Katagawa

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((Prometheus was skipped with permission))

(( @Arabelle roll for your item and then we can close this thread up))

Arabelle took another swing and a miss sadly. And Prometheus was nowhere to be found now. Looking towards the creature, Hokori noticed it starting to go towards Arabelle once more after her failed attack. Dropping her sword, she quickly leaped into the path of the creature, hugging it against her spiked armor. The fur scalded her, but she watched as the health bar finished draining and the beast shattered before her eyes. As she fell to the ground, she noticed the rewards screen pop up in front of her. The last hit reward had gone to her, but there was also a general reward that seemed to go to everyone else. Turning towards Arabelle, she just spoke with a calm voice, "Thanks for sticking around to the end." And with that she left without another word, ashamed of her poor ability to keep a team together once and for all

The two continued to bicker, one of them narrowly getting a lick in against the boss. Rolling her eyes, Hokori decided it would be best to ignore the two of them for now. Either that or she would get dragged into their argument. Swinging her blade at the furry creature, she realized that it was also coming at her. She took the hit as gracefully as she could, and her battle healing started to kick in. Hopefully this fight wouldn't have to get to become much worse than it already was right now. It was close to its end. Arabelle should be getting another swing at it anytime now, and if she could get her own thorns to proc against the creature, it should die from that as well. All of them were one small stroke of luck from landing the final hit onto the creature.

Knowing how this has been going though, that luck won't come for quite some time.

*giddy clapping*

A ways from T3 still,  but thank you for progressing my build so much. This will help so much when I get there.

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The creature came towards her, rolling a bit away from her. Seemed their little joke was continuing and Alex had missed his serve. "I don't mind you calling me Kat, seems to be the nickname most people have given me anyhow. Serve!" She went over to the dragon hatchling and propped it up with her foot a little bit, swinging her sword, a little arc of electricity froze it in place as it went sailing towards Alec. "Not too sure how we'll I'd do with tennis in real life. Perhaps we should find a way to make this a fun little sport though. Dragon Tennis. Has a bit of ring to it don't you think?" She had a smile on her face, happy to find the enjoyment within this death trap of a game. It was rare that she actually enjoyed life so much, always working on trying to get the best out of whatever situation she was in instead of working towards any sort of happiness.

Alec didn't seem to mind the failed attacks so much, and honestly didn't seem too bothered by the hatchling attacking him either. As he knocked the dragon back towards her, she tried to swing at it, but her sword was too heavy. The hatchling fell to the ground once more, and started to scamper back towards Alec. "15, Love. Your serve." Well, at least they could make a game out of what was going to be quite the tedious fight. Probably for the best considering neither of them was going to die anytime soon.

Well, at least some fun is coming of getting trapped inside of this game. Maybe being stuck in here isn't the end of the world. But there is still others dying out there to things like this. We need to at least get people into more safety before we can do anything about getting out. Otherwise saving a life on the front line costs us 4 or 5 people dying to mobs or PKers.

This fight was going to be slow, but at least an enjoyable little game of pong had begun to form. The beast chewed up Alec a bit as well, but it seemed he was doing ok from it still. She wasn't quite ready for how the dragon was sent back towards her, so she was only able to stop it with the flat of her blade. Hoping that the hatchling wouldn't go for her she looked towards Alec a little bit sheepishly. "You're serve hopefully." Her eyes flicked back down towards the hathcling, waiting to spring out of the way in case it went for her instead of Alec. She relied more on not getting hit than actually taking hits right now, so she needed to be prepared for whatever she could be.

And let's hope Alec can get more damage than I can do to it. There's no way I'm getting past those scales.

((Symphony told me to just skip her for the rest of the thread))

The two people she needed to be fighting were bickering with each other, and the one other person that they were with seemed to have disappeared from the fight. Perhaps they were still around, but it was unlikely that the boss would be going for them and revealing her location anytime soon. Speaking of which, the boss unfroze and started to come towards Kat, she was able to block the attack with her large sword, but it was all she could do to not take the gnashing teeth of the creature. It may look cute, but it did not seem that friendly. "It doesn't matter who is what right now, can we just sort this out later when we don't have something that's finally moving at us?" She was hoping to kick the two of them into action, but she it came out more as a plea for help than anything.

This was going to be the home stretch, but it was going to be a little while still. Attacking the beast, she could tell it was focused on her now, even if it was paralyzed. This was finally going to steady out a bit now. She figured a little bit more ordering should finish this thing out, even if no one was listening at this point. "Symphony, stay off of it for now while it is still stunned. Arabelle, keep doing what you're doing. Prometheus, only go in if you think you can get a bleed to proc on it. It should be on me and that means until I can take a bigger lead with its aggro we only want to attack with things that will do some harm." Her own attack had put a small dent into the health bar as well, but it wasn't nearly enough for what she needed to be seeing happen. It was close enough though that one more bleed from prometheus should finish the creature off. Either that or they were here until Arabelle could regenerate enough energy to attack once more.

With the beast starting to get ricocheted between the two of them, Hokori quickly struck to send it back towards Alec. He was definitely the one taking the aggro for now, especially considering that he seemed to take minimal damage from the attack itself. At the very east, his health bar hadn't moved that much. Hopefully he could keep that up. There was a little bit of damage actually on the creature, but at least it was something. Her own aggro should be up at least a little bit, so she knew she would be able to hopefully take over if Alec was falling behind. And if that wasn't the case, she'd have to find something to do. Maybe she could just try to call a switch if they needed to and she could take the hate for a little bit for recovery purposes.

A long fight coming indeed, this will still likely be easy though.

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Hokori nodded to Alec, confirming that she had spotted the creature as well. It was small, and a little on the quick side. SHe hoped it wasn't too evasive like herself, but she'd have to wait and see. Hopping towards the bush, she purposefully overshot the bush and cut behind her. The creature immediately popped out in fear to meet her blade. It hardly did any damage, but knocked the creature towards Alec so he could hopefully get some damage in.

And now we let this long fight commence.

Keeping a mental tally of what was happening, Hokori hoped that should could call out a few things here and there. This was meant to be a straight-forward and fast fight, but she was pretty sure that it was going to end up going for quite some time. That was why she had the passive regeneration stuff prepared, that way she could always have some healing going even while inside of combat.

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Taking the potion offered to her, Hokori began to look around for the hatchling. It would likely be a little bit hidden, and she only knew the approximate location because it moved around quite a bit. She debated trying to sneak, but remembered that required a skill to actually do to a decent degree. Instead, she kept a sharp eye out for the creature as she drank the potion handed to her. It wouldn't take long to begin this fight, and she had every intention of making it as quick as they could. It was going to be long regardless, so quick as they could would likely still be a few minutes against this one creature. "Keep an eye out for it. I believe it was yellowish in color. Once you spot it, let me know. We have no hope of sneaking up on it, but we can at least try not to aggro it until we both know where it is at."

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@Alec

This fight was slowing down, but they were getting close. One more strike from Arabelle could likely end it at this point, a bleed from Prometheus could do some damage, and the hit from the monster hadn't been too bad. Quickly coming up behind it, Hokori was able to get another stun at it with an attack that was a lot faster than one would think such a large sword could make. It probably wasn't quite enough to get its attention on her, but it should at least keep it off of Arabelle. As crazy and homicidal as the girl was seeming to be, Hokori didn't want to have someone die on her when she had taken on the mantle of leader for the group. She debated calling out an order to Arabelle, but decided against it as she would either be following the same logic already or just call out Kat for being useless. Not an entirely false statement, but made it less likely to follow the sound logic.

Starting to make her way out of the city, hopefully with Alec close behind her, she started to talk strategy with him. "The bleed will be useful, as that will go off even if you're just using a basic attack. I have some paralyze effects of my own, but it will make the fight go longer in the end if we have to rely on thorns damage. If you have howl I think letting you lead the tanking effort will probably be best. If not, I have enough evasion and passive health regeneration I should be able to survive if I take hate. If you're willing to give me an immolation potion, that would probably help as well. I think the best bet will be to whittle this thing down as best as we can while making sure we don't die ourselves." With that comment, she went into her inventory and switched around her ear a bit. The black leather armor she wore got covered by the spiked half-plate she had started this game with. And her nice sword switched out to a rather plain, but still just as large one. "I'll just try to stay at bay and get the occasional stun in if needed, I can switch with you if you get low or if you just need to get out to get some more energy. Hopefully one of our damage outputs can get over the creature's mitigation, but if not we need to be prepared for the long haul."

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@Alec

Hokori gave off a soft little laugh at the comment of unable to find the way to party, a deviation from her usually quite stoic exterior. "I still hate how the menu is organized. If I wasn't stuck in here for two years fiddling with it, I'd probably still get lost in it." She pointed Alec through the process of forming a party as she sent the party invite to him. It wasn't that complicated, just nested in so many little menus to become atrociously annoying to do it. He began talking about his own accomplishments and build, and though it was nice to have the info, she held up a hand to stop him. "Please, I'm probably the lower level one here, no need to treat this like an interview. Granted, I'm slowly making my way to a tank build as well, so things might be a little bit difficult in terms of damaging the boss. Hopefully we'll be able to just wear it out. Make sure you have some thorns equipped because something tells me we'll be running out of energy before this fight is over." And hopefully the two of them could coordinate this fight rather than have it be so chaotic like her own attempt at easter. If she wasn't such a low level, she probably would've tried taking it on her own as well.

@Alec

"I was actually looking for the next dragon hatchling myself. Had someone who was guiding me through it and then pulled a vanishing act on me. I do know where the next one is though if you want to party up for it." She didn't really want to party up after her last disaster with trying that, but it would be much safer to go with someone and she already knew that she could use some actual friends in this world. Her list currently was filled with an optimist with a death wish, a pyromaniac, and someone who might become an orange player the moment they are powerful enough to do so safely. Well, even if this friendship didn't turn out well, at least there was a cute familiar to hang around with. She wanted to ask some more questions, but refrained from doing so until she knew he was partying with her. Probably for the best so she didn't look like some kind of informant.

@Alec

Hokori stopped as the person she bumped into started into a conversation. She wasn't that keen to be talking to people just yet, but it was what it was and she figured she may as well try to make friends. "It's my fault, I wasn't looking where I was going and still moving quite quickly." The man introduced both himself and his familiar, and she felt a little inclined to do the same. "Katagawa." She extended her hand in a hand shake gesture. As much as she had been stuck in this game, she could still feel her parents disapproval. Well, at least her mothers. Always wanted her to be the lady, and here she was offering a handshake to someone. "You just strolling about, or looking for something specific Alec?" A little small talk wouldn't hurt, at the very least a way to distract her from her own thoughts.

@Alec

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Hokori had made her way back up to the second floor after the disappointment that had been the fight against the Easter themed boss. She hadn't worked terribly well with that group, and thought it would probably be good if she could go it alone until she settled on a build. While walking through the town, she went deep into thought about trying to figure out her own goals for the future.

I want to switch up my weapon so that I can get a shield, but the one place I can get use of spent skill points is very expensive. If I had someone to sponsor me, that would work, but I'm too low of a level for that to happen just yet. The one person I did have flaked on me, so let's just go do that while I'm in an intermediate spot. For now I shoul dbe fine to take it on my own, but I need to make sure I'm ready to retreat if needed. Once I have the opportunity, I need to get my tanking skills put to the test. It shouldn't be too hard to get the proper skills, but it's just too early.

As she was lost in thought, she accidentally bumped into what she thought was a mountain of muscle for a split second. Muttering a quick apology to them, she turned to head her way back through the town, careful not to run into what appeared to be their familiar either.

I should try to get myself one of those sooner or later. Would be a good source of extra stats as far as I know. And it could also be useful for having someone to help me through these early times.

@Alec

Hokori could tell when she wasn't welcome. But she would be darned if she gave up now. Deciding it would be best to just let Arabelle do her own thing, as she was already doing what was needed in regards to her build, her attention went towards the others in the group. "There's nothing surefire that we can do, not with me down so far with my skills. If we're being honest, I wasn't ready to be a tank, been doing too much solo work and couldn't afford to use skill points on tank skills just yet. Prometheus, keep trying to get your burn to proc on the rabbit. Aside from Arabelle's damage, it's the best we've got and will be the only thing we have if Arabelle runs out of energy. Symphony, try to save up your energy and only go for basic attacks for the paralyze or stun attacks if you have them. I'll be doing the same with my own blade. We're close enough and the creature hasn't gotten a single hit yet, we shouldn't need to worry about anyone having to tank. If worse comes to worst, still retreat if we find out this thing hits harder than we think it might." Hopefully some of that got through. Probably not considering she had lost their respect at this point, but it was worth a try at the very least.