[PP-PT-F01] Forsaken Penance

[Mari 1]

Day had set well into the night; and rain poured from the heavens above - pelting a barely conscious Mari as she lay sprawled out amidst the mud and debris in front of the cemetery. She had tried...lords she had tried. It took years to get to this point. Mari thought she had been prepared. Mari thought she had everything she'd need to truly attempt to take it on. But she was so sorely mistaken. It's mitigation too high - her energy too low. Maybe...she should have rested more beforehand? No...she'd not be able to sleep properly knowing this was looming on the horizon. Even if she had, the outcome would have been the same. With her current build...her current skill set...even with all her upgraded armor, her levels...Mari was still one of the strongest in all of Aincrad... she still failed. So why?

It was impossible...

Mari should have known. There was a reason why there were no known accounts of people successfully completing redemption. It wasn't made to redeem anyone. It was made to kill. It was made to completely annihilate any with an orange cursor who dared to tread the path of penance. It forsook them. Dangled hope in front of them, only to cut the cancer out. If Mari continued...she knew she would have died. In the past Mari would have accepted such a fate - her name would finally join all the others that she had written upon that monument. Fitting. But she couldn't. She had too much to live for now.

At first, its hits didn't strike hard, she'd hurt herself more against its armor than its weak attack, but that was just to lull her into a sense of false security, its attacks growing more and more violent as the battle progressed. Its health bar barely dwindled even after her strongest attacks. The burning venom of her weapon did nothing to it.

A slight ringing in her ears, from messages going unanswered. From who, she was not sure. Mari had many contingencies in place - and it had been an entire day since she initially messaged people to let them know what she was doing. It was only natural people would worry. Right? Blurriness tinged the edges of Mari's vision as she struggled to lift her head up from the ground. Her entire body ached. A dull thrum of pain that dragged across her nervous system and set deep in her bones. Mari lifted a hand to open up her messaging system before it fell to the floor. Darkness took over her vision as the exhausted woman passed out.

There she lie, face down in the mud. The angry souls of the lives Mari took, high up in heaven pelting her in an unrelenting downpour. Each drop adding to the ruthless and stinging chill that set deeper and deeper into her tiny form.



Redemption, was no longer in the cards for Mari.


Mari | HP: 35/35 | EN: 25/25 | DMG: 12 | MIT:77 | ACC:4 | AA  | FL.AURA: 2 | BH:2 | BRN: 14 | ENV-O: 8 | PARA-V | LD:5  | True Tier 14                                                                                                                         

Edited 26 minutes ago by Mari

[Oscar 0]

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"Name: Oscar
True Tier: 11
Level: 35
Paragon Level: 69
HP: 1020/1020
EN: 134/134

Stats:
Damage: 24
Mitigation: 127
Accuracy: 3
Evasion: 1
Battle Healing: 56
Loot Die: 5
Stealth Rating: -5
AA 
PHASEVAMP-O: 168
REC: 4

Equipped Gear:
Weapon/Armor/Trinket: 
  - <<Kyūketsuki>> T4 KATANA//ABS.ACC/PHASE/VAMP2                                                                                                                                         
Armor/Trinket: 
  - <<TACTICAL UNDER ARMOR>> T4 HEAVY ARMOR//MIT/MIT/MIT/REC
Shield/Armor/Trinket: 
  - <<IVORY GOLD LEAF RING>> T1 TRINKET//ACC/ACC/EVA/EVA

Combat Mastery:
  - Combat Mastery: Damage R3

Combat Shift:
  - AOE Shift

Familiar Skill:
  - 

Custom Skill:
  - squabble up. 

Skills:
  - Battle Healing R5
  - Energist
  - Extended Weight Limit
  - Fighting Spirit
  - Heavy Armor R5
  - Howl
  - Katana R5
  - Quick Change
  - Searching R5

Extra Skills:
  - Forgotten King's Authority
  - Meditation
  - Parry
  - Survival

Inactive Extra Skills:

Addons:
  - Ferocity
  - Focused Howl
  - Iron Skin
  - Precision
  - Reveal
  - Stamina

Mods:
  - Detect
  - Impetus
  - Night Vision
  - Tracking

Inactive Mods:

Battle Ready Inventory:
  - <<CRYSTAL OF DIVINE LIGHT>> ID: 236066 x1
  - <<DARK SERAPHIM>> T4 HEAVY ARMOR - VAMP.D2/HOLY BLESSING 2 x
  - <<DIVINE RANCOR>> T4 KATANA - HOLY/HOLY/PHASE/BLIGHT x
  - <<GLOVES OF CAERUS>> T1 LIGHT ARMOR//3 LD x
  - <<IMUGI'S INSPIRATION>> MASS HEAL x
  - <<RHINO'S HORN>> ID: 236068 x
  - <<SANCTITY'S RUIN>> T4 KATANA - FROSTBITE/BLEED/BLIGHT/BURN x
  - <<TELEPORTATION CRYSTAL>> x
  - <<TIGER'S BALM>> ANTIDOTE x

Housing Buffs:
  - Basic Kitchen: 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.
  - Storage Closet: +1 Battle Ready Inventory Slot
  - Living Room: Increases out of combatHP regen by (5 * Tier HP) and decreases full energy regen to 2 Out of Combat Posts.
  - Attic (Bedroom): +1 Expertise to declared utility skill. Cannot boost a skill without ranks, or increase a skill past its maximum rank. Cannot boost a skill the user has not learned yet. Ranks obtained using this buff will make the mods of that rank available for purchase. Mods obtained this way are unusable if this buff is removed until the skill is returned to the appropriate rank by way of SP purchase.
  - Basement: Gain +1 to LD, Stealth Rating, Stealth Detection, or Prosperity to one post in a thread. Can be applied after a roll
  - Master Bedroom: -1 energy cost for the first three expenditures of each combat
  - Master Bathroom: The first time you would suffer DoT damage in a thread, reduce damage taken from DoT each turn by 25% (rounded down)
  - Extended Workshop: +2 Crafting EXP per crafting attempt and +1 crafting attempt per day
  - Ornate Fishing Pond: +2 Fishing EXP per Attempt and additional +1 LD & CD to fishing attempts.
  - Dining Hall: Turn 3 identical food items (same quality, tier, & enhancements) into a Feast. A Feast contains 6 portions of the food items sacrificed. Feasts created this way cannot be used outside of the thread they are created. Limit 1 item created per thread.

Guild Hall Buffs:

Scents of the Wild Totem:
  - Kumatetsu
Wedding Ring:

Crafting Profession:

Gathering Profession:
"