Raidou 1 Posted April 26, 2020 #1 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 (edited) A turbulent start to the morning beckoned by pouring light through window panes, casting a bluish color upon the glossy wooden floor that composed the guild hall. Raidou snaps awake and rises in the mattress clutching his face, a yawn before retrieving his glasses from a nightstand. Finding his way downstairs to the table he left in disarray, numerous papers scattered about its surface he removes a portion of food from his inventory and takes a moment to refuel himself before contemplating the day. While consuming the meal Raidou checks over the stock and finds that Simmone was doing a swimmingly job identifying them and preparing them for movement, small tags latched to each designating what was inside. Plans flowed ever forward but the count still could use some more to which in comparison Raidou was the most suited. Latching the silver plate to his left arm, buckling of straps across his chest attach his weapon and a flutter of his robe starts his journey. Consumed Hazelnut Cookie Rounds (+2 Loot Dice) Spoiler Raidou, The Red Wanderer: Level: 31 HP: 620/620 En: 62/62 Weapon: The Black Star - Genesis [1HSS] (T1/Perfect): Paralyze 1 (9-10), Taunt (+1 Hatred from Attacks/Howls, +2 on Focused), Vampiric [Offensive] 1 (Recover 10% of Total HP on 9-10) Misc: Onyx Spectacles [Trinket] (T1/Perfect): +3 Loot Dice Misc: Red Wanderer's Robe [Light] (T1/Perfect): +3 Evasion Skills: 1 Handed Straight Sword: Rank 3 Parry: Obtained Gatherer: Obtained Searching: Rank 5 (GM) (+5 Loot Dice on Non Combat Gathering) Concentration [Extra]: +1 Accuracy on next attack, 3 turn cool down Battle Ready Inventory: Auric Sol [1HSS] (T2/Perfect): +6 Base Damage Self-Heal Recovery Potion*4 Teleport Crystal*1 Swordsman's Gauntlet [Heavy] (T2/Perfect): +54 Damage Mitigation Edited April 26, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 26, 2020 Author #2 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 (edited) With relative ease, Raidou meets no restriction moving to the settlement under the ripening day, across a spanned road to which no other was traveling. An equally barren settlement to which even the NPC had not yet risen, a warp gate flashes changing his placement to his destination. His eyes alter to the shift in lighting, for the sun was not present in Tolbana village in its underground and cavernous build. However, it was low illuminated with crystals of color that acted like multi colored bulbs to cast light enough to see. Taking to the front of the quest board and in a flurry of moving screens, Raidou accepts his usual endeavor, his feet carrying afterward outward toward the billowing fog in the more hazardous sections. Through a hidden entrance obscured by said mist, Raidou finds his alcove and sets to work. Removed cloak from his back and taking a moment to lay it out flat, creating a section for all to commune upon Raidou gets started. ID# 144732 results: Craft: 11, Loot: 4+[5/3/2]=14, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +3 Bonus Materials 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 4 Edited May 3, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 27, 2020 Author #3 Report Share Posted April 27, 2020 (edited) At first to the plants, he was the most familiar that took the shape of darkened blue leaves today that were notably Liberating Water by the apothecary who gave them such a name. A bend of the stocks under palm as his hands brushed over them, a glimmer showing the ones that were of use to him from the massed garden in identical growths. Grasping the base of the first that showed him it was ready, Raidou pulled back and to the breaking of the stone, it was attached to with the roots that had dug through it. A satisfying snap as it pops free, Raidou tossing it underhanded to the section he had set with the contrasting cool color of the leaves standing out heavily on the bright red surface he had set for it. One of many, Raidou's appendages begin to flow again eager to pick what else was worth taking. ID# 144733 results: Craft: 8, Loot: 2+[5/3/2]=12, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 7 Edited April 27, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 27, 2020 Author #4 Report Share Posted April 27, 2020 (edited) This goes on for a decent chunk of time until the patch reflects his action, turning from a rich sea of blue to a barren section of immature plant life and empty areas of disturbed rock and soil. A tap of his hands together creates a fog of dirt as it dislodged from his skin, on his robe a good dozen piled upon each other in straightened lines of all of his gains. Standing to his heels and a glance at his HUD's clock show it had only been a paltry burn of minutes, and given his abilities and knowledge it was expected it would take him very little allocated. A quick gander about allows his attention to focus upon another prospect, a glimmering node ripe with the mineral of a light blue sheen. Withdrawing his blade with the intention to utilize it as a sledgehammer and disrupt the rock to which it was contained. ID# 144735 results: Craft: 9, Loot: 2+[5/3/2]=12, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 10 Edited April 27, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 27, 2020 Author #5 Report Share Posted April 27, 2020 (edited) The blade screams of metal on metal that bounces on the walls around him in its pocket as it's retracted from its sheath, Raidou scattering the blade up his left arm to raise it for the swing that was to come. A glow dances down it before a burst of speed and a downward cleave shatters the silence, and with it the stone the very same. A fog of gray casts obscurity in an effort to conceal that which was struck, taking a moment to settle away and allow a perceive of the yield available. Raidou checks his blade for damage then takes to depositing it to free his hands, allowing the dust to settle. When it does reveal a stone in jutting fragments, having been decompiled by the impact by the swordsman. Raidou takes a knee and starts to purvey that which he had made ready. A turn of his hands as he begins the procedure. ID# 144736 results: Craft: 7, Loot: 12+[5/3/2]=22, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 14 Edited April 27, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 27, 2020 Author #6 Report Share Posted April 27, 2020 (edited) The metal within danced strangely in the light as if pulsing brighter than the sources about it. Raidou also noticed the pieces felt much lighter than the others he had pulled before, although the sizes were comparable to the prior ores they were obviously lighter. It would not matter for Raidou would retrieve what was here regardless, but he could not help but notice the fact or take a subtle interest in the reasoning behind it but it could not take too much of his attention to slow his movements. Some of the pieces were of little use to which Raidou cast them aside forming a pile of ones that would not be taken back from the others. Beginning to divide them into separated piles, the wreckage begins to reduce with each creeping forward as the nomad sections them off with sifting hands and turns of the shattered pieces in the light. ID# 144738 results: Craft: 1, Loot: 14+[5/3/2]=24, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +0 Bonus Materials 2*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 16 Edited April 27, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 27, 2020 Author #7 Report Share Posted April 27, 2020 (edited) The quantity seemed a bit lower than usual, Raidou could not help but wonder if the strange properties had something to do with how much was available. Retrieving a book from his pocket and scratching in the query as to keep a note to determine such as fact, its stored after a hastily drawn word is scribbled upon it. A few more switched units over in his hand, he finds a couple more that he would wish to cart away. However, his yield was starting to become a bit unruly, to this end he picks a good section of it up in a collection and moves them to his tapestry and free up more room to work. Clearing his workspace and heading back, Raidou leans back down and continues his course having reduced the clutter about him significantly so. A creeping sensation that the stone was running thin begins to bleed into his thoughts. ID# 144739 results: Craft: 9, Loot: 14+[5/3/2]=24, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 20 Edited April 27, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 27, 2020 Author #8 Report Share Posted April 27, 2020 (edited) This instinct was substantiated with the last few being removed allowing just a few more hunks of ore from the inert sharp stone pieces. This was sufficient however, Raidou claimed the lot and moving it to his robe cemented the category down to completion that would be suitable. Performing another quick scan about the interior, Raidou looks for more that would halt his advancing gaze. Becoming affixed to a box contained inside the grotto, Raidou was sure as before this would contain pre woven fabric to which he would happily retrieve given how much easier it was to do so by comparison to the webbing that found itself stuck to the pillars overhead. Unsheathing his sword and leaving the other two yields where they lay, Raidou shuffles to the box with the intention of popping it open to see what may lay dormant within. Shifting his blade up Raidou jams the point of the weapon into the first section it can find an opening. ID# 144740 results: Craft: 12, Loot: 15+[5/3/2]=25, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +3 Bonus Materials 5*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 25 Edited April 27, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 27, 2020 Author #9 Report Share Posted April 27, 2020 (edited) A found seam between the two as Raidou's edge enters the space. The nomad pushes hard and wedges the blade in further, rocking and twisting the handle to the sounds of creaking and cracking wood causing splinters and dust to dislodge from it with each show of force. Heaving downward once enough leverage is built the lid tears free, skittering to the ground with a hearty impact as it falls. A responsive cloud of aged dust is kicked airborne, Raidou coughs and fans his face to keep it from assaulting his senses allowing it to clear away before he approaches. Eventually, it does, allowing him to peruse what was contained inside and to a typical notice was varied bags of rotted out foods, some powders that would more than likely be stale and a small glimpse of the very fabric he was after visible underneath it all. Sheathing his blade, Raidou gets ready to dive in. ID# 144742 results: Craft: 12, Loot: 13+[5/3/2]=23, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +3 Bonus Materials 5*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 30 Edited April 27, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 27, 2020 Author #10 Report Share Posted April 27, 2020 (edited) Pressing the upper half of his torso to the box with his hands bracing along the edge, Raidou takes a closer look while adjusting the glasses on his nose up to prevent them from falling inside. A reach inside and grabbing the first he could, Raidou pulls back and disturbs the objects covering it. In his clutches a blackened fabric of almost cold to the touch silk, woven tightly about the hunk of wood it was wrapped around for storage. Once the light hits it, however, to his keen sight reveals a slight pattern between the threads. Setting this piece down and readjusting his equipment Raidou teeders himself back inside, tossing some of the sacks out to free up space to allow a further yield to be removed. A closed fist latches onto a couple more and Raidou replants his feet and slides them free. More oddly colored and strange looking fabric in his hands, Raidou knows he was making progress. ID# 144743 results: Craft: 6, Loot: 17+[5/3/2]=27, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +1 Bonus Materials 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 33 Edited April 27, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted April 30, 2020 Author #11 Report Share Posted April 30, 2020 (edited) Emptying the entirety out with little resistance having removed that which was in the way of the bolts removal, a final few sections of fabric freed from the box. Raidou takes these pieces to his robe and places them in their own clearing adjacent to the ore he had claimed moments ago. With these added it fulfilled the third category and beckons him to the fourth. Either food or jewels would be this next in tandem, a sweeping glance halts with the designation of one of these two. The wall to which they normally sprung from in a beacon of reflected light like a star in the midnight sky was jewels. Retracting his blade with the intention to use it to pry the gems from their entrapment Raidou walks around his center point and with hefty stab jams the point of his blade into the wall just offset from the first he can find upon its surface. ID# 145229 results: Craft: 3, Loot: 10+[5/3/2]=20, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +1 Bonus Materials 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 36 Edited May 3, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted May 3, 2020 Author #12 Report Share Posted May 3, 2020 (edited) The wall crumbles ever so slightly with the insertion of the point of his blade, causing a rain of disturbed pebbles to fall free. A slight wiggle and exerted force forward digs the weapon in deeper, attempting to chisel and wedge the jewel in the stone socket free. Eventually, it gives with the insistent movement allowing enough give, popping it free. To the ground falls an uncut emerald in a mirror of the many before it, the first of the day's jewel harvest. The sound bounces off the silent cavern around it, its heavy thud against the stone. This does not slow the nomad, however, as quantity was the thing he was after. His blade moves up to the next in sequence and begins the very same procedure, eager to pocket all that it would offer which the wall in question had no issue doing so. A next few fall communing with the first, banging together after the plummet. ID# 146086 results: Craft: 12, Loot: 13+[5/3/2]=23, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +3 Bonus Materials 5*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 41 Edited May 4, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted May 4, 2020 Author #13 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 (edited) It does not take long before the wall falls to disrepair, riddled with sockets now empty of gemstones. Heaving his weapon to its sheath to free his hands, Raidou collects the jewels at his feet. A modest sum that when added to what he already had proved invaluable and would stave the starvation of the guilds stock with the crafters always on the job. It was important however that their professions kept developing at a steady pace, which was why Raidou was content with performing this chore and he would be lying if he said he did not enjoy it either. To the next in the list, he had frequently filled, Raidou looked to his tapestry to take a quick tally before coming to the conclusion food was next on the agenda. Glancing about in a feverish scan of the grotto, his sight hones in on his quarry in the shape of mushrooms upon a large rounded stone. ID# 146089 results: Craft: 3, Loot: 4+[5/3/2]=14, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +1 Bonus Materials 2*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 43 Edited May 4, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted May 4, 2020 Author #14 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 (edited) Layered with moss the large sphere of rock, protrusions of mushrooms of tans and reds. Moving for a closer inspection despite familiarity Raidou was ever cautious. They seemed to be the same as always, to his approach the cave lizards of lime green respond with small hissing noises and scatter along the walls with sticky feet. Darting up the walls and vanishing into breaks in the walls about the interior, leaving Raidou to the mass of foodstuff undisturbed. Sifting through what was available shown that some had been chewed by the fauna he had just scared off, meaning some of them would be unfit for use and would likely destruct if removed now. Raidou chose to leave these be as he began to procure the ones that were untouched, breaking the blooms at the base with a soft snap. Adding this unit to his off hand as they would surely be destroyed if piled upon the roughened floor. ID# 146091 results: Craft: 4, Loot: 13+[5/3/2]=23, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +1 Bonus Materials 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 46 Edited May 4, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted May 4, 2020 Author #15 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 (edited) The number in his grasp continues to grow with each removal, a myriad of reds, and tans building in his left palm. Evidently this beckons him to offload the harvest to his robe, given the count was being too much to contain. They found a section upon its surface, placed gingerly by the nomad with care taken to not damage them with a softened placement. Returning to the node from which they were retrieved Raidou keeps up the yield. Another pile is removed with haste as Raidou had a little issue doing this task given the sheer amount of it he had done prior, his skill proving the fact with mechanical snapping and transfers to his off hand with almost blinding speed. A pause to fix the glasses on his face as they attempt to slide down his nose given his inversion as the stone starts to become more barren. ID# 146094 results: Craft: 10, Loot: 17+[5/3/2]=27, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +3 Bonus Materials 5*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 51 Edited May 4, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted May 4, 2020 Author #16 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 (edited) With a few more harvests the stone lies completely empty other than the ones slightly eaten, leaving Raidou with the count in his grasp and the prior being the last. Adding these to the previous ones, Raidou claps his hands together and clears the damp moss from them. This addition finished the category, leaving the final: recording crystals. To his vision in a spectrum of color his target is found, blooming rods of glass with an oil like refraction of the light about them. Approaching them and with a ginger extend of his hand places his index and a thumb on the point of the first of many. Beginning to rock the piece back and forth as hairline cracks begin upon its base. This causes a rain of fragmented pebbles to fall free as the wiggle becomes more apparent. Raidou pulls back after the movement increases and after a few attempts, it slides free from the base into his waiting hands. ID# 146099 results: Craft: 11, Loot: 20+[5/3/2]=30, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +3 Bonus Materials 5*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 56 Edited May 4, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted May 4, 2020 Author #17 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 (edited) Taking this piece to his robe to set it down, away from where it could be trampled or caused damage. The glass appearance is what brings about this response, and Raidou ebbing to caution does not wish to test the theory. In a similar fashion, the next few break loose to which Raidou moves mechanically to the crimson red tarp he had set for them. The crystals distort the color under them in a twist of the hue in the varied shade as if breaking the projected color to pieces. To some, the red is purple to others a bright orange or yellow. The oval rock they were removed from beginning to dwindle in number with each extraction however, Raidou was making a great time in comparison to the past. A quick paid glance at his HUD confirmed this fact as only a couple of hours had been spent so far and the grotto was rounding on empty. ID# 146106 results: Craft: 6, Loot: 14+[5/3/2]=24, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials 4*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 60 Edited May 4, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted May 4, 2020 Author #18 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 (edited) This fact further cemented as Raidou continues to pry free the small prisms of glass from the node upon with they were encased. A careful transit to his robe between each like a dance with the rock he was pulling them out of, mechanically and methodically a routine he had become accustomed through the passage of time. The node, however, seems to have a few remaining, and Raidou was determined to leave nothing behind. After all, he would be back tomorrow and the consistent use of all these small pieces of a much larger picture needed a place upon the shelving of his guild vault to keep a constant motion moving forward with the lines he had drawn. A trivial seeming task that most disposed of as tedious and a fruitless endeavor but Raidou saw it as a foundation for what was to come as every journey needed a starting point. ID# 146110 results: Craft: 2, Loot: 1+[5/3/2]=11, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +1 Bonus Materials 2*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 62 Edited May 4, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted May 4, 2020 Author #19 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 (edited) Eventually, the oval shaped stone lays empty, to this end a mass of crystals upon his robe lay gleaming in an active reflection of the color beneath it. With the final piece in his hands, he takes to the tapestry set and puts the glass down. Removing bags and starting first with the recording crystal and in the sequence, they begin to vanish into the six bags prepared for them. A pull of the drawstring cables that took around the opening of each snaps them shut, Raidou using the same to attach them to his waste for the journey home. With the disappearance of all he had wrought, only his robe remained where it was placed but hours ago. Grabbing two corners and fluttering the piece to remove the sediment that had taken to the side that was placed upon the ground, he flusters it clean before adding it to his shoulders. ID# 146118 results: Craft: 8, Loot: 4+[5/3/2]=14, Success! [Gatherer Activated!] +2 Bonus Materials 3*T3 Materials Obtained! Total T3 Materials: 65 Edited May 4, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
Raidou 1 Posted May 4, 2020 Author #20 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 (edited) A rapid perusal of his surroundings in attempts to find the object that the cardinal had a nasty habit of dealing with. Chests tend to seem to wait until the last possible moment before spawning in, and if you were not careful you would walk right past a possible treasure trove. Most of them, however, seemed to have little of use, but it was still a free claim at least a subtle boost. Today, however, it seemed as though the cardinal had not chosen to conceal such on the nomads peripheral. Affirming that if he could not see it, it must not be present to which he kneels and slides free of the grotto. Passing through the yellow toxin and into the city of Tolbana Raidou travels back, completing the repeatable quest and taking the warp gate back to floor 22. The guild vault would grow fatter, and a few more notes and theory took in the low light interior of a hall that had yet to see full utilization. Looking for Chest: ID# 146119 results: Loot: 2+[5/3/2]=12, Failure! Edited May 4, 2020 by Raidou Link to post Share on other sites
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