Mortambo

"I would like to see the mountains...but that's floor 7 right? Will it be too dangerous?" Mortambo looks kind of worried. "I don't want you to get hurt trying to protect me." He shrugs "But if you think it is safe, let's go there!" He grins at her excited for the adventure ahead of them.

Mortambo takes the book, but his face suddenly lights up. "What if we captured the Mortim in a trap to use it as bait. We wouldn't have to touch it and get frozen, but we could still attract the salamander," he sits down with the book, "I'll look through this to see if there's a better idea, but that's the best idea I have at the moment." He starts flipping through the pages of the book of lore.

Laughing as he runs, Mortambo stumbles a little bit at the last second and Ruri over takes him getting to the teleporter first. He smiles at her as he gets there and nods, "Man, you beat me. This one is all you, I don't really know where we are going." He takes his place next to her on the teleporter and holds his hand out.

Mortambo arrives just in time to see the guard at the mine entrance explode into blue shards. "Okay, seriously guys...we can't just rush off. We need to stick together if we are going to make sure none of us die." He collects himself after his all out dash to get here in response to Prim's message. "Okay, I'll lead the way, it won't take us long to get to the main room. We'll have plenty to fight then." He starts into the mine looking around warily for more guards.

((Echo, the loot for that Kobold would only be 75 Col, I have no idea where you got 500 from))

"Of course I do! I just want you to have fun too. That way you'll want to hang out again sometime," Mortambo smiles at her. "Anyway, let's go! Race you to the teleporter!" Mortambo grins at her and starts running full tilt for the teleporter so they could go up to Floor 2. He looks back as he turns the corner, "Bet you can't beat me!"

Mortambo nods "Yep! It was so delicious. Thank you so much!" He kind of frowns and he seems to stare into the distance his voice getting serious, "We don't have to go fight things. It seems like you aren't that excited. I enjoy it...but I also want to fight to get strong enough to protect people and get us through this death game." He shrugs and beams a smile at her, "It's up to you. I'm the newb here."

((ACK! I thought I responded to this a few hours ago...I was wondering why you hadn't responded back yet. >.<))

"Fighting him will be highly dangerous no matter where it is done. Out in the open is only slightly more so. I vote for leading him to the ruins of the old city where at least if we can't defeat him, maybe we can contain him," Mortambo says. "I feel that that's a better option than destroying the NPC village. There might be players there as well just wandering through or looking for quests. Better to keep them safe then be sorry we murdered people."

"I guess we can head out, and Primrose can catch up whenever she gets free," Mortambo says looking around at the party. Seeing Argumail and Echo already gone he just shakes his head and sighs, "Those two are going to get in trouble pushing so far ahead. I was going to take about how we would divide loot, and offer to make everyone a piece of gear with the materials we find in the mines...but I guess we'll talk about that afterwards." Mortambo looks at Maya and Oliver "Let's go. Hopefully we can catch up to the other two before they get into too much trouble."

"I over heard some of the other adventurers in the market talking about going farming them to get materials to give to smiths. I didn't realize it was on floor 2," Mortambo says as his face falls a little, "I don't want you to think I'm taking advantage because you're a high level player. I really thought they were just a little beyond my skill and you could watch my back." He smiles as a thought occurred to him, "It will be great to see you fight though. A member of the Assault Team! I can't wait."

((It's not a problem...that's kind of why I added that last, I thought about the first one and was like...wow that was a terrible thing for me to do to her as a player...:P))

Mortambo nods as he hears his orders, and goes over to the stack of books taking the top one. "What do we know about this salamander so far? I'm guessing we don't have time to build trenches to divert the lava flow away from the town... I'm not sure what else we can do besides stop him from waking up." Mortambo walks around the room holding the book behind his back, his face creased in thought.

Mortambo laughs as Argumail eagerly suggests we move forward, "I am excited as well my friend, but we still have a couple more members coming I think..." He seems to consider something for a moment "I suppose we could head out now, and I will just PM them the directions. I just hate leaving the safe zone without everyone with us." He shrugs at the others "I will put it up to a group vote. Leave now? Or wait for the other two missing members? Either way we aren't going into the mines without them...it's too dangerous. We need every sword we can get to be sure we are safe."

The Doctor is standing outside the house waiting and sees him in the distance. "Oh thank you, adventurer! Thank you so much. Now I can give this woman the medicine she needs. Here let me pay you for your services," Mortambo starts to shake his head and then stops, and instead says "It was no problem. All in a day's work," and smiles at the Doctor.

END OF RP:

+2 Skill points

1290 Col (400 x 3 pages, 30 x 3 Mobs)

Anneal Blade (+1 damage)

As the last Nepent explodes, Mortambo cheers mightily. The loot interface comes up and he sees the <> he needs thinking "Yes! I found it. Now to hurry back!" He quickly follows the path out of the forest and back to Starting City. As he winds his way through the streets he starts thinking about how close his battles were today, "I really should start partying with people. Soloing can be really dangerous." He frowns as he tries to consider ways to meet people. "Dealing with people is not exactly one of my strengths, but in here I guess I really need to get over it and at least make a party," he thinks as he rounds the corner to the sick woman's house.

Mortambo scores a massive thrust into the body of the Nepent, but in retaliation one of the vines slashes across his shoulder. He jerks back to a defensive stance and parries the vines as they try and pierce his defenses. He slashes at the main body again this time thinking to himself "I really need to be more careful."

Battle Result: Critical Hit! 3 damage!

Mortambo: 3/13

Little Nepent (dead): 0/7

Little Nepent (dead): 0/7

Little Nepent (dead): 0/7

Loot Result: <>

<> Battle Dice Roll

+1 BD for each other Nepent in the battle, still only gets a critical on a natural 9 or 10

1-5, miss.

6-8, hit, 1 HP of Damage.

9, Critical. 2 HP of Damage.

10, Massive Crit. 3 HP of Damage.

Mortambo: 4/13

Little Nepent (dead): 0/7

Little Nepent (dead): 0/7

Little Nepent: 3/7

Mortambo cheers and pumps his fist in the air as the Second Nepent explodes. An angry hiss from his final opponent quickly brings his back to the fray. He quickly parries both vines, and then slashes at the main body of the Nepent. "This one has to have the rare ovule drop!" he thinks to himself, "If I can end this quickly I can get it back to that sick woman!"

Battle Result: Critical Hit! 4 damage!

Mortambo: 4/13

Little Nepent (dead): 0/7

Little Nepent (dead): 0/7

Little Nepent: 3/7

<> Battle Dice Roll

+1 BD for each other Nepent in the battle, still only gets a critical on a natural 9 or 10

1-5, miss.

6-8, hit, 1 HP of Damage.

9, Critical. 2 HP of Damage.

10, Massive Crit. 3 HP of Damage.

Mortambo: 4/13

Little Nepent (dead): 0/7

Little Nepent (dead): 0/7

Little Nepent: 7/7

Mortambo looks rather sheepish after Echo pointed out the Party Status. "Sorry, this is my first time in a group really...I solo a lot. And I know. That's why I came back here to get more people so that we can be very careful doing it. I almost died in there, and got out thanks to some of the NPCs. I'm hoping taking the group back will be overkill."

As Echo greets May, he turns to her, "Hello, It's very nice to meet you!" Mort looks rather troubled when Echo asks when people were supposed to show up. "Well, you guys are just a little bit late. But that's okay, we'll just be patient until the others get here," Mort says smiling at them both.

Mortambo's blade flashes through the air as he parries all of the vines again. He dodges a second attack, and slashes at the vines missing terribly. "Come on, already. Get it together. Focus!" he thinks as he leaps into the air and does a two handed downward strike into the body of the Second Nepent. He smiles as he lands, "I will win this!"

Battle Result: Hit! 2 damage!

Mortambo: 4/13

Little Nepent (dead): 0/7

Little Nepent (dead): 0/7

Little Nepent: 7/7

Loot Result: 30 Col

<> Battle Dice Roll

+1 BD for each other Nepent in the battle, still only gets a critical on a natural 9 or 10

1-5, miss.

6-8, hit, 1 HP of Damage.

9, Critical. 2 HP of Damage.

10, Massive Crit. 3 HP of Damage.

Mortambo: 4/13

Little Nepent (dead): 0/7

Little Nepent: 2/7

Little Nepent: 7/7

Mortambo gets struck in the back again by the Second Nepent, but manages to keep his focus and parry the Third Nepent's two vines. Both plants hiss angrily and come for Mortambo again, and he slashes at the second Nepent's vine as it tried to wrap around his legs. As he ducks under the other two vines, he thinks "This is still a rough battle. Why can't I seem to end it!?! Focus, man, focus!"

Battle Result:

Mortambo: 4/13

Little Nepent (dead): 0/7

Little Nepent: 2/7

Little Nepent: 7/7

<> Battle Dice Roll

+1 BD for each other Nepent in the battle, still only gets a critical on a natural 9 or 10

1-5, miss.

6-8, hit, 1 HP of Damage.

9, Critical. 2 HP of Damage.

10, Massive Crit. 3 HP of Damage.

Mortambo: 5/13

Little Nepent (dead): 0/7

Little Nepent: 2/7

Little Nepent: 7/7

Mortambo misses with his slash, and dances back as the vines zip in trying to get him. He parries all three of them, and performs a forward thrust into the Second Nepent knowing that it is already wounded. He spins to face the third Nepent parrying it's vines again, and thinking "I will not retreat anymore!"

Battle Result: Miss!

Mortambo: 5/13

Little Nepent (dead): 0/7

Little Nepent: 2/7

Little Nepent: 7/7

<> Battle Dice Roll

+1 BD for each other Nepent in the battle, still only gets a critical on a natural 9 or 10

1-5, miss.

6-8, hit, 1 HP of Damage.

9, Critical. 2 HP of Damage.

10, Massive Crit. 3 HP of Damage.

Mortambo: 5/13

Little Nepent (dead): 0/7

Little Nepent: 2/7

Little Nepent: 7/7

"That's fine, I think you beat everyone else here. I'm not sure we've met before. I guess you know me from the description I gave," Mortambo smiles at the guy and offers his hand to shake. "Hopefully, we can get started soon. The sooner the better," a dark thought passes across his face, "I can't just leave all those people there. I mean, I can't just think of them as NPCs, you know?"