Private Eastern Brisshal Bad Bandits

[Mio Ban]

Mio couldn't help a deep frown forming on her face as she hid her presence well despite a group constantly patrolling or searching for her. Just when she thought she'd managed to find a nice target for some quick cash she ended up walking into something of a trap. While it wasn't exactly planned to be one, the bandits had stashed most of their loot at the center of their camp, and when a large portion of it suddenly disappeared into Mio's inventory it didn't take long for them to find out. Luckily the rogue was a little more clever then to just come in with no plan. Using her inky palms and tail she quickly drew out a few escape routes even on the way in.

She found herself hiding in one now, a 'false wall' that was once just a normal wall until she made her inky edit to the area. Drawing a door to the interior of the wall and shrinking the interior of the wood enough for her to stand inside she leaned against the wall of her little closet that was just large enough to fit two side by side with a burdened breath. "These idiots don't get tired of running back and forth, just give up, I want to eat too okay?" She complained in a hushed tone so as to not alert anyone. She identified with the bandits truly, if they had a better philosophy she might have even ended up joining them and sharing in spoils. Unfortunately though they had different views about freedom and comradery.

Luckily her score was nicely maintained in her inventory where it wouldn't weigh her down but as she watched the thugs roam the halls in teams, shouting and blaming one another she knew she couldn't stay that long. Her power was great but lacked permanence. "I guess I might have to start thinning the herd soon..." She almost whined not wanting to risk her neck, but if she didn't start picking off the smaller groups now they might end up traveling in packs by the night.

@Selene

 

[Selene]

When she had accepted to deal with some bandits, looking for a chance to test out her swordsmanship in this game, Selene had been expecting a lot of things. Drunken singing, people throwing gold around, whatever it was that typical bandits did in usual video games. She'd been expecting all of that and more as she crept in, unaided by any kind of mastery that enhanced her stealth at all and only using any actual skill at sneaking that she possessed, which wasn't much. As such, she'd made sure to be slow and methodical, making sure that absolutely nobody had spotted her, even despite her brighter pink hair and red eyes.

SO WHY THE HELL WERE THEY ALREADY ALERTED!?

She crept around, wincing as she ducked behind a few boxes and watched as more thugs ran around, nearly shrieking when they paused. She had been so certain that they would turn and run in her direction that she froze, eyes glancing around as quickly as possible, before she finally caught sight of a decent hiding place, a closet built into one of the walls that she could definitely hide in, if she could just reach it. She quickly stepped around the box she was hiding behind, holding her breath until she reached the closet door, reaching for it with a hand and pulling it just open enough for her to slip her body through and slide it closed behind her.

As she stepped inside, her body collided with something soft, part fluffy and part feeling like clothes, or perhaps even skin, it was hard to tell. Her eyes flew wide open as she realized, rather suddenly, that not only did the bandits have another infiltrator, but that she had somehow ducked into the exact same hiding spot, their bodies pressed together in the dark.

"A-Ah, so uh, nice weather we're having?" She whispered lamely, eyes slowly adjusting to the darkness in the closet as she began to pick up feminine features. "You're soft as fuck, by the way." Even if she wanted to slide a hand down to her sheathed blade, there wasn't enough space to reach. Hopefully the woman was equally impaired. And friendly.

"So...you're not with these bandits, right?"

@Mio Ban

 

[Mio Ban]

Unfortunately, Mio was far from impaired. Ultra close quarters was often how she fought most of the time and awkward positions, tight spaces and unnatural poses were all equally in her wheel house with how she moved and worked. It was how she could reach an inky hand up to flick her new house guest with a smile. "Language~" She teased. Not that she cared, no doubt she was also that type of gal, but it didn't mean she couldn't tease someone else who didn't know that.

"Not with the bandits though, just finishing up my job. There's too many of them to fight." Mio tried to explain with a shrug, it was something that would take too much effort or too many people. It wasn't merely a camp with tents after all, but a wooden structure not far from being called a fort. She at least certainly didn't want to be caught out in front of any of them alive.

"We're gonna switch hiding spaces soon, are you fast?" Mio would ask tilting her head, fox ears flopping to one side with the tilt of her head. Leaning against Selene as she asked, if the girl didn't answer fast enough Mio would give her a soft push instead. "Go~" She'd shout opening the fake wall with a push into a bandit. Trying to spin on her heal to sweep her ink spotted tail over his face and slam her palm over his hest with a palm before shoving him into the space she'd just pushed Selene and herself out of causing him to disappear into the wall. In that short time she only moved across the hall to her second hide away corner, though just as tight as the previous one that now held a bleeding most likely dead bandit, it came with the advantage of one less person on patrol.

If Selene seemed at all caught off guard, Mio would grin. "They come ever couple of minutes, they're just organized enough to have a patrol, but disorganized enough to not care if one goes missing while on it." She tried to explain with a sigh, leaning in again.

@Selene

 

[Selene]

The flick warned Serene that, no, whoever she had climbed inside of this closet with wasn't quite as impaired as she was in close spaces, which did mean that she was going to be in danger if this person, a woman by the sounds of her voice, decided that it was appropriate to come to blows or just attack her or something like that. Well, there was little she could do about it, though the flick to her nose and the remark against her language had Selene hanging her head, as much as she could, anyway. Great, all the hiding spaces in the world and she'd ended up getting cozy with some kind of prude or something.

"Way too many to fight. I assume they're in a frenzy because of whatever it was that you did?" That was really the only explanation that made sense. Bandits in a frenzy even though Selene knew she hadn't been spotted. This person also seemed to have not been spotted, but had clearly done something that hadn't escaped being notixed by the bandits. When asked if she was fast, Selene nodded. "Fast enough. I'll be fine." Probably. She still called upon a spirit to haste herself, having long since turned the action assist function off. It allowed her to cast spells without having to chant and gesture like a chump.

And with the shout to go, she was pushed out and into a bandit, who was swept off of his feet and shoved into the closet they'd been in, whilst the two girls took off running until they came across yet another corner closet, which they piled into. Holding her breath for a moment, Selene breathed a sigh, hearing the girl's response. "Nice takedown. You clearly don't need my help, anyway. I still need to get their leader, though, so I guess I need yours. Wanna team up and assassinate him, then get the hell out of here?"

@Mio Ban

 

[Mio Ban]

Mio nodded along when asked if it was what she did, it wasn't too much of a shot in the dark to guess. She made off with a nice decent haul of some high class stuff. "Yep~ It was me, they'd been raiding for a while in the nearby area. I picked up some nice fancy stuff, some liquor, knickknacks, and coinage. They've been stirred up like a hive of bees for too long though, I wonder if something else is happening too." She couldn't help blinking as she considered the possibilities, unaware of what else it might have been. She'd taken some things but it's not like she cleaned them out, she couldn't detect what it was that she ended up taking that they might be so stressed about either.

Fortunately Mio was still fast though, even without a speed buff she still had a few movement techniques that made this sort of thing easier for her. Though when she was told she didn't need any help, Mio flashed a bitter smile. "Mah, if it's one I can do it easily. Problem is I'm almost all sneak attack damage hehe~" She giggled again winking childishly when talking about her abilities. She'd specked quite a lot into rogue arts, some into illusion and some into evoke so she could immerse herself. She turned her head back to Selene in question when mentioning wanting her help.

"Eh? You took the boss quest?" Mio asked a little surprised, usually that was the type of thing people took when they had a lot of companions right? Did her team abandon her or did she not know? She scanned Selene up and down trying to decipher but if the girl needed her help, she'd run an inky hand over her chin. "Mm... If there's something in it for me?~" She asked with a tilt of her head again provoking her ears to move at the thought of earning a bit more. Though she wouldn't be opposed to lending a small hand even without that bit of coin.

@Selene

 

[Selene]

Ah, so the stranger had stolen from them and that was why the bandits were all bothered and patrolling like they were seriously looking for something, because they were. Liquor, coinage and stuff all sounded like the kinds of things that bandits would want to keep their hands on, so it made sense that they were upset about it. Still, she thought it was pretty cool for somebody to have stolen from bandits, though if the woman was correct, then something else had them all riled up and the two ladies were right in the center of all of it. There wasn't much chance of them finding out, even if they were outnumbered.

"Sneak attack damage is super useful, though. Just have to be smart about it and stuff." Meanwhile, Selene herself had picked a pretty weird combination, but she was starting to figure out a fighting style for herself with a little bit of practice. Of course, she was going to need a lot of practice, but that could come after she's actually succeeded at her quest and managed to get out of this bandit camp without losing her life.

She nodded when asked if she'd taken the boss quest, noting the surprise on the woman's face. "I did. I assume it's not the kind of thing I'd be expected to succeed at alone?" She should've known it'd be something pretty bad, but if she'd been set up for failure like that, she was going to be pretty nettled when she made it out of here. Though when thinking of what she could offer the vulpine woman, she couldn't really think of much. She didn't exactly have much money or any rare gear to her name.

"I could offer you a favor or two. That's all I've got, really. No rare gear or anything of the sort." She placed a hand on the woman's shoulder and smirked, flashing a wink. "How about it? You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours? I'll even cut you in on the quest reward too."

@Mio Ban

 

[Mio Ban]

Mio nodded along, being smart about it was the name of the game, she'd made it this far picking her moments carefully at least. Mio wouldn't discredit her own technique, she just wanted Selene to understand her limits, if she thought she'd be cutting down every bandit left and right with that same level of ease it would lead to a misunderstanding. Mio was very skilled with the use of her ink, but only ever when it caught them off guard letting her paint them freely. "Well, I'm sure you'll lend a hand, you wouldn't just ask me to do all this by myself." She spoke with a bitter laugh if she was willing to help, Selene wouldn't expect her to complete the job alone right?

Being offered a reward though, Mio was content at least as long as the reward was substantial. "Okay then, I'll lend a hand, but if we have to make a quick escape, I'm going to run as fast as I can okay?" She tried to advise, she didn't want Selene thinking she'd go down fighting at least, the game did have a substantially frightening consequence for death, the rumors of death in game were all very well substantiated at least. "Follow me for now." She spoke confidently as her tail slowly slid upwards, the ink covered tip slapping the wooden wall behind her slowly drawing like a calligraphy brush.

She'd slowly dashed out the image of a door, giving it just a small amount of time to properly shade and detail before slowly giving it a push with the flexible appendage pushing the wall open from the other side like a door. Peeping out, she began to move, waving to Selene using her technique to move between and through walls. Each time though the wall behind sealed neatly, her rogue arts were strong but not absolute just yet. Instead she tried to bring Selene deeper into the bandit camp towards the little treasure filled throne room she'd first robbed knowing the leader was probably there. Alone the way she'd need Selene's help a few times in taking out patrols or sentries that weren't alone.

@Selene

 

[Selene]

"Well duh, how am I supposed to get any better if I just let you handle everything? I'm not that much of a colossal bitch that I'd expect you to take care of literally everything." Though the vulpine woman, if she had spent longer in this game than Selene had, which the elf was expecting considering how the woman could do things like instakill bandits and create closets to hide in or something. There was definitely an experience difference here that dictated that the strange fox lady was going to find herself the stronger of the pair, no matter what her specialization was in.

As for running away if things went bad, Selene snorted and shook her head. "You kidding? If shit starts to go wrong, you're gonna have to try to keep up. I'm not looking to find out how realistic death feels, you know? Especially considering all the dark shit I've heard about this game." Even if said dark shit hadn't been enough to deter her from trying the game out. Everybody had their vices and things that they wanted to do. For Selene, this was just something interesting that she could do and actually get some enjoyment out of, assuming she wasn't killed.

She followed after Mio, quietly following in the woman's footsteps as she observed the woman's technique. The ink and painting seemed to manifest things into reality, which was pretty cool. Along the way, as they made their way through the fort, using the fox lady's ability to paint entrances onto walls, they ambyshed a few patrols. Sometimes Selene would have to help out, a quick charge and blade flourish was usually enough to take the bandits out, whenever they were caught off guard.

Selene crept low, watching a patrol pass by, too fast to be ambushed as they got closer to the throne room, looking at her temporary teammate. "By the way, I'm Selene. We never introduced ourselves." She whispered, keeping her blade drawn and held loosely in one hand, sheath clutched in the other hand. Rather than use a shield for her Guard Arts, she'd elected to use her sheath instead.

@Mio Ban

 

[Mio Ban]

A little relieved, Mio relaxed a bit. While Selene talked about being a bitch in such a circumstance it wouldn't have been Mio's first time being thrown to the wolves. It was partly why she developed the skills she did to ensure she was never trapped or caught in a dangerous situation. "You wouldn't be the first if you were." Mio laughed amused, those people who tried to discard her usually suffered for it, she was harder to find then one might want to admit after all, and every time she disappeared the beasts would be looking for someone after.

Equally satisfied by the girl's demeanor about running though, Mio settled in for the long haul. She didn't doubt her own ability to escape, she'd been doing so since stealing in this place after all. As long as she wasn't obligated to stay she was content to help for her price. "Hehe... I'm Mio Ban, or Mio." She said with a nod, thinking her name was cute, it also had to do with her style after all. Whether it felt cute or confident she liked he rname.

Moving closer and deeper into the little fort, the patrols got bigger and more numerous. Once it got past a few armed bandits, Mio stopped trying to sneak attack them carelessly. If there were more then four, she wouldn't risk raising the alarm. Instead, she'd pull Selene with her and try to time attacks, reaching out for the ones behind first and trying to hide their bodies in their hiding spaces before attacking again. A little tired with her efforts fighting up front was hard on Mio, even after, a little sweaty she pulled at her dress a little as she tried to cool herself. "These bastards... should just die with the first few stabs." Mio complained giving one a kick while catching her breath. It was a good indicator that they were close though. Glancing to Selene she smiled faintly. "Ready to go?"

 

[Selene]

"Yeah well I'm not." Selene shook her head, resolute on that. "I'm not gonna just leave somebody to do everything, after getting them to take me deeper into enemy territory. I'd rather owe a favor or two and not go back a failure than try to dick you over. Especially since they sent me on my own, probably expecting me to fail and die or something." Probably to teach an 'uppity newbie' a lesson or something, Selene wasn't too sure, but she got the feeling that a lot of the veteran players were assholes to new players. It happened in basically every other MMORPG in existence, so she had no reason to doubt that it would happen here too. Old players developed a sense of entitlement, it was just how things went.

"Nice to meet you, Mio. Cute name." She would have shook the girl's hand, or a tail, if both of her hands weren't full, so she instead settled for nodding, giving her blade a neat twirl between deft fingers, spinning it around and flourishing it as they set off again, getting deeper into the fort. The further they got, the more calculated each attack had to be and Selene was becoming more and more aware of the time being spent and the fact that the bandits would probably be noticing patrols going missing.

It was getting to be tough work though, which indicated that they were getting close. Selene breathed out, trying to keep her breathing steady, twirling her blade again. "I'm ready." She gave Mio a pat, flashing the foxy woman a sly smirk, flicking her hair over her shoulder. "What do you think? I play distraction whilst you get into position for an ambush? Then, once the leader is dead, we bag his head and book it?" They needed the head to prove they'd killed him. Gruesome, but necessary.

@Mio Ban

 

[Mio Ban]

Mio endeavored not to stress, at least the girl was sticking with her through the fights. Even as her inky hands kept pulling at her own dress to try and let some air in she in the end settled down nodding along as her tail swished back and forth when her name was called cute. "Well, it'll be a bit rough, the boss isn't usually alone, so it'll have to be super quick and we'll have to definitely run back through one of my doors." Mio offered, the room was something you could sneak into obviously, but it was rarely a room where the man was alone. Mio made it in and out before because she was focused on grabbing spoils and gold. Attacking the leader was another story.

Selene's plan though made her nod along, it was the best option to get results. "I can do a lot in a short period of time, after that it might be all up to you though." Mio offered. She could get three good sneak attacks in before losing the element of surprise. She knew that all she had was the time it took to paint with both hands and tail before someone was on guard. She didn't think it would be enough to take out the leader alone, but it should put him at a level where Selene could handle the rest.

Patting Selene back in hopes that the girl would do well holding attention, Mio was getting ready for stealth. Not only using her rogue arts, but activating even more as the ink climbed up along her body, gradually distorting the lines of her body until she looked less and less real and more and more like some type of calligraphy drawing.

@Selene

 

[Selene]

Selene nodded as they began coming up with their plan of attack, swallowing slightly at the thought of having to take the attention onto herself, but she'd be able to handle it for a moment or two. They were just going to be blitzing the boss, after all. She certainly had no plans to stand around and fight wave after wave of oncoming minions. "If you can set up an escape route, we hit him hard and fast enough, then retreat through an escape route they didn't know about and hopefully get out of dodge before they can mobilize enough of an offensive against us."

It was far from a master plan, though neither of them were exactly trained tacticians, so it was the best that they were going to get out of this. "I just need you to buy me an opening and I think I can take him down. If you can line him up, I'll knock him down." Or at least, she was pretty sure she could. She focused, attention turned solely to her sheath, feeling spirits begin to inhabit it. There were three that she could use. That would probably be enough. She breathed out, focusing on the racial ability she'd picked, sending a wave of calm to Mio as the woman pat her back.

And then it was go time, as Mio began to activate something. Selene made her way to the entrance of the leader's throne room, blitzing a guard standing outside and cutting him down before he could scream, before she entered, trusting that Mio would be ready as she laid her eyes on a grizzled, bear of a man, clutching a greataxe as if it were a handaxe.

"So you're the little thief who took all my stuff, are yer?" His voice rumbled, like wet rocks rolling over one another, grating against Selene's nerves, even as she stood her ground. Her sheath, her Guard Arts, would be what saved her here. Two other bandits stood a few feet to either side of the boss, both clutching curved swords.

"What can I say, guilty as charged? You have good taste, for a pissant like you I mean." Selene grinned with confidence she didn't feel, twirling her blade in one hand, waiting for Mio to spring the ambush, hoping that drawing ire would keep the man's attention planted firmly on herself.

@Mio Ban

 

[Mio Ban]

Mio was a bit bitter about a possible escape route, it wasn't that she couldn't make one, it was just incredibly taxing. "I can, but it'll be a bit rough." She spoke with a sigh, knowing it might cost a bit to do. She'd need more art supplies at this rate if she wasted them all fighting. There unfortunately wasn't much that could be done about it though.

Mio ended up continuing and finalizing her transformation from a 3D person into a 2D object on the walls and floors, like a drawing she gradually began to move along the floor, her tail swaying as one became two and two became three, her make up around her eyes thickened into black rings and black whisckers painted themselves across her face as she approached a decent sneak attack position while the bandits were focused on Selene.

Mio had multiple options for attacking from her world, everything from reverse drawing to erasing but these didn't do as much damage as her close quarters attacks despite their frightening names. Deciding on maximum damage she pushed herself up, returning from 2D to 3D before rising to her full height. In order to reach properly she even took off in a small leap before swinging both hands and starting a turn. Both hands painted an X over the bandit's back before the tails swept across drawing three lines as well only for them all to turn into gore-y wounds in the next second.

Unfortunately she was largely spent with that attack though, trying to retreat instead so Selene had enough room to pick apart what was left, Mio would try to catch her breath and stop sweating. It was already hard for her to retreat into her world, preparing a sneak attack from inside was still difficult.

@Selene

 

[Selene]

The moment she saw Mio emerge from... wherever she had emerged from... Selene surged forwards, all pretenses of trying to keep attention on her gone as she charged suddenly. As Mio descended on the main target, her hands and tails swept across the man's back, which exploded into a shower of blood a second later even as Mio started to retreat, leaving the bandit leader to stumble forwards, towards Selene, whilst his two guards seemed to hesitate between going after the assassin that had struck, or preventing the approacing swordswoman from finishing off their boss. Knowing that perhaps they would manage to make a good decision unless she could force them to panic, Selene snarled, drawing a spirit from her sheath and pumping it, and its power, into her legs.

Each step pulsed with spiritual power that cracked the floor beneath her, footsteps sounding like tiny static booms as they propelled her towards the stumbling bandit leader, whilst the two other bandits panicked, stepping forwards to intercept her. As she began to weave between them, they swung and she ducked, spinning in place as her blade lashed out, cutting thick red wounds into the bandits' bellies, before the spirit energy in her legs pulsed again, pushing her back onto her feet, approaching the leader.

The hand wielding her sword came across her chest, slamming her blade into the sheath, as she lowered into something of a kneeling crouch, similar to the stance of a Iaido practicioner, before as the leader stumbled one final step, spiritual energy flared inside of the sheath and her arm moved, blade flashing out and sliding through the leader's neck, until she had his head separated from his body, reaching forwards with her free hand to catch it by the hair.

And then the three bodies hit the ground at the same time.

"Time to leave, Mio!" Selene called out, managing to add the head to her inventory and sliding her blade into the sheath, now devoid of any spirits. She would have to bind more later, but her theory of using spirits as raw fuel, as ammunition, as if her sheath were some kind of rifle, had worked out. She flashed a grin to the fox lady. "Impressive, huh? We have maybe thirty seconds if you wanna risk grabbing more stuff, but I think we should just go. After you~"

@Mio Ban

 

[Mio Ban]

Mio happily smiled at the thought of grabbing more stuff, it wiped away some of her fatigue just thinking about more gain. She'd try and shovel in some more loot to her inventory hoping for more coins and gems if there were any available in the trove. Not wanting to spend too much time and getting trapped again though she exhaled a breath after a few selfish grabs before her tails began dashing across the floors drawing another door rapidly. "This one won't last long, so crawl out quickly." She spoke, creating a small crawl space under the floor, it took a lot more energy to draw that much, to use that much shadow and imagery.

If Selene hesitated, Mio would try to push her into the tight space since she wasn't sure how long she could hold her three tailed state. Once Selene had been pushed in, Mio laid down behind crawling on her stomach, there was just enough space to crawl through on your belly as Mio tried to erase the door so they couldn't be followed. Trying to rush Selene from behind as she spoke. "Hurry, I'm not joking, it's really costly~" She complained, it wasn't so much money either, it was costing mana, paint and energy to keep the crawlspace up.

Only at the end, did she almost double over needing help to sit for a while as she took rapid deep breaths trying to calm down.

@Selene

 

[Selene]

Well, if the fox lady had stolen from the bandits once already, Selene figured that she should've seen Mio taking a 30 second break to grab some more loot coming. It was fine either way, though hopefully it meant that the price for the vulpine woman's help wasn't going to be as high as it would have been otherwise, since Mio had managed to grab some stuff for herself that would manage to serve as compensation., Really, she didn't have a problem with that. Her problem was with their escape method being a tiny, cramped tunnel underneath the floor that would force them to crawl in order to make any distance at all. Her body groaned at just the thought.

There was only some slight hesitation before she was pushed into the space, a furious blush washing over the pinkette's face as Mio would have to crawl behind her whilst she was wearing the short skirt that came with the outfit she'd selected. Hopefully her temporary teammate wasn't too offended by the upskirt that she was receiving, Selene scrambled as she was warned that the cost was too great for Mio to maintain their escape tunnel for too long. She didn't want to be inside of it when Mio's energy rang out.

So when they eventually emerged, she grinned and sighed in relief, a hand patting Mio on the back as the illusionist panted and doubled over, trying to regain her breath as much as possible. Her hand rubbed and tried to soothe the woman's tiredness and any panic that might have arisen from the need to breathe, the pinkette looking at the outside of the bandit camp, before offering a hand.

"C'mon, we shouldn't hang around here in case they start to fan out, or break apart and scatter. I can support you for a bit." She closed her eyes, focusing that sixth sense her Spirit Magic mastery gave her, before she reached out and plucked a spirit out of the air, flicking her wrist to wash it over Mio, slowly restoring the girl's health and stamina with a weak healing spell.

@Mio Ban

 

[Mio Ban]

It was definitely tough for Mio, maintaining three tails wasn't easy, her abilities to manifest her art in reality was always difficult and taxing. Still she at least managed to get them out safely with no damage or significant danger. Avoiding all of the bandits inside was also important. Sure, a new boss would likely emerge and the bandit camp would start up all over again as if often did but at least for a short while they would be disorderly enough that travelers could find some piece.

Being encouraged, Mio eventually sat up, then after a while longer stood though a bit wobbly and tired, she would brush her dress down before nodding. "Alright alright. It's best for us to leave before they start searching the outskirts, I get it." She spoke leaning on Selene as they began to leave. The weak healing spell certainly helped her stay coordinated for a bit longer, Mio at least tried to be as energetic as possible until they were out of sight from the bandits.

Of course, even as they walked, she smiled brightly and tried to send Selene a friend invite when she thought about her reward. "Well, just don't forget you owe me! A little for the help, and a little for the escape~" She teased with a bright smile, feeling a bit more relaxed once they were in a safer area. If Selene wanted to go their separate ways at this point, Mio would take some time to relax on a stump or canopy at least.

@Selene

 

[Selene]

Taking a good portion of Mio's weight to support the tired girl and hoping that her paltry healing spell actually managed to help out at all, Selene began the slow walk away from the bandit camp, burdened by the weight of holding the vulpine illusionist up, but still very much thankful for Mio's presense all the same. There was no way that she would have been able to complete a task like this by herself and she'd gotten to see how somebody with a totally different build, one geared towards stealth, could fight and navigate their way around a battlefield. Mio seemed to have incredible utility. Her own build felt a little one dimensional in comparison.

That was something she'd have to improve on with time.

That was when her UI dinged, an indicator that she had received a friend invite from the girl she was supporting, receiving a teasing reminder from the girl that she owed her a favor. Apparently two favors, since Mio was counting the escape as a totally different favor. It made Selene roll her eyes, accepting the friend request all the same. "Damn con artist, you are. Fine, two small favors. I hope you savor them, ya damn vixen..." She grumbled, before smirking and patting the girl's shoulder. Her attitude was being put on for humor and she used her ability to share emotions to convey her amusement to Mio, making sure that there could be no misunderstanding there.

And then she glanced at her palm menu and bit back a curse, her good mood dropping a bit. "Ah god damn it, I lost track of time." She stopped walking, depositing Mio at a tree stump for the girl to sit at. "I've gotta log out. I have a client in like ten minutes so I need to prepare stuff for them." She navigated her menu until she had the log out prompt in front of her. "It was nice to meet you. Next time we're both online, just let me know if you have something you want me to do." And with that said, she gave a short wave before hitting the button to log out, inky blackness bleeding into her vision.

@Mio Ban