Zandra

Since they was on a flower-field, Zandra thougth she was gonna meet another nepent. But it seemed they didnt was ready to engage her just yet. In front of her stood a tree-man. Not like the ents in lord of the rings, because it was barely two meters tall. Surprised by the quick of arrival the tree did she didnt got any time to pull her dagger before the tree had hit her with one of its branshes.

ID:18345

BD:2 Miss

MD:9 Crit 1+1=2dmg

Tree-man: 14/14

Zandra: 25/27

Trigger resetted

 There was a loud SNAP when the boars neck broke and it fell down on the ground, exploded in hundreds pixels. She suddenly felt something wet and warm on her arm. When she looked she saw it was blood. She bent her arm and started to taste it while both beeing very happy.''Why am I happy? I killed these boars cold-heartly and I liked to kill them. Please dont say Im on way on turning into a monster.''

With her momentum she swung up into the air and 'rided' the boar. When she sat there she pressed her knees into the boars sides. Then she grabbed the other tusk with her free hand. With a hard grip she, inch by inch pulled its head upwards.''Look at the sky piggy.'' she said to the boar with the face of a psycopath.

On Zandras cart there now is a new message:

Zandras lab is moving to another floor. So now Im annonching a huge sale. 25% discount on all potions and juices in stock.

Also, Im no longer gonna be availble at floor 1 when my stock is empty. Ive got a bigger cart on floor 3.

If anyone wanna buy potions, juices and crystals from me in the future, you are welcome there. Have a nice day!

                                                                                                                                   -Zandra

Zandra turned around for the second time. But when Zandra was busy killing his friend it had turned around and started running towards her. Just when Zandra turned around the boar had reached its destination and tackled her ten meters away.’’So you want a tackle-competition. You think I can only kill you if using this blade. Hehe.’’Zndra unsheated her dagger and placed her left foot behind the right. They started running towards each other at the same time. When they was face to face she dodged to the side while gripping one of its tusks in her right hand. 

Both came charging side-by-side. Only one meter away deom Zandra she took a small step to the side, her right leg behind the left and pressed her foot into the ground. She held the dagger pointing forward. The boar didn’t realized what she was doing until it was too late. The dagger got pressed deep inside the boars head and it was only of them left now. 

. This made her stop for one moment too long, the third one tackled her and the fourth trampled right over her. It shouldn’t have done that because Zandra pushed the dagger blade pointing upwards and ripped up the boars stomach. Now half of them was dead. She raised and turned around, a crazy smile on her face.’’Hehe, come at me piggies.’’she said to the remaining boars.

Now she couldnt decide where to go next. She choosed between a sea-blue field of flowers to the left and a snow-white flower-field to the right. The white ones looks nice from far, but the blue ones she herd was more powerful then white ones. So she took the way to the left. When she got there she first felt the nice feeling of the flowers. These ones was covered with a short thick fur. ''I wonder what I gonna be able to craft from these ones.'' she immediatly started to gather alot of them. Thou she was to fast and dropped the whole bpuquet and had to start all over. She putted that misfortune behind and continued with the picking. She got a nice bunch of them and putted it in her inventory. She wanted one more bouquet. But suddenly when she was gonna pick the first flower in the third bouquet, the ground started to tremble...

ID:18243

LD:4+1=5 Fail +1 trigger

ID:18244

LD:18+1=19 Success +1 Material

ID:18245

LD:10+1=11 Fail

+1 Material

5/5 trigger

3 Material total

Friend request - Accepted

Party request - Accepted

''Im here to get some levels, then I plan to head up to floor two.'' Zandra answered him and wondered why he always smiled and his hair blowing in the wind. Guess he is one of those good looking guys that normal girls gets crushes on.''And also, I dont have butterfingers, I could do this a hundred times in a row if I wanted too. But since you said so I wont show you.''she sticked out her tounge at him, thou in a friendly way.''Oh my, what are you doing Zandra ?'' she pulled in her tounge and locked down at the ground.''You acting like a five-year old. Who of us are actually the oldest.''she mumbled quickly. She just realized she had squatted for almost a minute and not even touched her dagger. She quickly took it and unsheathed it. Then she stood up straigth and looked at the guy. What was he thinking about her? What would she do now? She must shape up now or this boy would think she was an impossible case.''I would appreciate your help and company, I havent planned on beeing attacked by more wolfs, I guess I gonna continue with boars.''she took a deep breath. Finally she started to act normally. She also put on a smile.

''Im more then okay, this was fun. I didnt it was so fun to kill thi... oh ehm... I mean this was a good fight for me. Good practise. By the way, thannk you for the help. If you hadnt come that wolf would probably have killed me.''she hated when other people looked down on her, even if she was the 'bad' person. So because of that she wanted to impress the man. She took her dagger in her right hand and threw it into the air it spun 360 degrees and she was gonna catch it like it was something she could easily do. Thou when the hilt landed in her palm she gripped it a second to late and it slipped. She quickly bent down to pick up the knife so he wouldnt see her face, red as an tomato. Luckily her long hair covered her face.

''My name is Zandra Zvift, but you can call me just Zandra. By the way, what are you doing here on floor one? At your level you could be fighting in the frontlines?''

+1 HP out of combat post (11/11)

''So, what field should I go for now?'' Zandra said while searching the surrondings for a fitting field where she wanted to continue her flower-picking. She saw a grey field about half a kilometer away that looked realy apealing. On the way to the sea of grey flowers she passed a bench. On the bench sat a couple. One girl and one boy. They sat there the girl resting her head on his shoulder. Suddenly Marisa poped up in her thougths. She got herself surprised to thinking about her of all people when she saw a couple.''No, dont think about her now, concentrate on your task.'' she said to herself. The couple twitched when they herd a voice behind them. They turned around to look what made the noice and saw Zandra. Zandra didnt knew they did because she had already walked away.

After a few minutes walk she reached the grey-flower field. She bent down to pick a couple of flowers. When she had a nice bouquet she held it up in the air to examine it so she didnt picked any bad flowers. She saw that most of them was worm-eaten on the leafs. She threw the bad ones away but still had enough for making at least one potion.

ID:18191

LD:16+1=17 success

ID:18192

LD:1+1=2 Fail +1 trigger

ID:18193

LD:1+1=2 Fail +1 trigger

+1 Material

4/5 trigger

2 Material total

Zandra looked around. So many fields, so hard to choose which one next. She decided to go for a yellow big field to the south. The sun is on its way down, throwing a smooth light over the whole area. She took a few minutes to just take this beutiful enviroment in. Then, when she gonna be on a ugly or rough place she will remember this one, to remember this game maybe isnt that bad. Well, as long as you not get killed. Now time to do what she got here to do. She bent down and picked a flower. Investigated it carefully. ''Hmm... this one looks a little different.'' She couldnt say what was different, but something was wrong. She stood there thinking for a minute. Then she decided. There is so much fields here,''I can probably get enough from the other fields.'' she dropped the flower and headed to the next field.

ID:18177

LD:10+1=11 Fail

ID:18178

LD:5+1=6 Fail

ID:18179

LD:1+1=2 Fail +1 trigger

2/5 trigger

1 Material tot

Zandra arrived at floor 2 and headed out to high fields of crossing. Most players used it as a dating spot, but Zandra was gonna gather more ingredients to her potions. She reached the moutain and went to the top to begin her flower gathering. When she reached the top and looked at the fields with flower she got completly stunned, how many different potion is she gonna be able to do with all these flowers. She ran out to start pick flowers right away. She found a field with bright red flowers that would be perfect for her health potions. She picked a nig and nice couple. ''Now, which field is next?''

ID:18174

LD:3+1=4 Fail (+1 trigger)

ID:18175

LD:9+1=10 Fail

ID:18176

LD:18+1=19 Success

+1 Material

1/5 trigger

Zandra was resting in the sun outside town of beginning on a place where any mobs rarely spawns. She thougth it was amazing that they could make not only shiny days, but shiny days that makes you feel refreshed. When she had layed down for a couple of hours she stood up and streatched her body. ''Now have I rested long enough, time to get some materials.'' this morning she decided that she had spent far to much time on floor 1. Time to explore the other floors. She picked floor 2 to start with. She walked back to town of beginning and teleported up to Urbus on Floor 2.

-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.