- Job:
- Job Title: Thy Enemy has a Face
Rank: D
Player Requirements: 500 Word Requirement. Must have completed Investigating the Growth first.
Job Requirements: Kill the zombies, before reaching and fighting/killing the Robed Figure.
Job Location: Beanstalk Village (Tainted Forest nearby)
Job Description: You receive word from the scientist and come to meet him. When you see him he seems panicky. He explains to you that the growth is corrupting the land and turning it into a sort of siphon, or magical drain, pulling in life force and mana from everything and anything. He tells you that you need to find the source and put a stop to it. He is unsure how far the growth will spread.
When you reach the forest you find it overgrown with tainted plants and growth. The animals are all gone however. The closer you move to the center, which is between Beanstalk Village and Mount Hakobe, you encounter zombies. These corpses seem recent, looking to be either huntsmen or wizards who traveled into the tainted lands. After killing the monsters you soon reach a point where you see the source: It is a large pillar made of unbreakable obsidian. The robed figure approaches and seems unsurprised that a wizard is here and attacks you.
After killing the robed figure you can find multiple things on him. A coin that is identical to the shrouded stalker's coin. A marking on his arm that looks like it may be a guild mark but none that you've ever seen before, even among dark guilds. A book written in an unreadable language. However if you observe it carefully, and flip through the pages, you notice that it looks similar to a sort of religious book, sort of like scriptures.
Upon return to the group you can tell them about the undead, the robed figure, and hand in the items, also telling them that the object is indestructible. OR you can tell them that you destroyed the source and instead go to an informant for dark wizards, thieves, assassins, or others who operate outside the law, share the information and show the items. Either way you shall receive the full reward and information.
Both the wizard and the informant will tell you that they don't know about most of the items, but the language is ancient and abandoned. They can make out enough however: The title is 'Unyielding Death'. They inform you that this robed man, was probably a cultist.
Enemies:
Weak: Zombies. They appear to be recent corpses, fully intact but brain dead. They move slowly and swing their arms wildly. They deal half your rank in damage each attack. It takes three rank D attacks to kill them. x7
Normal: Funcitoning Zombies. These recent corpses have had time to adjust and are more aware of how to dodge and strike accurately. They deal your rank in damage each attack. It takes four rank D attacks to kill them. x6
Strong: Runners. These zombies are insane, charging with surprising speed at whatever appears to be alive, raking their claws at you. They deal your rank in damage each post, and it’s almost impossible to avoid attacks once they reach you. It takes six rank D attacks to kill them. x3
Boss:
Black Robed Figure. The robes are black with red designs in them and a skull on the front and hood. The figure has no visible weapon but turns out to have magic.
Spell 1: Shadow Force. Releases three black spheres that deal your rank in damage. These spheres hone in on you, but the longer they last the smaller they become before vanishing entirely.
Spell 2: Grip of the Dead. Summon’s a skeleton hand that latches onto you and immobilizes you for a single post. The figure’s next spell automatically hits you full force the next post.
Spell 3: Drain Life. Deals half your rank in damage, and restores health equivalent to half rank D damage.
Spell 4: Undead Call. Brings one or two more monsters into the battle. Strength depends on which you have faced beforehand.
It takes twelve rank D hits to kill him.
Reward: 2,500 jewel
This job questline continues in the B-Rank job: Finding the Link
There was an ominous feeling to the forest that had not been there before, as though something was sapping the life out of everything that dared to enter it. Each time she had returned to this forest, the feeling had increased but now it was at a completely different level. Yet, it had little effect on the pink haired mage as she dashed through the undergrowth, heading directly for the source. Her job for today was simple, find the cause of the corruption and tear it to shreds. Just how she liked it. This was the fifth time now that she answered the call of Beanstalk Village and at this point, she was totally sick of the place and wanted nothing more than to leave for good. On the other hand, she always felt a compulsion to finish what she started and this was no exception. The unknown quantity of what or she would fine only spurred her on wards. It would all come to an end, today.
However, she was soon forced to come to a halt as she came across a group of undead creatures stumbling towards her. They appeared to be zombies of some kind although they moved so slowly that they seemed unlikely to be much of a threat to her. All she did magic wise was to activate her dual pair of support abilities and rush head long in to them, lashing out with water enhanced punches and kicks to the rotting opposition. It was not even close to a challenge and the Deity tore through the foul creatures like a hot knife through butter, sending them back to the hell that they had spawned from. She mused to herself that their creator would be a greater challenge although in the back of her mind, Sarisha was beginning to think otherwise. What she longed for was an opponent that she could fight at full strength but that was starting to seem unlikely. A weak minion usually meant a weak master after all.
Soon enough, she came across a robed figure who was at least quick enough to fire a trio of jet black spheres towards her. Rather than try and dodge them, Sarisha simply leapt up in to the air and hurled herself towards him, surrounding herself with water and catching him hard in the stomach, sending him crashing backwards in to a tree and falling to the ground. His attack had not even penetrated her defences that her spells had granted her and the expression on her face was more of disappointment then anything.
Before he could recover, she inhaled deeply and unleashed a powerful torrent of water from her mouth which pressed him up against the tree again before eventually felling it. It was just too easy and rather than wasting any more of her magic power, she simply shrugged and dived on top of her fallen foe, pummelling him with blows from both fists and turning his face in to a bloody mess. Her eyes soon began to glint from the pleasure of it all and it was long after that she he had stopped breathing that she finally stopped striking him, leaving him as nothing but a stain on the forest floor.
After a quick search of his robes, Sarisha swiftly turned away and dashed back off in to the undergrowth, her eyes still glowing with the lust of battle. As disappointing as the fight had been, she had at least been able to nourish her carnal desires for at least a short amount of time although she knew that it would not satiate her for long. Her Godly partner wanted nothing but blood and chaos and it was her task to fulfil that need, one that she now craved as much as Valara did.
Her journey back to the scientist was uneventful and after explaining the situation to the group, he was quick to praise her once again, before paying her for completing the task. He spoke at length about the curse and of the robed figure but Sarisha paid little heed to it. She was tired of this story and longed to move on. When he had finally finished, she quickly took her leave, before he could ask anything more of her. She was done with this.
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