Private Dunnstads The Fault of Our Science

[Gutsy Ironvolt]

Having recently left Eastern Brisshal, Regan had traveled to Dunnstads in search of someone rumors had told her was a superior magitech engineer. The reason for this search was simple, apparently, this Lady N had created an entire suit of magitech armor complete with weaponry. Thus, if this Lady N could create an entire suit of weaponry, creating a sword that met Regan's requirements should be simple enough.

Regan looked down at her Saber she had purchased in Honeyhome. The weapon was of solid make, but it was not something that would have the cutting power she would eventually require to prove her combat superiority to the world.

What I need is something like a legendary weapon that I can upgrade or that gets stronger when I do. Something made out of special metal or with a hyper-sharp edge or something like that. Something that will serve me well regardless of what beast, monster, or man I find myself against.

Reaching one of the town's squares, Regan began searching for this Lady N in the only way she knew how.

"HEY! ANY OF YOU BASTARDS KNOW A LADY N! APPARENTLY, SHE'S GOT A SUIT OF MAGITECH ARMOR THAT'S PRETTY HARD TO MISS! IF YOU'VE SEEN HER, TELL ME NOW OR I'LL CRUSH YOU INTO PULP! IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN HER, THEN WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU STANDING AROUND FOR?! GO FIND HER! HOW HARD COULD IT BE TO FIND A WOMAN IN A FULL SUIT OF MAGITECH ARMOR! I HEAR IT EVEN FLIES!"

Oh wait... is she flying around now?

Regan looked up into the sky but saw nothing but birds.

"OH LADY N... WHEEEEEREEEE AREEEEE YOUUUUUU?!"

Regan continued to walk around the town shouting and yelling.

@Lady N

 

[Lady N]

Dunnstads

Another day trying to understand how this "Saw 14: The Game" works. Chelsea wandered the streets of this surprisingly casual feeling town. It was so easy to fall into a false sense of security if you never left this region. Which in truth, Chelsea rarely did. All the grand struggles and horrific reports shared by victims of Terrasphere's cruelty and the vets that had survived them were not what Chelsea herself experienced.

Not that there wasn't a ridiculously overpowered goblin or two in her past but... it was hard to believe if you just stayed in places like this. Now the raven haired young woman just leaned next to the door of a shop and eyed the NPC's coming and going. Trying to understand how they thought, and how they interacted. Just If there were any signs to be seen that they were nothing more than lifeless programs.

"OH LADY N... WHEEEEEREEEE AREEEEE YOUUUUUU?!"

Chelsea grimaced from the sudden screams. What..?

There was some woman literally screaming in the center of town. People looked to be avoiding her and it was no wonder. Sigh... Listening to the mad woman a bit more, Chelsea pulled herself away from the shop and hoped to just keep her head down and not be bothered. The woman wanted a armored Lady N. Thankfully she only was in her mechanical suit when testing or in battle.

Why was this woman raving and wanting to find her, to be honest, who cares? She was annoying from way over there already.

@Regan

 

[Gutsy Ironvolt]

Where could that woman be... the rumors couldn't be false. She has to be somewhere in this city. Someone who's into technology would certainly be in a city like this where technology is more of a mainstay than out in the boonies.

Suddenly, one of the townsfolk, obviously frightened pointed to a dark-haired woman's.

"That's..."

"WHAT? SPEAK UP AND SPIT IT OUT!"

"That's her."

Quickly turning, Regan spotted the dark-haired woman and shouted at her.

"I KNOW IT'S YOU! HAHAHA, IT'S RUDE TO LEAVE A LADY WAITING YOU KNOW, THEN I GUESS YOU'RE A LADY AS WELL, LADY N AM I RIGHT?"

Unfurling her wings, Regan took to the skies in pursuit of the woman.

"THIS WOULD BE A WHOLE LOT EASIER IF YOU JUST LET ME TALK TO YOU! I'VE COME A LONG WAY SEARCHING FOR YOU, YOU KNOW? HAHAHA! IF YOU WANT TO BE RID OF ME FASTER, THEN IT WOULD BE MORE PRUDENT TO TALK WOULDN'T IT?"

@Lady N

 

[Lady N]

Dunnstads

And so it was, that Chelsea could never avoid this sort of thing. It was like she had a sign saying "Please bother me and make sure to be extremely weird when you do." The woman had wings, so just running wasn't going to work, and well... fine.

Boo.

"A long way? ...Sigh okay. Can you please..."

Chelsea looked around her staring. This was so embarrassing. The last thing she needed was to be considered crazy as well. It wasn't her fault who she kept bumping into! Slowly backing away, she hesitantly gestured with a nod of her head for the bird woman to come to a less crowded area.

"...I really have no interest in hearing what you have to say... but go on. What do you want to make so much fuss like that?"

She folded her arms and stared up at the woman with a no-nonsense glare.

@Regan

 

[Gutsy Ironvolt]

Landing and furling her wings, Regan landed and followed Lady N into the area she nodded towards.

"I'm not someone who likes to waste time on pleasantries. I came looking for you because I was told you were an expert in crafting magitech machinery and weaponry. "

Regan's face was dead serious. She spoke calmly and firmly.

"I want a weapon. Something that I'll carry with me against the goblins I fight now or any world-ending calamity that stands against me. You're an engineer aren't you? Someone that crafts? I assume that you take pride in creating marvels, then create a weapon unlike any other. Inscribe your name into it, do what you will then let me wield it in battle against my foes."

Taking out her weapon to show Lady N, Regan looked the woman in the eyes.

This saber will no longer due. I need a sword. A slashing weapon. Something incredible, the keenest edge, the lightest alloy, the strongest material, I want the best. Something created just for me. I want something that the newest technology in this world can create. I won't beg and I won't ask twice. Will you help me, or not?

@Lady N

 

[Lady N]

Dunnstads

Huh? Was her user name really going around that much? Chelsea tried to balance her learning about Terrasphere while also maintaining as low a profile as possible but... darn. She's been testing in the open too much. At least she was receiving some respect for her technical know how... even though the N Suit was not exactly her creation. She still made it better though, much better, and still is.

Indeed it's the Nexon motto "Always On The Forefront".

A weapon. to kill goblins? ...Sigh. What was she a mechanic? Was Tristaria behind these rumors?

"...Why would I want to make you anything? Goblins are too much for you, and you don't look like you could handle a weapon I would design anyway."

Chelsea may be snubbing her but if she did not have skill using magitech, what was the point? This was a waste of time! Again!

"....I don't appreciate you quieting down obviously. You probably can't wait to scream like some banshee again So my advice is to log out and never return. Stupids die fast here."

She emphasized the word stupid to make the point clear who she was calling that.

@Regan

 

[Gutsy Ironvolt]

So she won't do it? Then this was all a waste of time.

"Why wouldn't you want to make me something? You make things, don't you? Then what's the difference between making me a sword and someone else a machine? Either way you're making something, isn't that what crafters enjoy?"

Regan snarled.

"But, as I said I would only ask once and never again. You have given your answer so it's done. I'll find my own weapon. Though on the topic of goblins..."

Regan smiled flashing her fangs.

"I've ended quite a few as it is. I've heard they're more difficult in large groups but if you tear through them quickly in the end they're cowards and run. Not much of a fight. Personally, I think bears and wolves are more honorable. Still, they die all the same. Ah but death is the question here isn't it."

Chuckling the woman continued.

"This is the game where if you die too often, you die in real life right? But either in this world or the other death is death. You could just as easily be mugged and killed in the other world as you could here. There's really no difference, so I do what I like and what I like is to fight and win. To become stronger is my goal."

Playfully placing her hand on her fist, Regan questioned the woman in front of her.

"What's your goal? To spend your days pent up in this city? Why? You can do that in the real world. If you ask me, you're just wasting your time living like a caged bird when you could fly free. To me, THAT sounds stupid..."

Regan let the last word linger in the air.

"But then again, I don't know anything about you other than that you're skilled at your craft. So won't you enlighten me, or am I too stupid for that as well?"

@Lady N

 

[Lady N]

Dunnstads

Chelsea checked this woman's name tag while the harassment continued.

[Regan]

Sigh... alright.

*Stare*

She knows about the deaths but she just waves it off like it's whatever?

"....Real life does not dress itself up as a game for fun. Do you have any....any idea at all... how many people are dying because of this? How many have been lost and their families and don't have any idea why? No one to even blame because the creators are nowhere to be found? How many mothers... and fathers..."

But then why was Chelsea here? Was this getting anything accomplished? Yes. Of course, she was doing this for a reason, of course, she would... this was not filling a hole in her life at all. It was with purpose that she sought the answers she sought.

"If you want to kill data for pleasure I couldn't care less.. If you don't understand the seriousness of anything then you are quite possibly the biggest stupid I've ever met, maybe worse. ....I will never help someone like you,"

Her face lost some stoicness as she attempted to shut down her emotions. Perhaps it was an overreaction but this person infuriated her. The Nexon turned and began to move on. She had nothing more to say to someone who could enjoy this deathtrap regardless of the consequences.

@Regan

 

[Gutsy Ironvolt]

As Lady N began to leave, Regan would shout after her.

"HAHAHA! DOESN'T DRESS ITSELF UP LIKE A GAME FOR FUN? No one told me you were a magitech engineer and a comedian? Then what is school? What is life? What is it to tell children they can be whatever they want? To give them dreams if not to make life, 'fun' only to send them into an unforgiving world where the reality of life crushes them? What's the difference between there and here?"

Regan snarled.

"AND TO CALL THEM DATA! WHAT IS A HUMAN BUT A DNA CODE? DATA GIVEN FORM? WHAT PUTS YOU ABOVE THEM? LET ME ASK YOU THIS ENGINEER, HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A LANDER DIE? DID THEY NOT BLEED AS A HUMAN DOES? DO THEY NOT HAVE DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS? DO THEY NOT PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE IN BATTLE? NOW I KNOW YOU'RE EITHER A FOOL OR TOO SCARED TO SEE THE REALITY OF THIS WORLD!"

Unfurling her wings, Regan took to the sky shouting one last time at Lady N.

"IN THIS WORLD I HAVE STYLED MYSELF A MONSTER, A FORCE OF NATURE. I BATTLE AND KILL THOSE THAT STAND AGAINST ME TO BECOME THE STRONGEST IN THIS WORLD! I KNOW WHAT I AM, BUT WHAT ARE YOU ENGINEER? WHY ARE YOU HERE? ALL OF THAT KNOWLEDGE AND POWER AND YOU DO NOTHING! PATHETIC..."

Regan took to the sky leaving the woman with her words. It appeared as though the pair would never truly get along, even so Regan didn't see this woman as an enemy, in fact she had respect for anyone that had power and the engineering prowess of this woman was on another level.

I look forward to seeing what she will create in this world... even if it's not a weapon for me.

Regan laughed to herself as she left the area.

[EXIT THREAD]