Zandra

-Well, since I dont have any money and explored so much of the town yesterday. I think I head outside today. A dozen meters away stood some boys looking at her and whispered while pointing on her.
-Did you hear that? The girl over there is talking to herself. She must be one of those loners hehe.

When Zandra heard them she first looked at them for a few moments. Then she stood up and walked away. Heading towards the gate... 

It was then she felt she was hungry. All other players here had got some money yesterday and eating order food from the bar. She went outside and found a good place to sit on. In her inventory she picked out one of her ten breads and some water. It wasent fun to eat the bread but at least it stilled her hunger. But the water was cold and fresh.
 

It was a pretty small room. It only had a bed, a small table infront of the window and a single chair. Suddenly a girl came into the room. Maybe 17-18 years old.
-So your awake miss. I brougth some water for you.
-Thank you, could you tell me where I am? Zandra asked with a smile.
-Youre at an inn in the southern part of town of beginning.
-I better get going, I dont have any money yet and dont want to ocupy one of your room. Thanks for taking care of. Zandra gladly drank some water and left the room. She took the stairs to the bottom floor that was full of players eating breakfast and preparing for their first full day in Aincrad. 

When Zandra woke she was laying in a bed inside someones house.
-Wher am I? she said with a quiet voice while looking around in the room. Why is she here in the first place. Oh right she straigthened her arm. So the game dosent remove the feeling of pain anymore. She sat up and looked at her arm. It looked just like normal. She could move it however she wanted except straigthen it.
 

The cloaked guy talked some more before he disapeared and the sky went back to normal. She looked down on her hands when the mirror disapeared. Wait, if we are like real now, is my arm back to what it was in real life. She was slowly straigthen her left arm while focus her eyes on it. When it was almost straigth she herd a loud SNAP, she felt an overwhelming pain from her fingertips to her soulder. She screamed and everything went blurry before it went all black and fell to the ground... 

-What, a mirror? she said and watched on it. But it wasent she that looked back at him. It was handsome blonde man. She smiled when seeing how good-looking she made him. But suddenly she was surronded with a whiteblue light. She looked around and it happened to everyone else too. When the light faded everyone had changed. She looked at the mirror and this time she recognized the face. It was hers.
 

When the plaza was full of people, must be like all players in the game. Someone pointed to the sky at a blinking warning-sign. It duplicated again and again and again until the entire sky was covered.
-What the hell is happening? she said to herself.

A huge cloaked humanoid appeared in the sky. He talked about you cant log out, die here you die in real life, dies if removing the NrveGear, over 200 already dead. He said everyone got a new item. She opened her inventory to check what this new item was.
 

''Eh, screw this. Im going back to the town. Im tired of you just standing here and chit-chat. Thou it was nice to meet ya. Bye and have a good time at adventuring. Just be careful Zandra and Hunter. After all, those guys was spying on ya. Bye bye.'' Axios said to the group before she put back his weapon and headed back to the town.

''Hey, Axios wait.'' Zandra said to Axios but he kept walking pretending like he didnt herd her. She turned to the newcomers.''Well, we havent decided what kind of adventuring we wanted to do. Maybe kill some boars or Ive herd you can gather materials is some way.'' she lifted her arm to scratch her on the nose.''Im a newbie so dont rely know what to do,''

''Yes it was.'' she looked at the newly arrived player. He hadnt broken down like she did. Not Jomei either. She havent seen Axios many times at all. It was ctually strange she would be this sad for just a player she barely knew.''It was me that put up the mesage on the notice board.'' she stood up and walked to him. Reached out her hand to him ''My name is Zandra by the way. Nice to meet you. This is the first player I personally knew that died. And want to remember him even if he is gone.''

Zandra sat on the bed and observed him closely. She tried to find any sign that he was lying. She hoped she not gonna find anything. When she had observed him for like two minutes she decided he was honest. She looked away and started talking."It all started in Sweden five years ago. It was the same day I graduated. I almost never weared any fancy clothes. I was a loner and they bullied me for anything. The first and only time I used make up and fancier clothes compared to my regular ones. A girl said I looked even uglier then usual. Then I never used fancy clothes again. Until the graduation day. That day, my mom had bougth a expensive white dress. On the morning I spent more then an hour infront of the mirror to get the make up right. When I was done and had put on the dress mum looked at me and said I looked beutiful. On my way to school a saw one the worst bullier. I tried to run away but they have already seen me. When they catched up to me they pushed me down on the grass. When I laid on the ground they kicked up dirt I my face and on the dress. Two of them pulled me up and third guy punched me in the stomach. Then he ripped my dress at the chest so everyone could see my brah. He also took up a handful of dirt and pressed in my face. I tried to get away from them but the boys held my arms too tight. When we reached the school the third boy shouted to draw everyones attantio. Thats where the boys let of me and pushed me forward. I stood there a few moments stunned before turned around and ran home."she looked up at him to see his reactio, but continued before he could say something."An hour ago I was walking at the fields outside the wall. Then I saw three lvl two guys fighting a boar. When I got closer I recognized them. I ran forth killing the boar with stab of my dagger. When they saw who I was they rushed at me all at the same time. I unequiped my dagger and started to punsh them until all of the healthbars had went down to red. Then I pushed them away from me, taking the three materials they had gathered and ran back to the town. They followed me and was also gaining on me. After half an hour I saw a tavern, walked in and sat down beside a greyhaired boy. You know the rest." Zandra opened her inventory, took out some water and drank it all. Then she turned her head to the boy to see his reaction.

-1 Water

"Thank you Jomei."Zandra almost whispered. Her eyes are still wet. But her breath slowed down and her heart beated like normal. "I cant believe he is dead. I thougth I was prepared. But I wasnt." now she just sat on the bench looking down on the ground where he stood. She placed her hands on her knees.

''Jomei!''Zandra turned around and embraced the man.''It Axios... He is... He is de...''she breathed heavy and her tearful eyes looked into his still unknowing eyes. Then she broke eyecontact and looked away resting her head on his chest. Even if it hurts, she must tell him. She turned her head up and looked at him again.''Axios is dead.''the tears appeared again and she looked down again. What would she do. For the moment she just stood there crying like a little baby.

Zandra sat on a bench and was scrolling up and down her friend list. She wanted to find someone to hang out.''Soo boored...'' she said while looking up and down the street. Then she saw the list reload, like when lists beeing refreshed and its more or lees searchresults in it. She got panic, she didnt have any unaccepted friend-requests. So its must be someone less. She quickly scrolling up and down, trying to remember the names of everyone and check to find out who had disapeared.''AXIOS!!!''she couldnt find his name anywhere. Scrolling the frienlist up and down like a dozen times. She still couldnt find it.''No. Axios. I know that this is a death game, but this is the first time someone I know disapear.''she started to shiver and her cheeks gets wet. She thougth she was prepared for it that her friends could die at any moment, but guess you cant be prepared for something like this. With heavy steps she walked to the notice-board to put up a message.

Hi, my name is Zandra. Tomorrow Im

gonna be at the lakes south beach on

floor 1 to remember Axios Deminence.

If you also knew him I would like you to

join the memorial to honour the SAO-player

and good friend:

Axios Deminence

-Zandra

Zandra entered the room after the boy, he closed the door and sat down on the bed. Zandra decided to stay at the door standing, to be prepared if the mens would be able to get in into the room. Thou she changed to her casual clothes. Anything would be rude when the boy showed such hospitality.''Im sorry Shuyin, I dont know what flew into my mind. Sometimes I just lose it and do things without thinking. Im so sorry I ruined your reputation in that tavern, I realy am.''she looked at the boy with sad eyes, not to try to seduce him, but she was actually sad for what she had done to him.''I have much experience from the real world how it feels to have people thinking about you in ways that you actually are not.''she suddenly took a few steps forward and sat down on the bed beside the boy.''Sorry Shuyin for the things I did to you.''she grabbed his hands in hers and started death serious into his eyes.''I can tell you what this is all about, but noone can know this. NONE! Thats my only claim to let you know what Im gonna tell you.''she didnt even wink, just sat there waiting for the boy to decide if he would tell anyone or not.

Zandra saw the two guys walk out from the grass and towards them. One of them introdused himself as Skylar. It seemed on his reaction he wasnt a pk'er. Then he would probably just rushed at them before they had time to react. But the other man was pretty low level. Zandra felt for the first time she could relax. She was 99% sure it was safe.''Hi, Im Zandra Zvift, but you can just call me Zandra. Its a pleasure to meet you too.''she took a step forward, smiled and reached out her hand towards Skylar.''and your friend.''she nooded at the other man.''we are preparing to head out for some adventuring. But you didnt answered my question. Why was you sneaking on us?''

(OOC: During this thread Im still lvl 3)

Today Zandra was pretty sleepy. Thou she still had one material left. She was gonna try to brew her order today. After she had placed all her tools on the bench she pulverized the flower to a fine powder. She let it boil for one and a half hour before she moved it, shaked it at let it cool. ''Nope, this one is also a juice.'' she said affter taking a zip.

ID:17448

CD: 5 Good item +2 EXP -1 Material

Zandra entered the Empty shell. She realy needed a new dagger, when she got in she new she was on the right place for that. She walked towards the boy she saw working on something. She waited until he was done.''Excuse me Rusty, my name is Zandra and I herd you was taken custom orders. If its not to much trouble I would like to order a dagger.''

Item: Desolation, blade of the loner.
Item Type: One-handed dagger
Quality: Perfect
Enchantments: +1 Accuracy, +2 Damage
Description: A curved dagger made of some hard silver-looking metal with a black hilt. (See pic below in spoiler)

''Of course, I will get straigth to it.''she said to the man with a smile. ''I will send you a PM when its done. See you around.''he looked at the man walking away.''Yes, my first order, I guess I will get straight to it.'' Zandra prepared all her tools and putted three matrials on the workbench. She was excited, it felt like she was gonna get lucky today. Sadly it didnt started good. When she inspected the flowers she saw that two of them was ruined. She threw them away. The last one on the other hand looked good. She pulverizzed it and poured it into the bottle. She was waiting and when it was done, she had chaked the bottle and it had cooled down. She tasted it.''Oh maann... Just regular strawberryjuice again!'' Zandra placed the juice together with the other juices.

ID:17334

CD: 1 Fail +1 EXP -1 Material

ID:17335

CD: 1 Fail +1 EXP -1 Material

ID:17336

CD: 7 Good item +2 EXP -1 Material

Total:

1 Good item

+4 EXP

-3 Materials

Zandra realised that there probably is something like pets in this game, and Axios saw this was a pet, then that means someone is somewhere, maybe watching them. In most games you cant be too far away from your pet, so the person must be here somewhere. At first glance she didnt saw anyone, why was someone hiding for them. Or maybe Axios was wrong. Still she took a closer look on the fields around them. Thats when she spotted two colour shiftings in the tall grass. When she looked closer it looked like two heads. Was it two Pk'ers that was gonna slaughter them? The three of them would probably be no match to experienced player killers. So she put down her dagger in her belt and scremed towards the tall grass.''HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING OVER THERE SNEAKING IN THE GRASS?!'' if it was looking like they was gonna kill them she would just run into the safe area inside town.

ID:17318

Stealth rating: 10+1(concealmetnt)=11

LD: 19+1(search and detect rank 1)=20 Spotted!

Zandra arrives at the Harounka village. Now she heads for the house where she  would find missu's daughter. Whit her alchemist-skills she quickly put together a brew from the Little nepents ovule. She carefully moves the bottle to the girls lips and made her drink it.''The brew gonna take awilhe start to effect her, but she should be good soon.''Zandra said to the missu.''Thank you Zandra for your help, here, you can have this blade in excahnge. It have passed down thru our family for generations.'' a screen pops up and announce Zandras quest reward, Anneal blade and an extra skill point.''Thank you missu. Now its time for me to continue my adventure, bye.'' Zandra exits the house, heading home.

+2SP

+4 Materials

+1 Anneal blade(+1dmg)

+400 Col (1 page complete)

"Aouch, that hurted. It realy getying darkrker now."she was gonna go when she suddenly she saw thick gathering of tons of flowers. She still hurried but looked carefully what she picked."That should be it." she putted her second bouquet in her inventory. Then she left the field to get to the safety behind the walls. This time she didnt walked, she ran as fast she could.

Zandra searched the field for even more flowers. It was harder to see now, when it was getting darker she started to hurry up. She shouldnt have done that. She picked flowers and suddenly something with thorns. The pain stang in her finger and she dropped the flowers. She was surprised such a small thorn could hurt that much.

ID:17249
LD:7+1=8 Fail

"One picked. Well there is plenty more and I better get it while Im here anyway." she went back to flowerpicking. On her next bouquet she wasnt as lucky as with the first. She picked too many at the same time and dropped them when opening her inventory."Darn it, lets try again." She was kinda frustrated she didnt took it more crefully.

ID:17248
LD:10+1=12 Fail

Zandra reached a field full of flowers. The sun was already late in the afternoon. If she didnt walked back it would be ark before she gets back. And she had never been outside the walls after dark yet. She still decided to pick some flowers. When she had picked a big handful she thought it was enough and outted it in the inventory.

ID:17247

LD:16+1=17 Success

+1 Material

Zandra wasnt surprised when Shuyin knew she was there. When he walked inside she headed to follow him. Just when she was gonna close the door the street got bright when the taverndoor opened. For a second she paniced, was her two chasers in some way recognize her, or worse, they think Shuyin is the thief."Oh no Zandra, what have you done." But only a single man exits the building. Thou she could only see his sillouett so she quickly closed the door just in case."I should probably look over this boy. Yes, Im gonna guard over him to make sure those mens dont bother him."she quikly whispered to herself. Then she turned around a went followed the boy to his room.