Nothing to say, let's just roll.
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[David P.O.V.]
"Shit." I said looking at the table the Dark Assailant led me, Sadie, Mia, and Axel to the moment we left our homes.
"Yep." Rott groaned as she sat in a wheelchair at the Cracked Skull Cafe, "Got my legs stolen... Which is weird since I can still feel my toes."
"As in physically feel them or just-" Mia started.
"I'm wiggling them right now." Rott sighed as she set out a sheet of paper, "Figure I'd write up a request to slap on our Request Board, see if you guys could do it before I do so."
I took the sheet and figured now would be a good time to see how written Request's are done.
[Request- Get me my legs]
[I just got my legs stolen, the one that stole them decided to have one of her minions hide them in the Catacombs. Come see me for more details, specifically what you're going to find yourself in if the worst is to come.]
[Reward: 800 Coins, Maiden of Macabre Card (4* Spellcaster) ]
[Ameila Rott]
"Your first name's Amelia?" I asked as the Request was added to my Bracer.
"Focus." Rott said snapping her fingers, "The reason I lost my legs was because of Black Talons french weaving bitch, a woman known as Aradine, the Spider of Black Talon, though she says it in french."
"And just who is Aradine?" Mia asked.
Rott sighed and leaned back in her wheelchair, "A mess. She's a dominatrix and a sadist, she's got a whole posy of people that work for Black Talon that's she damn near broken into her slaves. When she jumped me, hoping I would put in a word for Black Talon getting themselves some black market set up down her she had two with her at least, but rumors say she's got at least ten under her thumb and not all of them are guys."
"Jeez, what kind of monsters are in Black Talon?" Axel muttered.
"A lot." Rott said, "Anyway one of Aradine's boy toys has my legs and has scuttled into the Catacombs. My guess is that he's in a Boss Room, the first one considering how few body mod's he had, plus he'll have to stay near my legs otherwise they'll come back to me. Kick his ass and get me back my legs, please I feel my calves start to itch and it's going to drive me insane."
"You got it Rott." I said holding my hand out to the Zombie Player, "Consider it thanks for helping us around on our first days."
[Costel]
[No P.O.V.]
Persephone sighed as she let her tail float in the ocean water, "They're still laughing about it." She muttered, pulling out her Coral Lance to prod the waters.
"What 'ave we here?" A male voice said, spooking the young mermaid player and causing her to turn around to face the man.
The speaker in question was a man in his late twenties with neck length deep blue hair, his face was covered in a deep blue stubble, his body was mostly covered by a slick deep green long coat, atop his head was a large black hat marked by a skull and crossbones, his Bracer was shaped like waving water- Signifying him as an Aqua type Player.
"A woman who was born to a Player and a Monster." Persephone said, "And I'm getting teased about it all the time."
"Feh." The man said taking his hat off, and sitting down next to Persephone, "Buncha morons is what they are. Just cause you're blood is only half human doesn't mean you're any less of a person."
"Tell that to the others." Persephone sighed.
"Well that attitude of your's ain't gonna help much lass." The man said, "If you can't stand up for yourself then those landlubbers are just gonna keep walking over ya, or worse."
Persephone sighed, "I was never good at standing up for myself and I'm a sub par fighter at best." She muttered.
"Well Miss Siren, that's where I come in." The man said, causing Persephone to look at him in surprise, "I owe your father quite a debt and he's asked me to help you out."
"Who are you?" Persephone asked.
The man stood up and took a bow, crossing his hat across his body, "Captain James Swa-" The man was cut off as a wave crashed into his face, soaking him mid-introduction, "James... Swan." he finished before sighing, "Why is it that whenever I introduce myself by the sea she decides to cut me off? Anyway, for the record, I'm a Pirate."
"A pirate!?" Persephone asked excitedly, "Really?"
James chuckled, "Excited about pirates lass?" He asked.
"I kinda idolized Anne Bonny and Mary Read a little when I was younger." Persephone admitted as she rubbed the back of her head.
"Well then lass if ye wanna be a part of me crew then I got tell ye the rule Admin's put up for Pirates." James said.
"Rules? For Pirates?" Persephone asked.
"Aye." James said, "For starters, no raping. If someone want's to act like it's rape when its really consensual then that's their shtick. Second, we don't attack Player Settlements, Admins will ban us in a heartbeat. We can however pillage and plunder any ship we come across out at sea, along with any potentially treasure fill ruins scattered about."
"Seem's easy to remember." Persephone said nodding, "Anything else?"
"Just a personal rule on me ship." James said, "Try not to knock any crewman that annoys you off. It's a pain getting them out of the water."
"Aye captain." Persephone said standing, or at least taking her tail out of the water and start her minor floating.
"Right lass, go tell yer pops and we'll be off." James said slamming his hand into the middle of her back to usher her off, to which she began running (Swimming?) off.
James simply smirked as she went off.
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Vance growled as he smashed his fist against the wall of the building he passed by, "God damned snake bitch." Vance growled, "I had that fight won until she decided to crush me with her coils."
"Well then you'll just have to get revenge soon Mister Chase." A deep voice said from behind Vance, whom turned to face the source of the voice.
The speaker was covered in black leather armor and had a leather hood covering his head with a wooden mask on his face that revealed only a single blue eye.
"Who the hell are you?" Vance growled.
"I am a recruiter for Black Talon, and I was watching your match." The man said, "I was quite amused at your tactic of having your Uraby devour all your opponents. It is certainly one full dinosaur."
"Thanks." Vance said before remaining silent for a moment, "Black Talon you say?"
"Correct." The Recruiter said as he extended his Bracer and pulled a card from his deck, "I am hoping you would like to join our ranks, we could use all the help we can get."
Vance just grinned, "Oh I've been looking to step up my game." Vance said with a malicious grin.
The recruiter chuckled, "Master Talon will be pleased to see you join us." He said.
[Catacombs Boss Room 1]
[David P.O.V.]
Slipping past most of the monsters in the maze was actually a lot easier than we thought it would be, mainly due to the fact that most of the monsters were taken down by other players roaming the halls.
"Door!" Sadie shouted as we neared the door we had stopped at the previous day.
"I got it!" Axel shouted as he shoulder tackled the door as we neared it.
"Whoa what the-!?" Cried out the man inside the room.
He was clearly insect type due to the bug-like wings on his back, and the chitin on his arms, under his right arm was Rott's Legs. All he was wearing was a leather skin tight suit and he held and a pair of iron shortswords in his hand, well one was in his hand the other was at his hip.
[Blog Lvl 2: LP- 280/400, ATK 80, DEF 80]
"Drop the legs Talon grunt." I ordered holding out my sword.
"No way in hell." Blog snarked, "Besides, Mistress would be displeased if I fail her.
"Mistress?" Mia asked, "Ariadne of Black Talon?"
"Yessssss." Blog... Swooned? "Mistress Ariadne will reward me if I keep that corpse's legs away from her until she relents to Mistress's wishes."
"This man is broken." Sadie said looking at him, "I think we need to inform the Admins about this." With that she cast her Freeze spell, causing Blog to jump from the sudden attack, lose 70 LP, and drop Rott's legs.
"You miserable piece of trash!" Blog cried out as he drew his other sword, "Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiie!" With that shout he charged at us, swinging his swords left and right like a maniac... Yeah he was just going nuts and swinging blindly, not even bothering to summon his monster.
"Dragon Zombie!" I shouted slapping the card on my Bracer and let the undead dragon form, "Put the guy out of his misery."
The Dragon Zombie looked at Blog as he ran toward it, and unleashed it's noxious breath at the man, knocking him on his ass and taking out another 80 LP from him... And while he was down we just pummeled him until he exploded into glass, dying just like another monster.
We didn't receive much EXP from beating him and he only dropped 2 coins. We're not sure if that's cause of how much he had on him or what... Gonna have to look up Player kills later.
"Well... that was underwhelming." Mia said as she grabbed Rott's legs, remembering Rott had an itch she decided to scratch one of the calves, and due to Rott's preference to being barefoot we could see her toes relax.
"He was mentally broken." Axel said, "If he could catch us by surprise we might have been in trouble."
"Either way he might have been among Black Talon's lowest." I noted, "So we can't really use him as a sample of their might."
"Their twisted mentality might be better for this to be a sample of." Sadie said as she stared at Rott's bare feet with a smirk.
[Grave Town]
Sadie grinned as she held her new Maiden of Macabre card in her hands while I was splitting the reward money with the others. Rott however wasn't as pleased as the rest of us.
"Which of you decided it would be a good idea to tickle my feet on the way back?" Rott asked she rubbed her legs, "It was really embarrassing when I burst out laughing because of that."
"I am so sorry about that." I apologized, "My cousin couldn't help herself."
Rott simply sighed at this, "Well, thanks for getting me my legs back... But I don't think Black Talon's just gonna let this slide. Ariadne's gonna take this as a personal insult and well be sending people her to attack... Most likely her 'Ensnared' servants." Rott warned.
I nodded at this, "Well, we'll just have to spread word of Talon likely attacking this place then." I said, "I'm not gonna let them take this place down."
"I'm in too." Mia said, "Those Talon bastards are assholes that need to be taught a lesson."
"Same here!" Sadie said.
"We're sticking together through this." Axel said.
"Thanks. All of you." Rott said softly, smiling as she did, "We won't have to do much, one or two attacks will have to be repelled at most."
"Why is that?" I asked.
"The Admin's have almost all of Ariadne's Ensnared on a recovery list." Rott said crossing her legs, "The Admin's don't pull Players out of the game, unless they've committed serious crimes in the game, and sadly all of Ariadne's Ensnared were willing, as the Admin's believe that issues in the world that are Player Based ought to be handled by the Players. However those on a list held by the Admins can kick a player out of the game should they be defeated, of course the Ensnared are on a different list to be sent to a mental hospital after they've been defeated. Ariadne won't risk too many of her Ensnared on a constant assault and she's feels it's beneath her to directly fight a whole town when she could be doing more entertaining things."
"How do you know this?" Sadie asked.
"The Admin's have a blog." Rott said, "And Players have whole document on Black Talon's known high rankers."
"Well that'll help us learn about them." I said before standing up, "Well, I'm gonna go shopping, see about finding some new Field Spell and Monsters. When can we expect Ariadne's attack?"
"A week." Rott said, "That's when she's expecting her boy toy to show back up, but since he's on the Admin's list."
"He won't show back up, buying us a week." Axel said as he summoned Avian, "Avian, we've got to spread the word of Talon's attack here."
"Yes sir." Avian said, "Those Black Talon villains shall not withstand our might when they come."
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