Xena

It was a unusual day, one of which Xena wouldn't soon forget, a notification displayed on her hood from the Greek God if lightning, undoubtedly a quest line. One she didn't think she should have, the tigress pulled her hood down as she read the letter, it was one of a dozen letters sent out to players, the gods called. And they seemed talent. Funny, Xena hadn't even finished her shop completely, sighing she quickly grabbed a bag of materials off her counter, the event activation was in about 2 hours and it was all the way on floor 17. Maybe a bit more leeway would of been nice, the fur hood blew in the wind as a tiger like tail followed in a straight line behind her. Xena had most knowledge of floor 6's structure so she had no issues reaching the warp pad. The issue was floor 17, she had never been there before and that could spell trouble. As the warp pad activated Xena found herself on floor 17. 11 floors higher then she's yet dared to go Thankfulky the immediate area was a safe zone, about 8 other players were in the area clearly summoned via the same quest but all of different leagues. She had no mind to interupt, opening the menu she was supposed to find a Satyr of which had a way point on the map. Xena briskly walked that way. Maybe this would be over faster then she thought, its only been 45 minutes sense she got the mail. She had no idea what was about to await her but it's likely to be a extremely interesting and difficult selection of challenges thats how these quests tended to go.

Xena had sighed, she supposed there was no avoiding it. She was in too deep now, and the euphoria being pet seemed to of given her clouded her judgement. "I go by a few... Tigress... some call me The Tiger Lady... but my name, the one my friend calls me, is Xena..." She didn't expect any of them to know the name at all. She was but a small info broker and performer. "And you... if from what I've heard and can deduce correctly is right... you're the Red Wanderer... aren't you?" She tilted her head looking up at him, a gaze much of innocence in her eyes, innocence and curiosity, for once dropping her guard, and trusting these strangers, she just had hoped it wouldn't turn out to bite her. She felt a small breeze blow through the corridors of this labyrinth, it was a somewhat reassuring feeling one of relaxation and safety. Her clawed gauntlets laid softly at her sides. "Its a shame that the first time I met you it was like this." She stated with a small smile, as if honored to meet him, but also untrustworthy regardless, after all. Even the best of the Frontline, had killed at least one player. Maybe more then one, it was likely why she was so afraid of people in the first place, they can kill her the slightest whim. "It would seem what rumors made it to the first floor though, were untrue, your a much kinder figure then they intale..." She had finished her rambling being redirected into lala land from the head rubs, she felt like she could stay like this for a long time, but she doubted there would be such time.

Her head did try to move back again as he went to touch them. It was weird, almost like she could feel them being touched, they twitched a bit under the gardeners soft hand, Xena herself felt calmed by the touching in fact, though she certainly still didn't enjoy the group she was a part of. She didnt make any noises but did close her eyes, the cat tail behind her seemed to just curl now dropped downwards. Her head tilted somewhat towards the hand as this went on. "You'd pull them because some people are mean... but you probably already know more then I could ever need to explain about that..." Her voice had changed its tone, far less aggressive or oppositional it actually sounded rather calmed. In truth shes only been pet at most twice and enjoyed it, this being the second time. All other times it was without permission and it lead to quite the situations. It was often even worse when the tail got involved. But that's something she doesn't want to remember. Regardless her entire body seemed to melt a bit the words Raidou spoke going in one ear and out the other 

Xena continued listening to their conversation until she was brought up, she never did reveal her name so it was difficult to even refer to her, but she could pretty easily tell when they were talking about her, her tail waved silently back and forth behind her as she leaned against the labyrinth wall a good 4-5 feet away from the group, keeping her distance for obvious reasons she could assume they'd understand. Nari had began speaking to her, she very evidently wasn't a fan of their words. "And this is why I try to do things alone..." Simply muttering to herself, in all likelihood all 3 of them heard her, she wasn't be that quiet. It wasn't until perhaps a minute later after Nari stopped talking that Raidou had chipped in, walking closer to her, the cat very clearly had a air of awkwardness combined with their own suspensions and distrusted towards the group. It wasn't until he reached a hand out towards her that she physically flinched her head backwards away from the hand, the ears very clearly twitching nervously from the close encounter. Raidou thankfully realized he was about to activate the Anti-Harrasment code or whatever was supposed to protect people from being suddenly touched by the opposite gender. Looking at him her eyes gave a sense of extreme distrust and worry but with a sigh she simply mumbled. "Fine whatever... just don't pull on em it'll hurt..." Stating as if it's already happened before Xena slowly moved her head back to where it was. She didn't like people touching her and this would likely turn out extremely weird.

Another day another attempt at making more songs, today felt off though, as if everything was going to go wrong, it seems that feeling was right as when Xena began crafting both crystals simply shattered in her hands, one of which she hadn't even closed her hand with yet, what hell is that luck. She decided it may be a better idea to try again tomorrow, today lady luck seems to be saying fuck you. Plopping back onto her sleeping bag she wondered if this was even worth it, she's made one sale, at least it was extremely profitable. Maybe she should import her info selling business into this shop as well.

Crafting Failed (+ 4 EXP)

203670 CD 9 LD 2

203669 CD 2

Familiar Obtainment Thread
Familiar Name
Amber
Familiar Description
A small tiger cub, their fur is a mixture of orange and black with tufts of white. Their eyes are a bright ocean blue.
Familiar Image

Xena had heard the bat before they even entered, it wasn't exactly quiet. Hopping backwards with a bit of a flip as it went for its dive attack on snow she didn't attack, snow wanted to draw aggro first and who was Xena to not let her. "I hope you know what your doing..." She simply commented quickly looking around the cave for the child with no sign of them they'd have to kill this bat first before they could actually scout the area. The bat seemed content moving around the area and attacking snow so Xena stood at the cave entrance, maybe she could get them to fly into the light. Would help  them see as currently the only light they had was thankfully the light shining into the cave. "Is it just me or do they really like you?" She joked seeing how the bat was preoccupied by the blonde. "If possible trying hitting it in the wing, i'm not sure if this creature works like the real one but if you know out even one of its wings it shouldn't be able to fly right?" She asked with sound logic, except for the fact this was a video game not real life, but there was always the chance a real world thing would of made it into SAO, so many other things had so why not that.

• Shop Post: 
• Transaction Date: 2/12/2022
• Cost of Transaction: 1 Material
• Crafter's Profession: Performer
• Crafter's Rank: 1
• Item Name: Relic Song
• Item Tier: 1
• Item Type: Support Song
• Item Rarity:  Rare
• Item Enhancements: HP Recovery 2
• Craft/Appraisal/Obtainment IDs & Rolls: 203643 CD 11
• Item Description: A calm song one of the Relic's of the past, infused into a melody that heals the soul.

Picking up some materials she sighed setting them on the table and just flopping on the pillow she had for a chair. She rubbed her eyes her tail curling around on the floor behind her. "Man me being this tired is gonna flunk this crafting ain't it..." She mumbled taking two the crystals standing up, with a yawn she began to sing a soft melody, one of her palms however accidentally tightened to much cracking the crystal in it making it useless, whatever. The other crystal seems to of been enchanted just fine. Glowing a soft blue holding it to her eyes it was a rare, better then nothing atleast.


Crafting failed & succeeded:
203642 CD 8 (Failed) (+2 EXP)
203643 CD 11 (Rare) (+5 EXP)

Xena sighed coming above ground to the counter placing a small package on the counter with the name 'Monarch' inscribed on the top, should it be opened a flawless recording crystal was placed inside, laying down it was encased in foam to prevent scratches. Going back downstairs Xena sighed to herself flopping on her sleeping bag yawning. She wanted to sleep but she had work to do, damnit. Why couldn't she just sleep SAO away, rubbing her face in the pillow she sat up walking over to the materials, maybe crafting again would be a useful waste of time. She didn't have anything better to do.

Order up 'Monarch'
 

• Item Name: Swan Song
• Item Tier: 1
• Item Type: Support Song
• Item Rarity:  Perfect
• Item Enhancements: Familiar's Sight
• Craft/Appraisal/Obtainment IDs & Rolls: 203615 CD 12
• Item Description: A calm song with very little in the way of intensity, but all the same moving.

Xena's eye's had only finally gazed up when she felt the hug like grab behind her, holy shit that was a lot of big cats. With mild panic as she was forced to fall backwards the world just, turned to void somewhat, Xena had never had the pleasure of using a corridor crystal before, they were a tad out of her price range at this moment. Simply hugging the small tiger cub the world seemed to shift and change, almost sporadically as it suddenly came to a normal vision, that of the tree line and the sky behind it, the only issue was about 2 seconds in the started getting further away, and Xena realized they were falling. "Uh oh-" She merely had the time to muttered before impact came, and it wasn't a soft one, not for Freyd at least, despite the moss that mostly broke the fall Xena herself would likely be like a gut punch to him, she herself wasn't hurt, not until a sudden and constant shriek started hurting her ears, which for the first time she let go of the cub covering them quickly, it didn't seem to help seems she wasn't used to the sound of NPC's losing their shit, which would be immediately noticeable as she just straight up screamed, or more shrieked in her own way. "OI SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOUR HURTING MY FUCKING EARS YOU DAFT ASS HOLE." Loud enough to disturb the birds in the tree's causing them to fly away, if anyone else was near them they would fucking more then know of their presence now. Xena stopping her own screaming just looked at the gypsy who had now thankfully shut up with a burning anger, though it was more directed at the sound she was making rather then her herself. "Please... never do that again in my presence." Her request was simple enough, she held out the bag of treats returning it to the gypsy who took it somewhat hesitantly not wanting to get mauled by the tiger girl who was clearly extremely agitated due to the shrieking. After taking it the gypsy walked off vanishing off screen after picking up her jewelry, Xena just plopped to the ground rubbing her ears up and down as a insistent ringing was burning in them, her tiger cub came over resting on her lap giving her a small smile as she rubbed its head now with one hand.



Ghost treat returned to Freyd.
 

Xena wasn't exactly paying attention rubbing and patting the smol ball of fluff, she had managed to tame it after actually getting closer to it, having picked it up she feels a tug on her cloaks hood pulling it off having her tiger ears pop out as the rather large amount of tigers is brought to her attention, she didn't even look scared she looked like she wanted to pet them, that wasn't until Freyd practically began to drag her out of there. "Wait but the kittiesssss!" Xena simply stated watching them shrink further away, she was holding a ball of floof in her arms though so she was happy being dragged rather quickly by the hood of her cloak her boots dug into the ground as Xena simply hugged the small creature, this could be a problem is a single kitten distracted her this much. "It's so cuuuuuuuuuuuute!" Xena simply stated giggling before being plopped on her butt as the tigers were incredibly far out of range. She still continued to cuddle the adorable tiger cub who seemed rather tame.

Xena successfully tamed a familiar:
203631 CD 12

Xena shrugged, her opinion was her own, and so was there's, there was a respect in that. "Can't say i understand your connection too NPC's, a few of my acquaintances feel the same towards them, pitying them and all that. But, you can't feel bad for someone in a preprogrammed loop, that kind of worry will melt at your mind." It was a bit of free advice from her, she wasn't that high of a level but she had a decent idea of what happened to the mind under amounts of stress, some turn to insanity, like quite a few players in this game. "Promised a friend huh? Heh, something about that's familiar." She said as she thought about one of her guy friends, she only had one really but they were her best friend at this point. Her only friend effectively, but she didn't really need any more, no need to drag them down with her after all. "Well... Your too kind snow, honestly." Xena shrugged basically saying yeah sure they can do the quest together. "If there was more people like you in this world maybe we'd be out of this by now." Xena said this knowing she herself was no sheep, but she wasn't a wolf either, a nice in between, where morality is greyed out. And the stress isn't as bad as it normally would be. "Just, try not to die, I'm sure it won't be a problem for you though." Stating that the lady had opened her menu activating a way point, seems that would be where they were going, Xena nodded following behind the lady. She was either so strong she didn't need to worry or she was just that innocent, either way Xena didn't want to fight her at all so she was fine either way. 

"Well duh that's kind of why I picked it." Xena seemed to be just trying to ignore everything that just happened as she looked off into the treeline. "Although, I don't appreciate the teasing about me liking tigers." She simply commented in a pouty tone, she crossed her arms facing him now. "So, your the person with the searching skills, you wanna help me look for one or not heh." As she stated that she looked up at the mongoose giving the two the creep eye. "By they way i think your pet may be hungry, they've got that kind of look in their eyes." Stating that she looked back towards you, her tail was now shifting back and forth behind her from leg to leg, she just was happy now, which she was happy to feel so. She hadn't felt this happy in a while, maybe she should vent like that more. Turning her head she began walking into the jungle whether or not Freyd followed was up to him, he could most likely find her with little to no effort if he wanted. It took her about 5 minutes to actually find any familiars, she wasn't aware she needed to actually hold out the treat for them to spawn around her, surprisingly it was exactly what she was looking for, a small adorable and fluffy Tiger cub. Trying not to gawk at it and die from cuteness she just slowly went to offer it a treat. They didn't seem to notice her beginning to walk off which Xena looked a tad defeated by such action, quietly following the cub she'd try again soon.

Taming attempt failed:
203627 CD 7+1 = 8

Xena had kept her line of thought together as she had listened too the girl, supposedly she reminded this lady of something, could just be a mistake who knows. She shouldn't press for details though, with a shrug she nodded. "Can't say i've met anyone lookin like me."  She turned her sight for a moment hearing the grass around them moving, it was a lovely sound. Turning back to find snow in her menu a spear had appeared next to her, it was rather ornate and flashy, not the kind of thing you'd find Xena dead with. "Bit of a eye dragger ain't it?" She commented not meaning any harm simply asking a point, the spear would draw the eye of lots of money grubbing orange players. As they commented how they rarely had it out and about Xena shrugged, that was a incredibly dangerous choice but, she supposed if the area's friendly like this place is it was fine. "I can see how that would be a issue, i wouldn't even be able to hold that thing steady." In all likely hood if she tried it would cause more issues then anything possible. Certain weapons just aren't meant for certain people, and people of Xena's stature would better rely on Knives or in Xena's preference claws. Then the most peculiar request came about, she wanted to help. "You wanna help eh, didn't ya say you already did this quest? What's innit for you?"  She asked rather innocently, it was often that a player would help if there was something in it for them, so the question in Xena's mind was what did snow get out of this besides a chance at death if things went bad. She was a great deal higher leveled then Xena but. She simply shrugged and replied with. "I mean, I won't deny help, just I can't really do anything for ya in return for it." Xena held her hands on her hip looking over the player, they were a healer huh, as well as a aggro drawer, two rolls that are incredibly important in floor boss clearing. Though not usually seen in the same person ever, it was a interesting conundrum. "Then again, not every treasure is silver and gold is it?" Her tone when she said that was somewhat mischievous though in a general sense not specified towards anyone. Xena had her own stock pile of goods, not a large one but it was enough to keep her going, and not even a portion of it was silver or gold. Though she was more then aware that the two commodities existed in this game, rare as they be they were occasionally used to make weapons much like snows spear here. A golden accent and a silver looking pole, it was pretty, and that's what would draw thieves or orange players eyes towards it.

Xena's cheeks did grow a bit rosy as he mentioned the ears, she had been doing her best not to even make them noticeable though with her hood coming off and on so often it didn't really matter. One of them twitched the second they were even mentioned which Xena shrugged. "I was, planning to see if there was any tiger cub familiars, I doubt it but." She simply shrugged it off, turning away. If it would be anywhere it would be in a jungle, that was her line of thought. "I don't think familiars can go past a certain size sadly, heh I'd kill to have a nice big tiger as my familiar, it'd be so fluffy." She had seemed to start day dreaming about just hugging a big tiger petting it constantly the whole usually thing you do when you first get a pet, in real life it'd likely get her killed unless it was at the Zoo which she didn't have any near her in the real word. "So I'll settle for a cub, they'd be just as fluffy just smaller." She giggled for once showing a extremely girlish side of herself, fawning over how cute a baby cat would be. She was looking away from Freyd at this point walking forward slightly her tiger like tail shifting back and forth behind her under her cloak. Finally snapping back to reality though she immediately turned back. "M-metaphorically of course, I wouldn't actually kill someone for a pet tiger." Her voice didn't seem genuine but it also didn't seem completely ingenuine, it'd likely depend on the situation. Her rosy cheeks rather quickly went back to normal as she just whistled awkwardly putting her arms behind her back.

Crafting

• Shop Post: 
• Transaction Date: 2/12/2022
• Cost of Transaction: 1 Material
• Crafter's Profession: Performer
• Crafter's Rank: 1
• Item Name: Swan Song
• Item Tier: 1
• Item Type: Support Song
• Item Rarity:  Perfect
• Item Enhancements: Familiar's Sight
• Craft/Appraisal/Obtainment IDs & Rolls: 203615 CD 12
• Item Description: A calm song with very little in the way of intensity, but all the same moving.
   
• Shop Post: 
• Transaction Date: 2/12/2022
• Cost of Transaction: 1 Material
• Crafter's Profession: Performer
• Crafter's Rank: 1
• Item Name: Discovery
• Item Tier: 1
• Item Type: Support Song
• Item Rarity:  Uncommon
• Item Enhancements: Monster's Fortune
• Craft/Appraisal/Obtainment IDs & Rolls: 203614 CD 10
• Item Description: A song much like a sirens, drawing out item's from monsters that couldn't be seen before.

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"Whelp, lets try this again."
Xena had awoken from her sleep in the bag in the corner of the basement, coming back up to find a order she took it down and just tried to craft a perfect crystal, if she could do that she could infuse the song wanted into it, but that was the issue, she didn't entirely know how to work with crystals yet, and so getting a perfect recording crystal would be its own pain in the ass.

Holding two crystals in each hand and singing a melody she had came up with both of her hands glowed as the crystals inside them changed, one had had a perfect recording crystal in it the other a uncommon, progress. 

Crafting Success
203615 CD 12 (Perfect) (+ 8 EXP)
203614 CD 10 (Uncommon) (+ 3 EXP)

Xena just stood there, her legs clearly still shaking. "You're... you're just too kind..." After commenting that she signed softly removing a gauntlet and rubbing her eyes with her cloth sleeve. She finally calmed down, but this just didn't feel right anymore. "Thank... thank you for putting up with that..." Xena had sighed pulling hood down, looking over at Freyd, slowly walking over she simply hugged him. "I'm glad you find me worth while..." She stated softly, she didn't want to make him accidentally fall off the tree stump so she let go after about 5 seconds. She pulled her hood back up looking too the side. "We should probably continue moving, I just wasted like a hour of your time because of this..." As she stated that she offered a hand, to help him get up, the hand that had sense had its gauntlet removed, you could take this as symbolism of her dropping her guard now. She certainly felt she could trust Freyd with her life after all this, though she was even more curious now what Freyd had been through, she never met a player named marv she didn't even really know many people in general, most clients never stayed to chat so it was always business business business. Xena simply wanted to try and have a good time with Freyd now, try to avoid all the heart ache and stress. Maybe once this quest was done they could go to a tavern or something and catch eachother up on their lives. Of course that was if Freyd had the time, she wasn't entirely sure of what his schedule looked like, but he made the time to come out here so, it was nice at least. Having a friend who would drop everything to come make sure she was ok, she hadn't even had a friend like that in the real world. 

Staying a decent distance from everyone for her own safety Xena scratched her head quietly as the group talked, she didnt typically enjoy being called cute, she was very certain almost no one did, she glared at nari for their commentd as the ears twitched slightly on her head causing her too scratch them pulling a small black book out of her cloak, she decided to mind her own business and not eavesdrop on the trios conversation, they seemed to be friends after all. Standing at least 7rl feet from the group she had wrote a few things quickly into the book with a quill before it snapped shut and vanished it was only now she noticed Raidou staring at her. "Is something wrong?..." She asked tilting her head a tiny bit with mild Concern, he hadn't looked at her for basically this entire quest, why was he staring at her now. She had a uneasy feeling and it made her want to run. But this area was extremely dangerous for her level and she didn't know if the minotaur respawned, so she'd have to ride whatever was going on out. Xena slowly shyed away even more from the group however, she felt like they were staring daggers into her despite only Raidou looking at her to her knowledge. Leaning against a wall of the labyrinth she didn't really know what else to do. Her arms held eachother the clawed fingers of the gauntlets digging slightly into the cloth shirt she wore, the cloak draped over them, there was no wind here, it echoed like crazy and it put Xena in a extremely stressed mood, she was used to the more wild area's of this world, if this was how she faired outside of them how the hell would she deal with a dungeon she wondered to herself. Assuming she even lived long enough to fight in a dungeon, so far she's been carried through this one, which she was grateful for, and she would probably like to thank raidou if she wasn't socially awkward as hell amongst strangers.

Xena certainly began to tear up by this point, she just couldn't understand it, friend or not she had been acting like a terrible person for a good portion of this trip, she just could not understand why he was being so nice. This personality of hers in fact was why she was alone so often, she was a difficult person to be friends with due to her having a rather brash and easily angered personality, and Freyd was actually the only person to take it in strides that she's has met and she just couldn't understand it. "Why... just why are you... Why are you so nice!" She had muttered the first few words before blurting at the last bit. She honestly just couldn't understand why he'd be nice to her, trapped in a game or not she was still just as rude as she was in real life. "Even back then i was just a horrible person too you! I... I left you to fucking die in that fight and you didn't even bat an eye about it when you snuck up on me!" She certainly had begun to vent, and it didn't seem like it would stop, she brought up every point she had that could make him not like her in her eyes, she just wanted to be called a horrible person like she thought she was, she sold info on players that could get them hurt, she had managed to send multiple players out of the safety of the first floor and likely got some of them killed, trying to help them or not. "I didn't even ask what you've went through when we first met back up... I brushed right past it when I should of asked about everything... And now you're here, and your... your nice, your kind, you grew as a person while I haven't changed one bit!" Xena wanted to just run from this situation, like she had back in the boar fight, like she has in every situation that looked negative. But she just couldn't bring herself to do it again, not without getting the words she deserved to hear thrown at her, and she doubted he would. Why was he even being this patient with her, what the hell had he gone through to learn to put up with someone like her for this long. The jungles wind blew through out the small path they had been on blowing her cloak to the side a bit as she just pulled it up looking away, it was at this point tears began to stream down her face but she just stayed completely quiet. She knew tears were a sign of weakness and she didn't want that weakness to show through to him right now. 

Xena seemed to shiver and twitch a tiny bit still coming out of that spasm, she felt the need to apologize despite him saying there was need, she didn't want to upset him anymore then she already had though, or that she thought she had, the entire quest point was honestly null to her at this point, she wanted to just do something fun with Freyd, and this kind of thing wasn't it, but she knew changing the entire day around would lead to issues later. "I-I..." She just stood there thinking, honestly this place was her element, she loved jungles in real life and she loved this floor in general, she had thoughts of maybe even opening a shop here when she got a profession, but that would be later on. "I don't fucking know!..." She just blurted out covering her face with her hands, she didn't mean to swear like that but she did, she could feel the metal against her face, it honestly felt like she just punched herself with how fast she did it. "I just wanted us to have a nice time and just went and blew it!... I've been mean, I've been bratty, and now this happened!..." She simply blurted out into her hands, as if just venting her frustrations, she felt like maybe that'd help and letting Freyd know what was bothering her could likely help him help her. "I just wanted us to have a nice time... and do a quest like we did 2 years ago..." She honestly wanted to just run off at this point, but doing so would of been even more rude, and likely a bigger mistake then the ones she's already made. After about a minute or two she dropped her hands just mumbling quietly. "I'm sorry... I didn't mean to go and make you upset cause of my own problems..." She had a feeling he was upset so she assumed it with speech, if he wasn't well that was just another mistake she's made today. You can add that too the list, her right arm moved holding the left on as she turned her head away from him afraid to even face him, afraid of what he might say despite knowing it'd be something nice, and even then that nice thing probably wouldn't help.

Xena certainly didn't seem amused, she had never seen this girl before and here they were apologizing to her like she had just done something wrong. Xena was a provocative type but she wasn't that harsh, she rather bluntly said. "No worries, just don't tend to like being stared at by strangers, then again the whole Neko thing kind of forces that, Is why I usually keep my hood up." She shrugged one of the two ears twitching before she pulled up the hood, no need to have them just out and about. Someone might grab at them, it's happened before and it caused her to be an orange player for about a week, maybe it wasn't entirely worth the scratch but it sure felt really good. And it didn't really effect her that much, as it was only a scratch at the arm that grabbed at them. She looked over the girl curiously, they appeared unarmed. "You not got a weapon? Or is it one of those 2 handed ones that just kind of appears?" She says that as she's seen 3 great swords appear out of thin air when their users needed them. Too be honest, she wasn't even usually this chatty it was odd for her to be so openly talking to someone, maybe she just didn't want them to feel bad about the misunderstanding. The person identified themselves and Xena shrugged, she didn't typically give her name out willy nilly. "Ehhhh, you can just call me Tigress, no offense i just kind of don't give my name out like that, players with a high search skill only need that to find ya you know." She shrugged as she said that her cloak blowing a bit in the wind that brushed through the valley like terrain. Her tail quickly hid behind a leg as the cold air seemed to bother it.

Xena just stayed there for about 5 minutes, her body trembling as she went through what was likely a sudden panic attack. Certainly the first one she's experienced in Aincrad, her eyes felt like they were going to shake right out of her skull. She was whispering to herself, it sounded like she was just saying. "Be calm" Repeatedly, trying to force herself out of this sudden situation, it was only occasionally interrupted by a short nervous giggle, she knew it was all in good fun but the sheer suddenness had just, ruptured something in her head.  Feeling the hand on her shoulder she suddenly recoiled from the hand falling on her back as she crawled back a bit, her eyes in view looked like she had just had a near death experience, she quickly pulled her hood back over them, perhaps not wanting to make Freyd feel guilty, though by the looks of it he already did. Xena slowly came back from it after a period of 15 or so minutes, once she did she pulled her hood down slowly looking around at her surroundings. She slowly muttered something a few times barely audible enough for Freyd to hear. "I'm sorry..." Before finally coming out and saying it at a normal level. "I-I'm so sorry I-I don't know what came over me..." She looked at Freyd now feeling extremely bad with how he looked, she figured he thought he did something really wrong, she should of been laughing about it but she wasn't. "I-I didn't mean to ruin this... I'm so sorry..." She stated again taking full blame for it, she genuinely was bashing on herself internally feeling stupid for having such a thing happen, this was supposed to be a fun reunion but all she's done is be mad at Freyd and then do this. She was so disappointed in herself and it could probably be seen as she held her cloak shut around the front side of her, only her head really visible right now, coming to a slow stand she just looked at the ground not knowing what else to say.


Searching for Familiar: 203602 Nat 20 LD (Familiar can be found.) (Planned to be encountered in a bit.)

Xena had sighed to herself, she had been walking through second floor holding a book in her hand, it was a small blue one, inside she had been jotting down lyrics the entire day. Taking floors, preferably low ones for inspiration she found herself on the second one, ironically it was the floor that put her in a depressed spiral the past 1 or 2 years. She wondered how her real body was doing, how her cat was doing, hopefully both were well, she imagined that she couldn't be here in the game if her real body wasn't alive. It wasn't until that thought crossed her mind that a NPC walked up to her, she looked like the kind of NPC to be a mother. And said about as much too Xena, she hadn't done the quest before but she knew of it. Mostly due to basic knowledge of most quests on this floor, she hadn't planned to participate in them until she was of a decent level but, the enemies of this quest supposedly had low HP.

"Is that right? Alright then I'll see what I can do." Saying so she sighed and pulled her hood down two cat ears coming out of it, she scratched them, the hood had been making them or at least the hair around them itch a bit, It was strange. With a loud snap of the blue book being shut it shattered into particles returning to her inventory. Xena looked towards the cave before, feeling like she was being watched. Looking to her right she noticed a player. They were tall, a female, blonde and had blue eyes, that's the main properties she noticed. With a somewhat concerned face she turned towards them a tail swishing to her side holding the cloak up a bit behind her as she placed her clawed gauntleted hands against her hips. "Ya got a problem?" She had simply asked scanning over the player more, at any rate she knew she wouldn't be able to fight them if it came to that. She'd need to rely on a warp crystal to get out of this, which she had none currently, having ran out of stock during her last quest. That was a bad thing too Xena's mind, she was certainly about ready to make a mad sprint away if the player showed any threatening movement, she wasn't sure of what weapon they used. But if it was any kind of mobile weapon like a one handed sword, or hell any type of dagger she'd have a real problem avoiding it. "Or, are you just staring for the sake of staring?" Xena's tone wasn't exactly aggressive, though it was confrontational, like a cornered cat would be. Xena knew she hadn't done anything wrong and seeing how this player was a green cursor she'd likely be fine, but she didn't exactly wanna take a risk. Looking around the trees for any possible hiding folk that would take a shot at Xena the moment she moved she couldn't find any, so that was a somewhat nice thing to look towards.


Xena | HP: 120/120 | EN: 30/30 | DMG: 9 | MIT: 6 | LD: 3 | BLD: 12 | REC: 2