Mari

Mari rubbed her chin; feeling a tad guilty to be getting so many items for free.  "Are you sure?" Mari asked, "Not even materials?  I can probably procure you some materials - I will be going on a solo hunt for some soon, it'd be the least I can do." She put her money away and took all the items and placed them in her inventory.

"This is very generous of you, Kosan."

"Not bad, but not perfect either - being a Grand Master took a lot of work, but I guess it's about the right mind frame in battle, but you seem like you'd know all about that right?"

Mari fell silent and listened to his words. The members of his guild were being targeted? That was disconcerning, how can an entire guild be targeted. "Eh? By who? Zelrius?" Mari asked, curiosity getting the better of her. Sousuke continued, stating he wanted help and that Mari's guild seemed strong. Mari smirked at this, waving the comment off. "No, no - I appreciate the sentiment - but we are only as strong as our weakest link. I don't want to be fool hardy. I admit we have grown in numbers lately, but again - a guilds numbers are not everything still..."

Mari paused shifting her azure gaze to him. She wasn't going to question what his mission was, her guilds description stated that it would allow all to work on individual goals; and that they would band together to help work on each person's strengths and weaknesses. "I can only help so much - as long as you are in my guild you'll be protected by me, to the best of my ability. You also have access to the guilds storage and material storage; and if you have a profession or shop you will be added to our guilds front notice board."

Mari grinned, "Well, I have a dagger that you crafted that is excellent against normal mobs and...." She cleared her throught and added quietly. "..players if need be..." Mari continued. "But I'd like a dagger +3 Damage for bosses since they are immune to paralysis - either that or 2 bleed for 2 turns, which is doable if you have a perfect grade weapon."

Mari paused, placing a large sack of money on the table. "I also want to buy out any other rare or perfect equipment you may have, I want to place it into the guild storage. Let me know an estimate of how much I need to give you." 

Maybe have a person/item/event/something that triggers Zelrius to undergo some sort of character development, say : If you find someone you think can help with that message them and bounce ideas back and forth

Like - maybe someone could come along and Zelrius gets the fact taht he won't be at the top for long shoved into his face
Or he has some sort of romantic fling?
Maybe he is getting bored of Aincrad so debates relapsing into being a Pker or something ?


I haven't Rped enough with you to be familiar with your character or Rp style to be able to properly coment on that

The fire had picked up and was now roaring; Mari pulled out a  black cloak from her inventory. One that Moartea was kind enough to give her, Mari placed it on the floor to create a makeshift blanket, giving a small smile as Kosan too apologized. It was rare for both parties to admit fault and come to a mutual understanding. 

"Blizzards can last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours." Mari said as she positioned herself comfortably on the coat. "I assume that the avalanche monster is active - meaning more people are fighting it these days. I've defeated it once already. I guess that is what is kicking up these storms."

Kosan offered her some bread and water; some thing she was sick of. Mari shook her head. "God no." She uttered in disgust. It was clear he was completely unprepared. Kosan was an excellent blacksmith, it appeared he was a not-so-excellent survivalist. Mari pulled up her HUD, selecting a few items from her inventory. "I'm lucky, I manage to get low levelled players to go into town for me, to purchase food - I pay them back and offer an incentive. So I generally have something a little nicer than bread." She pulled out a thermos of hot tea; and two cups, along with some shortbread biscuits. 

"Be my guest." She said, gesturing toward the food.
 

Mari waltzed into Kosan's shop. She had become quite familiar with it now, and she was quite thankful for Kosan and his efforts and contributions to her guild. She had her ups and downs with the steadfast lad but overall she was proud of him and felt he was a positive and strong force within the guild.

"Kosan," Mari called out over the sound of iron hitting iron. "I have a large order for you."

Mari turned her attention to outside, sure enough - a blizzard had started up; and it seemed to be quite a doozy. "Hmmph..." Mari had to admit defeat in this instance, she wasn't as foolhardy as to admit when she was wrong. "Look. I really don't like being touched - and I won't go into why, but I appreciate your intentions..." There was a long pause with only the silence between them - the spitting of a failing fire and the roaring of the blizzard outside the cave. Mari mumbled an apology under her breath. "Sorry Kosan."

He had a few angry words to say at her, and they were justified - Mari let him vent as she leant down, poking the fire to get it to flare up, "been quite a few snow storms on this floor lately. Tad disappointing, I love this floor."

Mari shrugged, "I don't have a preference, Life. You're you, and as long as YOU are YOU then what does it matter?" She turned to him, chewing her lip in thought for a moment before continuing. "It just, at the same time though - admittedly, it almost doesn't seem like you." Mari shook her head with a airy laugh. Those words didn't make sense, Mari wasn't even sure what she was saying.

"W-wha?"

Mari asked as Life went to lie in the snow, pulling Mari down with him, he tried to guide her head to to rest on his chest - Mari let herself sit there for a moment but it didn't feel right - She had been in a similar position with Alkor; although not as close and that had felt a lot more natural, without meaning to Mari mumbled Alkor's name as she shifted her head off of Life's chest and rested it in the snow next to him. She shivered and shook her head to dishevel the snow from her pink hair.

"You know, Alkor and I were laying side by side like this; just hours ago...." She mused more to herself than to Life. Mari smirked and nodded. "Yeh, whatever it takes."

Mari gave Alkor a warm smile, he had said her name - loudly and with clarity but a slight hint of doubt. Of course, that was just Alkor being Alkor. Mari shook her head at his question. "No actually. I was comforting a friend but-" She trailed off, blue eyes glancing away as she scratched her cheek. Feeling embarrassed about her predicament. "I had this group of low levelled players trying my patience - they were egging me on asking me to kill them - I tried to loose them in the forest but ended up becoming lost myself." She shrugged. "Go figure."

As though her ears were burning Celes had jumped down from the trees, startling Mari, her eyes grew wide and she stepped back, but after seeing it was Celes she gave a small sigh, "Everything is fine, got lost trying to loose a few idiotic players." Mari said, bringing an arm around to squeeze the girls shoulder. Mari hadn't noticed Celes' defensive tone or her wary eyes on Alkor.

Mari tilted her head at his initial comment, so he didn't work for the army? But still, he definitely had some sort of militant quality about him, he could have been in a number of things, navy, air-force - government... some sort of secret service spiel. His answer was pretty vague, and it did make Mari curious - but she knew better than to question people or pry into their personal lives. 

Mari watched as he butted out the cigarette on the tree, she gave a sigh of relief - the smell was rancid. Sousuke elaborated, mentioning a stint in a foreign country and a rival organization. Yup, definitely some secret corp sh*t. Mari wasn't going to question that one. He mentioned how his adversary knew his way around a knife. Mari grinned - "I guess I do too, in here anyway. Just managed to score myself one handed dagger Grand Mastery."  She equipped it and allowed the tip of her blade to balance delicately on her index finger, just to prove a point. "So - why join my guild?" Mari asked.

Mari allowed Celes to take hold of her hand, the other girl was gripping her hand tightly, and Mari could feel the vibrations of her shaking hand. Mari squeezed Celes' hand tightly. Her blue eyes watching the chestnut haired girl carefully. Celes mentioned hot chocolates, and Mari had to admit she did love them, but wasn't sure how she would be able to have any - with her PKer status and all. 

Celes glanced back and Mari gave her a tug forward, as if to say don't look back. "I'd love a hot chocolate, but where would I be able to get one, being a Pker and all?"

Mari wandered in, it was good that Celes had her store away from the towns. The shop was very welcoming, and the moment Mari entered she felt somewhat at peace. "Celes?" Mari called out, looking around the place. She needed healing crystals - not so much needed as wanted. She had planned to buy all the healing crystals Celes had in stock currently.

"You in dear?"

Yup although if you are a pker you can be attacked any time without permission and it can be to the death

It's a drawback of being a pker

And if a pker tries to fight you and you draw your weapon that counts as 'permission' as you willingly drew a blade against one

http://www.sao-rpg.com/topic/386-player-killing-status/

Check it out here!
 

A PKer is someone who kills another player, be it another account or a NPC PLAYER ; others will instantly know you are a PKer because you will have a orange/red player icon instead of green. So in the RP they can see that you are a PKer.

'You won't be included'

Means that for some time you cannot enter towns or safe zones. Other people also may not want to Rp with a Pker who may attack them;
You can be prevented from killing someone in a variety of ways.

 

I love the sound of a keyboard as people type on it, the clicky clicky clicky sound :P

Heheheh

Welcome to the site

COMPLETE


Mari: 200 Col + 1 SP
Moartea: 200 Col + 1 SP

Mats Collected: 4
BLEED -1 HP for 2 turns
Mari 48/49

Mats Collected: 4

Mats Collected: 4
 

Mats Collected: 3
Perma Roller ID #4068 
(Forgot I didn't have to use the perma roller, OH GEEZ)

"Eh?" Mari glanced to her hand which held the jerky, she took a bite of it, and savoured the flavour. Chewing slowly as she matched Sousuke's eyes with an intensity of her own. Swallowing Mari shrugged. "This is Korean BBQ Jerky, and it is ten fold better than stale bread. Its not pleasant, believe me."  Mari said, placing emphasis on the words as she repeated what he said.

She lifted her shoulders in a shrug as she chose to sit opposite the man, she took another bite; waiting to swallow before clearing her throat. "So military man eh?"
Mari pointed toward the scar on his cheek with her jerky, "Is that how you got that scar o' yours?"

"OK...so...let's back track a bit...eeheheh..." Nala said to herself as she switched back to repeat lesson two, again learning a lesson about being overconfident, alas that lesson would no doubt be short lived. As Nala was simply programmed to have an overconfident and zealous attitude toward crafting. Nala managed to do a so-so job. She hadn't managed to screw up too much, but she didn't have a stellar performance either. She was failing to play Ode to Joy and that was a fairly simple song to play.

"Oh my! Another item for the store at least!" Nala said as she picked up the uncommon monster grenade and placed it in the store stock.
 

Craft Dice: 10

Perma Roller ID: #4066
Mats -1
Crafts 1/3 Left 10/12/14

Nala had a bad habbit of constantly becoming over confident, after she had managed to successfully complete the first few lessons outlined in the book she skipped ahead to the 10th lesson. "Right! I can totally TOTALLY do this!" She tied up her puffy aquamarine locks into a high ponytail and got to work, that is...if her work was failing miserably.

"No, no, no ,no NO! This won't do at ALL! Oh gosh!"

Craft Dice: 3

Perma Roller ID: #4065
Mats -1
Crafts 2/3 Left 10/12/14

Mari was asleep, but she felt the sensations of being shifted. Her brows furrowed and she gave a soft murmur - then - she felt the comfort of fabric against her skin, then a strong, comforting warmth. Mari made another small noise in her sleep as she rolled over, nestling into the warmth, her face pressing against his bare chest, and her arms wrapping around her torso, Mari shuffled around before drawing in a long breath and giving a low exhale - falling silent and still again.

Mari slept, her first peaceful sleep since loosing her daughter, it was as though that warmth zapped away all her negativity and concerns. Any and all doubts that had clouded her mind. She slept soundly, for what could have been a few hours - every so often she'd give a small whimper or mumble. Eyes dancing beneath closed lids as she dreamt of dreams unknown to any but her; the only indication of who or what she dreamt about were the soft words she uttered in her sleep, names and places.

"Evelyn....mama will mrmmm you to schoo-*snore*..."


"Alkor....mrrmmm..."

At the mention of his name Mari's head shifted, her head nuzzling into the gap between his neck and shoulder - lips pressing against the bare skin of his nape as she gave a light snore.