[IC] Red Skies it's all a Game

[PrincessVampora]

She nods. " Good. " she said to him.

[Sharidi37495]

Jono reaches the port and asks around. She learns the player’s name is Tanner, and he’d raided another ship. She takes another quest to return everything he took, including lives. She sneaks aboard a ship, and eventually they cross Tanner’s ship.

[Jasper19]

Jace keeps cleaning

Tanner smiles and rams the ship crossing his path

[Sharidi37495]

Jono grunts and the Captain starts barking orders. Thinking she was a sailor trying to get out of fighting, the captain anchors by Tanner’s ship to engage in battle and sends Jono with some men to fight. Jono finds Tanner and sneaks into his cabin.

[Jasper19]

Tanner looks at his men" kill all NPC's but tie up players he walks into his cabin and frowns when he sees a girl pulling out his flintlock he aims it at her " may I help you? "

[Sharidi37495]

Jono looks up. “Hello. Actually I was just on my way out, so if you’ll excuse me.” She’d already pocketed some of the smaller items he stole, but there’s no bulge in her clothes to speak of.

[Jasper19]

Tanner smiles and cocks back the flintlock" yeah no for one why are you on my ship? For two I see three things missing from my desk "

Jace takes a nap after he's cleaned

[Sharidi37495]

Jono crosses her arms. “Because I’m programmed to be on ships, and cause pirates problems.”

[Gentlemanvaultboy]

Maisy nodded, following the woman back to town. She seemed able to avoid the monsters roaming around the field easily, and by shadowing her they were bale to avoid most of the fights.

They spilt up in town, the woman pointing out a particular NPC and telling her that the man would offer a quest that would help her get stronger. Maisy nodded as they parted ways, hoping she didn't do anything too dangerous as she spoke to the man, a large, one armed man in heavy armor. It was actually pretty easy to tell he was an NPC. Maisy though she had seen him before, standing in the same spot with the same forlorn look on his face, as he had been when she'd first logged in. Other players were around, huddled together or just waiting, but he didn't seem to be reacting at all. He was like a statue effected in the middle of a hospital waiting room, looking coldly over the boarded and worried people around him.

She walked up and he immediately locked eyes with her and started speaking a prepaid speech. "Greetings, young adventure. Not many have the fortified to pursue the path of knighthood these days."

Maisy looked around. There were about twenty knights just hanging around the town square.

"If you truly wish to do battle with evil, you must prove yourself. Bring me the hides of three of the Wild Wolves in the field, and maybe I'll think you have what it takes." The man continued. A text box popped up in front of her eyes, asking her to accept the quest. She accepted, and then another box popped up saying the quest was completed. "Hmmm, maybe your not so worthless after all." He continued as she looked on confused. Oh, right, she'd gotten those last night.

"Very well, I'll teach you some tricks, might just keep you alive longer." He said, and a series of boxes popped up, tutorialising his to distribute skill point. As she read, and clicked off the last one, the one armed man continued. 'Now, how will you train?"

She opened up the menu like the tutorial described and gawked at the skill points she'd accumulated. She was level 6 already, just from wandering around beating monster to death and doing this one quest.

She distributed her points in a few skills. One was for lance users specifically, a fast charge forward that enveloped the user in blue energy. At level three, e skill turned away non-magical projectiles, and could be used up to three times in quick succession. Another skill she bought was a general knights skill, where the user charged up a heavy swing with their weapon. The last two points she spent on a skill called fortify, which increased her defence in exchange for speed when used.

The man looked down apprasisingly for a moment. "All right, you seem almost like a real Knight now. You might be able to handle something a little harder than the either trainees. There've been a series of monster attacks on the forest road, been tearing up our trade caravans. If you can put down whatever beast is causing problems I'll almost consider you a success story."

Maisy accepted the quest and headed out into the field, down the forest road. A few of the players hanging out in town looked at her like she was crazy.

[Jasper19]

Tanner raises an eyebrow" you're actings horrible I think you should watch NPC's more and if you are one run I'll just shoot you" he says and squeezes the trigger a bit but not enough to fire

[Sharidi37495]

Jono smirks faintly and shrugs with a dramatic sigh. “Well done, you caught me. I am at your mercy.”

[Jasper19]

Tanner rolls his eyes then opens the door and whistles two members of his crew come in" tie her up she was stealing " he keeps the pistol trained on her as they go to tie her up

Jace sleeps

[Gentlemanvaultboy]

It didn't take Maisy long walking along the road to come upon the ruined remains of a tipped over covered wagon, the canvas top torn and bloodstained and the insides ravaged. A few horses ambled around, grazing without a care in the world.

She stepped closer, looking inside the wagon, when suddenly a roar came from right behind. She spun around to see a large green man sprinting down the hill at her, sword raised. She yelped, bringing up her lance to brace herself for the monsters downward chop.

To her surprise he didn't hit all that hard. In fact, her arms barely moved and the monster stumbled back. Snarling, the thing leaped forward with a jumping stab to her gut and she leaped to the side, the feather talisman doing good work already.

Maisy decided to they using a skill. Gripping her weapon like a baseball bat she drew back, after a moment the weapon began to glow a soft blue, and then she swung. She caught the monster squad in the side and sent him flying into the destroyed wagon, splintering the thing and sending wood flying everywhere.

The monster exploded out of the shattered remains, caught up in the bloody canvas, and Maisy leveled her lance point first at him and activated her other skill. She surged forward, totally unprepaired for the sudden burst of speed. She impaled it, driving her lance deep into its chest and still going. The momentum carried booth Maisy and the monster tumbling to the ground in a heap.

She pushed herself up off the dead monsters chest, shaking her head to try and get her bearing, only to have the thing start to sparkle then dissolve under her, leaving only his sword and head.

She pucked up the head and looks at it in her inventory.

Gromosh the Marauder (Level 3)

She blinked at that.

Maybe she was a little over leveled.

[Jasper19]

Jace wIse up yawning

Once jono is tied up Tanner takes his things back and steals her valuables then sails to a deserted island which he drops her off at and sails away

[Gentlemanvaultboy]

Maisy returned the head to the one armed knight, who seemed actually impressed this time. "You actually went out and did it?" He asked. "I didn't think any of the whelps around here had the nerve."

Maisy beamed at the scripted praise.

"Here." He said, extending a hand and giving her a rose pendant. "Show that to the knight master in the city of Rhea. You're too promising to stay in a backwater like this."

That presented a problem. She couldn't keep doing the night quest without going to a different city, but her freind had told her they should meet here at sundown.

The quest could wait. She still had a lot of time left in the day. She went back outside and practiced with that charge skill she'd gained, trying to control and turn despite the momentum.

[Sharidi37495]

Jono had been discreetly working at the bindings with the knives she’d hidden in her sleeves and she can’t help but smile. She’d pickpocketed every pirate that came in contact with her, some of them bearing a few of the missing relics she’d been sent to recover. She dusts herself off when she gets out of the ropes and made her way to the town. She grins as she retrieves most of the stolen items from her inventory. The captain looks at her amazed. “Your really something else.” Jono rolls her eyes at the praise. “Yeah yeah. Save it for the missus.”

[Shadow Dragon]

He growls in frustration. "Dang it, not advanced enough. Oh well, at least I know where it is."

[PrincessVampora]

V smiles and nods. "Come on then..." she said to him with a smile.

[Shadow Dragon]

He smiles, and releases his spell, walking into the darkness.

[Gentlemanvaultboy]

Maisy skidded to a momentary halt and spun on her heel, pointing her lance in a differed direction as the blue energy flickered off and then flared back up withing a moment. She shot off again in the new direction, right at the town wall. Cutting the power before impact she turned again, zipping along parallel to the wall until she ended up right back at the entrance.

It had been pretty hard to get up to this sort of control. For the first few hours it had been like running around with an unstable rocket strapped to her back, ever activation throwing her over every time she used it, but after a while she'd started getting a feel for it. How much speed she gained, how much control she had during the burst, how long it went, how to cancel her forward momentum. That last one had been a god send, because it was after she learned she could do that that she'd started trying to pivot to new directions.

Now? She though she was pretty good at it. She'd even used it to plow over a few more of those weird wolves and birds as she'd practiced. It turned out you didn't even need to hit full on to do damage. All in all, it was a really useful move while also being embarrassingly fun to do.

But the sun was giving down now, and not inky did she have a meeting to get to but she really didn't want to accidentally zip into a river in the dark. So she walked back into the main squad of town, found a nice place to cit at the central fountain, and patiently waited.