Tristan Delaney

The bee came in to attack Tristan again, this time him not being as successful to parry it. His armour however meant the damage to him did no harm, which was resting on his soul. Made him wonder whether things like life after death was in SAO and how the game dealt with you, whether you were saved somewhere or were completely wiped, along with your death. Tristan knew this was not a fight where he would have to consider that though.

[iD 369 MD 7. 2 - 2 = 0]

Tristan 16/17

Queen Bee 10/30

The bee shot forward with their stinger towards Tristan, who was open from his missed attack. "nonononononono!"

Tristan blocked the attack with his sleeves, saving himself from a rather spiky situation. The stinger deflected away and the bee circled around to attack them again.

Tristan however had parried the move, meaning he received only half damage and returned the attack with half damage.

[iD 368 MD 6. 1 - 2 = 0. ID 369 BD 8. Parried for 2 damage.]

Tristan 16/17

Queen Bee 10/30

Brimming with confidence, Tristan jumped forward with his spear to attack the Queen Bee and maybe even cause it some damage, which would have been mighty fine. Sadly because of its erratic flailing, he missed completely. Instead he was still standing there and waited for the bee to attack him. Well, there goes any confidence he had...

[iD 367 BD 5. Miss]

Tristan 16/17

Queen Bee 12/30

The Queen Bee flailed at Tristan again to attempt to hit them, though this time failed utterly. Tristan was beginning to be confident with this fight, looking like it would finish soon, though he wasn't holding his breath on that one, since all he could end up doing is missing again. It was still a confidence boost though.

[iD 366 MD 4. Miss]

Tristan 16/17

Queen Bee 12/30

Tristan rolled off the ground and picked up the spear, then somehow from the floor did a somersault into the air and sliced the spear vertically at the bee, arcing up. The spear cut the front of the bee, sending it flying back in pain as the spear cut part of their eye. Tristan was pleased to be able to attack again, even if at the risk of nearly having a pincer through his face and simply because of having good enough equipment.

[iD 365 BD 10. Damage 4 + 2 = 6]

Tristan 16/17

Queen Bee 12/30

Tristan had the stinger come down on him as he lay on the ground rather ridiculously. The stinger came down towards his face, but he cross-blocked with his arms the stinger, blocking the attack, leaving him buried further into the soft forest ground. He breathed a sigh of relief for his blunder. At this rate he's gonna fry that bee or something, in deep fat so that it battered and he could feed it to the Minotaurs or something equally ridiculous.

[iD 364 MD 8. Damage 2 - 2 = 0.]

Tristan 16/17

Queen Bee 18/30

The bee grew angry at being lost in their distraction and attacked Tristan with their stinger, swinging wildly in the air towards Tristan. Remarkably enough, as desperate as it was a manoeuvre, it somehow was going to hit Tristan. Maybe he should flail wildly too if he wanted to hit the bee more.

It didn't matter though, because Tristan blocked the attack with his new Sleeves of the Iron Lords, a symbol of pack strength. Even when alone, the wolf was strong. It was only that in numbers within their pack that their strength multiplied. He was glad for them, since he received no damage with his choice in skills combined.

However Tristan tripped from the force of it, mostly because it was first time negating with a block the attack of a boss, which made him look rather ridiculous.

Tristan loses one turn for tripping for the idiot he is.

[iD 363 MD 8. Damage 2 - 2 = 0]

Tristan 16/17

Queen Bee 18/30

The grenade rang out with the sound of Mari and him playing their music as the recording crystal grenade flew in the air, arcing. It completely distracted the bee, which Tristan used to attack. The first two attacks missed, but the third was actually successful, which had Tristan happy that he actually hit the damn thing!

Rare Monster grenade distracts for 2 turns, leaving 3 for attack before retaliation

[iD 360-362 BD 3, 2, 6. Miss, Miss, 4 Damage]

Tristan 16/17

Queen Bee 18/30

"..."

The Queen Bee missed again, flying past him with the stinger in tow to attack. Tristan could only stand there wordlessly at how this was just getting a bit too much. Sick of all this prancing around like ballerinas, he decided to get ready to throw his rare Monster Grenade, which would give him two extra times to attack. It was the best he could think of at this point.

[iD 359 MD 4. Miss.]

Tristan 16/17

Queen Bee 22/30

Tristan stabbed at the foe, but could not do a thing, hitting air again. This was feeling really ridiculous with how much they both missed. Someone must be there in the distance laughing at them for their incompetency. Tristan grew more angry with the idea of that being a possibility and got himself ready to bear the brunt of an attack.

[iD 358 BD 4. Miss.]

Tristan 16/17

Queen Bee 22/30

The boss charged forward with their stinger racing towards the man who stumbled from missing their attack. They missed completely though, the stinger passing him harmlessly. The Queen Bee screeched in anger as this foe who was taking much longer than they wanted was making a fool out them.

[iD 357 MD 4-1. Miss.]

Tristan 16/17

Queen Bee 22/30

Tristan thrust the spear at the enemy, but sadly missed completely, his spear hitting only air. He gritted his teeth at this rather irritating boss which just simply would not let itself get hit. Then again, it was a bee and bees were never exactly easy targets in the first place...well he readied himself for the next attack by the boss anyway.

[iD 356 BD 3. Miss.]

Tristan 16/17

Queen Bee 22/30

Clearly the bee was far too distracted having their ass handed to them, because when they attempted to attack Tristan, they flew in the wrong direction to even hit him. At this point, killing it seemed more like a mercy kill than anything. Regardless, Tristan readied his spear to attack again and hopefully whittle down the enemy of this boss that was irritating him so much.

[iD 355 MD 3-1. Miss.]

Tristan 16/17

Queen Bee 22/30

Tristan attempted to counterattack the shark that missed him, but suffered the same fate as the shark and had aim that was completely off. The spear struck the sand that kicked up from the shark and nothing more.

[iD 354 BD 1. Miss]

Alkor: 19/19

Tristan: 17/17 <Boss Target

Claim: 17/17

Sand Shark: 22/50

The Sand Shark got hacked to bits by two of the men, while the slippery one managed to somehow slip into the sand. Luckily for them though, they weren't the target but Tristan was. The shark dashed at them, but missed completely, hitting the sand beside them.

[iD 353 MD 2-1. Miss]

Alkor: 19/19

Tristan: 17/17 <Boss Target

Claim: 17/17

Sand Shark: 22/50

Tristan chuckled. He almost felt them being rather sadistic over the wolf with how they were, even if it was a simple mob enemy.

"Well if you insist."

[Rolled a 6 on the d10 (battle) dice.]

The spear killed the wolf outright, sending them to the pits of wherever wolves went to die.

[Rolled a 19 on the d20 (loot) dice.]

Along with 40 Col from the small wolves and altogether 5 materials, he got himself some uncommon equipment from the alpha wolf.

They were vambraces with a damage mitigation of +1, engraved with wolves on them, which seemed rather fitting. They also sounded rather impressive, with the name of "Sleeves of the Iron Lords."

"Don't mind if I do..."

He waited on Lessa to see what loot she got.

He was impressed with Lessa's performance, especially with how much they managed to weaken the alpha to....4HP. He had to make a split second choice and he had to do it now.

"censored it."

Tristan did a backwards twirl in the air and sent the spear flying behind him, hitting the Alpha wolf that it flew at. The spear made the wolf that it was aimed towards scatter into many many pixels, with one wolf still there.

• Rolled a 7 on the d10 (battle) dice. Dealt 4 damage.

The second wolf now charged at Tristan, but Tristan kicked the wolf away so that it rolled away and he received no damage. It was probably a stupid idea, but weirdly enough it worked.

• Rolled a 4 on the d10 (mob) dice. Miss.

With Tristan still unharmed, he picked up the spear off the floor and pointed it at the wolf, being at the side of Lessa with her obscenely large sword withdrawn.

"Well, I'll give you the honours."

Tristan smiled, her reaction being basically a large 'Yes!'. Clearly this was the right choice then. He supposed women loved being treated now and then though, so it seemed a sound enough idea to do so.

He looked over the menu for the foods available. They were all foods with the real life equivalent of them labelled next to them, the food which the chefs attempted to reproduce. From what he heard they were near perfect at it too.

He finally decided on some food and got some wine with the food, waiting only for a very short while. After all, cooking was done with great ease in SAO if you had the right skills. When the food he ordered and whatever Kiru ordered came, Tristan only just managed to keep his mouth from dropping. It looked amazing. He sincerely hoped it tasted the same too. He waited for them both to take their cutlery up before he began eating, as was generally polite. He was well versed in all the classic british way of eating politely, as was taught by his grandmother years ago.

Tristan now threw the grenade at the monster, which emitted the sound of a Hang Drum playing, which utterly confused the monster. The Sand Shark had poor eyesight, but sensitive hearing, so this was of no help toward this monster. The Perfect Monster grenade was his trump card in the battle as it would altogether give them four hits at the monster until it attacked at them again.

Claim gets 4 hits to attack, Alkor 3.

Tristan thrust forward with spear, stabbing towards the Sand Shark. He didn't stop though, as he continued attacking in the time left open by the monster to thrust at them from three more angles, before stepping back into position. The spear managed to hit two of the four times, piercing the fins of the monster and leaving clear marks, streaked with blood.

[iD 333-336 BD 1, 6, 2, 7. Miss, 4 Damage, Miss, 4 Damage]

Alkor: 19/19 
Tristan: 17/17 <Boss Target
Claim: 17/17

Sand Shark: 37/50 

The Sand Shark dodged swiftly around the three men that attacked him with ease, as though used to being hunted. It screeched, taunting them and dug into the sand. They then came out flying towards Alkor to hit them, but when the monster thought they were about to get their prey, teeth glaring against the sunlight, the mouth hit the sand rather comedically. The shark looked around confused, having not noticed that Alkor was simply so fast that he had dodged the attack.

The Sand Shark screamed in rage as it turned to face the group.

[iD 331 MD 8 - 3 = 5. Miss]

Alkor: 19/19 
Tristan: 17/17 <Boss Target
Claim: 17/17

Sand Shark: 50/50 

"Don't worry Kiru, it's much better on the inside." He simply opted to viewing their HUD for the name, something people often forgot to do to check their username.

True to his word, when they went inside it was by one word, fabulous. It was decorated to the highest quality, with large paintings and had several tables with plates and drink ready for customers. It was sparsely packed simply because of the price, which meant a lot of players only ate on rare occasions, if they even had the money to go there. It was said only at the least A-class ingredients were cooked and cooks who had mastered the cooking skill were allowed to work here. With prices like these, the pay was probably worth it.

Clearly inflation hit, the price increased to 900, but he didn't mind. He had the money, so transferred the Col at the front to the waiter, giving them access to all the food and drink they wanted for the night. They were guided to a table where they could choose from a menu. Tristan sat on a two chair table, Kiru opposite him. In the background a quiet and relaxing piano played by a performer, or maybe a recording from a crystal.

"So, does this suffice your needs?"

Tristan glanced at the menu for what to eat.

Tristan, from his overhand position, had the spear shoot towards the bee, extending its reach with only one hand holding it when he let it out. It was a success, hitting the bee and causing them to screech again in pain. It looked like his luck at hitting the bee was finally turning around, though this was no time to relax on the matter.

[iD 326 BD 7. Damage 4.]

Tristan 16/17

Queen Bee 22/30

Tristan deflected the oncoming stinger with his spear, pushing it aside. Not that it mattered, because it was going to miss him anyway. He wanted to just make sure though, since he didn't want to take any more chances of getting hit, though it was probably going to happen. He put his spear in an overhand position ready to attack again.

[iD 322 MD 1. Miss]

Tristan 16/17

Queen Bee 26/30

Tristan was already on the case for an offence. He jumped forward with his spear to attack the enemy with a jumping lunge. He also however merely hit sand. Tristan cursed, but then remembered he had a Perfect Monster Grenade for them to use. He would use it after the enemies first attack, when Claim had also the chance to attack. For now though, he waited, his grenade ready to throw when needed.

[iD 323 BD 2. Miss]

Next Target on a rotational Pattern after each attack

Alkor: 19/19 <Boss Target
Tristan: 17/17
Claim: 17/17

Sand Shark: 50/50