Celestial

(Don't worry, I wasn't going too. :P But awesome save! It actually rounds out what Elul has expanded on about her relationship with you in another thread we did.)

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100 Col to Elul

100 Col to Celestial

100 Col to Souseke

100 Col to Manta

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The Boar suddenly jumped into the air, getting its feet under it. Once it had stability, it turned and charged at Elul. It's tusks glowing, it activated it's charge effect for extra damage. Moving with a beasted ferocity, the boar knocked Elul to the ground and began gnashing and tearing for added damage. 

ID 37865 MD 10 - Critical +2 Damage
Boar : 1/4
Elul: 3/8 (-5)

(Skipping Manta & Souseke because more than 24hrs has passed)

Seeing Elul drive her blade into the beast, Celestial readied his axe. Running at the beast's back-side, he brought it asunder against its hind legs. As he pulled his giant axe back, he felt it crash into the earth with a shudder. It was easy to forget how tiring lumbering around such a large weapon could be. Eyeing the boar which was now limping in pain, he turned to Elul, "Elul, finish it off!".

ID 37854 BD 6

Boar: 1/4 (2 - 1 DmgMit = 1)

Running  Version 46.0.2490.80 m  of Chrome, and am unable to edit the first post in a thread; meaning I also can't change thread title's to include [Completed].

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Thread Complete.

+2 Materials & 100 Col - Celestial

+1 Material & 300 Col - Elul

(What a sad hunting expedition this was)

(I can't still, it's still giving me some sort of an error code when I try and edit the first post)

"Oh, no, no reason!" Celestial murmured as he set Elul down on the bank of the river. Taking a seat himself, he took a long deep breath. That was surprisingly tiring! "It's been a long, fairly unsuccessful day and I'm starting to get hungry. I think this might just be it for me. We should do this again sometime though, maybe with more luck in the future, and somewhere with less mud haha. Come on Elul, let's head back towards town."

ID 37542 LD 5

"Hahaha. Ok, ok I'm coming in hold-on."

Celestial lumbered forward into the mud. "You know, if I was as short as you, this might actually be a problem haha!"

Slogging forward, Celestial moved himself towards Elul very slowly. For all his claims, the mud was thicker than it looked. Still, that was going to stop him! Throwing on a look of determination, Celestial took several more large steps until he was standing in front of Elul, sunk in to about his upper thigh's.

Pausing for a moment, realizing what was about to happen, he suddenly blurted out, "Maybe I should have approached you from behind. Ummm, ok, I'm just going to do this! Haha...ha...ha." Bending down and reaching forward, he wrapped Celestial around the waist and hoisted her up in a large belly-to-belly bear-hug, tearing her away from the mud. Unfortunately because of the, um considerable, height difference between the pair, Elul's bosom was squarely in his face. "Oooook, let's just get back to the rivers edge!", he said, feeling his face go red. "Haha, I'm sooo going to hell for this!".

12 hours ago, Azide said:

3) Yes, like-items are currently allowed unlimited stacks. i.e., having 20,000 perfect health crystals in one slot

So no wonder the Extended Weight Limit skill is so rare. This really blows my mind that this is true, it feels so game-breaking. :/

As he listened to Elul delve into exposition, Celestial continued checking the stones in his area but was coming up empty-handed. The tale Elul wove was an interesting one, a tale of bonds formed through adversity, of finding common interests, and of a solid friendship. Staring into the water's blue, Celestial attempted to choose his next words very carefully. 

"You sound as if he's a bit of a burden, but I can't help but think this friend of yours is a very important part of your soul. Sometimes life is funny like that, casting people into and out of our lives with a second thought. It's good you have a friend in this game though, and someone you can partner with, but even outside of combat, you're lucky to have someone here who you can depend on to stand by you; you're also lucky you have someone to remind you of the real world."

"You know," Celestial said, looking up towards Elul, "having a medic specialization is going to be very useful later on the higher flo--"

!!

Suddenly Celestial burst out laughing. Falling backwards and shaking with laughter, he laughed so hard he had trouble breathing. The sight of Elul suddenly disappearing waist-deep into the mud was great. Watching her struggle for a few moments, Celestial couldn't help but laugh. "You look pretty stuck haha. Do you need me to lend a hand?"

ID 37439 LD 7

Not having much luck in the mud, Celestial decided to clean himself up a bit and see if Elul was having any luck playing in the river. Taking big heavy steps, he eventually slogged himself through the mud and took a seat on the river-bank where she was filtering through the pebbles which lined the bottom of the river-bed. Sloshing water on his boots and wiping the grime off his hands, Celestial made a mental note to let his equipment dry later, the last thing he needed was for the game to use 'dry-rot' as a reason to destroy the durability of his equipment. Next he started checking the many stones that were near him, admiring the smoothness of the pebbles which had resulted from the constantly moving water.

After several moments of silence, he stirred and quietly asked, "Hey Elul...I know it's taboo, but do you want to talk about the real world, about how you became stuck in this death game?"

ID 37423 LD 19 +1 Material

11 minutes ago, Zandra Zvift said:

The third customer entering her shop was another man. He seemed a little confused about the effects of her health crystal.''Well, my perfect health crystals that heals only you heals 25 health, if perfect crystal for entire party, it heals 15 HP. Either way the total price would half of 9, so lets say 4. Your price for those three crystals is 4 materials. And do you want party-heal or solo-heal?''

Solo-heal. Thanks and 4 materials it is.

After spending several more minutes searching his area, Celestial let out a large sigh. Not finding anything, he stood up to where he was sitting on his heels. He could feel the morning sun as it was beginning to gain traction, see the water tremble with the insects that were beginning to emerge and buzz near its' surface, and he could shut his eyes and listen to the soft background music that was always playing if you would only stop and listen.

"It's so peaceful here Elul." He paused, willing to wait a few more moments staying still like this, before returning to searching.

ID 37341 LD 6

(Do I have this right, Mass HP Recovery and HP Recovery crystals restore the same amount? That makes no sense.)

Walking into the potions shop Celestial took his time browsing the wares, finally he pulled up an order form and began filling it out. Today was a special half-off special, and so he was going to take this opportunity to get several items which would help him for the next little while. "So when I pick these up, this would be 8 materials for all three crystals, is that right? I'm so bad with numbers sometimes hehe. T_T"

Name: Health-Giver
Item Type: Crystal
Quality: Perfect
Enhancements: +3 Mass HP Recovery (+25 HP)
Description: [A crystal healing +25 HP ]

Name: Teleport Crystal
Item Type: Crystal
Quality: Perfect
Enhancements: Teleport Crystal
Description: A crystal to teleport home safely. 

Name: Damage Blast
Item Type: Crystal
Quality: Perfect
Enhancements: +3 Damage
Description: A crystal enhancing damage by 3. 

Celestial smiled. "Thank you very much. Why don't we get started looking." He walked a short ways and then dropped down onto his hands and knees, quickly sinking four to five inches into the mud. The mud, it's temperature was cool, he noted. Here the river was awfully muddy, but crawling around and digging his hands through the stuff, he hope he might eventually find something. Sadly though, he seemed to be coming up empty.

ID 37308 LD 2

"Hmmm, I'm fine. Though disappointed to hear there isn't much here. I came all this way to look for materials too." Feeling slightly dejected, he paused for a moment.

"If there's nothing in the shallow end, maybe there are more crafting materials towards the deeper parts?" Celestial suggested after a moments thought, determined to not give up his search so easily. "I was planning on doing this alone, but I don't see any reason we couldn't work together if you'd like." Celestial then slowly made his way up to the woman, well young girl really-she was quite a bit younger than he-and bowed deeply. "Elul, I would be most honored if you and I could work together on this. We can split what we find and I'll even pay you an additional hundred col for your time."

Moving towards the river-bank, Celestial crossed a small hill, and suddenly found himself in view of the river. Taking a moment to survey it, he realized he was being watched by a figure who was already at the river. Now being much more cautious, he moved towards the player watching him. Confrontations in the fields of SAO were always dangerous, here there was no System Protection and a player could be attacked by other players at any time. Some guilds were even using Stealth to sneak up and rob players leaving them penniless! Still, he had already been spotted and so if this was a trap, there was little he could do from here. Moving towards the figure, he realized from her outline that it must be a female player, and that she was busy dipping her toes in the water. In fact, she looked strangely familiar to Celestial.

Oh! It suddenly hit him, the player staring at him was a young woman named Elul, they had worked together on his very first hunting party; something which hadn't been that long ago actually. Feeling more at ease, he approached her. At the time she hadn't been a threat, and he felt reasonably sure she wasn't going to start being one now. He was actually interested in getting to know her better-they would certainly see more of each other as they continued to work towards clearing the game. She seemed to be taking the role of a medic, and if Celestial knew anything, he knew you always wanted to be friendly with the people patching you up.

"Hail Elul. It's me, Celestial! What brings you out here this morning? And how's the water!"

Looking over the fields, Celestial was doing his best to identify his next hunting spot. He wanted to avoid most of the major monster spawn points, and so if he kept himself out of the open fields he should be ok. Instead, he decided to take a long walk towards the river-which had been his original plan from the get-go. Perhaps there he would find something worth salvaging, a fish, or another type of plant perhaps. To be honest, his internal guide of collectibles was still rather small; the only way to build your guide was to either fill it yourself, or trade with another player, except Celestial wasn't the most social of players. Most players in this game knew at-least one or two other people from having game'd together, but Celestial wasn't a gamer in real life, he only ended up here because of a challenge. Still, he wasn't going to let this digital game beat him. Deciding on his path, Celestial began making his way towards the river, in the hopes of finding more materials, now with a fire in his eyes.

Once outside in the Field of Beginnings, Celestial decided to get straight to work. Moving forward, he searched the area until he found a suitable harvesting point. Looking at the ground, he noticed a type of herb which was commonly used in cooking. Adding it to his inventory was remarkably easy. He simply had to approach the small weed, and use the menu prompt which appeared to 'Collect' it. From there it was chance on whether or not he would be able to collect it. There were modifiers you get get, and skills, which would make material gathering easier, but Celestial didn't have any of those. For now, Celestial was working off nothing but luck, after several painstakingly long seconds, the item was added to his inventory successfully!

ID 37248 LD 15 +1 Material

Walking among the towering city-like structures of The Starting City, Celestial reflected on his time spent in this game. His run-in's with players, his adventures into the fields, his time spent sleeping outside at night, the times he went hungry because he didn't have any col...this game was rough that was for sure. In fact, because he wasn't much of a gamer, he waited several days to enter the field for the first time, he didn't have a choice, he needed that time to become familiar with the game mechanics. Now things were different though, he was gaining strength and would soon be advancing floors in this game, to the point where he would one day be on the front-lines, fighting side-by-side with players he had only heard about in the player-run newspapers. Finally on the edge of town, Celestial took a long look at the gate in front of him. This gate separated player from monster, life from death, renown from obscurity. Taking a deep breath, Celestial marched his way through the gate.

Eyeing the sun-rise from his window inside the local Inn, Celestial was already off to an early start. He had dressed, equipped his gear, and paid for his room all before the sunrise, but now the sun was peaking and he gave it one last, long view before leaving the inn and setting out into the city. It was early and as a result, not many of the players had risen yet. Suppressing a grimace, Celestial ran by players who had been camping outside. It wasn't long ago that he was one of those players, unable to afford the col costs of the inn and forced to sleep outside, still, times had changed. Now Celestial held a fair bit of col, and had several pieces of equipment on custom order, in-fact, one more major purchase and he'd be finished shopping for awhile. His last shopping expense would be spent on a fine piece of heavy armor, but that was for another day, today he needed to gather materials.

Walking into the shop, Celestial was surprised by how busy it was, hopefully this smith would be able to take care of his needs. The owner seemed busy with several other people in the shop (was that Zelrius, from the assault team?) and so Celestial thought it best to wait his turn. He took an order form and began filling it out, quietly minding his own business.

Item Name: Tekkadan, The Boss Slayer

Item Type: Two-Handed Battle Axe

Quality: Perfect

Enhancement: +3 Damage

Description: A Two-Handed Battle Axe with double blade-edge's. A terrifying sight to behold, it is dark, steel-grey with translucent, ruby red adornments throughout the blade and down the handle.

-5 Mats

Celestial walked into the artisan's shop, and eyeing the large amount of Col that was being donated to the shop, silently wished he had a fraction of that amount. Still, he had his stockpile of materials and that would have to be enough for now. Approaching Teayre, he quietly went into what was on his mind. "I have a very special project in mind, here are the details, or should I say the script."
 

Item: Inspiring Manga w/ Waterproof Travel Case

Item Type: Lucky Charm / Trinket

Quality: Perfect

Enhancement: +2 Evasion +1 Accuracy

Description: A combat-orientated, inspiring manga series Celestial had commissioned by Teayre. The weekly series is perfect for the traveling adventurer needing the motivation to fight harder in order to make it home to read the next issue. The accompanying water-proof case is perfect for those long, foul-weather quests too. What's the plot of such a powerful manga? That's for Celestial to know, and everyone else not too.

-6 Materials

*SNORT SNORT SNORT SNORT SNORTSNORTSNORTSNORT SNOOOOOORT!*

Clearly enraged, the boar turned it's attention on the player characters that had attacked it. It's tusks and mouth were red from a previous kill. It's blue fur blowing in the wind, it's green eyes staring Sousuke down. Charging at Sousuke, the creature continued snorting the entire way, gaining speed with each and every step it took.

ID 37034 MD 4 

Feeling better with his new forearm guards...scales...and now that Elul had accepted the invite, Celestial decided to find something else to smash with his axe. Because really, what else are giant axe's good for? Up ahead was another boar. Deciding this was too good to pass up, he ran across the green field, closing in on his target.

Spying the target in front of him, Celestial kept moving forward with his head down. Finally, he launched into his attack on the boar by swinging his axe in a downward angle, and shuddered feeling the impact from his strike! A direct hit!

ID 37033 BD 8

Boar: 3/4 (2 - 1 DmgMit = 1)