Post by The Hackfather on Apr 9, 2007 10:38:04 GMT -5
The freshly created Adept Rogue named Ryzen gated in to the seemingly peaceful looking field of Delta Bursting Passed Over Aqua Field. He looked about the field with disinterest as he shook his head. He wanted to dive into his inquiry into the events of R:2 where players would not log in and were in comas, but he knew that nobody would take him seriously as a weak newbie. He would have to gain strength, power, and reputation to accomplish this end. He looks at his own appearance, something he had not done at all during the character creation process.
His was a unique looking character of sorts. His torso was a thin silver chainmail surrounded in black and white loose fitting cloth. His forearms were covered in black metal arm guards that covered his entire forearm and the top of his hand.A white frame appears around the edge of these arm guards. His lower legs had black boots on them with a white edge near the feet. His waist wore a silver crest of sorts with a black ribbon hanging on the back of it similar to Haseo's edge punisher form. His hair and eyes were a silver-like color.
"...Well...this is a rather unique appearance." Ryzen says as he toggles the interface. After looking at several things, he runs towards a nearby group of goblins, typical prey for the beginning newbie. Ryzen positions himself behind the group.
"Okay...so my weapon should automatically draw when I attack...according to the weapon hierarchy I should have the one handed sword first..." Ryzen muses to himself as he initiates the attack command. He charges forward striking one goblin and sending it clear flying across the battle fence that suddenly popped up...but Ryzen was holding an Edge Punisher style of weapon: A Broad Maiden.
"...Okay...that was unexpected…” Ryzen says shrugging. He proceeded to begin the battle with the goblins.
Elsewhere in the Serpent of Lore, Yata and Pi stand waiting for Haseo. Pi turns to Yata.
“Master Yata, why do we need Haseo? Surely I could do this mission myself with Kuhn.” Pi asks the Macabre Dancer curiously. Yata with a stoic look on his face rolls his eyes towards her.
“Even though after the incident with Cubia, the Epitaphs returned to their original users, Haseo is still the strongest among us currently. Also something like this would probably grasp his interest significantly. With all that he did for us, he at least deserves to be informed on this subject.”
As if on cue, the white Adept Rogue walks in with an intrigued look on his face. He puts his hand on the waist and stares at Yata and Pi for a moment before he speaks.
“Yata...what is it? Why did you bring me here?” Haseo asked a bit hurriedly. Yata turns around and looks at a monitor to Haseo’s agitation while Pi continued to look at the rogue. After a moment, Yata begins to speak while coding begins to appear rapidly on the screen.
“Corbenik has resurfaced…” Yata says bluntly. This immediately gets Haseo stirred as he walks forward.
“Ovan?! He’s back?!” Haseo said with a tint of hope in his voice. Pi shakes her head in response.
“No…Ovan has not appeared…only his epitaph” Pi says bluntly. Haseo has one of those I don’t understand looks on his face. Pi begins to speak again in response.
“When the Epitaphs were dispersed back into their original users, we all got our avatar back for some reason, such as I can use Tarvos again. However since Ovan is no longer active, his epitaph, Corbenik, wandered aimlessly through the system until just recently.”
As Haseo opens his mouth to speak, Yata pulls an image on screen of Ryzen fighting the goblin party. Yata turns and looks at Haseo bemused.
“Look familiar? That is the one that Corbenik has attached itself to.” Yata says plainly. Haseo looks at the weak adept rogue on screen with an annoyed look on his face.
“Okay, so Ovan’s epitaph attached itself to some newbie. What do you want me to do about it?” Haseo says in his typical who gives a damn tone. Pi raises her fist in agitation but Yata shakes his head.
“Despite his low PC level, Corbenik is just as powerful as it was when it was in Ovan’s hands. He is an adept rogue like yourself, and when Corbenik attached itself to the PC his prechosen weapon advancement changed to Edge Punisher, Scythe, and Bayonet…something which is not supposed to even be possible. If he were to awaken completely unaware of what was going on, and he unknowingly data drains a player, he could put them into a coma. We must encourage him to join us so that he may understand his power before it goes rampant.” Yata says in his prophetic tone. Haseo sighs.
“What’s wrong? The playboy and the old hag can’t handle it?” Haseo says with a smirk towards Pi. This pushes her to move as she flies through the air and kicks Haseo in the face knocking the Adept Rogue into a wall. Haseo stands up.
“Guess I deserved that one.” Haseo says.
“Are you two finished?” Yata asks with an annoyed tone.
“Yes Master Yata” Pi says going back to her original position. Haseo looks at Yata.
“Fine, I will go and deal with this new guy…” Haseo says as he turns to leave. Yata and Pi stand there in silence as he leaves speaking only after he goes.
“Shall I go after him Master Yata?” Pi asks the Adminstrator. Yata nods.
“Yes…Haseo’s own avatar is in question…though his PC is still powerful, when the Epitaphs reverted, the Skeith Epitaph returned to it’s original form, the one that he started with.” Yata says. Pi nods and gates out.
Exiting the Serpent of Lore from the normal @home door, Haseo agitatedly begins walking towards the Chaos Gate. He pulls up his Member Address list and sighs when he finds that Shino is not online yet. Her classes must have run late today. Haseo contemplates having Azure Kite and Azure Balmung go with him, Aura’s ‘present’ for everything Haseo did, but Haseo thinks against it. It was a level one area with weak enemies, and he was the great Terror of Death, now a legend in The World. What problem could it be, Haseo would think to himself as he enters the dome and gates into the field.
Meanwhile back in the field, Ryzen finishes off the fifth battle of goblins. He had leveled up four times in the process, which struck Ryzen as a bit odd. Little did he know that Corbenik was feeding strength into Ryzen, Corbenik wanted him to become powerful…like Ovan. As he walks through a narrow area leading to the next island with more battles, he passes by another player sitting on the coast looking at the ocean. It was a female Harvest Cleric wearing a green top, white stocking and hat, and with a wing-like cloak. It was Atoli. With eyes closed, he walks by the cleric who makes no reaction to his passing. Ryzen hears a squeaking sound and looks up to see a Silver Kitsune lucky animal…a new Lucky Animal added recently that was said to be rather potent in effect. Ryzen had read the manual and found that the objective was to give the animal the proverbial ‘swift kick in the ass’ for a benefit. Ryzen decided to give it a shot as he broke into a dash. The little silver fox had a bead of sweat run down it’s head as it began to run from the adept rogue. This commotion gets the attention of Atoli as she stands up and looks at Ryzen.
“Please leave that poor little animal alone.” Atoli says to the adept rogue. Ryzen ignores her and draws his Broad Leggend as he manages to corner the thing into an indenture into the wall. Ryzen has an evil smile on his face as he prepares to thrust forward and strike the animal…until a shrill voice calls out.
“Mumyn Lei!”
Ryzen suddenly drops his sword as his PC goes to sleep. The Silver Kitsune runs out of the hole and runs towards Atoli jumping into her arms. Atoli smiles and pets the thing which responded positively to her nuzzling her. Atoli turns to the animal and smiles while speaking to it.
“It’s okay…you are safe now you precious little thing.” Atoli says as she begins to walk off. Ryzen’s player looking through the visor has an extremely agitated look on his face.
I am going to kill her when I get more levels…what the hell is her issue, it’s a stupid electronic animal in a game! What is a top level player doing in a lower area like this anyway?! Ryzen thinks to himself as malice fills his mind. Atoli suddenly hears the ominous ‘ping’ sound and turns but sees nothing. Shrugging she continues on and ends up going out of sight
A minute later, the sleep wears off. Annoyed with the experience, he sighs and begins to carry on. He sees another group of goblins and runs to engage them taking out his anger for the cleric on the monsters…he would have his day with that cleric eventually.
Meanwhile, shadowing the adept rogue, IYOTEN and Asta lurk. They decided they would wait until he got into the beast temple to make their move.
Elsewhere, Haseo gates in and sighs. He uses an item causing a steam bike to appear underneath him and he begins to go through the area looking for the target Yata had painted out.
His was a unique looking character of sorts. His torso was a thin silver chainmail surrounded in black and white loose fitting cloth. His forearms were covered in black metal arm guards that covered his entire forearm and the top of his hand.A white frame appears around the edge of these arm guards. His lower legs had black boots on them with a white edge near the feet. His waist wore a silver crest of sorts with a black ribbon hanging on the back of it similar to Haseo's edge punisher form. His hair and eyes were a silver-like color.
"...Well...this is a rather unique appearance." Ryzen says as he toggles the interface. After looking at several things, he runs towards a nearby group of goblins, typical prey for the beginning newbie. Ryzen positions himself behind the group.
"Okay...so my weapon should automatically draw when I attack...according to the weapon hierarchy I should have the one handed sword first..." Ryzen muses to himself as he initiates the attack command. He charges forward striking one goblin and sending it clear flying across the battle fence that suddenly popped up...but Ryzen was holding an Edge Punisher style of weapon: A Broad Maiden.
"...Okay...that was unexpected…” Ryzen says shrugging. He proceeded to begin the battle with the goblins.
Elsewhere in the Serpent of Lore, Yata and Pi stand waiting for Haseo. Pi turns to Yata.
“Master Yata, why do we need Haseo? Surely I could do this mission myself with Kuhn.” Pi asks the Macabre Dancer curiously. Yata with a stoic look on his face rolls his eyes towards her.
“Even though after the incident with Cubia, the Epitaphs returned to their original users, Haseo is still the strongest among us currently. Also something like this would probably grasp his interest significantly. With all that he did for us, he at least deserves to be informed on this subject.”
As if on cue, the white Adept Rogue walks in with an intrigued look on his face. He puts his hand on the waist and stares at Yata and Pi for a moment before he speaks.
“Yata...what is it? Why did you bring me here?” Haseo asked a bit hurriedly. Yata turns around and looks at a monitor to Haseo’s agitation while Pi continued to look at the rogue. After a moment, Yata begins to speak while coding begins to appear rapidly on the screen.
“Corbenik has resurfaced…” Yata says bluntly. This immediately gets Haseo stirred as he walks forward.
“Ovan?! He’s back?!” Haseo said with a tint of hope in his voice. Pi shakes her head in response.
“No…Ovan has not appeared…only his epitaph” Pi says bluntly. Haseo has one of those I don’t understand looks on his face. Pi begins to speak again in response.
“When the Epitaphs were dispersed back into their original users, we all got our avatar back for some reason, such as I can use Tarvos again. However since Ovan is no longer active, his epitaph, Corbenik, wandered aimlessly through the system until just recently.”
As Haseo opens his mouth to speak, Yata pulls an image on screen of Ryzen fighting the goblin party. Yata turns and looks at Haseo bemused.
“Look familiar? That is the one that Corbenik has attached itself to.” Yata says plainly. Haseo looks at the weak adept rogue on screen with an annoyed look on his face.
“Okay, so Ovan’s epitaph attached itself to some newbie. What do you want me to do about it?” Haseo says in his typical who gives a damn tone. Pi raises her fist in agitation but Yata shakes his head.
“Despite his low PC level, Corbenik is just as powerful as it was when it was in Ovan’s hands. He is an adept rogue like yourself, and when Corbenik attached itself to the PC his prechosen weapon advancement changed to Edge Punisher, Scythe, and Bayonet…something which is not supposed to even be possible. If he were to awaken completely unaware of what was going on, and he unknowingly data drains a player, he could put them into a coma. We must encourage him to join us so that he may understand his power before it goes rampant.” Yata says in his prophetic tone. Haseo sighs.
“What’s wrong? The playboy and the old hag can’t handle it?” Haseo says with a smirk towards Pi. This pushes her to move as she flies through the air and kicks Haseo in the face knocking the Adept Rogue into a wall. Haseo stands up.
“Guess I deserved that one.” Haseo says.
“Are you two finished?” Yata asks with an annoyed tone.
“Yes Master Yata” Pi says going back to her original position. Haseo looks at Yata.
“Fine, I will go and deal with this new guy…” Haseo says as he turns to leave. Yata and Pi stand there in silence as he leaves speaking only after he goes.
“Shall I go after him Master Yata?” Pi asks the Adminstrator. Yata nods.
“Yes…Haseo’s own avatar is in question…though his PC is still powerful, when the Epitaphs reverted, the Skeith Epitaph returned to it’s original form, the one that he started with.” Yata says. Pi nods and gates out.
Exiting the Serpent of Lore from the normal @home door, Haseo agitatedly begins walking towards the Chaos Gate. He pulls up his Member Address list and sighs when he finds that Shino is not online yet. Her classes must have run late today. Haseo contemplates having Azure Kite and Azure Balmung go with him, Aura’s ‘present’ for everything Haseo did, but Haseo thinks against it. It was a level one area with weak enemies, and he was the great Terror of Death, now a legend in The World. What problem could it be, Haseo would think to himself as he enters the dome and gates into the field.
Meanwhile back in the field, Ryzen finishes off the fifth battle of goblins. He had leveled up four times in the process, which struck Ryzen as a bit odd. Little did he know that Corbenik was feeding strength into Ryzen, Corbenik wanted him to become powerful…like Ovan. As he walks through a narrow area leading to the next island with more battles, he passes by another player sitting on the coast looking at the ocean. It was a female Harvest Cleric wearing a green top, white stocking and hat, and with a wing-like cloak. It was Atoli. With eyes closed, he walks by the cleric who makes no reaction to his passing. Ryzen hears a squeaking sound and looks up to see a Silver Kitsune lucky animal…a new Lucky Animal added recently that was said to be rather potent in effect. Ryzen had read the manual and found that the objective was to give the animal the proverbial ‘swift kick in the ass’ for a benefit. Ryzen decided to give it a shot as he broke into a dash. The little silver fox had a bead of sweat run down it’s head as it began to run from the adept rogue. This commotion gets the attention of Atoli as she stands up and looks at Ryzen.
“Please leave that poor little animal alone.” Atoli says to the adept rogue. Ryzen ignores her and draws his Broad Leggend as he manages to corner the thing into an indenture into the wall. Ryzen has an evil smile on his face as he prepares to thrust forward and strike the animal…until a shrill voice calls out.
“Mumyn Lei!”
Ryzen suddenly drops his sword as his PC goes to sleep. The Silver Kitsune runs out of the hole and runs towards Atoli jumping into her arms. Atoli smiles and pets the thing which responded positively to her nuzzling her. Atoli turns to the animal and smiles while speaking to it.
“It’s okay…you are safe now you precious little thing.” Atoli says as she begins to walk off. Ryzen’s player looking through the visor has an extremely agitated look on his face.
I am going to kill her when I get more levels…what the hell is her issue, it’s a stupid electronic animal in a game! What is a top level player doing in a lower area like this anyway?! Ryzen thinks to himself as malice fills his mind. Atoli suddenly hears the ominous ‘ping’ sound and turns but sees nothing. Shrugging she continues on and ends up going out of sight
A minute later, the sleep wears off. Annoyed with the experience, he sighs and begins to carry on. He sees another group of goblins and runs to engage them taking out his anger for the cleric on the monsters…he would have his day with that cleric eventually.
Meanwhile, shadowing the adept rogue, IYOTEN and Asta lurk. They decided they would wait until he got into the beast temple to make their move.
Elsewhere, Haseo gates in and sighs. He uses an item causing a steam bike to appear underneath him and he begins to go through the area looking for the target Yata had painted out.