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Noelle had to admit that he was being pretty tame today, as far as Rory standards, but that just meant she was going to have to watch him further then she already was. Lowering her umbrella to show Rory a Sunshine Pattern. Raising his PWR and lowering his DEF only to see the opposite happen to her own stats. It was almost getting to a point of automatic effect between the two. Noelle would take the hits, and Rory just needed to keep her alive and deal damage and he was disgustingly good at that. Like a cockroach that was sitting on someone's shoe and mocking them because their other foot was broken and couldn't squash the damn thing.

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Says we need to collect resources for the base camp? I think that means for the place around that weirdo merchant. Should work out fine though? Anyways lets go, it says there are creatures we have to fight again, and I would prefer we got the combat over ASAP if we can, you know?" Noelle would stat as they started to walk away towards the location they were supposed to head to gather all of the needed materials for the base upgrades. Rory was likely smart enough to know to stick close with Noelle, since her range of attack redirection was low, but she was getting more useful overtime.

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Vitality had become one of her main stats, yet hers was still F-Rank... it was a rather sad thing to note about her inventory. She would get by though, apparently you were also supposed to get tutorial rewards! And she hadn't seen those yet either which was disturbing to say the least.[break]

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level

25

stats

POWER F/10 [break]
DEFENSE C/30 [break]
SPEED E/11 [break]
MAGIC E/25 [break]
VITALITY F/10 [break]
WILLPOWER A/87[break]
LUCK F/0[break]

cooldowns

Lessons from Pain 0/2 [break]
Purple Rain 0/2 [break]
Terrible Day 0/0/5 [break]
Hazy Stroll 0/4 [break]
N/A N/A [break]
N/A N/A [break]

items

Melancholy Umbrella [break]
Rain Jacket of Sorrow[break]
holy halo of heavens[break]
N/A[break]
N/A[break]

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[attr="class","noequote"]

[attr="class","noereescroll"]
Noelle was less partial to whether or not they needed to kill things out on a mission. Monsters were monsters, even if she was not the biggest fan of all of the violence stuff the realist and the pessimist that warred in her mind had come to just accept it for what it was. Running her hand through her hair, she shrugged to Rory's offered response and the two carried on into the woods for a bit.

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"Having travelled for this long without any sort of conversation I completely forget man, what are you even after?" Noelle would blurt out of nowhere. It was a very out of the blue question, but considering how often they were working together, and would continue to do so considering their new positions in SIGMA. Looking over at her normal partner in crime Noelle had the epiphany she really didn't ever ask him anything about himself, and usually vice versa it was true. Perhaps she could at least trust Rory enough to talk on not work. It was as if the silence was suddenly bothering them, which was something that was rather out of line with Noelle's usual facade. Perhaps Rory knew it was an act? It was something she definitely couldn't tell.

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"Don't misinterpret me, I think I know you like money a little too much. But I don't think you ever told me what it is you want out of all this 'player' hogwash Rory. Hell I don't think I've actually talked to you ever and we do shit together all the time, been thinking on that a lot recently and its been bugging me. Especially when we kind have responsibility to keep each other alive ya dig? Like we get along well enough, but holy shit are we strangers still, ya know?"[break]

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level

25

stats

POWER F/10 [break]
DEFENSE C/30 [break]
SPEED E/11 [break]
MAGIC E/25 [break]
VITALITY F/10 [break]
WILLPOWER A/87[break]
LUCK F/0[break]

cooldowns

Lessons from Pain 0/2 [break]
Purple Rain 0/2 [break]
Terrible Day 0/0/5 [break]
Hazy Stroll 0/4 [break]
N/A N/A [break]
N/A N/A [break]

items

Melancholy Umbrella [break]
Rain Jacket of Sorrow[break]
holy halo of heavens[break]
N/A[break]
N/A[break]

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[attr="class","noequote"]

[attr="class","noereescroll"]
Noelle would nod along. She was honestly rather surprised by how simple Rory's goal was, but she supposed that it made sense all things considered. It was akin to her original goal, one she had given up on at this point to be honest. It was a pipe dream to imagine her finding her little brother, and even more so when even considering trying to find her mom and dad. It was a goal so many had had at first, yet here she was living a rather dangerous life on the forefront with a proper partner in crime. Though he did say something that struck a chord.

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"I don't think I actually have a reason to be happy in this world, shocker I know. I agree that points are power, but I believe the system is mocking everything I ever loved before it in my case. Its glorified my depression, its made a horror show of my love of climatology, and its made me a class that can make any except myself remember the good times. Happiness is so close man, and I can't even give myself a dose of the forced stuff," Noelle would reply with a bitter tone. There was no way Rory didn't know that Noelle wasn't a constant storm of gloomy looks and aggrivated looks, he had been slapped upside the head a few times.

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A silence would fall before Rory would mention bees and Noelle would release a bit of a 'huh' on the matter. She had known about the bee bomb, but not about his love for bees. It was nice to see such a normal side to the wacky character that Rory normally was, "Angels. I used to love angel stuff, like the biblically accurate ones. Its why Im happy I picked up the halo where I found it like I did, even if I can't use its abilities at all."[break]

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level

25

stats

POWER F/10 [break]
DEFENSE C/30 [break]
SPEED E/11 [break]
MAGIC E/25 [break]
VITALITY F/10 [break]
WILLPOWER A/87[break]
LUCK F/0[break]

cooldowns

Lessons from Pain 0/2 [break]
Purple Rain 0/2 [break]
Terrible Day 0/0/5 [break]
Hazy Stroll 0/4 [break]
N/A N/A [break]
N/A N/A [break]

items

Melancholy Umbrella [break]
Rain Jacket of Sorrow[break]
holy halo of heavens[break]
N/A[break]
N/A[break]

[break]

[attr="class","noequote"]

[attr="class","noereescroll"]
Noelle wasn't surprised that he wouldn't of guessed her love of Angels was a thing. It wasn't particularly a large love in her life, but the biblically accurate kind of angel was just really neat to her from a horror standpoint. It made her want to talk on it more, but as she went ot go do so some very stupid birds went in for a blast on Rory. Raising her Umbrella she would rush to close what little space she needed to with Rory to fully condense the blow. Though not until the three attacks had blasted his shield into pieces. Willing the rain around her to twist and turn Noelle would rip the storm in her direction. Funneling the blasts into her umbrella which easily absorbed the damage dealth by the attacks

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"Well there are the monster!" Noelle would state nonchalantly as she swipped her umbrella upwards and would show one of the birds its worst nightmare before a jet spray of sharp rain would fly up and into the birds. Causing one of the creatures to drop outright, which was incredibly surprising for Noelle since she had incredibly low damage. She was not about to complain though as the next wave was already on them. Horrifying wolf creatures that looked like they had crawled out from some LCD-induced nightmare. Eyes covering their bodies as they rushed at Noelle and Rory. Noelle would keep close as the wolves ran in. The rain continuing to swirl heavily around her as the trio of wolves went to pounce, caught in Noelle's force of gravity in the situation two of them were immediately pulled onto her.[break][break]

As the wolves latched to her Noelle would release a pulse around her that would even hit that felt like the dread and lethargy of death condensed into a physical pressure. Though it wouldn't hurt him the sudden black and white world consuming them both certainly made the dreary scene even harder to watch. Each of the wolves beginning to bleed from their many eyes as the damage tok root. Noelle stabbing in finally to one of them with her umbrella's barbed end as the umbrella closed. Its body dropping dead, another surprise.[break][break]

[Mission: Functional Base][break]
Weeping Wolves: Lvl 2 (Gift) - Heavy Injury[break]
Weeping Wolves: Lvl 7 (Shelter) - Dead (Noelle deals +2 ranks vs. Shelters)[break]
Weeping Wolves: Lvl 10 (Dissection) - Moderately injured[break]
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level

25

stats

POWER F/10 [break]
DEFENSE C/30 (A/107) [break]
SPEED E/11 [break]
MAGIC E/25 [break]
VITALITY D/20 [break]
WILLPOWER A/87[break]
LUCK F/0[break]

cooldowns

Lessons from Pain 6/6 [break]
Purple Rain 0/2 [break]
Terrible Day 0/0/5 [break]
Hazy Stroll 0/4 [break]
N/A N/A [break]
N/A N/A [break]

items

Melancholy Umbrella [break]
Rain Jacket of Sorrow[break]
holy halo of heavens[break]
N/A[break]
N/A[break]

[break]

[attr="class","noequote"]

[attr="class","noereescroll"]
Noelle was lying to say she hadn't been expecting way more of a challenge when she had come to deal with these things then she was actually experiencing. Rory and her were not the beginner's they once were and, granted, all of her damage and seemingly Rory's were incredibly easy to spread or AoE, Noelle found that they were an even better duo then she thought. A chuckle came from her as the silent drizzle of her rain became the only other noise again.

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"I actually expected that to go waaaaay worse, I won't lie. Is this what they call overpowered in video games? If it is something is definitely going to go very very wrong here Rory," Noelle would state with her chuckle coming back to her more somber self. She was not going to be big-headed just because probable small fry were easier to take down. Shaking her head she would begin to stuff her inventory with rock and wood for the base camp before turning to her... ya know she probably would never say it out loud, but friend. She turned to her friend and made sure he was doing the same as she was.

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As they continued to stroll inland Noelle felt more and more unease wash over her. Why though? She couldn't place they why. That was until they found a large rocky cave entrance with symbols lining the outside. A prompt appearing in front of her and an audible ' you have to be kidding me ' groan coming from her lips.[break]

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level

27

stats

POWER F/10 [break]
DEFENSE C/30 [break]
SPEED E/11 [break]
MAGIC E/25 [break]
VITALITY D/20 [break]
WILLPOWER A/87[break]
LUCK F/0[break]

cooldowns

Lessons from Pain 0/6 [break]
Purple Rain 0/2 [break]
Terrible Day 0/0/5 [break]
Hazy Stroll 0/4 [break]
Pious Requital 0/5 [break]
Inescapable Guilt 0/3 [break]

items

Melancholy Umbrella [break]
Rain Jacket of Sorrow[break]
Holy Halo of Heavens[break]
Manni the Support Buddy[break]
Ring of Blessed Light[break]

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[attr="class","noequote"]

[attr="class","noereescroll"]
"I should of known this was our luck," Noelle would state with a grumble as she changed her raincoat's shade to be a white in shade, matching her halo to a degree. Both radiating some amount of light, though mostly the halo. Turning themself into a massive glowstick for light as Noelle raised the umbrella above her head and began to walk in with an expression that was fully aggitated. The insanity of their buffed Defense stat going right over her head.

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Heading Deeper in Noelle would lighten the false rain that she always had around her as she didn't want to make too much echo inside of what was... slowly expanding out actually. Less of a cave then it was an entrance overrun. The walls cobbled stone that seemed incredibly sturdy for being built into the earth, "You think this is a re-used buried city?"

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Noelle would keep walking straight even when they saw turns, not wanting to really deal with twisting routes unless they found a dead end in the initial tunnel.[break]

[attr="class","noestats"]

level

27

stats

POWER F/10 [break]
DEFENSE C/30 [break]
SPEED E/11 [break]
MAGIC E/25 [break]
VITALITY D/20 [break]
WILLPOWER A/87[break]
LUCK F/0[break]

cooldowns

Lessons from Pain 0/6 [break]
Purple Rain 0/2 [break]
Terrible Day 0/0/5 [break]
Hazy Stroll 0/4 [break]
Pious Requital 0/5 [break]
Inescapable Guilt 0/3 [break]

items

Melancholy Umbrella [break]
Rain Jacket of Sorrow[break]
Holy Halo of Heavens[break]
Manni the Support Buddy[break]
Ring of Blessed Light[break]

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