eFate: An MMO Story Chapter 24: Skillful Talks

Waking up, Eric removed the FateGear. He'd planned to log out normally and just hang out for a couple minutes waiting for the guys on Strife. But the unforeseen variable of a group of angry players accusing him of murder had forced him to re-evaluate his plans.

Checking his watch, he saw that there was still five minutes before he had to be on Strife. Just enough time to grab a drink and maybe a quick bite to eat. Padding silently down the stairs, he was greeted by the large eyes of his cat, giving him that long unblinking stare that signified either disapproval or that she wanted to be fed. Perhaps both he thought.

"Here Jeyna… Here kitty kitty." He murmured, extending his hand towards her.

Slowly Jeyna turned her gaze on his outstretched hand, before extending her paws and giving a loud yawn. Turning around she sauntered off, her tail held high in the air.

"Yup, definitely disapproval," Eric sighed as he watched her disappear around the corner. Shaking his head, he returned to his quest to get some refreshments before the meeting.

Returning to his room with a glass of chocolate milk and a plate full of cookies. Eric quickly downed the glass, the cookies disappearing as if they'd been inhaled. Feeling properly refreshed, Eric grabbed the FateGear and lay back down on his bed.

"Gear Connect!" With the activation phrase uttered, the FateGear whirled to life with a soft hum and Eric found himself once again lying on the couch in the seaside room. Checking the time, he realized that he was actually a minute late.

Opening the Strife chat, Eric lay back and opened up the virtual keyboard, opting to relax on the couch instead of joining the virtual room. Opening a second monitor, he navigated to the Fate forums as he connected to the chat.

Kyp has joined the room.

Alright now that we're all here let's go over what we've learned so far. I'm going to assume everyone has finished the tutorial and reached the starting zone. Did everyone pick village?

I did.

Same

Yup

Yeah

Of course

Good. Griffin and I managed to meet up, we're together in Vinbera Village. Did anyone else manage to party up?

Jun, Gio, and I are all together in Tassebu Village.

Yup

That leaves Eric and Rob, did you guys manage to meet up?

I'm in Tonbura Village, near Stillwood Forest.

I'm in Hamour Village, also near Stillwood Forest.

Stillwood Forest is near us too, looks like we're all in the same general area.

Yeah. People on the forums are saying that people's starting zones were heavily influenced by their location in real life. Gio and Jun live near me so it looks like that's why we're all in the same starting village.

Yeah I was reading that earlier. We're definitely going to want to all meet up fairly soon so we can start doing group activities together as a party. The faster we group up the earlier we can start looking for dungeons, hunting strong mobs, and PvPing will be. Has anyone been able to find any potential new members?

Nah we just teamed up as we already had three people.

Yeah. Plus there weren't any good players in the tutorial with us.

I found a guy who wants to join. He's not very good but he's been acting as a tank which lets me focus on magic.

You mean you're using him as a meat shield so you can powerlevel your magic.

We can always use more tanks so that's good. Even if he can't PvP he can still help us with PvE content. Griffin and I haven't found anyone yet. What about you Eric?

I've added two people to my friends list. One of them does want to kill me though…

Who doesn't?

lol

…

Why did they add you if they want to kill you?

Well uh long story short. There's also a group of three that want me dead.

And you added one as a friend? Rofl

No she killed them and then I PvPd with her. I beat her and agreed to spare her life if she added me as a friend.

You added someone who was trying to kill you? And asked her to join us? Why…

Not sure that was the greatest idea ^

Was she cute?

Of course. But that wasn't why I added her. She was actually really strong. She's the only other player I've met so far who can do wandless casting. Also just because I invited her doesn't mean she has to join us. If we don't like her we don't add her. Simple.

How strong can she be if you beat her?

lmao

Screw off Jun.

lol

Damn that's pretty sweet. But why does a group want you dead if she killed them?

Well uhhh they might think I was with her.

LOL

...

Wait does that mean you can do wandless casting?

Yeah.

Wait for real?

I call bs

I'll show you guys soon enough. Anyways yeah I added her, I also added a really good archer in the tutorial. And I found a pretty skilled warrior. Jun do you know Master Berro?

The head of Phoenix Rise TKD? Yeah of course. I've sparred against his students a lot.

I met him too. I didn't get to add him as a friend though

That's actually legit. He's a really good fighter.

Good stuff Eric. I think. Just make sure that adding her doesn't come back to bite you.

Thanks, oh by the way Jun. You should try out your TKD moves in game. I gained several levels of basic martial arts just for using a kick.

Cool. I'll try it.

Now apart from adding new members. Have any of you figured out how leveling works yet? Griffin hit level 2 but I'm still level 1. The forums are still trying to figure out how leveling works.

I'm level 2 as well. I soloed a wolf and it brought my Archery up to Beginner 10. I also hit level 2 at the same time.

I hit level 2 when my Blocking skill reached Beginner 10 as well.

Yeah the forums and Riddit seem to think that reaching Beginner 10 in a skill has something to do with it. Everyone that has a verified pic of them being level 2 also has a skill at Beginner 10 or higher.

I'm Beginner 9 archery atm. If I reach level 2 when I hit Beginner 10 I'll let you know.

k. Apart from that leveling skills themselves. Griffin and I hunted demon rabbits for a couple hours. We also killed a pair of wolves, but both wolves were alone not together. Our skills gained the most levels by far when we fought seven demon rabbits at the same time.

Yeah I almost died, but my blocking skill went from beginner 7 to beginner 10 in that one fight. It only went up one level after killing a wolf. And it took me dozens of bunnies to get it to hit beginner 5 before that.

I've managed to hunt a few wolves solo while Ryan and Gio took care of a wolf between them. Wolves definitely give more xp than rabbits. We've been hunting wolves for about an hour since we discovered that.

I don't think there's actual xp. I gained a lot of levels from my fight with the PK girl despite not killing her. It seems like the more dangerous a fight, the more your skills will go up afterwards.

Yeah that's what Griff and I thought.

mmmh

My swordsmanship skill went up two levels when I had to solo two wolves alone as Gio protected Jun. So that makes sense. I only killed one but it was still enough to let me gain 2 levels and also gain some levels in guard.

So skills level up based on how difficult the situation is? Or how well you execute them?

Looks like it.

We can assume so for now. Try to hunt the toughest stuff you can for now. Also, active skills don't have to be invented manually. Griffin got one for hitting Beginner 10.

Yeah Jun did too.

I got the shield bash skill for hitting beginner 10 blocking. It said I'd started to understand that defence wasn't purely defensive in nature.

I got Charged Shot. It lets me increase my accuracy the longer I aim at something.

Sweet. So it seems we'll all get skills for hitting beginner 10. Has anyone created a skill yet?

I learned Evasive Shot after my fight with the PKer. It lets me attack while dodging. I also got a passive for evasion.

Yeah I've got that evasion passive too.

Same.

I learned taunt after saving Ryan a few times by rushing at a wolf and making it attack me instead.

Nice nice. Alright so we'll wrap up here for now. Our current goal is to all meet up which means we need to figure out where we all are. If someone can get access to a map take a pic and we'll use that to figure out a meeting point. Apart from that, concentrate on leveling up and learning new skills for now. That means don't fight demonic rabbits anymore, at least not one at a time. We need to figure out how to optimize our leveling so we can get a headstart on the other players.

Got it.

Oh and Eric. Same thing I told Jun last time. Try not to be a dick ok?

LOL get f***ed Eric.

rofl

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