[CLOSED] Prospecting

[Elpharae]

Dear Athena,

You may have received a message concerning a player joining our guild from Rue earlier, as we are both scouting for guild members currently for Elysian. This message shall serve as a recommendation of a sort, or rather a notification of a player wanting to join. His name is Flint. While skilled enough with his shield and weapon of choice, and eager enough to join, the player is personally not my favorite. He seemed rather arrogant and rude, and though while not major faults, they can cause some damage to our guild's reputation. But in the event that you do decide to agree to this member joining, I will support your decision. I believe in your judgement, after all.

Rue cut in with a sharp, reprimanding remark, and Elpharae merely paused in his typing, multiple emotions flitting in his head as his face remained impassive, eyes revealing nothing but a gentle sincerity. "In that case, my apologies, Rue. I wasn't aware of the repercussions of the battle and the state I had shown then on the guild. A mistake on my part, it seems. I will rectify that in case of future reference, then." By then, the girl had left to wait in the circle, and he closed his eyes momentarily. Turning his head to return to his message, he blinked slowly before realizing where he left off, continuing on with just typing his name.

-Elpharae-

The brunet finished off and then rested his head in his chin, awaiting Rue’s challenger to appear, eyes calm. Huge, golden-white clouds rolled by, a touch of idealistic spirit inside of their golden-white depths, the blue curling into the pure clearness of the vaporized water with all the elegance of a lacy parasol, the clouds seemingly nostalgic and delicate, he noticed, tilting his head up to view the blue and white soaring above him. The sky was a quiet, subdued blue, like a person hiding away their true feelings, but it had a vivid saturation rather like ferocity, tugging at his senses and ordering the brunet to look closer.

It was with an interested eye that the green player began appraising the reality of the current landscape, and he marveled over the tiny, realistic niches in objects, so realistic and yet not, the smooth sensation of wind on his skin, loving and caressing, and resisted the urge to touch it with the edge of his fingertips. Elpharae blinked slowly, letting the air part his eyelashes and hair delicately, a soothing touch that almost didn't exist if he ignored it.

[Rue]

"Never Falter Never Look Back!" ☒ @tagged ✐ 000 ✉ Rue Lv6

Rue paused as she listened to Elpharae's passive response. Rue felt somewhat bad about the harshness of her words towards the boy. He seemed to take it well. letting out a small noise of acknowledgement as she moved to the circle. Placing her hand on the hilt of her blade and looked around the crowd, Rue waited for any other players to approach her and request to join. As her gaze met other players as she scanned around the crowd. Most of them turned away or looked afraid as the her amber eyes fell on them. Rue sighed as it seemed that hers and Elpharae's past duels have, put off anyone else's wish to join. Maybe if they tried a different tactic next time, as this one only seemed to cause fear from the playerbase. Walking back over to Elpharae and Tesh, Rue spoke calmly. " Tesh you don't have to stick around. You're not part of the guild therefore you don't have to waste your time here". Looking away and crossing her arms and focusing on Elpharae who seemed to be typing out Flint's recommendation. She would have to remember to send you concerns to Athena about the teal man. " Are recruitment process needs some work, maybe something less intense and more welcoming. Maybe we can have them go on simple missions with us and test them in a real situation. That way we can get a true test of their skill and character". Looking back to the circle, many of the crowd started to part. As no other players seemed willing to be beaten or had the grit to face the guilds grueling test. " If no one else, asks to join soon i'll end it for today". Looking to the both Tesh and Elpharae. " I'll stay behind and clean up, the mess we made you two can go if you want". Opening a window of her own Rue would type out her concerns about Flint. Athena You may have received a message from Elpharae about a player named Flint. I do not believe he is guild worthy. He is overconfident and talks arrogant. His skills are nothing worth putting up with his attitude for. Accept this as my disapproval of him joining the guild. We need players who will work together with others and live up to the guilds values and code. Rue

[Tesh]

"There Is More Than One Way Forward" ☒ @tagged ✐ 000 ✉ notes Tesh Lv2

Tesh didn’t exactly consider watching the other two fight a waste of time for him, especially since he hasn’t really seen anyone above level two fight, it was a good opportunity for him to observe and take in as much as he could while he had the chance, considering he may not get invited to the guild. Sitting down with his feet kicked out slightly, looking over at Elpharae, who also relaxing, he felt his stomach start to grumble at him, realizing that he was getting hungry, after all toast wasn’t exactly enough to keep him going for very long, especially not after the beating that he just received from Rue. “Alright, seeing that it doesn’t seem that there is going to be any more who wish to battle you I guess I’ll go grab myself a bite to eat.” He said to the two. He pulled his feet back in and stood up in a quick manner, getting ready to walk off into the crowd to find a shop that would sell him something that could fill his stomach for a cheaper price. Just about to the edge of people who were gathered around waiting for another person to fight, looking rather eager to see another brutally beaten down, reminding him of gladiator movies in Rome where the crowd was probably more bloodthirsty than the actual fighters, Tesh remembered that he had no way of getting into contact with either of the two about joining the guild. Tesh turned back around quickly, to Rue and Elpharae, who were still waiting, and said “Hey, I’m going to add you to my friends list….is that okay? Just so we can communicate later about the guild entry and whatnot...” he said as he flicked his wrist down opening the social tab in the menu, then clicked add a new friend next to their names. He was extremely nervous about doing this, this being his first time adding anyone to his friend’s list, hoping that the didn’t see his nervousness he turned back around without waiting to see their response, hoping they would accept it. He walked off out into the crowd with anticipation while he waited to see if they accepted his request. (OOC: now that Tesh has left the scene I won’t be partaking in the cycle anymore, but I’m sure this is just about done now anyways.)

MADE BY ★MEULK OF GS - EDITS BY ANGELO OF SAO-RPG

[Elpharae]

It seemed that no one had been coming, and Rue's idea about a guild party seemed interesting. He nodded in agreement. "Perhaps we should set up a flyer in the square if we wanted that to happen, and state a specific date, time, and place. We could meet the players there in the town, and then bring them into the testing grounds. If we were to stay on the first floor, the most useful training grounds would most likely be the dungeon or the Black Forest."

He was caught off guard by Tesh's sudden request, but sent the boy a smile as he clicked on the green button, and then returned to what others might have called "crowd control", since the huge mob in front of them were leaving. He smiled and chatted with players, keeping an easy, upbeat tone, and giggled at their responses in a friendly, if a little timid manner, and twirled around the more stubborn players, trying to coax a smile out of the stoic ones, beaming back brightly when there was so much as a lip twitch.

This was exactly like politics, it seemed. The more popular your group was, the more you could excel. As the players filtered out, there were still quite a bit of fearful, afraid players, but significantly less than the group they started with. He hoped. Elpharae gave himself a mental pat on the back and then turned to Rue, brushing a dark lock of his hair behind his ear. "I have to head out now, Rue. My apologies, but I had hoped to visit Athena to speak with her in person about the newcomers we had gained the interest of."

"I trust that I can leave this matter in your hands." He smiled apologetically at her, and then made a move to leave, his skirt swishing slightly as he spun on his heel and opened his HUD with a quick flick of his wrist. He selected his Messages and made to send one over to Athena about meeting her up by that one shop that they visited after the most memorable day of their training-the one when Elpharae had agreed to join her in her guild. A small smile formed on his lips as he thought about that, and then it was gone as soon as he rounded the corner.

[Exit]

[Rue]

Seems like the day was over with, no other players seemed to be interested in being brutally testing to join the guild. Rue looked to Elpharae who added to her idea of guild group testing in the field. " That wold be best, we do not want to get the players killed only test them. I'll set up a flyer after I finish up here".

Rue and Elpharae seemed to be caught off guard by the grey haired boy's friend request. Sending the request away, as she went to help Elpharae with the crowd control. She did not need to be friends with the boy to send him messages she knew his username. Filtering the players out, the ones that gave them some trouble melted when Rue turned her attention to them.

The dress clad boy turned around and brushed a lock of his dark hair back. Saying that he was going to meet Athena about the possible new members. " I said before that you could leave, you don't have to apologize. I will handle it". Sighing at the boy as he smiled apologetically at her. Rue waved him away as he spun around causing his skirt the swish around, reminding the blue haired girl of their dance together. Filing the players out, and telling them that recruitment was done for the day. Rue would get a broom from a nearby shop and start to brush the chalk away.