Mutsu

ID: 108395
LD: 13 (Nothing)

"It's not abuse if you like and encourage it, sweetie," Mutsu replied, giggling. "Everyone knows that." While she was responding to @Black she had disappeared a short way into the surrounding forest once again. What she was doing in the trees was anyone's guess. She could be heard thumping on various things in there with her weapon as she jingled from place to place, so it seemed pretty obvious that she was searching for something as she moved around in there. A few moments later the brunette jingled back out into the clearing, looking a bit disgruntled since she had clearly failed to locate anything in the trees.

"Dolphins are not kickass and Megalodon's are extinct," she huffed, glaring at Black as he munched away on his rice cake. Seriously, it was as if he had an unending supply of things to eat. It also seemed as if he was always eating. "You are a battle hippo," she said after a moment's thought, adopting the same tone of voice that one might use when they were talking to an infant or an animal. "Yes you are! Who's a good battle hippo? Who's the good battle hippo eating the rice cake? You are!"

ID: 108368
BD: 10 (I did the thing)

Black - 386/400 (40/40) [H: 2] [Heft x2]
Mutsu - 80/80 (6/8) [H: 3]

Emerald Hatchling - 105/125 (6x2=12 DMG, 12-25=1 DMG)

As soon as @Black had done his thing Mutsu materialized her Shao Lin spear in her hands and went haring off to fight the dragon next. She was not about to let @Vally have first crack at it among the actual damage dealers. Nope. That was not about to happen. "Senpai would like you not to be so pre-verted," Mutsu cried as she reached Black. Leaping, she landed with one foot on the dragon claw that was protruding from Black's chest. With her next step, she planted her other foot squarely on top of his head, using the tank as a springboard.

"Maybe you should act your age and not your Marine IQ," she continued, showering the remark down on him even as she went sailing over his head, Shao Lin Spear flashing and bells jingling. As she sailed through the air she spun neatly in the air and blew a kiss in Black's direction, firing off a wink at the same time. She continued sailing blissfully towards the dragon with her back towards the emerald scaled creature for a split second before it tried to chomp on her. "Hey," she squawked, "@Vally is the snack, not me,"

Reacting quickly she jabbed her spear backwards, catching the dragon in the snout. The surprised dragon flicked its head up and Mutsu, still clinging to her weapon was tossed into the air onto to come back down in the middle of the dragon's back. Reacting quickly, she slammed the bladed end of the weapon into the scaly green back and then wrapped her arms around it. "Fear me, mortals! I am the mighty Dragon Queen!" Mutsu declared, while the dragon flapped its wings angrily in an attempt to dislodge her from her perch. "WINTER IS COMING! Now that I have a dragon am I ready for the Front Lines, @Shield?"

ID: 108365-108366 (Combat), 108367 (Loot Boar Pup 4)
BD: 9 (8+1)
MD: 4, 10 (1 Miss, 1 Hit)
LD: 10 (Roll ID: 108367 - No Loot)

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

Mutsu: 77/80 (1/8 EN) [3-26=1 DMG]

Tusks: 1/3 Collected

"Automatically, eh," Mutsu asked, carelessly flicking her Shao Lin Spear out again and impaling the already injured boar pup on the end of it. The creature squealed and shattered into a blue shower of pixels. Then she looked at where the little porker had been vanquished. Again, there was no quest material. "Hey," Mutsu squawked, grunting as the only remaining Boar charged at her and then hopped to slam its tusked head into her armored stomach which set all of the bells on her armor to jingling. "Where's the loot? That's the second one in a row! I don't wanna be out here all day trying to get these things to drop the loot that I need," Mutsu groused, before another thought struck her based on what @Hazado had said.  "Exactly how would a boar be able to call for reinforcements? Does it produce Boromir's Horn and blow it? Ooh, does it light the signal fires? GONDOR CALLS FOR AID!"

ID: 108363
BD: 8 (7+1) [Heftx2]
MD: 7 (6+1)

Mutsu: 49/60 (2/6 EN) (15-18=1 DMG)
Gemini: 12/30 (8-5=3 DMG) 

"Greedy much," Gemini asked, cocking its brown-haired head to one side and regarding Mutsu with a brown-eyed gaze. A brown-eyed gaze that was disconcertingly similar to Mutsu's own. Because they both had the same eyes in the same face. "You'll get your reward, if you win. If skills are all you love, then that's what you shall have," Gemini declared, trying it's best to sound like Princess Leia. Obviously, there were some fairly advanced Artificial Intelligence non-player characters to be found within the world of Sword Art Online.

"This tutorial quest sure is a lot different from the last one," Mutsu muttered to herself, glaring at Gemini. She was still glaring when the Gemini smacked her with the spear in its hands. "That's really annoying," Mutsu sighed, then she returned the Gemini's attack, with interest, chipping another handful of points off of the mob's health bar.

ID: 108325-108327 (Combat), 108275 (Loot Boar Pup 2)
BD: 2, 4, 10 (Miss, Miss, Crit.)
MD: 4, 2, 2 (All Miss)
LD: 10 (Roll ID: 108328 - No Loot)

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

Mutsu: 78/80 (1/8 EN) [3-26=1, 1*2=2 DMG]

Tusks: 1/3 Collected

"Why does it matter if I loot in the middle of combat," Mutsu demanded, turning to face @Hazado and putting her hands on her hips with a stern look. "I mean normally, ok... but these things can't hurt me enough to matter and, besides, it's not as if the Tutorial Quests are going to be potentially deadly." As she was talking, Mutsu casually flicked out with the Shao Lin spear. The blade neatly impaled the little porker right between the eyes and, in the blink of an eye, the creature's health bar went from completely full to nothing and it shattered into pixels. Unfortunately, the second one did not drop a tusk for her to collect. "Hey," she squawked, glaring at the spot where the porcine terrorist had been eliminated. "Where's my loot?"

ID: 108276
BD: 7 (6+1) [Heftx2]
MD: 10 (9+1)

Mutsu: 50/60 (3/6 EN) (18-18=1 DMG)
Gemini: 15/30 (8-5=3 DMG)

Mutsu jabbed her Shao Lin spear into the ground and used it to propel herself up to her feet. In a flash, she had launched a slashing attack at the Gemini and raked the steel blade of the spear across the Gemini's face yet again, leaving another angry red mark. This time, when the tiny brunette checked the damage that she had meted out to her opponent, so far, she was pleased to see that the opponent's health bar had finally dropped into the yellow range. That meant she was at least halfway to being done with this tedious look alike that wanted to be her. Of course, she supposed, that as long as no one else saw that Gemini while it looked like her and as long as, if someone was watching, the Gemini didn't try to strip off its armor and clothing then she wouldn't care too much. "I want that new skill, I want it now! Give me your knowledge!"

ID: 108271-108274 (Combat), 108275 (Loot Boar Pup 2)
BD: 3, 9, 1, 7 (Miss, Crit., Miss, Hit)
MD: 3, 9 (Irrelevant, Dead Boar), 6, 6
LD: 17 (Roll ID: 108275)

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

Mutsu: 78/80 (3/8 EN) [3-26=1, 1*2=2 DMG]

Tusks: 1/3 Collected

"Yeah, yeah, uh-huh," Mutsu said, nodding her head in response to @Hazado and moving forward on auto-pilot as she passed out of the gates of the Town of Beginnings and out into the fields again. She was already distracted by the fact that now there were boars, and maybe even other things besides, out beyond the town for her to fight. Already her chocolate brown eyes had locked on to the first group of boars. They really did look like pygmy boars, smaller versions of the real thing. "Tenno heika banzai," she cried, lowering her spear into attack position and charging forward towards the group of four creatures.

As she lunged towards the first one her spear attack sailed over its back, because she misjudged how small the creatures were. Instead, it slammed into a second boar pup. The second creature briefly glowed orange from the impact of the strike before it shattered into a shower of blue pixels. Well, that was easy enough and she could already see it had left behind a tusk for her to collect.

Jackpot.

Since Hazado had indicated that there was no need to worry about the boars being able to hurt her, Mutsu stopped and collected the loot. The third and fourth boar pups both slammed into her, quite easily since she wasn't moving, while she was collecting the item, but when she checked the status of her health bar she noticed that, really, the boars weren't much more annoying than the buzzing of flies. "Stop that," she growled, lunging from a kneeling position at the final boar and impaling it at the end of her Shao Lin spear. The creature squealed, but unlike the first one, it did not shatter in a shower of pixels. Well, not yet anyway.

"So, get them all in a bunch and kill them all at the same time," Mutsu said musingly, rubbing her chin with her right thumb and forefinger. She supposed that doing that sounded like it would be an easy enough thing to do. She did have an area of effect attack, even if it was only the one attack and it was not very strong. But, this was also a Tutorial Quest and, given how easy the first one had been, there was no way this second part could be all that challenging. "The first part was real easy," she said, continuing to speak to @Hazado, "I suppose these boar things are so easy to kill that they'll probably die if I sneeze on them, yes?" Mutsu swiped her finger in the air to pull up her player menu and then materialized a new weapon from her inventory, a Shao Lin spear. She hadn't had the chance to test it yet, but that Shield merchant had indicated it was a pretty ok weapon. Just ok, but better than the vanity weapons.

ID: 108255
BD: 7 (6+1) [Heftx2]
MD: 10

Mutsu: 51/60 (4/6 EN) (21-18=3 DMG)
Gemini: 18/30 (8-5=3 DMG)

Angry that she had been caught in the middle of what, in Mutsu's completely correct opinion, was a very fine speech indeed, and knocked off her feet. "NO FAIR," Mutsu roared in a most unladylike fashion. She jabbed her spear in a slashing motion in the direction of Gemini and caught her opponent with a diagonal slash across the armored breastplate that the non-player character was wearing. In the wake of the attack there was a nice red gash in the armor, though that slowly faded back to normal. As Mutsu peered at Gemini's health bar she noted, with some satisfaction, that it was about half gone. But, while she was staring the Gemini landed another serious critical hit and Mutsu squawked in anger.

"Yeah, well I swear that old blacksmith was giving me the once over," Mutsu said, crossing her arms and jingling off in front of @Hazado. "I guess I don't mind too much," she continued after a second of thinking about it. "Looking is free, after all. If anyone tries to handle my merchandise, though, we're going to have problems," the brunette spearwoman concluded, winking one of her chocolate colored eyes in Hazado's direction. They traipsed through the Town of Beginnings in silence for a few moments. Or, at least, they moved along the wide avenues of the town in something that was as close to silence as things ever got for someone wearing armor that was heavily adorned with bells. "So," Mutsu finally asked, "What's the fastest way to kill these boar pups?"

ID: 108254
LD: 13 (Nothing)

"You take that back," Mutsu demanded, then she walloped @Black up the side of his head with the haft of her sarissa, not caring if it tacked on extra time to how long she would be cursed with an orange cursor. "Navy are not hippos. We're sharks. Or killer whales. Personally, I like to think of myself as an adorably cute sea otter, because I am adorable," Mutsu continued, winding up for a rant as she rocked back and forth and gave Black the most adorable look in the history of ever while she jingled softly. "Besides, hippos are at home in the water or on land while lions, dragons, and wolves are not. Ergo, you are a battle hippo. And you admitted you eat like one," Mutsu concluded, holding a finger up and then flicking Black in the nose again. She spoke with the finality of someone who had just, in their own mind, won the argument so inarguable a manner that further arguing would be pointless.

She continued to carry on for a bit, smacking the biggest tree in the clearing several times with her weapon, but nothing happened from that impromptu search for mats.

"Hippo," Mutsu asked, popping back out of the little copse of trees where she had disappeared to search for the loot she thought she had seen. "Because you eat like one at the buffet table," she continued in a sweet tone, blinking her large brown eyes at @Black. "Your words, not mine."

"And I don't know what's up with the whole side saddle thing," Mutsu said in response to the side saddle comment. "They say it's more proper for a lady" Mutsu said, scowling and making air quotes with het fingers, then she blew a raspberry. "Forget that, it's a lot easier to stab things from a proper mount and this is the Twenty-first century..." Mutsu traded off, looking cross, then she threw her head back and shouted.

"ASIAN WOMEN CAN BE KNIGHTS! ASIAN WOMEN CAN BE KNIGHTS! ASIAN WOMEN CAN BE KNIGHTS!"

Once she had calmed down she looked at Black suggestively and winked. "If I kill you, you will be smothered, we'll leave it at that."

ID: 108175
BD: Declines to attack, too busy talking
MD: 10

Mutsu: 54/60 (5/6 EN) (21-18=3 DMG)
Gemini: 21/30

"You can't beat me," Mutsu declared confidently, advancing on Gemini and then stopping to strike a heroic pose. "You don't even know how to properly jingle," the brunette continued, bouncing on the balls of her feet which set all of the bells she had on her armor to jingling. While the Gemini retrieved it's own weapon Mutsu debated trying to attack again, but since the Gemini was just now getting its weapon back and she was going to need to pay attention to her energy consumption during this fight in order for it to not take all day to complete. It was better to take thing nice and easy and slow. While Mutsu was thinking this, and had her attention diverted, the Gemini had gotten back to its weapon and then slammed it into Mutsu's chest, knocking her backwards in the process. "Ow," she squawked from the flat of her back, glaring up at Gemini. "What as that for?"

"So, they're like pygmy boars," Mutsu asked, cocking her head to one side, which set the bells woven into her hair ribbons to jingling as her short cropped brunette hair flopped to one side with the head tilt. "Yes, pun intended." Within a few moments she had spotted the anvil and tongs sign that indicated they had reached a Blacksmith. "Be right back," Mutsu said lightly, dashing through the oaken door and into the Blacksmith's shop. A few minutes later she emerged, her armor jingling merrily, as the shop door closed behind her. "That old fart was even older than Zackeriah, and I swear he was giving me the perv eye," Mutsu said lightly. "You were right, kill the boars. Can NPC's be perverted? Would Kayaba have had them programmed that way, you think?"

@Hazado

ID: 108163
BD: 9 (8+1) [Heft x2]
MD: 1 (1+1) 

Mutsu: 57/60 (4/6 EN)
Gemini: 21/30 (8-5=3 DMG)

"Win," Gemini said, finally punctuating and concluding the remark that it had been in the process of making before Mutsu had slashed it across the face. "I was saying I don't think you're going to win," the Gemini continued, "Before you interrupted me, rude!" It seemed that, the longer the Gemini remained in Mutsu's form the more mannerisms of Mutsu that Gemini took on. Sure enough, a second later the Gemini made another crazy slashing attack in the direction of Mutsu, lost its grip on the copy of the Shao Lin spear in its hands, and the weapon went flying. As the Gemini turned to retrieve the weapon Mutsu took the opportunity and opening to slash across Gemini's back for an easy hit, no point in wasting the opportunity, after all.

OOC: We can roll for another Treasure Chest in 10 Posts. We can roll for one after every PAGE of posts.

ID: 108160
LD: 7 (Nothing)

"Different saddle, Battle Hippo," Mutsu asked, blinking at @Black as she slid off of his back. "What are you talking about, Hippo? It would be much more difficult to be a good lancer riding side saddle," the brunette continued, nodding sagely. "And front saddle, well Battle Hippo, now you're just being silly. Everyone knows you ride on the Battle Hippo's back,' Mutsu said, jingling around in front of Black and then flicking him on the nose. "Everyone knows." She looked pensive for a moment.

"Of course, maybe you meant you don't want to be a Hippo. Well, there is that Bon Jovi song about cowboys," Mutsu said, bouncing away to where the item had dropped and singing, "I'm a cowboy! On a steel horse I ride! I'm wanted, dead or alive!" She scooped up the Quest item and added it to her inventory. "So, maybe you could be a Battle Buick."

"What's that," she demanded, pointing into the woods. The brunette went darting in, chasing a glint of gold that she thought she had seen. But, when she reached the spot there was nothing there. "False alarm, thought I saw a treasure chest. Turns out it was only my chest which is a treasure, but not one you can behold... it would probably stop your heart and then I'd have a permanent orange marker."

ID: 108129
BD: 1 (1+1) [Eating Snack for +2 EN]
MD: 7 (6+1) 

Mutsu: 57/60 (5/6 EN) (15-18=1 DMG)
Gemini: 24/30

With the Gemini nice and silent for a minute, because the deep crimson mark across its face was still healing through the system, Mutsu glanced up at her status bar. She scowled. Her energy was already half gone. That wasn't going to do. Swiping her finger in the air, she pulled up her player menu and, keeping one eye on the menu and the other chocolate brown eye focused on the Gemini as the non-player character went and retrieved its weapon. For a split second she took her eyes off of Gemini to tap the item she wanted, chocolate covered coffee beans that would recover some of her energy. No sooner had they materialized in her hand than she ripped them open and dumped all the contents into her mouth, her cheeks bulging like a chipmunk's as Gemini poked her in the stomach with its spear again.

ID: 108128
BD: 8 (7+1)
MD: 1 (1+1)

Mutsu: 58/60 (2/6 EN) [Heft 2x]
Gemini: 24/30 (8-5=3 DMG)

"Well, I'm pretty sure you're not going to..." The Gemini was forced to abruptly shut its mouth after Mutsu rammed the business end of the Shao Lin spear into the mob's face with a savage screech. The impact left a nasty red slash across the Gemini's face, and chipped another ten percent out of the health bar. At this rate it would only take enough eight hits. Mutsu growled and scowled and muttered to herself. She was pretty sure she didn't have a deep enough energy pool to do it that quickly. That meant it was going to take even more than eight hits. But, figuring out the exact number took math and the brunette was really disinclined to want to do that. As she drove her weapon home into the face of her doppelganger the computer controlled bot dropped its spear which then went rolling a short distance away.

ID: 108116
BD: 9 (8+1)
MD: 5 (4+1)

Mutsu: 58/60 (3/6 EN) [Heft 2x]
Gemini: 27/30 (8-5=3 DMG)

Mutsu growled in anger and lashed out with her Shao Lin spear in the direction of Gemini. If taunting her was the computer's way of getting her good and angry, and probably goading her into making some kind of mistake, then it was likely to be a successful strategy. Whether or not that meant it was a winning strategy remained to be seen. The tiny brunette whipped the spear out in a straight poking attack and the weapon found its mark. A small red wound appeared on the duplicate's stomach, precisely where Mutsu had jabbed it. Within a few seconds, the wound had disappeared. But, Mutsu was gratified to see that she did hit harder than the Gemini did at least. So, between having the bigger health pool and hitting harder the rest of this fight should prove to be fairly simple. Time consuming, but simple. "I'm not going to lose."

ID: 108115
BD: 4 (3+1)
MD: 10 (9+1)

Mutsu: 58/60 (4/6 EN) [18-18=1 DMG]
Gemini: 30/30

"Why would I want to do that," the Gemini asked, casually flicking out the spear to jab Mutsu a second time. The brunette woman's brown eyes flicked to her status bar where she noted, once again, that her overall health point total had dropped by exactly one more hit point. Obviously, there was nothing to worry about here. Mutsu was not all that good at math, not really. But, by her calculation, it was going to take the Gemini at least another 58 hits before she was in any kind of serious danger. Or dead. "I like being you. The jingling when I move is a nice touch. Most of the other players are so boring. At least you're interesting. Or, anyway, your armor's interesting. I'm not so sure about how interesting you are." Growling, Mutsu scythed her weapon through the air, but the Gemini neatly stepped backwards to avoid the attack.

ID: 108106
BD: 5 (4+1)
MD: 5 (4+1)

Mutsu: 59/60 (5/6 EN)
Gemini: 30/30

"You go back to being a creepy dude right now," Mutsu demanded. She brought her spear up over her head and then brought it screaming down in a tomahawk chop. That was not, really, what a spear was supposed to be used for in combat. Predictably, the blow missed its intended target and the fat blade of the Chinese spear buried itself deep in the digital ground. This weapon was not the same as her giant sarissa had been. Mutsu was not a big fan of it, but it was still much better than the vanity weapon had been. Mutsu threw her head back, howled, and ripped the weapon free from the ground. In the process, she threw up a shower of digital dirt and jungle moss in a strange kind of dissolving shower around herself and Gemini.

Swiping her finger in the air, Mutsu pulled up her player menu. A few quick taps and she had materialized a crafting material in her hands. It was a hunk of raw ore. Exactly what she was supposed to do with it now was anyone's guess. Including her own. "I didn't see this crap on the recruiting poster," she muttered to herself. The fact that she hadn't seen anything on a non-existent recruiting poster in the first place was beside the point. Sighing, she tapped at the hunk of ore and pulled up the item menu. Surprisingly, there was a new option listed for the item now. There was a "craft" button. Well, that seemed a little too simple. Feeling unsure about the dubious quality of the button, Mutsu pushed it.

ID: 108101, 108102
CD: 5, 4

Both Fail.

+4 XP, 20 XP Total

Mutsu trekked with @Hazado through the Town of Beginnings in the direction of the shop that belonged to Lyle Tealeaf. From what Mutsu had been able to gather from the first of this quest string's Non-Player Characters, Zackeriah, this Lyle Tealeaf character was a blacksmith. According to Hazado, the next part of the tutorial quest line included going back out into the wilderness and slaughtering boar pups until they dropped enough boar tusks to satisfy the requirements of the task. However many that might be. Of course, that still didn't do anything to change the fact that the boar pups were confusingly named. Boars did not have 'pups'. Dogs had pups. Boars had piglets. Or were they boarlings? Mutsu could not remember. All she was certain of was that they were not called pups. "Why are they called boar pups," she asked Hazado. "Boars don't have pups."

OOC: I will start the combat with my NEXT post after this one. With luck that should give us enough to get to 2 Full pages for the extra SP.

"No one's more stacked than me," Mutsu fired back while @Vally had her face inches away from Mutsu's after the purple haired woman had grabbed her and hauled her back into the fountain. The brunette tried to emphasize her point in a mildly perverted way, but her hands clanked off her steel breastplate which sent the armor to jingling. The jingling intensified when she was pinned. "We could let the pervert decide who's more stacked," she allowed, glaring up at Vally. "But, that would probably give him a heart attack from joy! But you just call me 'short' again and see what happens," Mutsu huffed, already thinking up more revenge tactics. After all, she was now losing this war of words and actions by two points.

Unacceptable.

She was so wrapped up in plotting revenge against Vally that she did not even notice when @Black took the pictures. Not that she would have cared, she was wearing black leather pants and a steel armor breastplate. Clothing didn't get more opaque than that. No it was more important to plot minutes of revenge. Hours of revenge. Days, weeks, months, and years of revenge. Vally would pay. Right up until the point where the scoreboard reflected either a win for Mutsu, which was quite preferable, or at the worst a tie. Mutsu was not going to lost. Nope. Not even at all.

Then @Hydravion hit her.

That was completely uncalled for.

Well, mostly.

"Why you hit me, Senpai," Mutsu wailed, darting behind @Shield and peeking out from behind him. She looked, rather ludicrously, like a small child peeking her head out from behind a much bigger protector. "I didn't start it, Vally started it when she called me short," Mutsu scowled at Vally and then stuck her tongue out at the other woman. "I don't deserve to be hit, hit Vally! Shield me!" She continued to peek out from behind Shield as Hydravion disappeared into an alleyway, completely forgetting that she had just asked the player named Shield to be a shield, and so the irony and pun was lost on Mutsu.

ID: 108093
BD: 10 (Hit) [6+3 ACC Clothing+1 ACC Food]

Boss Nepent - 3/15 (-1 DMG)

Mutsu: 17/20 (0/2 EN) (Hate: 4)
Black: 259/260 (Hate: 3)

Mutsu watched as @Black changed his armor out and did not even bother trying to make an attack. Honestly, it was like the Marine didn't even care that they were supposed to be killing a giant creepy Weepinbell for the second time in less than an hour. She blew out a sigh between her lips and scowled at the other player for a moment before abruptly perking up at a brilliant new idea that had just occurred to her.

Why hadn't she thought to try this before? It seemed so obvious now how to increase her attack power. She needed a mount. That was the way things worked in Dungeons and Dragons, mounted Knights always got a combat advantage.

Everyone knew that.

Circling behind Black while he changed out his gear, the spearwoman took several lunging steps that were each punctuated by a jingle that sounded somehow sinister. Then she leapt into the sky, but not very high because plate armor, she slammed into Black's back, wrapped her legs around his waist, her free left arm around his shoulders, and lowered her ludicrously lengthy sarissa just like a Knight's lance over Black's right shoulder.

"Tally ho, Battle Hippo! IT WORKS IN WORLD OF WARCRAFT!" Mutsu shouted, practically in Black's ear. Her weapon flashed out, drove home into the Boss Nepent, and still did basically no damage.

"Only one point of damage," she asked, confused, still clinging to the battle hippo. "But how? The physics seemed so right..." She completely ignored the remark about tents, the American turn of phrase going over her head. She had no intention of sharing any kind of dwelling with Black. "Combat Battle Hippos sleep in the stables, not in tents," she said finally, having worked out a proper response. "Now, hyaaaaaaahh BATTLE HIPPO! CHARGE!"