Early Bird Catches the Worm [Aithne]

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The sun is about to reach it's most highest point, the trees within the forest grew large shadows beneath their branches with small breaches of light braking through the leaves. Monsters of all kinds would parade through the forest, as if nothing was out of the ordinary as well as more non aggressive creatures such as deer or birds. Shadows of adventures can be seen from near and far, chasing after mobs or area bosses, all trying to better themselves with Exp, items and gold. One of which was a sole sorceress, striding through the forest was none other then Alice, a newly founded adventurer who's attempting to get stronger the quickest way she can, fighting a crap ton of mobs. With her chest puffed out and her blade promptly attached to the back of her waist she thought the time called for some monster hunting.

"Now now......Who should I fight first...." She spoke to herself as she took hold of her blades hilt and threw herself in a stance, crouching down a bit with her legs spread apart. She stood in silence awaiting for the first monster to reveal itself. The bushes would shake as a young pittered boar would reveal itself, walking patiently through the forest. Turning it's head, he'd come into view of Alice, with it's eyes widening, it'd throw itself into a charging stance before her. They pushed themselves forward charging toward themselves to clash. "Frost Spear!" She'd shout throwing her left arm horizontally to the left as her hand became engulfed in a light blue aura initiating the spell. From her hand as quickly as she swung it, a long ice spear sprung forward flying through the air. The boar running to fast for it to change direction properly. Struck head first into the spear a large grazed spot would appear on it's head and he'd be pushed back slightly with his hooves dragging the dirt. It gave off a faint blue aura and it's speed reduced causing it to move quite slowly. Taking this chance, Alice comes in from the side, pulling out her blade from it's sheathe held in reverse, cutting upward toward the body of the boar. A large red slash would cross the side of the boar before breaking apart into small digital pixels.

"Haha, take that you dam monster." She shouted as she threw her fist into the air. Sheathing her blade, she looked around the area once more. She noticed that just fighting the weaker mobs that were around her level might not be enough for her to continue onward. Maybe fighting some larger and higher leveled monsters might help her increase her strength.


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Tag: @aithne

[Aithne]

Despite how much Aithne didn't want it to get dark, the world she was now forced to live in, turned even more against her. The poorly lit forest was now becoming a pitch black forest, or at least to her anyway. Hearing players go at it with mobs in the forest made her get a bit frightened, but Aithne knew she now had to live her life in this game and to do that she needed to level up and get currency. "Alrighty Alice, you can't let yourself get scared! At least you can respawn," she said with a positive tone. Aithne always tried her best to be positive, even when she was alone. Deciding she'd fight a mob so she could level up, Aithne started to walk cautiously through the woods, checking left and right for a mob's info tag. "Aha! A level five young pittered boar," she said as she had caught sight of a mob tag to her left beyond some bushes. "Prepare yourself little piggy, I may be only a level one, but you're in for a world of hurt." Aithne unsheathed her katana and slowly moved towards her target. As she got closer, she used her Silent Move skill to keep her steps quiet. Even with the speed debuff, Aithne was still patient as she approached her target.

As she got close to her target, Aithne held her breath. 'I've got to make sure to land this attack so this fight can be easier,' she thought to herself as she got ready to attack. Leaping into the air, she deactivated her Silent Move and lunged towards the Young Pittered Boar. "Death Stinger!" she yelled as she activated the skill she planned to poison her target with. Thankfully the boar only became aware of her presence when she yelled, this meant that it was too late for the boar to dodge, meaning full contact. The katana that was thrusted at the boar hit its side. Pulling the blade out from the side of the boar, Aithne did a back-flip to create distance. "Whoa, that was cool," she said in an excited tone. Sadly, Aithne was celebrating way too early. Before she knew it, she heard a squeal and felt an intense pain in her side. "Damn it!" she shouted as she fell over, only to quickly recover. "Looks like the whole silent and quick kill thing isn't gonna work," she says with a small giggle. Even though she was upbeat about the situation, she was still a bit scared. 'Please, someone come help me...'

82% health
Death Stinger Cool Down: 25 Seconds Left
Word Count: 430
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As she'd watch the pixels float off into nothing, she'd throw her blade back into it's sheathe before throwing her hands behind her head. Looking around her surroundings, making sure that there wasn't any other monsters walking about that could she either fight or take her by surprise. Looking back a cold shutter would fall upon her shoulders, noticing that she was all alone both in battle and in this world, she would let out a large sigh before she would hear a voice. Coming back from thought she'd look around to see where the noise was coming from, unsure as to where exactly the noise came from she decided to run straight until something caught her eye, she'd throw her gaze at her skills menu to check on her "Frost Spear" skill watching as the cooldown was nearing completion. Rushing through bushes, pushing branches to the side and jumping over stones and rocks that poked through the ground beneath her feet.

Pouncing through a enlarged bush, consumed in leaves she'd appear between a sole adventurer and a monster across from her. On the ground she seemed as if they'd just clashed in battle, looking toward the boar it's name and hp would appear, what caught her eye was that it was a level five monster. Looking back toward the sole adventurer it'd seem that she was an assassin class and only level one, seeing as they don't have many skills to use when newbies just start not being able to properly coordinate combinations with just one skill, they'd need others to help them especially taking on monsters more then twice their level.

"Oi!" Alice would shout as she'd rushed pass between them both, before turning around completely with her hand on her blades hilt. "Let it lose sight of you, use the trees to hide yourself while I take it's attention. I'll let you know when it's time to attack." She said, keeping an eye on the boar as it blew steam from it's nose huffing in anger, digging into the ground for another attack. Without notice the boar would dash forward with all it's might toward the assassin girl once again, Alice hoped that it'd take her as bait but seeing as the assassin attacked first, it's stuck on her till it's aggro is placed onto another.

"Reach in time, Frost Spear!" She shouted as her hand flashed light blue as she swung it horizontally and shot a ice spear from her hand. It swerved mid-flight toward the boar and missed slightly above the body of the boar crashing into the ground behind it. The boar continued to charge toward the assassin.

Word Count: 444
Health: 100%
Frost Spear: 20 Seconds
Tag: Aithne

[Aithne]

Aithne watched as the boar started scratching dirt from ground, indicating that it would soon charge her. Knowing her skill had about twenty seconds of cool down, she needed a distraction of some sort so she could hide and wait. Then as if a gift from above another adventurer had appeared from the trees. The adventurer obviously knew more than she had about the game, so she decided to follow her instructions. "Alright!" Aithne said with a small smile before she headed towards the brush. As she neared her destination, Aithne could hear the other adventure shouting and decided to turn back, only to see the boar was rushing at her. 'Whoa! Didn't see that coming,' she thought to herself as an ice spear had planted itself into the ground near her. 'W-Well, I've gotta do something,' she thought as she readied her blade behind her, reaching her left hand out in front of her as if aiming at the boar. 'Just focus,' she thought as the boar neared. 

Finally her moment to act was at hand. The boar had lunged once more with the intention of hitting her in the chest. A small gasp left Aithne's lips as she her katana up around her, hitting the boar in its side and sending it into the direction the blade was swung. Opening her tightly closed eyes, Aithne looked over her should to check on the boar. 'W-Whoa, I did a bit more than I would have thought,'  The boar's health had gone down a lot considering the level difference, which made Aithne proud of herself. Looking over to the other adventurer, she smiled. "I'll just jump into a tree and wait for your signal," she said before running into the bush and jumping into a tree. Opening her skill menu, Aithne saw that Death Stinger was just about to become usable. 'Alright, I just need to wait for her to tell me when to attack,' she thought as she balanced herself into a tree.

82% health
Death Stinger has cooled down
Word Count: 338
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"Dam, a miss....Was really hoping that it'd strike so we can get more damage done." Aline said with a pouted expression. Watching the assassin jump into the bushes before disappearing into the tree with only the shaking in the trees branches to show for it. Before doing so she did some damage on the boar so that was pretty good for them, she hoped that this time her attack would actually hit this time. With that slowed debuff they could put in some real damage on the boar and kill it before it does any real damage to them. As she was deep in thought she forgot of the boar and herself, seeing as she wasn't in hiding like the assassin, she was out in the open. The boar released it's aggro upon the assassin and went in full charge toward Alice.

To late to even bring up her blade she was struck in the stomach, the pain wasn't truly as hurtful as it appeared but it hurt nonetheless. Pushing her back into the air landing on her feet without balance causing her to fall back upon impact. The boar would back away digging it's hooves into the ground and it circled Alice for another attack. Getting up, she was dust off her bottom from the fall but she figured a way to get him without missing.

Striking a crouching pose she'd await the boar to take action once again. Dashing toward her with all it's might to land another attack, it's hooves dragging the ground as it's tusks raised into the air ready to strike. Alice decided that striking at a closer range would better her chances and awaited for when the boar was at it's closest to her to strike. As the boar got closer, Alice would pounce above it with her hand out toward the boar as it dashed beneath her.
"Frost Spear!" She'd shout as her hand would be consumed in a light blue aura before quickly striking the boar on it's back with a spear of ice, shattering upon impact it'd do some damage on the boar itself as it lost balance being pushed into the ground and rolling over. As it got up the slowed debuff already took effect.

"Now! Attack!" Alice shouted as she landed. Dashing forward she'd have her blade ready in hand as she came close for a attack, slashing at the boars side before jumping back away from it.

Word Count: 410
Health: 75%
Frost Spear: 20 Seconds
Tag: Aithne

[Aithne]

Aithne steadied upon the branch and watched the events that transpired down below. She could tell the other adventurer had been deep in her thought by the fact that she hadn't acted yet. Even though she was relatively new to this whole thing, she knew that once a mob had been provoked and their target had left their aggro field, they'd switch their attention to the next adventurer in their field. Since the boar had seemed to lose track of Aithne, she knew it was gonna head towards the other adventurer, in which the female perched in the tree could read her name. "Alice huh?" she asked under her breath. Watching as the boar charged, Aithne almost shouted her name, but it was too late. The boar had now struck Alice out of her daze. Aithne now got herself ready to move as soon as she was called.As Alice took to the air, Aithne knew it was almost time. Readying her katana, Aithne crouched in the branch and wait for her signal. "Now! Attack!" the signal just about numbed her mind.

Aithne had waited and was now called, she jumped up from the branch and aimed herself to land on the boar. Watching Alice back away from her second attack, Aithne brought her katana down onto the boar in a downward diagonal motion "Death Stinger!", she yelled as a cut formed on the boars back before Aithne landed right beside it. Quickly turning to face the boar, she saw that it was a successful hit and that it even poisoned the mob. Aithne gave a triumphant smile before jumping back. "How do you think we should put this thing down?" she asked the other adventurer. Even though her attack didn't do much, it was obvious that a few more attacks from the two adventurers would put the swine out of its misery. Despite asking the other adventurer, Aithne had already thought of a way. "Maybe we should try that one more time, only you lead it to me after I hide in the bushes," she suggested. It seemed to work out in her mind, but she wasn't too sure how it would work in the situation. 

82% health
Death Stinger Cool Down: 25 seconds left
Word count: 367
Tags: @saiichi

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Alice would nod when she heard the assassin's suggestion, at the moment that's all they could do seeing they only had one skill available to them. Realizing that she remembered her Subclass Sigilmaker and it's one skill "Seal of Aquarius", maybe using that could increase the strength of the assassins attacks enough to do a bit more damage overall and defeat the boar much faster. The boar would return to it's starting position, walking away from them both before getting ready to charge once again. Alice made haste walking toward the assassin while the boar had it's back turned and watching her cooldown. Taking the hand of the assassin she pressed her finger down and drew the Aquarius's symbol on her hand. "Seal of Aquarius!" She'd say out loud. Initiating the strength buff upon activation. "The name's Alice by the way. What I just used was a stat buff for 5% in any of the categories, at the moment I used it on strength. It won't do much at the very moment, but it might help a bit and give me a bit of experience too~" She said in a friendly tone with a light smile on her face.

"Now lets beat this baddie." She said pumping her fist into the air before turning toward the boar. "You go ahead and hide. I'll get this guy closer this time." She reassured the assassin, before making any movements.

Word Count: 216
Health: 75%
Frost Spear: 0 seconds
Tag: Aithne

[Aithne]

Aithne was a bit confused on what Alice had done, but was happy once she explained it. "Well if that isn't useful I don't know what is," she said with a small giggle. "The name is Aithne, you can add me if you feel like it, but for now as you said, let's beat this baddie," she said in a triumphant like tone before looking at the boar that seemed to have lagged or something. But, Aithne knew better, it was obvious that the aggro was even on the both of them and the mob was calculating which to charge at. "Alright, it seems like it's deciding which one to go after. It may choose me due to the buff so as soon as we part it may pick me," she said before looking to the bushes. "So find a way to get it off me if it charges." Aithne rushed towards the bushes to get to her spot. "I'll give you a signal on where I am!" she said as she disappeared into the shrubs. 'Alright, now I just gotta move quick, but quiet,' she thought to herself before hearing the pig scraping its hoof into the ground once more. Aithne knew if she activated Silent move, the boar would once again have to recalculate, but it wouldn't stop its preparation. 'Silent Move,' she thought as the skill activated.

Aithne took no time at all to get moving due to her reduced speed debuff. So if she wanted to have all this set up quick, she would have to move and think. She knew where she had entered and had remembered where Alice and the boar were standing. As she moved, she decided to go to the back of the boar as it is before it attacks. Aithne was going to give a thumbs up as soon as she was ready. Moving as quick as she could with the debuff, Aithne held her katana tight in her right hand as she neared her destination. 'This plan should go through pretty well, Alice and I just need to avoid taking damage.' As Aithne got to her destination, she slowly lifted her hand out of the bush with a thumbs up to signify she was ready before retracting her hand back into the bush. She was in a kneeling stance that would give her enough of a push if she jump so that she could stab the katana down into the boar's head.

82% health
Silent Move Active
Word count: 415
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