Shye

Shye was completely dumbfounded. Just like her fellow tank companion, she had no idea what she was supposed to do in this situation. If she attempted to attack now, she could be taking too much of a risk to apply a single point of damage for no possible gain beyond... well that one point of damage. Her healing was inefficient since she couldn't heal anyone past their maximum hit points, which continued to get even lower now. Panicking time?

The redhead's breathing got a little out of hand before slowly her thoughts started to consume her. If someone died, it would be her fault cause she couldn't heal them? No no, it's not your fault Chelsea. The boss had even reduced her HP into the double digits and she was just beginning to get comfortable with her bigger pool of health. What does she do now? Try to fight or try to heal? Neither would be helpful at this point.

No action taken.

Shye was pulled into battle by the pink paladin, the friend of Shield who he seemed to always be hard on. Like a teacher with a student. This girl continued to get stronger faster than she could believe. Her leveling process had been so slow, but that was probably cause she relied on other people carrying her through fights.

The battle started so quickly that Shye couldn't even process what was happening. When the entirety of the groups hp was lowered completely by half on one turn the, girl healed her tank as soon as possible before realizing that their max HP had been reduced along with the attack. Her eyes widened in shock. If she couldn't heal anyone, how in the hell was she supposed to do anything? If she tried to attack, she couldn't take damage especially with her health pool completely halved. Her breathing was starting to get uneasy again...

Shye heals Zajcica for... uh, nothing.

Giving her companion a quick smile at the praise she was receiving, she gave her a nod. "Thanks. This stuff is hard to get the hang of at first, but I'm sure with a little practice, I can get the hang of it. Whatever helps us all get out of here faster."

When Galilea brought up the question about where the performers shop was located, she had absolutely no idea. The fact that she was able to find Evangeline's shop in the first place had to be a miracle. "Uh... Perhaps we should ask a few other players where the shop is. If neither of us know where it is, we'll stand around lost forever. -Oh, also, here take these."

Opening her menu, Shye pulled out the materials that she had gathered, split them in half and handed one of the split packs over to her new friend. "I felt bad that you found nearly nothing. Besides, when we head out I can always collect more. Share the wealth and all that!"

This was it. She couldn't hold up her anticipation for this event. If this was a chance to get to go back home, she would take it, easily. Making her way out of her home and down to the first floor where everyone was gathering, she wondered where Shield was. Surely he would be showing up for an event like this right? Even if it was just a joke there had to be something to net out of this mysterious message that every player in the game had received. If it at least helped her get stronger in the long run, that was worth it. Walking up to the table, she met with a girl named Shiina. Who jumped on her the moment that she realized Shye was a support player.

"Hey you! You're helping out right? Here! You're gonna need this! When the bad dudes show up, just hit 'em with all of these!" Shye didn't even get the chance to get a word out before the Resonant Valkyrie was on to her next target.

Further down the hall, Shye found herself back in the main hall. The building was one giant loop on the first floor. Figuring that the two were likely getting close to finishing the witch by now, it was safe to assume that she should meet back up with them. She found the stairs where she could just barely make out the sounds of combat and the pink haired girl's voice screaming at something. Too muffled to make out what she was saying though.

The redhead found the closet that she hid in before and locked herself inside once more. No chest in this room this time, but it looks like she was able to find some materials where it was at least. She pulled up her menu and found her messages with Shield so she could tell him where she was. 

LD: 19+3
Materials Found: 7

Coming across a large hallway of rooms made the ginger haired girl's head spin. It seemed never ending with doors on every side, no indication of where they actually led to on the outside. Annoyingly enough, she felt as though it was made to intentionally confuse trespassers and make it difficult to find anything for looters like herself.

On a whim, the girl opened one of the doors attempting to find anything useful at all. She swung the heavy wooden door open to reveal a horrid abomination that was nothing but goo and slime with massive eyes and a mouth. Her eyes widened in fear as the things massive eyes laid gaze on her. Quickly, she closed the door and started to run the opposite direction. Bleach and boiled water would be necessary to wash that awful memory from her brain. Luckily, the monster had no intention of chasing her down, thank god.

No chest found.

Navigating her way through the plants and experiments the witch was conducting, the healer had an awful time finding anything useful. It seemed there wasn't much useful here to begin with. It would probably be best if she continued to move on to the next room. 

Opening the door to the hallway, the monkey's wings could be heard accompanied by their annoying screeching. Shye stepped into the hall and continued her way down the path she was originally going. This castle was massive and she was beginning to wonder if she was going to get lost looking for the exit when the time came. Either way, she could find a way out, her memory was pretty good when it came to back tracking. Now, which one of these doors would hold something more useful? A chest would be nice. She wanted to show Shield how effective she could be at searching.

@Shield

Roll: 5+3
Materials: 6

Although the green house was filled vastly with mutated experiments beyond help or reason, it was a pretty serene place to relax in. The air was cool and calming, almost deathly so, and the atmosphere the glowing plants gave off made it eerie but pleasing. Looking around for more materials, the red headed healer find nothing of use. How unfortunate. She was on such a hot streak of material gathering for awhile.

The sounds of the monkey's screeching could still be heard from the  door outside, but they weren't close by. It looks like this was the last place that they were intending to check. That or they had just checked before she came in here and she was lucky enough to be behind their search route. If that was they case, they would like round back through at some point. Outsmarting the mobs up to this point had been easy enough. It was unlucky that they would catch her.

Roll: 8+3
Materials: 6

Item Name: Sweet Perfume
Profession: Alchemist
Rank: 1
Roll ID: 151273
Roll Result: CD: 12; LD: 4
Item Type: Salve
Tier: 1
Quality: Perfect
Enhancements: Pheromones
Description: This amazing perfume seems to have an alluring affect if used by players that cause potential familiars to appear more frequently.
Post Link: [Here]

With the final bit of her materials in tow, the girl followed with Galilea back to the shop that was necessary to complete her potion making escapade. After this, she would be able to make a shop that would help aid everyone in Jacob's Ladder. That being said, she had no idea where she would actually put the shop. Maybe within the confines of the guild base? That would probably be the best place to do so.

After several insanely bad tries at crafting something worthwhile, Shye finally finds her eureka moment. The last try she makes on a salve would be enough to make it as perfect as possible. Once the item was finished, she tagged it as a Pheromone for her own use later and made a description. Once all that was done, she looked over to Galilea and nodded. "Alright, lets go do yours now. It would only be fair for me to help you with yours."

@Galilea

Crafted T1 Pheromones

The redhead wandered down the greenhouse-like room and looked for anything useful that she could use to make potions. Most of the plants here were experimented on with some kind of concoction or another so they weren't usable and like were pretty toxic. Best to stay away from those ones. Luckily there was one that wasn't experimented on yet from the looks of it. It was tagged as a material, so she rooted it up and moved the herb to her inventory.

How much longer was it going to take those guys to finish up their fight? She didn't mind waiting but it was taking longer than their first time here. All they had to was let the enemies hit Shield and they would die. The witch must have more HP than she originally imagined, or they were just getting that unlucky with their attacks. Nevertheless, she hoped that they would finish up soon. Maybe Shye could find another chest really quick...

Roll: 15+3
Materials: 6

In the green house were tons of plants and experiments that witch seemed to be running. She couldn't tell what any of them were and didn't really want to get close enough to them to find out. Though, she knew that within this room would probably be gathering materials that she could use when she got her shop running. She needed as many as possible to get set up for her leveling in the skill. How else would she make Jacob's Ladder tons of potions to help them when she couldn't be there?

Walking down the lines of plants, she could see that some of them were actually tagged as materials that could be used in her potions. Good to see the witch was kind enough to help her out with her profession! If only she could find another chest like she did the first time. That would please Shield for sure. She knew how much he loved these chests.

Roll: 13+3
Materials: 5

Leaving the alchemy room, she wondered if the two were going to finish any time soon. It was taking longer than last time, and there was even two of them up there this time rather than just Shield. Maybe they had to fight more of the monkeys before they were able to go and fight the witch or something? She didn't know but she was too weak to move up there and help them. She would need to get some mitigation or self healing so that she can help people more. It was basically just being carried at this point and she hated the idea that she was doing nothing and benefiting from it.

Coming across a new room, she found something akin to a greenhouse. It looked like a place where materials would spawn, so best to stick around here until they were finished. Maybe she could find some more materials before they got back.

Roll: 4+3
Materials: 4

Running down the hall, the girl opened several doors before finding a room that she thought was the alchemy room. It was full of weird jars of goop and a [censored] preserved in goop that she didn't even want to know was. Although, there was a table with items that were ripe for the picking. They belonged to her now. When she stepped out of the Town of Beginnings for the first time, she was a terrified little girl, but now after gaining some confidence thanks to Shield, and other players, she was becoming a good looter.

She shoved the items into her inventory, really anything that looked useful to her, and looked around for anything else that could be useful. Hopefully a chest, but it seems like there was nothing else of use in this room. She would try the next one and hopefully she could find something better there.

No Chest Found.

Shye waited until the gaggle of monkeys passed through and found nothing, leaving the library unattended. She sighed quietly, safe now from the chaos that was happening. A quick check on the health bars of her comrades proved they were still busy fighting. That was alright. Maybe she could find an actual achemy room now that had some alembics and mortar and pestles or something. That's what that ancient [censored] was called right? Making potions couldn't be that difficult. 

She climbed down the giant bookcase, noticing a material item sitting on one of the shelves on her way down. She scooped it up and moved it into her inventory before reaching the ground. Heading over to the library door, she inspected the safety of the hallway before quietly moving out the door and ran into the hallway. She continued down the path she was originally going, trying to find any room that looked like it was used for Alchemy.

Roll: 19+3
Materials: 4

Shye continued to stuff any books that looked relevant to alchemy whatsoever into her inventory. They were all hers now! Screw this annoying witch for sending so many minions after her while she was vulnerable. The sound of wings grew stronger down the halls. She needed a place to hide this time, they were coming towards the library and they would easily overpower her with numbers.

Nothing to hide in or under she had to think quickly. Looking up, she noticed the bookcases were high enough to get her out of plain sight. Quickly, she stepped on a shelf and started climbing up the heavy wooden bookcase. Scaling the massive structure, she sat up on top of it as the monkeys came flooding in. Oh look, some alchemy potions were sitting up here too. Her's now!

LD: 13+3
Materials: 3

The redhead continued down the hall away from the sound of batting wings as quickly as she could. It was worrying to hear those deafening sounds coming towards her but if she kept moving away from them, it would be safe. Though, it would be best to send Shield a message to let him know that she could be in possible danger. The red head opened her menu and found Shield, opening their conversation window.

With that sent, she headed into a random room, hoping to find anything. The library, how lucky! This wasz a great find. Bookshelves as far as the eye could see. Quickly shuffling down the rows proved useful on finding a vast alchemy section. She started grabbing every book that she could and shoved them into her inventory, along with materials on a nearby side table. All this knowledge was hers now.

@Shield

LD: 14+3
Materials: 2

Running through the halls of the giant castle, things were starting off quietly. No monkeys flying around in the halls this time around, so it was smooth sailing so far. Coming across more alchemy ingredients she attempts to pick them up to use as materials, but the fell to floor and shattered, leaving their puddles of different coloured hues to mix into a rainbow of colors.

"Awww, those could have been pretty useful." The girl whined looking at the mess she had made. And that's when the sounds started howling with the familiar beating wings. A sound she was really well acquainted with at this point. She clutched her teleportation crystal in her hands and continued on her merry way, looking for anything useful to an aspiring alchemist.

Now, where was the alchemical room that this witch would keep her items in? Anything that she could just ste- Borrow indefinitely for the use in her own shop.

LD: 10+3
Materials: 1

Galilea was right. Even though she had finished the material gathering, she still had to go and finish the last part of the quest in order to get her rank as an alchemist. After learning the Alchemy skill, she could make potions and crystals that would save people's lives one day. The simple thought of that made a smile form across her lips.

"Right, let's head back. Thank you again for coming with me. I didn't expect combat but it's always safe to bring a friend when all of your skill investments are put towards helping others stay alive rather than fighting an enemy." Approaching the safe zone barrier of the town of beginnings once more, the red head spots one last bushel of materials not far from the entrance. She scoops them up quickly and passed through the ethereal barrier. The path back to Zachariah wouldn't be a long one.

LD: 12+7=19
CD: 8 - Gatherer activated!
Materials Found: 3

Total Materials: 19

Quickly down the hall, the only thing to be heard was her own pit-pat of footsteps echoing back at her. Perhaps she wouldn't have to deal with any stupid monkeys chasing her around this time. That would be nice. Though, she doubted that they were going to make it easy for her to move around the castle as freely as she wanted to. She made a mental note to purchase Gatherer and Searching after she got out of this quest and start collecting materials. In fact, she could probably work on that right now. It took a lot of materials to craft, especially for crafters in the line of work of Alchemy.

A moment of searching yielded some benefit at least. She could still find some materials within quest locations, so she might as well make use of this moment to steal from the witch and look for potion making equipment.

LD: 20+3
Materials: 1

Another cluster of materials spawn at the feet of Shye. Bending down to pick them up, she smiles happily. She was basically a beacon for free materials now and it felt great to do absolutely nothing and get rewarded for it. A nice change of pace from her usual luck, or maybe she was just forcing the luck to work in her favor.

"I can see how you would want to change your ideals based on this experience, but if you love the idea of making a world as beautiful and well designed as this, who is to stop you? That world could be amazing in its own way, and hopefully it won't force players to die just to get out of it. I bet you could make something that people will absolutely love and get invested in if you put your heart and soul into it. Otherwise, do something that makes you happy in the end."

@Galilea

LD: 13+7=20
CD: 6 - Gatherer activated!
Materials Found: 3

Total Materials: 16

Shye was barely able to keep up with the two tank's speed. They were used to this conditioned stuff, and she really wasn't. Once they reached their destination, she took a moment to take a few breaths, looking down the halls to make sure that they weren't followed. All looked clear for now.

When her breath caught up with the group, she opened her menu and traded out her needles for her headphones. She wouldn't need to be attacking from this point on since she'll be doing her usual hiding thing. Still questioning what worth she was to anyone right now, she held out her hand to accept Shield's Teleportation Crystal. "Don't worry about me. I can take care of myself. Anything happens, I'll send you a message ASAP. While you guys are fighting her, I'll look around the mansion for any of her treasures so you can open them up Shield." Once the Teleportation Crystal was in her hand, she took off down the hall to find a place to hide.

Shye continued to watch the battle unfold. She wondered if she should really be doing anything to help. The target was already bleeding and the other girl already had bleed on her weapon. She didn't want to get in the way with what they were planning, plus it's not like she could do much other than refresh the bleed. Shield wouldn't yell at her if she gave it a try though. The other two seemed to have it's attention way too well and she couldn't possibly be attacked so might as well keep attacking until it died. The monkey continued to struggle against inevitable odds. She wondered if the artifical intelligence ever thought about fleeing. Perhaps it was different with specific quest mobs.

"This thing really doesn't know how to go down does it? That's kind of annoying." The red head muttered after just missing an attack to its wing. She sighed wondering when the stupid thing would just fall over dead already.

[H:8/8/8/15] Shield: HP: 1850/1850 | EN: 162/176 | DMG: 2 | EVA: -1 | MIT: 181 | BH:92 | HB: 48 | THN: 69 | ENV: 18/4
[H: 1/7/1/6] Yuki: 720/720 | 48/66 | DMG: 5 | MIT 81 | EVA: -1 | ACC: 3| THN: 18 | BLD: 24
[H: 2/0/0/3] Shye: 200/200 | 19/20 | DMG: 2 | BLD: 12 | Rec: 1 | EVA: 3

<<Flying Monkey 1>> HP: 0/150  | DMG: 70 (35 min) | MIT 20
<<Flying Monkey 2>> HP: 0/150 | DMG: 70 (35 min) | MIT 20
<<Flying Monkey 3>> HP: 0/150 | DMG: 70 (35 min) | MIT 20
<<Flying Monkey 4>> HP: 97/150 (-1) | DMG: 70 (35 min) | MIT 20 | [BLD: 12/1 turns]

"You think that just because I'm upbeat and happy that I'm not terrified of instant death claiming me? I'm horrified." The girl said, her mood shifting pretty quickly. If she thought about things like this, it would only feed into her fears. That wasn't something she needed. "I don't want to die in here, but I don't want others to die because I didn't help them. I want to get stronger and help the front liners so that they can help us all get out of here as quickly as possible. With people like Shield and Mari, we can do tons to help clear floors if we all come together and work like a team, rather than being cowards in the starting city and letting only a few people bear the weight of saving everyone.

She cleared her throat, picking up another batch of materials while she thought about it. "I'm sure that the game will leave a lasting effect on me for my entire life, but I want to go to school for cosmetics. Makeup and hair for movie stars, or working in a well known salon. Maybe that sounds kind of dumb, but it's what I like, I guess. Turning passion into a paycheck, or whatever the saying is. What about you?"

@Galilea

LD: 11+7=18
CD: 3 - Gatherer activated!
Materials Found: 2

Total Materials: 13

Shye nodded to Shield as well when the battle plan was being discussed. She knew she couldn't survive the witches area of effect long enough to help them kill her so she would have to stay out of it for now. Meanwhile, she can look for materials and chests when they made their way up the stairs.

"I'll be alright! I managed last time, didn't I? While you guys are busy fighting that witch, I'll look for all her treasures and they can be ours!" She noticed that the pink haired paladin wasn't able to inflict her bleed on the target so maybe she could reset it with an attack. She slipped behind the monkey and jammed another needle it it's back, inflicting the bleed effect on it once more. It was weaker than Yuki's, but at least it would help Shield kill it faster with his thorns. The red head made some distance between her and the monkey again to ensure she didn't catch collateral damage.

@Shield

[H:8/8/8/15] Shield: HP: 1815/1850 | EN: 163/176 | DMG: 2 | EVA: -1 | MIT: 181 | BH:92 | HB: 48 | THN: 69 | ENV: 18/4
[H: 1/7/1/6] Yuki: 720/720 | 48/66 | DMG: 5 | MIT 81 | EVA: -1 | ACC: 3| THN: 18 | BLD: 24
[H: 2/0/0/2] Shye: 200/200 | 20/20 | DMG: 2 | BLD: 12 | Rec: 1 | EVA: 3

<<Flying Monkey 1>> HP: 0/150  | DMG: 70 (35 min) | MIT 20
<<Flying Monkey 2>> HP: 0/150 | DMG: 70 (35 min) | MIT 20
<<Flying Monkey 3>> HP: 0/150 | DMG: 70 (35 min) | MIT 20
<<Flying Monkey 4>> HP: 111/150 (-1) | DMG: 70 (35 min) | MIT 20 | [BLD: 12/2 turns]