Zandra

So, four attacks, one hit. What the hell was wrong with her? Well yes, this piece of shit mob had very high evasion, and reduced her own accuracy a lot. But still, she shouldn’t have missed this much. She gritted her teeths and her eyes burned as she looked at the beetle like creature. She felt the feeling that was Shield sharpening her weapon. It felt, wonderful, and it increased her will to damage, wound, destroy and kill this being that was standing in their way to make progress in the death game. She looked at Shield. ‘’Yeah I know. But you know who I am. You know my title? I need to be better than the best of us. Ive lost so many friends because of different reasons. Being a good fighter is all I have left. If I cant fight, I might as well step down.’’ She replied to Shield. Her eyes got shiny for a moment before she blinked it off. ‘’Not now Sandra. Focus. You still have an enemy to kill.’’ She mumbled to herself before her focus turned back to the enemy.

The axe started to shine as she rushed forward again. ‘’DDIEEEE!!!’’ she screamed as she released her Explode catapult on the Terra Firma. The two bladed weapon cleaved thru its armor, leaving a big, red slice. Followed by another strike from the opposite side. Its health started to drop down as the boss mob bursted out into flames. Blood started to drip from the wound. A few moments later, it exploded and left the two players in a sea of blue and white crystals. Infront of her, the reward screen popped up. A single item, no col and materials. Well, that item was the reason they came here, so not strange. ‘’Heh, downside of being high level I guess.’’ She said with a smile and accepted the scale.

 @Shield

Zandra stood infront of the mirror. Looking at the berserk healer, now completely clad in white. Her cheeks shined a bright red. This was so embarrassing. Having a big and fluffy dress wasn’t her style. It was so impractical to fight with compared to her combat-skirt or armor. Also, after another look, she did look kind of cute. That was a feeling she had never felt before. And was she really worth it? To be allowed to feel that? Also, where is Ariel? She had waited for quite some time and she wasn’t here yet. Well, maybe this meant no one else would come either. And that would mean she didn’t had to embarrass herself infront of several frontliners. She gulped and looked at the time. It was almost time for her to leave. One of the biggest moments of her life in this world of death. The blush had started to tone down as she calmed herself down. Took some deep breaths. ‘’Zandra, this will go fine.’’ She said to herself.

Quick description:

The wedding area is on a beach with the wedding arch facing the sea and a bunch of chairs in the sand towards the forest. A bit closer to the forest is some tables with plates and glasses as well as alot of delicious food and drinks(gives you probiotic 3 food buff for your next thread). There is half dozen tents, four of them with seats so you can cover from the sun, one for extra supplies and in the last one is empty except of Zandra and a mirror.

And it is a big damn fancy place, only the best is good enough for two of the strongest players in Aincrad ;)

Zandras invites:

Just as Zandra was going to take some potions she had bringed out of her inventory, she herd footsteps approach. When she turned around she spotted the rogue that she held so dear. She gave him a quick hug before she went back to her potions. She placed five of them on the wagon that Oscar had bringed with him. ‘’Here, take one each. The rest is if anyone else comes.’’

Not long time later she herd another pair of footsteps getting closer. What she saw made her freeze on the spot and eyes went wider. She quickly gulped and scratched her neck. ‘’Ehm…’’ she started nervously. ‘’Hi ChaseR. I am ready to enter the dungeon that is correct.’’ She glanced at Itzal to see his reaction before she turned and picked up one of the potions. ‘’Here, take one of these. Will increase your damage.’’ She sighed of relief inside. Once again she had dodged his question.

Next a blue haired woman arrived. She recognized her, had even sent her a mail delivery. But when she did, there was other stuff that took her mind away from rembering her name. ‘’Hello, Im sorry but I have lost your name. Was quite much happening last time. My name is Zandra. If you here for the dungeon, please take one of these.’’ She said and reached out another damage potion.

As the six person to arrive to the beach, was a blonde beauty. When she got to the group, she greeted Oscar friendly and then, she went to the food. Zandra glanced at the other three players present. She putted on a smile and turned to the blonde. ‘’Hi there. I remember seeing you at Skalaugh, but Im not sure we greeted properly. My name is Zandra and it is a pleasure to meet you.’’

-Zandra gives 1 Minor potion of vicious dragon-fang(+3 dmg) to each player

*Stats updated in post 1 for dmg potion and food buffs

Zandra kept her face in a shadow under the hood, didn’t wanted to show the blushing on her cheeks for the lower leveld boy. ‘’Baka, what the f*** have you done? Playing around with someone else. He seemed to think level was something important. If he, or rather when he finds out, how will you be met then?’’ she thougth to herself. Then the young man increased his speed and left her behind. Before she could come up with something to say, he was gone. Zandra let out a deep sigh. ‘’Zita, what have I done? This will end terrible, I can bet on that.’’ She said and looked at the feathered familiar that have started smoothly pat her cheek with her beak. ‘’Aaw, Zita. At least you will never leave me right?’’ Zandra asked and got a low cry in return. Then she ebrased the familiar with a warm hug.

Rewards:

Zandra:

2 SP

ChaseR:
5 SP

What the heck was going on? Why couldn’t she land a hit on this damn thing? She really did missed her Teseleth’s fury right now. The insane amount of damage it dealt when that black smoke filled her whole being and flowed into the enemy, dealing devastating damage. She sighed. But nope, those days were gone. That axe was in better hands with Oscar. Since Zandra was aiming to go the support player path, the fury did better in the hands of someone that went for damage. And except herself, there wasn’t many other two handed axe wielders out there that she knew about.

She awoke from her thoughts from a donk was herd infront of her. It was her axe that had been thrown and landed infront of her. Right, there was a battle infront of her right now. This beast needed to meet its end. So Zandra did a dodgeroll forward and in one consistent movement she grabbed her axe, started charging up the Explode catapult, rushed towards the Terra Firma, and activated the catapult in one smooth move. And…

…missed! The berserk healer’s breathing got heavier and her face started to match colour with her crimson eyes. Again? ‘’Im sorry Shield. I don’t know what is wrong, feels like something is different with this axe.’’ She said in emberresment from all the misses.

She prepared to do another strike at the boss if he by some reason would miss. But he didn’t, the blade cleaved thru the king and splitted him in half. And by that, the quest was completed. Then he added that since she wasn’t dead, they was both happy. She raised an eyebrow. ‘’Wait what? And what is that supposed to mean?’’ she asked him curiosuly. Thou, what he said next made her totally snap. Before she could stop herself or give a second thougth her temperament shot thru the roof. That comment had awoken a memory of another player. A long time ago. When the whip was in the game. Even since Zandra had mastered the whip, and the other player just started, he humiliated her skills with how she used it.

‘’What!? What did you just say to me!? You wanna die or someth…’’ she said as she turned towards him with fire in her eyes and rage in her voice. Luckily thou, thanks to her training in keeping her mind under control, it didtn took to many moments until she got control over her feelings again. She quickly threw those memories deep into her brain in a dark corner out of sight. She quickly turned forward and continued to walk again and put on her red hood, throwing a shadow over her face. ‘’Ne… Nevermind. Sorry for that. Lets keep going.’’ She said in a completely different tone. An apologizing and kind of timid tone.

Zandra pushed herself up as he told her that whe wouldn’t worry. That he would do the heavy lifting. Did he really think she couldn’t handle this? Maybe he didn’t knew she was maxed level, but at least he shouldn’t look down so much on her as he did. She just threw him a glance thou, didn’t said anything. What was he gonna think thou, when he finds out her true identity? She had really putten herself in a bad situation. But, there was no return.

Okay, one or two more hits? She could do that, hopefully. She focused on the king and released her explode catapult on towards him. As she released its power, it cleaved straigth thru him, dropping down his health even more. For a moment she got confused why the damage was relatively low. But then she rembered the debuff they have. ''Come on now, finish him off. If you can.''

Zandra listened to Dustins answer  at the same time as two monkey charged against her. She waited a few moments until just when they was going to run into her. Then she took a quick step to the side, the monkeys passing her, followed up by a quick swing with her axe, shattering the couple. ‘’No need to be nervous talking to me. Im not dangerous. Well, most of the time Im not. But yeah, being in combat helps as well. You cant be nervous or something about the talk, to focused on…’’ another monkey got a slash from her axe as Zita attacked it’s eyes to distract it. ‘’…the combat.’’ She finished off. ‘’Hmm, the ocean you say. I can…’’ was all she could say before she got interrupted by a loud noice. A big thump! And the ground vibrated a bit. ‘’Ehm, Dustin. I think.’’ Another heavy step. ‘’I think something else is on the way.’’

Zandra sat on one of the crates, with her face in her hands. She felt her heart beating rate increase. What was she doing? Was this the right thing to do? Yes, she loved Felix, she really did. But wedding?

She rose and started walking back and forth. What if she screwed everything up? Or just lost in on the way, turned around and ran away? Or just…

‘’No, get yourself together Sandra! This is your big day. Don’t screw it up.’’ She said with a gulpand calmed down. ‘’Well, I guess it is time.’’ She opened the menu and sent a mail to one of her best, if not  the best friends she still had.

Hi Ariel

I am ready now. Can you come and help with the last preparations?

She pressed send and the screen shut down. Then she walked up to the mirror. Back on her stared a normal woman with red eyes and long black hair. ‘’Well, here we go.’’ Once again she opened her inventory, went into her menu and equipped her <<Wedding Dress>>. The whole body of Zandra gave away a bright shine for a few seconds until it faded away. Her eyes went wide when she saw, the woman staring back at her, now weared a big white wedding dress.

 @Itzal @Ariel - The Crowned Lion

Zandra raised an eyebrow when the young man said he didn’t liked to figth, unless he gained something from it. But, it was all they had in this world of death. Zandra nodded. She didn’t fully agreed on it, but didn’t argued against it, yet. Also, since fighting was such a big part of their presence, Zandra had made sure to turn her mind set so that she did enjoyed it. It was that way because of that she had came this far. Because of that she have become one of the strongest players among the frontliners.

When they spotted the king, he didn’t hesitated long before engaging. He just took enough time to tell her to back him up. ‘’Roger that!’’ she answered and watched as slashed the king. He was a good fighter. He had a fighting style that was enjoyable to look on as well. She was just gonna do some swipes on her scree, but changing to a demonic dot weapon wasn’t the best thing to do if she didn’t wanted to reveal her level. So her hand went back to the axe and she darted forward, her charge skill carrying her into the battle. She did a quick dodge to get passed the combatants and placed herself behind the king. There she released the Explode catapult. But just in that moment, her foot had landed on a small patch of ice. ''Oh shit!'' she said as she slipped and fell to the ground with a thud. ''Sorry, I didnt backed you up.'' she said to him.

rolling and stuff

As Shield help on to the Terra Firma, making sure it wouldn’t move and make her land another miss, Zandra as quick as she could, took another hard and steady grip of her axe. She focused on the beast and started to charge up Explode catapult. That was when she felt a strange feeling. A feeling she had never felt before. She looked at the edge of the axe and then she understood. Shield had used his sharpness mod on her. A smile on her face. ‘’Thanks mate!’’ she said loud enough for Shield to hear. Then she charged against the boss and activated her sword art. But nope, it didn’t wanted to land on its target. Just when she got close, in some way even thou Shield held it in place, it made a gust of sand striking Zandra in the face. It didn’t damaged her, but it was just enough to distract her and make her axe strike the ground instead of the mob. ‘’F***!!!’’

Stats:

Zandra was laying in her bed, inspecting the different shaped wooden planks that was the roof above her. Since every tree was unique, it also had its own markings where there have been branches and stuff. As she looked at one of them that almost looked like a cat, the message notification was herd. A few swipes later and she had the mail infront of her. It was short and simple. From Oscar with a mention about a dungeon that she wanna see. Questionmark. She raised an eyebrow while trying to understand the meaning. After a few minutes she shrugged and decided to do just that. Checking out this new dungeon. She grabbed a few potions before she left her estate. She scratched her chin as she thougth about what kind of dungeon this would be, as well as sending a mail to Itzal.

As she arrived at the beach of Stygian river, she saw a single person. ‘’Hello Oscar. I got your message. Any info about the dungeon?’’ she greeted the fellow two handed axe wielder with a happy but serious tone in her voice.

As Itzal was fixing with the arch where he and she was going to say ‘’I do’’, Zandra was further up, closer to the forest, and fixing with some refreshment. There was plenty of food and drinks for all the guests. Or well, if there would be any guests. She took a paus as she turned around, leaning towards the table she was decorating. She looked up at the sun and let out a sigh. ‘’Ja du Sandra. Gifta sig i ett spel. Vem kunde trott det.¹’’. She said to herself. Her crimson eyes turned down towards the beach. There she could see a small figure. A small figure that at the end of today, would be her husband. It still felt so unreal. She thougth back on the day where the two of them met for real. That the feelings would be awaken thanks to some player killers. Just the two of them, all alone in the rain.

She shoke her head. No, don’t think about that now. She had task’s to do. She turned back to the table and did an extra check so all food was there, and all drinks prepared to be poured up in glasses. When she was satisfied with how it looked, she made her way to one of the tents. Her cheeks blushed of emberrasment for what she was going to do. She, was going to wear one of those white, big, fancy wedding dresses. She looked at the clock, not much time left now. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

 @Itzal

rolls

Zandra’s axe had landed far away from the mob. She cursed herself that she had already forgotten the agility of the Terra Firma. She grit her teeths. ‘’I should have buffed up with some accuracy food for this one.’’ She mumbled to herself. That was when she saw the big monster slam into Shield. Zandra almost had to take a step back from the shockwave that was sent over the area from the heavy impact. For a second she got blinded by the blowing sand, thou her survival skill kicked in and she quickly regained her focus. Yes, this was her moment. The Terra Firma was basically locked in place as it competed against Shield who got push forward or stand still the longest.

‘’Keep him in place!’’ Zandra screamed as she as fast she could charged up Explode catapult, at the same time she started to run towards the couple. ‘’Come oooon, faster!’’ she said thru closed teeths to her axe. She had placed herself within range. ‘’Faster!’’ she said again. One second later she felt it. The sword art contected. A milli second later she activated it. The axe flew thru the air and slammed into the beast, taking away some of its health. But this was just the beginning.

Zandra took a few deep breaths as she looked up at the mighty dragon. The mighty dragon that over a dozen frontliners was steadily bringing down to its death. This was totally a new experience for Zandra. At first, they had met him in his first form which easily got defeated. Next he leveled up and got defeated as well. Then he appeared in his final form, with four heavy healthbar. But with combined effort, they have left him unable to act and kept themselves at close to full, if not completely full, full health.

But now he was down to his final healthbar, and Zandra had tried to really play the support role this time. And she must say her opinion is that she had succeded with it. She had even got a selfie together with Skalaugh.

Then she charged up the Explode catapult, kneeled down, and darted forward. There was something she saw that was very familiar to her. Teseleths Fury. So the wielder must be Oscar. He was hitting at the dragons nails. Zandra that had enough experience with two handed battle axes to not get too close to  @Oscar. Instead she placed herself on the other side of the foot. As the sword art was ready, she stopped, raised her axe and ‘’Aaahhh!!!’’ shouted out as the axehead fell down on the dragon’s foot. It wasn’t a deep cut, but it was better then nothing.

The berserk healer had just landed an attack, which dealt a big amount of damage to the oversized reptile in front of the group of frontliners. But she had not only damaged the beast, she had also stunned it. This was the first time in a long time that she had seen that. Yes, she do have the bullrush mod which stuns on charge. But all bigger boss, like events and floor progress, had been immune to that. But after all, Morg had started the combat with a paralyze. ‘’Yes, finally!’’ she said out loud as she put her two handed axe on the ground and took out a unique item. An item that she had got from Teayre a long, long time ago. A smirk on her face as she did a deep and long inhale. She looked at the dragon as she moved the Amphibian war rally to her lips.

‘’ScReeeeereeeeeeree!’’

A loud screeching sound was herd. Much greater then the horns size. The sound echoed across the battlefield. The strong rallying sound was enough to make the wielders enemies to get paralyzed with fear. When there was no air left in her, Zandra removed the horn and took some deep breaths to get herself back into fighting stance. Thou blowing the horn had made her lose the opportunity to join this wave of attacks.

Zandra cursed to herself. Someone in the squad that was fighting Skaluagh had paralyzed it. So Zandra that had spent one turn to protect everyone with her barrier mod, had basically wasted one attack, and a lot of energy. Well, normally, event, floor and labyrinth bosses cant be cc’d. But that made a thougth pop up in her mind. What about, since this would happen, she would probably be safe even if going down a bit with her defensive abilities. She smirked as she activated her quick change mod. In an instant, her big shoulder guards and draconic themed armor disappeared and got replaced by a pair of braces. ‘’Oh right.’’ she said as another thougth appeared, she pulled down her shirt a bit as he hand quickly scrolled thru menu’s. She looked away from the dragon as she smiled and took a photo with the dragon in the background. Then she closed turned towards the dragon and started to run as she charged up her Explode catapult. ‘’Hello there, now I wont miss you Skalaugh.’’ She said and released the power of the two handed axe combined with the charge skill and bullrush. As the dragon recovered from the paralyze, the stun condition appeared on it. Zandra backed off. ‘’HOW DO YOU FEEL THAT LIZARD PIECE OF [censoured]’’ she screamed towards it.

Zandra gave Dustin a smile and a thumb up as he asked about the beach party. ‘’Yes, that was me. Damn it dealt a big hit on my savings. But it turned out quite good I think. There haven’t really been that big of an event ever since. Except the one triggered by the game ofcourse. There is no way to com…’’ she got interrupted as an monkey tackled her from behind. The berserk healer stumbled a few steps forward before she got back her balance. Her eyes started to burn as she did a 180 spin on the spot. There she was, eye to eye to a baboon looking creature. ‘’don’t interrupt me when Im trying to hold a conversation!’’ she said to the monkey, that probably didn’t understood her. Then she charged forward as her axe started to shine with a bright blue light. ‘’DIE!’’ she shouted as the two handed weapon cleaved and shattered the monkey. From the momentum she had built up, two more monkeys got hit by powerful swings, another one shattering and the third dropping down into the red zone. Thou the space where the monkeys had been a few seconds earlier, was already filled with another couple of monkeys already. ‘’Sounds like you was on the beach party? Did you enjoyed it?’’

Zandra nodded with a smile in reply to Shield’s comment that the boss didn’t let them wait for him. Or her. That was a thing with many of the bosses actually, if they was male or female. Well, not that it really mattered that much, they would still be killed by her axe. She was all for gender equality. Wouldn’t hesitate to hit a mob just because it is one or the other sex. ‘’How many attacks you wonder huh?’’ she said as he asked how many attacks it would take to bring the terra firma down. ‘’Hmm, with this axe, I will probably need two hits on it.’’ Her eyes went to the enemy. ‘’Well, if I can get the attacks to hit its supposed target.’’ She added as she concentrated on it. She grit her teeths but it seemed her concentration skill wouldn’t activate. ‘’Damnit, my Concentration skill wont work. Guess I have to take it without it.’’ She said and exploded forward, her charge skill leaving a big sand cloud behind her as she flew thru the air. She had hoped to land the first strike, since that would made it so much easier to land the next strike as well. But no, all her axe striked was sand. ‘’Goddanmnit!’’ she cursed to herself as she dodged out of the way for its counterattack.

 @Shield

Zandra stood beside Itzal in silence. For him the ring choice was simple. For all dps players, the damage ring was the obvious choice. There was a set amount of sources you could increase your damage from, this was one. Well, maybe she should go for that ring as well. Even as a support, you will probably go the dps road every now and then in combat. It isn’t always that your friends need support. But no, she was judged by so many about her choice to support a player killer, she needed to change that look on her. She wanted to truly be someone that you can cover up behind, that you can rely on. She nodded to Itzal. ‘’Yes, you are right. I will focus on optimizing my abilities as a support player, and since there is no way to reduce the energy cost for first aid skills like there is for sword arts, I will need as much energy as I can get.’’ She gave him a hug as she felt her heart rate increase. ‘’This is quite exciting. To be max out my build so I will be able to stand by your side thru the whole fight.’’ She then turned to the priest. ‘’I choose the driven enchanment on my ring.’’

 @Itzal

Cost:
-Large wedding: 3,000col
-PK access: 1,500col
-Banquet Table: 2,250col
-Zandra's ring: 2,000col
-Itzal's ring: 2,000col

Total: 10,750col

Zandra glanced at Macradon and silently  grit her teeths. What was he saying? He don’t want to be go into the supporter role because he want to get his hands dirty. Well, this wasn’t a magic based game, there wasn’t really a backline and healing spells like in your typical mmo. Well, it wouldn’t add anything to the meeting for her to start an argue about it. Thou she would probably mention it to Itzal after the meeting. She had learned how dangerous it was to keep stuff to yourself and carry it alone. One day you would have to much and it would explode. Or that was how it was for her.

Zandra thougth for some minutes before she once again spoke up. ‘’I think I should change what I meant a bit earlier. Yes, I can supply you with mass heal crystals. But if you need mass heal crystals, you need to drop by at my store. It is free but so I make enough but not way to many, you need to drop by and pick up your own set of 5 mass heal crystals. I have to take my leave now but…’’ she looked at Baldur.’’…you know what I can do and I will follow your order.’’ She said, took a few steps and took back the glow stone and left. On the way out she passed Itzal. ‘’Sorry, some stuff said made me irritated and I have to go. Don’t really have anything else to say that will add anything to the meeting. See you at home.’’ She whispered so only he could hear.

-Zandra leaves meeting

Zandra rose as she saw Mari approach her waiting spot. She put on a friendly smile and shoke her head. ‘’Hello Mari.’’ She started in a polite tone. ‘’Nonono, I just got here as well.’’ She lied as an answer to her comment about Zandra being early. She wasn’t quite sure what to say more. Her relationship with Mari at the moment was, complicated. She wanted to change that. After all, wouldn’t be very unlikely that there may come a moment in the future when their life will be in the others hands.

‘’So, I did some intel searching about this quest.’’ She didn’t wanted to be in same position as last time, where she didn’t knew anything and just jumped into the quest blindly. She had talked to an info broker that specialized in this floor so she think she have enough information for them to go thru the quest smoothly. ‘’Not sure how much you know already but we need to search for the colossus so if you wonder anything I can fill you in while we walk? Im ready to go when you are.’’ She said with a quite formal voice. Hopefully she would relax a bit as they went out into the wild.

 @Mari

The boy did what Zandra had asked of him. Quickly, with a few well aimed slashes, the remaining couple of wights got destroyed as their health dropped down to zero and left the two players in a sea of crystals. Followed by that, the male said she seemed quite happy. Then mumbled something she couldn’t hear. With a smile on her lips she nodded. ‘’Yeah, ofcourse Im happy. Getting out into the wild and doing some fighting again is always fun.’’ She looked at her axe, spun it a few times before putting it back into her battle ready inventory. Then she patted the kings eagle on her shoulder. ‘’Zita also enjoys an easy battle from time to time. How about you? Do you enjoy the battles in this death game? I understand if you don’t, I have a friend that think I am stupid that thinking it is fun. And we went into quite an argument about it not to long ago.’’

She looked at the direction where he was looking. ‘’Yupp, that is probably where the king are.’’

Zandra prepared herself for the impact. The impact of energy that the dragon released. She had hoped to mitigate some of the damage by going with the attack, but nope. No movement that in real life would have lowered the strength and power it hit her affected it in the game. Well, everything was pixels after all. But also finally. FINALLY! The enemy had landed a strike on her. She felt shivers thru her body and a smile on her lips. Her health had dropped almost a fourth of her full bar. Thou the smile disappeared when she saw the health of her party members. Some have dropped dangerously low. She prepared to activate her field medic skill, but before she could do that, other players have popped their healing crystals. Zandra rolled her eyes as she cancelled the skill. Instead she channeled her other party wide defensive mod. A hexagon pattern appeared on everyones body for a few seconds before it disappeared and turned to a small marker beside the health bar. She wanted to attack the dragon, she really did. But the safety of her party members is more important than her own lust.

Zandra uses Barrier on the party. Everyone -15% damage taken for one turn