Aincrad Excerpt! · 7:16pm Oct 10th, 2020
Excerpt From Episode Episode 74 - Coming Tuesday!
Bladescape opened her eyes as her alarm went off. Once again she had gone all night without a single dream. It was always the same whenever she “slept”. She closed her eyes and opened them, with time simply skipping forward.
This morning had one difference though. The ceiling that greeted her was not the same as she had grown accustomed to. It was the ceiling in the tower of their new castle. Yesterday had been a big moving day. The Wondercolts would have gotten help, but they were keeping the castle a secret, at least for two more days.
The merger was in a few hours and the day after, the crafters would come and pitch their design ideas in a heated battle of proposals for the creation of various rooms. After that, their location would be leaked outwards. By the end of the week, their new headquarters would be a well known fact in Aincrad.
Bladescape sat up in bed and then swung her legs off it. She sat there, looking around her new room. She had two floors to furnish. Currently she was calling the bottom floor her guest floor, and the top was her bedroom.
Beside her bed, her bedroom had her bathing facilities behind a privacy screen, her wardrobe, her armor stand, and her wall racks for Harmonic Salvation and Bajutsu. Several of the shields she had made were hung up as well. The thorned spear was mounted on the wall in the middle of the stairs. She would have to pass it each day, making it a good spot to serve as a reminder.
Her guest floor had her high backed chair and her desk. The walls had the rest of her shields on them. She needed more to make it a real guest room where she could entertain. Her goal was a bookcase and some more seating, and then to move her desk up to the bedroom. She also needed a nightstand for her bedroom. She had been using her desk, but that setup no longer worked.
Bladescape put her armor on and walked downstairs. She got to the dining room. They had bought a few extra tables to cover the new numbers. Cheap pieces since they had very little cash available. They didn’t have any chairs to sit on though, because they were all at the old HQ; ready to be used in the joining ceremony. Otherwise, the ten of them were all moved in.
AFCK was making noise in the kitchen. Bladescape walked into it and found it was Joltron, not AFCK, who was making the noise and he made breakfast for them.
“Hey,” Bladescape said. “No AFCK yet?”
“Nope,” Joltron shrugged. “But I got it covered. It’s a simple meal, but we don’t exactly have any food in our cabinets. We will be going after the ceremony when we have things finalized. I think AFCK is busy making a new cookbook. One for the new guild size.”
“How are you feeling?” Bladescape asked as she grabbed a muffin.
“It is as it is,” Joltron shrugged. He sighed. “I can’t say that I am thrilled, but I also can’t say that it won’t be bad. It probably is the right move. It will mean a lot of changes though. And my change to Cooking, is it going to be worth it?”
“We are going to be feeding a lot of players,” Bladescape reminded him. “It will be appreciated. It is appreciated. No matter if it is ten, eleven, fifty or a hundred, I appreciate it. And I would prefer it if we can rotate our cooks, so that you guys don’t have to cook every meal, but can spread the responsibility out. That would be optimal. Besides, you still will have plenty of time with AFCK.”
Joltron narrowed his eyes at her, questioning her with his glare.
“THERE YOU ARE!” AFCK exclaimed as she popped into the kitchen. “All done in here?”
“Almost,” Joltron said. “Help me get this to the tables so we can eat and get this merger going.”
Bladescape grabbed a tray of muffins and took it to the table. The others were there. Diemond was sewing and obviously behind in what she was doing. She had spoken to Lobelia and Shikiku about a few things. They had something special planned for the crafting guilds and what would be their big reveal as the new Wondercolts.
You have no idea how much I look forward to these excerpts.
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