Treasure Hunting (Guild Scale Job)

Word Count: 278

The second mission that Alex was going to embark on, under the title of a "Golden Phoenix" mage. This would not only be fun, but also fill his pockets with money, hopefully, to pay his bills and maybe give himself a little extra for more than basic life expenses. Ah, that was the one thing that the mage didn't account for, the one little word: he. Having only met one person in the guild, Astrid, the mage hadn't gotten to tell others about his gender, or rather genders. One day he could be female, the other male. When he didn't tell others beforehand, they could possibly mix things up, and with many people embarking on this job, Alex was sure at least one of them was bound to. But that was no problem at the moment, because this could be time for Alexander to make his prowess in tactics evident to others. There were many of them, above 10 for sure. He didn't do an exact headcount, having drifted off to deeper sleep than usual before getting to, but regardless he knew there'd be mages of varying strengths and weaknesses, and the sooner he found these out, the sooner he could create a plan, should battle ensue. Knowing his luck, it most likely would. The one drawback is that many of the higher ranking mages might not take his tactical advice, as he was just a simple D rank mage and he hadn't had much time to prove that he was a sound tactician, so this plan was a double edged sword. Either he'd be known as the strategist he was, or he'd make a fool of himself. But that wasn't exactly a problem, instead just an annoyance.

Before arriving at the Forgotten Desert, Alex was asleep, as usual, but unlike normal this wasn't his "aware" sleep, instead he was fully inside his dream land, exploring the doors that were seemingly neverending, giving Alex more insight on his own mind. It was a meditation practice, so to speak, and Alex never got tired of doing it, with no pun intended. With him being in such a deep state of sleep, he almost didn't realize the guild ship stopped, and that they had reached their destination. That was, until he started having vivid dreams of a loud yelling voice screaming about how awesome this was going to be. If this person was apart of the guild... which they most likely were... Alex would have to distance himself from her. He couldn't stand overly noisy people. So, exiting through the giant doors that said "real world," Alex got up, and gpt from below the deck and went above, to get off the boat behind Astrid. The nice, smooth breeze was good, considering they were in a sandy place and anything more than a light breeze would be too uncomfortable, but the sun was shining and there was still a desert's worth of sand, so Alex just put up his hood to the jacket he always wore, and awaited everyone to be ready.
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When it wasn't necessary to communicate, Leah preferred to simply stick to herself, and so she had.  For the entirety of the journey here, the redhead had gawked as subtly as she could at the sights available as one flew over Fiore.  Having joined the adventurous guild only a few weeks ago, the mage was still unfamiliar with the beauty of the Phoenix Islands, and seeing it from above only heightened her astonishment.

Pulling herself together as best as she could, the girl glanced discreetly around the ship, taking note that although most of the members had situated themselves closer to the exit (or entrance), a few had been like to her and gone off to be fairly alone.  One guild mate, with dark hair that was striking against his fair skin and red eyes, seemed to be a possibly interesting person to talk to.  Then again, what member of Golden Phoenix had she ever met that was not interesting?  Second guessing her decision to go over and strike up a conversation, Leah let the lull of inactivity she had fallen into continue.  There were a admittedly breaks of it when her eyes alighted on a particularly fascinating or staggering view and had to whip out her iLac to use a downloaded photography app-- but those were few and far between.

Finally the ship landed; although the view had been nice and the company adequate (if a bit lonesome), Leah was most excited for the actual treasure hunting.  It promised plenty of jewels for everyone, so long as one lugged around sacks to tote their treasure in: a situation that the ReQuip wasn't used to due to the ordinary flexibility of her storage based magic.  But she would manage.

A half-smile crept up on Leah's face as the resident fireworks expert seemed to almost explode out of the ship, shouting encouragement to the other members.  Following the other members and hopping off the ship herself and onto the soft sand, so warmed by the light of the sun that she swore she could feel it through the soles of her boots, the redhead stretched momentarily.  The heat here felt good to her bones.  As she double checked that the empty sacks were secured to her belt, ready to be pulled loose and filled with treasure at the first opportunity.  Not knowing exactly how the mission would work, the girl decided to tag along with the rest of Golden Phoenix.  If she stayed near the middle of the group and didn't wander off too much, hopefully she would survive to enjoy all of the treasure the group was hoping to discover.  After all, there were said to be strong enemies here...

450 Words, 450/2150 Words.

(Woed count: 304/2150)

Loners were people too. Even if Leah thought she could survive psychologically with just the barest minimum of social interaction, she was quite wrong. In the end, humans were dependent on each other and by filling in the gaps within their own personalities, they could overcome... the girl thought about her prior experience with her fellow mankind.

They had judged her harshly as soon as she stepped into the Neutral Grounds.
They had turned dozens of people into zombies purely for the sake of one life (and that life wasn't even rescued in the end).
They had abandoned people for fear of catching the plague.
They had murdered the ones who had placed trust in their hands.
They had separated two young lovers and driven them eventually to their deaths.
They had lied to their dates and partners and run away from saying the truth.
They had killed cupcake shops belonging to innocent redheads.

But in the end, there were no worries, of course. Because of the evil nature of human beings, at least in Leah's opinion, their saving grace could only be love. Especially because oh boy, was Golden Phoenix a nice place; full of love it seemed to be today as well. The redhead doubted that she had been the only one to catch the glance that flitted from swordsman's eyes to rest on the fireworks expert. Similarly, the answering smile was honestly one of the most lovely things she had seen in a long while. Of course, that was only barring the adorable picture from earlier of the guild's resident Ace of Diamonds offering to assist Astrid until the motion sickness that hindered all slayers passed. It was a cute picture in her mind, but then a slim boy with spiky, dark hair clambered onto Hero's shoulders and the moment passed from her mind. Well, she had always pictured beautiful relationships as involving two people but it could still happen but romance wasn't always the option! Treasure hunting did just fine at times, and that was exactly what the group was here to do. Following Summer's lead, the emerald eyed mage threw her hands up in the air above her head, requipping two daggers as she moved so that they flew up out of her grasp. Hopefully nobody was flying over top of her or that they were good at dodging if they chose to try doing so. In the case of nothing interfering, Leah planned to let the daggers fall back in the opposite hand that they had emerged from like a cool trick. Tryhard.

879/3000 Words.

(word count: 276, Total Word Count: 580/2160)

Word Count: 348
OOC: Sorry for the delay!

Ripperino... I actually forgot the rolling, oops.

If the roll is boss, its a strong roll x)

The member 'Salrynn' has done the following action : Dice Rolls

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'Monster Dice' :

The redhead nodded slowly as the guild ace shouted some kind of battle plan to the group.  The howling of the wind (or maybe she was just used to hearing the resident fireworks expert scream things to them, half of it seemingly encouragement and the other half, orders to go do epic things), prevented her from fully being able to understand him.  Still, she got the gist; stay between the most powerful mages in the group.  After Astrid felt completely well enough to take the rear guard, that was.  Summer, on the other hand, seemed perfectly content to get revving right away, and she shouted as much to the guild as she walked into someone (scratch that, lightly slammed into someone).  Leah winced, but bruises seemed to be the least of the woman's problems, since there were people with weapons standing barely any distance away from her.  Fortunately, she wasn't a guild master for absolutely no reason, so the mage was assured that the woman would be fine.

As for the rest of them, there were enough enemies to go around!  (Probably, unless their ace decided it would be fun to try to take them all out in one punch or something... woe to everyone around if that was the case).  Shen, another one of the guild members who she had seen around a little bit, seemed to take the initiative right away.  He immediately slammed his sword point down into the sand, and weapons seemed to just erupt from the soil.  Leah couldn't resist a laugh even as she realized her body was humming with energy, as though it was more ready to move than ever before.

"Free weapons?  Where have you been all my life?" she wondered out loud jokingly, flashing a brief wink at the dark haired youth before yanking two serviceable blades out of the ground.  Wielding them with the same deftness she did her Imperial Daggers, she smiled at two of the treasure hunters who seemed to be about her size and maybe strength.  The girl had some reservations about just aiming to kill them outright; not only was it maybe iffy in front of all of these other mages, Leah also wasn't completely sure whether she wanted to enjoy herself fighting.  It really wasn't something the mage was prone to doing, but today could just be a day for exceptions.  She was treasure hunting and adventuring with the guild, after all.  

Her decision made, the girl leaped at the pair of enemy hunters with a smile lingering across her face.  Unfortunately, she somehow slammed her pommel against the side of one's head (oops?) but the second, she engaged in close combat with.  It was refreshingly nice to just kind of block and parry for a while, but she soon figured that she ought to go see if something more productive (helping the other members, maybe?) could be done.  Jabbing the woman she was fighting in the gut, her opponent wheezed for air.  Leah took the opportunity to knock her out as well before she turned to glance around to see how everyone else was faring.  There was fortunately another treasure hunter staring off into what seemed to be space, but it ended up that he was watching one of his comrades fight a member of Golden Phoenix.  Shrugging to herself, the redhead kicked the back of his knee and said, "Hey!  Fight or something, don't just stand there, alright?"  She even went so far as to tap him on the shoulder with the flat side of one of her newly begotten blades.

589 + 879 = 1477/3000 Words.
So out of one group of weak enemies Leah is messing around with 3/10.  
Oh, and she borrowed a couple blades, courtesy of Shen, but they'll disappear in a few posts.

Noise... why must there be so much of it? The purple haired hooded, sleeping mage raised his fingers to his temples, getting a small headache from the sheer amount of noise that was bombarding him at the moment. Alex noticed quite a few things occur before the enemies appeared - Astrid was sick, and quite a few other guild members, including a FRICKIN GIANT went over to assist her. Apparently the giant man had some sort of authority, as he did seem to be calling the shots. However, it was the super loud woman in the front that gave Alexander his massive headache. Not only was she screaming her heart out... she was CONSTANTLY screaming her heart out. Did no one know that people are asleep? ...oh right, they didn't, considering how minuscule Alex's presence has been in the guild. He rather avoided the place, unconsciously, and just rather was there to get job forms. He did have his own place, of course.

That was aside from the point, as after the start of the voyage, the cluster of magi ran into trouble. Figures, as that's how these things always go. You leave to have a goal set in mind, and someone tries to kill you. This must be how Nathan Drake feels... Well, they are essentially a giant band of mini-Nathans. Well... as "Mini" as you can get when you have a literal giant on your team. Regardless, the hooded figure decided now was a time to - HOLY CRAP DID THAT LOUD LADY JUST PULL OUT A HORSE?

Baffled for a minute about the sudden emergence of the horse onto the battlefield, Alex had to shake off the feeling of discombobulation and replace it with determination. Running forward, next to some redhead that he had no prior communication with, Alex decided the best way to fight would be to fight those that either are as powerful, and if not only a small portion more powerful than he was. Therefore he deduced two swordsmen, one being roughly D rank, and the other probably C (I'm still RPing as a D rank mage in this thread). Therefore, should they not be as skilled as the strategist, this fight would be easy as cake. Taking a pair of stones from the ground and throwing them at the duo, the purple haired mage began to taunt, using that as an effective way to separate them from the main group that vastly outnumbered the Golden Phoenix mages. Alex knew he had help, but he'd rather... not... fight over 30 mages solo.

"Come on, you're gonna let someone just throw a rock at you? Where's your manliness!? You're pride!?"

As this was said, the world around Alex, in his eyes, began to melt away and be replaced with what looked like a sanctuary of sorts. This was one he knew all too well, the place that will drain his life force and convert it into mana. No problem, at the moment at the least, for the wizard as his vitality was up to its peak.

The two men ran at the hooded dream mage, with one of them jumping and performing a downward slash, one that was easily avoided by the dreamer. Comatose or not, Alex returned in kind, kicking the man in the face, and sending him back a good yard or two.

"Come on, it's simple strategy. Attacking with all your might leaves you open,
should you miss!"

The mage taunted, and this wasn't him being cocky - no, it was another tactic. Taunting makes your opponent fight more rashly, not caring so long as they get the fight out of the way. While the enemy will try harder, he will now fight as he just did, with heavy strikes that leave himself wide open. However, there was another one to deal with as well, and taunting... might not work on that one.

Turning around seemingly intoxicated, the mage stopped a blow that would probably kill him, with the vertical slice that was going to be aimed for his head before all else. This was done by his hands catching the flat of the blade, however that also caused Alex to take a kick to the stomach in return. Seems fair, as Alex did in fact keep his life, however he did get a neat toy to play with... Or rather just do this -

With the blade actually now in hand, Alex kept a solid grip on the blade, and used the kick to also gain the upper hand, snatching it from its flat out of the C ranked treasure hunter's hand. Alex then... simply chucked it, as far as possible... but not towards the other guild mates. Where that sword would go, the world may never know. Regardless, the D ranked treasure hunter got up, and was furious. Dashing forward towards the two, the man yelled and did a horizontal swipe, but that didn't meet the target he was hoping for. The blood of his comrade fell to the floor, as Alex simply teleported behind the man, before the strike connected. The C ranked treasure hunter groaned, and punched the D ranked man in the face, grabbing his sword for his own.

"See! I told you! Don't use such heavy strikes!!!"

Alexander taunted once again, which seemingly enraged the D ranked treasure hunter in the wrong way, instead of attacking Alex, he just... well... continued to attack his ally, punching him in the chest, but then receiving a heavier attack - a stab through the stomach. The hunter fell to the ground, motionless, the sand being stained red, although color wasn't a luxury that Alex could see, only making out the figures of the men as though he was color blind. He was asleep after all, and the world around him did look nothing like a desert.

"We... can talk about this, right? I mean, I didn't cut you, did I? Don't take it out on the bystanders. We're just here for some trea-Okay you're not listening. Dream Make: BFH!"

The mage said, as the purple circle appeared behind him, and two giant metal hands that mimicked his every move appeared behind him. The man with the sword continued to ferociously attack at Alex, sending wave after wave of wiffed attacks. Did these fools know that if you get angry, you don't fight at your best!? Alex was, at this point, simply not trying, only avoiding the attacks that could be detrimental to his health.

"How about this one? Forward, Diagonal, Forward!"

Alex took a step forward, utilizing one of his metal hands as a shield, which instantly broke into fragments of golden light. However, the other one connected with the man's chin, mimicking the attack of a world famous fighting game. The fist was held there for a minute, then raised to the sky with an explosive uppercut, launching the man twelve feet into the air.

"SHORYUKEN!"

Alex panted, and then clutched his stomach, where he was kicked earlier. Blast, that hurt, but regardless, this was a battlefield, so the strategist needed to get back into battle. Should the tactician not engage in combat himself, what would be the point of being here? Grabbing the sacks off the ground that were discarded quite some time ago, Alex made his way further towards the other five of the group that he and Leahndr had started to take out.
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HP: 88
MP: 92
Effects: Cursed Sanctuary
Spells used:

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OOC Notes: I don't have any at the moment... Position is closest to Leahndr?
WC: 1750 total