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Nice. Wonder if they have a Skylands around here. âĻ Eh, probably not.
She finds: North - Dream City; West - Wood Forest; South - Wood Forest; East - Mushroom Forest.
"'Mushroom Forest'? Sounds like a wilderness adventure title. I'll check it out."
Stealth Elf heads east.
"Geez, these are some pretty tall mushroom trees! I'd better get my daggers out, just in case some enemies come to attack me."
Stealth Elf equips Elven Sunblades. Stealth Elf takes readied action "Defend".
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by SugarNspikeS -
Opps first time using the footnotes section. Anyway just pointing out that I prefer to go more story-style writing than game-style, so I'll probably only do the game parts when leveling up and gaining experience points etc.
by SugarNspikeS
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Kryo materialized in his spawn location that he had set up a few days ago, just at Northern border of Dream city. He checked his control panel and made sure he still had all his equipment. He was in his light-weight black leather armor right at the moment but he didn't really like the color scheme so he pulled down the menu and adjusted the color of his armor and the accents through the use of a rainbow color wheel. When he got to the scheme he liked, dark blue armor with black and ice blue accents, he closed his clothing menu.
"Display map." He spoke and a the regional map appeared floating in front of him. He touched the holographic display and scrolled through the map getting ideas for what his next adventure should be. He hadn't explored much, so a lot of the areas still only showed the region name and very few specific locations. He saw that to the North of Dream city was a mountain that he had yet to discover the name of. It was tempting to go there, but from what he knew of these types of games, mountains were normally for more advanced levels and he was still level one. Dream city, however, was huge and it was where he had spent a majority of his time since he started coming here and yet he had still not managed to explore the whole city because it was so vast.
"Hmm, I haven't been over to the East side of the city yet. I might as well go check it out." He said to himself.
"It'll be nice to see what kind of shops they have over there."
He made his way over to the East side of the city after about an hour of walking and it was suddenly becoming clear to him that he should look into whether or not there were mounts available or perhaps vehicles as all this walking was going to be time consuming. Or maybe he could look into teleportation spells or portable gadgets that could do the same thing. He soon found himself in front of a large department store with at least five floors. He went inside to go look at the merchandise and see what was available for level ones like himself.
"Well, now it looks like I gotta go earn a little more coin. I better find a quest." He said as he walked out of the store. He looked at his map again and decided to go to the South East, to the Mushroom forest.
"Mushroom Forest? Sounds like someplace to find some easy enemies and some easy money."
He took out the bike from his inventory and rode it out of the city through the South entrance and then headed to the South East and rode through until the trees gave way to giant, tree-sized mushrooms. He braked and a few yards after the bike finally stopped. He got off the bike and it instantly went back to his inventory. He started walking through keeping his eyes open for any enemies he could attack. He equipped his swords in each hand and they began to glow as his magic flowed into them. The forest was a bit dark, but his glowing eyes seemed to help with that. Suddenly an arrow whizzed by his face and he turned to the direction it came from. There was a small group of what looked like tiny goblins that were shooting at him with primitive bows. He managed to dodge the arrows and went running up at them and sliced at them with his swords. They froze as his blades channeled his ice powers and, while they were frozen, he chopped them to bits.
[+10 exp]
[+10 exp]
[+10 exp]
His experience points went up with the first three that he killed. He then searched the goblins and stole all the gold they had as well as all their arrows. Their armor was worse than his own and he didn't ever bother with shields so he left those for someone else to take. He heard more grumbling in the distance and saw more goblins running through the underbrush right at him. He made short work of them as well.
[+10 exp]
[+10 exp]
[Level Up +1 Stat point]
[+10 exp]
Kryo stopped after he had killed the last goblin in the area and pulled up his control panel and added the Stat Point to his Cryomancy skill tree. He could now use any level 2 ice spells as well as all the other level 2 perks. He felt a little bit stronger and he went through the second group of goblins to loot any treasure they may have. He grabbed more gold and arrows as well as a few low level healing potions. It was as he was finishing his looting that he saw a small green elf creature with blue hair and a pair of shiny daggers creeping off in the distance. Her stance was clearly defensive and he wondered if there was something bigger out here than just the goblins. He equipped his cloak and his stealth went up by one level making him a little harder to see. He watched the elf's movements to see if there was a boss she was about to fight that he could take on himself after she left. He knew it was a little sneaky, but there was nothing wrong with studying an enemy while someone else attacks to find their weaknesses. That is, if there was an enemy. She may have been as lost in these woods as he was for all he knew.
STRIFE Turn Order: Stealth Elf (Bonus to Init from being prepared), Shrooman 1, Shrooman 2, Shrooman 3
"Welp. Here we go."
Stealth Elf uses COMMAND OPERANDI: BLADE FURY! Stealth Elf charges forward in a tornado of spinning knife blades, damaging the SHROOMEN caught in blast! SHROOMAN 1 takes 25 damage. It is dead. SHROOMAN 2 takes 23 damage. It is dead. SHROOMAN 3 takes 19 damage. It is dead.
Stealth Elf has won the encounter! She gains a total of 24 EXP.
Stealth Elf's NINJA POOL is out of energy. She will have to wait to use her damage-dealing Operandi until it recharges. In the meantime, Stealth Elf's SAINT FOUNTAIN and LIFE WELL are still teeming with power, however.
"Darn. Better be more careful with not wasting powerful attacks on minion enemies in the future."
Stealth Elf spots PC Kryo!
"Um... Hello? Are you one of the new players as well?"
"Yeah, I'm a little bit of a newbie here. I just hit level 2. I thought there might be some sort of boss out here or a side quest at the least, but all I've found so far is a bunch of goblins. But I guess it's good for leveling up and grinding out your skill points." Kryo explained.
This was the first player to actually talk to him since he started. It seemed like the higher levels didn't talk to the noobs that often.
"So why are you out in the forest all by yourself?"
Stealth Elf and Kryo can hear great rumblings coming from nearby. A loud roar pierces their ears.
"... Well, crap. Guess you were right about there being some sort of boss here."
A SHROOMAN COLOSSUS LEVEL 3 attacks!
STRIFE Turn Order: Shrooman Colossus, Kryo, Stealth Elf
SHROOMAN COLOSSUS attacks Stealth Elf with it's greatclub! Stealth Elf manages to dodge out of the way, due to being of the Ninja class and being trained in acrobatics.
"Whoa! That was close."
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not sure how well a turn order in fighting situations is going to work in this. It just doesn't feel very realistic that the enemy or player would just stand there waiting to be attacked. Perhaps a fighting system more like Skyrim, or a FPS might be better for a virtual reality type of environment like this.
by SugarNspikeS -
Sorry. I have played open-world games like Diablo ||| before, and I once tried DDO, but I see what you're saying. We should come up with a specific combat style in a Discussion or somethin\
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While the Shrooman colossus's club was still in the ground where Stealth Elf had been, Kryo jumped onto the club and ran up the giant mushroom creature's arm with a sword in each of his hands. When he got to the shoulder, he jumped high into the air above the creature's head, did a somersault and came down jabbing his swords into the creature's neck and slid about half way down its back pumping beams of freezing cold ice magic into the creature. The torso of the creature was now encased in ice as he kicked against his back pulling out the swords and landing on the ground behind the creature.
"That should make things a little easier." Kryo muttered, but he knew it was a higher level so he wasn't sure how much damage had actually been done.
Stealth Elf spend 10 NP to perform COMBAT OPERANDI: POISON SPORES. A cone of poisonous gas sprays from Stealth Elf's outstretched hands, dealing 2 damage to the SHROOMAN BEHEMOTH.
CURRENT HEALTH FOR SHROOMAN BEHEMOTH: 48/60
"Dangit! It didn't do the consecutive damage. And I can't risk a slashing attack or else I might break the ice casing!"
SHROOMAN COLOSSUS cannot act, as it is trapped by PC KRYO's ice.
"I don't think poison is going to do much good on this thing." Kryo stated as the creature struggled against the ice encasing its torso. He pulled up his control panel and looked at the list of spells he was able to use to see if he had anything that was effective against plant life. He saw a spell that looked like it would do some damage.
Kryo tapped into his manna and used a spell called "razor flake". He raised his hands and a grey cloud appeared above the colossus before a storm of icy shards fell from the cloud. The razor sharp flakes sliced into the monster's flesh doing a lot of damage. He looked at the HP meter.
25/60 hp
"Sweet, at this rate it'll be dead soon."
Stealth Elf spends 5 LP to perform COMMAND OPERANDI: STEALTHIER DECOY. She disappears, and an illusion takes her place. The SHROOMAN COLOSSUS has been fooled by her trick! It manages to break out of PC KRYO's ice and attack the decoy, upon which Stealth Elf spends another 10 LP to perform COMMAND OPERANDI: EXPLOSIVE DECOY! When the decoy is hit, it explodes, dealing 8 Damage to SHROOMAN COLOSSUS! Stealth Elf reappears.
SC HP: 17/60
"Alright! It took the bait! It's a bit stunned, Kryo, so do your attack now!"
0/60 HP
The creature fell forward and collapsed dead on the ground in front of the two of them.
+25 exp
+1 dual wield skill
+2 cryomancy skill
+1 light armor
Of course Kryo's numbers would be lower than Stealth Elf's as he was a level higher. He looked at the creature then up to the elf.
"So, you want first loot? I doubt it has anything that would be all that useful to me."
Stealth Elf has also gained a level! +10 to all Ability Pools. +2 to Damage with Ninja Pool abilities.
Stealth Elf loots the SHROOMAN COLOSSUS. She finds: 50 DC (Dream Coins), 1 RING OF PROTECTION, 1 WAND OF ICE BOLT, 2 POTIONS OF HEALING, 1 POTION OF INVISIBILITY.
"Alright! I'll take the coins and potions. You can have the ring, because I can dodge most attacks pretty well, and the wand. I can't use it, but you seem to be a wizard guy, so I bet you could use it."
"Where should we go next?" He asked. He was hoping to find a quest soon, so far there wasn't a lot turning up or maybe he was just looking in the wrong places. He also found it odd that only three people had logged on given all the hype in the real world about dreamworld. Maybe it was a different server. He put it all out of his mind and focused on the world in front of him.
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