John Marks - Queue

Starting City || Plaza

Queue just stood back amused and giddly smiling as the pair started playing mechanical doctor. They were quite the amusing pair. Two giant robots acting like they were back in elementary, about to go off in some adventure. Both of them acting on the other's strengths and covering each other's weaknesses. The romantic in him almost made him burst out in happiness for them, but he quickly resumed control over himself. More and more, John felt a bit like the third wheel, but that was where he was most comfortable. He couldn't wait to see how the two robos' stories would intertwine and roll out.

Ricki perks her head up like a dog as she gets a notification. She stops where she is to check it out, booping through some menus to find that a message is received from someone. Dang, how many minutes has it been? Already got a message, this is getting really nice. Ricki didn't think she'd get one this fast and early. Ricki opens up the message from the user 'SawCutter' and reads it, half-mumbling let alone half-speaking it to herself.

Ricki stares at the message with half-open eyes, almost unamused. Dang, how many minutes has it been? Internally, Ricki became a little defensive. She understood that with a name like 'Ricki' people could probably mistake her for a guy, but the fact that she practically always uses female avatars and people would still ask her gender once in a blue moon or even claim that she's not a girl made her a little wary. Especially with a troll approach like this. It's just that she doesn't want to be thought as one of those creepy dudes playing as girls because, well, she isn't. But really, that message, like seriousl-- oh hey another message that was fast.

Oh. Oh, okay. He was just kidding around. Ok ok. And lookie here, he sent a party invite. Well Ricki doesn't want to wait any longer for the fun to start, and she doesn't want to keep this party waiting either so-- wait was he kidding about the not being a girl part or the 'fite me' part? Or both? Does he actually think she's not a girl? Why. Whywhywhywhywhywhywh- ok you know what. Ricki thinks briefly to herself; from now on this is a reality of no worries. So if anything, all will be good. Most likely. Hopefully. No not hopefully, most likely. Without delay Ricki replies to SawCutter real quick saying, 'Lol aight' and then accepts the party invite. She quickly looks around for the newly joined party and eventually she would find them, near a forest. From the distance she spotted them she observed them. Two of them were big robots, aw yeah, and then some other chick. Ricki straightened up and and adjusted her hair before she put her thumbs in her pockets, or if there were no pockets she'd just be putting her hands there as if they were, and jogged on over. "What up what up. How we doing?" Ricki attempted to greet casually as she officially arrived.

"Hey, I can tell you're a little spooked. Probably a bit too aggressive that was, especially for a fucking greeting. You look like a rogue or thief or someshit, two rogues, a healer/tank and a full-tank sounded like a decent party. Y'interested? We'll be hunting mobs until we're level three or four or something.". He wondered if there even were levels. "Shit, are there even levels? I'm not sure.", he'd voice that thought.

"Oh, that's a dude by the way, Queue. Quu? Qoo? Whatever. Also, Would you mind doing PVP with yours truly once we get gooder at this?', he'd note, and ask. "These other two aren't interested. I mean I picked a class that was suited for lone PVP-ers like me, but y'know, still nice to have someone helping.". It really was. He was only with these others because they were being useful, but it was nice to just... communicate once in a while.

"So, tactics? Or just go all out?"

Viral - Scott
Starting City || Plaza

Scott grinned slightly as CS praised him. His grin was much less visible when CS handed over the massive-ass chainsaw. The damn thing was huge! Even for Viral, it'd be pretty hard to one hand it. Still, with Viral's mechanical skills, it'd be just a minute before the thing began working better. Still, to fully repair it, Viral would need to be a better mechanic. Plus, it seemed it'd be better to just scrap the damn heating coils because they were malfunctioning so hard, and just replace them. Still, he could get them working, even if just barely. By CS's command, he handed the weapon back over.

A few moments later, someone walked up. She greeted the three men- well, two men and a boy, Scott acquiesced he wasn't exactly a man yet. This one was definitely female, or at the very least was using the voice modifier to pose as one. Though Scott didn't notice it, somehow CS noticed some apprehension in her? Either that or he was going on yet another tangent. Scott had pretty much fully realized his friend was actually a little insane. Back to the girl though, she appeared to be a DPS machine. Light armor, dual blades, all that jazz. As he asked her about PvP, Scott turned his attention towards Queue. "So, uh, anything that needs fixing?" He asked. He ignored CS's question about tactics. He couldn't care either way, he wasn't good at that stuff anyways.

John Marks - Queue

Starting City || Plaza

Queue watched as the female joined the group and waved as Saw laid out from the get go that Queue was a guy. He was amazed at Saw's ability to just keep talking. Though the female, Ricki, seemed to have some sort of excess energy of her own. Queue wondered if that meant that he was now demoted to forth wheel. He didn't necessarily care, in fact glad in a way, but his mind started to reevaluate the group and wondered if this meant that there was going to be some possible love relations? He thought love, but he knew that as far as online play, it was near impossible for true feelings to actually occur beyond a certain point. He could still dream though...

Soon the other robot came on to him and asked if any repairs needed to be done. "Uhmm..." Queue quickly refreshed himself with his inventory, but again, all he saw was his basic knife and drugs. "No, sorry. It looks like I'm good to go." Queue gave out a nice friendly smile. "Thanks though. So what is it that you wanna do? Saw seems hellbent on going all out with his army off newblings, which is fine. Personally I'm just here for the people. Truth be told, I'm actually a bit of a pacifist." Queue sorta ended off with a bit of a nervous chuckle. He couldn't deny his own actions, but he didn't mean to pry where he wasn't wanted.

Retarion noticed more players being spawned by the second, first off she wanted to have a duel first. Retarion started smiling for once, starting to get an idea to be able to get some people in. She held one of her pistols in her hands and aimed it upwards. I'm kind of just hoping that some people aren't sensitive to loud noises... Retarion thought to herself before pulling the trigger and firing. A loud gunshot was heard as Retarion took in a deep breath to yell.

"New players! If you wish to have a duel meet me in the forest area!" Retarion smiled as she ran in a certain direction which led to the forest area, she ran past two massive robots, the female, and the other female(?). Retarion arrived in the forest area known as The Great Forest of Nohare, she stopped at the entrance into the woods as she looked back into the plaza area. I'm not sure if anybody's going to come, but I gave it a shot. Ha! That was a great pun! Retarion wasn't panting due to her fitness skill that was a whopping 10, she set it as that due to her fitness skill in real life was great as well.

"What the hell was that!" Jeb shouted ducking a bit. A random ass gun fire roared through the air. He was thinking of just ignoring it but not to short after the gun fire a woman shouting was heard. She was going on about a duel and if anyone wanting to challenge her was to head over to the forest area. Since his concentration was completely thrown off he might as well go and check out who would actually go and fight the chick.

He took to the sky flapping his wings. Jeb was actually getting the hang of the wings. What he didn't expect was the mask automatically covering his face as he began to pick up speed. He didn't want to admit it but it caught him by surprise. Frightened by the sudden change in sight Jeb uncontrollably crashed into a tree and tumbled through the forest trying to regain his posture. He was failing hard at that by the way.

Sarah Matou - neko

Starting City || Plaza

*BANG!* Before she knew what was going on, neko Skedaddled clear across the plaza near the fountain to safety before turning her head back to see what had happen. She didn't really catch what the woman who fired the shot said, but saw her running off out of the area. Then, soon as the commotion died back down to normal, a giant bird man suddenly took to the skies right next to her. neko was less startled by this, but it caught her attention enough to watch him fly off in the same direction as the lady. Having nothing better to do, the cat ran through the plaza to follow the bird, but admittedly found it easier chasing the young woman instead, once she caught up.

Ricki's attention turned to SawCutter, the one who invited her and the one who started talking to her first. Ricki blinked her eyes more open--they weren't wide open, but just more open than it was--when SawCutter mentioned he could tell that Ricki was a little 'spooked'. FRICK. Is it really that obvious? Or rather, is it still obvious? And here Ricki thought she wasn't worried about the whole thing anymore; Ricki wonders what signs could have given it off. Anyways, no need to get worried all over again. Come on, pull it together. Ricki actually kept her cool and brought a hand up and waved it a little, "Naaah naah it's all good," Ricki wanted to reassure that there's no harm done or anything like that and even gave out a brief snicker and managed to slip it right through just before SawCutter continues on talking. Ricki listened to him give further details about the setup of the party and what it plans to do. With no objections Ricki nodded, "Count me in."

It was then noted that the other chick with them, was actually a dude. Ricki would've let out a 'DAYUM' in surprise, but then her attention once again turned back to Sawcutter when asked if interested in some PvP for later on. "Hell yeah, I'm up for it. I was kinda planning to do the same thing, leveling up a bit before PvP-ing and all," Ricki responded with a bit of eagerness. Ricki then gets distracted by the loud bang, from a gun by the sound of it, from whatever distance she and the party were from it. Ricki didn't turn her head towards it, she more-or-so just focused her hearing towards it. She half-listened to the woman shouting about something or what not while the other half of the listening was towards her party's chatter. The half-listening didn't really last that long, and soon Ricki's full attention was back towards the party. Ricki chuckled a bit on Queue's comment on being a pacifist before speaking out her thought, "Honestly we could do a little mix of both," Ricki refers to the 'tactics or all-out' question. "Well, assuming that it'll be one of those breeze-through huntings since we're all level numero unos'." Ricki paused briefly. "And assuming again, that there are levels. But ey, I'm open to any kind of approach," Ricki puts her hands up relaxingly behind her head just before giving a short glance to the girl who ran by them. Possibly the one who set off the gunshot. Ricki thought a little mix of tactics and going all out was a decent idea. Assuming that'll it be easy since it's their first time, like she said, it wouldn't be too risky going all out. If for some reason Ricki was way off, or if anything backfires for whatever reason that may be, the tactics part could be a backup.

@WaddleDaisy

A shot was heard and a woman explained a duel type setting, this stirred up two emotions for AspireRed, one was excitment for another coming battle, the second was annoyance as the birds that had landed on him flew away because of the noise. He stood slowly, his seven foot character towering above most other peoples Avatars, he then began to pickup speed as he ran into The Forest Of Nohare, eventually his HUD reminded him of the dangers of PVP, he iqnored it and saw the girl who he saw fire the round into the air, along with a cat and a bird-human hybrid.

"This is going to be fun!" the voice modulator changed his voice from his usual soft voice to a gruff,booming voice. His big steps passed the human-Bird mix fairly quickly, the cat however he didn't pass but it got there before Aspire did "You wanted to duel?" His voice full of hope and excitement.

"Dueling already at level one? Dweebs, then you haven't unlocked any really interesting abilities... Anyway, let's get in this shrubbery filled asshole and fuck some mobs up, yeah? I hope we'll find somethin' good!", SawCutter simply states. He could tell at least that Ricki was getting eager, yet was still mildly spooked. Eh, whatever. He was getting bored and they were right at the lip of this dense as shit forest. He entered its' mildly spooky perimeter and found little at first, for obvious reasons. He'd have to stalk around a little to find anything interesting, right? "Oh, by the way, we probably don't even really need tactics right? I mean.. I'm a giant goddamn robot." " Right, Guys?"

Viral - Scott
Starting City || Plaza

Scott frowned a bit when his friend told him about his lack of things to be repaired, but the kind smile he gave quickly eliminated any apprehension Scott had, and he gave a bit of a grin back. Queue asked Scott why he was playing Identity. Scott barely even debated telling him the truth. "Long story. I'm trying to be more social." He explained. He'd tell him the rest later, if he asked. Right now though, they were going to go adventuring and the such. He didn't want to bore Queue away.

Scott was going to glare at the girl who had chuckled at Queue, but before Scott could do any such thing, a shot rang out, and some lady offered an official duel challenge. With that, she ran into the Nahore forest. She was followed by a human bird, and a ridiculously muscular man. Like, seven feet tall muscular. Scott didn't find dudes that buff super attractive, but that really wasn't here nor there. What was here, was SC, surprisingly. He reasoned that dueling at this low a level was useless because of the lack of interesting skills. Scott relented and had to agree with him, even if he didn't really plan on doing much PvP. He said they should, instead, go kill some mobs. Scott nodded in agreement, and "unsheathed" his weaponry, as it came out of his hands. "Alright, Queue, you should probably stick behind me." Scott suggested, before following SC in.

John Marks - Queue

Starting City || Plaza

Queue nodded in response to Viral's answer. Though he couldn't tell what age exactly, the robot started to appear a bit younger than he originally thought. His estimated age was somewhere between late teens and early twenties. It seemed to John that Viral was at that stage in life of trying to find their place in the world, and thus exploring the different societies as he unlocks more and more about himself. Of course, this was all just gathered from 'I'm trying to be more social', so John could've completely missed the mark with lack of evidence. But John refused to push any further, it was bad netiquette.

Curious with his new idea of the robot named Viral, John was interested in what kind of person SawCutter was. He actually came off quite young with his rambling speech and robot attire, though his fluid cursing made him want to add ten years or so. John really hadn't had a good conversation with the person, but he could tell it was very passionate and full of life. IF he had to make a guess, he might've said something not too far off of his own age. Just young enough to have energy, but old enough to take command of his world.

Soon the forest entrance was filled with a flurry of folks as first, a random gunshot was fired in the middle of town. It didn't really affect John that much, but it was a nice introduction to the world he just joined. He suspected that fighting would be happening wherever he went, regardless of the timing or the place. First a girl ran past, paying us little heed, but was soon followed by the same cat he met in town as well as someone with probably the tallest avatar he's ever seen.

However, it seemed for the most part John's group was going to ignore those guys as they seemed interested in fighting random critters instead. He also couldn't help but feel flattered as Viral offered to keep him safe. "Right, thank you." Queue couldn't help but smile to his fullest as he quietly followed Viral and the group.

Starting City || Plaza

Draken or Jacob as he was called in the real world sat on his haunches as he watched other people squabble about there differences and listened to their insults as he enjoyed the new form he had taken in this game world he had thought it to just be another crappy VR game that would flop but it all felt quite like this game was going to be a hit.

Draken spread his wings and stretched like a cat on his four appendages and yawned, a low soft burbling sound was made as he did this and he proceeded to scratch his neck with his left leg.

He figured that this form had certain powers and he focused on communicative skills so he practiced speaking and it was easy although it was low and rumbling sounding voice.

He then proceeded to walk amongst the crowd although getting a few odd glances he enjoyed the attention and he walked with grace and prowess but a little bit of fierceness.

And he mingled about the crowd for reasons he did not know of.

Ricki took her hands away that were relaxingly behind her head and let her arms hang loose, swinging back and forth slightly, and smirked before following her party into the forest. She was excited that the real fun of this game was finally about to start, not saying that the first however many minutes weren't fun. The first minutes were pretty eventful. Well, they've felt eventful. Starting a new game, customizable characters, joining a party; that seems eventful right? Riiight? Alright. As they enter through the forest Ricki puts her right hand on the hilt of the blade that is sheathed on her left side, not moving it yet and ready to kick some mob ass. Ricki remembered from scrolling through menus earlier a skill she had called 'Quick Draw'. Name speaks for itself if definition needed. So when they find something good, Quick Draw! ...Assuming that Quick Draw will be needed that is. Ricki stayed close to the group as her eyes took a good but not too look around, keeping a look out and all not just for herself but for the group in general of course. "Hmmmm," Ricki took a somewhat of a pause and thought about SawCutter's question regarding whether they really need a tactic or not since he's a giant robot. He was a pretty big robot. And pretty armed too by the obvious looks of it. "..Maaaaybee," Ricki answered slowly but a little lively, she was still in thought as she spoke which explains the slowness. She took about a two second pause, "...For nooooow," Ricki answered again, still speaking slow from thought as she was thinking half-deeply about the tactics question. Ricki honestly thinks they'll be fine either way, tactics or none. But that might be an itty bitty bit of cockiness talking to her since there's two big robots in the group, but honestly, maybe it's not.

SawCutter would stalk the forest's paths while the others followed, the natural noise of the forest going quiet as the comically diverse party wandered around, trying to find interesting things. Most suddenly, a bush would rustle and SC would fire literally everything, incinerating the bush in seconds as the others jumped at the sudden usage of overwhelming firepower. He'd laugh, "Hohohohoho, Oh wow! I was pretty jumpy- OH GOD NO!". He'd rush near the ashes and go on his knees next to it. "I KILLED A BUNNY! I'm a MONSTER!". "...+1 Bunny Pelt? The poor thing was evaporated! This fucking game..."

He'd then lead the rest of the party deeper into the forest, and after a few minutes of everyone likely silently chuckling at his little over-eagerness to shoot the shit out of something. "That was honestly kinda cool though. You could actually like feel the recoil.". His tone of voice would go mildly concerned, "...have you guys been keeping track of where we were going? I think I'm lost.".

Well, that's obviously quite bad. "...I assume we're fucked?", SC asks, mildly defeated.

Viral - Scott
Starting City || Plaza

Scott dutifully followed the groups unofficial leader, CS, into the forest, quetie hopping behind Viral. They walked around the forest together, looking for mobs to kill and the such. Scott was about to question the game's spawn rates, but suddenly, everyone heard something. Scott got into a battle stance quickly, but SC just burned everything to the ground. Scott wasn't particularly miffed about the flora or fauna, but CS could've hit another player! Luckily, it was just a rabbit. SC picked up the loot, a +1 Bunny Pelt. That seemed kinda useless, considering he was a robot, but maybe you could sell it or something to that effect.

With that, SC led the rest of them deeper into the forest, Viral shaking his head in disappointment most of them time. Still, he was in a state of awe at how quite his friend had been. Still, no one was perfect, and SC opened his mouth again. He expressed worry at how deep they were in the forest, and was impressed at the realistic recoil. "Walking in a straight line should work." Scott said, before quickly picking a direction and heading in it. Eventually, the group would find there way out no matter what now. Unless, of course, it was one of those stupid 'magic forests'.

"Knowing my luck though we'll probably run into like, eighty bee hives all at once, and they'll all go to me. I fucking hate bees.", Saw said, obviously jokingly. "Damn, where are all the mobs? Is someone else here who killed all the mobs already?" That could be a valid hypothesis, but whoever was also in the same parts of the forest would've had tracks the little quartet would've likely seen by now. Of course, it's also possible players' tracks are just deleted after two minutes. Who knows? "Damn, this game really is odd. I mean, I'm a robot and I'm travelling around a spooky forest... Hell, we got two robots and we're travelling around a spooky, magic forest. And I just vaporized a bunny and still got its' pelt. Not that any of that is a bad thing, of course."

Ricki stuck with her group as they continue to venture in the forest, looking around cautiously and daringly. The hunt for mobs to kill was still active, of course. The luck of finding some, however, are not too good yet. Just then everyone heard a noise and Ricki reacted by bending her knees into a fighting stance and dragging her foot on the ground in a half-circle to face towards the general direction of the noise. Her hand was still on the hilt of one of her blades and almost drew it from its sheath, but didn't as what she saw seemed to be...under control. Considering the epic firepower of a showcase, yep. Everything seems good. Thing is, all that fire was for a bunny. "Aw..." Ricki spoke semi-quietly, and the way it was said sounded weird, the kind of weird where it's hard to describe in words, and somewhat nasally. Poor bunny. Poor, cute little bunny. Well it was virtual, so maybe it's not all bad. Wait a second. Psh! Don't get fed up about it Ricki! Come on, it's over with. Real or virtual, it was a worthy sacrifice...for its pelt. ...Still kinda sad though.

The group goes deeper in, and Ricki follows. They've been walking around for awhile now, and the question of whether someone has been keeping track or not. Ricki wasn't really concerned about that, not yet. She just assumed that they would find a way out anyway whenever they were done here. That, and Viral's tactic of walking in a straight line would also work anyway. So really, Ricki's focus was on finding some mobs and release killing spree on them. Ricki then spoke of the topic concerning the lack of mobs, "I would imagine by the deeper and deeper we go that there would-- SQUIRREL!" Ricki suddenly yelled out alertly before turning and quickdrawing the sword she had her hand on for several minutes, killing the random squirrel she spotted with a single slash. Like, literally, she yelled it out as if she were a dog wanting to chase it down the street. Kind of like that one movie with all the balloons and dogs with talking collars. Ricki paused, in voice and in stance.

+1 Squirrel Pelt!

Well that was...okay moving on now.

Without blinking Ricki's pause continued for a couple more seconds before she returned her blade to its sheath and stood up straight, continuing on as if nothing out of the ordinary just happened, "--be more baddies to kill depending how deep we are. But honestly, I would think we would see some at least by now." Ricki gently put both hands on the hilts of both of her blades, right hand on the right one and left on the left, just rubbing her thumbs across the hilts. "This game really is odd, isn't it?" Ricki was agreeing with SawCutter's earlier statement.