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Valentine moved with an innate grace as he walked through the streets of London, his footsteps fell silently, and as he walked he put pressure only on his heel and toes. Something he had seen Mio doing when walking as it utilized her passive that allowed her to move around silently when she tip-toed, the way she did it seemed so natural, it was strange, especially considering Valentine had never seen her do such before they got their classes. He found it odd that classes could change people on such a fundamental level, but then again he could literally expel his mind/soul from his body and search around via astral projection. No to mention being able to sense a 360 degrees area around himself whenever he did such or slept. It was strange, to say the least, but Valentine was slowly making peace with it. As things stood now, he was trying to adapt whatever skills he thought would be useful, even if it did put a strain on his feet he'd have to get used to.[break][break]

"I wonder if there's a bartender in the pub, if not I can always just loot all the liquor. Then again it would be more fun to drink with others, I hope there are people inside. Guess we'll see," Valentine moved toward the pub, only to be interrupted from his mental musings as a bulky figure arrived near him, speaking in a friendly tone. Valentine turned to face them with a relaxed and friendly expression. He didn't trust people much, and he was always skeptical of them but this guy seemed rather friendly. Valentine held a calm air about him, he figured if worse came to worse with people he could always just leap into the digital realm and hightail it.[break][break]

"You'd be correct. Sure, drinking with others is always more fun than drinking alone?" He said his smile widening, reaching out his hand to shake Olliver's giving a simple reply in return. "Valentine, scout and traveler," he said with a smile. He didn't know what the hell a space merchant was but as they moved toward the pub, Valentine was sure he'd find out sooner or later as he moved toward the pub, he couldn't really hear anything from behind the wooden door, thus he shrugged pushing it open.[break][break]

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A menu prompt about the creature's anchors came up, which told Valentine, well relatively nothing, he didn't know what that meant, regardless it didn't matter much to him as what came next knocked any such thoughts from his mind of possibly pondering at the moment. [break][break]

He felt it before he saw it, a flash of silver then the world went white, it came back slightly into focus but it was strange, warped. Everything seemed to close in and then expand all at once. Valentine felt his body falling before he caught himself, on instinct he rolled to the left using the force of the blow to propel him. Moving away from whatever had struck him, he felt himself coming out of his momentary daze as he did, realizing what had happened as he saw it: The tail of the mech had smacked against him. The wires fell from his hand as he did. Valentine knew at that moment the only thing that stopped him from being a target on the ground was his jeet-kun-do training his father had forced upon them. Learning how to fall to minimize damage was always a factor in any martial arts learning rubric. [break][break]

Valentine surveyed the area, arcade games funneled against the aisles, wires wrapped around the ground from each arcade machine to the next. He found himself moving in a semi-circle trying to give the mechs a wide birth. "Screw it," he mumbled before rushing inward, trying to move between the two mechs as they were malfunctioning from Sami's attacks. Then the Raptors would begin to draw in energy to their bodies. Valentine figured it couldn't be good, his quick wit reminding him that these were in fact mechs, as a small rod flicked out from the creatures. A sphere of heated energy started to form and as it did.[break][break]

He moved to be between the two creatures, with Sami on the outside of them, he figured perhaps he could draw their attention to him in the center. "Fucking rust buckets!" He shouted, trying to get their attention to focus on him more, hoping that the two mechs would aim at him to use their next move on as he wanted to get them to attack each other. Most would wonder how that would be possible unless he could become intangible, but Valentine had another method of madness, another ability to use to accomplish such. As he shouted Valentine made his way to the center, and whether the attempt was successful or not, regardless of where he stood, he would activate his ability. [break][break]

"Ability Activating... Cross Over" were the words rang out in his mind. Then his body shimmered as overtaken by an aurora of colors. Then he found himself in another realm, one identical to the former, except this one was covered in an overlay, a mass of multicolored 1s and 0s. Valentine referred to this realm as the "Digital World," there were no monsters here, that he knew of, thus he made his way over toward the arcade machine, brushing his hand across where he thought the mech closest to Sami would be, hoping to somehow effect it with the skill he had gotten from his tutorial, "Ghost-Like" wasting no time after his ability and skill were activated. [break][break]

He quickly climbed atop the arcade machine, reaching into his inventory, he pulled out the item he received during his tutorial as well as another, mentally chastising himself for not using such earlier. These items were a weapon, a spear syringe, a sleek and well-put-together spear with the head of a syringe filled with a glowing green liquid. As well as a jog of water that he quickly bit the top off. [break][break]

He leaped upward and off the arcade machine, putting as much force into his jump as humanly possible. Then he deactivated the ability Cross Over, moving back to the "material world" as he called it. The world where he once was, where Sami was now in what appeared to be a straitjacket, odd but hopefully, unharmed as the few moments had passed.[break][break]

He let go of the water jug, tossing it outward, leaving the nozzle facing downward in an attempt to spill water on the mechs, the machine creatures that were sparking and malfunctioning, hopefully, the water could injure them or allow Sami's taser to do more damage later. Aiming his spear downward, Valentine attempted to attack the creature that Sami had dealt the utmost damage to with his spear as his body fell, he aimed for the head and neck of the mech raptor. Whatever happened next, well fate would decide, but he couldn't just leave Sami to fight on his own, not after he was only here to help him search for his little sister, and because he was a friend.[break][break]

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Valentine came through the waygate and immediately glanced around, he had heard this area was a safe zone, and as he went to the waygate in the hub a prompt had come up alerting him of such, but that didn't mean that monsters weren't around, no, it just meant the risk was low. Though he had always dreamed of traveling one day, perhaps even coming to London to sightsee, however, as it stood. From what he could see it still looked as beautiful as he had seen in pictures, besides the giant barrier surrounding it. [break][break]

Though what Valentine found most odd was quiet, it was eerily silent, so much so that he could hear a mouse squeak by. Valentine didn't know where to go first, in fact, he wasn't sure whether or not his sister would even be in this place, but at this point, he was trying any waygate he could come across. Any way to find her, any place he could, anything he could do all in an effort to find her. [break][break]

For the time being Valentine decided that it would be best to make camp, so he began walking down the streets on occasion he passed a person who seemed just as lost as he and far too reluctant to talk. Valentine couldn't blame them, especially after what everyone had just gone through. He wondered if anyone had the class like a therapist. They'd probably make a killing in this new world. [break][break]

Turning down a side street, Valentine saw a pub in the distance, he decided that pub would be his first stop. Worse comes to worst if he couldn't find any leads perhaps this place still had alcohol that he could drown his sorrows in, to a degree anyway. He was never one to get too drunk, he didn't like the feeling of it, the lack of control of his own body, it was troubling and annoying, but a nice tipsy buzz did sound nice right about now. "To the pub, I go," he said as he placed his hands in his pockets and began to move toward the pub.
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"Aurore if you're out there your big bros are coming for you, if you can stay in The Hub around the Seoul Waygate. Hold on, okay, we love you..."

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Thread Timeline:

1. Mad House (Tutorial)
   
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   Participants: St. Claire[break]
   Location: Tokyo, Japan[break]
   Synposis: Valentine and Saint Claire we're out and about, simply going through an ordinary day of fun at the local VR Cafe after Uni. They had a blast per usual, playing their favorite VR game called "Night Bawler 5", then the world went to shit. Valentine, Saint Claire, and the hostess Mio managed to escape the craziness of the VR cafe literally falling apart around them, sinkholes, earthquakes, and well the world going to sit, only to enter into the back of a hospital building, which somehow teleported them to a tutorial in a mental hospital in another part of Japan closer to their home. [break]They fought against the undead, met a guy named Botan, released some weird neon green spore stuff that healed everyone, beat their tutorial, and then went into a random elevator that took them to the top of the building where not only a waygate sat, but a small barrier protecting the building as the brothers could see their whole lives changing and gone in front of them. Japan had been changed, this much they had seen, but what they also saw was their family home no nowhere in sight. Instead, there was just some random giant obelisk, floating over where their house used to be. Adamant that their sister was still alive somewhere, Valentine and St. Claire have journeyed to find her.
2. Reflection
   
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   Participants: Elisande Kiaris[break]
   Location: The Hub[break]
   Synposis: After finishing his tutorial and going through the waygate, Valentine and Saint Claire found themselves, in The Hub, a new wonderous place where they looked around for a couple of days, before separating to expand their search, they set up a designated meeting point for after 48 hours where they'd return and see each other to compare notes. [break]During that time, Valentine met a beautiful woman by the name of Elisande, he really enjoyed her name and her company. From what he could gather she seemed really nice as well as helpful. They searched for his little sister, and Valentine got to know a bit more about the world and The Hub around him.
   
3. Slime District of Seoul
   
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   Participants: Pori[break]
   Location: Seoul, Korea[break]
   Synposis: After leaving out of The Hub, Valentine had once again decided to split up with St. Claire to cover ground once more, it had only been a few hours since he had left his brother but he missed him dearly. After arriving in Seoul, Valentine immediately found a safe place where he could astral project. Eventually, he came upon a young girl in her teens looting a bakery of all its goods. Eventually, Valentine made his way over, and instead found a slime. Then he found that this slime, of which he promptly through a chair at, could speak, but not only that: This slime was, in fact, the young girl he had seen in the bakery, Pori, whose class which was called Slimelord, could become a slime![break] The young girl had a rather ravenous appetite but had good spirits, and though was a bit childish was willing to help Valentine find his sister. From what he could see her instincts at times seemed rather sound, and her class was strong. Not only this but Pori had been making a map of her area, which inspired Valentine to begin to do the same.
   
4. Flighty Minds
   
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   Participants: Sami[break]
   Location: Seoul, Korea[break]
   Synposis: After his adventure in Seoul, and making his way to the Hub to check in with his brother he then made the journey back to Seoul. After arriving, Valentine spent the coming days looting a high-rise building for all its worth and quite literally spent hours astral projecting through 5 floors at a time to scope out the best way up, clear out any monsters and clear out their supplies before making a top floor apartment his base of operations and fortifying its doors. After a while of scouting out the area, looking for his sister, and making a map, he met Sami. [break] Sami was a rather odd but dependable guy in a hospital gown, with silky easy-to-work hair he totally wasn't jealous of or anything. They made a pact, Valentine gave him a haircut, they took out some bad guys, stole their clothes and bat, and set their gazes upon exploring more of Seoul and finding a less compromised safe house.
   
5. Searching in the Big Apple
   
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   Participants: St. Claire[break]
   Location: North, America[break]
   Synposis: After meeting Pori and Sami in Korea, Valentine went back to the hub to chat with his brother and compare search notes and adventures, soon after they went through the waygate making their way to New York City, New York! In a quest to find their little sister. There they beat up a zombie, held up in a Macy's that they planned to loot for all it was worth, and made it a temporary base of operations while they searched the city for any signs of their sister...
   
6. Dynamic Alteration
   
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   Participants: Sami[break]
   Location: Neo-Tokyo, Japan[break]
   Synposis: After meeting up with his brother to compare notes, Valentine decided to step out and explore a little bit of Japan, he and Sami both went through the waygate, their first stop on this grand adventure, well it was none other than an arcade. This arcade seemed normal at first, but Valentine was slowly but surely learning that maybe arcades should be something that was permanently in the "don'ts" section of his horoscope. Possibly all of Neo-Tokyo, but the light was cool, everything looked so futuristic, and he severely hoped he didn't die!
   
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Valentine Aito

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