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[curvaceous]

Who • Kara & others
What • Area exploration + private threads and stuff
When • August
Where • Lumina Cloth, etc.
Content Warnings • None for now, will update as needed

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> owen, cyno, nana

[curvaceous]

Submission

[ What a silly little group they've formed, and all thanks to Kara's network post. She had messaged all three to gather them for an area exploration session, and their keywords wound up being Paling Fortune's Night Moon. Well, that can't go so poorly, can it? Seems innocuous enough.

They find themselves situated in a murky forest that seems to be...endless. There's no exit in sight. Cool, it adds to the adventure. Kara's equipped with her beginner armor and her fishticuffs, which she seems to be trying very hard to wear with pride. ]

Alright, how are we feeling? Ready to go forth?

[sicklysweet]

[He can't believe he's here with all these children...]

Let's just get this over with.

[This forest looks haunted as hell.]

Try not to get lost, because I'm not going to look for you.

[General you.]

> dehya, cyno, tighnari

[curvaceous]

Submission

[ Entwined Love's Twin Rocks, eh? How strange. Kara has no idea what to expect with this one, but hey, it seems like they've got a pretty good group to tackle this with. She remembers Tighnari's impeccable aim, Cyno (whom she'd met once in-person, at the Create-a-Cub store) and his fighting spirit, and Dehya's ferocity. Surely this will be a smooth run, right...

Except when they land, it's in the desert. Oh, it's so hot. ]

Oh, god...the heat...

[696_9]

I'll be fine. Let's check this out.

[cuteangel77 wanders forward slowly into the forest.]

So it generated a misty forest at night this time. It kind of makes you think of stuff like the Battle of Minatogawa, right? Which makes me wonder if there's a beach at the end of it.

[notfunny]

[ oh no.

heat. again? so soon?? already he's thinking about how they'll all fare; while cyno doesn't mind the desert heat, this is feeling awfully familiar already. which means as soon as he has the chance, he's already sidling up to tighnari with concern lining his features. ]

This sucks.

[ he sighs. ]

Last time we were in a desert like this, I felt like sand got everywhere. Even offline.

[notfunny]

Battle of what?

[ idly spinning his scythe around, cyno clicks his tongue. this is certainly more his speed; he'll take a forest any day over some kind of hellishly hot landscape. as he takes a few steps forward, he's sizing up each one of his party members. ]

I wouldn't mind a beach though, so if it's something you're familiar with... I'll hope for the best.

[curvaceous]

[ little does cyno know, the following week won’t be so kind-

Anyway, Kara’s a shortie, standing at 5’0”, but she doesn’t seem worried or self-conscious about her performance at all. She walks forward, just behind Nana, trying to stay aware in case anything decides to leap out at them. ]

Okay, let’s be careful-

[ In the near distance, something shuffles. Then, there’s the sound of something flapping. ]

…Yeah. Definitely be careful.

[sicklysweet]

[Somehow, he thinks this isn’t leading to a beach…]

Sounds like danger.

[He pulls out his fans, waving them in a vague gesture.]

I can only buff one of you at a time, so I hope you don’t get jealous.

[And with that said, he waves his fan and buff’s Kara’s strength.]

[696_9]

Like I would. I should be strong enough anyway, I put, like, a ton of points into defence.

[She wanders forward with a frown, her weapon -- uh, sign -- in front of her.]

What do you think it is?

[veardant]

[ WHY THIS?? TWO DESERTS IN A ROW.. ]

That's it, I quit this game.

[ okay not really, he's just being dramatic. but if this keeps up he's going to write a strongly worded letter to cccorp!! tighnari groans, wiping his knuckles across his brow, glancing toward their team. ]

I just wanted to study some flora.. [ s i g h ] All right, is everyone going to be okay?

[notfunny]

[ he squints, raising a hand up to his brow. more of a 'looks cool' kind of gesture than anything else. ]

Bugs.

[ at least to him, that's what they look like? cyno grunts. ]

They've got... they're kinda thick.

[ what is with their butts ]

[curvaceous]

Yuck.

[ She nods at Owen — thanks for the buff — but she grimaces at the bugs. Why their butts like that tho ]

Alright, let’s clear a path. I’m going in!

[ Kara rushes at one of them and winds up for a powerful punch. The buff certainly helps! ]

[legendofthelion]

[Dehya shields her eyes. She, too, has had two deserts in a row now.] Well, if it's desert out here that means the dungeon inside is probably something else, right? And we can't really get heat stroke but maybe we should try and keep an eye out for shade until we see what's in the middle.

[sicklysweet]

They look like peacocks…

[Sort… of…

Anyways! Owen’s not about to get killed by some low level bugs, so he’s just going to stay out of the way and keep the buffs up!! You can do it!!

(He feels a bit like a babysitter…)]

[696_9]

They look hideous is what.

[Nana swings her sign at one to knock it hard into a tree.]

That hanging thing looks like abstract art.

[notfunny]

[ he puts himself in front of owen. if he's the one offering them all support through some way, then he's the one that needs to be protected.

as one of the bugs catches on and flaps itself over, getting into range... cyno doesn't hesitate. the scythe slices the thing clean in half, causing it to poof into dust. ]

I guess if the point of a creative team is to be creative, they're doing their job the right way.

[curvaceous]

Man, I sure hope so. This is really gonna make concentrating very difficult.

[ Honestly, she can't blame anyone for being dramatic. She'd prefer to crawl into a fridge right about now, but she moves forward, urging the group to do the same. ]

But that just means we have extra motivation to kill things quickly, yeah? The faster we clear this, the faster we get to shade!

[notfunny]

[ he gives tighnari a gentle nudge with his hip as he moves past. ]

Break a sweat so we don't have to sweat, huh. Should've brought a sweater in that case.

[ feeling pretty good about that one, cyno's eyebrows raise. ]

That's a forest. Like, in the middle of... I guess they really left a lot of things to chance.

[ at least it looks more appealing than the sand, right? ]

So. You all enjoying the game so far?

[curvaceous]

They sure are.

[ Kara uses her fists to punch another one out of the way, and then a second that comes flying towards Nana. At least they're pretty easy to get rid of! ]

Hmph! These things are nothing. Let's keep going and take care of any more that pop out at us along the way.

nobody saw the mod journal here

[sicklysweet]

[Well, it's nice to have confidence.]

Be careful that doesn't end up famous last words.

[Though the likelihood of there being any issues with their team composition is incredibly slim... You never know...!]

But I agree. We shouldn't just waste time waiting for the mobs to come to us.

[696_9]

They'll show up anyway, so we might as well press on, right?

[She knocks away the bug that Kara punched toward her, and she starts marching forward, turning her head one way or the other to check for more monsters.]

What kind of stuff do you even think we'll find in here?

[notfunny]

Loot, hopefully. Usable loot.

[ the idea of letting anything get wasted is annoying! inefficient! ]

We'll probably find a majority of it in the dungeon proper. I feel like the field is just a way to gauge whether we can deal with the real enemies.

[ sorry bugs, you're not worthy of their time. at least that's what it feels like. ]

[veardant]

[ moving forward.. yes.. that's their best bet. in his last area exploration, he at least was able to find relief in the shade once they reached the dungeon; he could only hope that the same would happen, here.

so he nods, having no energy to hip check cyno right back, and instead trudges along silently beside them. better for him not to talk right now, he'll need the energy he would spend bitching to shoot monsters, soon enough. ]

[legendofthelion]

[At Kara's concern, Dehya reaches to pat her shoulder.] Let me know if it gets too much, okay? I'll carry you.

[Even if the heat stroke isn't real, the exhaustion is still an issue. But Dehya's confident she can deal with the fake sun.

And then she raises a brow at Cyno's joke, but lets it slide without comment as he continues on.] Oh, yeah. It's kind of strange since I've never played a VR game this intense, but I'm enjoying the combat. And the world is interesting.

[curvaceous]

Hey, I'm the one that'll do the carrying.

[ She says it jokingly, but honestly, Dehya doing the hard carrying isn't something she's opposed to. She seems to be adapting better than the rest of them, so.

Cyno making small talk grabs her attention, though: ]

It's cool! I like it. Kinda weird that it's so realistic, especially right now. Poor F0x looks like he might pass out.

[ She says, like she doesn't look just as unenthused about the heat. ]