished, leaving Eonis with barely any health left but the fact that he had survived was enough for Ryker.


“DOG BOY!” Ryker shouted, hoping and insult would work. It didn’t, obviously.

“YOUR TAIL IS ON FIRE! YOUR NOSE LOOKS HORRIBLE! YOUR EARS SUCK! Uh…” Ryker’s armory of insults were pitiful, and he had run out after just those three, leaving him dumbfounded. He was happy for that though, as a moment later he began to hear hissing. Perking up, Ryker looked around to see several snakes rising out of the grass around him. The Cleric’s heart shoved into his throat and he felt it stop.

“….Nope.” Ryker gripped onto Eonis and groaned loudly as he lifted the heavy player’s left arm around his own neck. The Cleric heaved air and dropped to a knee, leaning the heavy Guardian onto his body to make them both one.

“Wait a minute…” Ryker paused as he looked at his own display; he forgot, he was in a game! Rather than attempt to carry the other man who was most likely twice the size as Ryker, he took the other player’s hand and pawed at the air, making Eonis’s menu pop up in front of him. A few taps later and he keyed the “Call to Home” spell which was available to all players. Just after hitting the button, the Guardian’s body quickly dispersed into pixels and the player vanished. Ryker flailed at the air for a moment and lurched over towards where the man had been. The heavy weight suddenly vanishing threw him off balance.

“Gogogogogogo!” The flailing didn’t stop as Ryker hit the dirt, and he quickly scrambled to his feet as two of the snakes around him engaged his position. The Cleric dove out of the way and popped up to his feet, jumping over another snake before stepping on its head.

“SORRY!” He shouted as the creature hissed loudly in anger. With a hard shove, Ryker vaulted out of the open area and began to sprint into the forest, electing the escape option rather than deal with the cluster of snakes. As he ran, Ryker opened his menu and went to select the Call to Home spell but it was grayed out. After further inspection, it was grayed out because he needed to be out of combat.

“FANTASTIC!” The outcry echoed into the forest and Ryker kept running. Oh yes, he ran like hell.

: Equipment :
Starter Katana

: Skills :
Healing Light

: Words:
911

: Tags :
Eonis

Coded By Saber of L33T T3@M

[Eonis]

    The numbness in his body had began to rapidly decline in Eonis's body as he felt something lift himself off the ground, this had impressed him since he was still a large player wearing plate armor. After that he felt a strange sensation akin to his entire body being pulled at once, after that as gone soon after he felt his strength return to him as if someone lit a can of gasoline on fire. This sudden burst of strength surprised the guardian as his eyes shot open and he jumped up at full alert. He started to look around his environment thinking that he was still in the grove dying from poison, when he saw his surroundings weren't trees but a commercial district he thought he died. Thinking the worst he extended his hand outwards and taking two of his fingers moving them in a slashing motion to the right, opening his menu he saw that Ryker, his first friend, was still in battle.

    Looking around in a panic he thought about what he could do in the situation the small party had been placed in. Because Eonis was level one he had no access to a mount automatically so he would be forced to walk if he could not find a faster way to get to him, trying to think quickly Eonis frantically went in to his skills menu attempting to find someway to perform a type of quick travel to his ally's location. Going through the list he saw that he had a adequte heal spell on him, this caused the man to face palm himself in embarrassment with a loud "Smack!" thinking that ihs situation could have been entirely avoided if he had bothered to get a full scope of his abilities before heading out. Looking further through the list, Eonis had seen something that was of great interest to him, Telepathy.  Since this was a RPG game there had to be some kind of whisper system in place for others to have a conversation. Thinking that would be of some use to him he attempted to use his hand as a telephone in a attempt to use his Telepathy ability. This did not work though as a menu popped up saying "Recipient is not on friends list", trying again hoping that being in a party would override the requirement the same menu popped up. By this time Eonis had resigned to running back to the marsh in hopes of catching up to his cleric friend.

    While he was doing so he was managing his menu trying to make his telepathy work better since that would help him and Ryker out he pressed Ryker's health bar and while holding it and running made him feel awkward he needed to get the friend request out. After making multiple mistakes tripping and miss-pressing the wrong option he was able to successfully send a friend request to Ryker in hope that the cleric would find someplace safe so they can communicate. After the request was sent he began to initiate telepathy with Ryker regardless of how many times he tripped or ran in to a tree as he needed to watch his friends back. Running even faster with one hand shaped like a phone and another holding his rectangular shield and sheathed did make him feel like a fool though as he was somewhat off balance and he was not running at the speed he would normally be able to run at. If one was to look at the guardian running through the forest they would see a large dark haired guardian running into and tripping over the foliage and yelling "Ryker! Can you hear me? Respond!" over and over again.
 
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[Ryker]

Ryker - Level 1 - Cleric

HP: 100%

MP: 100%

“One, two.”…
“One… TWO. Dammit.”
“One… TWOOO—OH NOO--!” The tree branch cracked and snapped out from underneath the bouncing Cleric’s feet, causing him to drop harshly down six feet onto his unprepared legs. The moment he hit the ground, Ryker’s knees buckled and his hands dropped to the floor. Yet it wasn’t enough to stop his momentum and his elbows gave out next, forcing Ryker to essentially flatten out on the forest floor. If it was reality, there was no doubt that he would have sprained or broken something but the game was much different. Instead, Ryker now felt like he was dying. There was so much pain, so much heat, and such a weak, useless feeling in his ankles and arms that he could barely move. Well, at least jumping into the tree had spared him a death by snakes.

A few moments prior to his awkward landing, Ryker had decided to climb into a tree after getting a good distance away from his violent followers. Doing so had spared him an awkward, but certain, fight to the death against three or four snakes which were obviously all above level one. That being said, Ryker was pleasantly surprised to find out how poor the perception of the snakes was. He didn’t have to get very far, nor very high, in order to make the snakes think he had got away. Or they were just too lazy to chase him further than the tree he had climbed up into. Either way Ryker didn’t really care; the snakes were gone and he was pretty much safe for the moment.

“Except I can’t exactly get away from my own failures now can I?” Nope. Shut up and heal yourself.

“Working on it…” Ryker grumbled to himself and casually maneuvered his still living left arm. He tapped slowly, but steadily, across his menu and targeted himself. Then he cast Healing Light on his own body. It was as if he had taken aspirin as all the pain he felt was quickly washed away by a brief and strong feeling of warmth. It was like a gentle massage over his entire body for about ten seconds. At the end of it, Ryker was able to move.

But, Ryker didn’t even get back to his feet before a very obnoxious ringing noise filled his ears. Not a second later, there was a menu which appeared and alerted him to an alert. It looked like some sort of caller-ID thing and there were two buttons; Green and Red. Most likely, he was looking at what was described as the “Telepathy” menu. After further inspection, it looked as if Eonis was attempting to contact him. Well, he recovered fast. Or he died and just finished respawning. Whatever it was, the man was now reaching out to Ryker. The Cleric sighed for a moment, wishing that the fellow had simply taken his eggs and escaped the guard dog, but instead reached out and keyed the “Accept” button.
Instant regret was what Ryker felt.

A moment after the “call” was connected, Ryker’s ear was filled with loud and annoying shouts attempting to get him respond. If it wasn’t the pain that would knock him out, it would be the screaming disorienting him and sending him off a cliff that would kill him. So, he casually just… turned the volume down a little and closed any unnecessary screens in his menu. The Cleric waited a few moments for his ally to take a pause, or a breath, and cleared his throat in an attempt to catch the other player’s attention before he started to yell once more. With his hand lazily held against his right ear, Ryker spoke calmly out into essentially nothing. It was just like he was talking to himself, but he wasn’t.

“Please don’t yell, Eonis. I don’t want to test my hearing ability.” The Cleric took a look around himself to both check to make sure the snakes were indeed gone as well as to look for Eonis. From the sound of his voice, he seemed to be running.

“I am fine and the snakes are gone so don’t fret. There’s no need to rush out here as I plan to move on to the next task on my list as well, but I do thank you for helping me with those snakes. And well done being a human shield. You should rest and make sure your body is back up to speed before doing any other activities today.” As he spoke, Ryker brushed himself off with his unused hand and then promptly began to move away from London. He had come out earlier in search of materials and with the battle done; it was time for him to get back on task. Ryker was thankful, but he needed stuff for his future projects.

: Equipment :
Starter Katana

: Skills :
Healing Light

: Words:
808

: Tags :
Eonis

Coded By Saber of L33T T3@M

[Eonis]

    Running through the forest at full speed one would be able to hear something equivalent to a clanky four legged robot playing a game of hide and seek, badly. Eonis had thought to himself, if I was doing this in the real world I would have fallen on his face as soon as he tried jumping over large roots with swinging one of his arms and the other in shape of a phone on his ear. He knew he was getting tired but he thought about getting to Ryker before he took a fatal blow. He was not sure if it was because of the constant healing or calling back to the city but he felt much stronger than before as Eonis felt his body was moving at a much faster pace than he ever would have in the real world. He decided to clear his head of these thoughts and worry about the task at hand. Eonis continued to run and jump over any roots or holes that would impede his stride and continued to attempt telepathy with the cleric in his party, he did this for a little bit until he heard a voice telling him to stop yelling.

    The voice of his target finally getting through calmed the guardian to calm down and Eonis had stopped running as Ryker began to explain how he was no longer in danger. A sigh of relief released from his mouth as he felt that he finally done his job correctly, it also gave him a lesson about over eagerness. He thought to himself that he would always look around and watch how he attacks before he starts a fight because the tank is the only reason that some others would be able to stand at all and if the tank falls most of the party falls. Ryker then said his thanks to Eonis and he felt happy because he considered his little skirmish successful because no one was hurt and both of them go a large boost in experience due to the amount of snakes killed and their strength. Eonis looked up at the sky and said "Made a friend, recruited a snake for the first time, almost died and yelled in the same friend's ear. Today was a good day." Eonis stretched and began his walk back to the city since he was forced to use call of home already once today.

    On his walk back to the city Eonis had thought about what will unfold during his time trapped in this game. He went from his future plans to what he needed to accomplish to what most mmorpgs would contain. He thought about how there would be quests and major events. And finally he thought about something that actually brought fear to the confident guardian's mind, what would have happened if he had died? Would he respawn at the cathedral or would he be a spirit wondering forever trapped until everyone is able to log out or worse yet since the game had transported everyone into the game and they move and can taste like they were living in their real lives... would they actually die in real life if they died in this game. Worried about this idea Eonis had raised his hand once again in the shape of a telephone and contacted the cleric in hopes that he would know what the penalty for death in this game was. "Uh.. Ryker I'm glad we survived and everything and I feel much more powerful for it but what would have happened if either your or me died?" Eonis had asked waiting for an answer that he predicted to be grim.
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