EQG: Sword Art Online - Ruby Palace

by Mindrop

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Commercial Break Four
If you want a reminder about passive and active base stats and the Junishi calendar, that can be reviewed in Commercial Break 3.

A lot has happened since the third commercial break. Last time, the Wondercolts had arrived for their second time. Now, Knightstar is no longer a member of the Wondercolts, having retreated into her own nightmares; while still launching her own successful store for guides. Her specialty is her comprehensive Encyclopedia of Aincrad, which covers the monsters in one volume, with their stats and known drops, including drop rates. While the materials volume covers the known ways the object is used and the source(s) it comes from.

Doombunny has been working on “Operation Midnight Redemption” (OMR) to bring Knightstar back into the guild. To remind her of what she is missing and that her fears are not true. That is taking her on an epic puzzle quest across Aincrad. Each of the thirteen charms has a riddle and much of the task itself is also a puzzle. They are the most powerful charms in the game and crucially include “The Stars of the Forgotten Night” charm, which is at least close to Twilight’s stars mark/cutie mark, which will make an amazing addition for Doombunny's final project and really bring it together. She does not know the order of the charms, forcing her to go one by one, only getting the details on where to go next after she completes a task. She is working as fast as she can and has since recovered:

Radial Charm Bracelet: can carry six charms at once

  1. Painite Blossom (Applejack) — +150 Strength
  2. Col Standard (Rarity) — +15% col dropped by monsters
  3. Iron Opal (Pinkie Pie) — +15% Carry Weight
  4. Tuft of a Rainbow Cloud (Rainbow) — +20% boost to speed
  5. Vial Of Life (Mage Meadowbrook) — +150 Constitution
  6. Fragment of the Palace (Star Swirl) — 20% reduction in skill delay
  7. The Ribbon of Seven Thousand Threads (Somnambula) — +150 Agility

Known Guilds:

Players:

Harmonic Salvation is a large two-handed European sword made of the rare alloy Black Rune. The sword is the same color as the ingot was, gunmetal blue. The ricasso stops at triangular flukes that protrude from the blade, about ten inches total. Forward of the flukes, the edge can be seen as a lighter blue, evidence of the high concentration of runite in the edge. In contrast, an almost black fuller runs from the flukes up three quarters of the blade, exhibiting the colors of the obsidianite. The crossguard isn't squared; having a straight quillon that flares to a point, but above and below it flares with a rolling “w”, framing the center jewel. The whole guard is a lighter blue, like the edge of the sword. The handle is in two segments, with the lower half slightly smaller and much darker, showing off the obsidianite in the alloy. Its pommel is the same blue shade as the alloy, slowly expanding in diameter before quickly collapsing to a soft point. The blade has been hardened, preventing enhancements from failing, and expanding its enhancement slots to 100 and restoring the failed attempts.

Bajutsu is a plain sword with brown leather and steel fastenings, barely qualifying as a two-handed longsword. Made from a lightweight (speed) alloy, it is very quick. It loves to bite and cut without Sword Skills. The sword was made for a quest, to use on horseback against a mounted knight. Bladescape plans to continue to have it with her when she rides.

The dagannoth plates made by Ashley are predominantly navy blue, with some gold worked in. The hide was tanned and hardened into plates and given a coating to make it shine. The leather armor appears to be heavy metal armor, not leather. The armor is complete with besagews at the shoulders to protect Bladescape’s armpits. The pauldrons are gold, as are her couter, tassets, and poleyns. The fingered gauntlets have a strip of gold at the first joint and the flared opening. The navy-blue greaves are open for her gold leather boots. Bladescape’s leggings and shirt are gold showing through the few gaps of her armor. Her velvet cloak is blue, fringed in gold, and seamlessly has an extra-large gold horse head dyed onto the center. The cloak connects to the besagews at her shoulders and was designed to function with her sword on her back, with the cloak covering the sheath.

Silver Sagacity Circlet: A silver circlet with a blue gemstone that matches Sunset’s eyes in the center. The silver is expertly woven into a beautiful pattern that is both delicate and strong.

Along with her equipment, Bladescape owns Plaudit, a Palomino gelding. Standing at fifteen hands tall
(about 5 feet at the withers), he is alert and perky with a trailing diamond mark on his muzzle. The well-built stallion is a charger, perfect for intense bursts of charging and military action, but less suited for hard riding over many hours. Boots is taking care of him for Bladescape.

Blazefury Lance has twenty-seven enhancement slots with no failures. Durability has been increased twice, and both accuracy and quickness once. The black shafted jūmonji yari spear has a maroon head almost a foot long, sharpened squared cross-blades, and a metal collar with a tassel of gold ribbons.
Her splint armor is on top of a gold, long sleeve shirt and leggings. The splints are a blue steeled alloy riveted onto the blue leather with brass. Her chest is protected with a corset, and gorget and below it is a skirt of leather strips often reinforced with riveted metal squares. The corset and skirt are paired with full pauldrons, rerebraces and vambraces to give her arms full coverage. Above her greaves and poleyns are cuisses. Gold leather boots and gloves protect her extremities. On her head is a sleek and feminized Barbute helmet with a visor, allowing for her hair to easily flow out the back. The helmet is profiled to look like a horse head. To hold her pouches, she wears a double shoulder belt crossing over her chest to keep everything in place while performing acrobatic maneuvers. The Medallion of the Two Kings’ Breastplate is integrated into the right shoulder strap, allowing it to be easily flipped to choose the buff.

Earthshaper is an adamant war hammer with a flattened square head, a bearded axe on the back, and a top spike. The grip is wrapped in gold leather. There are a total of thirty enhancement slots with two having failed. Heaviness, Toughness, and Durability all have been enhanced four times, while Accuracy and Quickness have been enhanced twice.

The Plate of Veracity is an elegant heavy metal armor torso piece: specifically a breastplate, backplate, tassets, and pauldrons. The steel is beautifully etched. The center of the breastplate is a tree, the NIST Gaithersburg tree, an immediate descendant of the apple tree from Isaac Newton's home. The pauldrons, tassets, and backplate are decorated with apple leaves and blossoms.

Diemond was able to match the color and design of the Plate of Veracity for all of the other pieces, but she could not do the etching. For her helmet, she wears a close helm in the Maximilian style.

Ruby Saber is Thunderborne’s primary or boss rapier. It is styled as a carmine Pappenheimer Rapier. She carries several generic dungeon diving or clearing rapiers due to rapiers having a low durability. A tough dungeon can wear down two or three rapiers with ease, making it a risk for a fencer to use their primary sword too often. Four enhancements of twenty-five failed. Of the twenty-one that took, seven are Durability, five are Quickness, five are Accuracy, and four are Sharpness.

Thunderborne wears a splint armor dress. The dress itself has a houndstooth woven leather base, sleeveless, woven out of three different shades of blue, plus one cord of gold. The blued splint plates are riveted on and smaller to afford her more flexibility during acrobatic maneuvers. The dress’ skirt is without metal and uses knife pleats to allow for a wide range of motion and a front panel for a smooth look, just like a Scottish kilt. Underneath it is worn a blue long-sleeve shirt and leggings. She wears splint arm harnesses on each arm – a blued splint rerebrace, articulated elbow piece, and a golden splint bracer – her gloves are simple blue leather with gold splints on the back. Her knee-high leather boots are dyed gold and have golden splints vertically riveted on them to cover the shins, with plates covering the toes and heels. The boots are laced on using blue leather cord. Each lace hook is a lightning bolt. The toe of the boots has a horseshoe stamped on them and she has gold Prince of Wales spurs with blue straps holding it onto the boot. Instead of a Sam Browne belt, she had a belt with two shoulder straps that cross like an X over her chest to keep everything in place while performing acrobatic maneuvers. She no longer wears a helmet, instead her rainbow hair is tied into a ponytail with a gold ribbon that has a surprising amount of defense.

Honor’s call is a double headed axe with no curve in the bits. The axe head is in the shape of an “H” and made from Adamite, giving it a smoky green color. The shaft is wrapped in woven leather cording of five blue cords, a gold cord, and a red cord. No enhancements have been done.

Konpeito’s new “Viking look” is a stamped leather breastplate with a metal scaled gorget and scaled faulds and tassets, which are more skirt-like as they go almost to her knees. The layered breastplate is dyed navy blue and stamped with Viking knots and symbols. Every rivet, buckle, and lace is gold while the scales are blued steel. Konpeito is still sleeveless to show off her Viking tattoos, which fully cover her arms and shoulders. Her sleeveless shirt and trousers are blue. Her boots are plain, dyed blue, and she wears greaves and bracers both in the splint style with more spacing between each splint and connected by leather straps, not a leather base, which are blue. Her gold belt is simply tied around her waist and holds her pouches. Gjallarhorn is on a strap that crosses over her body, not in a pouch.
Konpeito’s curls are half tamed. She wears them “shield maiden style.” On both sides of her head are four tiers of Dutch braids. The pompadour top has three asymmetric accent braids and is tied into a ponytail with the first tier of braids. The other six braids are also tied together into a lower ponytail. Everything past each ponytail tie is unbraided and raw. Konpeito also wears a kransen that goes in between the ponytails but lies flat over her forehead. It is woven from three blue and one gold chords.

Silver Lining is a flanged mace. The flanges come to a sharp point and have trefoils punched out to reduce the weight. Silver Lining is complete, with four failed enhancements. Accuracy, Durability, Quickness, and Heaviness all have five enhancements, while Toughness has six.

Diemond’s shield by Rendil is a tower shield with a blue face, gold horse head on it, and trimmed in brass.

She wears Maximilian style full plate armor with a close helm with a blue finish. A gold belt with pouches and a ring to slip her mace is around her waist. Attached to the front of her pauldrons is the cloak, dyed blue, trimmed in gold, and with their gold horse head in the center. It goes down to her calves.

On her left hip is her regular dirk, Shadow Song, in a blue sheath. Her pink qama dagger, Mourning Protector, is mounted at the small of her black for a right-hand draw. Off her right hip is her poisoned DOT crusader dagger, Endbringer, in a gold sheath. All three knives have twenty enhancement slots and none have been enhanced.

Her two throwing knife holsters are one piece, all blue, sharing a belt under her dress and with the holsters dropping down to above her knees. Each holster holds four knives on the face, with five rows behind. The regular throwing knives are on her right thigh and her heavier kunai are on her left.

Her knee-length cloak is dark blue and has pockets hidden inside to securely store her poisons and potions. It also has wide, reinforced and strengthened shoulders for Colorra. Colorra's shoulder pads are a separate piece of blue leather which is braced by a shoulder holster design that pulls and anchors it in the back between her shoulder blades. Underneath the coat she wears a yellow Silverthread dress and blue silverthread leggings. A thin blue belt keeps her skirt in place and also mounts her beast tamer’s charms and weapons. Doombunny also wears a blue headband to keep her hair in place when she isn't using the hood, blue boots that only cover up to her ankles, and blue Silverthread fingerless gloves to finish off the ensemble.
The coat covers everything on her unless she specifically sweeps it back to stay open. When open, the beast tamer necklace is on full display. Her earrings are also on full display when the hood is down.

Mist’s fury is a new katana, having forty enhancement slots. The handle cord is gold with a gold and blue tassel while the sheath is navy blue. The brass tsuba is a chrysanthemum. No enhancements have been attempted.

His splint armor is on top of a gold, long sleeve shirt and leggings. The splints are a blue steeled alloy riveted onto the blue leather with brass. His chest is protected with a breastplate, backplate, faulds, and tassets. Breastplate and backplate are paired with full pauldrons, rerebraces and vambraces to give his arms full coverage. Above his greaves and poleyns are cuisses. Gold leather boots and gloves protect his extremities. His helmet is a lobster-tailed pot helm, also bearing a resemblance of a horse. He also uses a blue Sam Browne belt with a gold pass-through buckle of a horse head set in a circle. The belt has a sword frog directly on it to properly align his katana.

Last Rites is a narrow crusader style sword with twenty-eight enhancements. Six have failed. Durability has been enhanced four times, while Accuracy, Quickness, and Sharpness each have been enhanced two times.

Her kite shield is navy blue with a golden horse head on the face. Her splint armor is on top of a gold, long sleeve shirt and leggings. The splints are a blue steeled alloy riveted onto the blue leather with brass. Her chest is protected with a corset, and below it is a skirt of leather strips often reinforced with riveted metal squares. The corset and skirt are paired with slim pauldrons, vambraces, greaves, and poleyns, all in the same split armor design. Blue leather boots and gloves protect her extremities. On her head is a sleek and feminized barbute helmet with a visor, allowing for her hair to easily flow out the back. The helmet is profiled to look like a horse head. To hold her pouches and sword, she uses a blue Sam Browne belt with a gold pass-through buckle of a horse head set in a circle.

Storm-Forged Battle Axe is a steel battle axe with a twisted shaft, and a circular hammer counterbalance for the wide face. A fleur-de-lis is carved in the face to reduce weight.

Reisenki’s shield by Rendil is a tower shield with a blue face, gold horse head on it, and trimmed in brass.

He wears Maximilian style full plate armor with a close helm with a blue finish. A gold belt with pouches and a ring to slip his axe is around his waist. Attached to the front of his pauldrons is the cloak, dyed blue, trimmed in gold, and with their gold horse head in the center. It goes down to his calves.

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