Done earlier than expected. I can't tell if it flows right but it feels like the only way it would come out.
Still never found the right music.
Voting will still be a few days so remember to voice your thoughts and any possible consequences.
You're about to miss quite a few. All choices lose something.
******
"So, here's the plan….we cut to a montage."
(
I apologize. I had to throw the last line in somehow.)
*******
DAY ONE
Starting Field
"Are we there yet?" Issin asks.
"No." Dynamn replies.
"Are we there yet?" Issin continues to ask.
"No." Dynamn says again
"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"Are we there yet?"
"No."
"Are we there yet?"
"LEVEL THREE BITCHES!" Dynamn finally cries.
"Yes. We're there." says you.
TO: Argo
FROM: Klein
SUBJECT: Day One
'Pretty uneventful. We mostly spent it leveling up on our way to Horunka Village. The frenzy boar, dire wolf and field worm mobs are all acting as you said but their encounter rate seemed smaller. The items they drop have been the same so far.'
DAY TWO
Horunka Village
"Master, why do I have to be the tank?" calls a short but busty blond girl in blue dragging an axe much too big for her as she chases after a much taller guy in red with messy black hair and orange tinted glasses.
"What? I thought you liked being repeatedly pounded by strangers. Let's get a move on Police girl, Kayaba's going to die of boredom at this rate." He mocks with a 'Yahoo' running right past your group.
CrimsonFkR and DD Angel are now contacts
TO: Argo
FROM: Klein
SUBJECT: Day Two
'Made it to Horunka Village and meet two odd but fun people. Shop items and most quests are the same. The only difference is the NPCs having the Goddesses bless our journey. When we try to ask them they just look at us odd and begin their routines over just like in the Town of Beginnings.'
DAY THREE
Horunka Forest
SHIT. SHIT. SHIT.
You're running. You're not sure if your agility stat is up high enough but you run anyways.
"DAMNIT DALE!" Kunimittz screams "YOU JUST HAD~ TO TAME A CHILD BOAR IN FRONT OF ITS MOTHER!"
"BUT IT'S SO CUTE~!" Dale remarks, running while carrying a hand sized, red skinned piglet over his head as you all try to escape a one story tall <<Mad Boar>> mob.
You're sure this scene would be hilarious if it wasn't happening to you.
<<DJ>> has become the familiar of Dale
TO: Argo
FROM: Klein
SUBJECT: Day Three
'Horunka Forest is normal though we can't tell if Mad Boars are more hostile or not. Dale somehow tamed a Piglet Boar by feeding it. There wasn't anything in your notes about this so is this new?'
TO: Klein
FROM: Argo
SUBJECT: Taming
'It was in the early part of the Beta to act as a single action support but was removed for balance. They may just be pets now so you might want to check on that.'
Great.
DAY FOUR
Origin Lake
"Guys…a little help." You call to your friends on the boat as a slimy arm caresses your face.
"No can do," Harry reads from one of Argo's guides. "The <<Cuddling Embrace>> does not cause damage to the player it grabs, only their equipment. Any damage done to it from anyone but the grabbed player is transferred to said player. It will let you go in a few minutes."
"Hear that Klein? You're losing something today no matter what." Issin calls.
"Ah fuck you guHUUHIA IT'S IN MY PANTS, IT'S IN MY PANTS!" You cry to deaf ears.
"I wish we could record this. It'd be great blackmail." Dale quips from a safe distance. DJ oinks in agreement.
Kunimittz continues to fish.
TO: Argo
FROM: Klein
SUBJECT: Day Four
'Three things. Tell everyone to say away from the Cuddling Embrace. There's boss that needs to be fished to fight in Origin Lake but we never found it. And Dale's pig can fight but uses Dale's SP meter.'
Somewhere a girl wishes recording crystals were unlocked. For blackmail of course.
DAY FIVE
Icunia Hills
D1c and H0rni are now contacts
The less you say about these two the better.
TO: Argo
FROM: Klein
SUBJECT: Day Five
'Checked out Icunia Hills today, nothing too eventful. We haven't been able to test it but the Kobald Bandits' dodging routine seems more complex than you described but all the other mobs are the same.
And if you can help it stay away from two guys named D1c and H0rni. It will save you tons of sanity.'
DAY SIX
Icunia Ruins
"If nothing else about this week is good," Dynamn brings up a topic, "these murals sure are fancy enough to fix that."
You want to vocalize your similar opinion but the seven story wall has the majority of your attention. The art is simple seeming similar to wall paintings you've seen from Egypt in style but what you think is writing looks like a gibberish mix of lines, circles, triangles and boxes or squares that you're unsure how it could ever be a language much less be read.
The actual picture depicts ten people or beings that seem to be women with seven taking up the top and three on the bottom half. On the top a brown haired one wearing a red robe with gold embodiments is encased in or maybe just covered up by some oval but holding another brown one in her hands while the other six face away from her each with their own colored robes carrying objects in their cupped hands. All seven with winged halos the color of their robes.
The game must be finished.
The one in orange with red hair held a hammer.
Create. Create. Know the Joy of Creation.
The one in purple with white hair held a flower.
Balance. Too many changes. Balance.
The one in yellow with grey hair held a basket of bread.
Share. Mix. Evolve.
The one in white with black hair had her hands tied in golden ribbons.
NO, STOP! Too many have died already.
The one in blue with blonde hair held a sword.
Ten minds. Ten bodies. Ten souls. Heaven is found within.
And the one in green with blue hair held either a brush or a jagged dagger.
Too many choices. Too many options.
The three on the bottom had a completely different tone being painted with a darker background. The one on the left and facing left is wearing some kind of clown or jester outfit with multiple faces of many expressions encircling it. The one on the right and facing right is only a skeleton, though that of a goat, wearing only tattered clothes.
The Beasts Below are the void.
The one in the middle and also the largest of any of the beings wears a robe similar to the one in the oval but with reverse colors with a hood covering its head only showing a set of sharp teeth in a deep open frown. Its arms are held up towards the being in the oval as if trying to drag it down to devourer it.
You really wish there was a way to photo this.
The void consumes all.
TO: Argo
FROM: Klein
SUBJECT: Day Six
'Explored the Icunia Ruins for most of today. The halls have been changed up so it's more complex but the best things was this huge mural we found in the center hall and some tablets with some old writing but we can't make heads or tails of them. Hopefully there's a quest to decipher these glyphs somewhere.'
DAY SEVEN
Icunia Ruins
"We're lost aren't we?" someone on your team asks. You're far too tired to care who it is.
"We're lost." Is your only reply.
TO: Argo
FROM: Klein
SUBJECT: Day Seven
'Still at Icunia Ruins. Many of the routes have been changed. I think we're lost.'
DAY EIGHT
Icunia Ruins
TO: Argo
FROM: Klein
SUBJECT: Day Eight
'Yep. Still lost. We've all got to level nine because of it but we're going to miss the boss raid at this point.'
DAY NINE
Icunia Ruins
TO: Klein
FROM: Kirito
SUBJECT: You Still Alive?
'People are just now getting to Tolbana Town so it looks like the boss raid is going to be another two or three days away.'
TO: Kirito
FROM: Klein
SUBJECT: Good
'That helps us out nicely. We're lost somewhere in the Icunia Ruins.'
TO: Klein
FROM: Kirito
SUBJECT: Map data
'Just got out of there yesterday myself. I'll send some of my map data, that last part is tricky.
If you get the chance try to see the mural in the 'Grand Chapel'.'
Kirito has sent you map data for Icunia Ruins.
Accept: (X) Yes ( ) No
TO: Kirito
FROM: Klein
SUBJECT: Thanks
'We were about to head in the opposite direction. This helps a lot.
And yeah we got to see the mural but I'd rather talk about that in person. See you at the boss raid.
TO: Argo
FROM: Klein
SUBJECT: Day Nine
'Kirito sent us some of his map data so we should be out of the ruins by tomorrow.'
DAY TEN
Tolbana Town
"FREEDOM~!" all the members of your party, including DJ but in oinks, yell out as you finally find yourselves into clean open air. As much as you can in a virtual world. And you're not that far from Tolbana Town to boot.
But despite that you're already very behind schedule and by the looks of things it may be another week before the boss fight even if Kirito says three days.
After the long haul through the ruins you now are all either level nine or ten with your best equipment, seventeen teleportation crystals and many junk items weighing you down. Maybe you should change your plans.
[ ] Your good, keep going as planned. No level like over leveled.
[ ] Go back into the Icunia Ruins. Maybe you missed something.
[ ] Go back to the Town of Beginnings and fulfill some promises.
[ ] Go back to one of the other places you've been.
-Where?
