Randal

Day 3 (7exp)

Randal sometimes would take a day or two to relax and unwind because it was his personal belief that work and play should be intermingled. That’s why he didn’t make any crafts yesterday, he was too busy to do so. Too busy chilling out at least. But today he would work.

Cooking was as luck as it was hard work, and Randal hoped that by reading up on some recipes and stories or even anecdotes from other people in the guild or on the guides, or even the player published magazine where some sketchy cooks would post up some delicious was to replicate the flavours of real life mixtures like soy sauce and otherwise.

So as Randal read he fiddled around with the ingredients and tried to make something work, but he just couldn’t no matter how much he tried. 

Almost without realising it, Randal had spent the whole day trying to figure out how to cook something and the day was already over.

It was probably time to take a break.

- 2 T1 material 

Randal’s food quickly became highly sought after because as much fun as the carnival seemed to be, nobody seemed to have brought their own food.

As he met up with Emily the girl and Skeleton, a dirt covered individual who smelled very strongly like Randal’s first quest as a beginner, he learned that this carnival was hosted by a one, Yukiro. Presumable the last noticeable guy that Randal spotted.

Having exchanged some small talk, Randal felt a pet on the shoulder and noticed that Night had approached them.

1 hour ago, NIGHT said:

The food's alright. I take it you cooked a lot in real life too?

“Hmm, not really but I was a good Nutritionist so I’m just trying to replicate, the system takes care of the rest.”

2 hours ago, Emily Snow said:

By the way can I try the cooking?

1 hour ago, NIGHT said:

Night took a meal off of the man and passed it to Emily

Watching this whole exchange go down, Randal smiles nervously, he hoped that they enjoyed eating healthy because the dish he brought out was a personal favourite, boiled broccoli with cheese and cream sauce...he didn’t actually have any of those ingredients exactly but he had made a pretty good replication.

Randal realised that they still didn’t know who he was, so he quickly explained his name and the last quest he was on, killing some boars, not shy to share the fact that he wasn’t having an easy time.

1 hour ago, NIGHT said:

Best he gets feedback on them A-SAP." The woman shot her friend a knowing but mischievous smile, in case she got on his bad side for being so frivolous about his food.

Randal felt excited for his food to be eaten, it was a chef’s privilege to have his food enjoyed..at least that’s what Randal had heard from an anime once.

With a cute and slow extension of his arm, he tried to pet Night’s Familiar.

Randal just got back from killing a whole bunch of baby boars and after a Long days of hard work he would have to return to the smithy that tasked him to do so and finish his quest. Before he could get very far, music and an overall exciting atmosphere was seen inside the town of beginners.

After a few moments walking into town, he noticed a banner that read:

37 minutes ago, Yukiro said:

WELCOME TO THE CARNIVAL! COME JOIN US TO CELEBRATE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
FOR TODAY JUST RELAX, PARTY, HAVE A GOOD TIME! MEET NEW PEOPLE OR JUST NAP!
IF YOU'RE FEELING AMBITIOUS BRING FOOD, FRIENDS, OR ANYTHING YOU WANT! 
ONCE AGAIN, WELCOME TO CARNIVAL!

Entering, he noted three distinguishable characters amidst the sea of awfully generic looking people. 

Feeling ambitious bring food? Randal was a newly made Chef, so he brought out some pre-made meals and approached some of them offering something to eat and good company.

”Hi, would you like to try some food?” He proffered to those three people.

@Emily Snow @Skeleton @Yukiro

Randal didn’t really know how much time had passed, his last few quests could have taken days and years while at the same time could have been like 2 days ago. When he finally got back to “The Crusty Bahrnacle”, he noticed his hand wraps and trousers were done. Pleased at the outcome and quality of his equipment, he transferred the money and went on his way.

Received T1 Perfect Comforting Hand Wraps and T1 Perfect Never Miss Trousers.

And so came the end of the fight, it wasn’t a valiant victory or an overwhelmingly strong conquest by an incredibly strong foe against a weaker entity. It was the battle between to real poor forces, one of which had more manpower than could be taken away and the other without such an advantage.

Just before Randal’s final headbutt landed, the Boar thought back on its short life, it had just spawned but already knew things like family and friends, The cruel reality of this world damning the little Boar pup to an eternity of life and death, the tears of the mama Boar losing its child and the desperation of the papa Boar who could do nothing to stop the oncoming tide from sweeping away his little one.

Somewhere in the game, with every virtual life taken away from it, the reality of this world became far more grim. If it wasn’t the lives of the players that were forever lost in this world. It would be the fact the the system was training them to be stone-cold killers through the murder of cute and innocent animals. Though a natural part of the cycle in life.

...And then the headbutt landed.

After a few more exchanges between himself and the Boar pup, Randal continued to whittle down the enemy’s health to its most minute, but still couldn’t finish off the Boar. This was like his exam papers from the real world, where he would be able to Breeze through the paper until he hit an obstacle that he either spent a lot of time trying answer or skipped in order to complete the question.

Forthnately this fight wasn’t graded and if it was, it was also not at all possible to fail due to the difficulty that Boar had penetrating past Randal’s mitigation.

The pitiful Boar flailed desperately against the oncoming tide that was Randal, and with no hope of escape from a wave much bigger than itself and a body not strong enough to withstand the impact, it could only carry on fighting to little avail, it would soon die and it knew this. And in its last moments it would think if it’s life and family, memories transposed over by the AI, to make its reaction as lifelike as possible.

Human ingenuity usually maintained a Low level of active-ness as we are usually equipped with all the necessities and conveniences of life around us, we tend to have some moments which spark us to make our lives a little easier like the invention of lights to work through the night and increase productivity and fridges to keep our food fresh and edible for longer periods of time so that we could solve food problems easier as a whole.

The real genius of invention only occurs at an impasse, when obstacles completely prevent us from doing what we want. This is an innovative-ness sparked from necessity. When pushed to the human limits we are able to create answers to questions so outside the box that others wouldn’t believe it until explained to its simplest terms.

This is not what happened to Randal, he just kept putting his fist in between the Boar and himself and manage to score hits while trying his best to avoid getting hit himself.

The bright blue sky glazed over withy droopy clouds accentuated the most of this battle as it dragged on for some time, oddly enough the loss of its companions have caused this last wild boar pup to activate it’s Super fighting powers to fight on par with Randal, reaching the same levels of speed and agility that Randal has causing both their attacks to miss.

Randal knew that in order to get anywhere he would to bust out some moves that he had been thinking about, maybe if he got on his head and spun like a break dancing move, he would be able to kick the wild bod pup as it approached him to Attack.

Or maybe, Randal could use some moves from his memory about how raise his hand sp to his sides like as if he were a bird, and lift up one leg allowing him to balance. And when the enemy came nearer, to flick out the leg and aim fight for the face.

After the last boar pup tusk had dropped from  boars that he was fighting, Randal went out his way to avoid triggering or attractive anymore mobs. After all, even if he was having fun, there was no reason or drops to carry on hunting these monsters. So Randal carried on battling with the last two boars while ensuring that he didn’t accidentally or without looking run into any other creature’s territory.

At one point, Randal picked up a log and swung it at one of the boars, and with a limpid crack the log broke and the Boar pup turned into a bright blue light before disintegrating.

Underneath the blazing hot afternoon sun, Randal felt like a ranger in a showdown against an unlawful coyboy, with a quick one-two, he hit the last boar in the shoulder while the boar pup ran past Randal in an attempt to damage him

The next few moments wouldn’t take very long, it happened almost gracefully and fatefully, one of the boars failed to land a critical hit and activated the effects of Randal's immolation potion, at these beginning levels, having the potion was greatly beneficial, after all, a single hit from an enemy would translate to enough damage hitting them back to evaporate them from existence.

Randal’s mind just temporarily paused on the thought that after the AI monsters died, if they were erased or reused in the body of another Monster, they seems so lifelike that if they remember their deaths there would probably come back enraged.

However any and all thoughts about reincarnation of the boar pups left Randal’s mind when he saw that the last Boar had dropped the last boar pup tusk he needed.

3/3 Boar Pup tusks found 

This time thought, Randal was not expected another wild boar pup to spawn behind him, much less join the fray immediately, so this was probably the game’s version of revenge for being too greedy. However Randal didn’t really mind it all that much because at the end of the day, unless there were 5 or more pups, he wasn’t even going to take any damage. 

Randal acknowledged that he was being very arrogant but he also recognised that his initial fear of being arrogant was also due to the fact that he had no confidence in the combat of this game, and no confidence that we would survive. But now fighting these simple mobs was too easy and not even dangerous, so Randal could focus on having fun. 

With no problems in the way, Randal could dodge and attack as he please giving himself a huge advantage in terms of hit to miss ratios.
 

Pleased at the fight and enjoying himself, Randal did pay much attention to the battle but was able to effectively damage all the boar pups, Randal whittled down one fo the new boar pups hp after going a few rounds with all the boar pups and hitting a few critical hits here and there made quick work of the boar.

Without waiting for long, Randal dived back into battle with the remaining two boars, but not before confirming that this boar pup had also done the right thing and dropped Randal the second boar pup tusk.

While fighting Randal didn’t forget to look around while the battle took him all over the place, not just to avoid too many mobs because combat would be too hectic to do, he was also looking all over the place to take note of any herbs or locations that would be beneficial to gather at. Because Randal wouldn’t want to end the trip so quickly anyways.

2/3 Boar Pup Tusks Found

With 2/3 initial boar pup dead, and Randal’s health never dropping below 95 Hp at any giver point in time, Randal felt secure in his head and went to look for more enemies, finding one just behind him when he backed of just a little while punching and weaving around the last Boar.

One more boar pup found, now to look for one more boar pup to make it a nice three pups. Fortunately, Aincrad has no luck of mobs for him to kill and spawned a new boar pup just in his vicinity, fortunately Randal could take advantage of the initialisation portion of the monster spawning to get a few cheap shots in. Quickly and swiftly sending right heel turn kick right at the boar.

He was having fun in combat, without fear of dying, Randal realised that he could actually have fun doing the mob killing. Although he definitely wasn’t morally sure if he should be the one enjoying the process but he did.

And so Randal could only continue struggling for what seemed like forever but only lasted the span of a few minutes, everything was always happening so very fast and Ra fak was doing his best to keep up, in his hand, a little switch was flickering a bit.

Randal’s memories flashed to when he was just starting out and he recalled when a few monsters would leave him running due to some inability to kill them, then he killed the bee, partly out of necessity and partly out of fun.

Then when he fought the dark elves with Night he saw what it was like for someone good at combat, they had fun...at least he thought no one would be that good at murdering virtual mobs unless they liked it.

That same switch was flickering in Randal head, as two more boar pup burst into virtuality and nothingness, Randal felt a rush of satisfaction and battle joy.

After all, when they died, one of them had give Randal one of the tusks he needed.
 

1/3 Boar Pup Tusks Found

Unfortunately the lack of drops was really disappointing, but Randal knew that with these handwraps and pants, he would be good enough to hit and heal any monsters that come his way. He just wished it was easier to get loot from these mobs, after all, he needed to get 3 and he was already down 0 for 3. Heading to another small clearing in the forest he was in, he managed to lure one Boar pup away from his group and found two more pups along the way for a repeat of the earlier battle.

Luring these boars back to the previous clearing, he managed to do some quick hit and run tactics to avoid the boars attacks while inflicting  some minor damage of his own. If he had better gear or a martial arts mastery he would be able to finish these Boars off in a jiffy but unfortunately he was able to do. 

After all he would only have that skill after finish what he had heard to be a really difficult quest..one that he expects he is going to require lots of help to complete.

Day 2 (7 Exp)

Randal opened up his shop on the second day and had a few customers come every once in awhile, it was blow going for a food business who had just opened up in a town with low traffic, Randal enjoyed the lack of business, he went into the system and looked for some trading groups he could join and discovered the “Aincrad Trading Post Guild” and liked what they stood for..a community of merchants who would help one another.

Randal hopes that one day the guild would be more interactive, utilising things like their guild vault for trading and helping others out, that would be nice. 

Randal would want to do that once his shop got up and running and he could maintain a steady supply of crafts each day. Until then he can only struggle and fail and improve and succeed.

- 1 T1 Material

Randal tried to make something work for yourself but realised that he kept failing, it looked like the wind of the cooking god was not on his side today. He leaned his head out the window and decided that he should go do some quests while his crafting took a break. Maybe tomorrow would be better, the days here would only go on for a lot longer anyway.

Randal tried his best to smack the first two boars then came his way, first with a strong kick towards their bodies and then with replication of his first jump and stomp technique but he missed both times. To a third person it would almost be like as if he was playing hopscotch with a bunch of boars, however as they managed to attack him, they actually took damage from the immolation potion that Randal had drank earlier. They took way more damage than their tiny bodies could handle and burst into flames and finally blue disintegration.

Unusually unfazed by this turn of events, the last Boar carried on trying to attack Randal to no avail. Randal swatted at the Boar, also kissing quite a number of times. With two right hooks that left a jarring sensation on his hand, Randal felled the last Boar.

Taking a moment to check his loot, he realised that boars did drop anything. Probably on account for the fact that he was higher levelled than them and they weren’t guaranteed to drop the tusks either.

As Randal scrambled to his feet, he tried to keep track of each Boar as they farted around and tried to surround him. First he focused on the Boar that he punched in the snout first, he noted that its position was in a perfect trifecta with the other two boars.

As if activating a sword skill of their own as he had once seen a friend do, the eyes of the Boar pups glowed bright before they activated their movements. With a quick dash, the first Boar charged at Randal, and with a thud, knocked him off his balance, however he managed to jump above the second boat cause it it slam into a tree and using both feet as he was landing to stamp on the back of the last Boar. The last Boar grunted under the full weight of Randal’s body and buckled onto the ground with a slide. Still stable and ready to continue, Randal did some flourishes and ran up to put his back against a tree. As the boars got back up to surround him again, he was planning to annihilate them.

The forest was exactly how he remembered it but this time he was more than prepared for combat. Randal drank 1 Immolation Potion and removed his Uncommon Boots.

Now that he was Super Super prepared to deal with any upcoming little baby boats because he deal damage back to them without even actually hitting them.

So as Randal continued to explore the forest, he creeped around the side of a tree and spotted 3 Boar pups just hanging around each other. Without any hesitation that would otherwise have had coming into this battle without preparation, Randal went in to punch the snout of one of the pups and easily allowed the other two to surround him. His punch landed flatly on one Boar but the other two came at him and one managed to knock Randal down.

Having reached Sir Tealeaf’s smithy in the first part of this chain-quest, Randal actually didn’t carry on with the Mission right away, in fact he had actual gotten completely lost and went in two other adventures in between then and now, having powered up a little and becoming wiser about the game, Randal was infinitely more prepared for dealing with mobs as compared to before this.

Entering the smithy once again, Randal was again greeted by Sir Tealeaf who requested that Randal proceed to just outside of town to the northwest towards the forest to gather for him some boat tusks, aiming for the boar pups that existed. Sir Tealeaf also prefaced his request by stating that these pups would be fairly easy for beginner like me and expected me back within the next few hours or by the end of the day.

Not willing to make any promises Randal started for the forest and reached in a few moments.

Hello? This was Randal’s first time here, he had taken the teleported up cause he had heard there was a merchant here worth buying from. He had been having some problems with his damage and wanted to figure out a way that he would be able to do damage whilst only having his fists, he could commission an order for a new weapon or potion but none of them were available to him due to a lack of materials and col.

Thats when he decided to purchase immolation potions, they would do damage without him moving all together and that’s how he would deal damage moving forward. So walked up to the man in the half built shop and bought 2 Immolation potions.

Immolation Potion (300 col) (30 col)

• Item Type: Potion
• Effect: When used, successful non-critical attacks against you deal 10 unmitigated damage to the attacking enemy. Effect lasts for one thread.

Paid 600 to @Banker, Paid 60 to @Stryder

Received 2 Immolation Potion

Rank 1 Cook...for now (Active)
Randal’s Snack Cart

Name: Healthy Grilled Carrot on a Stick
Your Profession: Cook
Your Rank: 1
ID: 130133
Roll: CD 10 LD 14
Item Type: Snack
Tier: 1
Quality: [Uncommon]
Enhancements: ACC
Description: My parents would tell me that carrots were good for the eyes, who knew they were right!
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Day 1 (5 Exp)

When Randal opened up his hole in the wall, he took a deep breath in and enjoyed the the safety of the floor 1 air, he really liked this town after having toured the first floor quite a bit at this point.

Comparatively, it was very quaint and out the way compared to the other towns that had high player flow. It would not be good for business but Randal didn’t mind making the food for himself and for others if they wanted it.

With a breath of fresh air, in his system and a blood boiling for adventure, Randal set off preparing some fruits that he wanted to make into snacks by over baking them but they quickly disintegrated when he tried to do so.

Randal felt like maybe fruits were unlucky and decided to use his vegetables instead, they were his first dish after all. But Randal wanted to do something different and so instead of just chopping up the veggies and tossing em in the oven, Randal decided to put a stick through a carrot and grill it really well. Though it wasn’t spectacular, it was succesful.

- 2 T1 materials

+ 1 T1E1 Snack (used on self)

Welcome to Randal’s Snack Cart
Randal’s Snack Cart is inspired by real life food trucks but unfortunately the game doesn’t recognise trucks, so Randal managed to find a little shop house in the Town of Horunka. And by shophouse he means a window in hole in the wall that he managed to get the license too when he completed his Profession quest to become a cook and by window, he meant the window that looks like the window of a food truck but is actually a window of a house. Honestly does not fool anyone but Randal likes to think it does.

Most of his meals are theoretically good for you if you don’t look closely at it.

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