Zandra

• Character Name: Zandra
• Character Description: Blackhaired woman with ruby-coloured eyes, that dont hesitate to enter a fight against a dangerous enemy.
• Character Journal: [link]

• Character Name: Anise
• Character Description: Short, redhaired rude woman. Not really using her so she basically lost her personality. And have no plans starting using her again.
• Character Journal: [link]

So, it seemed this was a girl she soon would be seeing on the frontlines. She looked like a dedicated person and like she had decided to herself. Would there be another blackhaired girl on the frontline. Would Irastrya join next floor boss? Maybe that will be too soon, or not. Zandra still had to get used to this new system. Like her level have dropped by over fifty, was this making each level harder? Or what plans did Kayaba have for them. Well, the one that lives will see. And Zandra was gonna make herself one of those. Irastrya reminded her thou that it wasn’t sure that Zandra would survive to the hundredth floor. ‘’Yeah, it was awhile since we lost someone to a floor boss. There is actually more common that people decides to just not show up. Retiring or something. But it is always good to be as many as possible. The more players we are, the faster it will go and shorter time for the boss to… yeah.’’

Then Irastreya blushed and shaked her head. Zandra got confused at first. Was it something she said? But she quickly understood. ‘’ooooh, Im sorry. Let me correct myself then.’’ She cleared her throath. ‘’Hi Astreya, nice to meet you.’’

It seemed she was on a quest, or something else, to get a skill. The only skill she could remember from floor two was the martial arts. But that quest wasn’t on that mountain. It was on a grassfield the opposite way. ‘’Well, it sounds you have better info about this then I do. I don’t remember anything about a skill unlocking on this mountain. Maybe I should give this a shot as well. You lead the way. Well, if it is okay I tag along. Or maybe you prefer to do it alone?’’ she asked Astreya with a friendly tone. ‘’I know a few players that prefer to go questing alone.’’ She added.

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The girl infront of her seemed to not get scared or go into a defence mood like so many people do when a random stranger comes up to them and starts talking with them without a reason. She listened the young woman. It sounded like she was quite an active person back in the real world. Both mountainclimbing and being a captain of a volleyball team. ‘’I see. I hvnt tried it out myself thou. But it would be fun to try some day. Just have to get to the hundredth floor first.’’ Zandra let out short sigh as she thinked about the one hundred floors they need to climb. All the work she had put in, and she had only helped with ten of the floors, and they still had seventy five left. Well, didn’t mattered now, cuz now she was busy with getting to know a new player.

The other girl introduced herself so Zandra gave a short nod. ‘’Hi Irastreya, it is nice to meet you. Myself I am Zandra. And no, Im not at any quest at the moment. I take the question as you are thou? If you wont company I wont mind joining you thou if that’s okay?’’

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Zandra gave her husband a warm smile. ‘’Yeah, the experience of the update was truly terrifying. I don’t even know what to say. But hopefully it going to be for the better when we have settled down and got the hang of things.’’ She replied when he agreed to be okay. Just as when she was home, thoughts darted thru her head, she thinking of everything and nothing. But no, this wasn’t the time for that. Now they was gonna go to the Talking pie and enjoy some delicious cake. ‘’indeed. The blueberry cake is very good. With a cup of choclatemilk to as well. Jummy.’’

They walked for a bit until they reached a typically fantasy-styled medieval restaurant type of building. With a few tables outside as well. There was a few guests sitting and enjoying some food and drinks. Thou Zandra recognized all of them. ‘’don’t worry about the guests, they are all NPC’s.’’ she said and walked to a table for two inside that was at the window so they could see out but still placed in a way so it was very hard to be able to spot them. She did remembered Itzals sneakiness and guessed he wouldn’t be a big fan of sitting outside. ‘’Does this work?’’ she asked him with a warm smile. Zandra sits down and a waitress walks up to them. ‘’I can take your order.’’ She says and while looking at the waitress Zandra quickly says. ‘’2 Blueberry-pies and 2 cups of chocolate-milk.’’ Then she turns to Itzal. ‘’So, what you think?’’ she says and moving her arm in a wide circle pointing over the area inside the café.

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The dropped jaw on Zandras face turned into a smile. A very excited smile. She had thougth that she would have to get like, a ton of normal fishes first. Maybe even some boots. But no, she got a rainbow fish on her first try. She could barely believe it herself. But there it was. Excited but carefully she jumped across the rocks to get back to steady land. There she laid the fish on the ground. She brought out a dagger and started carving in the flesh of the water-creature. The first tries she accidentally destroyed the rainbow scales. But third times the charm. She bent very carefully and delicately to not ruin the scale that she was gonna deliver to the gentle fisherman. And when she finally had it, she rose and held it up against the sun. The shine it gave when she held it up and reflect the sun was truly beautiful.

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Stats:

Zandra laid on her bed, looking at the roof above her. So much had change in the span of just twenty four hours. This giant update that have totally ruined her whole build. She couldn’t be like she was before. Before she could be basically whatever she wanted. She was a scout, tank, dps and healer at the same time thanks to her huge amount of skill points. Now everything was changed and she had some serious thinking to do. She sat up and scratched her head. She cant lay here all day she thougth to herself. ‘’Well, I guess some fresh mountain-air would work with this.’’ She said to herself.

An hour later she had portaled down twenty floors to number two. She stepped out of the warp portal, took a deep breath and sighed. ‘’Perfect.’’ She said to herself when the mountain air filled her lungs. But even if it was good here at the plaza, she needed to get out in the wilderness to get that amazing air she haven’t felt in what felt like forever.

When she headed out outside the city she picked up a few words. "Man, rock climbing was kind of whatever when I had a harness and visible handholds and all that," Came from somewhere to her left. She turned her focus that way and spotted a girl. About the same height as he but with a younger look. She as well had long, black hair, but this girls had eyes like a sapphires instead of Zandra’s rubies. Zandra walked up to her. She cleared her throat so to not scare her. ‘’Excuse me, couldn’t avoid to hear. Do you have experience of rock climbing before entering this death-game?’’

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Zandra stood at the outer edge of the plaza and waited to see the portal shine up with a blue and white light. The shine she by now was so familiar with. Stuff seemed to have changed, but at least that was the same. Even thou she enjoyed new stuff and changes, she appreciated that they kept some stuff like it have always been. Kept some stuff the way she had lived with for these years, and enjoyed. She really hoped when they started to advnetyre and fight mobs, that it wouldn’t feel like a totally different game. It was what it have been that she loved with this game of death. Just as she thougth that thougth, another thing she loved appeared as the portal shined. A big smile on her lips as her she started to walk towards it.

She was so happy to see her husband again. She held out arms and replied the hug. It seemed he had been worried about her and was happy she was alright. ‘’Well, it takes more then giant update to take down me. Seems like you are okay as well.’’ She said as she held him tight.

As Itzals familiar joined their re-union with a caw caw, a short cry was herd before another feather being appeared. The kingseagle Zita landed on a bench and looked at them with her razorsharp eyes and it almost looked like she gave them a warm smile.

‘’Yes, we did indeed. But just because we came out alright doesn’t mean we can relax quite yet. Come, lets go to the café I mentioned. Their blueberrycake is amazing. You must try it.’’ She said and started to lead the way.

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Zandra took the rod and the special bait and headed down to the lake. She was excited to try this out as well as to earn the right to be called a fisher. She saw a big rock a bit out and decided that standing on it was a good spot to get fishes from. Luckily it alkso was smaller rocks, pointing out of the water with equal spaces for her to jump on them to reach the big one. As she stood on the rock, she held a tight grip of the rod and threw out the hook. She sat down and waited for the fish to bite on the hook so she can pull it up. But nothing happened. Zandra just sat on the rock, waiting for anything to happen. A deep sigh and she was just gonna give up when her luck changed. There was something on the hook. She pulled it up and dropped her jaw when she saw the catch.

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She saw a silluette close to the water, maybe that was the one she was looking for. As she gets closer he had started to approach her with a lifted hand. Zandra wouldn’t lie, the man was quite handsome with a great face, flowing hair and muscular but not bulky body. ‘’Hi, are you the fisherman that can teach me how to fish?’’ Zandra asked .  "Anthony Gill, at your service," he announces, executing a quick bow. "Let me guess, you were looking for someone old, with a long white beard, and a pipe?" Waggling his eyebrows, the man adds, "Sorry to disappoint. Now, what can I do for you?" Zandra paused a few moments before she explained. There was no need to fill out any details. After all, he was an NPC and must already know why she was here. ‘’I wanna learn the art of fishing.’’ She said. Short but clear. "I am honored you would come to me for help. Since we're friends, I'll let you in on a little secret." Reaching into his pocket, Anthony draws out a small tin, then offers it to you. "This is a special bait, because a local priest prays over it in a top-secret ceremony.  I'm the only one in the world who has it, so don't bother looking for it anywhere else. If you use it, you'll catch the rare any mysterious Rainbow Fish, which you can harvest for Gleaming Scales. Catch the fish, bring me a scale, and you'll know all there is to know about fishing." Anthony tells her in a cheerful voice. Zandra receives the special bait. She looks down on it and nods. ‘’Got it, Im gonna catch this rainbow fish for you. Just you wait.’’ She says and grabs a fishing rod that Anthony holds out to her.

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Much like she had thougth, there was a fisherman, sitting on a bridge. She went up to him with a smile. ‘’Hello there, Im interested in learning to become a fisherman. Do you know anyone that can teach me?’’ Zandra said friendly to the man. ‘’Hehe, well yes that I know. Anthony is the man to talk to when it comes to learning the amazing art of fishing. You will find him at the lake north of townof beginning. I wish you the best of luck and may the sea be with you.’’ He man said before he went back to his fishing. ‘’Thank you very much.’’ Zandra replied before she quickly headed off back to town, warped down to floor one and rushed north. She was sure what place the man meant, but last time she was there, no NPC had been in sight. But she couldn’t think about that. New update, new NPC’s.

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As she quickly made a quick scan thru the new info that was already out there, she saw two new proffessions. Fisher and gatherer. As she looked deeper into them, she immediately understood that she needed to train up one of these, and that as soon as possible. It seemed that you had to do a similar quest to how she became an alchemist. The quest giver was unknown thou, so she would have to work herself for some information. This, she had nothing against, quite the opposite. She was kinda tired of everything being so easy and weak. Would this update give back the feeling of a game? A game where you must put in more then a tiny bit effeort. She felt her excitement rise as she headed to a lake where she knew she had seen a fisherman. Before the update there haven’t been any questgiver there, but who knows, maybe that had changed.

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Her healthbar was no longer zero, it had only been zero for a split second. To short time for the shatter animation to go in effect. Instead she saw some letters in it. ‘’Updating…’’ it said as the green bar slowly but steadily filled up to full. She let out a deep sigh of relief. She wouldn’t die today after all, and that felt good. Thou she found out a lot of weird things. Her level was much lower, her health was lower, yeah, most of her stats have lowered. It must have been, a huge revamp? An update? It was the first one Zandra have ever been experiencing in this game of death. Her brain, that before entering sword art online haven’t done much except playing games, especially mmo’s. To survive an mmo, she needed to quickly adapt. You need to know how relatively strong you are, how strong is the enemies, what do you need to do to be stronger. Yeah, there is a lot of things to think about.

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Zandra was in her bedroom at the second floor of her estate, She sat on the edge of the bed, with her elbows on her knees and leaning her head on her closed fists like she was praying. Thou when it comes to Zandra, praying was very unlikely she would do. No, at the moment, her brain was working at full speed. ‘’Hmm. But why… Yeah, maybe.’’ She mumbled to herself, her eyes staring out in the air infront of her, looking at nothing.  ‘’But if that’s. No, it cant. If thou.’’ She kept on mumbling. If someone herd her, they would probably think she is crazy or something. But to be fair, that was true, a long, long time ago. But not anymore.

That was when her thoughts got interrupted by a sound. The familiar signal that a mail have dropped down in her inbox. She glanced at the pop-up notification. At first she ignored it, there was more important things to do now. But it didn’t took many seconds before she couldn’t hold herself back. She pressed the icon and opened the mail. When she saw who it was from and what was written in it, she felt a smile on her lips. With fingers that is now used to writing in the air, she quickly sent a reply back to him. She knew that he, just like her, was very experienced when it came to skills and builds in this death game, so she had wanted to give both of them some time to think before discussing it. Or easier said, she didn’t wanted to disturb him. But it seemed that he was ready, so she rose from the bed and headed out. Usually, she would wear her casual clothes, the red skirt with suspenders, a red hood and dark t-shirt. Both because she knew a mob-less road to town, as well as a few hours ago, no normal mob on this floor would be able to take her on, even with standard axe and no armor. But after this, she couldn’t be sure, so she had equipped her trusty Inferno armor and Teselths fury in her hand. Still, she reached the floor 22 plaza without any encounter.

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Tears started to roll down Zandras cheeks as the health kept dropping. Went down two five health points. Four. Three. Two. One. Zero. So, this was the end Zandra thougth to herself. All years she had fought. All countless hours she had spent in those dungeons, leveling up her strength. All time and materials and money she had spent in her alchemy store, all this she had worked for. So she would be able to protect everyone here. Protect those that cant protect themselves. But now, when she was in danger, she wasn’t able to protect herself. So, this was the end. She looked down on her hands. She raised her eyebrows, her hands was just like normal, no blue or white pixels had started to turn them into dust. No part of them had started to fade into nothingness. She turned her head back up. When she saw the healthbar once again, her eyes grew of surprise and she couldn’t believe what she was seeing.

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Her eyes got struck by confusion, but she wasn’t attacked. Why did her health dropped? She hadn’t eaten anything recently that could be poisionous nor did she had any status marks below her healthbar. Still her muscle memory took out and antidote potion, just in case. Or rather, tried to take out an antidote potion. But no, her inventory was unaccesible. Her eyebrows rose as she tried again. But no, couldn’t open her inventory. What about her battle ready inventory? She tried but got same result there as well. ‘’Damnit, what is going on.’’ She started to get despearate, so she tried to activate her purify mod, as a healer she must be able to stop this. But no surprise, she couldn’t activate any of her skills or mods. She grit her teeths as her health got into the red. She started to get some real panic. WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON!

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Zandra was stunned. Zandra was chocked. She couldn’t believe what has just happened. She just sat there, looking into the air infront of her, didn’t knew what to say. What to do. Even what to think. The only thing she did was slowly shaking her head. Left to right, left to right. Like, how could this be possible? Suddenly, everything had changed. There had been some strange feeling in the air. As she had looked around her, it looked like trees, houses, yes even NPC’s started to glitch out or something. The homely streets that went thru town of beginning, all the shop stands. Wait, had they in some way, beated the game? Had they finally got out of this world of death. But no, the glitching kept on going, and going. What the heck was going on here? She asked herself. That was when she saw it, her health started to drop!

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Quest: Earning a Living: Fisher

stats:

On 2/26/2018 at 1:18 PM, Zandra said:

House Name: Lovers Den
Location: Floor 22
Description:

  Reveal hidden contents

Plot Size: Estate (free because of donation)
Rooms: (8/15) +20,000 col (6 rooms free because donation): 
-Bedroom -Upgraded-
-Bathroom -Upgraded-
-Basic Workshop(Pharmacy) -Upgraded-
-Storage Closet -Zandra-
-Dining room -Upgraded-
-Attic (Storage) -Zandra-
-Slime farm -Upgraded-
-Basement -Zandra-
Room Upgrades: (5 upgrades) +75,000 col:
-Master Bedroom -Avilon and Zandra-
-Master bathroom -Avilon and Zandra-
-Extended worksgop -Zandra-
-Dining hall -Avilon and Zandra-
-Mega slime farm -Zandra-
Total Cost: 95,000 col

New house:

Plot Size: Estate (free because of donation)
Rooms: (10/15)(2/3) +30,000 col :
-Bedroom -Upgraded-
-Bathroom -Upgraded-
-Basic Workshop(Pharmacy) -Upgraded-
-Storage Closet -Zandra-
-Dining room -Upgraded-
-Attic (Storage) -Zandra-
-Slime farm -Upgraded-
-Basement -Zandra-
-Basic kitchen -Zandra- NEW
-Living room -Itzal and Zandra- NEW
-Fishing pond -Zandra- NEW
Room Upgrades: (5 upgrades) +15,000 col:
-Master Bedroom -Itzal and Zandra-
-Master bathroom -Itzal and Zandra-
-Extended workshop -Zandra-
-Dining hall -Avilon and Zandra-
-Mega slime farm -Zandra-
-Ornate fishing pond -Zandra- NEW
Total Cost(upgraded): 45,000 col

The players of Aincrad havnt had the best start against the big bear. Yes, they wasn’t even close to being in the danger zone themselves. But the beast that had charged them, that was supposed to be a easy scout to take down nice and quick, was still standing. He haven’t even lost half his health. He let out another mighty roar before striking sir John again. This time, his claws was surrounded by a red, pulsing aura. The claws easily slashed away his breastplate, making the knights health drop by two thirds. The players that was close to John could see the panic and fear that appeared in his eyes. Andrey jumped forward to protect his friend, but a hit from the beasts backhand knocked him back like he was just an annoying fly. ‘’Run! Everyone run!’’ sir John screamed from the bottom of his lungs. They could hear his voice shaking with fear, but he stood firm. The armoured man took a hard grip of his sword, took a step forward and with all his might buried it into the bears torso.

Andrey that had risen looked at John for a few seconds before turning around. ‘’You herd him everyone! Run! We will make another try tomorrow.’’ And with those words, the duelist started to head back to the town, followed by Hannah and her eagle circling high above.

Thank you all for joining. Because of the release of 3.0, Im ending the thread here. I will restart it in 3.0 in a few weeks or something when people have got into 3.0 a bit more and stuff. Sadly we lost sir John this time, hopefully someone will rise up to take his place next time, when we going ot push into the forest and find out what mysteries lays inside.

Rewards:

Current Level: 88
Current SP: 594
Link to SP Tracking: [link] in the spoiler under Skills
Item Upgrades:

Notes:
[any other items that are required to be converted would go here. players may also leave additional clarifications for staff to refer to regarding their application here. note that converted items do not benefit from the same upgrades provided in the field above.]

No thread rewards.

Mob loot:

-177,730col
-44 t3 mats

Reward choice: SP
Loot Reward:
-Orgoth's Legacy: t4 Demonic warhammer Blight | Burn | Bleed

ID# 187493 LD: 8

But, that day wasn’t today, today was the day to prepare for that. To get a lot of loot and booty so she one other nice day would be there. Also, what if she could even become a unique skill owner. Oh gosh, that would be wonderful. She did remember Ssendom, a warrior that used to visit her store a long time ago. It was also thanks to him that she had succeded to reach grandmaster, or else she had been way to low when it comes to materials. But so many other players had helped her. Or well, she had helped them in return with her creating potions to them so they would preform stronger in ciombat, searching or whatever they would do. She looked down on her axe again. Nowadays thou, no one seemed to want to come and visit her shop, even less buy anything from it. She let out a sad sigh.

She still remembered that day as well, when finally the bar that showed how much skill points she needed to reach next level disdapered. It was a life goal to her, she had finally reached it, but by now, it felt like meh, she had basically got used to it. What mattered now wasn’t level, now she needed money and equipment. Yes, the gear she had was pretty damn good already, but you can always get better. And money is always useful. If not to buy weapons and armor, but to buy identifications on the unidentified weapons she got from the killed mobs. So she can get items with not only normal enchantments, but with those sweet sweet uniques as well. A smile on her lips when she imagined to one day, have her full set of demonic perfect set for her combat style. That would be a lovely day.

2/2 ooc turns full energy

As Zandra saw the four recently killed swords slowly fading into fragments and shattered crystals she smiled. She looked at Zita and patted her gently on the head. ‘’It is good I have you int it? These farming runs would be very, very boring otherwise.’’ She said with a smile. ‘’Also.’’ She whispered.’’Not to be mean or anything, but if I bringed anyone else, they would probably only hold me back wouldn’t they.’’ She said as her eyes darted back and forth to see if there was any possible player around them that may have overheard. Like, it wasn’t to be mean or bragging she mentioned it, but she was one of the strongest players currently, that was a fact. Thou there was plenty newbie that had grinded their way to tier three. Not only that, some of them had actually reached level eitgyewight. Even so, she was proud to be one of the first that reached max level anyway.

1/2 ooc turns

As Zandra started to charge up another attack, Zita had already engaged, scratching and pecking on the immobilized swords, shattering one of them in her fury. ‘’Way to go there Zita.’’ Zandra said encouragefully as she followed her familiars action and let the axe cleave thru the mobs and ending their lifes with three quick swungs. And with that, the lot of them was defeated and Zandra was a bit richer. She looked at the reward screen. ‘’Well Zita, we going to have enough of equipments to last for a lifetime after this. Thou I just wish we would get more on the col side. Since we not really in need of anyn more gear.’’ She said and let out a sigh. With some last eyes throwed at the reward screen she closed it and turned her focus away from the loot. She wiped off some sweat and saw her energy bar was going dangerously low.