千本桜　夜ニ紛レ　君ノ声モ届カナイヨ

In following his lead, she did as instructed - surveying the area, which supported his deduction; as much as they outsiders had such limited access to the terrain without jeopardy of incident, so too would the hats surely.

And taking into consideration other factors, what she had witnessed was a demonstration of Morgan’s qualifications as a leader. With mirrored enthusiasm, she nodded, evidently content to follow through with the plan.

Sword between her armoured palms, fingers would tighten themselves about the hilt. And while her strength would be but a fraction as it would have been if wielding Excalibur, she would put all effort into the follow-up to Morgan’s attack so not to waste his own.

As he seemed to gain an understanding of their surroundings, he’d nod his head and give Saber one nod of the head to indicate his readiness before aiming his hand out at one of the Merlocs, and quickly firing off a weave of two fireballs, both hitting their mark.

All of a sudden, as they were aggro’d they would let out that weird.. gargling noise before they would stumble forward through the swamps. They seemed to have been following straight into their trap as they had taken the very basic front means of approaching them, while some were slowing themselves down with being bogged into the swamp mud. 

“ teaming up? ”  she’s not entirely opposed to the idea or anything.  [ Tacticism ] seems nice enough, and she could do more with help than she could alone.  she just wonders what he would want help with, that’s all.

“ did you mean teaming up to take on areas?  or do you mean some other kind of help? ”  actually, lyra’s not sure what other kind of help there is in an mmo, now that she thinks about it.  “ i suppose if we team up, we can likely get more results and take less time doing so. ”

“ In this case, I believe acquiring funds for better equipment and these handy potions are necessary. From what I know, there are many people here willing to buy things like toad skins for a hefty price so we can acquire those. 

“Yeah, let’s go.  I think we need head East from here.”

“ W-Well.. I needed to complete the quest! So.. I simply wandered out here to do such that but.. I wasn’t aware it would be this hard. I didn’t have a proper weapon with me and I didn’t know I could do that so.. it became so much harder. “ 

Her hand reached out, very slowly - not to startle him again, if he’d been scarred by the events which had unfolded before him. And upon one knee was she propped, to offer protection, comfort - whatever there was that could be given.

“I don’t know…” The reply was hesitant; begrudged that she had no explanation for him. “They appeared without warning.

I cannot tell if this is another task from those in charge, or a malfunction. But Morgan… please, I need you to hear me. We cannot stay; we must find shelter. A safe base away from those creatures, and to find any others that might be salvaged.

Merely viewing the monsters from this phenomenon appear to have a drastic effect on us. I do not wish to leave others out there to face them, even the civilians. Although I’m afraid… that fighting them might destroy us.

It wasn’t enough to completely calm his nerves but it would at least halt the progress of his sanity bar decreasing, knowing there was at least someone here whom he could trust. It was just enough for him to steadily nod his head at the king’s words. 

Somewhere safe.. that was the plan wasn’t it? He would shakily get to his feet before stumbling over to Saber, trying to calm his nerves and take deep breaths still holding onto himself. “ S-Secure.. secure.. se..secu-- “ A sudden noise would nearly cause him to scream as he looked over at what was just a can being knocked over. As his eyes twitched and watered, he’d look back at Saber. 

Yosuke remembers someone shouting into chat, seemingly have a conversation with themselves and causing his HUD to tell him of a new message every few seconds.  He ended up muting it in annoyance for awhile.  “Oh.  That was you.  Yeah, just use backslash username instead of shout next time.  Please.”  

It seems like everyone gives the normal names, so Yosuke’s not sure what the point of usernames are here.  It’s not like he particularly minds, but it’s different from normal online behavior.  However, people didn’t usually stand face to face online.

When told his name, Morgan would nod his head in earnest. 

Her reaction subdued behind his affliction; they’d both been overpowered unexpectedly. To counter that was their first battle, while the second quickly manifested in the form of the bodies loitering among the environment.

“Attacking recklessly with the risk of becoming immobilized will leave us at a disadvantage if reinforcements come. Until we can be certain of numbers, I believe the former option is our best chance".

Her eyes were upon the task of scanning the immediate view right after inputting her opinion, The appearance of the monsters offered the impression that they might not be as mobile as their duo, though allowing that assumption to cloud judgement would lead to carelessness all the same. With Morgan on the front line, that wasn’t a risk to take.

Wait a second. A light bulb practically flashed above Morgan’s head as he spun around towards Saber, looking rather eager about this prospect. “ Actually, we can use the limited space here to our advantage! Look around you! It’s clear there’s only so few paths we can take before getting stuck or trapped, correct? “ 

“ Then that’s what we’ll do! We’ll grant only one outlet towards giving them a means to advance on us. If I can strike at them for a range, I can force them into the range of your blade before they’re quickly cut down. They will be practically lining up for their inevitable downfall!

“Not quests, that’s for sure.” the older male said.

“Here. Take… this. Shiro and… nii have… no …. use.” the girl chimed in, pulling from the bag behind them a full on spider’s leg, and handing it to the boy.

“Well, sophisticated games allow you to escape from your own personal reality. The more believable it is, the easier it is to get sucked into it. It’s like a mega-book.”

“ I never quite thought of it like that.. I suppose because it’s not on paper I hadn’t realized it.. “ Rubbing his chin at the thought would he look rather thoughtful on the matter. 

Hearing about Ylisse amazes her just as much. Such a big place with so many people, it must be wonderful…She tries to imagine what it must look like. “It sounds incredible! I hope I can see it some day!” She’s happy for the offer.

When she begins to speak about how they’re ships that just.. fly in space, Morgan would look forward and then look upwards before pointing to the sky. “ You mean.. space as in the space up there..? Is that even possible?! “ He’d ask, sounding quite shocked about that. 

“ well, i’m not sure you’ll get strong enough to lift up trees and boulders.  but i know you’ll do more damage against your enemies and such. ”  lyra can’t help but crack a small smile when the boy winces at his own thoughts and puts the potion back.  “ i’m… not quite sure how it tastes.  i suppose i’ll find out when i drink one. ”

she doesn’t feel comfortable using up all her money on potions, so she only takes two small health potions.  “ i guess i’ll take these, myself.  it’s probably best to start with the basics. ”  really, if her budget was like what it was at home, she could buy half the store without batting an eyelash.  actually counting out how much she could afford wasn’t something she was used to.  the simply grueling problems of being rich, she supposes.

Looking over at the other who had spoken with him and seeing how lenient they were with their own spending, he’d see that they were at least in similar situations with their current funds. But from the looks on his screen, the numbers under his blue bar were a lot larger than the ones on his red one. That probably meant he should be going for the ones that said ‘mana.’ Rubbing his chin, he’d decide to go for two blue and one red. That would be good! 

“Morgan!”

The cry to a familiar face came out more startled than she would have intended, but scolding herself over it can be saved for another time. Firstly Excalibur, and then the sword granted as a replacement - robbed by whatever villainous antics those in charge were up to.

Silver boots charged across the earthen path, to close the distance between them. During the last swarm of unusual monsters, he had been an ally - but this time, it was a mixture of fear and confusion which led her to him. All displays had been eradicated, and them left with nothing in-hand. Only the terror of hearing monstrous howling from nearby.

He had lost track of how long he had been running for from all sorts of monstrosities after him but he eventually found a moment’s peace to collect his thoughts. And simply put, his mind was telling him this was hell. He wasn’t sure how long he had been resting for or how long he had been sitting. Some how, having been this safe for now was beyond even him. 

“Oh! You can?” She stands on her toes and peers up at him. “What’re you called, then? …Do you know?” She tilts her head. She wasn’t able to remember a lot about her past: maybe he was the same? In any case, she’s definitely curious.

“Ylisse…” She chews on that for a couple seconds, grumbling thoughtfully a bit. Her next words are decisive. “Never heard of it, but it sounds pretty! It must be a nice place!” She smiles happily. She thinks he might be homesick, so she kind of tries to cheer him up.

When she makes mention of how Ylisse sounds like a pretty location, he’d smile and nod his head at her, throwing his arms out for emphasis. “ It’s quite a large location as well! There’s quite a lot and its always quite busy. Perhaps one day I can show you what I mean if I ever get the chance! “ 

“ Although I feel its a bit odd. If this is supposed to be a game, you would think we would not need rest like this. It almost seems as if we’re still living our normal lives but.. not in a game. I think? “ This was all still rather new to the boy, give him a bit.

“That sounds like a fine plan of action. It appears to be one of the nearest locations to here - presumably the enemy must be weaker, if stationed in the location closest to the area wherein the residents mobilize”.

“ Eirgh..! This place wasn’t as smelly as I thought it would be.. “ He’d say as he looked around the area. Giving it a quick look over, it seemed there were some odd, standing yet fat and stubby lizard people, simply walking about. It seemed that the quest sheet said that these would be suitable for hunting. 

“You might want to toggle usernames on.  It should say mine right here.  And yes, I am Jiraiya.  But if you have that on, you’ll be able to see every player’s username floating above their heads.”

Rubbing the bridge of his nose, he wonders how much of the tutorial he should bother recapping.  It seemed like [Tacticism] missed a lot of the crucial stuff.  He half expected this guy to get ambushed by wolves again as soon as he turned around.  

“You know how to add friends and use the message system, right?  If you input backslash Jiraiya, you can message me.  Like…”

“ Oh wait I know about that! Well I mean, sort of. I’ve had people tell me about, or talk to me through this. Although I used the shout command to respond back since I wasn’t quite sure what to do. “ Which meant everyone could hear what he was saying but not what the other party was saying.. kinda made things awkward. 

With his aches starting to dull, he starts to stand back up.  “Anyways, I don’t really use swords, so if I find one, I can let you know.”

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