Sakuri sashiti

Sakuri got supirsed by the amount of players which had been roaming on this floor, he thought that most player hated thsi floor due to the heath, and all the sand. He looked towards the two new players which had arrived, and with a nod he said.

"Hello, my name is Sakuri" with a calm but focused voice. In his head thoughts was going around, from what Nero had said. Sakuri could kind of relate to what he had said, btu that didn't mean that playing solo was the way to go.

He then realized that he didn't pay attention to what Ruri had said, hopefully it was nothing which concerned him anyhow. He looked with a serious face at Nero.

"I do understand the point of why you are playing like that but you are wrong." He said with a dead serious voice.

"I cannot claim that one mans opinion if wrong, but i do claim that your chain of thought is wrong. When you're not here helping everyone, you are rather letting them die. I am not blaming any deaths on you specificly, but my point reamins that if everyone is not helping out, more lifes will be taken. It's nothing against you or anyone else, but we have to work as a team, if we wanna spare as many lifes as possible." He said while he kept looking Nero in the eyes the whole time as he spoke, not even concidering that he might sound rude. Sakuri felt like this was an important thing to say though, since everyone is needed to complete this without letting to many die.

"I cannot and i will not try to force you, but i will ask you to concider what i have said." He said with the same serious voice as he recently spoke in.

Now, he took a few steps back so he would let the other players conversate instead, as he had talked a lot. But suddenly another player dropped in, which he decided to don't mind and let the rest of the people handle it.

After he had searched for an avalible house to buy for a couple of towers, he found a small house just a few blocks from the town center. The house was a one floor house, with two rooms. The first room you would enter was a rather medium one, not super small, nor was it super big and fancy either, it was just a regular sized room. And then at the corner there where another doorway, which led to a smaller room in the back.

Sakuri decided that this is where is shop should be, so he payed the NPC for the building and went inside of it, now he had some work to do here. Like getting a name for it, this would be the most challenging task he thought to himself. And then the decor, and then actully more merchandise to get things going..

But this is something that he would have to tackle the next morning, cause now he thought that he deserved some rest.

When he passed the point where the bandits had tried to rob him, he once again heard a noise comming from the tree, but this time noone came out. Sakuri figured that they wouldn't be so so stupid so they would try to attack him again, the thought of this made him smile.

He arrived at the big city, and walked around for a while until he had decided of where he wanted to start up his shop, and while he was walking around he realized how beutiful the game actully was. The buildings, the clouds, the birds in the sky, everything felt so real.

While thinking about all this, he also realized how beutiful and amazing this city actully were, thus he decided that this city should be the home of his amazing shop.

The most amazing thing i've ever read. Bravo.

*Sakuri claps*

As the sun came back at the morning, and the birds started singing, Sakuri woke up. He woke up very early today, for no specific reason, though it was only good so he could get to work faster. He now felt that he was on the way of becoming a merchant, but there still was a problem, he had no place to sell the few items he had gathered.

First of all, he had to figure out which floor he wanted the shop to be on, and then he had to find a place to buy. He had been on a all of the floors, but his favorite ones is on floor 6 and the newly opened floor 8. So he figured that he would try to find a place at either of those locations. Or maybe it would just be more simple to find at place in the beginner city, and also more people passed through there so getting customers would be much more easy.

Either way he had to get to the beginenr city before he even decided since he still got no teleport crystal, thus he started to walk towards the city.

Sakuri quickly went up on his feets, so he wouldn't lay on the ground if an attack would come from the plant. He then took a brief second to watch so Eléssar still was hiding, which he was. It would be follish by him to not take advantage of sneaking, when he could. But sakuri thouhgt that he would try to get some more attention, by charging it.

But as he was going to attack the plant, the plant attacked also forcing him to dodge instead of landing his attack, thus making both of them miss.

Sakuri now watched over to Eléssar and tried to figure out what he was planing to do.

A solo player... First time i've actully met one of those.. he thougt to himself while Ruri had presented her familiar. He had some problems with the playing solo part in this game, since he belived it was a team effort if they wanted to ever complete this game, which means that all players who rather play alone, than trying to complete the game with the rest of the players, kind of slowed down the clearing.

"May i ask why you prefer going solo? Don't you wanna complete this game?" He said with a kind, but still serious voice. Sakuri didn't wanna say it the wrong way so Nero wiould belive that he disliked him, he rather just disliked his way of thinking. Or how he belived that he thought anyhow.

"Either way, you guys lead the way to a safe spot, since i am rather lost of where we are" he said as he kept looking around.

Sakuri once again got irritated by the arrogance from Eléssar, but he tried to not let that come in his way as he decided to not reply of what had beens aid earlier, to cause any fighting between them.

He also knew that the things he said shouldn't be taken as he wanted to be an hero, he just didn't want anyone to die on him. Simple as that. But sakuri had decided that it was safe to attack the plant at this point, since he couldn't find anyone else around it.

He decided to try to sneak up on it though, as they were sitting in rather tall grass.

But it seemed like Sakuri's sneaking was rather bad, and he tripped on his own feets causing the plant to notice him. Luckiliy the plant had only seen him so far.

Sakuri - 15/15

Plant monster - 15/15

Sakuri noticed the that Ruri felt uncomfortable talking about vile, as she was one of his priary targets, it was easy to understand how she might feel. Sakuri had never seen this player before, but he didn't seem to be one of those mavericks either. He smiled towards the guy who had introduced himself as Nero.

"First of, my name is Sakuri, a pleasure to meet you" He said as he walked up towards him and reached out his hand for a handshake. After he had did this, a more concerned look came to his face.

"Maybe we should go to a more safe place, than standing here in the opening" He said as he looked around himself, knowing that he had before wanted to explore, but now he felt some sort of strange feeling, again..

He wanted to be sure that if they were going to bring vile and the mavericks up, they should talk about it in a more private area.

"I have never really heard or met you before though, how come?" He said with a small laugh to break the all so serious tone they had been talking with.

Sakuri couldn't help the small smile which got on his face, it was a smile of both relief, and just plan happyness. After he had been looking for just the place where he then would find the ingridient in, had been anoying. But they think they had found it now, which felt really good. No more searching, just go and finally complete it.

Then it hit him, it was probably guarded by those plant mobs, they should be careful so they didn't kill themself now. Sakuri grabbed Eléssars arm to stop him up.

''We should be careful, those plant mobs the quest told us about are most likely not friendly at all, and i don't want you to risk your life for me, thus i will take the lead so you can run if anything bad happens.'' He said with a face that looked to be made out of stone, as he placed himself in front of Eléssar and started to walk carefully.

"I don't care what you say, if i say run, you run. I borught you here, and i will not let you die because of me." he said with a rather quiet voice as they closed in, now just some meters in front of them, a plant creature, with the same height as themself stood there, luckily it hadn't noticed them yet.

After some while, he had finally reached the small village with only a couple of merchants standing in the center of it. [iFinding the right one seems to be very easy. He thought to himself while he searched up the correct one.

After talking to the wrong merchant twice, which was the maximum number of fails, he reached the friends merchant. He gave the bag over and waited for the merchant to trade over his reward which he did in a matter of seconds.

He smiled at the merchant as he looked at the reward he had gotten.

''Well, i did my first trade run as a merchant, now its only a matter of time untill i Get my own shop.'' He happily said to himself.

He decided to stay the night at the village, and wait for the sun to come back.

--Reward--

Iron bars x2

Boar tusk x1

Wolf pelt x1

The both bandits saw their health dropping really low, even so low so the one with 1 health left, decided to run away in fear of his life. The other one got enraged by his friend escape, and wanted to kill Sakuri to bring himself the loot, and some sort of glory from other bandits.

Sakuri decided to try to parry his attack, and then go in for a counter attack.

It didn't go as planned, since sakuris arm got hit by the bandit when he tried to parry it, but since SAO didn't let the players feel pain, sakuri would hit his enemy back at the same time without being interupted by getting hit himself.

The last bandit was now at one health himself, and he dropepd on his knees begging for mercy. Sakuri ain't the type who likes to kill people, so he let the bandit run while he sheated his sword, heading towards the village again.

--Badit will hit with 1-5 on LD--

The bandits laughed at what Sakuri had said, and charged him togheter, which sakuri had guessed they would do. He would try to do as before, and dodge and attack, dodge and attack. That seemed like a working concept, hopefully it would keep working.

Once again this worked just as planned, though this time the first bandit had charged at him first, causing him to dodge the low health bandit's attack, and instead had to go for the second bandit with full health.

He did it with such elegance and smoothness, that he even landed a critical as he thrusted his sword at the second bandits chest.

Sakuri - 14/15

Bandit 1 - 1/4

Bandit 2 - 2/4

Since he was between the bandits which had just attacked them, he was hoping that they would attack at the same time meaning he could dodge and then both would be open for an easy attack. So he stood there whiile they mumbled something which he couldn't hear.

And it happend as planned, the bandits have figured that dodging two attacks instead of one at the same time would be much harder, the problems where that they aimed at the same spot making it really easy for Sakuri to just duck under and attack the first bandit once again, causing 1 damage.

''I will let yuo surrender, if you wanna run''Sakuri said with a determined voice, as he hoped back so he faced them.

Sakuri - 14/15

Bandit 1 - 1/4

Bandit 2 - 4/4

Sakuri saw that his health got brought down a bit, not that it would scare him just yet, he still had a bunch of health left, and if things went really terrible, he could always run the the closest town/city.

After that Sakuri had assured himself that he was out of mortal danger, he decided to try to do a an dodge attack, where he would charge towards one, feintign him to attack, then attacking the other one straight after ha had dodged.

His plan worked, but he was very lucky to come away from the first strike as it passed right next to his head. but he cut the bandit in the stomach causing one more damage while he took none.

Sakuri - 14/15

Bandit 1 - 2/4

Bandit 2 - 4/4

As he left the gates shadow ocne again, the sun didn't hit him as before, he then looked at the sun and realized that id had started to go down, thus he were in a bit of a hurry since the danger at night would increase a lot.

He picked up the pace as he moved towards the location the map had pointed him towards. When he passed a couple of trees, he suddenly heard some voice comming from the trees. He then saw to guys comming down from the tree, with a strange smile on their faces.

'''Give us your gods, or die'' one of thems said with a small laugh. But without even anwsering to what they had said, sakuri brought up his sword, and charged towards the guys he figured to be bandits.

Luckily, the time in the town had replenished his HP.

He landed a solid hit one the one who had spoken to him, causing one damage. The other bandit had then tried to attack him, which he succelfully did, causing one damage to Sakuri aswell.

--Bandits attack with loot dice--

1-3 = Damage

Above is miss.

Sakuri - 14/15

Bandit 1 - 3/4

Bandit 2 - 4/4

Sakrui nodded as he had gotten himself a really good deal. Taking a big back of leather to his friend in a small village nearby, should be rather easy.. He thought to himself as he accepted it. He packed the leather in a bag, told the emrchant goodbye, and then headed out towards the gate.

He then realized that while he was thinking and packed everything togheter, the merchant had told him something about bandits which tried to rob many merchant when they were out from the safe zone. But that might just have been day dreaming.

And one bandit couldn't defeat him he thought to himself while he reached the gate one more time.

Just be an merchant echoed in Sakuri's head as he tried to figure out what it means.

''You will have to excuse me, but what does that mean?'' he said with a really confused face.

The merchant laughed towards him and then smiled again.

''My point is that maybe you can trade yourself to better inventory''

Sakuri let that sink in, and realized that this was really a clever idea, maybe he could do task for some merchants around the town and get some sort of reward by this, then he could open up a pöace and trade himself to better stuff all the time.

''Do you happen to have any tasks you would need help with?'' Sakuri said to the merchant.

The merchant slowly nodded, and Sakuri was suprised by how well you could interact with NPC's.

''I need to get this fur to a friend in a small village nearby. If you could get it there, you will get rewarded with 2 iron bars, and one tusk and one piece of wolf fur.''

He had been walking for a little while, as the first floor city was rather big and it was easy to get lost here, especially as sakuri is usually looking around himself for danger, even when he was in city's. But either way, he had now reached the town center and searched for the merchant, which was easy to find.

He once again headed up to the merchant with a smile, and once again he got asked if he wanted to buy anything. Sakuri shook his head.

''No sorry, i am here for your help once again. Do you think you could help me to get a better way of gathering materials?''

The merchant nodded with a smile and simply replied with ''Yes, just be a merchant.''

Sakuri was now baffled by the anwser he had gotten.

Now ashe had killed the boar, he had decided to head towards the merchant, seing if he could work out a deal for himself, and maybe get some more tips, so he started moving towards the big gates which weren't to far away so it would only take a couple of minutes of his time.

While he walked the short way, he looked aroudn himself, just to see that no PKers were around. The rumors lately had been that many of the players, had turned out to be evil, thus killing inocent players without any real reason. But sakuri figured that they would figure out a way to stop them eventually.

He had now reached the gates and was headed towards the merchant eh had previously talked with.

When sakuri had regaiend his balance, and saw the boar rushing towards him, he decided that this boar would kill itself, thus he out his sword ifnront of him like a pike, hoping that the boar would simply rush into the sword and kill itself.

Even though this might sounds like a stipid plan, sakuri felt confident with his brand new idea, maybe he was going mad.

And it seemed like his plan had worked, he even landed a crit on the boar which is an overkill, not that it did any difference. Even with the confidence sakuri had while started doing this move, it suprised him how well this had worked out for him.

Just some seconds after the boar had been killed, he got a window up with his loot and experience.

x1 boar tusk.

This time, he figured he would try ne of his ''Suprises'' again, so he started to spin like a tornado, while charged towards the boar.

But sakuri hadn't really actred with his mind during this so called ''Move''. It was a foolish and stupid idea which turned out to be his downfall also, he didn't only miss his attack, he never reached his target.

Sakuri had stubmled over his own feets while spinning around like a fool. Not stumbled enough to Fall on the ground though, luckily.

But now this boar had angered sakuri, so as he charged him one more time, hoping that this would be the final time he did so, he roared out a big battle cry, or maybe he was crying of frustration, Sakuri didn't know the anwser to this himself.

Even though it didn't kill the boar, it felt good as he saw the red pixels comming out from its body.

The bpoar only had one health left now, which sakuri figured would take around 6 atatcks to bring down.

Sakuri - 13/15

Boar -1/4

He decided that after he had killed this boar, he shall head to the merchant and see if they can arange some sort of a deal to him, since killing boars ain't his strong side it seems like. Now that he had a plan, he just had to go through with it, but there were a boar blocking his way, with 2 health left. For most people this would be nothing, but fir sakuri this was like a boss fight.

He quickly got on his feets and charegd towards the boar.

But as awlays, he missed AGAIN. luckily the boar didn't react in time so he would take no damage from this failure.

While muttering some curse words, he stood up again, sawing the boar came flying towards him, he quickly got on his feets and thought that he would try to Larry the attack, thus leaving the boar open for another attack.

But it seemed like history would repeat itself, when his parry failed, he was once again vulnerable to attack on his legs, which once again got swept away under him. Causing another point of damage to him.

Now sakuri had gotten really irritated, and thought about sitting under a tree the rest of the game, as t seemd like his combat skills we really low.

Sakuri - 13/15

Boar - 2/4