Just a normal day hunting for pigs. Right? (duo with quinn)

[metroexibit]

Metro and his new found friend walked out of town and into the forest. They stayed on the path the entire time. Not very much talking went on during this trip however. It was mostly just Blue eyes yammering on trying to pick at the kids brain and thought process but it seemed like he wasn’t getting an inch. Not very many people could stump blue eyes but this kid did but that was only because he just wasn’t talking. That’s what was pissing him off was the lack of communication since they were parting up together they should have a constant stream of dialog at all times. Metro accepted his silence as normal and kept quite as to not upset blue eyes anymore then he already was. Eventually they both just fell silent until they reached the flower grove and walked into a clearing and metro was in admiration of all the exotic flowers. The sun was high in the sky and the clearing was well lit so you could see all the flowers for a mile away. The clearing was laced with forest aside from the south. That side was open and also had all the flowers running from hear to what seemed like forever. On the far side of the clearing was where they had to go in order to catch the afternoon spawn times. Almost like he read his mind metros new friend asked to show him the way to this hunting spot.



“certainly.” Said blue eyes as he led him to the other side of the clearing and when they got there blue eyes squatted down behind a bush right on the edge of the clearing. He motioned Quinn to mimic him and crouch down as well. When they crouched down blue eyes looked back and said “iv calculated the spawn times. Around this time the boars cross from the forest edge to this clearing to graze. They always without a doubt exit from here. There should be two coming any minute now but it will be a five minute window between the first and second pig. So I propose this since you don’t know how I fight and I don’t know how you fight how about we split the first one. Ill take the first one and you take the second so we can get a good feel of how the other fights and it will increase our teamwork by about 56%.” Just as he finished he turned around and saw a boar exit the forest edge. He equipped his bow and watched as it pixilated in his hand. He then pulled back the bow to aim while taking deep breaths and moving the bow with the pigs movements. Metro could hear the silent calculations of velocity and arch of trajectory in order to hit a pig moving at walking speed. It was very hard for blue eyes to miss most of the time but that kind of accuracy takes time which for now they have the luxury of having. Then he finally fired his bow but before the arrow got half way to the target red eyes switched with blue and his eye color changed to bright red. His bow fizzled away and his long sword pixilated in his hand. Red eyes had focused on the pig and gripped his sword when the arrow connected. It hit with enough force to stagger the pig but before it could recover red eyes used one of his skills to move insanely fast toward the pig and strike the pig with a slash upward from the sword before it had time to reorient itself. Then red eyes swung his left leg forward as he pivoted his hips and kicked the pig on its side. Once the pig was on its side red eyes dropped to his knees, grabbed the pigs neck and stabbed him right in the head. He then dug it deeper and deeper twisting the blade until he turned it all the way to one side and the pig stopped moving.



The pig then fizzled into data as red eyes got up and ran back over to quinn with his eyes still red and said “I have the hunter subclass so boar ass kicking is easier for me but for you it should be a challenge. If you don’t kill this pig before you die I will end you myself got me?” red eyes said until he closed his eyes and his eye color changed back into light blue as blue eyes said “okay here comes the next one get ready.” Completely ignoring that quinn might have seen the transition. Metro paniced for a moment thinking he might have just lost a friend but then thought did blue eyes want that to happen?

[Quinn]

Happily following along with Metro, Quinn watched on with amusement as they finally arrived in a deeper portion of the Windsor Greatwood than he had dared to venture into previously.  This place... It was beautiful. No other word could aptly describe the combination of the blanket of flowers, covering the floor of the clearing in the center of the grove of trees. The sun shone down on the entirety of the display, adding its own touch of magic to the scene before him in the form of occasional glimmers and beams of sunlight, shining across the flowers in ways that truly brought out the majesty within them. How his new friend had found this place was entirely beyond him, it was like some kind of natural wonder, almost. In fact, Quinn felt almost... bad.... for disturbing the sanctity of the place with his presence. This place seemed almost too magical, and too surreal, to be part of the regular world of Elder Tale. One thing was for sure however. Never in his entire life in the real world had he ever encountered a place so incredible and full of mystery as this one. Shaking his head to clear it, Quinn instead glanced around for any potential threats, trying his best to keep thoughts of the beauty of the place he was in out of his mind. He could be before the pearly gates of heaven itself, and the young teen would still have an eye out for danger. It was simply the way he was - he would never trust something at face value, he had been betrayed and attacked in far more innocuous seeming settings than this one. Safe was simply a word used by people who did not know any better, after all. Ruby eyes turning back to land on Metro once again, Quinn had to remind himself of this. Whether or not his companion was a mostly known entity, it did not mean he wasn't dangerous. The young druid needed to stay on his guard against anything, and not fall into the trap of assuming someone was not hostile towards him. He had been beaten up by a police man once, after all. Just because a person wore a uniform and proclaimed to be good did not mean they had the best of intentions towards you. Especially when you were just another young street kid, who was supposedly a 'drain' on the resources of the system. "This place is... incredible, " Quinn whispered, keeping his voice low so as not to upset whatever spirits could be guarding the place, "How did you find it?" Noticing that Metro had gestured for him to crouch down behind a bush, Quinn nodded before crouching down where he had been indicated to. It seemed that this was the place where they were going to be hunting the boars, after all. It was a shame, they would be marring the unnatural beauty of this place with blood and violence, soon enough. Grimacing, Quinn averted his eyes - instead choosing to stare at the ground. He hated destroying things for no reason. Listening with some interest to the explanation provided about the spawn locations and spawn times of the boars in this area, Quinn nodded along to the plan. It would make sense to let his new friend take on the first one after all - he was of the assassin class, whereas Quinn's class - the Druid - was not quite as suited to a damage dealing role as the weapons based class no doubt was. Not to say that the Druid was not a strong secondary DPS class, of course. Of the three main healing classes in Elder Tale, the Druid was probably the most suited to an off-damage dealer role. Certainly more so than a cleric or a shaman, both of whom were more focused on either direct healing, or on damage negation. "Alright, it sounds like a plan. I guess I'll wait here while you take down your boar, then," Quinn agreed, gripping tighter onto his staff. The Druid was specialised in a role of healing over time spells, and in damage dealing. It was actually quite rounded as a class, with lots of potential applications, Probably it's greatest weakness was in low hit points - a druid could die very easily in a combat situation without another character to take the aggro of the enemies away from them. The young druid watched on impassively as Metro slaughtered his own pig rather convincingly, the flash of red eyes - hold on, weren't they blue just before? Making the whole act rather macabre. What was particularly obvious was how much Metro seemed to enjoy this, as though he wanted nothing more than to be out here killing pigs in the forest. Hold on a second, Quinn thought, eyes narrowing into a somewhat scary glare at Metro's words, don't you even dare to think of threatening me, kid.... Instead of going for angry, Quinn instead put on a slightly creepy smile. "So you took the hunter subclass then. No wonder the boar died so quickly. However," at this, Quinn's eyes narrowed into slits and his grip on the staff become iron hard, "if you threaten me again, I will have to demonstrate for you just how... similar... the results can be on a player, when the person who decides to kill them has the Hitman sublcass, like I do. Luckily for you, I'm going to overlook it this time." Not deigning to wait for a response, Quinn instead turned around and headed into the clearing towards where the second boar waited. Timing it, he quickly sent a bolt of sizzling magic into it's side. That had gotten its attention alright. When the boar came charging at him, Quinn sidestepped the attack, bringing his staff down in a vicious bludgnoing attack on the top of its head, stunning the beast momentarily.  A moment was all he needed. Yelling out 'Flameburst!" Quinn swung his staff forward again, this time watching on as the boar was quickly engulfed in a roaring blast of flame. Deciding to put it out of it's misery, he brought his staff down on its head again in a brutal coup de grace, finishing the boar quickly rather than letting it burn to death. It exploded into little green balls of light, well and truly defeated. Curious, Quinn turned back to look at Metro's reaction, with an eyebrow raised and a completely blank expression on his face. "What really annoys me though, is that you assumed for even a second that I couldn't defeat my own boar," Quinn stated, voice icy cold and dangerous, "never make the mistake of underestimating me again, Metro."

HP: MP: WORDS: 1123 TAGS: Quinn, metroexibit SONG: Castle of Glass NOTES: Quinn is potentially scary, sometimes. :P

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[Faded]

Tagged: Metro ▪ Notes: No naps for you ▪ Muse: N/A ▪ Health: 100% Rolling out of bed that morning, Faded was convinced that this day would be one of his better ones. So far he had met up with an assassin that had a strong streak of pride and convinced of her beauty, a sorcerer that was just as proud and tended to clash with the assassin girl, and a second assassin that wanted to rule the world, then got attacked by a small ground of PKers with the boy. His life in this new world was slowly becoming more and more interesting as the days went on. It wasn’t all bad, but he was sort of starting to miss the days when he had a set routine where nothing went array and there were no surprises. His to-do list wasn’t as long as it use to be before coming here, but on some days he still hoped that it would be simple and he could spend the day relaxing. Getting dressed, he headed to the market, bought a few groceries, took them home, and then went out to fight in the wilds. At least, that was what he was originally planning. So far, his day had been pretty dull. Nothing happened when he went to the market, he didn’t run into anyone going back home. There weren’t even any players jumping him for everything he had while he made his way outside of town! Shocking right? Everything was becoming dull again, and he was happy with this, it had been a while, but for once there was actually a grin gracing the Wolf’s face. Back to walking around to search out a few monsters to hunt to pay for tomorrows trip to the market though. He started to look, but then became distracted by a familiar field of flowers nearby. Stopping in his tracks, he looked over to it. For a few seconds he just stared then came to a decision and made his way over. The monster hunting could wait, right now he wanted to take the chance to relax. Expecting a beautiful field where he could lay down for a quick nap, anyone could imagine Faded’s surprise when he instead found a couple players and flaming boars. That’s right, boar flambé. One of the players were even familiar to Faded, the elf with more than one hair color- Metro. Though he did consider just laying down right there and ignoring the pair, he couldn’t do that. He made a promise to stand by Metro when the boy needed him and before he could nap, he had to find out what was going on with the flaming boars. Knowing him he was probably tossing threats around again if someone didn’t come back with a kill. Walking up, Faded nodded politely to the ruby-eyed player, then to the blue. “Good evening, is everything alright over here?” Word Count: 474 made by kei at GS