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An Ill Demise part 01
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    • And we're back. So, over the break my life is still in chaos, I'm still living with my parents (Which after the Layoff is now a good thing) and I don't think I've learned how to write fight scenes, but we'll get to that when we get to that.

    Let me admit, I've had a bunch of writer's block on this as it was intended to be longer. It still covers some key points but just feel too short for a starting chapter.

    Warning: There is a right path and a wrong path. From this point on characters can die. Not every choice will lead to a dead end (pun intended) but do watch your actions.
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    You, Ryoutarou Tsuboi, are unsure if you happen to have good luck or real shitty luck.

    After your meeting with Argo it took you another hour to find the inn, totaling four and a half hours gone, which you were teased about but found your headband in your inventory, right were you put it last night and obviously forgot. When you'd got your team believing your innocents you all headed to Tolbana Town and its tower, only to find that no one had found the boss door, but hey, at least with all the grinding everyone's got a level or two out of it.

    That's got to be something good right?.....Right?

    "Nope." You hear Kunimittz say behind you as you kill another kobold trooper. "It's not in this this corner either."

    "Shit!" Dynamn exclaims. "Four straight days on top of everyone else also searching for this thing and NO ONE can find it?"

    The Tower at Tolbana has been open for a full week and there has to have been nearly a hundred people combing it every day, but no, no one has been able find the stairs to the final floor, much less the boss. You've seen and traded with a lot of people for map data and have been searching the blank spots all this time, again to no avail. The Betas are still being blamed despite all you've tried to tell others the game has changed. Guess people will still act like idiots when things don't go there way, death game or not.

    Was that ever a doubt?

    "HEY GUYS!" You hear Harry yell on the far side of the room….When did he get over there? "I think I found the stairs. Only thing is they seem to be going down instead of up."

    Down? Okay, this wasn't the last floor but wouldn't the boss be on the final floor? So why is the only set of stairs you can find going down?

    There's still lots of places on this floor you haven't checked yet. What do you do?

    [ ] Down the Stairs. If things are changed enough who's to say the boss isn't on a lower level.

    [ ] Continue searching this floor for anything useful.
    -[ ] Go up the stairs if you find them.
    -[ ] Stay on this floor for now.

    [ ] It's been a long day already. Go back to town and rest up before searching a new area.
     
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    • [X] Continue searching this floor for anything useful.
    -[X] Stay on this floor for now.
     
    Pidl said:
    Any chance of us getting trapped inside the boss-room, or will we be able to find him and then return?
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    Possibly, a lot has changed even from just canon, never mind what the Betas had for info vs. the current release.

    In canon only floors 25, 50, 75, and presumably 100 were/would have been locked.

    But, as I said, here? Who knows.
     
    ShadowAngelBeta said:
    Possibly, a lot has changed even from just canon, never mind what the Betas had for info vs. the current release.

    In canon only floors 25, 50, 75, and presumably 100 were/would have been locked.

    But, as I said, here? Who knows.
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    In canon, those floors had particularly tough bosses. The locked doors happened during the fight with Skull Fucker Prime and, had Kirito not unmasked Kayaba, would become the norm with the remaining floor bosses (as shown in the Hollow Fragment game). Just like how from the fight with Gleam Eyes onward the escape crystals didn't work anymore in the Boss Rooms.
     
    [X] Continue searching this floor for anything useful.
    -[X] Stay on this floor for now.

    Doesn't downstairs go to the secret level 80 dungeon in canon?
     
    Current vote tallies

    [4] Down the stairs

    [3] Stay on this floor

    [2] Go up any stairs

    [0] Go back and rest

    Poll will stay open till tomorrow but.....

    No, I won't say anything. More fun that way.
     
    [X] Continue searching this floor for anything useful.
    -[X] Go up the stairs if you find them.
     
    I think that's enough votes......How do I do this again?
    Damn it Persona Q
    Oh yeah!

    The Winner is:
    Klein go down the stairs

    !CONGRATULATIONS!

    Estimated game clear time [2 Years, 10 months, 4 Days]
    Land Master has gone up

    ​
    And does anyone know how to do those data corruption text things. I might need it in a few chapters.​
     
    Ridiculously Average Guy said:
    http://www.eeemo.net/
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    I wanted to get the update out today, I wanted to get it out yesterday too, but I've also been trying to write this through a headache (Both figurative and literal) and don't believe I've been getting the exposition right.

    I'll try to get it out tomorrow but I can't promise it. Sorry.
     
    An Ill Demise part 02
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    I blame you Persona Q​
    Gawd this is just turning into my writer's block chapter isn't it. At this rate the Ill Demise will be my brain. Too many rewrites, too many compromises. The headache is still going strong.

    But anywho, the chapter's out and it does it's job despite being shorter than I wanted. Sorry.

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    What do you do?

    "Well," is all you can think to say, "It wouldn't hurt to take a look."

    "Are we sure?" Kunimittz asks "I remember reading on some of the beta forums that a few out of the way places were booby trapped."
    Not helping.

    "Good thing leaders always go first." Issin states, giving you a slap on the back that's almost enough to cause you to fall down the stairs.
    Really not helping.

    "Fine, fine." You jeer "I'll lead the way ya wimps. But if I die from this, I am haunting you."

    "Not if we die too." Issin remarks.

    "Great. I'll get to haunt your ghost for all eternity. What a pleasure that woul-"

    "Guys. Quit stalling and let's go." Harry calls from already halfway down what you can see of the stairs along with the rest of the team.

    Issin and you share an embarrassed glance at each other before following them down.

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    The stairs themselves weren't that long. Maybe even half the distance of the main stair sets, all ending in a single small room with a large wooden and closed chest on the opposite side.

    You inch ever so slowly toward it. 'The room is too small for traps' repeat in your head 'this is only a hidden treasure, this is only a hidden treasure' repeats even more.

    Your hand is already touching and preparing to open it sooner than you'd like. Your teammates just ever so slightly looking over your shoulder. Better now or the suspense will kill you before any traps could.

    As fast you can you fling open the chest to find inside….
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    "FUCKING NOTHING!" Dale surprisingly is the one to shout out first with DJ equally raged upon his head.

    And as he says, the chest, this large but plain and keyless chest in an out of the way location is absolutely barren. To say everyone was mad is an understatement.

    "I could have sworn…did someone take it." As usual Harry is the first to point out a missed detail.

    "I wouldn't doubt if someone got here before us." Dynamn explains "But whatever was in it should have respawned by now."

    "That's if it was a common item. Either we missed the timing or it was a special item like a boss key or something." You voice your ideas.

    "Which means if it was the boss key then we have no reason to stick around here today." Issin moans "We're already decently leveled and equipped by Argo's advice. I say we go back to the inn and only come back tomorrow if no one announces they've found the door."

    Nods and sounds of agreement resound from your team. Fuck this place, you're going to sleep.

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    It was later the next day when you heard the announcement that some guy named Diavel and his team had found the door and was organizing a raid.
    The worst part, had your team only taken a right past that floors stairs instead of left you would have eventually found the stairs to the final floor and thus the boss instead of room with an empty chest. It may have even been you calling the fight.

    However, it might have been better if you didn't. Your team was tired after the past few days of searching to where you might not have been able to try another area. Even if you had found it you've never lead a boss raid, just been a part of one, and seeing how your luck had been lately who probably would have messed up something important.
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    God this is not great for your self-esteem.

    Anyways, the raid meeting is not for another two days. What do you do tell then?

    [ ] Skip to the meeting. Let your team rest another day.

    [ ] Grind more in the tower. No level like overleveled.

    [ ] Find Kirito. You haven't heard from him in about a week and you're getting worried.

    [ ] Write-in.
     
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