BeAutyBrokEn
She watched the road from a perch on top of a palm tree. With her expanded vision she could keep eyes on the road and the green snarl that was the vegetation of the forest meeting the swamp. Below her, knee deep in the swamp, BuTTherKup squealed with delight. “I found another!” She was pointing at what BeAutyBrokEn was sure was another treasure chest, if so it would have been the fourth. “This one has thirty gold in it, Beauty if you come down I’ll split it with you. Come on Beauty, come down from the trees and help me find more treasure.”
After checking that no one was near, BeAutyBrokEn stuck a few threads to one of the palm fronds. Holding on to these threads she quickly dropped from her perch, using them to control her descent she landed silently behind BuTTherKup. “Beauty?” BuTTherKup called.
“Maybe there .” said BeAutyBrokEn.
“Gah!” Is a close approximation of the sound BuTTherKup made as she spun around. The reeds in her skirt and the beads in her necklace made the sound of a sudden rainfall. “Beauty! You are scary good at that.” She handed BeAutyBrokEn fifteen gold who added it to her stash, “There you go. What do you want to do now?”
“I want to get in a fight.”
“Right, I knew that. Here’s what I think we should do.”
“Why do I feel that this is not going to lead to a fight.”
“No it is I promise. What I was going to say is what I was ready to head back to town, and we could walk on the road and see what come our way. I’m sure we’ll find a fight.”
“That sounds good. Why do you want to go back to town?” BeAutyBrokEn didn’t really want to have interact with other principles right now.
“Well for one I want to see what they have for sale now that I’ve found some money. I’m also curious to see what other principles are doing.”
“Have you been in a fight?” BeAutyBrokEn was trying to understand her friend's obvious reluctance to fight.
“Yes I have. Four actually, I haven’t won any. This hammer is powerful, but slow.” BuTTherKup shrugged.
“What is your special attack?” BeAutyBroken asked.
“It’s a stunning wink. It seemed cute at the time, it’s stupid. They have to be looking right at me, haven’t been able to get the timing right.”
“You could yell at them.”
“Yell, what do you mean?”
“You know at the beginning of the fight, shout ‘hey or you!’ Or even ‘look here!’”
“Beauty, that is brilliant, seriously I think that will work, at least it should give me a window. I guess I don’t really like fight, it’s not what I’m looking for in AntruA. But you should try it. Every fight I’ve had took place on this road between here and the town, so it’s a good chance we’ll run into some trouble on the way. Put some money in your wallet and walk down that road and you’ll get attacked, I promise.”
“Ok, Let’s go.” BeAutyBrokEn figured heading back to the town was the as good a way to find a fight as any other. I was definitely better than sneaking out here the way they had, avoiding the road. As they walked she moved five gold from her stash and into her wallet. When BuTTherKup saw this she raised her eyebrows and said, “Wow, I meant put like two gold. Five, well five will definitely get you a fight.”
She was right, a tall broad shouldered man jumped in front of them. Apparently he had been hiding in a bush by the road. “Well aren’t you cute.”
StarCroxX
Level 1
Wallet 1AU
“Sweetheart, that is some chance you’re taking walking around with so much in your wallet. Not everyone is as nice as I. Galck.” This last sound was caused by one of BeAutyBrokEn’s threads impacting on the back of his mouth. He grabbed for his face with both hands, instead of going for his sword. “Aaaaagnth!” StarCroxX said when BeAutyBrokEn jerked on the thread connecting to the back of his face and he fell to his knees. A simple swing of her sword finished it, 1 kill +1 xp.
“What’s with the statue about?” BeAutyBrokEn asked after looting StarCroxX.
“You can watch the fight and it will get bigger if people like it. I haven’t seen any that have enough likes to grow much, it doesn’t seem like people are doing it. It’s an interesting idea though.” BuTTherKup touched the little statue, it shivered then grew maybe an inch taller. “I can’t believe you got him in the mouth like that. Were you trying to do that?”
BeAutyBroKen laughed, “I was just trying to shut him up.”
“Well you did. You kicked his butt.”
“Are you two lost, they look lost don’t they.” The voice seemed to freeze BeAutyBrokEn for a moment.
“They sure do, maybe they need help.” A second voice. She turned to face them.
“No! They’re not lost, They’re waiting.” A third voice!
Facing them she let out a slow breath when she saw that it was only three. She looked closer
BonkerBill CrazyChris ZannyZander
Level 1 Level 1 Level 2
Wallet 1AU Wallet 1AU Wallet 1AU
“Yeah right, what do ya think they are waiting for?” This was ZannyZander, who BeAutyBrokEn recognized as the second voice.
CrazyChris spoke and she heard voice three, “Us! They’re waiting for us!”
“Is that true? Are you waiting for us?” BonkersBill spoke and now all voices had a name. BeAutyBrokEn spoke making her voice flirty. “What do you know? We were waiting for you.”
BuTTherKup grabbed her arm, “we can’t!” She whispered desperately, “there are three of them and one is a level two.”
“It’s ok, we can do this, I know we can.” She patted her friend’s shoulder.
“So we are here, what did you want?” BonkersBill asked. All three seemed cut from the same cloth, pale skin and red shaved heads. All three wore matching black t-shirts. These shirts were emblazoned with the capital letter T, under each arm was an 8.
BeAutyBrokEn glared at them, “We were waiting for you.” Then caught up in the drama of it she said. “So we could kill you.”
“HaHaHa,” CrazyChris laughed, “No way. Not a chance.”
“Look at me!” BuTTherKup shouted. CrazyChris and BonkersBill looked and she winked at them. Two jaws dropped a little and both bodies seemed to sag. Behind them, unaffected by BuTTherKup’s spell, ZannyZander took a boomerang off his back and chucked it with a grunt. BeAutyBrokEn ducked and it went whistling past her head.
As soon a it past her she flicked three threads at it trying to knock it down before it came back. The first two missed, but the third hit and stuck. It was like holding a fly on a leash. She watched the spinning weapon as it started to rotate back towards them, she judge it was going to go right back to ZannyZander. He apparently thought so too as he was now standing with one hand, in a thick glove, over his head. Not wanting to let the enemy get his weapon back, BeAutyBrokEn pulled on the thread, hard. The boomerang hurtled from the sky, fast, too fast for ZannyZander to adjusting his protected hand and stop it from thudding into his chest. He collapsed with a slightly silly look on his face. 1 kill +1 xp >lvl +1 xp.
BuTTherKup had taken out CrazyChris. But BonkersBill was still on his feet. Facing BuTTherKup he brought his hand together in front of him, the resulting clap was a concussive explosion sending BuTTherKup rolling like a rag doll. As his hands separated BeAutyBrokEn threw a thread which hit and stuck in his left palm. Ignoring the needle BonkersBill started walking towards her. Trying to stop his advance she frantically threw threads at him with little to no effect as he held his hand before his face. He stepped in range of his clap attack, BeAutyBrokEn knew she was running out of time and pulled on all the threads stuck to him. He was much stronger than she was and able to resist the tug, then he clapped. The concussion hit like a wall, knocking her to the ground her head spinning. She struggled to turn over to face her opponent while trying to draw her short sword. The scabbard got tangled with her legs and she fell over again. She heard a step, she closed her eyes awaiting the death blow. There was a thud, then the thump of something heavy hitting the ground.
BeAutyBrokEn opened her eyes and looked into BonkersBill’s eyes. The eye’s fuzzed and soon disappeared. She sat up and took BuTTherKup’s offered hand. When she had successfully gained her feet, she shook her head clearing the cobwebs. “What happened? Did you kill him?” She asked.
“Yes!” BuTTherKup’s face practically glowed with her smile. “You can watch the statue and see what happened if you like, But before you do, you need to check out the statue from your fight. Beauty you leveled up!”
BeAutyBrokEn was surprised and ecstatic, more so when she saw that she could add a new skill. Remembering that in the last fight her opponent pretty much shrugged off her attack. She needed something to offset the strength differential she would be facing. After a few moments of thought she added a new skill she dubbed ‘web’ which allowed her to layer the threads to create a net with which she could styme her enemies. At least that was the idea anyway. With that done and her Token pocketed BuTTherKup suddenly asked, “you only have two kills right? Because I only have two kills too, I didn’t level up?”
“I have three xp, I got two for killing the level two guy. So maybe you just need one more to level up. I actually think that I’m not ready to head back to town yet. I want to stay out here and find more fights, get stronger. If you want, we can try and set it up so you get a kill and level up.”
“I don’t know. I still don’t really enjoy the fighting. I’d rather head back to town. I guess we can split up. You let me know if you are in town and we’ll meet up.”
“Right and when you are exploring I will join you as a bodyguard.”
“Hey yeah, I like it. Okay I’ll see you soon. Kick butt out there.”
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