With the sounds of birds chirping, soft breezes, intermittent howling, and new players' confusion lent Brisshal a sense of excitement and wonder. Or maybe that was just Felictas' own sense of excietement. Even so, she shook a bit, not sure how her sparks would hold up to even the spawn area's wolves, or whether punching them would even do damage, if they got too close. He didn't have a mastery in unarmed anything, so it really might do nothing. She briefly entertained the idea of hiding up a tree and shooting her little fireballs at them, but she worried that the realism would allow the tree to burn instead of the wolf.. She turned to her companion, pulling up her palm menu and sending a party request. "Do you have any ideas for getting these wolves to not kill us while we kill them? I though about just hiding up tree, but I'm scared I'll catch the tree on fire first." She grabbed a couple leaves off the ground as she walked, admiring how solid they felt in her hands, flexible and alive and bright, bright green. "Isn't it just amazing how alive this place is? It really doesn't feel like a game, until you have to think about masteries. Even draining mana feels real." She grinned, shaking her head vigorously. "I absolutely love it here." @Sera Phim
Sera didn't know how she felt about the forest. It was clearly untamed, and would fight against any efforts to make it so. It wasn't any place a girl could get a castle built and start ruling, for sure. But she supposed that wasn't all bad - besides, if castle could just pop up anywhere, where would the fun be when you actually did get a castle? "Yeah, I have an idea for that," she said. She smirked at the taller girl. "We kill them before they kill us. Pretty simple, once you think about it," she said as she hit the button to accept the party invite. She nodded when the girl mentioned how amazing the world was, and how much she loved it. "I know. It's amazing we're alive at a time when all of this is possible..." she sighed. "Right then, enough being sappy. Time to find some wolves." Sera put her hands up to her face and cupped them out from her mouth to amplify her voice. "Wolfies! Wolfies! Come here and get killed, little wolfies!" She laughed. "You know, maybe I should try out one of my spells before we go straight into combat," she said. She opened up her menu and examined the two spells she had available to her. "Hmm... let's try this one," she said and tapped it. She found herself speaking a brief chant she didn't understand. Suddenly, with a flash of light, she disappeared from view. She reappeared almost immediately several yards in the direction she'd been facing with a loud shriek. "Holy shit!" She cried. She looked back to where Felicitas was. "I don't know if that was more terrifying or amazing!" She shouted back to the girl. She shivered with excitement as she walked back to where Felicitas was. "That being said... Since you're aiming for heavy army, you should get used to being the one who takes the lead and tanking. So lead the way, Ms. Tall, Dark, and Pretty."
Feilictas laughed aloud, "Yes, that is a solid plan, it's just the actually dealing damage part." She joined In the calls, "Oooh, Wooolfie! I know you're oooouut theeeere! Arooooo!" She threw in a howl, just for fun. No sense in adventure without a healthy sense of possibly danger-inducing entertainment. Felicitas busied herself opening her own spell menu, noticinng the second spell for the first time. While the first one was just a fireball, this one seemed to be a large, expensive, blast. She figured it might be useful, but that she wouldn't be able to use it too much, so she just opened the details on the first, and read the chant aloud, pointing firmly away from Sera, "Verbrennen!" Her shock at the spell working better this time was far outweighed by the shock of Sera teleporting forward several yards. She blinked rapidly. "Well, there's how you're not dying! She exclaimed, opening the second spell's details and committing the chant to memory. She appreciated how simple the beginner pyromancy spells seemed to be in wordage. "I'd say amazing, but I don't know how it feels!" She yelled back, "What's your other one?" She laughed at the compliment, not blushing at all this time, "I don't think I have any built in tanking skills, yet, but okay. I'll lead.." She turned to walk deeper into the forest, and took a long step, grinning ear to ear.
"My other spell?" Sera asked, opening her menu. "Well, let's find out," she said. She made sure she was facing away from Felicitas and hit the button to activate the spell. She found herself speaking words that once more she couldn't understand, and her hand waved on its own. From her finger tips, a sphere of light launched forward, shinely beautifully and alternating between red, orange yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet lights. It struck a nearby tree as it shined red, and a small explosion tore a chunk of wood clear from the tree's trunk. "So, that looks like it's basically 'my sexuality, the spell', but it also seems like it can do some damage, so that should be interesting," she said, turning back toward the taller girl. As Felicitas led them into the woods, it wouldn't be long before the two of them heard howls, first from their left side, then from their right. "So... there's at least two of them. Look at that, already finding ourselves something to do," she said.
Felicitas pulled up her spell menu again as she waited for Sera's spell to go off. As it did, she watched enraptured. "I wonder if it has different effects when it lands on different colors?" She asked, "Red would make sense to be an explosion, but it would also make sense to just be colorful." She shrugged, looking at the chants for her spells again. She jumped as her heard the howls, and her heart pounded in her chest.. She grinned wide, and seemed to stand taller. "At leas two of them," she agreed, "Probably more. We're probably already surrounded, so let's get an attack plan. Hopefully, they wont approach all at once, but if they do, i have what seems to be a wide range blast. I haven't tested it yet, as it seems expensive, energy-wise, but I'll shoot that first. After that, you choose a target and use your rainbow spell, and I will follow in that direction with by mini fireballs. You blink out, and I will run after you. We can try to run and pick them off. Soound good?"
Sera nodded at the girl's plan. "Alright, yeah, that sounds like it'll work," she said. She turned so her back was to the girl so each could cover a direction the wolves would come from. Immediately, a wolf burst into the clearing on each side. Realizing they were probably too far apart for Felicitas's plan to work as she had planned, Sera pulled her spell menu up and cast the rainbow spell at the wolf on her side. This time, the orb struck the wolf as the light was glowing violet. Rather than an explosion, something altogether different happened. A slight violet glow encapsulated the wolf, and it snarled, then lunged forward. Not at either of the girls, rather, it lunged toward the other wolf, clawing it across the side. Immediately, the glow faded. The second wolf yelped, but seemed to know it's friend was not in control of itself. Both of them snarled toward Sera. "Right, that answers that question, different colors are different effects. Also, this would be a good time for fire," she said to the taller girl, backing slowly behind her.
Felicitas nodded decisively, looking once more at the pronunciation, and preapered to wait. Her jaw dropped as the violet light enveloped the wolf, and she watched it attacked the other wolf. It seemed the effects were very short lived, but pretty darn effective. She wondered how the colors related. Red was obvious, red=destruction, and purple=mind control apparently, but she waondered what the other colors would mean. She straightened up as Sera inched behind her, and stood proudly. She inched foward, trying to reduce the distance a bit, as she had no clue what kind of range this spell had. "Quae uri!" She intoned confidently once she felt she was close enough, her hands pointing toward both wolves. An impressive blast of fire launched foward, sweeping out toward either side, and set on the wolves. It seemed to envelop them fully, and as it faded, their ears stayed aflame for a few seconds, and they yelped until that went out as well. Felicitas panted. She hadn't realized just how exhausting that spell would be, and as she looked at her mana bar, she realized it was well below half. "You may need to take over for a moment, I underestimated the cost of that one."
Sera frowned herself when she saw that the wolves hadn't yet been fully defeated, even by that burst of flames. "You know, there is a certain chance we have definitely gotten ourselves in over our head..." she said to the taller girl, slowly backing away from the wolves. She wondered, briefly, about leaving the taller girl. At the very least, she wouldn't have to outrun the wolves, just Felicitas. She looked at her own mana bar. It was also lower than she was willing to admit. "Yeah, I don't know if I have a third spell in me quite yet..." she reported. Options raced through her mind, but the more they did the more only one seemed viable at this time. "Right, I'm gonna say we should run. That seems the best option to not die a gruesome death at this stage," she said. "Or... if you can buy a little bit of time, I think I almost have enough energy for that rainbow spell again. But you might have to deal with taking a hit or two first." She motioned toward the wolf that had been attacked by its companion from her spell earlier. "I can't imagine he will hold out much longer. Maybe try punching the thing? What's the worst that could happen?"
Felicitas straightened back up, still breathing heavily, her mouth set in determination, "I'm not running," Her eyes flashed, "I still have a little mana left." She was sure she would at least get injured as both wolves attack, but if she could cast fast enough, maybe they'd be done. She pressed her two finger to her temple quickly, and noted that they were both very close to dead. She intoned her basic spell twice as she walked closer. The wolves snarled at her and went to lunge, but they were met with two small bursts of fire, right in the face, and fell to the ground. Felicitas spat on them, and breathed a sigh of relief. "That went pretty well, I suppose," She called back, "We should loot these and head back quickly, before any more aggro on us. Maybe we can see what the food is like, if we get enough from this. I bet it will fill our mana bars at least a little." She sat close to the corpses, catching her breath for a moment, and brushing her hand over the singed fur. Pyromancy had proved much more useful than she thought it would be, she noted with a quiet laugh. Maybe she wouldn't ignore it as much as she had planned.
Sera yelped for joy when she saw the wolves be killed by the taller girl's fire. "Ha!" she cheered. She approached the two wolf corpses and bent down beside Felicitas. "So I'm actually not one hundred percent sure what the way of doing looting in this game is. I don't see anything shiny or glowy, and I kind of don't want to just pull a tooth out, you know what I mean?" she asked. She straightened up and put her hands on her hips. "Well, even so. I won't really be using armor or weapons, so what we craft when we get back will both be for you, so I think you should fiddle with it, figure out how we're gonna go about getting the money from these things." She spun around slowly. "You know, this was fun, the threat of our own impending death and all that aside. But girl, you really need to get some armor. Tanks need to be slower than the squishier players so that the others can run away," she said and then laughed. "That being said, I think I'm about ready to head back into town. Let me know when you are."
"Yeah, It seems like it just a corpse... I wonder if we could sell it to someone with a cooking skill?" She stood up slowly, and bent down to lift a corpse. As she did, a panel popped up in her face, and she started. "Welp, I found the looting screen, just bend down to the other one," She ointed to the other body, glancing at Sera. She pressed the accept button, and watched her meters for mastery points and gold rise a bit. "... I think that enough for some materials? Let's head back." She stood, leaving the bodies, and started walking back to town.
Sera bent down beside the other wolf, just like the girl recommended. Sure enough, a screen popped up telling her how many gold pieces she could get from the wolf. She smiled and hit the button to take it. "Well, that's just fantastic," she said. "I wonder if there's a way to automate that, so you don't have to go through it all afterward? Like, imagine if you had fought your way through a huge battle field, with two full armies of NPCs. It'd be so annoying to have to remember to go back and loot every single one that you killed, and even the lootable ones that you didn't kill. I'll have to play around with the settings a bit, I suppose, see if I can find anything that could help in that situation." She stood up and stretched. "Yeah, I think we have enough to buy the materials we'll need. Well then, you ready to get a hammer?" she asked the taller girl as the two of them began to walk back in the direction of the town they had came from. "What kind of appearance do you want the hammer to have? Like, anything fancy? Or just a stick with a heavy end? I'm not exactly sure how much customization I can really put into it at this point yet, but I'm definitely willing to try to make it something that'll be interesting and not boring. Weapons are like jewelry, they're a status symbol as much as anything else! They gotta look good!"
Felicitas paused in her walk to open her palm menu, and perused the pages carefully, determined to find that auto-loot button. "Here it is!" She said, and described the location to Sera quickly, "That's gonna be super important once raids start happening, and big events like that." She turned back toward town, and started going again, watching the sunlight filter through the trees. It was as an afterthought that she replied to Sera's questions, the rest of her brain occupied watching the birds flitting through the trees and squirrels darting across branches. "I mean, really it's just something to hit things with, but if you have any handle decoration, I prefer leather wrapped handles to just notched ones. I just like leather, really. And if any decoration is possible on the head, I do really like Norse and German stuff." She laughed giddily after that, and broke into a sprint. This was exactly what she had hoped for. Bartering, realistic fighting- well, as realistic as a fantasy world could get- building culture around themselves, and real, tangible, warm sunlight. She never wanted to log out.
