Ceres had completely forgotten that there were other sailors that hadn't joined the contest by this point. She was just focused on 'the right to keep' her title of bar demon. As to her, if she couldn't beat someone like him she didn't have the right to that title either. Octavius tried to keep on fighting, and quite a fight he gave. But at his 20th mug things went wrong. Ceres had barely realized what was happening before the man was already falling over the edge of the ship. Though unluckily for him, she was still able to remain on her feet. Had she drank one or two more such tasks would have probably become impossible for her. She stumbled towards the edge, first getting a hold of the edge before grabbing the rope that by some miracle was holding on to her captain for the time being. It was as if fate itself wanted to keep the two of them together or something. First she managed to evade a water spout with a 50/50 chance of success. And now by what could only be called the luck of the gods themselves, the ship had prevented Octavius from a watery grave.
Strength wasn't the issue right now. While she wouldn't beat your average proper pirate in arm wrestling, she was at least strong enough to hoist one man back on board. The problem was keeping her balance while doing so. "Nnnish time ya...ya piked fer a sshim, cap!" She yelled, wondering if he could still hear her. She started pulling on the rope as hard as she could, though by trying to shift her weight she was thrown off balance. Her feet slipped away from over her, slamming her body against the ship's side. "I'm ta...ta fecn drank fer diz!" She growled, getting her bearings for a moment before trying again. This time she had more success, slowly pulling the man up to the deck again. Then finally she could grab his leg, and pull him on board again.
Ceres was completely drained now, having used whatever energy she had left to save her new captain's life. So as soon as he was safely on board, she fell back onto the deck and passed out as well. She wasn't sure if this man had entirely lost his wits from his golden years, or if he had always been this 'chaotic'. But she hadn't exactly been bored while with him, so there was that at least. The other sailors were smart enough to not to anything to them, even if they looked helpless. It was best not incur the wrath of the shotgun preacher, or the woman that could keep up with him and talked to him like he was no better than her, for that matter.
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I have been actively roleplaying for around 18 years now, since age 15. Which, as you might have guessed, makes me 33. I've done most of my rping on forums, averaging 2 to 4 paragraphs. Though I also LARP, and have played D&D for about 17 years. Real life has become a larger part of my life though, so my activity has lessened. Even so, I don't think I'll ever stop rping. :)
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Alakai suddenly heard a familiar sound behind him. The sound of someone leveling up. Well, it was about time too as these enemies should give her plenty of exp. And as a huge bonus, her mana would fully recover as well, even though her hp woudln't. But hp wasn't aproblem for her of course. Moments later the man could feel his body become lighter and less painful again. He would have most likely made it if she hadn't healed him, but it would have been incredibly close. And he felt a lot better now, even if still very tired.
With the bit of renewed energy he had gotten he charged the last spider. This time he didn't think of defence at all, and just went all-out to get the spider down as fast as possible. It dropped soon enough. Then a second later, Alakai almost did the same. He stumbled to the small side cave with an open door, then let himself fall on the ground once he had entered. The place was actually kind of cosy. Several stones you could sit on, surrounding a small fireplace with even a cooking pot on a tripod. These places were explained as lunch or resting area's for the people that used to work in the caves or mines before the monsters came. So now it probably wasn't any different. "I'm *pant* dead tired... *pant*" Alakai murmured as he laid there, deciding that he could eat laying down almost as well as sitting upright. "I *pant* have some food. Inventory." He spoke, the window opening in front of him instantly. He tried to click the lunchbuxes, but as soon as he would have touched the window, instead his hand automatically grabbed something out of the display in front of him. Like it was a portal to a small other dimension or something. "Interesting..." He mused, tossing one of the lunches towards Kali. They were properly packed, so no worries about the food getting dirty if she didn't manage to catch it.
He opened his own, checking to see what was inside. He had never really paid attention to what was in these regeneration items when it was a game. Two sandwiches, an apple, and a small leather pouch with some nut-looking things. He then took out the sandwich and took a bite. Immediately his face contorted. "Ugh...the hell? This food tastes like digestive biscuits..." He muttered, looking at what was in his hands. It had lettuce, cucumber, egg...the usual for a healthy sandwich really. Yet it barely had any taste, and the taste was all wrong as well! Even so, as soon as he had swallowed the bite his hp and mana started to regenerate more quickly. So it still had game effects.
(The idea for now is that, while ingredients themselves taste like normal, though maybe with different names. But when you use the cooking skill to make something out of it, it tastes like digestive bisquits/water. There's more to it, but that's something for later. ;) It has to do with why my character has cooking as sub class.)
With the bit of renewed energy he had gotten he charged the last spider. This time he didn't think of defence at all, and just went all-out to get the spider down as fast as possible. It dropped soon enough. Then a second later, Alakai almost did the same. He stumbled to the small side cave with an open door, then let himself fall on the ground once he had entered. The place was actually kind of cosy. Several stones you could sit on, surrounding a small fireplace with even a cooking pot on a tripod. These places were explained as lunch or resting area's for the people that used to work in the caves or mines before the monsters came. So now it probably wasn't any different. "I'm *pant* dead tired... *pant*" Alakai murmured as he laid there, deciding that he could eat laying down almost as well as sitting upright. "I *pant* have some food. Inventory." He spoke, the window opening in front of him instantly. He tried to click the lunchbuxes, but as soon as he would have touched the window, instead his hand automatically grabbed something out of the display in front of him. Like it was a portal to a small other dimension or something. "Interesting..." He mused, tossing one of the lunches towards Kali. They were properly packed, so no worries about the food getting dirty if she didn't manage to catch it.
He opened his own, checking to see what was inside. He had never really paid attention to what was in these regeneration items when it was a game. Two sandwiches, an apple, and a small leather pouch with some nut-looking things. He then took out the sandwich and took a bite. Immediately his face contorted. "Ugh...the hell? This food tastes like digestive biscuits..." He muttered, looking at what was in his hands. It had lettuce, cucumber, egg...the usual for a healthy sandwich really. Yet it barely had any taste, and the taste was all wrong as well! Even so, as soon as he had swallowed the bite his hp and mana started to regenerate more quickly. So it still had game effects.
(The idea for now is that, while ingredients themselves taste like normal, though maybe with different names. But when you use the cooking skill to make something out of it, it tastes like digestive bisquits/water. There's more to it, but that's something for later. ;) It has to do with why my character has cooking as sub class.)
Alakai didn't have time to reply, as he had to focus on the fight itself. Though he did take what she said into consideration when deciding what to do. Had he been a healer that could stay back, he would have been an excellent group leader, keeping an eye on everyone's health, mana, debuffs and damage output and intake. But he had never been confident enough to play a role like that. "Focus on the poisons!" The man exclaimed just as his flowing water cooldown finished. And as she had suggested, he quickly jumped back with a backflip, landed himself against the wall behind him, and jumped over the spiders like it was nothing. All to his own surprise as well. Sure, he had thought about maybe using a stepping stone to jump over them, and that he had to first back away. But it was like his body naturally reacted to that, and performed moves he had no knowledge of. Almost like instinct? It was quite an exhilarating and interesting feeling.
For the next 20 seconds all he focused on was evading the spiders, letting his natural health regeneration skill do it's work. It wasn't much, but everything helped right now. Luckily these seemed to be a type of spider using webs, which meant they weren't hunters. So they were slow enough for Alakai to evade. He hoped Kali would understand that 'focus on the poisons' meant cleansing the poisons already on him, then taking as much time as possible to regenerate mana for another heal and one or two more poison removals. After those 20 seconds he turned around to face the spiders again, dashing right beside one of them, keeping it in between himself and the other spider so only one could attack him for a little bit. Once again he used his brawl skill, slowing the spider's attack rate by 20% and increasing his own dodge chance by 15% for the duration, which was 6 seconds, with only an 8 second cooldown.
The second spider was on him once his brawl had finished. So now he was starting to get damage again. Though he used brawl again as soon as it was off cooldown. This dropped it, leaving only one spider to defeat. However Alakai's health had dropped to 422/1280 now. About 1/3. And he had two stacks of poison on him again. "Please tell me you have enough for at least a poison cleanse..." The man panted, starting to feel pretty tired and hurt by now. The poisons were still doing the most damage though, so they had to go first. "And a heal if you have the mana left." If she didn't, this was probably going to be a 50/50 fight for him, depending on who scored more 'critical hits'.
For the next 20 seconds all he focused on was evading the spiders, letting his natural health regeneration skill do it's work. It wasn't much, but everything helped right now. Luckily these seemed to be a type of spider using webs, which meant they weren't hunters. So they were slow enough for Alakai to evade. He hoped Kali would understand that 'focus on the poisons' meant cleansing the poisons already on him, then taking as much time as possible to regenerate mana for another heal and one or two more poison removals. After those 20 seconds he turned around to face the spiders again, dashing right beside one of them, keeping it in between himself and the other spider so only one could attack him for a little bit. Once again he used his brawl skill, slowing the spider's attack rate by 20% and increasing his own dodge chance by 15% for the duration, which was 6 seconds, with only an 8 second cooldown.
The second spider was on him once his brawl had finished. So now he was starting to get damage again. Though he used brawl again as soon as it was off cooldown. This dropped it, leaving only one spider to defeat. However Alakai's health had dropped to 422/1280 now. About 1/3. And he had two stacks of poison on him again. "Please tell me you have enough for at least a poison cleanse..." The man panted, starting to feel pretty tired and hurt by now. The poisons were still doing the most damage though, so they had to go first. "And a heal if you have the mana left." If she didn't, this was probably going to be a 50/50 fight for him, depending on who scored more 'critical hits'.
Sooo...I'm out of idea's on howto continue...this. It was meant as 2~3 post thing, but this is going on forever. >.> Can't you just let him lose already? Or are you planning to steal one of my character's 'things' away? >.>
Her plan backfired, as now Octavius was also drinking faster. Or had it? He was already struggling, to say the least. So drinking faster would affect him faster too. And she figured she now felt about the same as Octavius did 3 or 4 mugs ago, and she wasn't about to be beaten by a pirate from the previous age! "Num'r dwenny." She muttered, moving to fill her mug once again. She wondered if Octavius was even still able to fill his one at this point as he had only barely managed with his 19th. "I-- I's no dun yed. Ye wun beed me!" She spoke as she raised her mug again, waiting to see if Octavius was ready to pass out yet, as he clearly wasn't going to give up before that. If anything, he had a willpower stronger than hers, to be able to keep up with her despite him being at a disadvantage. And to top it all off he was the first to keep up with her this far in a good 10 years or so. If anything, I have to admit I respect his will and stamina a little... She thought to herself, deciding right now that she liked people that could keep up with her drinking capabilities up until this point.
Well, that's your fault isn't it? :P Also the drinking thing was kinda just meant as filler. No need to keep this going for god knows how long. ^^;;
Sorry its taking so long every time. >_< Though this time it's more because it's a bit difficult to think of another post which contains more of the same. ^^;;
Who cares if it's dying or not? As long as I can still rp with the people I'm rping with now, I don't. Heck I can generally easily find new rp partners when I want. So I doubt it's 'dying'.
Just like in the game, enemies disappeared after 15 seconds in a burst of sparkly energy. And just like in the game, every time they beat one there was something laying beside it on the ground. Kali had picked up the most common item so far, and Alakai grabbed all the gold and kept it separate. They had only gathered 200 gold or so, but it was still enough. And the spider legs...well, surely a shop would buy them. Though after just about two hours both of them were starting to get tired. Alakai didn't show it much. He didn't want to show it but he was having too much fun to think of how tired he was. He did agree that they should rest, though they had to push just a little bit further.
"We can't just yet. There is a small safe zone just up ahead. We should go there so I can start a camp fire and see if crafting still works as well. I actually took the cooking sub-class, so I'm pretty sure I can make some food with some spider legs and a mana regenerating tea with some of the...ingredients I managed to pick up." She probably didn't want to know what was in said tea. As it was made from a special species of fungus and water. The fungus grew in pretty much every cave so he had picked up some along the way.
The next fight happened only moments later. And this time it was a little different. This wasn't the end of the dungeon yet, but this was just before a safe zone. And though in the beta it hadn't been like this, there were three large spiders guarding that area now. Apparently they had stumbled upon one of the cave's spider nests... "Oh shit...this isn't good." Alakai whispered as he looked around the corner. "I'm glad my tanking passive ranked up during that last fight. It's not a lot, but going from four hp a sec to seven definitely helps. For this fight, better stay back a bit. And don't cleanse poison until I have all three poisons on me okay? I'll run in first and draw their attention. You come after me as soon as all three are close to me." He thought a bit more, wondering how they could increase their chances of beating all three right now. "I have an idea too. Monks are quick, so this might work. Once I almost have the second one down, tell me if you have enough mana for another heal or not. If not, I'll start kiting the third so you can regenerate just a little bit for another heal." It was a pretty standard tactic for some raids in mmorpg's. When a group was too large to handle, all you could do was kite or use crowd control. But they didn't have the latter. And usually you did kiting with a second tank. So he hoped this would work.
"Here I go!" The man stormed into the larger area, and immediately attacked one of the spiders as he ran past it. A basic attack, but enough to get a bit of aggro. The other two spiders turned, glared at Alakai, then charged at him as well. Now it was finally time to use his cooldown. One large spider took about 7 seconds, so he hoped to finish 1 off in the 15 seconds his skill lasted. "Brawl!" His fists and legs exploded into a whirlwind around him again, doing about 100 damage on each enemy. He immediately followed that up with a second brawl, to increase his threat enough so Kali wouldn't get aggro. Luckily during the last hour or so he had been able to train his dodging skills. It was hard getting used to how your body almost seemed to move automatically when you wanted to do something. But he was getting used to it by now. The spiders attacked as well, and now every two or three attacks Alakai managed to dodge one of them. "Flowing water." He then spoke, his entire demeanour suddenly changing to what looked like either giving up, or complete tranquility. His movements suddenly lost their strength. And as if by magic, he instead started blocking and deflecting attacks like a martial arts master from an action movie.
By now, Kali was probably already casting to remove the poisons on him. It was weird that he had gotten used to the feeling of the poison. Maybe because you didn't feel nearly as much pain in this world as they were used to. The feeling actually kind of resembled sore muscles after manual labour. Still though, the poisons had to be removed. Being killed aside, the man could feel that the lower his health went, the more pain his body felt overall. It seemed that that hadn't changed from the real world. The more wounds you sustained, the more pain you were in. So it was now a test of his will to fight through the pain and Kali's mana holding out.
"We can't just yet. There is a small safe zone just up ahead. We should go there so I can start a camp fire and see if crafting still works as well. I actually took the cooking sub-class, so I'm pretty sure I can make some food with some spider legs and a mana regenerating tea with some of the...ingredients I managed to pick up." She probably didn't want to know what was in said tea. As it was made from a special species of fungus and water. The fungus grew in pretty much every cave so he had picked up some along the way.
The next fight happened only moments later. And this time it was a little different. This wasn't the end of the dungeon yet, but this was just before a safe zone. And though in the beta it hadn't been like this, there were three large spiders guarding that area now. Apparently they had stumbled upon one of the cave's spider nests... "Oh shit...this isn't good." Alakai whispered as he looked around the corner. "I'm glad my tanking passive ranked up during that last fight. It's not a lot, but going from four hp a sec to seven definitely helps. For this fight, better stay back a bit. And don't cleanse poison until I have all three poisons on me okay? I'll run in first and draw their attention. You come after me as soon as all three are close to me." He thought a bit more, wondering how they could increase their chances of beating all three right now. "I have an idea too. Monks are quick, so this might work. Once I almost have the second one down, tell me if you have enough mana for another heal or not. If not, I'll start kiting the third so you can regenerate just a little bit for another heal." It was a pretty standard tactic for some raids in mmorpg's. When a group was too large to handle, all you could do was kite or use crowd control. But they didn't have the latter. And usually you did kiting with a second tank. So he hoped this would work.
"Here I go!" The man stormed into the larger area, and immediately attacked one of the spiders as he ran past it. A basic attack, but enough to get a bit of aggro. The other two spiders turned, glared at Alakai, then charged at him as well. Now it was finally time to use his cooldown. One large spider took about 7 seconds, so he hoped to finish 1 off in the 15 seconds his skill lasted. "Brawl!" His fists and legs exploded into a whirlwind around him again, doing about 100 damage on each enemy. He immediately followed that up with a second brawl, to increase his threat enough so Kali wouldn't get aggro. Luckily during the last hour or so he had been able to train his dodging skills. It was hard getting used to how your body almost seemed to move automatically when you wanted to do something. But he was getting used to it by now. The spiders attacked as well, and now every two or three attacks Alakai managed to dodge one of them. "Flowing water." He then spoke, his entire demeanour suddenly changing to what looked like either giving up, or complete tranquility. His movements suddenly lost their strength. And as if by magic, he instead started blocking and deflecting attacks like a martial arts master from an action movie.
By now, Kali was probably already casting to remove the poisons on him. It was weird that he had gotten used to the feeling of the poison. Maybe because you didn't feel nearly as much pain in this world as they were used to. The feeling actually kind of resembled sore muscles after manual labour. Still though, the poisons had to be removed. Being killed aside, the man could feel that the lower his health went, the more pain his body felt overall. It seemed that that hadn't changed from the real world. The more wounds you sustained, the more pain you were in. So it was now a test of his will to fight through the pain and Kali's mana holding out.
They continued on for a bit, and once again a spider attacked them. This time a small one. Or rather...two small ones, as another one suddenly jumped down from the ceiling! One managed to bite Alakai right away as he was fending off the one that had come from the ceiling. "Ugh disgusting things! Leave us alone already!" Alakai exclaimed as he pummelled them both a few times. They dropped pretty quickly since these were just smaller ones. These spiders were relatively easy in the game, even if they were level 17. And in most mmorpg's you could handle enemies of 2 to even 4 levels higher. You were, however, given penalties. Right now it was -5% damage, evasion and hit chance. Still manageable. Kali was mostly here to make things go faster and to be sure he didn't die. As he didn't want to take that chance. Though he didn't mind helping her out a little either. People that were friendly like her deserved more than a fighting chance in a world like this, in his opinion. So they could keep the ones intent on harm at bay. As that would most likely become a reality soon enough.
"Let's see..." He mused at her question. "In the game I ran through this place in 20 minutes tops at level 18, without a party and only one short break. Judging by how it was still light outside when we arrived here, I think we can conclude that the game's 2 hour day cycle has been scaled up. So that would take us...about 5 hours. So we'll be able to exit again well before the sun goes down. Actually, I plan to stay around this area until tomorrow, grinding quests, and if those don't exist, grinding monsters instead. I aim to get to level 18 by tomorrow, then head back to the starting town and buy better equipment. I should have some items to sell or use by then as well. So...ah...you're free to join me if you want. Not just to be my pocket healer of course! I mean, it's nice to have a healer in this world, and things would go a lot faster for me. I can't deny that my top priority is to get myself stronger right now, but I don't mind doing that together with someone. And since...you know, we already partied together and such." Now he felt awkward. Being confident was easy when it was an avatar on screen. Now that he was here himself though...
"Anyway, think about it. Let's continue for the time being. It'll be hard work, but the pay off will be worth it." The hardest part of the dungeon was yet to come. Here, spiders weren't that frequent yet. But the population would slowly increase until 3 or 4 small spiders at every corner would be normal. Not to mention the miniboss at the end. Luckily there were only 8 large spiders on the way there, mostly separate from each other.
(How about we skip ahead just a bit? Like, say, half-way, and jump in again at the fight just before they arrive at a safe area.)
"Let's see..." He mused at her question. "In the game I ran through this place in 20 minutes tops at level 18, without a party and only one short break. Judging by how it was still light outside when we arrived here, I think we can conclude that the game's 2 hour day cycle has been scaled up. So that would take us...about 5 hours. So we'll be able to exit again well before the sun goes down. Actually, I plan to stay around this area until tomorrow, grinding quests, and if those don't exist, grinding monsters instead. I aim to get to level 18 by tomorrow, then head back to the starting town and buy better equipment. I should have some items to sell or use by then as well. So...ah...you're free to join me if you want. Not just to be my pocket healer of course! I mean, it's nice to have a healer in this world, and things would go a lot faster for me. I can't deny that my top priority is to get myself stronger right now, but I don't mind doing that together with someone. And since...you know, we already partied together and such." Now he felt awkward. Being confident was easy when it was an avatar on screen. Now that he was here himself though...
"Anyway, think about it. Let's continue for the time being. It'll be hard work, but the pay off will be worth it." The hardest part of the dungeon was yet to come. Here, spiders weren't that frequent yet. But the population would slowly increase until 3 or 4 small spiders at every corner would be normal. Not to mention the miniboss at the end. Luckily there were only 8 large spiders on the way there, mostly separate from each other.
(How about we skip ahead just a bit? Like, say, half-way, and jump in again at the fight just before they arrive at a safe area.)
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