Zandra

Zandra hadnt calmed down yet, she was still struck in the wild hatred against all little nepents. Her second slash was even more powerful then the first, but as last hit, this one missed its target as well. The nepent on the other hand hadnt losed it yet. This time it only used one of its arm and slashed Zandra on the leg with its razor-sharp edges.

ID:16800

BD: 3(Miss)

MD: 7(Hit 1 dmg)

HP:

Zandra: 20/23

Nepent: 12/12

Zandra rushed in without thinking, doing the classic mistake in attacking in rage. She made a powerful slasch, but if you dont hit it dosent matter how strong you are. This hit missed its target. The nepent on the other hane seemed surprisingly calm. It made two precision hits with its arms hitting Zandra twice in the stomach.

ID: 16799

BD: 5 (Miss)

MD: 9 (Crit 1+1)

HP:

Zandra: 21/23

Nepent: 12/12

Zandra heads to the gate. She exists the town at the same time a group of five other plyers exits as well. She keep her distance a dozen meters behind. She takes a breath of relief when they turn away the opposite direction to were the forest is. When Zandra approaches the border of the forest she just continued in, not staying just outside to prepare herself. This time she had a goal and she would only consentrate on it until she was done, then she could relax, when she is done. She thougth she was gonna check out the cave if any nodes or mushrooms have re-spawned. Suddenly a little nepent arrives from the left. ''Finally. It took you some time. You know Im here to kill you right?''

Name: Greater HP Recovery potion

Your Profession: Alchemist

Your Rank: 1

Shop: Zandras Lab

ID: 16794

Roll: 11

Item Type: Potion

Quality: Rare

Enhancements: HP Recovery +10HP, takes one post to use

Description: A glass bottle with dark strawberry-red potion. When you drink it it eases moderate pain, and it also tastes like sweet strawberry-juice. 

Zandra had started to lose the confident, maybe she shouldnt be an alchemist. She so much wanted to be an alchemist but now she had wasted 10 Materials and only got two weak potions. Well, she had succesfully reused two of the materials, but still it was a bad ratio. If she didnt make any good potions today she was thinking about quiting. Well, maybe not quit but have it more like a hobby then a way to earning a living.

ID:16794

CD: 11 (Rare item)

ID:16794

CD: 4 (Fail)

Of course since she was thinking that way she timed in the brewing-time to make a succesful rare item ''This cant be true, just when I was thinking of quiting, I made a rare potion. Best attempt so far.'' Zandra smiled while placing the potion on the bench to go to the next try.

This time she was over-confident and poured up the potion way to early. ''Well, at least another strawberry-juice.''

Name: Greater HP Recovery potion

Your Profession: Alchemist

Your Rank: 1

ID: 16794

Roll: 11

Item Type: Potion

Quality: Rare

Enhancements: HP Recovery +10HP, takes one post to use

Description: A glass bottle with dark strawberry-red potion. When you drink it it eases moderate pain, and it also tastes like sweet strawberry-juice. 

The darkness had fell now but it was a cloudfree night tonight ao she had plenty of moonlight. She saw a field with four boars. They all saw her and rushed towards her at the same time. She pulled out her dagger, flipped over the first one, dodge to the side and cutted a deep wound on the second ones side. It exploded in hundreds of whiteblue pixels. 

Since she couldn’t make anything and didn’t got any customers she packed the lab and hided it in the shadows again. With angry steps she headed for the gate. Anyone that saw her coming stepped to the side to make way. If someone was to slow Zandra forcefully just pushed them away. Some asked her if something was wrong, other said she would stop and apologize. She ignored all of them. When she reached the gate she didn’t stopped, she just continued out in night. 

She walked to her portable lab and opened it to hopefully be able to sell something. She also tried to make a crystal but couldn’t concentrated so she gave up after five minutes. There was some that actually was planning to buy some potions, but when they saw her angry expression they turned around to look for someone else. She didn’t knew why but she couldn’t calm down. Now when she realised the truth she felt such an anger. 

. Zandra started to walk back to where she come from, barely lifting her feets above the ground. Left foot, right foot, left foot, right foot. This was first time she needed to concentrate to walk forward since she learned to walk like 20 years ago or so. When she reached the border of the plaza she stopped. She turned around to the plaza.’’F*** YOU  AKIHIKO!!!’’she screamed towards where the cloaked man had appeared. Then she turned back and headed back to the market.

 She laid there so long time so the sun had disappeared behind the houses and darkness has fell over the city. She decided to pull it together and continue with her life. If this even was a life. To begin with she stood up. If anyone would have passed by they would see a woman standing on the plaza and it would look like she was carrying a ton of problems on her shoulder. 

Zandra sat at the western bench at the central plaza in town of beginning. She looked at the sun when it rose above the house-roofs. The town had just started to wake up. Merchants opened their shop, players visited the shops to get better gear or just hang out at a cafe. Zandra was feeling good today. She decided that this should be the day. The day when she do what she dont want to but have to sooner or later. She would enter the forest with nepents again. But this time she was gonna did it to complete the quest secret medicine of the forest. ''Better I head out now before any other gets there and clear the forest of nepent.'' She had herd high level player cleaning the forest of nepents to screw with weeker players so they cant complete the quest. Zandra was starting to actually gather up some money. Soon she was gonna order a new dagger and some nice leather armor, or if she take metal. ''Will see when Im there.''

Gonna take this quest

Zandra listen to all the man she thought was namned Kourin had to say. When he had finished Zandra sat silent for a minute. She didnt wanted to be missunderstood when answering him. ''Rannosuke it was right? Ehm... I wasnt realy surprised when you said that Marisa made up the name.'' she looked at him with a smile. Then her face turned serious. ''I understand that you are worried about her, but do you think I realy am the 'right man for the work' here?'' She turned her head to the right a bit and looked at a broken bottle in the corner of the cafe witout seeing it.''I would gladly acompany Marisa on any of her adventures, but do you think she can accept me as a friend. She looks like she wants some more but honestly, if she wants Im not sure Im ready yet. But still I dont want to hurt her.'' She turned her head up again and looked at Rinnosuke.''Call me selfish, but I dont want her to avoid me because I turn her down when did forfill her expectations,'' she pulled back the chair and stood up, looking away from the manager.''Maybe I shall leave now, so she think she just imagined me because of the sake.''

Name: HP Recovery potion

Your Profession:Alchemist

Your Rank: 1

Shop: Zandras Lab

ID: 16461

Roll: 10

Item Type: Potion

Quality: Uncommon

Enhancements: HP Recovery +5HP, takes one post to use.

Description: A glass bottle with strawberry-red potion. When you drink it it eases some pain, and it also tastes like sweet strawberry-juice.

Zandras arms losed their strength and hang, lifeless, attached to her shoulder. She just sat there and stared into the blue. This was the first time tears started rolling down her cheeks after she entered this virtual world. ‘’What? Why am I crying? Wasn’t this all my dreams come true?'' She hitted her head in the stonefloor when falling forward and to the side. She laid there for several hours. If anyone saw her they would think she was dead. No, because if youre dead, you disappear. What would they say if they saw her laying on the ground like a cry-baby.

Now she started to get real bored, she had already explored the whole town a couple of times. Walked every single street and talked to every NPC. Suddenly she wasn’t walking at a street anymore. The houses on the sides had disappeared. Her steps had taken her to the plaza, the plaza where everyone spawned the first day, the plaza where they got the news that this was gonna be a death game. She fell down on her knees. ‘’WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO US?!!’’ she cried out while raising her hads towards the sky where they have seen the cloaked man. She waited but didn’t got any answer. She hadn’t expected it either. She only herd her echo fading out. 

. She went back to the book. Then she saw the quest that was more for her level of players. When she looked at the description <<Secret Medicine>> it was gonna bring her back to the forest she had built up a hatred. Well, the only equipment-reward was a one-handed staraight sword so it wouldn’t be of any use anyway. There was several others that she hadn’t looked at yet. But she closed her book and continued her strolling.

What should she start with? A better armour to withstand more blows, or a dagger to actually hurt the enemy when she made a successful hit on them? Eventually she would be able to afford both, but now she had to choose. She exchanged the dagger with the guide-book written by the beta-testers and updated by the frontliners. She saw a bench outside a shop and sat down on it. She wanted to see if there was any quest that would reward her with something she needed. Most of the quests was to hard for her to do solo. And everyone was busy. Would she ask a random player somewhere. She looked up and down the road. It was players of all different levels. She saw a boy with as useless equipment as herself, she also saw a girl with full plate silver armour that had gold inscription forming the picture of a stag. On her back she had a huge two-handed sword that looked like it could chop down a tree in one hit. And everything in between.

Zandra looked down at her boots that reach almost all the way up to her knees, her cloth pants. And last a simple T-shirt. At least she could decide the colour when she equipped them for the first time. The tunic was dark-blue, like those huge waves of the sea back in the real world. Dark-grey pants and classic leather-brown boots. She took out her dagger just to look at it. She giggled when seeing it. A simple hilt with a blade about 2 feet. It wasn’t well balanced either.

Zandra was strolling in the streets of town of beginning. Today she didn’t had any real plans, all of her friends had answered that they where busy or couldn’t do something today. The sun was shining and it would be a shame to went back to bed that she thougth a second to do. But she was in need of new equipment. So she decided to head to the shop district. In her few adventures she had done this far she have had a feeling she was weak. Even her most powerful attacks didn’t dealt that much damage. And her clothing didn’t gave mush protection versus violent blows. She could as well run around naked. 

Today when Zandra woke up and headed to her portable lab, she felt so sleepy. She didn’t wanted to brew something today, but she had to. Since she could only do it twice a day she prepared all ingredients, tools and equipment. After she had poured down the powder in the pot. When she sat and waited she suddenly fell asleep sitting on the chair. She woke up after ten minutes. She looked at the potion and it had a nice red colour. She poured it up in the bottle and tasted both of them. Both was useless. But at least she could separate the powder from one of them to use tomorrow.

ID: 16686

CD: 5 (Bad item, +1EXP, -1 Material)

LD: 15+1=16 success(+1 Material)

ID: 16687

CD:7 (Bad item, +1EXP, -1 Material)

LD: 12+1=13 Fail

Total:

+2 EXP

-1 Material

Zandra walked pass the other two and hopefully they would follow, otherwise she will just turn around and go back to them. Suddenly she herd someone draw a weapon. She turned around on the spot and saw Axios stood there with a dagger in his hand. ‘’What Axios, what is i…’’ Before she finished her sentence she saw the white beast on the ground. She followed Axios exampled and draw her dagger too.

''Good job Vaan. I will give you the location of the man that teached me, you can visit him anytime if you have any question. Give him my best regards. By the way, you can keep the potion. Remember to use it before its too late. Good luck, but so good luck that you gets better then me.'' She turned back to her tea and let Vaan walk away and do whatever he liked to do.

''Okay, I can say this much: I dont like nepents'' she smiled at Vaan and headed back to the town. Wonder if it was brighter now then before or if it just was because she have got some satisfaction and revench for last time. She even smiled in this forest. They where back behind the walls and arrived at the marketplace. Zandra went to the dark corner where she had placed her portable lab. Pushed it so people could see it that she was back in town. Then she started to prepare all her tools to be able to brew some potion out of the flower. ''To start with, you need to make a powder of the flowerleafs. But only the petals. That you do in this mortar. I have a very cheap and rough mortar so it will take longer time then those that have iron or even dragonstone mortars. Before you start with that pour up some water in a pot and let it start to boil. When the powder is done and the water is boiling, you simply pour down the powder in the pot. Now comes a very boring but important thing, the waiting. Depending on gor how long time it will boil, the outome will be different. Better or worse. When you think it have boiled long time enough you pour it into a bottle, cover the hole with your thumb and shake it. Then let it cool. Give it a shot and tell me when you done. I'll be over there'' during the time she spoke she putted all the tools she talked about on the workbench. Then she pointed at a small cafe about twenty meters away. ''Well, good luck.'' she smiled, turned around on the spot and walked to the cafe with her hair black hair blowing in the wind.

When Zandra had jumped to the side to let Vaan make his attack his sword pierced the nepent and the tree behind it cracked. Zandra saw the mob was almost done for it. She had always wanted to try a skill she had felt but never tried in real. She closed her eyes, focused her mind only on the egg on one side of the dagger, When she had the right feeling she opened her eyes. The nepent stood there wounded, she almost felt sorry abo... nope she didnt. Now she just wanted to kill the thing in front of her. She held the dagger in her right hand, lifted it up in to the air, lowered her arm and with all strength she had, she cutted a deep slash from the roots up to the ugly mouth ''DIIEEEEE!!!!'' and splitted it in half. The nepent exploded in a thousand pixels and disapeard. A screen popped up and annonuced she got one red flower and 55 Col.

ID:16665

BD:10 Crit 2+2=4 dmg

MD:3 Miss

LD: 16+1=17(+55 Col)

HP:

Zandra: 14/19

Nepent: 0/11-DEAD!

Vaan: 11/11