Aya woke to the silence of her apartment, not having to go to work meant her disabled arm clock had now found a home under her bed with the rest of the random junk there.
She yawned, cheg the time to notice it was just about 10:30 am.
"I wouldn't even have thought about doing this on my weekends, it's o not have to maximize time stantly anymore," she said, getting out of her bed.
Stepping into her kit she filled a cup with water from the tap and gulped it down in one go.
"Refreshing," she said leaning on her ter, she perched herself on her elbows and began to think.
'The Gold from Mars and this ret sale will be enough for a while but if I really want to leave this pce I've got to get serious about crafting and cooking,' Aya thought.
'Who knows, maybe I'll be able to move to one of the better parts of Axen before I uproot ao Mericross,"
Footsteps caught her attention again, it was almost like a routine now that she noticed it. On a Thursday too, Lydia pounded on the door no doubt with a closed fist.
Aya crouched and tiptoed towards the door not making a sound. She held her breath and listeo see if the woman was on a call with someone.
"Must you insist on making me do these checks Fido? I told you she's been employed for the past year, she's not at home during w hours!" Lydia said into the phone receiver.
Aya's eyes rounded in surprise, she knew Fido art of the operation but she didn't think he was the one masterminding all this.
"That scumbag!" Aya hissed under her breath from her p the floor. Her grandmother had trusted him with her life and this is how he repaid her? By bckmailing the only person she might have left?
She heard Lydia's footsteps recede into the apartment hallrobably on their way to harass aenant.
"That hag!" Aya said still whispering. She pulled herself away from her door, making sure the bolts were secure.
"I'm upgrading them if need be, 't afford to take any ces," She puffed her cheeks full of air and released it.
"You gotta buckle up Aya," she said spping her cheeks with both hands, "Py the game,"
She went back to her bed to dig out the Revista. She tur on, pg the PacBook beside her, and starting up the game where she left off.
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"You're back!" Sprite said, Yvlena opened her eyes to find herself in the ter of the Outpost o the table she set up to hold the remains of the fallen town guards.
"Good to see you guys," Yvlena said, allowing the fairy to per her hair. Rabbit Knight sheathed the sword he had been ing and joined Yvlena by her side.
"Only o I remember," She said. William was in the first building, O'Leary on the grounds, that only left the sed building and the guard tower left.
"Let's get something out of the way first," She said. Equipping her hoe, she dug the grass until it was deep enough to bury the first skeleton. Yvlena hoisted up the bones of William Brackett and pced them gently within his newly dug grave.
Yvlena dug anrave for the Lieutenant as well, pig up the broken bones and ying them to rest.
She pced twur wooden torches as grave markers then bowed her head in respect to the pair of graves.
“I think we look for ander Addison now,”
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"The guard tower will be the quickest to check," Yvlena said already moving in the dire of the guard tower. She cut through some of the taller grass as she moved through the Outpost.
She stopped at the old Outpost Guard tower. It was a structure made entirely out of wood and seveers tall ih topped with a triangur room made of straw and leaves.
A woodeuck out from the side inviting Yvlena to climb it. The girl frowned a closer, pg her hands on the dder and putting one foot to climb.
"I hope there's nothing waiting for me up there," she said to herself, she hoisted her weight unto the structure and began climbing up the dder. The dder squeaked as the worn wood nearly gave out at being forced to hold someone's weight after such a long period of time.
Yvlena climbed as Sprite flew by side, rag up the dder to either find nothing or front the undead ander Addison.
"Let's hope it's nothing," Yvlena muttered.
Reag the top, she leaped in over from the side with an exhausted sigh.
"hat a climb," she said. Yvlena stood in a wooden box filled with junk and straw. At the top, she could see a few holes in the roof where the straw used to patch it had fallen out.
"Caw!" the sound bred close to her ears, Yvlena swatted an annoying bird that brushed past her. The bird circled overhead aually nded in a .
Yvlena looked around, the old guard tower looked to have been pletely overrun by birds.
Only a specific type of bird, it was a small raven like bird covered in blush pihers and a bck stripe ed around its neck, but what stood out to Yvlena was the bck heart mark right at the er of its wing joint.
"That's a pretty bird," Yvlena said.
The feathered creatures flew away as soon as Yvlena's boots took a step forward.
"There's gotta be something in here," she said already heading towards one of the piles of junk as. She searched the s.
[Yvlena Acquired
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Heartish Raven eggs x3]
"I probably cook this," She said, tinuing to search the s until she ended up with nine eggs.
"There's nothing else up hear not even a tri or something, well I guess it's just a tower after, not much is going to be up here," Yvlena said. She hoisted herself over the edge of the tower and slid doweps the way she had done sometimes wheill worked in Nue Corp's mailroom.
"To the other building then," she said.
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With a swipe of her hand, she sheared the grass blog the path to the sed building withipost.
She pushed the squeaky door open and began walking through the rown ihis pce was a lot worse for wear thaher two.
"Something's strange about this one," Sprite said. Ihe room seemed to go on forever in one long stretch of hallway.
The door shut behind them, plunging the girl and her summons into the darkness.
"Hey!" Yvlena yelled, grabbing the knob and trying to force it open. The knob refused to move, log the entire party within the building. Yvle go, bag away from the door to look around.
She retrieved her fairy lit tord asked Sprite to light it.
[Sprite cast Sting (01 MP)]
Light bloomed within the room, she looked around finding only grass and vines growing within the building's interior.
It reminded her of the hidden temple within the Bloom Haven Hiddehs. The way the vines wound around the structure.
Yvlena gulped, the foreboding sight before her sent chills up her spihe building was a single long hallway that seemed to go on forever.
"Alright, let's go," she said holding her fairy lit tord illuminating a path into the darkness.
'At least I'm not alone.' Yvlena thought.
There were no doors to rooms, no indication anyone had ever used the building to house people. After a bit of walking, Yvlena noticed the end did not e closer at all.
"I could have sworn we were getting closer but we aren't even the least bit closer to the end!" Yvlena said. She turned around to face the which was now miles away from her at this point.
Rabbit Knight's witched as he drew his sword. In the blink of an eye something fell from the ceiling, Rabbit Knight acted fast, sshing the object before it could hit the ground.
"What was that?" Yvlena asked shinior the ground, she picked up the seed now split down the middle from Rabbit Knight's attack.
"What the-" Yvlena was about to say, when something fell on her as well. Yvlena looked up, gasping as she was overe by horror.
Merged with the ceiling was a giant ghostly face, breathing in and out as if in slumber. The rest of his body was not visible only the face coalesg with the building.
After a moment, Yvlena noticed the pnts and interected vines and flowers that grew out of the man's orifices. They spread around the building, coopting it as their own.
It seemed ander Addison's mutation had taken a different turn thaher two, a much darker mutation than even Viseli's.
The grassy vines reminded her of the Giant Weed Mimic she had cleared previously and hoped his skillset would be much the same.
Every vihin the fuard house came from Captain Addison's mutated form.
"I might be able to get a grass stone if I beat this, but just how tough is this guy? He has to be the boss of this quest,"
"Are we going to wake him up?" Sprite asked apprehensively. The rge being deeply frightened her, something was off about him. To her, this creature erversion of nature and all it stood for.
"We have to if we want to set his soul free," Yvlena expio the fairy. "But I wonder how we're going to wake him up,"
In a fsh of a brilliant idea, Yvlena looked at the tor her hand and then up at the ceiling.
"Hmm?"
She reared her hand bad flung the torch towards the face above them. The fairy lit torch bumped hard against the creature's nose before falling towards the ground.
Yvlena quickly lit aorch, uo stand being in the dark with such a foul thing.
The burst of fairy magic within the small torch roused the being from its deep sleep.
A bellow of wrath resouhrough the building, so loud Yvlena covered her ears and grimaced.
The face groaned, struggling against its pce within the ceiling, it was clear to Yvlena and her party that ander Addison was trapped there, twisted by the darkness of the Miasma.
The creature opes mouth, releasing a tormented shriek. The building shook at the howl of pain and only then did it notice Yvlena.
Bloodshot eyes stared down at her, the creature roared, the vines around him began to shift f a mass only the creature in the ceiling could trol.
Tor hand, Yvlena faced it.
"Now we fight!"
AnnouHappy New month guys!