Aaphi

Aaphi went on, "Maybe it is. maybe its toughening us up for a time where we'll have to live like this?"

"So like, in some world karma exists, she's pissed at all the greasy dungeon crawlers and we're all getting whats coming to us for mashing down piggies and taking life for granted?" queried Kuro

"Sure, maybe."

"Yeah, fu** aaall that. Karma can eat it, cause tonight, son, we're killin some boar!"

Aaphi laughed "Hell yeah."

Just as Kuromado said, the boar with the spot Deviated from the group.

Once outside of the city gates, Aaphi could see this place was even more vastly laid out than he had anticipated. Everything was more than he had anticipated. 

Kuro scuttled about, determined to find a weak monster to let Aaphi fight. "Come on, come on, i know their around here somewhe- AH-HA!" He pointed in the direction of some large brown pigs feasting on some berries in a small valley. "Boars" he said with a smirk "Lets get this show rollin'."

They made their way down the hill and ducked behind one of the farthest bushes. "That one. In the beta, that one with the small black spot, he always strays from the pack and becomes an easy kill on his own. I would kill him and kill him. Sometimes i'd laugh. Sometimes I'd think about his family and how they'll never find out what happened to him... until i lvled up and started killing them all together. then they knew."

"Wow." 

"What?"

"Thats a LIIIiiiiIiiiittle fu**ed up."

Kuro leaned closer "How so?"

"You don't see how that's fu**ed up?" Aaphi jeered, "Do you know what kind of effect that could have on your brain?"

Kuromado laughed, "A tenderizing one." 

A bright light and the final waking sensation of going limp lasts for all of a nanosecond before a vivid, lustrous, whimsical place engulf's Aaron as his world becomes Aincrad and he becomes Aaphi. He's stunned. All he can do is gawk at the land around him, the people, the buildings, his own hands! No psychedelic could come close to the balls he was tripping right then and there. Then a familiar voice careens into his catatonic state and breaks it.

"OI! Aaron!" Kaoru called as he strutted closer. "Glad you could make it! Beautiful, isn't it? Welcome to what i believe was 4 months of my life. Though, i doubt i'll be playing it that much this time around. First things first, i'm adding you to my party and friends list"

"Oh, for sure." Aaphi opened the menue and did as Kaoru did. Though, the name that was entered wasn't Kaoru. "Oh, your name.."

"Kuromado" Kaoru said. "I figured my band's name would be a good player name. It was my idea to call us Ni Kuromado in the first place. And you, 'Aaphi'?"

"Aaron and Phillips."

"Ah... A spear user? Good, i'll need some of that range to back my crazy ass up. I'm going to be up-close and personal with this curved one-hander."

Aaphi looked at the spear he had equipped. It wasn't much. he wasn't much, so they sort of fit, he thought. " I have no idea how to use this. I'm good at pool, so i picked a weapon most like a pool stick." he laughed.

Kuromado grinned. "Alright then, lets go see if that translates to 'good spear user'."

He pushed Aaphi along briskly as they left town to find some trouble.

"Well, i've got it on, and i've... touched myself... everywhere... what now?" 

Sporting the NerveGear gaming device, Aaron pleaded his new friend Kaoru to instruct him further, as he was beginning to feel foolish. For Aaron, It was his first time playing video games in quite a while. He had quit playing video games to focus on his band (The Morning Howl) and his shell of an acting career. Since then, he just hadn't botherred. The night before, though, he met Kaoru, the bass guitarist of a popular japanese metal band for which his band was opening. They hit it off like brothers during the events at the after-show party and talked about all the old games they've both played. Of course, kaoru was much more up-to-date on the subject of videogames and wanted to get Aaron involved again. Kaoru asked Aaron to join him in celebrating the release of a game he had previously beta-tested by playing it with him and experiencing the "full dive". That game was Sword Art Online.

"Well now, after you've picked out a few things, Hit 'Link Start' and we should be in the game. I'm going to go ahead and start mine. See you in Aincrad buddy!"

Still worried and a little hung over from the show the night before and the long morning of camping out for the release, Aaron sighs. "Allright, i'll see you in Finspad."

He looked at the name slot for his character. "Aaphi" he uttered silently, "Link start!"

Done

Brayden

Red

Mari

Working on

Kosan

Waiting on details from

Lessa

Daeron

Alright, i look forward to working on whatever you request. I've also updated my prices to reflect your advice.

Well, let me start off by stating that you're grossly undercutting yourself. This is some prime stuff and you're taking less money than most shops for actual work (not just a rolled craft). I wouldn't mind paying a few thousand and/or making some items for trade (I'm a tailor). You've got yourself a real talent, if you're willing to do one for me, I'd love to see what we can do. (:

Well maybe i should up the price. i wanted to keep it affordable, but i don't know what that means in col yet lol. I know i would charge 20-50 USD for these IRL, but since people are trying to use their currency on things that effect them in the game, i figured drawings wouldn't be in high demand unless they were cheap.

Its fun and it could get me a bit of a financial leg up so i figured i'd set up and see what came out of it.

And yeah, i'm willing to do one for you. Need some deets or a link to your journal if theres a good physical description there

Username: Aaphi (Ah-Fee) The Serpent Tamer

Name IRL: Aaron Phillips

Age: 24

Gender: Male

Height: 6'3"

Personality/Background:

A layer of sarcasm and wit covers an inner core of restlessness and sincerity in Aaron "Aaphi" Phillips. On the surface, a very thick surface, he is whimsical, sharp, and carefree; often an impression gleaned from his smart-assery and profusely flirtatious tendencies. Aaron Keeps himself smiling by remembering that if you compromise who you are for survival, there is no point in surviving. So, he grins, jokes, and takes life's hard hits with a snide sidestep and a middle finger. 

While growing up in a small mining town in America, Aaron wasn't exposed to much of the technologically extravagant, but still managed to play and re-play several older RPG's from the genre's hay day. They were very different and culturally contrary to the life he would have otherwise lead having not been introduced to them. They added a flavor to the everyday that his home town was missing, so he turned to them often when he was younger. But, despite his love for video games, It was the other loves in his life that truelly sparked from the experience of RPG's. The culture shock they gave him started and fueled a love for music and artistic expression.

When he wasn't working, playing billiards in some local bar (Which he had grown accustom to from years of going with his father in his youth) he was practicing with his band or rehearsing his roles with the local theater- That is, until the day his band was approached with an offer to sign a deal with a Japanese label. American listeners didn't receive "The Morning Howl" but an online radio poll showed heavy enthusiasm in the foreign music industry of Japan.

Their first big outdoor show in Tokyo was the day before the release of Sword Art Online. It went well; hey opened for one of Japan's most currently popular rock sensations "Ni Kuromado" ("The Two Black Windows") and were made to do an encore by public demand. Ni Kuromado liked having them so much that they invited them to an after show party that went strong until the following morning. While partying and after several drinks and heated matches in a local pool hall, Aaron discovers Kaoru Shinji, the Black Windows' lead guitarist shared his old love of RPG's. Kaoru tells him About Sword art online and how he was a tester for the Beta. The high of new found friendship and a rekindling of an old passion for video games drives him to accept when Kaoru asks him to join in a full dive the next day on its' debut.

Of course,... fate takes an unexpected hold of their lives from that point on...

Virtues:

-1)calculating and observant. Aaphi takes his daily struggles as a long game of pool. You  grasp situations before they happen and then line up your shots. Something his father taught him; words to live by. 

-2)Acting/singing/Charisma- He knows how to inspire the childlike wonder of a new idea to people, in short he can sell you anything. Most of his outward arrogance is meant to be humanizing and comfortably casual to a fault.

-3)Unconventional wisdom was quickly gained from years of counter-culture dabbling in his teens and early 20's. Most would call him an idealist and a dreamer, but he prefers to think that his way of thinking and the philosophy he keeps are the result of enlightening life lessons.

Flaws:

-1)Audacious/few moral boundaries. Part of his path to gain "unconventional wisdom" involved shedding a lot of the standards and rules perpetuated by common "civilized" society. So its not too much to say that he is often looked at as weird when he expresses his true moral fiber to people.

-2)Distracted easily by indulgences(food, luxuries, women, drugs, etc...). Aaphi is a bit of a hedonist. The world is a big scary playground to him filled with horrors to be fought, and pleasures to be had - and he's not one to deprive himself of either.

-3)Claustrophobic. Aaphi doesn't like being confined or trapped. This fear causes a sense of escapism, and resourcefulness in the effort to get away. Unfortunately, this also effects other aspects of his life, i.e. Relationships/commitments.

Skills

Total skill points:5

Available skill points:3
 

Non-combat:
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Passive:
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Combat:


Weapon skills:
2H Spear R1


EQUIPPED

Item: Dashing Blur
Item type : Light armor: Jacket
Quality: Perfect
Enhancement: +2 evasion, +1 damage mitigation 
Shop: The Lion's Den
Description: A small jacket specially designed to make the wearer difficult to keep in focus and allow them to move swiftly and freely around enemy attacks.

Item: Cobra Strikers
Item type : Gloves
Quality: Perfect
Enhancement:+2 accuracy and +1 life steal
Shop: The Lion's Den
Description: Gloves made from the reflective hide of a dagger-spitting cobra. Imbued with the life taking essence of the cobra, the light they reflect guides the wearer towards their enemy, adding a boost of accuracy and overall visibility.

ITEMS

10 bread

15 water

3 fish

Familiar

Riff: Aaphi's serpentine familiar. Riff is a Wyralisk, short and sweet: a half breed Wyrm. Riff was acquired by Aaphi as a result of the <<feeding the enemy>> quest. 

Benefits:

Fighter(+1DMG)

Being metal as phuk(i mean, its a flying cobra)

Col: 12550

10 Latest Transactions:

-1200 for light armor from Ariel

-250 for 5 fish

+5000: Full Profile illustration for Daeron

+500: illustration for Ariel

+4000: Full profile illustration for Mari

+4000: Full profile illusttration for ___ (Red)

+500: Concept sketch for Braydon

Relationships:

Friends: Kuromado,

Enemies:

hngmnnmnghmmm- its complicated:

Story Thus Far:

Roleplays:

For Those About to Rock Complete: In the beginning of sword art online, Aaphi was free. Reconnecting with a part of him that had been lost for years. He and Kuromado slew two beasts in one morning. After the announcement at the starting city, Aaphi took to being trapped in a virtual world like a fish takes to dry land. He panicked. He wanted out badly enough to contemplate throwing himself over a cliff to end the game. Thankfully, Kuromado was successful when talking him down and, from there, they set out on their adventure with optimism.
Exchanging Pleasantries On-Going
Highway to Hell On-Going
Givin' the Dog a Bone<<Feeding the Enemy>> Complete: Aaphi may have been relying on Kuro's judgment and leadership too heavily, he realizes, as he takes a random quest from a gypsy woman to do on his own in Kuro's absence. He journeyed to a glitch zone on <<Floor 4>> in search of a familiar. While attempting to tame a Pandafox, he is attacked by a flying serpent called a Wyralisk, that proceeds to eat his claim and challenge him to a battle. He battles until it becomes apparent that he might die, and in a desperate attempt, tames the serpent and gains it as his familiar, naming it "Riff". A slight altercation arises between Aaphi and Kuro. Aaphi realizes that to get anywhere, he has to stop being safe in hiding and sticking to low-level monsters. Kuromado was a beta-tester, but the reality of SAO now, had him too scared to leave his safety zone. To gain independence, Aaphi left Kuro's party and went solo.
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