Monster hunting

[free_spirited_wind]

Characters: Bartz Klauser and OPEN
Where: Calm Plains
When: February 3rd-7th
Summary: Monster catching silliness
Warnings: none

{The monster arena sounds like it's going to be a lot of fun, so Bartz is excited to contribute. Over the next week, he can be found on the calm plains, monster catching equipment in hand. He set off to do this on his own, but he'd certainly welcome any help people wanted to give. Feel free to run into him wandering around, or even join him against...}

[A Buer perhaps? Actually it looks like he's got this one well in hand. The creature is angrily flapping around him, firing it's confusion beam, but can't seem to land a hit.

A few days later, he can be found fighting a Mandragora. Actually, it looks like he could use a hand against this one. It's horrible scream seems to be really throwing him off.

And someone should definitely warn him about that dancing frog he's looking at. There's no way he should be taking on a Touch Me solo at his level. Although it's entirely possible he just plans on watching a dancing amphibian because he's bored.

Or maybe you just want to congratulate him on capturing a Geezard? Or not. Because let's be real, anyone could catch one of those things. At any rate, he's caught one and is dragging it back to the monster arena.]

 

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Mandragora

[whereishe]

Yuna was on the hunt for monsters with Celes flying behind her. The little moogle didn't want to be her 'pet' but her new job class meant that she had one so he was baring it until she found something else to take on the roll.

She ran towards the shrieking cry of the creature surprised to find Bartz already there. She looked back at Celes trying to shout over the annoying screams. "Celes! Fire!" The little moogle casts burning the plants leaves but not killing it.

"Bartz! Are you alright?"

Yuna jogged up to his side watching the creature as it reels back to fight. She had run into these once before with others and was sure that they could handle it.

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"Hey! Thanks!"

Bartz takes a few steps in her direction, shaking his head as if to clear out the ringing noise.

"For a little guy, that thing sure is loud. Can you distract it for a sec?"

Without waiting for an answer he jumps. The Dragoon class is sort of mixed bag. Jump is a great attack, but it does take a bit longer than a normal one. Meanwhile, the mandragora readies a poison attack.

[whereishe]

Yuna watched as he jumped into the air and took position with her guns aimed at the wailing creature. It was annoying but she was used to dealing with far worse. She fired two shots at its feet hoping to make it jump back and not cast. Though she wasn't so lucky.

The spell sent a wave of green mist over her and she decidedly pushed Celes from its path. She fell to her knee feeling the effects of the poison as her gun trained on the bouncing creature.

[free_spirited_wind]

"Take that!!"

Bartz finally comes back down, directly on target, slamming the creature into the ground with the fore of his landing. The mandragora twitches several times, but is too injured to do much more. It looks like they caught this one.

"Heh, close one. I think we almost killed it..."


But he trails off as he notices her sickly pallor.


"Hey, are you okay? Did it get you with that poison stuff?"

[whereishe]

"Yeah. I'll be fine." She the truth was she'd been fine if she hadn't changed her jobs. She looked over at Celes feeling the poison move through her body. "Please tell me you have an antidote with you?"

Yuna would make it back to the town easily but without something she probably shouldn't fight. Celes went through his bag pulling out what she needed and handing it over to Yuna.

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"Geez, I'm sorry. If I'd been a little quicker..."

At least her moogle seems prepared. Bartz should probably think more about supplies when he goes adventuring. He offers a hand to help her to her feet.

"Anyway, we got him. Were you out looking for monsters for the old guy too?"

[whereishe]

Yuna took his hand and let him help her to her feet. The antidote was just what she needed to feel better and she was glad that Celes was prepared. Her lips stretched into an excited smile.

"That's right! I was hoping to catch monsters." She sounded excited enough though in truth she wasn't sure where to start. There were so many and she didn't even know all the kinds. She thought to ask Baralai but she felt a little awkward around the monk.

Touch Me

[greenmagick]

Her skills have improved since the fight but she was still a little nervous about using them. Tempest had told her that she could pick up the white mage job class and be able to heal but Terra didn't know what that might cost her.

She walked with Tempest looking out for monsters as they explored the area together. Tempest brought all sorts of potions and items in case they ran into anything to nasty. After Terra wandering off on her own Tempest wanted to be prepared.

Terra stopped at the sight of Bartz and the strange dancing frog. She didn't recognize it but Tempest fluttered closer to Bartz with a frantic stare. "Get away. Kupo! He can turn you into a frog!"

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"Wow, really?!?"

Bartz seems surprised enough, but his moogle pipes up from behind a nearby rock where it was hiding with his chocobo.

'Fool! I tried to tell you that five minutes ago, kupo! If you'd ever actually LISTEN to me-'

But Bartz is already backing away, and answering Tempest. He's not ignoring Kuposthenes on purpose, he's just really distractable.

"I wasn't sure if he was a monster or just a really neat frog."

The 'really neat frog' seems to have noticed them now. It hops forward.

[greenmagick]

Tempest stopped Terra from getting to close to the bouncing creature. Its little paws gripping to her dress. “We should help.” Her voice was steady and calm as she looked down at her moogle. Tempest’s gaze was on the frog as it leaped towards them readying its song.

”Wait until it comes to us Kupo. It’s song can hit further than you can cast.”

Terra gave her moogle a nod bringing fire to her palm as she watched the little frog hop closer. She hoped that Bartz would be alright. She was slowly learning how distracted the hero could be.

[free_spirited_wind]

So distracted. He does ready his spear now, but it's too late to stop the frog from beginning it's song.

"Hey! I think it's doing that thing you-"

Warned us about. But yeah, he doesn't even get to finish that sentence. Because he's a frog. This is not going well.

[greenmagick]

"Bartz!" Terra ran forward without thinking about the Touch Me jumping and dancing a few feet away. Tempest tried to hold her hero back but it was useless.

The song pressed against her ears making her stop in her tracks as she slowly began to change. She shivered as the cold that crept over her skin. She heard Tempest shout before turning to Bartz with a quiet ribbit. "W-what!"

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Bartz ribbits at her frantically.

"It got you too!"

Important information there. Bartz is a master of the obvious. He starts hopping over to her.

"What do we do?"

If she has no thoughts on the subject his idea is to run. Whatever they decide, they'd better do it quick. The Touch Me looks awfully smug.

Beur, and moving on to greater things!

[comeoutswinging]

Allenby folds her arms as the boy catches the seemingly lame creature.

"Well, I can certainly see a use for a few of those. Archers and stuff can certainly use them. Let's catch about 9 more, okay?" And she's totally treating it like it's super-simple. Even her Moogle, Carol, is in on the activities.

"But we need to get other things too. At least 10 goblins as well. Really a large number of these local creatures is going to help."

Excelsior!

[free_spirited_wind]

"Ni-nine?"

He can't even hide his surprised confusion.

"That's... a lot. Do we really need that many? And a bunch of goblins too?"

Bartz has been thinking of this like a game. Catch one of everything, and get a prize. Getting duplicates hasn't even occurred to him.

Re: Excelsior!

[comeoutswinging]

"Yes. Yes we do. Consider this." she explains, raising a finger.

"So, you fight one, right? That's not hard at all is it? Or a goblin. You kick it once, and it's done right? What about two? Not that hard, but then three, or four.." she goes on, nodding her head. "You see where I'm going with it?"

Re: Excelsior!

[free_spirited_wind]

"Um... No?"

Yeah, he really doesn't have a clue where she's headed with this.

"I mean, I thought we were trying to catch one of everything..."

He's trying to imagine what you could do with ten goblins. Train them to do tricks and set up some kind of goblin stage show maybe?

Re: Excelsior!

[comeoutswinging]

"Well yeah, one of everything matters, but, like I was sayyyying... Only one goblin, only one Buer, that's not a hard fight at all. But if you fight a bunch of them, then you have a challenge. We're catching them for the arena where you can fight monsters safely, which means if you want you can fight just one, or ten of them or whatever, and really push yourself."

If Bartz can't get it from that...

"Anyway, let's find some more. We'll work on more Beurs if we find them."

Which won't be too hard, here's two more coming!

Re: Excelsior!

[free_spirited_wind]

"Oh! I get it!"

He hadn't been thinking about what happened after the monsters were caught. It made sense that the old guy would need more than one. Now that he's on board, Bartz starts looking around for their next target.

"Hey! There's a couple more! Let's go get 'em!"

How lucky are they? More monsters! He turns to their new prey, flipping his spear around into an offensive position.

Chocobo Eater

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[And now it's time to try for the big game. After gathering a crack team of...... whoever happened to be around, Bartz and Allenby are prepared to take on the chocobo eater. When they track down the monster it has cornered a couple of chocobo, intending to make them into it's dinner.

Bartz is having none of that.]

Hey! Why don't you pick on someone your own size?

[Except it's larger than him. And so are the chocobos, honestly. Also what is stealth?]

Re: Chocobo Eater

[comeoutswinging]

Stealth is that thing that like, I dunno, ninjas use. And even while Allenby had that job, she was not very ninja-like! Rather she, and her Moogle Carol, are more than happy to face the monster head-on, already Carol prepping Allenby with a haste spell.

With the creature staring down the taunting Bartz, Allenby has a change to run over and just slut it right upside the head!

Chocobo Eater

[whereishe]

Yuna steadied her bow lighting the tip on fire as she aimed it at the chocobo eater. She was out of distance from the creature and possibly out of sight from those two fighting it since she was standing behind them. With a steady hand she released the arrow letting it fly through the air and hit the chocobo eater in the chest.

"Celes stay behind me." Her voice was calm as she began to slowly walk closer. Her bow still in hand as she pulled another arrow tight. "I'll back you guys up."

Re: Chocobo Eater

[line_piece]

[Chiaki, meanwhile, is near the back of the group - just behind Yuna, white mage staff at the ready.]

I'll hold my action for healing or to capture it once it's weak enough. Be careful, everyone.

Re: Chocobo Eater

[free_spirited_wind]

[It's dinner interrupted, the chocobo eater roars in frustration. It's strong resistance to physical attacks allows it to shrug off both the arrow and Allenby's strike. It swings one of it's long arms around to retaliate, aiming at Allenby who is closest.


They might need a new strategy.


Which won't be coming from Bartz, who jumps. Bringing his spear down on the monster in yet another physical attack. Which is clearly not doing as much damage as it should.]


Wow, this thing's hide is tough!

Re: Chocobo Eater

[comeoutswinging]

Allenby had been trying to do better to think on the fly, given the last time she just RUSHED into things and tried to work smart on the fly.

So instead, Allenby stands fast, looking ready to take any hit, preparing Boost and Counter to stack.

"Carol, do what you can for the others, but hit them with a bomb if you can! I'll try to keep it's attention on me. Bartz, you do the same, do what you can so that it hits ME instead of you!" she calls out.

"Yuna, Chiaki, if you can do anything real big and strong, now's the time!" She wasn't going to outright just CALL for magic, but, hopefully the other girls had some!