Stunned for days by the power of music [Open]

[Masami]

The sun was already high in the sky as a young female leaned against the base of a large tree idly strumming a few chords on her guitar. First thing she noticed that the tuning was very similar to an actual guitar from the real world and second she could only produce some basic chords she had picked up from before. Maybe if she raised her skill as a bard it would be easier to play more difficult songs on an instrument as well. Leaning her head around the tree Masami craned her neck to stare off into the distant forest where stood a small herd of boars and their young. Yes, those would make perfect targets to practice her weapon on.



After putting an end to her playing with a harsh strum of a final chord Masami put the instrument back away in the case that rested beside her. Stowing the whole kit away in the inventory Masami retrieved her new weapon of choice since this Catastrophe, a large two-handed scythe. It was a little worn with not much damage but it was better than nothing and still had enough sharpness to get the job done when it had too. Gripping the shaft in both hands the girl made her way the short distance to the field at the base of the hill she had been on and down onto the grassy fields skirting the forest. The young boars shouldn’t be too much to worry about but the young’s parents might pose a bit more trouble and would either need tactful way to dispatch them or extract herself from any fights they try to join in on.



Bringing her left foot forward to lean down into a combat stance Masami lunged forward taking a first test swipe at the young pittered boar. Sweeping the blade through the boar’s flesh Masami brought the blade back up before stepping further into the herd to draw their attention. In particular it was two of the adult boars and the young one she had already injured, this was alright though as long she kept them in front of her. Taking several steps back away from her targets Masami held the scythe out in front of her with legs spread slightly apart and began spinning the weapon slowly between her fingers. Letting her body move naturally Masami continued the elaborate dance combining shifting footwork with scythe spins around her hand and going behind her back while slowly gaining speed.



However the boars weren’t content to just watch and continued getting closer to the new bard, heads bent low and snorting their anger at being interrupted. What they didn’t apparently realize was you approach a scythe wielder from the front and got a couple stray swipes as the girl continued her Elegant Act skill. Her finish of the skill brought the scythe sweeping in from the right and catching all three across the chest. “Just hold still please, I’m only trying to get these weak ones in here." She muttered to the mobs as she slashed once more before sliding her left leg behind her and moving her body, aiding by Elegant Act’s evasive bonus, and barely managed to avoided the boar attacking from her left.



Unfortunately for the Masami the rest of the herd took notice of the commotion and began to filter into the fight as well. With a worried look taking over her face the girl switch her hand position into a defensive stance and began taking steps back away the now large group of boars. “Whoa, hey now guys can we just relax and take it easy?" Her voice beginning to be strained with worry as she tried to keep distance from herself and the mobs. Swinging the scythe from the right she quickly reversed direction and brought in from the left catching the front boar across the chest and left shoulder with solid hits. ‘This isn’t going anywhere, there’s too many and I can’t pick out one to focus on.' Thinking to herself as she took more steps back pausing only occasionally to land another swing if they came in range.



Having all of her attention focused in front of her Masami hadn’t even noticed that she had backed all the way up the hill and bumped into the tree she rested at earlier. Taking a moment to look behind at what she bumped into distracted her enough to let several boar head butts land before she could swing them back again. Taking a large lunging step Masami tried to give herself as much room as she could before putting her weapon away and turning to jump up the tree. Climbing from branch to branch until she was about halfway up the trunk, the girl pulled herself up into a sitting position on the branch and pulled the scythe back out to hold in front of her. This day was not going well at all, so much for finding an easy to learn to play music better.

[Sylreth]

Everyone is trying

to take everything from you

Quiet, silent. Sylreth was dancing along, dashing across plains, making no noise. The gift of soundless travel, despite being slower then anybody else, was a gift that made the Shaman smile to herself in happiness. Yes indeed, she felt quite glad to be capable of moving in a forest without sound. So when she almost stumbled into a tribe of boars and piggies, she felt so very, very lucky that she hadn't made the noise to be noticed; and thus could slip away. Or she was, but then the tribe began to be.. well all weird moving and such. With a snort, the girl followed them, keeping herself hidden just in case. However, the girl saw some girl start walking up to the group. Sylreth couldn't remember the term but well that person walked up.

And then began attacking them. Now if Sylreth wasn't watching, she'd figure this girl was high leveled enough to take care of them. Some people lived for grinding you know, so they would totally be already stupid high levels just because they could. However, when the girl seemed to be chased by the back, and running, Sylreth thought something was wrong. With a click of her tongue, she looked at her mana; not bad at all, but this would drain a lot of it. With a sigh, the girl debated on her course action for a few minutes more, unsure if she should proceed with said course.. or leave it as is. With a click of her tongue, she nodded to herself.

With a pull, she took out a small paper shaped thing, and threw it in the air. With a pop, it turned into a small, origami bird like thing. And then with another pop it became two; with a flutter one was off, aiming to find someone to bring back towards the fight, because there's no way just herself and the scythe girl had it. The Shaman then sent the bird flying towards the girl. She moved behind it, sneaking behind the boars. The bird would land near the other girl, and let out a cough, before shaking it's head. Opening it's mouth, it began to speak to the girl, using the voice of Sylreth herself to communicate with the girl.

''Hey, I saw you were in trouble; I sent one of these off to find a warm body to help out, until then you have just me. I won't be able to take out the whole herd, but I could possibly draw a few off to ease the load, and run around a bit. No problem right? Just make sure to finish some off before they finish me off k? Oh yeah, name's Sylreth; see ya soon.'' said the Shikigami, before it hopped in front of the girl, and tweeted. Of course, what Sylreth hadn't mentioned is that these Shikigami were speed based, and duplicated as messengers too. It was a sort of Shikigami that the Race of Rituals had to input the characteristics in herself, since the game seemingly let one customize them at will. It was really nice too, as she snuck up on the first boar.

Sinking her small dagger into it's side, it's thrashing brought the attention of two to three more. With a grin, the girl stabbed again, and then undid her sneaking, running off with the boars after her. At the very least, she kept a near circle, plenty visible from the tree in a way. That way.. they would know when to counter attack right? Or at least when to cast another Shikigami to help. Maybe she should have taken a better skill. Oh well, Sylreth would do her best to help this total stranger, if only because it would be more then amusing for it to be done so. Because Sylreth wanted a fight for a little bit, and helping this girl might actually be better off in the long run or something. Bah, the reason didn't matter; she was doing it right!?

Right!

[/b] Masami
•Words; 0671
•Music; Pandemic :: Gumi [Yuugou]
•Notes; Sorry it took me so long but here we go <3 [#3d6fe9]
•Credit; PerfectFallacy of Gangnam Style![/div][/ul][/div][/div][/div][/div]

[ikari]

Upon his dismay or respect of the situation Ikari was vying for positions and money so that he could afford to get more gear, and start making gear as one of the resident blacksmiths in the area, but he had a job first. Upon his annoyance Ikari took a breath seeing a bird like thing annoying the neep out of him. He wanted to honestly punch it, but when he swung at it almost comically it’d dodge to the opposite side making him look quite silly to the people that could see him. One of the patrons took pity on him and explained what it was, and that it was a mission marker called a Shikigami. Basically, its purpose was to make sure he made it to the forest, and that was making him want to punch it out, digressing he made it to the forest in some form of time, but how late was he to the party? Not too late, because he was moving as fast as a swift bullet to the temple so to speak. He wasn’t sure what was going on until he seen what was going on in the area with a girl and boy, and they looked pretty surrounded from what it seemed. Using his toggle skill of Battle perception there was much more than he could of expected, and then taking a breath and chuckling softly to himself as he began to sway to the dance of death that ticked within his mind.

It was time for him to move in and strike, as he did appearing as a streak of movement slicing through the first boar, letting the pixilated blood wash upon his blade and his hand that sliced through with the dagger. As he stopped he looked at the other two speaking in a succinct and calm voice analyzing the situation carefully enough as he seemed to know what the hell he was talking about. ”Don’t fret this is the group around us, there didn’t seem to be any more on the way here. I’m a pathfinder, and I got annoyed by a shikigami to come and assist in the situation. Let’s get through this problem first and then we’ll go through pleasantries of our names and all of that annoying shit. Just call me Zero for the time being.” He’d say calmly looking at the small group of boars around him as he began to plan out what his movements were now seeing that this was their current formation around him and the other two. He was definitely focused on taking them out. So what could they do, Time began to slowly move again so to speak as his heart beat raced a bit more. Using the Kunai attached to the rope hurling it into one of the boars as a limited range attack doing something so unconventional now First using a commandingly cold and malevolent tone in his voice. ”Get over here!~” Pulling the rope back to pull the boar to him, then using the boars own momentum against his blade he’d slice that boar in half.

Taking a simple breath looking at the two using battle perception to help him speed up the diameter of vision around him not in the sense of rapidly making being able to instantly see things, but to check on his other two allies, because that’s a thing in combat you have to make sure that they were okay. Once he’d shift his Kunai away taking his Knife in a reversed hold getting ready for the next attack calling out to them. ”Are the two of you capable of handling your lot, if not tell me, and I’ll hurry up and help out. Just tell me if you need me to, I’ll be ready in a moments notice.” Sure that wasn’t a complete truth because he knew that he couldn’t just say that he had it perfectly timed, but he was definitely sure in the skills that he had currently. Doing a quick flick of the wrist to clean the blood off of the shitty dagger, but it did work for the most part against these weak boars, but it wouldn’t be enough. So the question that was being placed into his mind was, did he feel lucky punk, had he fired five shots or only six, he was only an assassin and he got caught up in the killing so he wasn’t too sure, but he was ready to kill the boars.

The Wheel of Fate was Turning.

[BlackBeast]

Black was walking among the greatwood trying to find signs of monsters he could slay, but as a cleric, he wouldn't be able to slay much. Gripping his buckler and wand firmly he put up his guard and carefully traversed the wood with great caution. Nothing around him made a sound except for the rustling of leaves, and footsteps. Wait footsteps?..... Black looked all around and saw a scythe wielding girl run away from a pack of boars that seemed to be following her. Black looked to her in concern and ran in order to keep up with her. Soon he heard even more footsteps and the grunting and squealing of the boars ready for an attack. Black looked to see the girl get head butted several times before she climbed up a tree in order to save herself from any further damage. Quarie was Hesitant about helping the girl out. After all this would be his first battle, since being trapped inside this game. He didn't know what the outcome of this fight would be. Even though these were still low level boars, he was honestly a bit scared.

After a couple seconds of being idle there was a quick attack made by an assassin. He would meet up with a girl nearby and speak to her about a subject. Black couldn’t hear but could see what the Assassin was doing. He was helping out after all, and this had Black’s mind made up. After seeing this guy just jump into trouble like that, he decided would do the same for this stranger.

Casting Sigil of Aquarius on his Buckler, he would walk out from his hiding place and declare the type enhancement. “Sigil of Aquarius, Agility.” The sigil speared on the front of his shield and he went to the tree at which the girl had climbed up. “Hey there damsel in distress, need to recover?” Of course Black was referring to the several head buts she had taken earlier. Raising his wand into the air a green aura would surround her and him as he casted his Heal spell. “May the Goddess watch over us!” The timing was pretty long but it would be well worth it in the end when she had enough health. This stance however made him vulnerable to attacks but he stayed focus on the girl in the tree for her sake.