Cordelia

Cordelia blinked at the offer. 

"A-are you sure?" She fretted, holding up her hands as she gave a sweat drop. "I can be a total slob around the house a-and I am really, really, really messy," she mumbled hotly, averting her eyes away in embarrassment. 

What did you expect?

She had been living the life of luxury all of her life... and now someone was asking her to be a roommate? What if it wasn't like how it was at home? What if they think she's a total snob?  She didn't have maids or servants anymore! How was she going to be able to do anything around a house without them? 

Her lips pursed together tightly as she fumbled with her fingers nervously. She had just made a new friend, she couldn't lose them because of something like this! Her tutor never taught her about roommates and... and houses! Also, 'plenty of room'? What if it was a giant house and she started acting like it was her own? Oh, was was Oscar going to think when he saw that she was a total brat? No one knows about her in this game, right? What if they find out who she was?

"I-I don't know," she mumbled, her brows furrowing in confusion. "I'll have to think about it."

She gulped and gave him a small bow. "I'm sorry, but, uh, I'll message you when I'm thinking about doing that quest. Bye!" She said quickly, giving him a small bow guiltily before dashing off. 

“Of course!” She chimed, giving him a close eyed grin. “I think I’d be absolutely obliterated if I went alone, anyway,” Cordelia said with a small laugh. 

She gave him a sideways glance and shrugged her shoulders. “I haven’t gotten the time to grind up enough Col to get a house yet, so I’m just temporarily staying in an inn. Maybe I’ll scrap up enough money one day to get myself a nice little house, though,” the girl said with a small smile. Yeah, it kind of sucked living in an inn, but it was better than a box, right?

Well, it was certainly different from the life she used to have. 

“I have no plans to really open up a shop, either,” she mumbled, her lips tugging down for a few seconds before smiling again. “But I’m sure I’ll have enough one day. I don’t really spend a lot of money on anything but gear... so, that’s not a lot,” she explained. You really only have to get new gear every couple of months! So it wasn’t like, she was broke as hell. 

"Yeah," she rubbed her arm sheepishly as she felt part of her cheek twitch just thinking about it. "I really need to train Pacco up to help me in fights," she mumbled under her breath. "Speaking of Pac-" She blinked as her familiar came swooping down at her. It was like reliving the day of befriending him all over again!

"Wait- no, Pacco. please, my hair is actually combed today!" She squeaked, using her hands to shield her long hair. She shut her eyes closed as she prepared for the worst-- which was basically just Pacco literally getting stuck in her hair, but she didn't feel anything. She peeked open one eye to see that Pacco was perched on her shoulder, his head tilted as if to say, 'girl, what the heck are you doing'.

"You're so mean," she huffed, wrinkling her nose at him before walking into the small town. She had quickly given the ovule to the NPC and sighed in relief. 

"That quest item was not worth all of the misses I had to have."

She turned to Oscar and tapped her finger on her cheek thoughtfully, as if debating. "I was planning to go do that quest with a friend of mine... but we could always try doing another quest around that skill level. Have you done the Deforestation one yet?"

Cordelia gave them all a toothy grin as everyone else seemed to introduce themselves. "It's nice to meet you guys. I figured I needed to start socializing sooner or later. The only company I've had for a good while is this little rascal," she sweat dropped, pointing to Pacco.

"Oh, uh. Okay, bye," she blinked, giving them a small wave as the group walked off to wherever.

She turned to Solei and deadpanned. "Are they always like that?" She asked, raising a brow. "They seem like they're... plotting something," she said lowly, feeling a shiver go down her spine. Oh gosh, she's already got the chills running down her spine! It was a bad omen indeed! 

"Whatever, I'm just gonna go..." she trailed off, her eyes flickering from the groups of people. Well dang, she suddenly felt more self-conscious. "I-I'll just go get food," she said, laughing nervously as she shuffled over to where all the snacks and drinks were.

thi humbly accepts and sends an after current rapier yer way [i hope i dont go to jail for this]

-after current to sol bb

Cordelia lunged at the nepent, her blonde hair flying wildly behind her as she charged up a more nimble sword art. 

She used quick stabs on what she assumed was the nepent's torso... or whatever it really was, but it didn't take long for the nepent to eventually blow up.

"Thank the lord, I don't feel like utter crap now," she laughed softly, pushing her bangs up as she lowered her rapier. She sighed and held up the ovule. "Gross," she mumbled, shoving it into her inventory.

She looked back at Oscar and gave him a toothy grin. "Alright, let's get going. There's still plenty of light left in the day so maybe we could do something after I give this item back to that NPC or whatever. Maybe get some food... or we could go hunting for mobs... I don't know if I'd do well against another mob," she giggled nervously, already starting to march her way back to town.

Sounds good.=!

That's a secret! d(=^･ω･^=)b

But all I can give you is that she's aiming for the front lines but doing it for herself! .p.

Cordelia felt her spirits instantly lift as she delivered a quick slash to the closest nepent. "Oh, the deities have answered my prayers," she muttered under her breath as she watched it explode. "About the dang time." 

"Hey," she said turning her head back to Oscar with a pleasant grin. "I finally hit it-" 

Wham!

She flew back against the nearest tree with a low thud. "Well dang," Cordelia hissed, rubbing the back of her head with a scowl. "That hurt! .. kind of," she mumbled hotly, getting back on her feet. 

"Alright, you try to take that one on! I'm going to try to one-shot that darn variant and get that item. This quest is too bothersome," the blonde called, nodding her head to the last remaining nepent-- the same little rascal that whacked her into a tree. A tree. Perhaps it was tough love?

Yeah... it was totally that.

Cordelia sniffed again as she watched Oscar slay the variant... and not get an item. Gosh darn it, now they have to go through a whole 'nother wave of nepents. Maybe she could finally hit one of them? 

Wrong.

She did not hit any of them.

She did not.

In fact, she got whacked back by the one she tried to attack. Cordelia wiped her south as she stood up again... only to be met with the rest of the three nepents surrounding her. "Oh I see how it is," she growled.

Like a scene straight out of an action movie, the nepents charged at her one by one. Her eyes narrowed as she narrowly dodged each of her attacks. Sweet, her savvy should activate after this! Maybe she would finally hit something! 

She sighed and turned her head to Oscar. "See if you can knock out some of them with an AOE attack or something," she said, sniffing. "Maybe I should've chosen a better weapon for this..." the blonde muttered, scratching her chin.

I'm afraid to say that I don't know you.. at all. Sorry! (^・ω・^ )

But I am totallly down to do a thread w/ you whenever. Just DM me on site or discord if you ever want to arrange something! 

Cordelia fell to her knees in absolute agony. She felt so... so useless! How could she miss three times in a row? What use was she, anymore?! 

The blonde sniffed and wobbly stood back up. This was pissing her off a lot. No, she didn't miss once. She didn't miss twice. No. She missed frekin' three times! How does someone even mess up that much?! She was a DPS, she was supposed to be dealing damage! 

She sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose angrily. Damn these stupid stats... she needed to get Pacco trained so he could finally start helping her in battle. She was so useless without any accuracy! The corner of her eye twitched as she watch the nepent whirl around, ready to attack her. She blinked blankly as the nepent literally missed her... without her even moving.

 "That makes the two of us, bub." She sniffed, "that makes the two of us."

ID: 123260

BD: 5, Miss

MD: 2, Miss [+1 ACC next turn]

HP: 360/360 | EN: 33/36 | 8 DMG | 2 EVA | 1 SAVVY

Cordelia sweat dropped as her rapier slashed through nothing.

Again. 

"Jesus... bloody... thumbtack!" She covered her face with her hands, letting out a muffled scream. Did you like her creative curses? Yeah, she liked them, too. 

She turned to Oscar with another sulky expression. "This sucks," she sniffed, hypothetical basically streaming down her face. They were literally living plants... and they barely moved! Why couldn't she just hit a couple of plants and get it over with? She was fine when she was facing herself, why was today so different?! These things were literally just a basic attack away from dying! She could literally just poke them and then they'd die!

She guessed that the universe just hated her. Yeah... that had to be it. Or maybe it was just her off day! Maybe she had spent too long being a couch potato? Well, it was one of those things!

ID: 123249

BD: 4, Miss

HP: 360/360 | EN: 34/36 | 8 DMG | 2 EVA | 1 SAVVY

"Yep," she grinned, giving him a thumbs up.

This quest was probably too easy for her, but knowing her, she was probably still going to fail at it. 

She clapped her hands together lightly as Oscar took down three of the four nepents. People and their AOE attacks... lucky.

"I'll try my best," she said nervously, dashing off with her rapier in hand. 

Oh look- she missed. Cordelia face palmed herself as she felt part of her face twitch. "Just kill me now," she groaned, walking back to Oscar with a sulky expression. "Maybe I should've waited for my trinket to come in before i started doing quests again," she muttered, scratching the side of her cheek sheepishly. 

"Sorry about that, you're probably going to have to carry em through this whole quest... even though we're practically the same level," she deadpanned, frowning deeply. This was a whole new form of embarrassment.

ID: 123239

BD: 2, Miss

HP: 360/360 | EN: 35/36 | 8 DMG | 2 EVA

Cordelia's rapier sliced right through the tiger's pelt, leaving a large red and gridded gash wide open. 

She let out a small sigh as she watched it explode into the air. "Well, that was more trouble than it was worth," she mumbled, crouching down to inspect the items she had gotten. "-or not? This is some pretty good loot," the girl exclaimed under her breath, sending the items into her inventory before standing up with a small groan. 

"Bah, I'm tired," she muttered, her steely eyes scanning the trees above her. Where did that little rascal go? Her lips puckered as she blew a small whistle. Ah, there he comes! 

Pacco cawed for a split second before swooping down and landing square on her shoulders, his unusually red eyes scanning her disheveled state up and down. She guessed that she had gotten quite a small beating. Her hair was parting in all the wrong places and she was pretty sure she had small bags under eyes.

LOOT:

The tiger had finally gotten out of her paralysis, which honestly did freak her out just a tiny bit. Dang, that paralysis effect definitely should've lasted longer! 

Cordelia yelped out loud as the tiger went lunging at her again. She quickly dove out of the way and bit out a small growl herself. She landed softly, her left leg outstretched while her right stayed close to her. "You're starting to piss me off," she muttered, her eyes narrowing into small slits. 

She didn't particularly know why she was talking to something that couldn't even understand her, but dang, it felt nice to let out some pent in anger out on something that would probably respawn in less than an hour. It wasn't even alive, why should she pity something that was just made up of ones and zeroes? 

There was no reason for her to!

If it attacked her, it deserved to die. "A-ah, sorry there, Pacco," she said under her breath as she remembered that Pacco had indeed tried to attack her the first time they met.

The tiger growled at her as it prepared to launch another one of its attacks. Everything seemed to go by in slow motion as Cordelia narrowly dodged its pounce. As the cat whizzed by her, she managed to stab it repeatedly, her paralysis effect kicking in on the last impale. Sparks flew from her rapier as the tiger howled in pain. "You don't like it when it happens to you, huh?" She gritted out, kicking the immobilized tiger away.

A threatening growl left the tiger's throat as it laid on the ground, unable to move.

It looked so... helpless to Cordelia. Sure, it was just trying to kill her, but she couldn't help but think that as she looked down at the thing.

"I don't think you're in the position to be growling at me," she whispered, looking down at the tiger with a deadly stare. "Look at who has the upper hand here," Cordelia uttered, her grip tightening around her rapier's handle.

The blonde curved her back as the tiger lunged at her once again, sighing in relief when she didn't feel any impact and just a small gust of wind. The tiger effectively just pounced on the tree behind her, digging it's claws deeply into the bark. 

Finding that this was her chance, she rounded on the bright orange animal, delivering stab after stab after stab. 

She grinned happily as she dropped the tiger's HP to almost half. Dang, she was stronger than she thought!

The tiger growled as it ripped its claws out from the tree-- and now they were back to circling each other. She felt like she was in some sort of western or fantasy movie by doing this! 

"Bring it on!" She exclaimed, holding her free hand to taunt the tiger with a childish grin. "Awe, are you scared?" She cooed, tilting her head to taunt the tiger even more. 

Cordelia's rapier swiped across the Jungle Tiger's pelt, only missing it by a small hair. "Sweetened honey iced tea," she muttered as the tiger lunged at her. Her eyes widened as she collided with a large tree behind her. "Heck," she seethed, watching her HP bar drain. 

Why did she come out here?

To put it simply, she was bored as hell. 

Pacco squawked as he hovered over the battle, his four red eyes watching the two circle each other very carefully. He knew this wasn't a fight Cordelia would lose to so easily, but still, it pained him to watch her health bar drop like that.

Cordelia mumbled as she patted her hair back into place. This fight was getting her hair all frizzled up! She should really tie her hair up when she was fighting... it was going to become a hazard some day. It might even be the death of her!

Cordelia burst through the door of the tavern, a giddy grin on her face as the door slammed against the wall. Pacco let out a shrill squawk as she ran over to where Oscar was. 

"The queen as arr- oh he's napping," she mumbled, scratching her chin. How does someone wake up someone from a nap without bursting their eardrums? All of the ideas in her head probably weren't... the best choices to wake up someone. Oh gosh, she's never woken someone up before! How do normal people do it? 

She paced back and forth as she nervously chewed on her fingernails. Does she tap him awake? Would that be too weird? Of course it would be too weird! She could probably just... tip his chair over... 

What the heck-

She mentally slapped herself. What was wrong with her? She just started making friends and now she's already trying to murder friendships!

STATS/BATTLE INVENTORY:

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[Using Essence of Steel on this item]

S U M M A R Y:

Cordelia:

-2 SP

-200 Col

-Survival Skill

Oscar:

-2 SP

-200 Col

-Survival Skill

Cordelia sighed in relief as they finally arrived back in town. "Praise the lords I don't have to endure that devilish landscape anymore," she muttered, handing the cargo the NPC. "You're lucky I didn't get too damaged, bub," she seethed, glaring daggers at him before he scurried off to who knows where. 

Clapping her hands together, she turned back to Oscar and grinned. "Of course!" She exclaimed, jumping up and down a few times with a childish grin. "I'd love to help you. I probably haven't done most of the easy quests, either. Frankly, I don't even know how I got to my level without doing those quests..." she mumbled, scratching her chin in confusion. She accepted the friend request and shot him a smile.

"I'll see you later. Just message me whenever you want to meet up again!" She pipped, waving to him one last time before bolting to who knows where.

HP: [ 320/340 ]

ID: 123198

CD: 7

Cordelia slowly picked up her spoon as she stared at the plate of tiramisu in front of her. "I definitely deserve this" she muttered, licking her lips. "Plus, I can't gain any weight in here, so... yay!"

Careful not to let her bangs touch the cake, she slowly  tilted her face closer and closer to the dessert, to the pint where her nose was only about an inch away. Bringing her arm up, she slowly dug her spoon into the rich cocoa and sighed in relief. "So... satisfying!" She exclaimed, leaning back into her chair with a grin. She scooped the spoon into her mouth and let out a heavenly sigh.

"So... good!" She exclaimed, grinning to herself like an absolute fool. "I haven't had tiramisu in ages!" She said under her breath, her eyes widening for a fraction. "But this definitely beats any kind of tiramisu I've ever had!"

SUMMARY:

Cordelia:

-2 SP

-200 Col

-Essence of Steel

Kityuisa:

-2 SP

-200 Col