Orvilla

"Then stop giving yourself all the responsibility, not like there's hundreds upon hundreds of other players who also can't deal with some of it ya dink." Giving him a playful punch she looking around the area for the gathering spot that would hopefully provide the last material she need to collect before she could head back to the NPC and create the singing crystals and become a Preformer. 

As she was wondering along the riverbank she hear a small ding, noticing that she had received a message seeing it was a friend request from Freyd. "Just promise to work on it around me, be a little more jolly." Smiling happily as she accepted the request, adding Freyd to her friends list. Turning around she stumbled upon another gathering spot, collecting it she pulled out the last material they needed. "Well should we get going then?" Orvilla was ready to finish this quest and get to making her crystals.

Orvilla walked up to Freyd standing on tips of her toes to pat his head softly before creating a distance once again running her hands through the river to search for more material. "Eh, it wasn't anything special I just worked behind the counter of a petrol station, not the most glamourous position I know. But it paid for my hobby and my weird fashion sense!" She laughed nervously before going to scratch her hair, her fingers getting caught in the multiple knots that filled it. "Ack stupid hair, I really need to brush this mop" Forcing her hand free, she went back to the task at hand.

"You seem like a chill person in real life though, I'm sure if you dropped the edgy act now and then you could be pretty well off" Orvilla pulled out another of the material. "Hey, would you look at that! We should be done soon!" 

"Uh ha, yeah I'm still there, been there longer than I can remember. I guess it's my own fault though, I never was the most adoptable kid" Laughing nervously she turned away digging through the stones once again, trying to make the conversation seem more casual rather than painful. "The workers there though are really nice, I kinda consider them to be my parents. They helped give me the funds for the Nervegear and SAO. Though! I was able to pay for most of it through my job, which I'm probably not gonna have when we're free" Orvilla dropped her head once again, it wasn't the easiest for her to stay positive when talking about her own situation.

"How about you? What's your real-life deal?" As she waited for his response Orvilla found another gathering spot going through it quickly soon finding another piece of the materials she needs for the crystal. Showing it happily to Freyd before shoving it in her inventory.

Orvilla held the crystal in her hands looking nervously out at the field, it wasn't looking good for them. Val wasn't able to attack and Chase was risking more than he probably should have, but what could she do her weapons wouldn't even scratch the queen or hell even the minions. All she could do was watch helplessly from the sidelines "Be careful Chase! No need to take unnecessary risks, if you go down we're all kinda fucked!" Her encouraging words weren't so encouraging but she was trying as much as she could in her current condition.

Heading over the Val, Orvilla guarded him as he rested, she couldn't do damage but she could at least try and defend him from taking any fatal attacks. "How long until you can attack again?" She asked nervously, though admittedly trying to act a little cool in front of the other player by forcing a smile.

"Gimme the word and I'll active the crystal" Orvilla shouted from the sidelines, she had accepted her role as a support for now, as much as she hated it. Looking up at the queen bee filled her with a sense of dread that this really wasn't a game anymore, that for all intents and purposes that huge bug was the very thing that could end her life if she wasn't careful to avoid it. Heading around the arena she watched carefully as Val and Chase fought the bees. 

"Those two are strange but they fight really well together" Thinking to herself neglected to keep out her own guard jumping in fear as one of the bee minions flew past her, though it didn't throw an attack luckily. "How's it going, guys? These bees are starting to get agitated I think." The queen was the main threat to all of them especially after the complete lack of damage Val did to it.

"I don't know how to get better gear and I can't afford it either" Orvilla threw her sword down into the dirt, either as a sign of a threat to the player or a sign of her frustration with him. Catching the Ovule she quickly placed it into her inventory. It took all her strength not jab him through the heart, but sadly he was stronger than her, pulling her sword out from the dirt she soon sheathed it back where it belonged, the eyes on the handle no longer they're usual purple shade but rather a deep orange. Turning towards Damien the wolf faced girl pointed up at him and spoke, her voice like seeping like acid.  "You have my thanks for now. But know this I don't forget people who have annoyed me and you sir have annoyed me more than you could ever know" Pulling her hand away she turned to leave the forest not saying another word to him and not acknowledging his existence any more. 

Orvilla had spent the last few days wandering through the different floors, crossing the vast mountains of the second floor enjoying the beautiful summits and long sunrises and sunsets. Scouring through the dense forests of the third floor listening to the ambience of Aincrads less hostile wildlife. As she made it to the fourth floor she enjoyed the chilling breezes and snow-filled land that reminded her so much of home. Though the next few floors weren't as pleasant, the fifth floor forcing her to cross a vast desert with little water, the sixth being nothing but danger that could have ended her at the moments notice. The seventh and eighth floor offered a quick break though not long enough for her to enjoy as she was soon plunged into the fiery inferno of the ninth floor. The soot-filled air made it hard to breathe as she rushed through it feeling her boots melt and her coat be burnt as she travelled. 

Now reaching the tenth-floor Orvilla realised, she was tired, very very tired. Almost collapsing at the entrance of the tenth floor she rested herself down on the mossy rocks that made up the cliff that she was sat on. Her rest though was suddenly interrupted by a small old gipsy "Wake up child! This is no place to rest! Unless you wish to be ripped apart by beasts. And look at you sleeping without anything to guard you! How did you even make it here!" Orvilla looked up at the NPC yawning heavily, that small bit of sleep was the only bit she had her whole journey and she certainly didn't appreciate it "I just didn't...sleep" She soon began to nod off the pleasant atmosphere of the tenth floor drawing her into slumber "Take my advice child! Get a beast to guard you before you nap so casually. Take this and go train a beast of your own" Placing some food in Orvilla's hand the gipsy soon left, leaving the slumbering green-haired girl. Orvilla had heard the gipsy's advice but could not muster any more energy to follow it dropping back to sleep softly.

Orvilla stared back at the little creature with a much-increased interest, after all, how could she not when something as cute as that was staring her down. "Awww! Who's this little guy? He's so frickin' cute!" Rushing up to the other player she immediately went to petting the little familiar, though she wasn't really sure how much it would like it she assumed that because of it's lit up the body the creature would be somewhat happy about it. Giving it a little scratch under the chin before backing up, trying not to overwhelm it.

"I always wanted a little pet like that but I wasn't allowed one back in the orphanage, takes up to much room which is fair I suppose." Orvilla went back to searching through the river bank for the materials for the crystals finding a few more spread about gathering spots. Though not finding a single bit of material, lacking even the ones she didn't even need. "Ah yeah, just my luck."

"Huh? Oh 'er, how do I use this?" Orvilla shook the crystal in her hand investigating it, which yes was embarrassing to show how little knowledge she had of the game she was trapped in. Shrugging she popped it into her inventory for safekeeping while they headed deeper towards the boss "So exactly how much SP does this queeny drop?" As she spoke Orvilla began to tie her hair back shaping it into what looked like a braid, though with a clear noose shape at the end, "Cause I'm ready to fight some Bee booty!" 

Amping herself up Orvilla was ready to rush in and attack though she didn't as she was only supporting in this time, she thought that maybe amping herself up would have the same effect on the others, smiling brightly though it wasn't very apparent under her large mask. "I'll try my best even if I'm at such a low level."

"It's Or-Vil-A, how hard is it to pronounce my name right?!" It was true Orvilla was way to low level to even consider doing this quest, though it was not her first fight these enemies were way above her weight class, hoping back allowing Valentine to land the final blow she watched as the bee minions burst apart letting out a horrid screech, their internal fluids bursting out before they quickly turned to dust and became little more than XP and loot for the party to collect.

"I was not prepared to fight these guys at all, maybe I should go and let you guys handle it." Orvilla laughed nervously as she was completely ready to leave this quest behind opting for a less deadly quest instead. Turning away from the battlefield she could easily abandon the party and run, but it was against her nature to do so even if she couldn't help it felt wrong abandoning these guys.

Orvilla wasn't happy about Chase picking her up like that but quickly dropped it, pulling out her sword and readying herself to avoid any incoming attacks from the wasps, unfortunately for her one smack from these things could mean game over forever. Dodging at extreme speeds was her speciality being so small meant that attacks would often miss her just by happenstance. "Got it! I'll keep my eye out for any more wasps that may try anything stupid!" Speeding over to Val she quickly guarded along with him allowing Chase to take on the bulk of the wasp 

"Nice to meet you by the way names-" Orvilla was quickly cut off by one of the wasps trying to land a hit causing her to roll out of the way. Why was it then whenever she had to fight mobs it was the ones that could send her to the grave with a single hit, breathing heavily she kept her vision strong watching for more incoming attacks.

Running back into the fight Orvilla charged at the Nepent Variant hoping to land a quick attack on the monster and finish it off with a quick blow to the side of its head, jumping in the air Orvilla pulled her cutlass from its sheath getting ready to attack before quickly have to charge her path as the monster tried to knock her out of the sky, it was a lot quicker than the other ones she had battled before, and could easily take her out if she was careful. "Hey! Let me kill it!" 

Swinging around the monsters attacks, she charged back into it once again this time going for the strike, landing the attack into its side she plunged the sword into the core of its body make sure to turn the blade before pulling away quickly making the distance to dodge any attacks it could throw if it survived. It did, as it releases a horrific screech the monster began to swing it large vines over at Orvilla attacking as though it was out for blood. Orvilla jumped back noticing the other player.

Breathing heavily Orvilla looked at Damien glaring at him, "Why'd you come back! I can easily kill it, I thought you didn't want anything to do with me!" Shoving him roughly the green-haired girl was clearly furious.

"Uhhhh! Not amazing to be honest, we've only found one out of the five materials we need. My luck is usually better than this I apologise" Orvilla laughed nervously before turning away to keep digging for the material she needed. It wasn't Freyd fault but the lack of progressive hit Orvilla's mentally deep, as she dug through the rocks she felt worthless not being able to even find a single material, let alone being able to craft a recording crystal for the nice lady she was helping.

Noticing that she had started to think like that she slapped herself shaking her head trying to get back to a more positive mentality, looking for the material she found a sparkling grouping of rocks, hoping this would add to the materials, smiling brightly she pulled out the material she needed. "Make that two out of the five we need!" Smiling happily she placed it in her inventory for safekeeping.

"Great job! Proud of you!" Orvilla shouted over to Recon waving the plant that they needed, one hoping he had made sure to pull up the right plant, but she assumed he would know what the plant was when the game told him so, making sure to place the material into her inventory she began searching once again while doing so she looked out at the large valley that made up the majority of the first floor. It was hard to believe how beautiful this place was even if it was all virtual.

"I'm going to look over here!" Orvilla walked around for another spot to gather from looking for the bright spots that showed where the plants would be located, finding one she jumped down to start gatherings digging through the plants happily. Grabbing the plants she needed she placed them into her inventory smiling happily before realising her mask was still off pulling it back over her face.

ID# 176585 results | Loot: 19

"Of course you have to do it too dummy! You can't get a reward for doing nothing at all!" Orvilla tapped the player on the chest with the back of her hand before turning away and running out into the field she was in previously looking for more glowing spots, the problem with the mask she had fixed to her face was that it made her peripheral vision less effective at spotting the distant sparkles that made up the signals for spots that could be gathered meaning that she had to turn her head much more than most. Deciding to lift it off her face for a little bit she could easily spot a small cluster of them off in the distance, jogging over to them she began to dig through the shrubbery. 

ID# 174290 results | LD: 16 | 1/5 Materials gathered

Hitting the jackpot on the material pulling out some material that could most definitely be used for Zackiriahs potion lesson "Found some material! We'll be done before you know it!"

Going up to reach her mask running her fingers on the snout of it, she just thought about why she did wear this mask "Oh I just like it! And since the game basically forced us all to take the look like what we actually look like in real life I might as try to keep some privacy, even though I still show my face off pretty commonly" Laughing to herself slightly she crawled out of the water shaking the water out of her hair and clothes the best she could, of course, they would easily dry over time with the constant nice weather of the first floor. 

Looking around the bank of the water digging through the pebbles Orvilla looked around for the few shiny spots that she had noticed earlier on, having absolutely no luck with any of them providing anything of merit. Kicking one of the pebbles she decided to keep looking.

"What a dick, though he is right, I can't fight this mob on my own I could barely take down one of the regular ones, how am I supposed to beat something much stronger on my own." Sitting down under one of the many trees she stared up at the clear skies of the first floor, not really caring about the obvious danger of relaxing in a spot where powerful mobs could spawn in at any second.

In the corner of her eye, she soon noticed a figure moving around  "Come to apologise have you?" It was rare for her to be sarcastic, hell it was rare for her to be negative to anyone but herself, though the cocky attitude she had soon dropped as she noticed that it wasn't the asshole player from before but the exact mob she needed to slay, "Aww dammit!" Hopping up early she sped away to create some distance from it looking at a way to fight it.

Orvilla wasn't sure why she was even attempting this quest, it was borderline suicide for a player of her level to fight such strong enemies, but it would certainly help her level, after all, she couldn't make it to the frontlines just by doing gather quests. Looking out at the insects Orvilla paced anxiously biting at her fingernails trying her best to fight the urge to run "This is such a stupid idea, I'll be like a puppy in a lion's den in there, except there is no chance that those bugs are gonna think I'm cute and raise me as their own like some cute online video!" She kept ranting to herself anxiously, it was the only thing keeping her from actually going down there to face the creatures.

Looking around her immediate area she searched for players that could help her, it wouldn't be bad to ask a higher level to help, they could one-shot creatures like this, or at least she hoped that would be the case.

"It's not my fault I'm so low level! That's why I'm doing these quests so I can level up and fight on my own more reliably." Punching a nearby tree she gritted her teeth slightly as the sting of doing so spread across her knuckles, it was stupid sure but it really was the only way to vent out her frustration at the time. "Fine! You wanna go look for your stupid herbs or whatever then go! I'll go fight that stupid plant on my own." Orvilla shouted before speeding off from the other player heading deeper into the forest ready to take down any mob that she came across, why should she have to rely on some idiot when she knew she could fight even if her damage numbers weren't the highest around.

Soon entering the heart of the forest she looked around for the mob she needed to take down, still showing no means of appearing, regular Nepents would show every now and then but Orvilla only sped past them trying not to attract attention.

Looking up at Recon she was confused at why he wasn't gathering the material as well, he did need to complete the quests as well after all. "Ah sorry about that, I was just excited to finally get started in this game and these lessons seem like they may take a while so might as well to get a jogging start" As she spoke she noticed a glowing spot start to form just behind him "Hey! Look over there another gathering spot! Why don't you go harvest that one, you need to collect the materials as well you know; I'll check around here again I'm sure there's another spot hiding around in all this grass" 

Digging through the tall vegetation she soon came across another small glimmering patch on the ground quick heading over to loot it for the healing plants that were needed. 

ID 174015 | LD: 6   0/5 materials gathered

Once again the spot did not provide anything of use to her, sighing she stood back head to check if Recon had any more luck than her.

"Wait you're leaving? I thought we were doing an I help you out, you help me out kinda deal?" Orvilla followed the player through the forest as she looked for the variant Nepent that she needed to kill to beat this quest "I can still help you look for the spices you need! I'm sure we can russle them up from somewhere around here?" It wasn't that Orvilla was desperate to help the player, she could clearly fight after all, but the fear of not having someone with her as she was about to go after a much stronger mob than her sent anxiety through her soul.

"And it works, don't it? I can hit hard and I can avoid any attack that comes flying out at me with my little hop" It didn't take before her self doubting thoughts crept in, this was the first time she was being abandoned in the game by another player, the memories of all the children leaving her as they got adopted while she was left behind. Letting out a sad sigh she turned around "I guess it's annoying to fight along with a newbie, having to watch out for me all the time and not focus on yourself. It's ok I understand I wouldn't wanna be around me either" That is what she would say but even she was above such a guilt-tripping misery.

"You take this awfully serious, where's the harm in having fun! You can just run around carefree for a little bit." Orvilla's voice was very relaxed for someone who could be easily killed by even the weakest mobs in the game, even now she showed no worry floating around on the surface of the water taking in the sun not even stressing about how soggy her clothes were getting the longer she spent in the water. "And personally I'm not the one to judge someone by their appearance, I mean look at me! I'm wearing a dead wolf's skull on my face, my hair is far from a natural colour and I dress like someone from the eighteen-hundreds!" 

Dropping back under the water she went to search at the bottom once again looking around the shining spots that would eventually give her a recording crystal, noticing one just under the pressure from the waterfall digging it up but finding nothing that would be useable quickly swimming back to the surface for air.

"I was doing them! I just got decided to take a break in between them that's al-" Orvilla was cut off mid-sentence as the Nepent swung out its vines attempting to strike at her, though because of her constant movement on the spot she was able to quickly dip out of the way spinning her body around like a ballerina before slashing down at the same vine that attempted to hit her, severing it from the plant and crushing under her boot before giggling sweetly.

"It's a shame they just fade out like this, I bet they'd make a pretty good salad" Laughing once again at her own little joke she sheathed her sword under her coat, walking back over to Daemien "So Maxxy what are we supposed to do now? Cause I was supposed to get medicine from a variant of these guys but doesn't seem like it was around to play"

"I am! Don't worry this isn't the first time I've handled a sword! I'm still sharp when it comes to technic just not combat" Even though Orvilla came off as distracted by the other player's comments, as well as allowing herself to banter in response with him, she would not allow a single hit from the Nepton's vine-like appendages to land a hit on her.  Soon charging back into combat swinging at the plant, unfortunately, missing her target by a few centimetres and flying past it turning back around and glaring through her masks at the plant "Dang it! I was so close too! Ugh, why do they have to be so viney!"

Hopping on the spot she noticed the last Nepton that had yet to be hit deciding to focus on both of them instead of attacking one at a time formulating a plan of attack in her head as she kept her guard up ready to dodge and defend from any incoming attacks that may fly her way.

"Oh! So those are Nepents, they're not what I imagined at all when talking about a plant mob, I always thought they are like those plants from that old platformer game" Before she got any more distracted Orvilla shook her head and got ready to attack speeding towards the plants with her cutlass drawn and ready, though before reaching them hopping up and kicking off a tree sending herself flying above the Nepents, giving her the chance to stab down into one of them twisting her blade pointing down directly at the head of the Nepton.

ID# 173526 results: Battle:7

Stabbing into it she hit it deep with her blade, laughing almost manically as she felt it dig into the unsuspecting creature, but not long enough before pulling the blade out jumping down from it and rolling through the grass standing up quickly ready for the retaliation from the monstrous plant no doubt angered by the surprise attack.