Jaiden was probably just as relieved as his character had been when the ceiling would stop falling apart. It was especially a relief as he was just barely controlling to keep his sphynx out of the way of it all. It was difficult to avoid on his current virtual reality hardware, which was a generation or two older. It did make it a bit harder to move around whilst
also looking at awkward angles like directly above. Zooming out to third person, wasn't currently allowed due to settings.
Jaiden did however notice an odd silohutte in the shadows as light continued to flood the room. He could vaguely make it out to be humanoid which was, odd. But hardly had the time to piece things together before the jester would end up revealing himself in the light and introducing themselves.
He'd flick a tab here Goibniu to drink one of the starter playing potions to give him a bit of time. It would give light healing to Goibniu and give him an excuse to mess with something else.
Given a couple of hot keyed buttons on his hand controllers, Jaiden would turn on video recording. Along with opening an in depth logger for the game. It'd be a pain to decipher later, but it should help track things.
Maybe he could do more, but that would be risky and perhaps disrupting for a multitude of reasons.
It would take a minute or two, leaving Goibniu fairly silent to respond until well after Howitzer yelled out.
Goibniu would have probably finished the potion by then.
The few he had.
Goibniu the character, would stare at the jester and drink down a potion. Before standing there in silence for a few moments. Perhaps alluding to being deep in thought, or something else. Either way the Jester would get an cold blank stare for a couple minutes or two.
He would have heard about the Jester one way or another by now.
Actually seeing them show up, especially on their first dungeon crawl with a rather scrapped together and random party seemed a highly unlikely situation.
Neither the character nor the player would trust this figure. Although both would have similar thoughts of surviving a bout with them, minimal chance. Even less after a boss giving the team organization skills and structure weren't honed or likely strong enough yet. Given how the rogue had managed to slaughter through a guild search party or two prior. Fighting immediately seemed a bit fruitless without the preparation, and there was a bit more to know, to find out. What Goibiniu wanted may-
"I do have to admit, I don't quite appreciate criticism of one of my fellow members from a rogue who'd rather hide away than contribute. Especially one who's not in this party themselves."Goinbiu huffed.
"But, while I can't speak for the party I do have a suggestion to make up for your insult. How about you join us and then head onward with us so that we'll retrieve the artifact. I'll even hand the item over myself if that's agreeable among everyone here. Otherwise,... why even show yourself to persons who don't have the artifact for your boss? It would benefit all of us to at least observe the thing, and your boss might be happier to hear about... some willing to assist if he can expand his purpose."Goibniu would bargain.
Not wanting to witness a total loss. His arm vaguely outstretched as if to block Howitzer from approaching.
Although his automaton would be shield defensively in front of him either way from its automated command.
While Goibniu would wait for a response back.
A message would pop up in team chat:
Team Chat:
Goibniu_The_Waylander: Would someone kindly pick up items for me? Probably going to be the first to drop, but let's see. |
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This attempt would work in multiple ways. If the bargain did work, then Goibniu would still get a chance to hold and see the artifact for himself
and thus in character research it to a lesser degree , whilst keeping him alive. It could open opportunity to find out more about the jester, and incidentally perhaps some other assassins in Goibniu's background. Although that backstory was made for roleplaying purposes rather than 100% accurate to the game, it was something to consider.
Secondly, if Goibniu received the item, put in inventory to trade over to the Jester.
Jaiden might be able to find a bit more information.
Thirdly, if Jester reacted to the team chat, it would just verify that it was 100% in fact an active hacker instead of some other unusual happenstance. Sometimes games had weird promotions, or underlying issues that weren't fixed, or over-layered in beta.
Fourthly, and perhaps most importantly. It should give his team mates a minute or a few seconds to recharge their cool down skills.
If they were going to die anyways, may as well try and last as long as you could and get some info out of it.
Current Effects:
HP Boost
Automaton Active: Defending (Lightly Damaged)
Resist Disease
Spirit Guardians: Defense Boost to party, along with radiant damage & slowing effects on nearby enemies
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