Zandra

Hmm, he seemed to change his mind after her reply. He didn’t meant like that, but he still judged her as a low leveled character. She glanced at Zita. Now came the tricky part thou. What level would she pretend to be? For how long who she hide it? She actually already felt bad for doing this. Lying to another player about something that may look like, humiliating, or make him seem like an experiment. When he had her back towards her she knit her fists and screamed an unhearable scream. Like WHAT ARE YOU THINK YOU DOING STUPID!!!. Then the party request poped up. She hesitated as she calmed down. Would he recognize her name? Well, lets hope for the best. She slowly preesed the button and hoped he wouldn’t know who she was. The she put on on a smiliar tone as his. ‘’Well, as long as you don’t be in my way.’’ Her hands flew up to her mouth. That came out way more bitchy then she intended. A moment later she quickly moved her hands down again if he would look back.

The young man answered Zandra. But he didn’t do it in a way that she had expected him to. He was gonna do the knight king quest, and then looked away from her. Had she done something wrong, she wondered and raised and eyebrow. Then he revealed his level and asked for hers. It took a few moments for her to return to normal after this sudden attack. It seemed he thougth she was a, weakling? Her inner berserk spirit was close to burst out, knock him out or something. After seeing his level, she knew that wouldn’t be very hard, even unequipped.

Instead thou, her red eyes burned as she stared at him, clearly showing she had been humiliated by his words. ‘’You wonder about my level? Hearing of what you just said, it sounds like you already know.’’ She said with a rather grumpy voice. She then turned her eyes away from him and looked forward towards the wild. ‘’You said the quest will be hard for you? I have already done it with a very high leveled friend. I can help you if you want. Was planning to do some exploring here anyway.’’

She saw a reward screen pop up infront of her. She just let out a giggle when she saw the pathetic amount of col this monkey gave her. She looked at Zita. ‘’So, we clearly wont be here for the col. Then lets just have some fun shall we?’’ as she patted the eagle on the head, it almost looked like she was smiling. ‘’Hehe, lets go Zita!’’ and with that, she pushed forward, passing the spot where the monkey had appeared.

A few more humanoids had fallen by her axe, when she herd a rumbling sound. Coming closer towards her from the left. She placed her feets steady on the ground and charged up her axe and charge skill. Her eyes was focused towards the sound. ‘’There!’’ she shouted as soon as she saw a hair arm and exploded forward, knocking the big monkey to the ground and removed a big chunk of his health. A second one approached her but before he could come close, the kings eagle darted down, started pecking his eyes. Thou it was more the two apes, and Zandra could hear a few heavy bodies starting to surround them. ‘’Maybe this wasn’t the best idea Zita.’’ Even thou she said that, a few veteran mobs on this floor would still don’t be any match for the berserk healer.

Her eyes scanning the surrondings outside the dome, trying to be ready for whatever was to come. ‘’Be ready, don’t lose focus.’’ She said, as much to herself and Zita as to the people around her. That was when she herd Macradon speak up. She gave him a nod as she rembered his hiding abilities. That did make Zandra get an idea. Back from the real world, when she and her guildies was raiding, you often pre-stacked your boons. So you don’t have to waste valuable actions using skills that increase damage and defence. Shouldn’t that work here as well? She didn’t knew if it would drain her energy or not, but it was worth trying. They didn’t knew what kind of damage they would face, so she did go for the other, more selfish skill then barrier. Her hand started to glow as she touched the pulsing area on her chest. As they touched, her armor let out a short burst of heat. ‘’Haha! That worked indeed!’’ she mumbled. ‘’Now, now come at me who ever is our enemy. We will turn you to shattered pixels!’’

Zandra uses <<Hyperactive>> on herself. Increase passive energy regen by 3 (3/3 turns)

‘’So, what shall I do today?’’ Zandra asked the feathered preadator that was sitting at one of the wooden beams that held up her roof. The kings-eagle sat there, looking at her with those sharp eyes. Zandra replied with a smile. ‘’Yeah, you right. I don’t think we have cheked it out in quite a long time.’’ And with those words, she pushed herself up and left the bed. ‘’Hmm, since we haven’t been there recently, shall we take safe before sorry or just push thru.’’ Zita let out a cry and Zandra answered with a smile and shaked her head from side to side. ‘’No, where is the fun in being overly safe. We are good enough anyway.’’ And with that, she took her axe, putted on her handwraps and took out a crystal. ‘’Krycim!’’ she said loudly. With a bright shine, she disappeared from her bedroom on floor 22 and re-appeared in the middle of the thick jungle at floor 6. With a nod to Zita, she went out, ignoring any and all, NPC or player. It didn’t took her long to get out of eye-sight from the town. She spotted a monkey infront of her. ‘’YAHH!!’’ she shouted, darted forward and with a powerful swing, the monkey shattered. ‘’Haha, that felt good.’’ She said half to herself and half to Zita.

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‘’So, what shall I do today?’’ Zandra asked the feathered preadator that was sitting at one of the wooden beams that held up her roof. The kings-eagle sat there, looking at her with those sharp eyes. Zandra replied with a smile. ‘’Yeah, you right. It was awhile since we was checked it out.’’ And with those words, she pushed herself up and left the bed. ‘’Hmm, it was awhile since we was there. How about using that armor I had back then?’’ She scrolled thru the list of armors and stopped at one of them. As she saw the name of it, she felt nostalgia flow over her. ‘’Yes, that one it will be.’’ She equipped her normal town clothes she always used for travelling, then closed the menu and left for floor four.

As she stepped out of the warp gate in Snowfrost, she felt the cold air on her skin. She looked at the eagle that sat on her shoulder. ‘’Well, maybe our house is up there, but this will always be home.’’ She said and patted her. Zita replied with a low cry and smoothly brushed her beek on her cheek.

Zandra walked thru the town to the outer border. Before entering the wild she stopped to take it all in. It took a few seconds for her to recognize the young man that she had almost walked up to. A quick excenge with Zita before she turned to him. ‘’Hey there. You on the way into the wild here?’’ she asked with a friendly tone in her voice.

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As Zandra had delivered the dust she went to stroll around at the festival. She looked at the different activities, took some delicious food and started to nom on. She did spotted a familiar face every now and then, but when she did, she quickly turned around and walked the opposite way. From what she could see, they seemed to enjoy themselves, and she didn’t planned to ruin their happiness by disturbing them. After she had walked around for half an hour or so, she decided to sit down and relax. Relax, that is one thing she haven’t done in quite some time. Thou she haven’t sit down for many seconds as she suddenly got caught in the current of an enormous force of crashing water. Her eyes went wide open as she lost all her control over her body. ‘’Va fan!’’ she shouted, but the words drowned in the water masses.

Zandra didn’t felt any ground or floor under her feets, no cliff to hold on to, she was falling.
Falling, and there was nothing she could do about it. She then saw it, the ground. It was coming closer and closer. And there was nothing she could do to slow down or stop falling. Only the ground that came closer and closer. ‘’Is this, is this it?’’ she mumbled silently. I guess it is it. All my work. Everything. Gone in just a few seconds. She let out a small giggle to herself. What would the cause of death be on the monument? Zandra: killed by falling damage. She had hoped it would be something more int…

Suddenly the falling slowed down. Not long after, she landed safely on the ground. What the f***? Was this a trick? Guess they just wanted to toy with them or something? She looked around and saw some other players had already landed close to her, inside a red dome where it seems to be safe. Thou outside it wasn’t. She took one of her deepest breaths she had ever taken. ‘’You gotta be kidding me!’’ she let out, a little louder then intended. She saw the other gear up. So a few swipes in the air and some seconds later, She was equipped with her Energizing Eclipse armor, covered by Inferno. With an axe in her hands and a smirk on her face, she was ready for whatever the enemy would throw at them.

Zandra had been in her store the last few days, creating a special kind of crystal, then crushed it to dust. Then poured the dust into small vials. That is what she have done, while the other have enjoyed the festival together probably, she had been all alone like the solo player she have been forced to be. But even so, she wanted to help with one of the new event’s she had herd about. It seemed like they needed something called gravity dust, that could only be crafted by alchemists. But, as Zandra walked towards the place to hand it in, she passed a tree. A tree where you could hand your wishes. It sounded like something interesting. And she have time. So a detour she took. Thou when she got close to the tree, there was a lot of other people there. Some off them she didn’t wanted to meet. Not at the moment at least. ‘’I think I do this on the way home instead.’’ She said to herself and headed towards the place to turn in the dust instead.

So, they was gonna build a rail to the milky way? She wasn’t quite sure how it would work, but they did needed items she could contribute with.

‘’Hi, I guess this is where I shall hand in the dust? Ive got quite a lot, not all of it but I hope it will be enough for some of it.’’

Item Name: Gravity Dust
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It still felt kinda weird. To stand next to Itzal preparing for marriage. Or now, weird wasn’t the correct word. More like unexpected. Her only previous relationship ship based on love was with Jomei. And after that, she thougth she would be alone for the rest of her time in here. Like, who would ever want to be together with someone that have stood up for a player killer. Yes, she had been together with Avilon for some time. But it was most a sexuall relationship. Also she had disappeared, left no trace of herself. She leaned a little closer to Felix to feel the presence of another real human. They was still digital bodies in a digital world, but it was still a difference between real players and NPC’s. ‘’To be honest, I don’t know. Been thinking about this a lot. If this was a year ago, I wouldn’t hesitate and just got for Strong will. But Im not a damage dealer anymore. My build is switched to support and cleric style. But I thanks to my level, I have enough health to last a whole battle, and my mitigation is kinda high as well. So Resolve and Resilient seems not really worth it, specially since I wont be a tank but almost have stats equal to tanks already. But as support I wont even gain hate. So I guess Im chosing between Driven and Affectionate. Because losing you would be the worst outcome of a battle.’’ A faint shadow of wetness appeared in her eyes as she thougth about losing Felix. But she quickly blinked a few times and it was back to normal. She had always had trouble with choosing and deciding when it comes to choices where you choose one time, then you cant change it. She looked at him to hopefully get some guidance. ‘’Can you help me decide?’’

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Zandra smirked as Itzal apologized. ‘’Yeah, you better.’’ She said as he said he would get the best food from her country. She was thinking of mentioning surströmming as well. But no, if they had that, no one would even get near the wedding area, because of the smell. Her thougth went back to the first time she ate it herself. As someone that can eat most food, she could get down that fish. She even had to spit it out.

‘’Yupp, blueberrycake. When I was visiting my parents, they had tons of blueberries out in the forest. I used to go out, pick and eat blueberries for an hour or so. Then back in and made a cake. Or on second thougth, I think pie is a better word do describe it. But cake works too. I just love almost everything blueberry.’’ She said with a smile as memories of all different blueberries from the real world came back. ‘’Pie, jam, ice cream, yoghurt, juice. Yeah, there is a long list. You will have to come visit sometime when we are back.’’

Zandra saw the screen shifted to wedding rings and Itzalk said something that made her surprised. ‘’Thank me? What do you mean Felix, you know I am always here for you. Thank you as well.’’ She said and put her forehead on his. ‘’We will get thru this. Together.’’ She ingored the priest. He was just an NPC so not like it mattered what they did. He can wait.

 @Itzal

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Zandra woke up in her grand estate, the lovers den. As every morning, her red ruby eyes turned to the left. There, she looked at the second half of her bed, the empty half. And yes, it was still empty. Sadness, as every other morning, filled her heart. Where was Avilon? She was no where to be found. But she was still on her friends list. She let out a deep sigh as she left her bed nad headed to the bathroom. To the bathroom where she would take her morning shower. She stepped into the mechanical pipe invention, that with just a few ppresses, started to flush her body with perfectly tempratured water. She stood there for quite awhile, letting the water warm her body. Making her fully awake. Today she needed to be fully awake all day, time for another famring day. She left the bathroom and ate and drank all the buffs she would need for todays work.

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Zandra had up until now standing closer to the wall of the room, not pulling any attention to herself as she had entered a state of her own thougths, still listening to the conversation with one ear. Some ideas poped up in her head. Some of them she immediately chased away, some she worked on before dropping them. Some stayed to be there for the future if it would be necessary. She had been staying silent for awhile, letting the conversation go on. She gnawed on her lower lip a bit before taking a few steps forward. In her hand she held the broken fragment she had got from the labyrinth boss fight. She placed it in the middle of the room.

‘’Here, this we got from boss fight. Ive tried to keep up so not sure if it is explained. Ive tried it out a bit and it seems to work like a glow-crystal, but I could still use my 2-handed axe when equipping it. I don’t know if it do effect the whole party or just the one carrying it since had only tried it solo. Anyone is free to take and use it’’ She had stepped back beside the ones sitting down. She gulped as she was going to tell something that only one other player in the room knew about. Her eyes quickly glanced at Macradon for a second. ‘’During one of the first weeks after we entered the game, I was, not sure if calling it possessed. But I couldn’t control my own body and that day I almost stabbed someone. When I got back to myself, I had such a headache. For a long time I tried to find a way to get rid of it, since it returned several time and I always had that annoying feeling back in my head, but most of the time I had it under control. Then one day, after an update, that feeling was gone. From one day to another. After that I also never herd any other player with some kind of similar effect on them. What I wanna say is that I don’t think we should worry about players being possessed. But with NPC’s and mobs that is very much possible. I may look like possession to us, but it can be the game creator just making the mob changing behavior, attacks and stuffs.’’ Then her focus turned Baldur. ‘’That is fine, ATP can supply you with 100 mass heal crystals.’’

Zandra paused a bit before she continued. ‘’Then when going for classes I have some things I would like to share. Tanks, I know you are here for defence. But I suggest you still buffing your damage with at least a damage potion. Even a little damage is better then none if your other abilities wont have any effect anyway. And if you having dot’s and status effects on your weapon, that you can get from consumables, you have as much chance to trigger those on the enemy as dedicated dps’s. DPS’players. I know you are here for damage mainly, but you can still be hit, so I suggest you still using all defensive buffs you can use, like over-health and mitigation for example. As well as the immolation potion. Imagine the damage the enemy will take if striking with aoe the whole squad equipped with immolation. To support players. Go for damage, but also value your defence. If you are the only healer in your party, you will be healing others, but others wont heal you. Except with mass heal crystals ofcourse. There is also two quest item that everyone should have. Vial of bane of blood that gives you 15 HP recovery every turn. And Terra Firma scale that adds 27 to your mitigation. If you can afford the consumbales yourself, contact ATP and we will fix it for you.’’

‘’Then compesition I think we should go with per party 1 tank, 1 support and 2 dps. The fifth spot for a tanky dps or tank that can hit hard. And the last spot a dps with access to first aid. The two last spots if we have, otherwise fill them with dps’s players. More damage means fewer hits to tank and fewer hits to heal.’’

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-The drop from boss works like glowing crystal but can have equipped with 2-handed weapon.
-Have a past with being possessed(ish) but it disappeared with an update as well as fewer herd cases from other player being mind-controlled so don’t think possession of players will be a thing in fight. But possession of NPC or mobs maybe.
-[ATP] can supply the fight with 100 mass heal crystals.
-Suggested consumables and focuses for tank, dps and support.
-[ATP] can get you consumables if you dont have.
-Build party of 1 tank, 2 dps, 1 support and the other with dps-focused tank/support

OOC: not gonna lie, I haven’t kept up with the thread so this post is based on the notes in NIGHT’s latest post. If you see something is wrong or so I apologise and I am glad if you let me know on site or on discord and I can change it.

Zandra listened as Itzal mentioned all different foods he thougth they would take. Her mouth pouted a bit as he was done. She thougth a bit before she opened her mouth and started talking. ‘’Probiotics sounds good. Well, if we are going for a smorgaboard type of food, we must have prince s… ehm… no… what is it called? Right, we need cocktail sausages, meatballs, potatoes, some different herrings, bread and butter ofcourse and some different kinds of cold cut meat.’’ She refused to not having food from her country of birth on her own wedding if they decided to have food from different countries. Well, she didn’t blamed him for not mentioning any Swedish food, after all that was the thing about her the fewest players in her knew. Even fewer then that knew her real name. ‘’Hmm, and about the cake. If I can pick the cake I know which one. There is a café called the hungry cake. Their blueberry cake is the best I have ever tasted in here. I vote for that.’’

As the food decision was going on, Zandra started to think of a choice that was much more important then the choice of food. Because as the food would be good for many people, that thing you can get from chefs as well. This thing was a once time pick. She felt her hand be a bit sweaty. She had always had hard to taking important decisions. The decision to actually merry the man beside her, she was thinking about it for several weeks before deciding. The other choices for the wedding was pretty trivial compared to that. Also, how did she wanted the ring to look. Her hand crawled into Itzals without her thinking about it.

It seemed like Itzal didn’t wanted to talk about it, so she let go. They needed to focus on the wedding planning now after all. It seemed he hadn’t thougth about how strong she and he was. She guessed that they was probably one of the, if not the, strongest couple in this game of death. Even when you figth for your life and see death, there is still love. Like the one she felt towards the man beside her. She gave him a light kiss on the cheek. ‘’Nope, I wont tell. That is something you will have to see on the wedding day. As well as I will see who you have invited will be a surprise to me. Since there wont be a limit to how many we can invite, the more the merrier.’’

She looked at the floating menus.

‘’So, we have decided place and that who that will come shall be a surprise.’’ She scratched her neck. ‘’What kind of food, and what buffs we need to decide as well. I think I would like some cold drinks and maybe a fruit salad. Hmm. What do you think about that? And wedding cake, do you want one?’’

 @Itzal

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Rewards:

Mari:

2,700col
5 SP
<<Yamata No Orochi Statue>>

Zandra:

2,700col
4 SP
<<Yamata No Orochi Statue>>

Zandra gulped as she herd Mari telling her to not blame herself and instead pushing forward. And yeah, she was right, there was only one way if they wanted to beat this game of death, and that was forward. As she herd Mari’s answer to her next question she first got a bit sad. Mari turned her down because she was going to do the next with Baldur. Well, ofcourse she would prefer to do it with Baldur then her. Baldur was a great companion and fun to quest with. And their the two womens start had been, well, maybe not the best. Thou it sounded like she was only planning to do the next one with Baldur, not all them planned, yet. Maybe she would want to. Mari finished off with asking why Zandra had asked what is next. ‘’Oh right, I didn’t really thougth, just because we did the two first ones together dosent mean we do all of them.’’ Anyway, she didn’t really needed Mari to finish the quest. The quest was more a way to have a reason why they adventure together and get to learn eachother better. And that in Zandras opinion, they had. ‘’But yeah. Baldur is a great man. Give him my regards. I guess I have some fishing to do. I wish you the best on your travels. And if you want to do the one on floor 19, I will be there in.’’ she scrolled thru some menues as she thougth. After about half a minute she looked back on Mari. ‘’In four days, on Wednesday I will leave Ralberg at 11 in the morning. If you want to tag along that would be nice, if you don’t, that’s fine too.’’

 @Mari