Mutsu

"What are you fussing about, dude," Mutsu asked, glaring at @Ennakai as he complained about being poked in the chest and pushed her finger away. "You don't have anything there to be poked, unlike me," the curvy spearwoman declared, bending slightly at the waist and placing her hands on her knees in a way that was meant to push her chest up and out. The effect was, somewhat, ruined by the bell adorned steel breastplate that Mutsu was wearing though. "If you don't have boobs then you can't be offended," Mutsu said in a very knowledgeable tone. "Plus, I am about seventy-three percent sure you're a dude and that you're the dude I'm looking for. I, on the other hand, am curvy and adorable, and I jingle. So, it's alright for me to be offended if you poke me," Mutsu continued brightly, bouncing back into a proper standing position which set the bells on her armor to jingling once more as the two of them were joined by someone else from the wide wide world of Sword Art Online.

Mutsu watched him, he looked familiar but she couldn't place his name.

Then he said it.

The words.

The insult.

The reference to her travel-sized nature.

Wordlessly, Mutsu glared brown-eyed daggers of hatred at @Dustin, her mouth working open and shut in silent rage as no words came out. Even the cookie elicited no response from the short-haired woman. She was so focused on the remark that she didn't hear any of the rest of the conversation that was going on, at least not until Ennakai returned no longer wearing the Maid's costume he had been wearing earlier. Yes, the similarly pint-sized shop owner was definitely a dude and he confirmed that he was the dude she was looking for. The rest of the conversation did not register, but a course of action had definitely been decided on.

Oh yes.

And Ennakai would help... or else.

"I'M NOT TINY! YOU'RE TINY!" Mutsu coiled her legs beneath her and sprang at Dustin. She would have tried to spring on him, but he had too much of a height advantage. Instead, the little ball of jingling fury slammed into her target, fists pummeling every square bit of him that she could reach. "YOU'RE THE TINY IDIOT! MIDGET! NOTHING IN HIS HEAD! EITHER ONE OF THEM!" The rest of her words were lost in an incoherent rage of shouting until she glared at Ennakai.

"GET THAT MAID OUTFIT," Mutsu declared, trying to tackle Dustin and pin him to the ground. "THIS MENTAL MIDGET IS GOING TO PUT ON A LITTLE FASHION SHOW FOR EVERYONE IN THE TOWN OF BEGINNINGS!" She snarled a few more unintelligible words. "AND HE'S NOT GONNA GIVE ME ANY CRAP... OR ELSE!"

ID: 108746
BD: 11 (10+1)
MD: 1 (1+1)

Mutsu: 35/60 (1/6 EN)
Gemini: 2/30 (6x2=12-5=7 DMG)

In a blind rage Mutsu charged down on her enemy, Shao Lin Spear at the ready. With a blood curdling scream, Mutsu hauled back with her weapon and rammed the business end into Gemini. It was impossible to tell what she was screaming through her blind rage, but several words were intelligible. "Hamster!" The spear jabbed into Gemini's stomach. "Mother!" The spear kept right on going until Mutsu could clearly tell that she had scored a critical hit on the Gemini. Not only had more damage been done than the last several times she had hit the Gemini, but the pointy end of the spear was also poking out the back of Gemini's armor. "Onion," Mutsu howled, kicking Gemini backwards off of her weapon.

The door that led from the street into Ennakai's shop flew open with something approaching terrific force. There was a bit of a jingle from the bell above the door, but as the figure in the doorway resolved itself into the diminutive form of Mutsu, there was a great deal more jingling as she came marching into the shop. All of the bells she had affixed to her armor made sure of that. No one would ever be in any doubt any time that she entered a room.

The way God intended.

"I need a responsible adult," she hollered, walking right into the shop as if she owned the place and taking in the figure that was prancing around in a maid's outfit, taking them for a girl. Well, at least they wouldn't be perverted. Maybe. It was tough to tell. Mutsu was, herself, a bit of a pervert sometimes after all. "But I'll settle for an artisan!" The tiny, but curvy, woman marched up to the maid and then put her hands on her hips.

"Now, missy, I need you to fetch the master of this shop. Momma needs a new kitty bell choker necklace, one with a plus three accuracy enchantment on it. And..." Mutsu trailed off and then squinted her chocolate brown eyes at the maid who was only barely taller than she was herself. Reaching out with one hand, she gave the maid's hair a light tug. "Real... but then..." Mutsu poked the maid in the chest several times with her right index finger.

"But then where are your boobs? Are you some kind of pervert too? I swear, perverts make up ninety-five point three percent of the player base for this game." Mutsu backed up a half step, almost but not quite out of Ennakai's personal space bubble, and put her hands on her hips.

"So," she purred, doing her best impression of Obi-Wan Kenobi from the good Star Wars films, "Are you the dude I'm lookin' for?"

@Ennakai & @Dustin

ID: 108745
BD: 5 (4+1)
MD: 10 (9+1)

Mutsu: 35/60 (2/6 EN) (-1 DMG)
Gemini: 9/30

Mutsu scrambled around on the ground and got her spear back into her hands. She clutched the weapon to her chest just in time to be slammed in the back by the Gemini's weapon again, shoving her face first into the ground. "Mmr flfle Irma kerffle yer," Mutsu raged, but it was not really possible to make out too much of what she was saying as she yelled in rage at the Gemini. The ground did not really make for the most effective conveyor of threats and curses. At least, not when one's face was rudely shoved into it with what Mutsu felt was, really, entirely too much force to be going on with. With a roar the tiny woman bounced to her feet with the musical tinkling of bells and growled at Gemini.

ID: 108742
BD: 1 (1+1)
MD: 11 (10+1)

Mutsu: 36/60 (3/6 EN) (-9 DMG) - Had to correct my math, I didn't do some of the previous DMG calc right on Nat. 10 rolls. It's fixed now.
Gemini: 9/30

Mutsu was still clutching at her stomach, her weapon forgotten on the ground, and glaring daggers at the Gemini for it having made her stomach rumble at the cannibal remark. It was especially troubling to the brunette because the human meal in question was supposed to have been her. "I do not eat..." That was was far as the spearwoman got with her remark before the Gemini spun neatly on one foot and swung its Shao Lin spear like a baseball bat. The blow caught Mutsu in the stomach with enough power to force the digital breath out of her. Gemini followed up that attack by bringing the haft of the spear down over Mutsu's back and slamming the short woman into the ground. Finally, to add insult to injury the Gemini jabbed Mutsu with the pointy end of the spear, which cause some further damage.

"You're not a talker," Mutsu asked, cocking her head to one side and arching an eyebrow in @Hazado's direction as she continued to walk backwards in the direction that he had indicated that they needed to go in order to find the next quest giving non-player character. At least the creepy old blacksmith had said that the name of the person she was looking for with the package that needed to be delivered was Hannah. So, Mutsu was pretty sure that Hannah was not going to be eyeballing her nearly as much as the blacksmith had. "Say," Mutsu declared, jingling merrily as she gave a little hop and turned around to face the right direction before turning to look over her left shoulder at her companion. "Does this one follow the aging progression of the first two? If so I bet she's older than the Crypt Keeper, which means the next one after this probably flipped the switch when God said 'let there be light.'" She was still chattering away, not paying much attention, when the ground suddenly changed from paving stones to grass as they entered the small grove of trees. Mutsu, unprepared for the change, tripped on the uneven ground and went sprawling in a towering crescendo of bells, ending up with her rump in the air facing Hazado. Or, at least, the noise was terrific by the standards of jingling bells. "HEY," she squawked, flopping onto her back and then kicking the offensive ground.

ID: 108739
BD: Skipping Combat to Manage Energy
MD: 6 (5+1)

Mutsu: 45/60 (4/6 EN) (-1 DMG)
Gemini: 9/30

Mutsu wrinkled her nose and scowled at the Gemini. This whole interaction had now taken a decidedly dark and cannibalistic turn. And this was supposed to be a children's game? Ok, well maybe not a children's game, but Mutsu was reasonably certain that the box had not indicated that the game was rated 'M for Mature'. "Well, that got dark and wildly inappropriate in a hurry," Mutsu huffed. Then her stomach growled which rather ruined the effect of her words, on top of being very poorly timed since Gemini had been discussing cannibalism. "It's your fault for talkin' about food," Mutsu yelped, dropping her spear and defensively placing her hands over her armored stomach as the Gemini slashed at her again and chipped away another point from her health bar.

"Well," Mutsu huffed, puffing out her cheeks and looking more than a little bit like an angry chipmunk, "You were the one who was all, 'that's not the point,'" she said, trying to make her voice all deep like @Hazado's as she continued walking backwards and waggled her right pointer finger at him, just like an adult lecturing a child. "That's what you said, your words not mine, when I asked if you had yourself a girl. So, if the point is not to find yourself a girl, then the point clearly is to get yourself a boy. Or maybe to get one of each. Or maybe you don't conform to the standard gender binary," Mutsu declared, continuing to walk backwards as she stuck out her tongue at Hazado, even as he was producing a picture of him and some girl named Neopolitan.

"For all I know, you self identify as a... attack helicopter, or something." She tried to glance at the photograph, but it was gone too quickly to really make out much in the way of detail. Still, the name was hard to miss. "Neopolitan, like the ice cream? Is she sweet? You sly dog, she looks pretty from the glance I got," Mutsu declared, then she gave Hazado a congratulatory swat on the butt. After all, apparently that was a thing guys did. She had watched baseball, after all. "You sly dog! Good catch! Now, where is this lady that gives me the next fetch quest?"

"Beam me up, Scottie," Mutsu sang out as she jingled into position on the teleportation portal. "Teleport Urbus,"

A second later Mutsu found herself moving about the town of Urbus, following an effect that was decidedly similar to the transporter effect from Star Trek. "Someone's getting sued for some kind of copyright infringement," the spearwoman muttered to herself, flouncing down the nearest street in the walled town in the direction that her quest marker indicated she needed to go. A few moments later she had pushed her way into a pub that looked, well it looked as if calling it "seedy" might have been a compliment for the establishment.

None the less, despite its clearly dingy and ill lit interior, the quest giving non-player character that Mutsu was looking for was inside, wringing his hands and looking around at the assembled players as if he were either trying to decide which one to approach, or maybe he was trying to hold his bladder and keep from wetting himself. Total toss up, in Mutsu's mind. She approached the merchant and he quickly explained the situation with her smiling and nodding and then tapping the accept button when the option popped up.

That done, there was only one thing left to do. "Too high leveled," she muttered to herself, deciding against one player. "Too little kid," she continued, dismissing another that was in the establishment. What a child of that age could possibly be doing in here was anyone's guess.

"Just right," she purred to herself, eying a player that looked to be in his late teens or maybe early twenties. His gear was good, but not too good. He would do nicely. Swiping a finger in the air she pulled up her player menu and unequipped her breastplate, which left her standing in the bar in only her tight-fitting leather pants and an equally well-tailored leather jerkin. With bells, obviously, because she was not a savage. With her quarry in sight she flounced and jingled over to @Kyot0 before dropping herself down lightly in his lap where he was seated.

"Oh, my big strong hero! What would you say to a wolf hunt," she asked, getting straight to the point and throwing her arms around his neck.

"I could feel that creepy old blacksmith jingling my bells with his eyes," Mutsu complained, emerging from the non-player character Blacksmith's shop with a shiny new steel gauntlet on her right hand. "He was going on and on about fitting my armor. I'm pretty sure that's code for take off your breastplate. So, I chose a lovely new gauntlet instead," Mutsu continued chattering on happily as she jingled through the streets of the Town of Beginnings and giving the general impression that she assumed that @Hazado was listening to her. Even though it was always possible that he was ignoring her chatter. Of course, then she continued on with a remark that was sure to get his attention. "So, do you wanna tell me about your boyfriend," Mutsu asked, turning around to face Hazado and turn her big doe brown eyes on the other player while continuing to walk backwards. If she ran into someone it was clearly their fault for not getting out of her way. Everyone knew that.

ID: 108669
LD: 9 (Bupkus)

"Oh, that's not what you're trying to prove," Mutsu said, nodding her head solemnly as she walked up to @Hazado and clapped him on the shoulder. "I didn't realize you preferred boys over girls," she continued, then she giggled and bounced on the balls of her feet, clapping her hands and starting off back towards town. "This is wonderful! Now I have someone I can talk about cute boys with, even if I can't talk to you about cute girls too because, you know, not your thing," Mutsu continued to carry on, tossing her weapon high in the air, deftly opening her menu and storing it before it could come back down and hit the ground. "We're off to meet the dirty old man," Mutsu sang, jingling merrily. "But we've no yellow brick road to follow!"

REWARDS:

+1 Safeguard Potion (For Part 3 Only)
+1 Steel Gauntlet (+1 Mit.)
+3 SP (Mutsu)
+1 SP (Hazado)
+200 Col (Both Players)

ID: 108668
BD: Skipping Combat to Manage Energy
MD: 4 (3+1)

Mutsu: 46/60 (3/6 EN)
Gemini: 9/30

"But you make such a good kebob," the Gemini reported, beginning to circle to its left which forced Mutsu to, similarly, circle but in the opposite direction. There was no way that the short haired brunette was going to allow her enemy to get behind her and knife her in the back. Even if the amount of damage that was inflicted after each successful hit was laughably small. Given enough time and determination it was possible to kill someone with a thousand paper cuts. If you also then poured vinegar into the open cuts. Maybe. The science definitely seemed to be valid to Mutsu's way of thinking, though she had been a history student at university so what did she know about science. "First we skewer you, then we barbecue you, and then we eat you... you look like you'd make a reasonable yakitori."

OOC: You can roll for the treasure chest in the next post. :) It's now been ten posts.

ID: 108540
LD: 16 (MAT FOUND!)

"I'm not tiny! I'm not little! YOU'RE LITTLE! I YAM MIGHTY!" It seemed that @Black had uttered some magical type of phrase when he had called Mutsu tiny. Something in the phrase had caused her to unleash the full concentrated power of her jingling rage. Much like a classic blue furred Disney character, Mutsu's badness level upon anyone referencing her height would reach unusually high levels. Especially for someone her size. Completely ignoring the veritable fountain of food that she was dislodging from Black's pockets, the tiny ball of fury attempted to chomp down on his forearm instead. Vengeance, full and very bitey vengeance, would be hers. She was so focused on extracting her pound of flesh for the remark that she didn't even notice when she dislodged something from the forest floor that resolved itself into a crafting material.

ID: 108510
BD: 9 (8+1)
MD: 9 (8+1)

Mutsu: 46/60 (2/6 EN) (-1 DMG)
Gemini: 9/30 (-3 DMG)

Mutsu dove forward over her Shao Lin spear, picking the weapon up neatly into her hands as she came up out of the roll. In honesty, she was a little surprised at both her own ingenuity and at the fact that the little maneuver had actually worked. She had half expected to send the weapon skittering off into Never Never Land, or some other similarly mystical place and she was quite pleased with herself for having succeeded in the little trick. Right up to the point where she looked down at her own chest and saw that she had been skewered by the Gemini's spear as she came up out of her roll. "RUDE! YOU TAKE THAT BACK RIGHT NOW," Mutsu demanded. The tiny spearwoman then suited words to action as she clocked the Gemini over the head with her matching Shao Lin spear which sent her opponent reeling backwards, taking the offensive person skewer with it. "I am not a kebob!"

OOC: Care to roll for a treasure chest? You may as well, we made it to the magic post number. :)

ID: 108508 (Combat), 108509 (Loot)
BD: 7 (6+1)
MD: 10 (Dead Boar, irrelevant)
LD: 14 (Tusk Found)

Boar Pup 1: 0/5 (-4 DMG)
Mutsu: 74/80 (1/8 EN)

Tusks: 3/3 Collected (Done)

"Oh, you already have yourself a lady," Mutsu asked, trying to sound innocent as she eyed @Hazado with her big brown eyes and shook her shoulders back and forth, which set the bells she had adorned her armor with to jingling as they swayed with her motion. She considered his next words before continuing with her response, the boar all but forgotten since teasing her companion was much more fun at the moment. "My spear is very impressive and highly polished," she said with a light giggle. "And that's not an innuendo for anything else, since I'm a lady... damn it," she continued, throwing her arms out wide and still clutching her weapon. By some crazy stroke of luck, or genius, the weapon plunged into the tiny boar as it came charging in from the side and the creature was reduced to a shower of blue pixels, leaving a tusk behind in its wake. "LOOT!"

ID: 108477 (Combat)
BD: 4 (3+1)
MD: 8

Boar Pup 1: 1/5 (-4 DMG)

Mutsu: 74/80 (1/8 EN) (-1 DMG)

Tusks: 2/3 Collected

"Your lips say 'no' but your face says 'yes,'... pervert," Mutsu cried out in a teasing sing-song voice, watching the reaction her words elicited from @Hazado. While she was talking, and completely ignoring the boar, the annoying little porker shoulder barged into her armor again for another resounding and singular point of damage. Mutsu rolled her eyes at the boar, and steadfastly ignored the creature for the time being. Right now, it was much more fun to see how much she could make her companion squirm. The brunette flounced and jingled around the little area where she was fighting the small boar, trying to be sexy and generally failing because she was wearing steel breastplate. "At least if I have armor with good mitigation and thorns I can keep all the lewd boys away..."

ID: 108461
BD: 1
MD: 3 (2+1)

Mutsu: 47/60 (2/6 EN) (-1 DMG)
Gemini: 12/30

The force from the impact of the Gemini's most recent attack knocked Mutsu back a few steps. Even though the damage value on the blow was, essentially, nothing, that did not change the fact that the blows could occasionally generate some pretty nasty knockback. Apparently. That was good information to have. In frustration, as she stumbled backwards, Mutsu lashed out with her own Shao Lin spear, but the weapon swiped at nothing but air as the attack missed it's intended target. When Gemini launched another attack Mutsu threw her own weapon up to intercept the incoming attack, but it still hit with enough ringing force that Mutsu dropped her weapon. She squawked indignantly at Gemini, and then flipped the Gemini the bird.

ID: 108461
BD: 4 (3+1)
MD: 6 (5+1)

Mutsu: 47/60 (3/6 EN) (-1 DMG)
Gemini: 12/30

"I don't know anything about any quests," the Gemini replied at last, answering the question that Mutsu had asked, well it seemed like ages ago to Mutsu, even though it had really only been a few seconds, a minute or two tops. Apparently, though, the quest giving non-player character had not been programmed with any sort of response to the question that Mutsu had asked. Other than to say that it did not know the answer to the question. The dark haired spearwoman sighed and then took a swipe at Gemini with her weapon, but to no avail as Gemini jumped deftly back out of the way before launching a retaliatory strike of its own that, again, managed to catch Mutsu across her armored breastplate which set all the bells she had on it to jingling a merry little tune.

ID: 108457
BD: Skipping Attack to manage Energy Consumption
MD: 6 (5+1)

Mutsu: 48/60 (4/6 EN) (-1 DMG)
Gemini: 12/30

"Answer me," Mutsu demanded, still leaning on her weapon and watching her energy meter replenish itself. Having to manage energy like this really was a pain. The brunette spearwoman was just opening her mouth to demand another answer when the Gemini exploded into motion and sent a slashing attack across the steel breastplate over her chest, leaving a crimson slash mark on the armor in its wake. Mutsu eyed her health bar in the corner of her vision and noted that this most recent attack had been every bit as successful as most of the preceding attacks. In other words, it had essentially done nothing. Sighing, the brunette stood up properly and brought her weapon back around into a ready position, preparing to attack when the next opportunity presented itself.

ID: 108456 (Combat)
BD: 8 (7+1)
MD: 10

Boar Pup 1: 5/5 (-4 DMG)

Mutsu: 75/80 (1/8 EN) (-1 DMG)

Tusks: 2/3 Collected

"Depends on what kind of enchantments and enhancements your stuff has, I suppose," Mutsu called to @Hazado when he offered to give her his gear once he hit the second tier. It was a tempting offer. But, then something occurred to her and she turned to scowl at Hazado, allowing the little boar to crash into her armored back for an easy critical hit in the process. "It's not going to turn into anything perverted when I put it on, is it," she asked, swiping lazily at the boar being her and scoring a hit without putting any real effort into it. "I mean, I'm all for showing off the girls but I like to know that I'm making the choice to do it when I choose my gear... more importantly, is there a way to attach bells to your armor? This is very important." A matter of life and death, really.

ID: 108455
LD: 14 (Nothing)

"Everything is one big game to me," Mutsu said, brandishing her sarissa at @Black in a threatening manner, making it clear that she was thinking about walloping him over the head yet again. "Of course, if it is a game then I need to get the high score, right," she asked as the chef produced yet another snack, seemingly from nowhere, and began to eat it. Right in front of her. Without offering to share.

Rude.

Obviously he was holding out.

The provider of extravagant gifts of deliciousness.

Taking a few quick steps towards Black, Mutsu tossed her spear to one side and then tried to tackle the much larger Marine with her much smaller frame. When she slammed into him, her quick little fingers began to dart into his pockets, looking for something she could eat. "Stop holding out on me! I know you got snacks!"

Count me in for that first part.

ID: 108444
BD: Skipping Attack to manage Energy Consumption
MD: 5 (4+1)

Mutsu: 49/60 (3/6 EN)
Gemini: 12/30

"Why is this more difficult than the other tutorial quests," Mutsu asked, planting her spear point first in the ground and leaning on the weapon for a moment. In honesty, it wasn't necessary to lean on the spear like that, but it was an old real world habit. The Gemini was also breathing hard, or pretending to breathe hard. Did non-player characters even have to breathe? That was one of the digital life's great mysteries, Mutsu supposed. "Well," Mutsu demanded, glaring at the Gemini and waiting for some answer to be forthcoming. Of course since answering such a question would probably break the immersive environment that the developers had been going for she had serious doubts that her question was going to be asked. Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained.

ID: 108443 (Combat)
BD: 1 (1+1)
MD: 6

Boar Pup 1: 5/5

Mutsu: 76/80 (1/8 EN)

Tusks: 2/3 Collected

Mutsu considered what @Hazado was saying for a moment, cocking her head slightly to one side to regard him with slightly narrowed chocolate brown eyes. Everything he was saying was tracking with the person he was describing being Aris Senpai, but that just didn't make any sense. She had gone off into the real world and gotten one of those job things and never played games any more. Or, at least, Mutsu hadn't seen her online in any of their old games in quite some time. No, it couldn't be Aris Senpai. Just someone else with a similarly strange habit when it came to playing games. She was almost lost in thought when Hazado pointed out another bunch of the little boars that she could go and fight to get the last little bit of material that she needed to complete the quest.

"BACON!" Mutsu pirouetted with a dainty jingling of bells and launched her spear like a javelin at the nearest side of pork. It glanced off of the little animal's tusk and the boar retaliated by charging into her midsection to inflect a teensy weensy little bit of damage.

ID: 108430 (Combat), 108431 (Loot Boar Pup 1)
BD: 10 (9+1)
MD: Dead Boar
LD: 15 (Roll ID: 108431 - Loot)

Boar Pup 1: 5/5 - Dead (5-0=5 DMG)
Boar Pup 2: 0/5 - Dead
Boar Pup 3: 0/5 - Dead
Boar Pup 4: 0/5 - Dead

Mutsu: 77/80 (1/8 EN)

Tusks: 2/3 Collected

"I guess that makes sense," Mutsu replied in answer to @Hazado's comments concerning the little boars and how they would summon reinforcements if they needed them. Games like this always seemed like they had some kind of system for the computerized bots to summon assistance in order to make things more challenging and difficult for the players. While she was carrying on the conversation with the other player she spun neatly on her heel and lashed out with the spear in her hands. The weapon flashed and slashed a neat line across the snout of the tiny boar which gave a little squeal and exploded in a spray of cerulean fragments, leaving one of its ivory colored tusks behind. Mutsu pounced on the loot like a drug addict, snatching it up and then adding it to her collection. "Only one more to go now! How can you be a pacifist in this game," Mutsu asked, cocking her head to one side. She had known a player in the past, from their school's video game club, that had taken that style in role playing games, but surely Senpai wasn't stuck in here too. Surely.