[SP-F9] Needing a Change <<Burning Pheonix Feathers>>

[Hikoru 0]

Hikoru appeared onto the fourth floor quietly. He had been tasked with a few things from his Guild leader, Shark. He had been asked to find materials, find a place to build a Guildhall and to find recruits. He had decided that a good place to start would be changing his armor up to fit the uniform. He needed to make a good entrance at the upcoming Floor Boss, and make his presence known as apart of the Knights of Christ. He smiled at the thought. He had found himself in a guild again, even though he had left because he thought he was better off alone. My, how much he had truly changed in the time away from the Celestial Ascendants. He hoped this time, he would do better than he did previously. After a quick warmup at his slime farm, he was ready to fight whatever was coming his way.

Slime Farm used: +2 SP in April 2019

Stats:

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Title: Master of Shadows

Level: 76

HP: 1550

EN: 152

DMG: 16
ACC: 3
EVA: 0
MIT: 79

Inventory:

2x  T3 Tears of Tranquility - +120 HP Restore
Shadows Gait (+3 Evasion)
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

Skills:

Grandmaster Dagger (+5 DMG)
Grandmaster Light Armor (+25 MIT)
Grandmaster Charge (+5 DMG first hit)
Grandmaster Search (+5 LD) 
Grandmaster Shadowed Path (+5 to Hiding Checks. +3 Base Damage when attacking from Stealth)
Grandmaster Battle Healing (5% Health regen per hit)
Novice Martial Arts (+4 Damage)
Extended Mod Limit Rank 2 (+2 Mod Slots)

Extra Skills:

Concentration (+1 ACC when used)
Martial Arts (Rank 2)
Survival (+15*Tier HP Out of battle & Not affected by environment)
Familiar Handling: Fighter (Max Rank) (+9 DMG)

Mods:

Sneak Attack [Assassin] (+2 Damage, Auto Attack, No stuns or status effects can trigger)
Athletics (+1 DMG, +10*Tier HP)
Precision (+1 ACC)
Vanish (Return to stealth using a post, automatically enter stealth after killing a foe)
Blindside (Gain +2 Stealth Rating. Natural BD rolls of 9-10 reduce the target's accuracy by 1 for one turn when attacking from stealth.)
Untraceable (Negates the effect of the Tracking skill against the user.)

Buffs:

Multipurpose (+1 Stealth Rating for one Post in a thread)
Relaxed (Increases HP regen by (5 * Tier HP) and decreases full energy regen to 2 Out of Combat Posts)
Clean (The first time you would suffer DoT damage in a thread, reduce damage taken from DoT each turn by 20% (rounded down))
Rested (-1 energy cost for the first two expenditures of each combat)
Tasty (Turn 2 identical food items (same quality, tier, & enhancements) into a Lesser Feast. A Lesser Feast contains 4 portions of the food items sacrificed. Lesser Feasts created this way cannot be used outside of the thread they are created. Limit 1 item created per thread)
Item Stash (+1 Battle Ready Inventory Slot)
Filling (Increase the effectiveness of a single food item consumed in a thread by +1 T1 slot. This can exceed normal Cook enhancement caps. Ex: A perfect T2 MIT food gives 35 MIT instead of 30)
Col Stash (+5% bonus col from monster kills and treasure chests)

Equipment:

Weapon: Dimensional Dagger: (+1 Phase, +2 ACC)

Armor: Shadow's Triumph (+54 MIT, +1 Light Momentum)

Accessory: --- Shadow's Eye (+3 LD)

Familiar: Sir Rolland the Mini Pumpking (+9 DMG)

 

 

[Hikoru 0]

Hikoru made sure he had all his equipment on, then opened up his HUD to take a look at the Quest parameters. From what he had written down, he remembered that the Quest boss' strength was based on the strength of the strongest player in the party. It had him a bit worried, but he knew he would be fine. It had been a long time since he had really been hurt from an attack. He made his way out of the town he was in, and found himself in a large open field. He started to search around for materials. It was a bit awkward at first, but he eventually remembered how he used to check around areas cleverly, picking up large rocks and looking in hollowed, dead trees. Luckily, he found one inside of a patch of grass. He picked up a small little crystal and pocketed it. He was sure that it would be one of the items he needed for the quest.

ID: 114583 LD: 8+8=16 Material Found

Mats: 1/5

[Hikoru 0]

Hikoru continued to search, and his minded started to wander, going back to the days when he was a lower-leveled player, about a year ago now. He had always been searching for materials, wanting to be the best Merchant, back when the Merchant made vouchers before ID-ing items was ever a thing. He just chuckled to himself. Those were the days, when he was more innocent, before things happened between him and Jomei, Lowenthal, Calrex, before he had made the friends that shaped him. He frowned a bit. Before he met Ariel, before she broke him and he became a hardened person because of it. He wished he could go back to those days, but he could never look at the woman the same again. It was hard to look at her without thinking of her malice ways towards him, towards the frontlines. Her hands were stained with the hands of his mentor, and he had forgiven her, but it was still a hard subject. In his time of thinking, he almost missed another crystal. He pocketed it before he continued his gathering.

ID: 114584 LD: 15+8=23 Material Found!

Mats: 2/5

[Hikoru 0]

Hikoru's mind continued to wander. What if nothing like this had ever happened? What if he was still as innocent as he was when he was a beginning player. Would he still be seen the same? Would he be as strong as he was now? It was the hardness within him that made him want to be stronger, to prove to others that he was worthy of his Mentor's title. What if nothing happened? He would probably just be a simple merchant, never fighting in the frontlines, never would have met the Celestial Ascendants and made the friends that he has now. He never would have met Beatbox before he was murdered, he never would have watched Itzal and Morgenstern grow into the players he was now. He never would have met Shield, a man he looked up to as a fatherly figure, and he would never be as respected as he was. He sighed. Maybe the things that happened to him, the things that hurt him, were what made him into who he was, a more mature man, a person who knows right from wrong. In his time of searching, he didn't find any materials in this area. He decided to move along and see if he could find any more in a new area.

ID: 114585 LD: 6+8=14 No Material!

Mats: 2/5

[Hikoru 0]

Hikoru continued to walk along the path towards the Quest, keeping his eyes peeled for materials that he could see. He decided that he needed to stop thinking of so much depressing stuff, and knew that he needed to move forward. If he dwelled on the past for too long, he would become depressed and hurt again, and that's not something that he wanted. He started to think about the new adventures his new guild would have. Shark, Ryu, Kairi, and Mina, all players he hadn't really gotten to know, but there was a family atmosphere there that he couldn't explain just yet. He looked on the ground and found another crystal. He picked it up and pocketed it as he noticed that it was starting to get a bit hotter than it already it was. He gave a sigh and gave his <<Survival>> Skill a moment to activate, and soon he felt his body cool down back to normal temperature, a small blue hue covering his body, giving his cloak another level of mystical, bending and shaping into whatever it felt like doing.

ID: 114589 LD: 14+8=22 Material Found!

Mats: 3/5

[Hikoru 0]

Hikoru looked at the area around him. While it wasn't much, the area was still way too humid for any kind of guild hall, plus, he had heard that finding land on any floor below Floor 11 was extremely difficult, and expensive. He knew that he couldn't really afford anything like that at this time, nor did he think anyone else at the guild could. He mentally marked off all floors from 1-10 off his list, double-crossing out this floor, because he hated the heat. He looked around and saw something glinting out of the corner of his eye. He went over and looked, to find a bar of iron ore. He was a bit confused as to why this was here, or how someone could miss it, but he decided to not ask questions and just put it into his pack for the tailor to work on his armor. For now, he needed to find at least one more before he would go looking for the Pheonix. He was pretty sure the Pheonix wouldn't be hard to find though, as a large glowing bird is very difficult to miss.

ID: 114593 LD: 7+8=15 Material Found!

Mats: 4/5

[Hikoru 0]

Hikoru yawned as he walked, himself starting to grow tired of the things around him. It was bleak, desolate, volcanic. Things didn't seem happy here, they only seemed grim, and it didn't help his mental state. Hikoru felt a tug, and he looked down to see Sir Rolland looking at him. He had forgotten that the little guy as with him, as he had been so wrapped up in his own thoughts and mind. He leaned down and pat his head, the creature giving a small coo of satisfaction. "What's up bud?" He asked, and the Pumpking pointed ahead of them. Hikoru looked and saw the giant creature that he was supposed to fight. He had almost walked right into him. Hikoru smiled and pat Rolland again. "Good job having my back. Extra candy tonight." He said, and Sir Rolland smiled widely. He always loved the prospect of more candy and getting it because of a good job always felt better than just receiving it.

ID: 114594 LD: 3+8=11 No Material!

Mats: 4/5

[Hikoru 0]

Hikoru ducked his head down carefully and made sure to keep low to the ground. He didn't want to alert the bird of his presence, but he was sure that his Blue cloak wasn't helping in the black and red environment that they were in. For right now, that wasn't his main problem. It was trying to find a vantage point that he could strike from. From what he could see, the bird was at the highest peak of the area, so he'd have to strike from below, which was never optimal in his mind. But, he would have to try and see what would happen. He slowly moved forward, but his foot slipped and revealed a large piece of Lapis Lazuli. His eyes widened at the large crystal. He had never really seen one that size and knew that this was the last material he needed. He grabbed it and put it in his inventory then, pulled up his hood, giving a small whistle to draw Sir Rolland under his cloak to hide.

ID: 114595 LD: 15+8=22 Material Found!

Mats: 5/5

[Hikoru 0]

Hikoru made small hand signals towards his familiar, things that he had done his best to train him about. The Pumpking familiar nodded, then brought his vine-made arms and legs close, to keep as quiet as he could. Hikoru nodded and then made his way towards the top of the hill, avoiding the creature's eyesight. In all honesty, the creature was beautiful, and it was something that he saw as a powerful creature. He would love to have a familiar like that, but he loved Sir Rolland, and the creature and him had a special bond that not a lot of other people had. The creature was semi-intelligent and understood him, plus he knew how to make coffee like a master Barista. Those are things that you can't take for granted. He slowly found himself underneath the giant creature at a perfect vantage point. All he needed to do was wait for the right moment. He slowly unsheathed his dagger, making sure to not make any sudden noise to alert the creature, and waited for the right time to strike.

ID: 114596 LD: 17+7= 25 Stealth Rating

[Hikoru 0]

Keep 'er Rolling!

ID: 114597 BD: 5+3-2=6 Hit!

Hikoru used Swarm: 14 x 19 x 1.20 = 319 - 75 = 244 Damage to Pheonix

ID: 114597 MD: 10 Crit!

<<Hellstorm>>: 228+50 = 278 Damage - 79 = 199 Damge - 76 BH = 123 Damage to Hikoru

Hikoru: 1427/1550  | EN: 137/152 | DMG: 16 | MIT: 79 | ACC: 3 | EVA: 3 | BH: 76 | -20% DoT Damage <<Burn>> 24 Damage per turn

Pheonix: 516/760 | MIT: 75 | DMG: 228 | ACC: 2 | EVA: 2
<<Hellstorm>>: On attack rolls of 9-10, the Phoenix raises to the skies and with a flap of its wings shoots feathers upon the player with the most hate, dealing 50 more damage to its base, additionally the player suffers Burn damage at 24 damage per turn for two turns.