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"...You have an AOE mage partner somewhere?" Cy stopped and turned to Arashi.
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Arashi's cheeks turned pink. "Well, no... but you complained that all the previous healers you'd level'd with were idiots and didn't know how to properly heal an AOE mage. A-and on top of that-!" He tried to save himself, tensing up once more. "AOE mages level the fastest, so becoming a healer for one seemed to be the most appropriate coarse of action. They require healers, as well, to do their best AOEs, yet Monks are the rarest forms of healers in The Game... no one tries to go that class because its so hard. So... I would be in demand..."
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"...Do you know that ability Chakra?" Cy asked.
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"That level 35 one that restores both HP and MP, though not in large amounts, but is significantly better once skill points are added and it levels?" Arashi asked, trying to remember.
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"Not to mention that when a mage learns the ability Half MP that halves the cost of their spells, Chakra is suddenly far more effective." Cyprian added. "Even the small amount of MP it restores, enables Mages with that ability continue casting spells."
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"What about the 55 skill, Link Chakra, which allows a mage to use a monk's MP as well as their own, dividing the cost in half?" Arashi practically burst, feeling extremely geeky but at the same time excited to be sharing an interest with the other.
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"The Monk is potentially the hardest class to master, but when you focus them to augment the abilities of someone else rather than how powerful you can make the monk individually is where it's potential shines." Cyprian nodded. "That's the thing...monks are a support class disguised as stand-alone."
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"When I was reading up on the skills I fell in love with the class," Arashi admitted. "Being able to support another class like that... someone on the forums said that with a good monk and a good Warlock, you could take out the highest level boss with only those two players."
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"I'd have to learn more hex style abilities and rely a bit more on your high attack and defense if you were a Monk and I were a Warlock." Cyprian sighed.
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"I thought you were a Warlock," Arashi admitted, blushing. "The skill you used in the dungeon... the AOE skill..."
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"A Perk." Cy smirked. "I earned enough character points to purchase the Prodigy Perk and therefore learned a skill that was out-of-class."
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Arashi's eyes went wide. "But... that costs over 9000 character points...! You... you must be a PVP master-!"
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"Most of this I do on my own because everyone else was too interested in goofing around all day." Cy huffed. "They have shopping malls to hang out in."
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"Well... you are all max level, aren't you?" Arashi hummed. "Although the new expansion comes out in a few weeks... its what really got me interested in The Game. They're upping max level by ten levels, right?"
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"Yep, we can take it to level 30 then and I'll officially have more to live for." Cy nodded as they stepped into town.
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Arashi actually laughed a little. "30, right... because 30 is the same as level 70, mister level 60 MVP."
The golden crown that Cy was wearing was just that - the top scorer of the winner of the weekly guild matches for three months in a row. It was rarely recognized by low level idiots. |
"If I find out your snooping into me..." Cy warned.
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Arashi frowned and pointed at the crown. "You have to have been the MVP for at least a month in a row to get that..."
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"You hoping to take it?" Cy smirked and tapped his staff on the ground twice.
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Arashi jumped. "Of course not! Monk builds are not for PVP!"
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"You're not one yet." Cy scoffed before turning and heading down the main avenue. "Are you stocked up? I'd hate to stumble into a dungeon we can't warp out of and find out you have no potions or something."
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Squeaking, Arashi stumbled after him.
He listened as Cy explained how the skill point system and buying skills worked. He'd read into it already and knew everything, but found that he liked listening to the other man explain... not in any creepy way or anything, just that Cy had a nice voice... Shaking his head, he jumped and brought up the time. "Oh my gosh, I was supposed to be in glass 20 minutes ago!" |
"I knew you'd say that sooner or later." Cy snorted. "You got two choices...leave or stay."
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Frowning, Arashi peered at the other for a few moments. "Well... my teacher is the kind that wont let me in if I'm late..."
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"Sounds like you're stuck here for the next hour or so." Cyprian snorted and rolled his eyes.
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"Well, that was my last class of the day," Arashi informed. "So I should probably go back to my dorm and link up to my actual TGS. I'm in the computer lab right now."
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"Tch!" Cyprian laughed. "An obsessive player, huh?"
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"Not at all," Arashi laughed. "I'll be back in 30 minutes, tops. Think you can wait that long?"
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"What makes you think I'd wait for you?" Cy asked.
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"I don't," Arashi admitted. "But I'm hoping."
With that said, he logged off. |
--SCENE BREAK--
The dorms were packed, but Haru was lucky enough to have one to himself and with a bathroom even. |
He made sure to lock the door - if someone came in, he couldn't defend himself fast enough while linked in - and dropped his bag onto the bed, falling back onto it himself.
"I really hope he waited," He admitted to himself, before reaching over and grabbing the TGS that was wired in to his laptop. He hooked one over his right ear and the other over his left, before taking the third cord and connecting it around his throat. It dug into the back of his neck, stinging a little but making all the difference as he was logged in to town and could actually smell the NPCs cooking and the sea air. |
What exactly was the code for saltwater? How could a computer really translate and synthesis such a scent? The technology that went into the making of The Game was just phenomenal.
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Then again, he knew part of it - it wasn't too hard to understand, really... the code was wired into his brain, telling him that he was smelling salt water. It was a common enough sent that he knew it... he was relatively sure if he'd never been to a beach, he wouldn't be able to smell it at all.
But he really didn't know... it was just a guess. He spotted two forms he recognized and began to approach, before he realized that Ukeru and Cy were fighting and hung back, frowning. |
Haru wasn't the only one to notice, they were drawing in a little bit of the crowd, but a lot of people were just hanging back or moving on. It didn't pay to get into the squabbles of high-level characters like those two.
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Most players couldn't hear what they were saying because they were filtered into guild chat - their shouting just looking like empty movements of their mouths - but seeing as he was in their guild, Haru heard every word.
"I don't care!" Ukeru was shrieking, sounding a bit heart broken. "I still like seeing him!" |
"You know this is just like you, I don't know HOW you keep surprising me with crap like this!" Cy shot back.
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"Why are you surprised!?" Ukeru snapped. "I love him, stupid, of course I want to be around him!"
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"I'm not wasting anymore of time." Cy shook his head and started to walk away.
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"What is your problem!?" Ukeru shouted at his retreating back. "What is so wrong with me hanging around Pin, Ben!?"
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