[CLOSED] Grinding For Gridings Sake

[Rue]

"A loud whine cuts through the forest". A wolf falls and dissipates into data, a fellow pack member charges Rue only to scrape and slide off her shield, exposing his belly to her. Like being giving a present Rue plunges her sword into the wolf exposed belly, critical hit another cries rings through the forest! With another victory under her belt see check her health, and see that the throngs of wolfs, spiders and other assort of forest fauna has worn her down. Finding a safe area out of agro range she actives her sword art and ability burns until the regen, fills the lost health.

"Better then wasting potions" Rue smirks as she sits down and surveys her grinding spot. Sifting through her inventory full of string and fur, that the npcs never seems to keep in stock " I've almost finished the all the quest, might as well finish the rest of the fodder and go back to town". Town full of useless npc an even more useless players. Soon she be ready for the dungeon, and won't have to be around such a crowd of pylons.

Thinking about her last encounter with SAO was the unfinished build. The enemies seem to have been toned down and the control are much more responsive. Obviously it's the finished product, but why would they tone the difficulty down. This must of been their or his, whoevers plan this was from the start so why would the worry about balanced? It's not like they want people to beat it, then their whole world, plan fails. "weird" Rue says to herself as she thinks about her current world/prison.

Looking over at the spawned enemies, she stands up and brushes the dirt off. " I don't know if you can hear this Mr. Self Proclaimed God, but grinding is boring no matter the gameplay!". As she spurts out her quip she takes out some much needed stress on the enemies.

[KungFuLou]

Kungfulou was wandering through the forest when he heard a girl yelling. He couldn't make out much of it but he heard something about god.

Kungfulou went towards the noise thinking that it might be something or someone who knew a way out. But when he got there he saw a girl just standing there.
"It's not safety to be out here alone."
He looked at her gear and noticed it was starter.

[Rue]

Finishing off the current batch of mobs Rue turns to the source of the obvious comment. He was a boy roughly the same age as her average height with orange hair and hazel eyes, with a dopey smile that made him look like a smiling sun to Rue. Staring at the boy now she sheath her sword and crosses her arms. " Very astute Sunny, maybe next time you can follow your own advice". shifting her weight side to side as see continued her apathetic speech and tone to her new tome of obvious wisdom.

"Is their a reason you are wandering around forests alone, giving information to passers by?". As she finished her last sentence she moved over to her resting spot of the soon to be respawning mobs agro range. Sitting on a near by rock she places her shield and sword next to thee rock and then looks back over to Sunny. Sighing she clasps her hand around each other an shapes them into a circular formation over her mouth. "you might want to join me over here, unless your here for quests and experience. " With her conscious in check she leans back kicking her feet as she counts her checks her inventory and quest ready to be turned in.

[KungFuLou]

Kung sat down just as monster spawned. It charged towards him and it nearly rammed him but he managed to roll out of the way fast enough. He got up pulled out his dagger and activated round shot and killed the beast immediately.

"So yea I was just wandering seeing if there was any towns we haven't learned of."
He said that without any fear in his voice.

[Rue]

As he preformed his feats of slaying one enemy, Rue continued to go through her items an check off prerequisite for quests. As he sat down near by and asked his question, Rue just nodded and unthoughtfully began to answer his question. " No other town on the first floor, north of the starting town is the very forest we are in. east of here would be the lake region, through the lake or forest is the mountainous region stay away from their till your higher level. The north edge of the first floor is the Labyrinth, funny thing about the first floor it's the largest floor of al...". Rue caught herself before she continued rambling.

Closing her inventory and standing back up, reequip her weapons. Looking over to the very unexperienced player waving to get his attention. " So i'm done for now, I am going back to town to turn in quests and stock back up on quest". Turning back to the forest nervously tapping her shield, and now avoiding eye contact. " You got in her fine so I guess you'll be able to find you way back, so... ummm did you just come by to explore"?

[KungFuLou]

"Well, kinda it started out as a quest to kill dire wolves and that took me deeper into the forest then... i I kinda got lost." He looked around nervously "Can I follow you out cause you look like you know where your going."

As kung looked around he noticed some monsters where spawning so he took out his dagger and made sure that nothing was running at him.

[Rue]

Watching Sunny have a staring contest with a monster, Rue contemplates leaving the player behind. Sighing as she rolls her neck back an forth. " Why didn't you just say from the start that you got lost and needed a guide"? Tapping on her shield she looks toward him and with a tired tone offers her assistance. " Sure i'll guide you back I have to go back to town anyway, by the way did you finish the quest"?

Placing her hand on the handle of her sheathed sword, and moving into a aggressive stance and looking towards the path out. "Well no time like the present, shall we go"?

[KungFuLou]

"Yea lead the way" Kung walked and stood a few feet away from the girl
"whats your name by the way." He looked around and multiple monsters where starting to spawn. If they waited any long they would have to fight to get out.

[Rue]

As the moved pasted the respawning monsters," It's Rue, you got a name sunny"? As the move to a safe area Rue looks around the get her bearings. The trees block long range field of view. Their were three natural paths that would be viable, looking at the sun then looking at her shadow. She turns to face the sun, then looks at her shadow again. her shadow stood behind her. Giving the position of the sun and her shadow, it would make the time around the afternoon and her shadow facing west. West seemed to face back to their previous position making the path to the right would be north.

As they continue walking Rue examines the boy again. He was taller then her, and her previous assumption of him being her age as well. Turning back to check the roads an directions. " Will continue following this path with a few turns and we should be out, however a random event to happen so stay on your guard".

[KungFuLou]

"Alright, my name is KungFuLou but, just call me Kung."
A few minutes later.
After walking a little bit more he heard Rue say something about events and to be cautious. Though he didn't really care he responded normally though.
"Alright but those are rare aren't they? I mean the chance of that happening to us is fairly low.

[Rue]

... Rue had to pause for a moment to digest his name. KungFuLou, sounds like something a child would make up. Remembering his age is around to same as hers, and that she's the irregular out of the two. " A fairly low chance is still a chance". Almost immediately as she said that a fog started to roll in. " Odd fog at this hour in the day, it doesn't really effect us we know are direction we will just have to watch our footing". With confidence in her voice an stride Rue continues to lead the group forward.

As the continued through the forest the fog got thicker as the time past. Following the correct direction, they continued, and continued and continued. Stopping for a moment Rue looked around then focused her attention on a nearby tree. Drawing her sword Rue made a deep cut in the tree. Turning to Kung and nods to keep his sprites up they continue through the forest, but not moments later Rue stops again. " As I thought" Looking to the their side the group saw the tree Rue had just cut, sap oozed from it. Turning around to face Kung.. " something has us in a loop I don't know what's causing it, could be just a timed event, or a event boss either way we have two options wait here and hope it passes or continue on. I don't have any detection so I won't be able to find the correct way, you have anything we could use to escape"?

[KungFuLou]

Kung thought to himself for a minute then said, "I have acrobatics and stealth there's two ways I can do this, stealth and look for the thing causing it or I can climb the tallest tree here and see if I can notice anything.
Kung was ready to activate eat her skill but it was up to Rue for the final choice.

[Rue]

"Better than doing nothing see if you can get a good view of are surroundings, i'll think about what we might be up against". As Kung works on climbing Rue thinks back to before the fog. She thinks about the lack of mobs, the look of the forest the direction of the fog as it can in and the time it took. With all the pieces in place Rue waited for Kung information, before thinking about the most logical event that had halted their progress.

[KungFuLou]

Kung finally made it to the top after about 5 minutes of climbing.
After he got to the top he couldn't see ground, but what he could see was that the fog was in one small area and around it he could see a small aura surrounding it. He climbed back down until he landed.
"There's not much to see up there just the sun some trees and a giant purple cloud giving off a unsettling aura."

[Rue]

A purple cloud.... Kung being able to see the sun from his current height. Yelling up to Kung, " This is not fog it must be some sort by product of a creature. This is not a natural occurrence, have you noticed that the that we have not came into contact with any other monsters since the fog. I thought it was odd how the fog rolled in from the east, the creators made this game to be a realistic as the real world, therefor it would not make sense for the fog to roll in from the east. We were currently facing south at least are last known direction was south, their are mountain to are north and a lake to are west any one of those directions would make sense for a natural fog. Also the ability for you to clearly see the sun makes whatever this is more heavy then air, this would be a problem if we need air. Even if we know where the cause for the problem is we can not even make through this current loop. Their is no magic in the game making this fog hallucinogenic". Rue finished her thought, however she has only figure out the location of the problem, but getting to it is another story.