Anthony:
Height: 179 cm
Weapon : Hammer
Monster: Lagiacrus
Age: 23
Place of origin: Kotoko Village
Hair colour: Green
Hairstyle: Messy (on purpose), chin length
Eye colour: Brown
Trivia: Dyed his hair green so that he would stand out more.
Zach held up a quest paper "Today, we're hunting a Redhelm Arzuros."
Joseph, Ben and Callum started laughing "Well, this'll be quick."
Riko was confused "You guys have never hunted a Redhelm before, have you?"
"Well, what could go wrong? It's still just an Arzuros, after all."
Sean suddenly interfered "Well, I found a different quest to go hunt a Agnaktor."
Everyone except for Zach, Joseph, Ben and Callum slided towards Sean.
They then walked off, except for Anthony who turned around and simply said "Try not to get too badly hurt, okay?" before walking off.
Confused by this, the four got onto the airship headed to the New World.
"Damn," Ben said, looking out from on top of the flying ship "It's been ages since we hunted together with just the eight of us."
"Yeah, haven't done that since the first chapter of the first part because of how much this writer's been compensating for his lack of plot development by adding new characters all the time." Zach added
"Leave the fourth wall alone, man..." Joseph mumbled
They landed in the deserted island and walked into area 2.
The Redhelm Arzuros turned to face them.
Ben suddenly ran behind it. "Heh, Arzuros can't turn all the way around in one strike, which means that I'll be able to get some hits before the second strike." He thought, before the Arzuros made a full swing around.
His thoughts then turned into a heavily fitting "GRAGHDASDF" as he flew off, falling unconscious.
There was a long silence among the remaining hunters, until Callum remembered some exposition he was meant to drop a few hours ago.
"I think I've heard of this. There are certain monsters that, if they survive enough hunting attempts, will be forced into evolution and grow in power and appearance. The results are monsters like this, the Redhelm Arzuros, who are difficult to hunt and require special permits from the guild."
"WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU SAY THAT EARLIER!?" Joseph yelled.
Callum looked bashful.
"Seriously, stop hoarding exposition, we need that shit!"
Zach was thinking out loud. "I see… so this is a deviant monster… Which means that…" He looked up to yell "MULTIPLE PEOPLE FAILED TO HUNT AN ARZUROS!?"
Joseph and Callum were both in shock.
"No way… it can't be…" Callum muttered.
"Hmph, it appears that the quality of hunters these days has just dropped since we started, what a society to live in…" Joseph contemplated what hunting was even about, at this point.
"I think I've worked out what it is." Zach announced "It must be hunters for hire."
Joseph added his own exposition "Oh yeah, I've heard of those types. They never try at their jobs and despite overwhelmingly possible odds they always find a way to lose, even and shit like cooking steaks or hunting 1 Aptonoth."
"Exactly, so when sent to hunt an Arzuros, specifically this one, they failed somehow." Zach explained "Then they did it again and again and again until it deviated and became an actual threat."
"So what you're saying is…" Callum started
"That this was caused by hunters for hire being a bunch of lazy assholes, yes." Zach interrupted.
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The silence was interrupted by the Arzuros roaring.
"Oh yeah we should probably deal with that." Joseph pointed out.
First, Zach rushed in to try and attack.
The Arzuros swung at him, but was just about stopped by his shield.
It was at that moment that Callum ran and got in a few slashes, but the Arzuros didn't yield.
Instead it kicked backwards, sending Callum flying through the air before Sanchez caught him mid flight.
However, now stood on one foot, the Arzuros was now more unstable, which Zach used to push forward.
This wasn't effective as Arzuros are heavy, but the plan wasn't over. Zach then pushed his gunlance into the face of the giant bear and fired.
The Arzuros pulled back in pain.
The shell had become lodged in its right eye, critically wounding it.
Still, it could see.
But, Zappy then rushed in to sap its stamina and tried to knock it to the ground.
Even so, the Arzuros continued to struggle.
Therefore, Daimyo dropped in to lend a hand and the Redhelm was unable to fight back from the weight of two monsters.
As this was happening, Zach rushed in with a wyvern's fire ready.
While he did this, Joseph and Callum set down LBB+ for a large explosion that was sure to follow.
Finally, Daimyo and Zappy leapt back, grabbing Joseph and Callum but leaving behind Zach and the Arzuros.
As a result of this plan, there was a very large explosion, followed by Zach flying out of it and landing on the ground next to them with the sound of some snapping of bones being heard.
Zappy picked him up and put him on his mane where he rested.
"Well, that was a good hunt, let's go ho-" Callum began before being cut off by Joseph looking at the word count "No, it's not over yet."
The Arzuros stood up in the crater, seemingly unharmed.
However it was tired as hell and couldn't move for a while.
Joseph and Callum tried to run into attack, but were stopped by Sanchez pretty quickly.
Plessy suddenly appeared behind it and fired off a hipcheck.
The Arzuros reacted with surprise and was knocked flying.
Adrenaline had now taken over again and it landed on all fours, digging its claws into the ground to kill its momentum.
It bounded forwards towards Plessy.
Plessy used another hipcheck as the Arzuros closed in.
The Arzuros dodged to the right, rolling enough after the jump to get out of the way.
The Arzuros was now lined up with Plessy's head, where the Plesioth fired off a blast of pressurised water, stunning the Arzuros briefly.
It was at that moment that the Arzuros was shot with arrows from the side.
Daimyo then shot off another blast of pressurised water, almost toppling it.
The Arzuros managed to stand back up and jumped forward, pulling Joseph off of Daimyo's back.
The Arzuros pinned him to the ground and got ready to attack.
It was at that moment that Joseph stabbed forward with his carving knife, and did have success in hitting the neck of the Arzuros but its neck was so thick he wasn't able to get anywhere near the veins or arteries in the neck.
Instead, the Arzuros continued to slash at him.
It was interrupted however, by Ben, having woken a few minutes ago, hitting it on the back of the head with his switch axe.
The Arzuros reacted with pain and randomly struck out, one of these swings hitting Ben and sending him flying with an exciting "GRAGHDASDF"
Ben's pointless sacrifice wasn't in vain though as Joseph was given enough time to slip away.
He then rejoined Daimyo and they tried to think of a new plan of attack.
Before they could though the Arzuros ran into area 3.
They then got some potions out, recovering Ben and Zach.
They started to try forming a plan to take it out.
Ben was in thought for a while, before finally speaking up "What if we hit so much that it died."
"No, no. That wouldn't work, we'd never do enough damage for that without getting taken out first." Zach told him "We should blow it up."
Joseph interrupted "Zach we just tried that and you almost died."
"How do you know that?"
"Because it took 23 potions just to get you walking again, and 5 more to get you to full health."
"Well if we use mega potions this time, I'm sure it'll be a helluva lot less recovery time."
"That's not the point here…"
"THEN WHAT IS THE POINT!?"
"THE POINT IS THAT ALL YOUR BLOWING UP IS FUCKING EXPENSIVE!"
"WELL THEN WHAT'D YOU SUGGEST!?"
"I'D SIDE WITH BEN HERE, WE MIGHT NOT HAVE A PLAN ON THIS ONE, BUT IT'S BETTER THAN USING ATTACKS THAT DAMAGE OURSELVES!"
Ben then added to the conversation "Well then, by majority, we-"
Callum then interfered in that conclusion "No, I'd say that Zach's plan makes more sense. Like he said, there's no way we'd be able to do enough damage to get it down normally, we need to get a lot of damage in quickly."
They then began debating on what plan to take, until inevitably it was decided to see whose plan worked better here.
Though they were pretty much already divided by this, the eight of them divided into groups of four, refusing to communicating.
Zach, Zappy, Callum and Sanchez on the side of explosions.
Joseph, Daimyo, Ben and Plessy on the side of normal fighting.
Only the next few minutes would decide who was right.
Entering area 3, they saw the Arzuros waiting for them.
Callum was eager to prove himself right and was quick to try attacking, but the Arzuros was prepared with a strike. However, at that point Sanchez interfered and knocked it off guard.
Callum then jumped forward ready to place some barrel bombs down, when Ben flew in and pushed him out of the way and started hacking away at the Arzuros.
Then Zach suddenly jumped in with a wyvern's fire charged.
Ben looked up, as did the Arzuros, but both of them weren't able to dodge in time.
Ben collapsed to the ground.
Zach then attempted to grab a trap for the Arzuros, when he was hit out of the air by a pressurised water beam.
The beam of water hit Zach away, but was broken in half by a hipcheck from a superpowered Great Jaggi.
Sanchez then turned.
He unleashed a hipcheck that Joseph and Daimyo were just about able to dodge, though it ended up cutting the hill behind them in half.
Joseph and Daimyo sighed with relief, but saw more hipchecks being sent their way.
These were only warning shots, as if Sanchez had been fighting seriously they would be more than someone who just had "お前はもう死んでいる" told to them by a muscular man in a post apocalyptic wasteland, but Sanchez still didn't want them to get in the way of the plan, even if it meant harming them slightly.
But this was still dangerous as Sanchez had a very skewed perception of slight harm.
Joseph and Daimyo continued running away from the attacks, fearing for their lives.
Meanwhile the Redhelm Arzuros was now being ignored, something that it didn't really get but was kinda okay with to be honest.
It just sat there and waited, reflecting upon the decisions that had caused this in its life.
Joseph tried to recover from another dive for safety, only to see Plessy hit Sanchez from the side with a drop-hipcheck, in which he dropped out of the sky and launched a hip check, pushing him backwards and spinning around to land on his feet.
It was at that moment that Zappy was bored of waiting and tried to tackle Plessy. Though Plesioth are a lot bigger than Ludroth, they're a lot more frailly built than the walking damage sponges, also the legs are the easiest to reach part of the body and if you've ever played rugby in your life you know that's the place to aim for in terms of taking people down.
Also, to help out, Zach jumped in, being the only other enemy not yet downed.
They pushed Plessy to the ground and started hitting him, only for Zach to be hit by an arrow and knocked back. Zappy was rammed into at max speed propelled by a pressurised water blast and knocked flying.
Zach looked up and saw Joseph holding an arrow at his head.
"Let's stop this already, this fighting is pointless. Let's just go and fight it together."
"Wait a minute," Zach suggested "What if… we went with both!?"
Joseph yelled back excitedly and after waking everyone up they turned to the Arzuros, who was now relevant again.
It got up to fight, only to already have a trap placed under it.
A pitfall trap, specifically.
It fell down and tried to grab onto the ground around it.
But at that point it was already too late, and the most the Arzuros could do was try to keep its eye on them.
It was at that point that Ben and Zach started hitting it.
While this was happening Joseph was placing down barrel bombs. This wasn't just a normal amount of barrel bombs either, this was all of them.
When this was ready everyone turned at once to hit the barrel bombs.
The resulting explosion engulfed most of the area.
Joseph ended up upside down next to a wall.
Zach was also there, stuck to the ground.
Joseph started to speak "Huh… working together sure hurts like hell."
"Shut it… it worked, didn't it?" Zach replied, attempting to signal towards the crater that used to house a pitfall trap holding a Redhelm Arzuros.
After using up all of the potions to get moving again, the four of them walked back to the airship and finally made it back to Dundorma, where the other group was happily talking about how successful their hunt was, but went silent upon seeing them.
The four then walked back to their respective houses and collapsed for about 12 hours.
When Joseph finally woke up it was somewhere in the afternoon and he figured that it was too late to go hunting, even nearby at this point.
Instead, he bought some books on deviants in an attempt to make sure this didn't repeat.
He found a fair few of them and ended up despairing at the concept of a Snowbaron Lagombi, as well as noting that there was a lot of deviants for the more popular monsters, but he did notice something interesting.
"Stonefist Daimyo Hermitaur… huh?" He looked over at Daimyo. "So you can do something like that, then?"
He seemed to think for a second.
"Eh, whatever. Things are fine the way they are now, don'tcha think?" He answered his own question, walking off, leaving the concept of deviation behind as quickly as he could.
TO BE CONTINUED
I'm pretty sure that was a chapter.
Recently been watching through some NDRV3, about 2 chapters in.
The first chapter was decent, though there is one major thing that bugs me in terms of the killer's motive, and by that I don't mean why they did the murder, it's a motive for another one of their actions which was related to the murder, which you'd get if you had actually played it but if not this is just confusing, but overall it was a decent starting chapter, I'd put it as better than the 2-1 but not as good as 1-1, because 1-1 is my favourite chapter in the first game.
As for the 2nd chapter I ended up liking it a fair bit more, though really it's only problem is that the killer was obvious from about a minute before the body discovery, though the stuff with the bug appreciation club was adorable and Gonta is still best boy. Haven't really thought of where it ranks in comparison to the other 2nd chapters, because I love all of the 2nd chapters unconditionally, so there you go.
I can't really say who the mastermind is yet, but here's my predictions for some reason. Note that this'll indirectly spoil the results of the first 2 chapters, because I'm predicting past that.
Chapter 3: Shirogane is killer, Angie and Yumeno are victims. Shirogane dresses as Tenko to kill them both and attempts to get her executed. Stuff that gets her caught is that she can't see without her glasses and the whole "Can't cosplay as non fictional characters" thing.
Chapter 4: Shinguji tried to kill someone else, really could be anyone but in my opinion it'd likely be Saihara to involve the player though if Kodaka wants to really draw out the mystery have it be Iruma, also to give her some importance, Gonta notices this and interferes being the super ultra hyper gentleman insect loving best boy that he is, but Shinguji finds some way of making it so that Gonta killed him and during the trial the deal with Shinguji's mask (that'll be important somehow, I'm convinced of it) and Gonta gets executed.
Chapter 5: Not sure on exactly how it'd go, but it'll end in Ouma as the victim and Momota as the killer, maybe the mastermind set it up or it's 2-5 type or Momota is just sick of his "Kore wa usotsuki dakara ne!" shit, but Ouma will get murder-killed and Momota will get executed just before the final chapter, because he's Kamina.
Chapter 6: Assuming this is all correct, at least in terms of who dies, what happens is just speculation, the mastermind'll probably be either Harukawa or Kiibo. Leaning more towards Kiibo, just because Harukawa's already lied about her talent so I doubt they'd start layering the lies on, unless Kodaka seriously gets off by being unexpected, though to be honest that wouldn't surprise me considering this series' nature, but back on track probably Kiibo.
Now you may find yourself asking "Why is this dipshit writing about Danganronpa v3 on a Monster Hunter fanfic, surely he has a twitter account to do all off this?" Well the answer is "Shut up."