[Q] Epiphany Fields (Bullet)

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[attr="class","cmonbody"]For a short while, rumors spread through Aincrad like a plague. Alkaid was never the sort to pay them much heed; people loved to talk shit about things they did not understand. Most did it out of boredom, others to spread gossip and confound the simple minded. Being trapped in the game world and wanting to escape by any means necessary, rumors were all too abundant. All number of seedy ones flew around, but the possibility pod there being a secret log out spot dominated conversations.

She tried not to be swayed in the beginning, but ultimately Alk decided to investigate, with the aid of a complete stranger. Sadly, it was all for naught. Before she could even finish rounding up supplies or improving her gear, fresh rumors of it all being an elaborate hoax flooded in. Unlike most, she was less disappointed in the results, and more filled with disdain at believing it to be a way out.

Nothing in life is ever that easy.

To make up for the disappointment, she decided to take her recently acquired ally, Bullet, out on one of the better fetch quests. "Height of Glory" had the look of a simple quest, wherein one needed to retrieve a flower from the top of a mountain. In actuality, it was designed to encourage introspection or some other nonsense. The odds of running into a monster was also high, but tolerable. Her first time resulted in an encounter with a boar, which was what she expected to run into this time as well.

She sent the other woman a private message, instructing her to meet up by the gate, and set off. Her hunt for better gear was pitiful, netting her only a low-quality shield with a grandiose name. Alkaid rather liked it, to be honest. The design was kind of cute -- in its own way. That one con was not a lot either, but she would rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.

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bullet - 338 - Epiphany Fields