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World of Light

Level 5: 30/50
Word Count: Short
Location: Apex of the World
Points Gained: 1
NEW EXP balance--- Level 5: 31/50

Jesse didn’t get what the big deal about momentum was, but she wasn’t interested in causing an argument. But in her opinion…waiting for a little wasn’t hard. Maybe she had just built up an immunity from all the boring jobs she had held in her time. As long as she had something to look forward too she didn’t mind exercising some patience. The Director looked at the bottom of the Pit at Midna’s suggestion.

“I could jump down there. Getting back up would be impossible for me by myself.” She said.

Then, the others returned from Phalanx and the plan was explained.

“Uh oh. Fuck.” Jesse said, looking up at the incoming serpent. “Guess we have to finish what we started after all.” With that, she used Shield to bolster Braum’s defense. As the hero was knocked thoroughly on his ass for his efforts, Jesse shook her head, annoyed that he’d gotten hurt like that.

Jesse watched the flyers go chase the serpent, and Jesse watched, still having to bide her time. “Best I can do is start firing at it if it starts coming too close at us.” If she had her Levitation abilities she could have been on it by now. She’d just have to do her best to help from the ground.

World of Light

Level 1: 0/10
Location: Limsa Lominscuttle- Kanzuki Beach
Word Count: 881
Points Gained: 2
New EXP Balance--- Level 1: 2/10

Karin Kanzuki was in a good mood.

Word had just gotten back that the Seekers of Light had defeated the Abyssal Fleet. This eternal war that had hung over the heads of everyone in Limsa Lominscuttle had finally ended, and Karin couldn’t be happier about it. The oceans were safe again, and looking over the horizon didn’t mean looking out towards a battlefield. The entire thing had been a damper on her spirits since she had arrived, though of course she kept on training and fighting in the dubiously legal sea-faring fighting tournaments.

It was only fair, then, that these Seekers be rewarded for their efforts. Karin had the resources and the means to do so. Otherwise their return would be marked with very little fanfare, and that wouldn’t do at all. Thus, she had to invite all of them to her beautiful estate.

"Ishizaki-san!" She had said, pacing in her office. "Write this down!" She said. “You got it, Kanzuki-sama!” He replied, flexing his typing fingers and working on one of those new fangled computers with flat screens instead of big boxy ones.

Karin spoke deliberately and thoughtfully. "Dear follower…no. Dear accomplice, of the illustrious Seekers of Light. On behalf of the city of Limsa Lominscuttle Town, I wish to thank you and yours for your heroic -and definitive- efforts to keep our city safe. As a show of our appreciation, I wish to extend you an invitation to my beautiful seaside estate for an all-day beach party. We have all manner of activities and diversions on offer, as well as full catering, with a barbeque lunch, a well-stocked bar, and a specialty dinner come evening. Hmm…yes, I shant be inviting anyone else. Don’t write that last part down, that was just my thoughts. Without any crowds you can expect to relax and enjoy yourselves to your hearts’ content, so please stop by the southern shoreline district. Best regards, Kanzuki Karin.”

"Ah, yes. My oration skills are as immaculate as ever. They’d be fools to reject my invitation." Karin boasted to the wall. Ishikazi nodded sagely.

"Ishikazi-san!" She clapped her hands together. ”Begin preparations immediately." As she glanced over, she saw he had already been on the phone to organize catering. Karin smiled appreciatively. "Dutiful as ever. Thank you, that will be all. I shall change into my swimwear."

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Karin lay on the beach in her white bikini, enjoying the sun’s rays and pleasant weather. The view was gorgeous as well, though some part of her mind surely knew it wasn't quite as she remembered it. Not very many giant white spikes off the coast of Malaysia, the original location of the Kanzuki Estate. Her face was protected with a large straw hat and her closed eyes were under fancy sunglasses. No doubt her guests would be arriving shortly. Birdie had already made himself at home. Karin liked having him around. Birdie had a high fight intelligence and knew how to throw his weight around. And with her training, he had only improved. His role as a bodyguard was mostly a way for her to get someone else to remove pests with her only having to snap and point. In truth, Birdie was a test for Karin. If she could manage to gain the loyalty of an ex-member of Shadaloo, then no doubt Karin was worthy of leadership. Though right now, Karin’s eyes opened as she sensed someone approaching. And Birdie was still first in line! Making the Seeker wait, even.

The elegant Karin calmly removed her sunglasses and her temper promptly flashed like a grenade. "Birdie!" She snapped. The man paused, eyes widening slightly as he glanced over.

Karin glanced at Nadia and smiled pleasantly and apologetically, rising to her feet. "Don’t be rude, dear. Let our honored guests go first.”

Birdie turned around and stared at Nadia for a moment. “Mm. Right.” He finished stuffing a muffin into his mouth and stepped aside with some vague attempt at a bow. “Welcome to the estate n’all that, yadda yadda, meals on the house.”

"Thank you, Birdie." Karin said. Birdie lumbered off, taking his assorted snacks with him and going to enjoy his relaxed, lazy day at the beach. One of many relaxed, lazy days on the beach.

"Apologies about him. He’s a recent hire, you see." She turned over her shoulder to watch him go, a thoughtful frown crossing over her features. Karin noted she ought to make him fight her ninjas again once she had the chance. Sparing no longer than a moment on these thoughts she turned to Nadia and the cordial smile returned with a sweeping gesture to the amenities available. Available was a delectable array of seasoned seafood, some pastries, and lots of kabobs of different kinds.

Welcome to the Kanzuki beach resort! Relax and enjoy yourselves. Hopefully you don’t mind each other’s company too terribly." She said wryly. After all, the beach was best enjoyed with the company of friends. Kanzuki Karin removed her sunglasses and held them by her face, resting her elbow in her palm. Her piercing hazel eyes were addled by the ugly and dim red glow of Galeem's influence. Still, she was gracious and had an aura of respectability and dignity. (Currently, anyway.) In some other place, this lady was a big shot to say the least.

Dungeon Clearer! A Fantasy Adventurer RP

Ah oh man, sorry. Okay. My spring break is officially started, I got done writing a paper so...gonna try to post

World of Light

Level 5: 30/50
Word Count: Short
Location: Apex of the World
Points Gained: 1
NEW EXP balance--- Level 5: 31/50

Some of the Phantom Thieves, Mao, and Braum all seemed on board with the forming plan to destroy the statues and see what happens. If nothing works, they’d kill Phalanx. If killing Phalanx and destroying the statues didn’t work, they’d probably piss off some ancient nature God and be cursed to never travel across moving water again or some shit like that. But it would be better than leaving empty handed without having tried everything.

Everyone seemed ready to go, the social momentum leaning strongly towards immediate action. Jesse decided to try her shot at pulling the reins in. She had no authority over the group, and she wouldn’t hold it against them if they moved now. Still. Sometimes a dissenting voice in and of itself could be useful, even if ignored.

“Hold on, guys.” Jesse held up a hand. “It’s probably best we play it cool for now. We have no idea what’ll happen when we break these things. If it fucks with them up there, that’ll be on us. If it unleashes some giant monster on us, the party’ll be split.” Jesse said. “I don’t think we’re pressed for time. We should wait for the other half of our team to come aground before we make any executive decisions.” She said.

“Don’t accidentally break it, either. It’s extremely fragile.” She added with a slight smile, glancing up at the statue. Any one here could break it with a flick of their wrist. Literally, in Braum’s case.

Certainly after her solo debacle involving running off without letting anyone know, Jesse wasn’t eager to repeat the mistake of splitting the party anymore than necessary. It was unwise to make any moves in this World of Light without being fully prepared to face the consequences. Normally Jesse would be half-way done breaking them by now, but just like when she was with her Rangers, she couldn’t afford to dive ahead. Other people’s safety was at stake. It was one thing to put herself in danger for the hell of it, another thing entirely to put others in danger without their consent.

World of Light

Level 5: 29/50
Word Count: Short
Location: Apex of the World
Points Gained: 1
NEW EXP balance--- Level 5: 30/50

Jesse watched Raz climb up on the statues. “Yeah. I think they’re holding up this big ringer. I’m not exactly sure how upside down bell physics work, but if these statues broke I bet they’d make a big noise. Maybe something magical would happen.” Jesse said with a shrug.

Raz voiced his doubts about killing the monster. “Honestly kid, all I know about that monster is that it matches the description.” The Director said. “We have to kill the champions. I don’t know how we tell what is or isn’t a guardian, or how we got the description in the first place or who knows what a guardian looks like.” She rolled her shoulder, a habit of hers.

“All I know is some secret organization made of enemies of Galeem are apparently backing us Seekers up. And apparently a lady told us what the Champion looks like.” Jesse said. “I just hope I backed the right horse. I’m kinda wingin’ it here. Not like that’s anything new for me or anyone else.”

Jesse squinted up at Phalanx, spotting the tiny dots of the Seekers on top of it. Once again she took in the expansive scope of the bell, and the very long walk she would have to take to get to the center of it and it’s ringer. It was a very big bell. One could fit a city inside. Jesse looked at the statues holding up the ringer again. If she squinted, she could see more around the rim. What would happen if they broke all of them and let whatever they were holding up fall? Her desire to help was matched by her curiosity. This World of Light was full of wonders. Even just a little while ago, she encountered a mysterious monster that the others had missed. She’d have to tell them that story later.

“There’s a non-zero chance this entire bell is an Altered Item of some kind. And if I know my boss fights, sometimes you have to summon the boss. Or maybe the boss of this area is just a weird floating snake that doesn’t do shit. Or maybe the giant snake is going to get really really angry and power up if Midna and the others mess with it. I really don’t know. In my experience it’s best to just go for it and see what happens. If they kill that giant snake and nothing happens, we should ring the bell and see if an even bigger monster comes out.” She had a very casual attitude about the whole thing.

World of Light

Level 7: 59/70
Location: Carcass Isle- Kosm's Beach -> Back to Spooky Caves
Word Count: short
Points Gained: 1
New EXP Balance--- Level 7: 60/70

Sakura followed Rika, Kamek, Link, and Bella. The more she and the others committed to this little trip, the better she felt about it. People always said Sakura had a lot of energy. Besides, she thought, it might feel weird to just go straight home after fighting and killing a giant horrible monster. Maybe she needed time to wind down first! Mentally. Like an epilogue, almost.

“Man. Can’t believe all that really happened. That was so crazy.” Sakura said, brushing some of the leftover dust off her skirt. “It was really hard. And we lost people. But we did win. One step closer to stopping Galeem.” She managed. "We beat one boss in two days. Two are done already. At this rate, we’re only like, eighteen of adventuring away from winning? Or twenty, I guess, since we’ll have to destroy Galeem too and that’ll probably be a whole thing.”

“Who knows? Maybe everything will go back to normal once we beat Galeem.” She said as they walked back into the cave. “And the people that are gone will all… come back to life.” She scratched her head, wondering if she really believed that. But the thought of what would happen AFTER they beat Galeem hadn’t really occurred to her too much. All she knew was that the World of Light was the shiniest, biggest, and most beautiful hellish prison in the world. A place where she tried to kill someone as close to her as Ryu.

“I just hope all the other Abyssal Princesses can…get out of this.” From what she had seen, almost all of them were just people trapped inside bodies and mentalities they had no control over. Victims as much as anyone else.

“And don’t forget to check on New Southern.” Sakura said. She sighed, pondering the vastness of their situation. It wasn’t just vast, it was unbelievably compact. This whole world was squished together. Nothing had room to breathe. Even the long distance she had traveled, from one side of the World of Light to another, had only taken a couple months. That was nothing. It was all just…so much! Fortunately, Sakura was pretty good at handling heavy things.

World of Light

Level 7: 57/70
Location: Carcass Isle- Kosm's Beach
Word Count: not 500
Points Gained: 2
New EXP Balance--- Level 7: 59/70

Sakura watched as everything exploded and stopped. And that was it. Sakura’s shoulders dropped and she let out a long, low sigh of relief. She wiped a tear from her eye as she saw the tar recede and the hands reach up to the sky. There was still a sense of wonder as she saw all of these impossible things. Even if it was tampered by how she had gone to a relatively normal teenage girl to a battle hardened veteran over the course of a day and a half.

Elation of victory plus bad times. Sakura didn’t know how to feel.

She watched, worriedly, as Geralt decided to take the spirit into himself. It was either that or let it come back and have to kill it all over again later, so they didn’t really have a choice. While she didn’t mean to be selfish…no way was she taking that thing into herself. No freaking way. She didn’t want to be a giant ugly crazy old baby. She’d rather fight it all over again than do that.

Much to her delight though, the changes weren’t drastic at all, and Geralt seemed the same as usual. If anything, he looked a little more normal now that he wasn’t cartoonishly giant. Sakura gave him reassuring side hug and skipped on over to Link’s side.

Infact, she would offer hugs to anyone who would accept it. Add +1 Sakura Hug to your inventory.

She considered Blazermate and the Koopa Troop’s ideas. “As much as I would like to get straight back to Limsa…” Sakura began.

“Oh, man. I want to get straight back to Limsa. Alright, Link, Kamek. I’ll come with you two guys but we should seriously make this quick. I want to sit on a freaking chair.” Sakura said. She hadn’t even had the luxury of sitting on a simple, comfortable chair. With that small bit of complaining out of the way, she followed the wizard and the hero on their quest to measure the stability of a newly liberated region.

"It's like we're the United Nations or something." She muttered under her breathe. She paused as Link briefly considered Delsin's sad spirit. The fact that he didn't get revived after all broke her heart. And the street fighter wasn't sure what to do with the spirit, either. Personally, she only took Arashio's spirit as a spur of the moment decision to help people. Thinking of a living person, an ally, as an upgrade didn't feel right at all. Rubbing her elbow, she seemed relieved that Link thought to just keep the issue for later.

World of Light

Level 5: 29/50
Word Count: Still short but not as short
Location: Apex of the World
Points Gained: 1
NEW EXP balance--- Level 5: 30/50

Jesse could tell what Tora was thinking. “I mean, no shit, big monster.” She said. She nodded over at Poppi. “Thanks. I just wanted to be sure.” She looked at the giant thing and the great, precarious heights around them. This was quite a lot to take in. Jesse imagined it would be colder.

She watched as an airborne contingent of their troupe zipped off to do battle with the Guardian stone serpent. Evade made avoiding fall damage easy as long as she had some Energy, but it was nowhere near as efficient or as reliable as Levitate. She decided to let stay grounded for now and let them take a shot at the great beast. With an unsure wave to yet another fucked up old-timer she followed Primrose and her new friend to the great bronze statues holding up the ringer of the inverted bell.

She ran a hand along the oxidized bronze. It reminded her of the Statue of Liberty. Before Midna teleported away, she vocalized her suspicions about the situation. "I guess I just thought the Guardian would be guarding something more obvious. Like a big treasure vault or something. Guess it's not an archetype." Jesse knocked her knuckles on the bronze statues.

“Well. If we want to make a lot of noise, I could no-collide these statues and bring the ringer down. See if it actually, uh, rings. Maybe it’ll do something magical.” Jesse pondered aloud to Primrose. “Or I could find a high spot and start taking pot shots at the big monster and see if that helps anyone.” She approached the edge of the walkway and peered over it, the toes of her shoe hanging over the edge. She whistled appreciatively. Somebody somewhere put a lot of work into this thing. And now it’s been cut and paste into a random mountain top in the biggest fruit salad any dimension ever knew.

World of Light

Level 7: 53/70
Location: Carcass Isle- Kosm's Beach
Word Count: 575
Points Gained: 4
New EXP Balance--- Level 7: 57/70

Skidding to a stop, Sakura turned and watched the headless creature fall, burst, and die. She had crushed right through. With the help of her friends, the thing was practically on deaths door, and she had shoved it over the threshold. She felt...strange. Hollow about it. The thrill of victory hadn't reached her heart. They'd lost people. Some permanently. But was that really it? Surely, their deaths weren't for nothing?

Sakura skidded back over to the beach and sat down on it, holding her face in her hands and listening to Peach's speech. "Is it really over?" She asked quietly. She dropped her hands and stared at the grainy sand below. "Doesn't feel like it's over." As mentions of the missing spirit was brought up, Sakura began to really suspect they were missing something.

And they were. Because now a hand-faced, chest-eyed, black tar giant showed up and flooded the entire beach with ooey gooey.

"Whaaa-?" Was all Sakura could say, utterly baffled. Instinctively at this point, she went to activate her harness. It pushed her up slightly but her sneakers were still caught in the muck.

"Huh? No way!" She cried out. Still, Sakura was no sloud when it came to wading, and she just pulled and struggled until she reached higher, solid ground. "Gueehhh...yuck!" She said, the liquid absolutely drenching her socks and sneakers.

She looked back up at the mammoth creature, awe struck once again into inaction. It felt like sizing up to fight a skyscraper. And worst of all, it had minions. Flying jelly fish. Nadia and Link pulled some insane stunt that bounced right off. "What IS that thing?! What are we going to do?!" She shouted on her little island.

"Hadoken!" Using her special anti-air fireballs, she blasted at one of the jelly fish. Both the fireball and the jellyfish exploded. And the creature did Sakura the favor of detonating all of the other jellyfish around it as well.

"That's something." She said. They were settling all over the field. Worst than that were the hovering golden humanoids that were making their way towards the Seekers with malicious intent. Sakura's lips tightened and she levelled a cannon at the enemy.

Click.

"Ehhh?!" Sakura wailed, staring at her gun in disbelief. "Out of ammo! That's possible?!"

Just past the eyeline of her gun, a figure emerged from the tar. A familiar shape. It was a lady from the Azure Navy! Baffled, Sakura turned around to see what the others thought, only to see several of them getting similar visitors. Geralt, Nadia, and the others. Thinking of the Azure navy, her eyes briefly fell on Bella. She whirled back around to the ghost.

"A-arashio-san?!" The spectre underhand tossed a cartoonish looking ammo box her way. Sakura reached out to catch it, but when she did it vanished, and she felt her cannons become heavier with ammo. "I- I don't know- I'm sorry-" Sakura began.

Arashio swept a hand towards the oncoming missiles as if to refocus Sakura's attention on the incoming projectiles. Then she began to sink back into the tar, back to wherever it was she was now. "Arigato!" Sakura called out. Not just for the ammo.

Then she turned and pulverized a golden specter out of the air only a few meters away. The shards showered her as she turned and focused fire on the other golden humanoid projectiles. Protecting her teammates with these cannons that she borrowed for one last fight.

World of Light

Level 5: 27/50
Word Count: Very short please forgive me
Location: Tostarena Town --> Apex of the World
Points Gained: 1
NEW EXP balance--- Level 5: 28/50

Jesse scrambled to the fountain, scooped up a glowing ferrystone, where it activated in her grasp. There was a flash of magic, disappeared. From the middle to the bottom to the top.

With the port crystal place, the haggard director re-appeared with Yellow Team. Alllll the way at the top. She looked around, saw everyone, and swore, running her hand through her red hair. "I am... so fucking sorry. I got distracted." She apologised, taking a moment to take in her new surroundings. Including a quick head count of the Seekers. "Glad to see you all survived without me. Glowing with health, infact. Maybe I was just slowing you down."

Including yet another weird, tired, beat up looking old man. And another giant monster. Definitely fit the description of the boss monsters she had seen so far.

"I'll uh, fill you in later. Is that it?" She asked, squinting up at the flying serpent. "How can we know?" The Service Weapon appeared in her hand.