Last extra one for a while. Proposals of all Kinds - Aincrad Excerpt · 11:56pm Nov 5th, 2020
Excerpt From Episode Episode 79 - Coming Tuesday!
While the crafters worked on their design plans. The council began to lay out various party strategies. They hadn't done any work on how the parties were to be organized. They had chosen their party colors the night before, and now they could begin to work on BluCon's design.
As they finalized BluCon, it was clear the original Wondercolts would be broken up for those days. The game had forced this evolution, and they would only make new friends, while keeping the old.
"Excuse me," a gruff, but kind voice said, interrupting their planning.
"Gunk!" Bladescape exclaimed, standing up and shaking his outstretched hand. "It is good to see you here. Is it just you?"
"Valk is over there, going over fabric and the sketches. In our group is now Filigree, a wonderful artist. You should see her handiwork."
"AFCK has photos for the walls, but we will have plenty of wall space,” Bladescape said. “Later, of course, but not too far away, we will see what she has or can do for us."
"Of course," he replied with a grin. "I didn't mean to interrupt. Please, go back to what you were doing. I just wanted to say hello."
"We are glad to have you giving us a proposal," Backbreaker said from her seat. "We will keep things fair and honest, but I am sure you have seen your handiwork is still around."
"Well what else could you use?" He asked with a wink. "I hope you do certainly pick us, but we already got your business. And that reputation meant we got a whole lot more. We should be set for the rest of the game because of you. Naturally, we don't want to coast, what fun is there in that? I haven't heard of anyone doing an open invitation bidding like you guys are. It is good for the whole crafting community. It is like real life. Thank you for that."
Gunk walked away before anything else could be said and Bladescape sat back down. She quietly spoke to the Council. "I am certain Diemond will pick them for her room. I love what they did for mine, and I would love for them to continue what they started since my room is now bigger. And two floors."
"That is the beautiful thing of all this," Lobelia replied. "We only have 20 teams here, about 60 crafters. Most likely, every team will get at least a bedroom commission."
"I concur," Astro added. "I'll probably go with Gunk and Valk, for the same reason at Blade and Diemon, but there are still plenty of others."
"YelCon," Kamishi said, tapping the table and getting them back on track.
Astro growled a bit, readying her argument. "Look, I know how some of them feel, but YelCon needs to have the six Lancers together in a squad. We can train them and restrengthen their minds so that they will be fine, but we need a Lancer Squad since we have 6 lancers."
"They won't like it," Kamishi argued back. "We were promising most of them less front line time, and for several of them, they want to be off completely. They are trusting us, but I don’t want that trust to fail."
"We will make them stronger," Bladescape affirmed. "We have the training site picked out already. And this is YelCon. I know that means a heavier field presence. But we are limited in some of our operations. We will be BluCon most of the time, giving them a break."
"We need a Lancer Squad," Astro restated. "We can support it with two very heavy units that will go to boss raids. So we can train them to handle the fight. It will be fine."
"I hate to say it, but I agree," Lobelia finally said. "We need a Lancer Squad. It is mostly preference, not skill or timidness, for those members. I believe you can, we can, strengthen and build them up, revitalizing their morale."
"Now we need to build them three solid squads to support them," Bladescape said, looking at all the papers with names, skills, and notes on their fighting performance.
The bulk of their new members were shield and sword users. The biggest problem they were facing was morale. Most were sliding towards not being on the front lines. They were not saying no, like Jade, Ithilian and Delton, but some had been more vocal about hands off support of the guild pushing on the front lines. They couldn't push them too hard, or they would resist. The only reason they were not shutting the idea out was the quota training. Over the next few weeks, as they trained them, they would have to boost their morale back to its earlier peaks, if not higher.
looking forward to this chapter... also- shame knightstar isn't back yet. this is right up her ally
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