[IC] Living in Aincrad: a SAO RP

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

Ayame looked at Umichi with a small bit of distaste as he kept adding 'leader' to the end of his statements; reminding someone of their new position over and over would only serve to increase the pressure on Suki even more. Turning to Suki herself, Ayame nodded in agreement.

"I'd like to know why he was so deep into the labyrinth and didn't return in the first place, but that obviously has to wait until he wakes up. If anything, I'd like to make sure his inventory's stocked with those recovery items; he was surprisingly low HP for a majority of that time, and I think he would have used something to heal up if he could. But in the end, I'm on board with that suggestion; it's too early to be rushing headfirst into battle like this."

Quickly bringing up her inventory screen, Ayame checked over the items she had and the status of her equipment. Seeing that she was pretty much topped off on everything that she deemed necessary, Ayame quickly closed the screen and waited around for everyone else.

[MarshiestMallow]

Suki tried not to show that she was relived that Ayame wasn't going to object, and relaxed slightly, smiling. "Awesome. Well, I can give him some potions and stuff" She said, "When he wakes, I'll send him the items over in a trade" She said, already opening her inventory, to send some to Timi and Paka, unsure if Umichi needed any. She gave both Timi and Paka a good supply of potions, looking to Umichi, "Do you see anything wrong with what I suggested?" She asked, "And do you need any health potions"

It didn't seem like Paka or Timi had any objections, for which Suki was glad. She was eager to get going, but knew they needed to rest and prepare. They knew virtually little of the labyrinth, so it was better to prepare, she thought, then not.

[Little_ninja]

Hm... so that's the way she wants to do it Umichi thought, smiling a little to himself. Upon being asked the question, he replied, "Anything wrong? I think it's not so much about being right or wrong, just being reasonable. Anyway, everything about it was fine." he smiled at her. Then realizing he wasn't really doing what he had planned, he mentally sighed. Well I didn't think I could keep it up anyway.

"Anyway, I'll take some potions I guess. I am mostly prepared, so, just some free time till Fujiwara wakes I guess?" Umichi asked. While asking, he sent a little message to Suki, that asked, "A mini date? =D?" he included an emoticon. When he sent it, he continued to look through his friends list, to see who he could message to get some outsource information. Suddenly one of them messaged him, asking about if they had received a pot plant from a quest, wondering what it does. Umichi replied, "No, what quest is this?" And he was told about an old man living in a forest west of Okinaba. Hm... it would be possible for me to get there and back within a couple of hours, and before Fujiwara wakes. Let's see what I will do later.

[MarshiestMallow]

Suki smiled happily, as Timi and Paka accepted her potions. She was glad that over all there were no objections, and was pleased that everyone seemed to think it was a good idea. She wondered briefly is a leader had to be confident in their ability to lead or not, but she didn't contemplate that long as she sent Umichi some potions, making sure she still had some for herself as she did so. She checked to see if she had everything she needed, then hesitated. She had gone and undertaken the fated weapon Quest, and had, with Cleo, designed a rapier. She hadn't used it yet, but with the enhancements she had brought for it, it was a good weapon and one she thought she could use better then with her Annael blade. So after a minutes thought, she equipped it.

rapier, "falling leaf"

It was light weight, and it had a good reach, being approximately 110cm long, making it slightly easier for her to attack without being close up to her opponents, and being light weight she could use it faster, and longer then with th Annael blade. It was also good for thrusting, and she knew it would be an effective weapon.

As she equipped it, she saw the email from Umichi, and she smiled, and couldn't help but blush. It was actually reassuring to her that despite everything, she could still blush. Maybe it was just with Umichi. She didn't waste much time replying with "sounds perfect!".

Timi was quite content to stay in the inn until they left for the labyrinth, and she turned to Yui, who really seemed to enjoy looking after and playing with Yui, after accepting Suki's trade of potions, smiling. She rubbed her eyes, and stretched, content.

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Yui

She smiled happily at Suki knowing she handled the Fujiwara situation and opened her menu to check up onto her armour. The sword seemed to be on half durability and she was good on potions after what last happened with the wolfs. She closed her menu again and faced Timi. She dropped her body onto the bench with her chest down and looked up at Timi. She began talking like nothing just happened "Shall we go do a quest or train outside, I heard from the others that your level isnt that high." She gave a wide smile to her while she lifted her upper body so that she could lean onto her elbows "We could take it slowly or, look for something fun to play inside." She moved even upper body even further up sitting on her hands and moved her face closer to Timi "Well what do you say Timi-chan."

[FujiwaraPhoenix]

Ayame unconsciously glanced upstairs through the corner of her eye before smiling at Suki.
"Thanks, I'd really appreciate it. I think I'll probably stay here until Fujiwara regains consciousness; I don't know how he'll react when he wakes up, but I'll just be here to make sure nothing crazy happens. More likely than not I'll end up mulling things over in my head until then." she stated, looking at the others for approval. "I'll be fine; don't worry about me."

Glancing back upstairs again, Ayame let out a slight sigh before closing her eyes and beginning to think. The core group that everyone was a part of right now was just about at maximum capacity; if she remembered correctly, only one more person could join them at this point in time. But there remained the issue now; the last person to complete the group. They'd have to synergize with a majority of the group and, if possible, fill whatever niche left such that they group as a whole wouldn't be too overspecialized in combat... Which probably meant no more katana users for the time being.
"Hm... Maybe someone to keep the enemies off the bigger threats in our team...?" she asked herself quietly before returning to her thoughts. Maybe being overspecialized wasn't that debilitating to the group, but at the same time...

Shaking her head, Ayame pushed the thoughts of strategizing out of her head. The possibility of her being wrong compared to others who had much more experience than she did meant that it was more likely for them to be right than she did. Instead, she shifted her thoughts back to her studies, trying to recall as much as she could of her classes prior to the whole incident.

"Wait... Why didn't I think of this sooner?" she asked before bringing out a self-directed note window from the interface and began typing. "The downtime leaves me a chance to recall all this information so I don't forget everything by the time I get out, which means the troubles won't grow larger when we get out." she said to herself as she began digging through her thoughts and typing things down. "Actually, this entire ordeal could be considered a social experiment of sorts. Unethical as could be, but still."
Shrugging, Ayame continued to type away. Documenting what had happened in this death game would ultimately be for the better... Or so she hoped. The manual for the NerveGear did say that saving files to the local memory of the system was possible, so the idea wasn't entirely out of reach...

[MarshiestMallow]

Timi smiled and shrugged, but it was clear that she was thinking. "I think we should go train some..." She said trailing off. She didn't want to be. Burden to the group and didn't want to be the weak link, so she wanted to train, but didn't want to take up all their time, but if Yui was willing to help her, Timi would take the chance.

"Of that's okay with you, Yui-chan" she said, looking down. "I'm happy to do anything" she said, "I want to see about getting my weapon enhanced too..." It was clear that she wanted to be able to have her gear battle ready and that she wanted to be able to contribute to the group.

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Yui

Yui sat upright again when she heared that Timi would love to join her on a adventure. A sudden thing came to mind when she tought about grinding somewhere most people looked through the guidebook for quest so maybe there would be a fitting quest in there. She opened up her menu again and selected the guidebook. While carefully looking through it for any quest she glance at Timi from time to time to look if she was doing anything cute. It was hard to keep her eyes away from the girl she didnt even need to do anything for being that cute.

"I'll invite you to a new party that might be a bit easier to do then stay in this one." She left the main party and made a new on inviting Timi in the progress "We can do this quest 'Sasamaru's Daughter' It says it gives a free enchantment by chance. With some luck we can enchant your sword and train you at the same time. We should also make some rules before we go do anything stupid." She pondered for a moment raising her finger to her chin just to make it look like she was thinking really hard about it.

"How about I'll get the monsters to attack me and get them to 10 % of their health and you can go and kill them. If anything goes wrong use a teleportation crystal to Tolbana and ill come and get you again. but... we might need one more person just to be sure somebody not to high leveled." She looked over at Ayame who was typing a message and hoped from the seat, Walking over at Ayame "Ayame, We should do a quest with the three of us if you have any time."

[Little_ninja]

Starting to get up, Umichi spoke, "Well, since we are waiting, I guess we are doing our own things, I am going to walk out for a moment." Looking over to Suki, he glanced at her, with a smile, indicating that he would be waiting. He noticed her equip a rapier and started to think about an idea. But his thoughts were interrupted hearing Yui suggest to do the quest Sasamaru's Daughter. "Um... not to ruin your fun, but that quest is a bit far from here. Unless you are willing to use a few crystals, it will take at least an hour and half to get to Horunka, due to the path you have to take being a bit winded. I mean, we've been here for a few hours already. It's already 1245. I wouldn't be surprised if Fujiwara woke up any moment now. If you want to go, I won't stop you, just recommending you to do it later, unless you use a few crystals. But they aren't exactly cheap crystals, you know. I hear they get more scarce in the later levels. Anyway, just letting you know, it will take you a while if you travel by foot. Okay, laters." he walked out waving.

Stepping outside, he went around the corner. He wasn't trying to stop Yui and Timi or anything, it was just that he wasn't sure if they knew how much time it would take just to travel, let alone possibly do the quest. Looking over the details of the message he got earlier about another quest from a friend, Umichi tried to figure out how long it would take. Probably about an hour and a half by foot as well. I mean, a few hours should be enough to get Fujiwara some rest and get up for a while before going to bed tonight. Well, if it takes too long for him to wake, then let's see what Suki says. I would probably say, that everyone was free to do as they needed for the day, and that the Labyrinth exploration would be tomorrow. Anyway, if Fujiwara wakes up late, he will probably go off on his own again. I guess I will need to keep an eye on him. Umichi decided to take some responsibility to oversee his teammate depending on the circumstances. He stood around the corner, waiting for Suki.

[MarshiestMallow]

Timi had heard if that quest, and from what she heard, it could take a while to complete, and she didn't want to hold anyone back. It seemed like it might be something they would take all day to complete, and so worried that that would mean they were stopping everyone else from continuing on to the labyrinth, but it didn't seem like it would be a problem to do the quest other then that. She did have a couple of crystals to other towns, so it would just be a simple thing of activating them.

She nodded, and smiled brightly "it sounds like a good idea, Yui-chan" she said softly "if we can get to Horunka and not be too long" she said, "I just don't want to be a burden" she was still fearful that if she was, they would leave her and she didn't want that to happen. Didn't think she could stand it of that happened again. She swallowed and looked down.

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Suki smiled, and turned to Paka, "I'm going to go get my rapier enhanced, and see about a few things too. I'll be fine. Make sure that if Fujiwara does wake up in the best few hours that he doesn't try and get himself killed again, okay? In other words, try and make up. Fujiwara is a friend, and a team mate. Which means no being angry forever, so get that brooding look of you face" she gave him a hug, and also have Timi a hug "do what Yui says, okay? And if you guys get into any trouble, send a message quick smart. I'll go buy crystals to every town, so I can just be there in a second and find you" after making sure they were okay, she headed out the inn, happy.

So far she wasn't making a fool of herself at least. She did wonder what they would do if Fujiwara didn't wake for a while, and then what they would do then-they couldn't have Fujiwara turning nocturnal on them. She bit her lip, and looked about for Umichi, and as she turned the corner, saw him "hey"

[Little_ninja]

"Hey" Umichi replied, with his left hand up. "Otsukaresama deshita! I hope that Yui and Timi stay safe. Can't even check on their health since they left the party." as he spoke, he kicked off the wall he was leaning on around the corner and approached Suki. "So ... I choose what to do last night ... so, anything you want to do, ojou-sama?" Slightly leaning forward with his head like a bow, he offered her his hand. Throughout this, he smiled gently. "By the way, it is a nice rapier. It's probably a speed type right? Generally speaking rapiers are used for quick thrusts and stabs. I wonder, what's faster, the system assisted sword skill or my reaction time ..." He spoke out, thinking about being able to move faster, reacting faster.

He threw the thought out of his head, Right now is some alone time with Suki, I should be enjoying it to the fullest. Suki's flax hair gave her a slightly foreigner feel, in conjunction with the rapier, it seemed like she was a high class lady from Europe. "The rapier really suits you, it makes you seem like a high class lady from Europe, with your lovely flax hair." Umichi let his thoughts out, commenting Suki's appearance and smiling.

[MarshiestMallow]

Suki smiled, and shrugged "Timi and Yui will be okay. Yui won't let anything happen to Timi, she already loves her" she said, not too concerned about them, but still worried that they would get into trouble. She took his hand when he offered it, still smiling, looking her rapier when he mentioned it. "It seemed like a better weapon, at least for me" she said, blushing when he said it made her look like a high class lady. "Um" she cleared her throat "what to do? We could do a quest if there's one or just find somewhere to hang out" she said brightly. It was nice, despite the chaos of the day, to just be able to hang out with Umichi.

She tried to think if there was somewhere they could go, but didn't know everything about this floor aside from the towns and monster areas, and didn't know anywhere they could go together. If this was back in the real world, there would be plenty of places, but here... "Do you know anywhere we can go?" She asked

[InvariantName]

Sorry for taking so long to post Jangel.

Jangel13 said
sure why not, we need to keep grinding. We both need to make at least a level 10 if we want to keep moving and try the boss. Honestly we need to work together since were in a party their will most likely be more then one to attack us during a fight. Also I was able to make level 3 on my own but someone bothered to help me by giving me advice and using a howl ability to bring in monsters so I could level up to 4 right now I just made 5 with you so im on my way and so should you" Angelo said smiling as he went to walking looking for some more boars knowing that he would need to find larger prey later on if he was going to keep leveling up and try against the boss battle later on with his partner.....

"Sounds good dude." Sanshain said while putting away his Katana and putting his hands in his pockets. He then began to walk more with Lorenzo. Sanshain was kinda tired wanted to go home actually. As much as he hated the real world, he missed it. He thought it was strange how he could hate something so much and then turn right around and miss it. He then thought to himself, If you live some where for so long you begin to take it for granite and begin focusing on the things you don't have. Now I see that I have taken the real world for granite. I began focusing on the things I didn't have in the real world, friends, fame, love, power, strength and happiness. I can't believe I was so stupid. Sanshain sighed at his thought. it made him want to cry honestly but he didn't he needed to keep strong to fight the next enemies they came across.

[Little_ninja]

Erecting his back as Suki took his hand, Umichi smiled at the blush on Suki's face. With Suki unsure of what to do, Umichi thought for a moment. I don't know what there is to do in a town. Maybe just a little grinding or a quest would be better. But what quest? After a moment, he spoke, "Well, there's this one that sounds odd, that says something involving a pot plant that a friend told me, but, the location is a bit out of the way. It would take about an hour and a half to get there it seems. On the other hand ... we could try to repeat that Cows of the counterattack quest. I think it will be up. I mean it is close by, and the Minotaur actually doesn't pose much of a problem to me, although it does take a while to kill. What do you think?" Umichi suggested, turning to Suki.

He was enamored by Suki's feeling of a foreign beauty, and although the Dire Fang Necklace didn't quite fit the theme, the accessory somehow fit Suki, it seemed more like a jewel carved into the shape of a fang rather than a genuine fang for some reason. The accessory only offered an increased armor bonus of 1. It was more decorative than for defense or stats. Then he remembered about his own shoulder pad. "Hm... Actually, there is a chance of going into the Labyrinth and getting a treasure chest. But I can't be sure if it has come up again, or if it will at all, unlike the quest. And I cannot guarantee that no-one else has taken or discovered it. What do you think Suki?"

[MarshiestMallow]

Suki listened happily, thinking and debating about what to do. "I still have cream left over from the last cows of the counter attack" she said, "a new quest, even if it's odd, would be interesting, I think!" She said brightly, "as long as we have a Tolbana crystal each, it's only one way of travel right? In sure Fujiwara won't be up for more then that at least" she didn't think that they would end up going to the labyrinth with everyone until late this afternoon, and she thought that maybe it would just be better to do it tomorrow. She guess that they would find out later. She still kept it in the back of her mind.

She smiled "what type of quest is it? I'm sure we will have plenty of time to find treasure chests when we search through the labyrinth when we make our way to the boss floor, right?" She said "I'm not sure how treasure chests work, but they're probably like the boars, wolves and Nepents, have a period of stasis before reappearing" Suki was interested in new quests, and even though Umichi thought it was a bit odd, that made it seem more interesting. Now she wanted to know what a pot plant had to do with a quest.

[Jangel13]

InvariantName said
"Sounds good dude." Sanshain said while putting away his Katana and putting his hands in his pockets. He then began to walk more with Lorenzo. Sanshain was kinda tired wanted to go home actually. As much as he hated the real world, he missed it. He thought it was strange how he could hate something so much and then turn right around and miss it. He then thought to himself, Sanshain sighed at his thought. it made him want to cry honestly but he didn't he needed to keep strong to fight the next enemies they came across.

Angelo nodded at him as they kept going and he looked back to see him get lost in thought "you alright back their man?" I asked wondering what he was thinking about. Maybe about the real world but Angelo had no love for the real world considering he lived everyday in pain and misery from his spine problems, when you live in pain long enough you embrace the place where you feel none. Even if this world was only a game and will Angelo if he loses just knowing he will die without feeling pain is enough for him almost like getting an overdose of morphine. ...

[InvariantName]

Jangel13 said
Angelo nodded at him as they kept going and he looked back to see him get lost in thought "you alright back their man?" I asked wondering what he was thinking about. Maybe about the real world but Angelo had no love for the real world considering he lived everyday in pain and misery from his spine problems, when you live in pain long enough you embrace the place where you feel none. Even if this world was only a game and will Angelo if he loses just knowing he will die without feeling pain is enough for him almost like getting an overdose of morphine. ...

"Yeah, I'm good." Sanshain said faking a smile at his friend. He truthfully wasn't okay, he wanted to go back home. He missed waking up and buying coffee, he missed staying up late sitting on his roof, he missed his dog poof and he missed sleeping in and letting the sun shine seep into his room in the middle of the day. He just wanted to go back home and do those things again. He sighed as he spotted another group of boar ahead, about 3 this time.

[Jangel13]

InvariantName said
"Yeah, I'm good." Sanshain said faking a smile at his friend. He truthfully wasn't okay, he wanted to go back home. He missed waking up and buying coffee, he missed staying up late sitting on his roof, he missed his dog poof and he missed sleeping in and letting the sun shine seep into his room in the middle of the day. He just wanted to go back home and do those things again. He sighed as he spotted another group of boar ahead, about 3 this time.

Alright dude whatever your thinking about I suggest you get your head in the fight, cant die today right?" Angelo asked him laughing a little as he charged the trio of boars and of course they all tried to attack Angelo but had already anticipated this as he used <<sweep>> to stop them and bring them all to a safe distance then he charged the one closest to him and Angelo used <<Pawāsutoraiku>> making the boar go down the low red knowing he was getting better at using his spear and soon he would be able to do a single shot kill to these boars then Angelo used his spear as a pole and vaulted over the two boars that tried to attack him and called out "switch!" leaving his new partner to take on the other two....

[chukklehed]

A squeel from behind alerted Angelo that he had entered another boar's field of view. Before he could react to it, though, a red gash appeared across it's body. As it derezzed, a lone figure was outlined in the particles. Without a word the armored figure relaxed her stance and stepped forward, her figure becoming clearer. She wore a helmet with the grille down over her eyes, hiding half her face. Without a word, she nodded to Angelo and lowered her sword point, not sheathing it but keeping it toward the ground in an obviously peaceful way.

[Little_ninja]

Shaking his head, Umichi replied, "We should not become reliant on crystals for convenience. You've seen the difference in prices and the number available from here and the Town of Beginnings. It is likely that to use crystals for convenient travels without danger would be very unwise and cause financial strife. They should be kept for emergency measures. But if you want to go, I do not mind at all." he smiled at her, starting to take the lead.

As he began to walk, he noticed something at an inn. Hm?? Looking at the sign, it said something about a dart tournament. Looking at the prerequisites, it seemed he qualified. "Hey, why don't we drop by this inn? There seems to be a darts competition being held soon." Umichi turned to Suki, asking if she would like to go into the inn. The inn was called Inn of Faith. It used a church cross for the 't', and was in English. It seemed to be a bigger place than the Maiden Inn and bustling with more people.