Hunting Grounds

[JudgeGuillotine]

𝔚ℑℭ𝔎𝔈ℜ ☠ 𝔐𝔄𝔑

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"Do not wail and do not weep, it's time for you to go to sleep. Little children, you were not clever. Now you'll stay with me forever."

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Wicker watched from across the plain at the other beginners, tackling boars and wolves which seemed to be the equivalent of rats in other games. These low level monsters seemed to appear in mobs and given that it was a beginning area, the respawn rate was likely fairly high. He drew his own weapon from the invisible bank of his character's inventory and a moment had to stay his hand as his instincts told him to target the closest player. He was forced to remind himself of his current level and equipment. Grimly he smiled and skulked out of sight to seek a mob elsewhere. He didn't have to move far out of the way, as the place was absolutely teeming with wild boar. They were quick to aggro, but fortunately Wicker was able to keep enough distance to only aggro two of the beasts. They turned with bright red eyes to face him. He kept a light stance with his sword arm fully extended. With a loose wrist and gentle grip, he steadied for an expected charge. The creatures easily telegraphed their move, digging into the ground with their hooves and lowered their heads with tusks jutting forward. The first one came and his partner trailed behind a few inches. Wicker easily side-stepped the first, but the second drifted, forcing him to kick and jump back. “Was that a fluke or an actual decent A.I.?” he asked. The boars gave no response as they broke into another dash, weaving slightly. Again, Wicker side-stepped, sweeping his blade across the first boar for minor damage before the second crashed into him. Surprisingly the impact felt quite real as he was hurled back, slamming into the earth. The little bar at the top left of his vision dwindled a little. There was a moment in which Wicker felt a shock of pain, but he wondered whether it was real or simply his brain's anticipation of pain as it adjusted to this new reality.

Staring at the sky, the wild boar's snort drew his attention. “Right?” his head turned as he rolled onto his stomach and pushed himself up. “No, pincer,” he corrected himself, seeing that one of the boars was braced to charge on each side. Wicker was beginning to think that skipping the manual's explanation of combat was a poor choice. No time. Each of the boars charged. Wicker loosened his grip and as the space closed, swung in a diagonal arc. The blade cleaved into the first boar's snout, splitting the head in a shower of red damage polygons that spasmed and exploded, tearing the virtual creature's body apart at it's death. The momentum carried into a secondary blow, which just scarcely grazed the other boar. The blow shifted the boar's direction and weakened the strike, causing the beast to strike his right leg and send him spinning onto the grassy field. His enemy was not so disoriented as he stumbled up from the wrecking blow. Another chip of his health vanished and the wild boar was set across from him, snorting and grunting. “Usually these types of creatures die quickly and easily, but these ones won't stand still long enough,” he complained. He readied his sword as the boar charged. Recollecting what he read about sword skills, he remembered something about them being activated through a movement or motion. His fingers traced his blade and the weapon glowed in a dull light, signaling the activation of his skill. He pressed an advance as the boar came into his hit box and performed a quick <>. Broken fragments of crimson data crashed around him as the creature exploded into a hundred colored pixels. Wicker ground his foot, nearly tripping forward from his own momentum as the light faded from his sword. “So that's a sword skill. Flashy,” he commented as the post-battle notification screen popped up, displaying the battle rewards. He tapped the on-screen button, acknowledging his small achievement as he drew back his hood and drew a hand through his hair. If this were reality, he would have broken a sweat, but he felt cool instead. At least now he to use his skills more often and he had a good handle on dealing with boars. “A few more of those things, then we'll try a wolf,” he told himself.
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[Yazarath]

Jayson Matthews

Jayson slowed his spinning. He was panting heavily covered in red pixels. Around him his victims shattered. The Salamander looked around the dark background and felt the watchful eyes. A notification pinged into view before him, lighting some of the near by trees. The notice read:

New Quest Unlocked:
Search for the Goblin King!!

The description explained that Jayson would attract a new enemy: Goblins. The Goblins had a Heirarchy, and the objective was to find the Goblin King and unlock the Quest Item.

Jayson heard a twig snap behind him, and had enough time to equip a healing crystal before the thing from the shadows lunged at him. Jayson dropped one of his swords and swung the other cutting the arm off the creature. Jay rolled forward grabbing his swords, and then slashed the creature savagely. The Salamander rocketed upwards, flying above the Forest canopy. Jay looked at his Skill level and his jaw dropped. He had been training for hours, but he gained days of exp. Excited Jayson flew towards the town of beginning, watching the world blur past him.

{Exit}  

[ChimiChacho]

Chacho

The beast tamer giggled, she was having fun. She didn't mind not joining the killing spree, she had made a good choice being a support character. She felt confident that no one would die on her watch, and subsequently it became her new goal. She waved as Taki took off, indicating she heard him. She was mildly curious as to where he was off to, but she didn't have time to ask. She called out another heal spell and the two fighting were momentarily engulfed with a soft glow of light before their HP maxed out again. Chacho sighed happily, once these two were leveled, they could go tackle the dungeon, then the boss. Once they hit floor two they could start a guild. They could be the strongest group in the game. With a small excited hop, Chacho shot off another spell killing a couple mobs that had tried to corner Nimm and Koku. With that little kill, she got a notification that she had leveled once again.  

[Duke of Balls]

TAKI INAZUMAUTSU
"Teddy"

XXXA small smile spread to his lips whenthe other noticed his presence. For one who looked so involved in the hunt, he was still keeping tabs on the number of enemies on the island. Luckily for him, he wouldn't appear due to his player status, not to mention his sneak level was increasing with him standing in such proximity to the other without being detected. Silently, he waited as he milked the other's weariness for his own gain, satisfied when the ability got to a certain level. Due to this newly enhanced ability, he was able to slip away undetected before he launched himself into the air, this time spiraling down onto the normal plane of the Hunting Grounds. Sighing, he decided it was time for him to work on his sword skill alone. Drawing his basic blade, he dashed through the fields, leveling both his speed and other stats significantly with every kill, becoming minutely stonger after each slash. After the onslaught continued for an hour or so, he quickly grew bored. The monsters weren't even a challenge for him anymore; and now he was sufficiently bored. Opening up his mod panel after he checked to see if anyone was around to see him batting at the air, he looked up the character he had just witnessed and added him to a monitor list, the only other members on that list being Chacho, Koku, and Nimm. With that done, he closed the menu, turned on a dime, and headed back to the Town of Beginnings. He needed a shield to level quicker...

((Exit))
((Sorry for the late response ^^; ))

Xcon299

 

[Bowiethenifty]

Gregory Benzin ♠ Markus
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Gregory stood there with spear in hand. Constantly for a bit he checked his surroundings. His movements were slow, cautious, he tried making as little noise as possible. He decided to keep his distance away from the other creatures on the island and make his way over to an open area. Maybe it was just him being paranoid but he was very wary of other players while outside cities and towns. Being brought up in ALO he learned to be constantly alert when it came to traveling alone. Player killers are always lurking close by, that was what he learned. He also didn't want to get caught by a player killer while fighting monsters at the same time. That would end very badly for him. At least in ALO he was apart of a guild and could call in back up at a moments notice. Unfortunately he didn't have the luxury right now. Keeping his eyes and ears open he constantly checked around him. Barely out of the corner of his eye he saw movement. A figure jumped off one of the edges of the island. It wasn't a monster that is for sure. Although it was foolish he rushed to where the person jumped off watching the small figure as they plummeted down to the plains below. In his mind the first thing that Gregory thought of was this person being a scout. A player that would gain data for player killers. In this way they could be involved in the work while not getting their hands dirty or in this case their player status. Usually he didn't exactly have a problem with people with those jobs. The fact that he was a potential target though frustrated him a bit. He was not going to go down, especially not this early on. The golden mechanical wings appeared on his back and he dove off the edge of the island. He decided to follow the supposed info broker in an attempt to find out why he was being watched in the first place.

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[Exits]

 

[ChimiChacho]

Chacho

Chacho spent the remainder of the day playing support to the two leveling characters before her. Occasionally, she would switch in here and there, but mostly she stood back, casting her healing skills and leveling her magic. Taki hadn't returned at all for the rest of the afternoon into evening, she couldn't sense him anywhere.
As the sun began to set, she called out to Nimm and Koku. Thats enough for today guys! You've got a bunch of experience under your belt, lets go back before it gets dark! Lola trotted up to her master and jumped onto her shoulders. Chacho gave her a scratch on the head before continuing. I don't know where Taki ran off to, but we had best go back, find an inn, and food. I'm pretty spent. Chacho gave a tired smile. In a regular battle, she had more than enough mana to cover a party, but she was firing off spells the entire day, and her blue bar was always at a minimum. She was tired. It would get better as her mana regen started up, but until then, the cait was spent.

edit sad (exit:Town off Beginnings))  

[Ring of Rosies]

☄n i m m☄
Karis Fujisaki

☞Nodding at Chacho as she left, Nimm continued training. Koku had disappeared to somewhere, and soon, she was waiting for more monsters to respawn yet again. Keeping in mind Chacho's warning, she sighed and decided to call it a day. The Imp muttered a healing spell and watched as her HP began to slowly move towards the green zone. She flew back off the island, just making it as her wings disappeared. The girl half-heartedly dealt with the rest of the monsters on her way back to the town, and watched as she leveled up again. After all that training, she had reached level fifteen, and she was sure if she stayed a few more hours she would soon be level sixteen. The respawn rate seemed to still be faster than normal, which was probably intended to combat the insane level curve from the original SAO. Or that's what Nimm had heard floating around in a few rumors. Nimm soon made her way to the Town of Beginnings, and sighed, suddenly tired.

Exit to Town of Beginnings

 

[LeaderOfTheFallen]

========Kurt Ambrose =====

Signed in :John Smith

Weapon Equipped: Single handed long sword

Back Ground song:Blood like roses

What in my mind:

>Crunch crunch crunch. The sound of foot steps falling on the dirt and rocks could be heard as a lone player made his way out onto a large field. The tall grass swayed a bit from the blowing of the breeze which also caused the players cloak and hair to sway in the breeze. The silence was grace full to the players ears.The beauty of the moment couldn't be recreated any where else for him beside here.

The quiet was broken by a simple sentence."It sure is beautiful" The player said simply. He relaxed in the moment of grace and beauty of the moment. Unfortunately the time was not to last as several enemies spawned in. A pack of wolves where moving in on Kurts position and had it now been for Kurt's already high detection skill they would have gone unnoticed. A wolf lunged at Kurts throat and was met with a flash of silver that was the speed of Kurts sword draw. The wolf was sent hurtling back into the tale grass a large gash down the side of its face which revealed the crimson genetic code that was suppose to be it's blood. "Look's like the quest will have to wait for a while" Kurt said as he brought his boot up to meet a wolf's teeth.  

[LeaderOfTheFallen]

=====Kurt Ambrose =====

Signed in :John Smith

Weapon Equipped: Single handed long sword

Back Ground song:Emotion of the soul

What in my mind:

>Kurt's health dropped a bit as a wolf latched onto his arm and began to try and tear it from his body. Kurt spun himself at a speed that was almost a blur causing the wolf to drop off and slid into Kurts longsword. The wolf died from the blade in its chest. He wretched it free as another wolf came for him at but was met with a fist to the teeth which sent the wolf back. kurts hand showed a few gashes from the wolfs teeth which in turn lowered its health. "this isn't getting any easier." he said as he jumped back just in time to dodge two attacks from a pair of wolves. Kurt's exp though was rising and peaked at 6 before the 6 turned to a 7. Kurt was pushed to the ground due to a wolf that had managed to get behind him. He managed to flip himself over. With a grab of the wolfs muzzle and a sickening twist broke the wolfs neck killing it instantly.The wolf disappeared in kurts arms and thankfully that was the last of them. Kurt looked up at his health and it had gone down just a quarter. He lay there battered but not beaten. h watched his health very slowly regain over time. Now it was time for that quest. The boars where simple to find and slay and within no time kurt had slayed his 25 boars and the gold was added to his account. He scrolled to his account when a item popped up. " whats this?" Opening the item it read 5x boar hide's and a steel dagger. he quickly put the items away in his inventory and looked up at the meadow as the silence came back sand so did his joy.  

[LeaderOfTheFallen]

=====Kurt Ambrose =====

Signed in :John Smith

Weapon Equipped: Single handed long sword

Back Ground song:Emotion of the soul

What in my mind:Time to head for that Inn

>Kurt felt the wind change and he awoke from his meditative like state which was more asleep then any thing.Kurt rose to his feet and found that the day light was fading fast and he would want to get to the town before night which at this point wasn't going to happen. Kurt began to walk back along the dirt trail he had taken to get here. "this place sure is empty" he said out loud tom himself. He was right to usually the hunting ground was full of people trying to complete quests 'I wonder if there spooked' he thought In the Morning he was going to go to the dungeon and map the area out knowing that some people might have already done it.Kurt after a while finally arrived back at the Main gates to the town of beginners. ' well i did get alot of stuff done today' he thought as he entered the city. [exit]