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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2020 2:35:21 GMT
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From out of the immaterial Adrian spawned as username Nightingale. An inconspicuous newbie with a pretentious air and sporting the audacity to use an effigy as close to his real appearance as was possible, Adrian arrived onto the virtual plane.

"Holy @#%!, this actually looks kinda real."

Is that a fucking auto censor? Going to have to fix that... Digging straight into the user interface, finding the System Settings>Chat Interface, Adrian was quickly able to enable his vulgar speech.

"That's fucking better..." But what to do first? Users were beginning to flood the area, so he started exploring, finding a few wobbuffet lookalikes with targets on them. " lmao wtf "

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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2020 3:12:05 GMT
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[attr="class","spiral"] one of the wobbuffets light up when struck by a speeding bullet. fernando's ZAP CANNON strikes the dummy doll and its health bar depletes by a substantial amount. the PARALYSIS status effect lights up in a noticeable text box above it and fernando glares at it with a grim satisfaction. he aims another shot and it hits, the game system replicating the previous action and noting that the attack
paralyzes.

he lowers his pistol and looks at the only other person nearby not doing anything. "you new?"



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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2020 5:04:23 GMT
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"Yeah," Adrian notes, curious as to what class this user has selected. Adrian hadn't seen a gunslinger in the character creation screen, but then again, sometimes classes evolved through progression or were unlocked by hitting a level threshold. He'd just have to keep playing to find out, eh?

"Spent awhile in Character Creation trying to get the right look. Couldn't get the hair right, though..." Punk styles weren't suitably old-fashioned enough by the looks of it. Tch. Haters.

"What level are you???" By the looks of it, they'd played the game for quite some time. Hadn't it been a new release...? Some people went to crazy lengths just to get an edge over the competition, Adrian supposed, taking a moment to try and inspect their armor and stats outright.

"How long've you been playing?"

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POSTED ON Mar 20, 2020 5:13:35 GMT
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[attr="class","spiral"] "Level one, just like you, buddy."

Fernando doesn't aim this shot this time. Instead, he swings the gun in a swipe and tries to time his shot to still land true. It misses terribly.

"I've been playing for about an hour and a half? Everyone's trying to get used to the virtual reality and navigating the town. Those here are trying out their attacks and seeing what they do."

This time he swings in a smaller arc and the attack grazes the dummy. The PARALYSIS status effect message appears this time as well.

"Reading the attack description and using it is more different than you'd expect."




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POSTED ON Mar 21, 2020 3:18:29 GMT
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"Hmm... I should check out character creation some more." He'd gone and missed something. While he would normally put off recreating a character, he didn't want to get too far ahead and regret the wasted time. Still, he could afford a moment to look over his tooltips, checking out his class abilities. "Oh shit, I can shade step!"

Bowjobs> Oh my god, are you Cheek? [9:08 PM]

Who the Hell is that coming from?

Bowjobs> You look just like him. [9:08 PM]
Bowjobs> Lol sorry. Wanna RP? ;) [9:09 PM]

"Uhhh... give me a moment... I'm going to recreate a character..." Not that he expected the gentleman to wait around on him, but he needed to prevent the onslaught of direct messages that were sure to come his way. But first...

"This user has been blocked. To unmute them, please visit your blocked tab underneath communications..." Don't think so, chief.

Disappearing before their eyes, Adrian would fade out of B&B for a few minutes while he adjusted his player character. Once finished he'd recommence his dive, appearing once more with a renewed player model. "Had to ghost some weird DMs."




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POSTED ON Mar 21, 2020 3:33:05 GMT
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[attr="class","spiral"] Fernando pays the other person no mind. People come and go and in a vast MMORPG like Blades & Bulwarks, it's rare that he'll see the same person twice. At least among those he comes across in the tutorial area. Fernando intends to scale through the game at a break neck pace, eager to dominate and claim his spot at the top of the leader boards. Which means he has no time to wait on others and to make friends among the many strangers around him.

Someone else appears before him in a short amount of time and he doesn't put one and one together until he speaks. "Aye." He nods before firing another bullet. This time it's a simple bullet until it gets within the targets proximity. It explodes in a concussive blast and the CONFUSION status effect floats above the dummy's head.

"Happens. What'd they say. Ask to touch your face or something?"




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POSTED ON Mar 21, 2020 7:20:53 GMT
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"Worse. They wanted to RP." Adrian can only let his imagination guide him, but they definitely wanted something he couldn't give, or worse; get him banned. "Hopefully they got the message."

Opening his tooltips once more, he checks through his abilities for anything of import. PHANTOM FORCE, PLUCK, MIRROR MOVE... "Hey, try that zappy one again," Nightingale asks politely, gesturing to the flintlock pistol they're brandishing. "I wanna try out one of these abilities."

During the interim he lines up a shot, taking aim as the interface tells him PLUCK goes on cooldown. Although the arrow seems to fly truer than he shot it, the attack doesn't seem any different, but a dialogue shows up saying an action had been prevented against the dummy target. ...Huh.

At least he'd hit his mark. It was a start.
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POSTED ON Mar 21, 2020 21:49:32 GMT
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[attr="class","spiral"] "RP?"

The term eludes Fernando and he stares at Adrian with visible confusion but he's not that interested in it. His attention returns to his dummy and Fernando notches another round in his flintlock pistol. "Aye. You ready?" He steadies it against the the top of his free hand and lines the shot.

"Three, two, one." He pulls the trigger. "Here she comes!"



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POSTED ON Mar 22, 2020 18:48:41 GMT
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Raising his bow in tandem with the shot, Adrian waits for something to happen, but it's not until Fernando's shot is fired that it does; like a simulacrum his weapon emits a crackling static charge along the length of the bow, and the arrow he knocks is aglow with alike energy. Here goes.

Loosing the shot he releases an attack like the one before, a surge of electricity paralyzing the target and dealing significant damage. "That's nifty."

"I guess we'd better start leveling though," he says in contemplation, watching as the other players begin to migrate around the area. He checks his map for a quest beacon and finds several. At least I won't want for options.

Sifting through his communications menu, he'd toss a casual friend request before they'd both start going their separate ways.

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POSTED ON Mar 22, 2020 20:15:14 GMT
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[attr="class","spiral"] Fernando looks at the friend request and considers it for a moment before accepting. He has nothing against adding strangers and building bonds now may prove beneficial in the future. Who knows. PVP is open world, so it doesn't hurt to have someone else nearby.

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