[SP-F1] Time for more stupid gathering... (Steel)

[Steel 0]

"Although Reinka told me not to go off on my own, I still gotta get materials so I can get better gear. Sometimes, she acts as if she's my wife or something." Steel said as he began searching through floor one to find materials. The girl that had basically become a constant party member was easily scared about him dying and had made him promise to get better gear before calming down. Because he'd rather not see her cry because of him again, he was out here once more, testing his E rank luck. "This time though, I have the Searching skill! This should hopefully make things easier!" He said feeling confident about his chances this time. Unfortunately, even with the skill boosting his chances, he couldn't seem to find anything at first. "E rank luck one, Search skill zero..." Steel said with a sigh as he lost some confidence. He had chosen the search skill for an easier time finding things and for the other functions it could have in the field. But so far, it was failing him.

ID#: 96703

LD: 13 (+ 1 LD from search skill) =14

Edited February 22, 2018 by Steel

[Steel 0]

"My gosh, is this going to be a repeat of that beginner's quest?" Steel said as he had yet to find anything again. He was already beginning to have flashbacks of that quest where he spent all day trying to find materials for that potion, something that also took him multiple tries to finish despite being so simple. "Though combat skills are going to be my focus, I might need to level up my search skill as well..." He was by nature more of a combatant than a non combatant and was even on the front lines before whatever caused him to go inactive, something Steel wasn't even sure what happened, and would rather fight monsters than search for stuff. But important things like gathering materials for new gear made him think otherwise so he had thought to at least level up the searching skill. "Well, let's try again I suppose..."

ID# 96707 results

LD: 9 (+1 LD) = 10

[Steel 0]

More time had passed, though not too much time, and Steel had let to find anything despite using that search skill. "I think my E rank luck is just way too overpowering. It's making sure to give me a hard time even with skills to back me up..." He said with a sigh. He was already getting tired of this and was beginning to wonder whether this would take all day again. He was hoping he'd get the amount of materials he needed by the time the sun had set. The other thing that made Steel feel like Reinka was acting as his wife was how she wanted him to come home, meaning the inn room they were sharing, at a decent time. Because of this, it wasn't like he had all the time in the world to gather materials. With that in mind, he began to hurry up in his searching, trying to find some stuff. Perhaps he'd find a treasure chest or something.

ID# 96708

LD: 6 (+1 LD) = 7

[Steel 0]

"I'm getting really sick of this..." Steel said as he could yet again not find a single thing. He was getting rather irritated at how this was going. "Man this is boring..." He said with a low growl as he continued looking for stuff to no avail. He decided to give up momentarily and relax against a tree. This time he wasn't sleeping but he needed to calm down. He was getting worked up to easily. He needed to meditate. That was how he did things back in the real world, especially before a match. He needed to calm his soul to prevent himself from being blinded by his own emotions. Right now, he was beginning to be blinded by his irritation so he had to temporarily remove it from his mind. After a minute or two, he had calmed himself down and stood back up, ready to get back to the gathering. "Let's give this another go I suppose.

ID# 96711

LD: 13 (+ 1 LD) =14

[Steel 0]

"Even after calming down, I still can't find a thing..." Steel said with a sigh. He was considering giving up but he had to get enough materials for gear somehow. At the very least, he had to get enough for the gear he needs which he will order from the blacksmith once he's done here. "The things I put up with for my friends.." Steel said as he continued searching.  It would be a win win situation anyway. He'd get better gear out of this, thus increasing his chances of survival, and at the same time, he'd make his partner happy. Or at least not break into a crying fit like when they had last gone on a quest together. Speaking of which, the reason why he was doing this was because he had promised Reinka that he would have this better equipment  by the time they went on their quest together.

 

ID# 96717

LD 9 (+1 LD) = 10

[Steel 0]

It took him a while but he had finally found something. He ended up tripping again and he ended up finding the first material of the day. "Finally, I get one, just a million more to go." Steel said with a sigh of relief. At the same time, he had a light groan at how he'd have to spend way more time to find the amount of materials he needed. While not a million like his exaggeration, he had to at least get 10 to 15 more materials. "With my E rank luck, I'm going to have a hard time gathering the rest of them. Especially since I only get one each time. But it's a necessity, both survival wise and for Reinka so I'll put up with it." Steel said with a sigh as he got up and stretched. "Well, onto the next one." He said as he started off for the next material.

 

ID# 97315

LD: 19 (+1 LD) = 20

Gained 1 Tier 1 Material

Amount of Materials: 1

[Steel 0]

"I knew it. I can't find anything again." Steel said out of disappointment. By now, he had gotten over the short high of finally finding some material. Make that very short high. He knew he wouldn't have much luck even with the search skill so he didn't really let his hopes up in the first place. This is why he needed to increase his stats. While his luck was bad, he could use abilities and items that increased his chances to hit an enemy or find an item in order to make up for it. Or in the case of battle, use stuff like thorns to deal damage to his foes when he got attacked since enemies seemed to be able to land their hits pretty often. "Maybe I should buy a trinket or something in order to increase my searching ability." He said to himself as the small buff from his searching skill didn't seem to help at all. 

ID# 97316

LD: 11 (+1 LD) =12

Materials Found: 1

[Steel 0]

"Gosh darn it, I think I'm on the wrong track." Steel said as he couldn't find any more materials like usual. "Why do I have such lousy luck... This lousy E rank luck...." Steel said with a sigh. He decided to turn around and go back to where he was before. He had ended up wandering a bit far away from where he was originally searching. He was actually wondering how he managed to get this far away. No doubt, this was the result of Steel's lousy luck. Because of that, it seemed that he was in an area where the materials were less likely to be found. Hence why he needed to go back. A few minutes later, he made it back to his original material search location. "Okay then, let's keep this going and try again." He said with a sigh as he continued to search through the bushes once more.

ID# 97317

LD: 2 (+1 LD) = 3

 

Materials Found: 1

[Steel 0]

"You know? This really feels like the typical scenario of a Japanese man trying to appease his wife..." Steel said referring back to his current situation. It was similar to some dramas his little sister watched back in the real world where the men were basically under their wives' thumb and the men tried their hardest in trying to please them. While it wasn't exactly like that, he was here because he didn't want Reinka to cry because of worrying about him again. She had really broke down a bit ago before he made his promises with her. His thoughts on the matter almost made him not notice a bit of material nearby if not for his search skill. It was a little hidden. He bent down and picked it up. "Alright, that's another down. And now I got like a bunch more to go." He said to himself as he pocketed the material and continued on his way.

ID# 97320

LD: 14 (+1 LD) = 15

Material Found!

Materials Found: 2

[Steel 0]

"Okay, let's see if I can find another one." Steel said as he continued searching through the bushes. "Let's test my E rank luck again..." He said as he began searching the trees for a bit before going back to scanning the floor and bushes. He just went around and eventually, he found another piece of material. "Well, I'm honestly surprised. I didn't think I would find another one so soon after I found the last one. There's my short burst of luck I suppose. Gotta make sure my hopes aren't up and cool my head.." He kept calming himself down as he knew that like always, his luck wouldn't last long. For now, he should be grateful for his moment of luck and then calm down. He still had a ways to go before he would be done for the day. He had armor and gear to acquire after all.

 

ID# 97322

LD: 18 (+1 LD) = 19

Material Acquired!

Materials Found: 3

Edited February 27, 2018 by Steel

[Steel 0]

"I'm honestly confused right now." Steel said as he found another material in plain sight. This was his third one in a row. Rather than happiness though, he was more on the side of confused. Normally, his luck would have gone back to normal, and by normal he means crappy, and he should have went back to taking a while till he found another one. But for some odd reason or another, he had found three in a row. The shift in luck almost made him question his own identity as being unlucky was kinda his thing. It's the whole reason why he wanted to be a tank. Well, the first reason was to protect others but the second reason was that he could combine defense with thorns and damage his enemy even if he couldn't land a hit himself. "Well, I guess I just take it and see how my luck goes from here." He said to himself.

 

ID# 97330

LD: 20 (+1 LD) = 21

Material Acquired! 

Materials Found: 4

[Steel 0]

"There we go, that's more like my luck." Steel said in response with a small smile on his face. For some reason, he felt a sense of relief even though he hasn't found any more materials for the past couple of minutes. It was kinda like all was right in the world again in his mind. He actually kinda felt unnerved about how he was getting so lucky earlier because of his normally bad E rank luck. Now that his luck was seemingly back to normal, he felt that he could relax for whatever reason. Maybe because of that light Asperger Syndrome side of him that felt like he needed to keep things the way they were. It was weird how that worked. Even he didn't get it sometimes. "Well, once I get my stats up, maybe I'll get used to actually succeeding on a normal basis." He said to himself.

ID# 97331

LD: 8 (+1 LD) = 9

 

Materials Found: 4

[Steel 0]

"And somehow, I manage to find another one of these things. Is the universe of the E rank luck out of balance right now?" He started playing around with the concept of E rank luck as a joke as it wasn't following how it usually was recently. Well, compared to his last gathering quest which took forever to find the amount he had now. This time around, it took him half the time to acquire the same number. "Either my luck is changing or the system just wants to toy with me. I'm putting my money more on the latter cause my luck is still E rank." He said with a bit of a laugh as he continued his search for materials. "Well then, bring it on Cardinal. I won't break down from your mental attacks on me!" He issued a challenge to the system itself which made him wonder what the crap was he doing, talking to thin air and a program that wouldn't respond.

 

ID# 97458

LD: 16 (+ 1 LD) = 17

Material Acquired! 

 

Materials Found: 5

[Steel 0]

"And back to not finding any again. The system really loves messing with me." He hadn't gotten his hopes up from finding that last one but he was certain that the Cardinal system was messing with him in some way. If not that, then Kayaba Akihiko. "Wait, what the heck am I thinking..." He was beginning to wonder whether he had gone insane, having begun to curse a computer program of all things. I guess this is what happens when you do something on your own for an extended period of time. He thought to himself as it was more that he was probably beginning to run out of things to say all by himself and began to rely on random thoughts that went through his head in order to prevent him from succumbing to boredom. Going around and searching for materials was boring enough. Doing it without companionship was even worse.

 

ID# 97462

LD: 3 (+ 1) =4

Materials Found: 5

[Steel 0]

"Is it weird that I feel a sense of relief from this?" Steel said to himself as he had yet to find another material after searching for a few more minutes. At the moment, he was actually relaxed contrary to how he was acting earlier in regards to not finding anything. He had already found five of them and that was a decent start. He just required five or so more in order to meet his quota in order to get the equipment he desired. He was aiming for a perfect rank Tier 1 sword and the same rank for armor. His current gear made him look more like a black knight so he had hoped that he could request a more samurai looking appearance. And he wondered if he could get a Chokuto which was basically a katana but one handed. In terms of classification, he supposed it was kind of in the gray area since it was considered a katana but at the same time it was a straight one handed sword.

ID# 97464

LD: 10 (+ 1) = 11

Materials Found: 5 

[Steel 0]

His relief at the normalcy had begun to revert back to irritation though not enough to make him shout out in annoyance. "I wonder where all these materials are. You'd think they'd be in abundance in this large field. Maybe this world follows some law of resources or something." At this point, he had no idea what he was saying anymore. He just wanted to do something else with his life but he couldn't go about doing that until he got what he came for. "Man, this is boring. Why can't gathering stuff be easy like in normal video games? Or is it just my luck?" He said to himself with a sigh. In normal video games, you found the materials you need all the time. It was all over the place. Maybe he was just in the wrong spot for searching for stuff. "Well, back to the grind I suppose."

ID# 97465

LD: 4 (+ 1) = 5

Materials Found: 5 

[Steel 0]

"Oh lovely, another material. That's one down and then like 9 more to go or something?" Steel had found one as he searched a bush. After picking it up, he got up and stretched before putting it back in his inventory. "But seriously, where are all of them. It's not like they're visible to the naked eye like in video games. Then again, for video games, it's on a small screen and here it's a whole world..." He remembered the big difference between this and a normal console game. They were in a VR space where they had to pay attention to their surroundings, very much like one would in the real world. So of course they'd be harder to find since you didn't have a bird's eye or third person's view of your surroundings. "Well, I guess that adds to the real life feel to this world. Though I find it cool though, it has resulted in something rather annoying..."

ID# 97476

LD: 16 (+ 1) = 17

Material Acquired!

Materials Found: 6

[Steel 0]

"Now I'm wondering how the material algorithm works. Is there a limit to the amount of materials out there or do they respawn? If they do respawn, how often do they do so?" These questions popped up in his mind as a way for his brain to relieve himself from boredom temporarily. He hadn't found anything for a while so he was once again tired of it all and decided to rest under a tree again to take a break. "Man what a bore. I wish I didn't have to do this. But I really don't want to see Reinka cry or face her wrath. Putting the crying part aside, from his experience in the real world, women were scary creatures when angry and Takeshi learned not to enrage them if at all possible. Either way, he just felt like taking a break and not spend so much energy on this search for the time being. He would get back to it eventually.

ID# 97482

LD: 2 (+1) = 3

Materials Found: 6

[Steel 0]

"I guess my luck is changing for the better?" Steel said as he scratched his head. He had somehow found another material while searching a random bush he chose while closing his eyes, spinning around and then pointing in front of him. I guess I really should follow what Reinka said in regards to luck. He thought to himself. His partner had mentioned how he should think about things in a more positive light and how he shouldn't think of it as bad luck. Not that he could really do that so easily but he could at least give it a try. Something about how luck was all in the mind. Though aren't there numbers involved in all of this? Steel thought to himself as he pocketed the material. "Now then, let's see where the next one ends up being? I hope I don't have to be out here for much longer."

 

ID# 97485

LD: 18 (+1) = 19

Material Acquired!

Materials Found: 7

[Steel 0]

"Today is just on and off isn't it?" Steel said as he went from finding something to finding nothing again. He supposed it was the RNG not working in his favor at the moment. Today had been rather odd to say the least in regards to his fortunes. There were times he had large strokes of luck and other times where that luck fell short. It seemed that his luck was all unstable nowadays. Perhaps it was Reinka's influence. She had particularly good luck and thanks to a certain something she did, his own luck had gone from bad to out of whack. It was getting a little unpredictable. Though Steel lightly blushed as he remembered the event. He didn't expect it and he had practically no immunity to girls. He hoped he would correct that with his time with Reinka but at the same time, he kinda doubted it would change.

 

ID# 97887

LD: 10 (+1) = 11

Materials Found: 7