Duty Session 311: Abandoned Springs

So there were hotsprings that needed to be checked out, some left and no longer teneded too. This filled Gwen with ideas to expand her guild's operations. However they needed to check thing out andf with the promise of both loot food and even fashion she's got a team together for it.

"So this is roughly the way there we need to check it out and then report back."

Schneider is not going to say no to a hot girl asking him to a hot springs in any case, but the escuse of fighting monsters is certainly enough to make it seem legit. When it turns out to be an actual mission, he is just a tiny bit disappointed, but a mission has benefits all its own. His guild, of course, already has a bathhouse, so the idea of a guild-owned onsen doesn't mean much to him, but checking out the competition is a thing. Well, to find out of this place /is/ competition. He'd never heard of it before this festival.

    Time to find some abandoned springs, then.
    A moment ago Akatsuki wasn't there...
    In the next moment, there's a ninja at Gwen's side.
    "At the very least we can work on clearing out some of the monsters." She muses, checking her equipment and finding it in good order.

Gwen was very glad ot pick up some help Schneider proved he had a taste for the clasics also he'd been proven to be a very good blaster wizard as she might put it.. So she was quite happy about the help and getting one of the best Ninja in Yamato on board was also massive plus.

"Aye, that we can do my friend."

The lander who is with them would explain the situation to the party before they headed out and it was pretty much as they said. Gwen would now be putting to use several spell to help her find their way to the old springs.

Schneider blinks in surprise as Akatsuki just sort of appears out of nowhere, fading into the world and fading into the party list. "Er, hello," he says as he notices her. Now as far as finding these hot springs, he has just about zero clue. He'll wind up following Gwen, who looks like she knows where she's going, rubbernecking on the way, but Gwen seems to have this under control. He assumes Akatsuki does, too, when he can catch a glimpse of her, which isn't that often.

    Catching a glimps of Akatsuki sure doesn't come often. She vanishes almost as soon as she appeared, only re-appearing several times to point down a new path or different direction.
    "I'll scout this way." Is what she'd say, before she re-appears again to report: "The path is clear."

the Party has done well to push their way ahead between the trio they don't get lost and are on the right path to reach the springs. As the group move onwards they will find an old garden,. It's goner wild but enough is intact to show how well maintained it was once and could be again with some work but there's vines to deal with that block the way. Like a certain other 'elf' in anotehr land she strarts hacking at the vines to try and get trough.

    Akatsuki briefly pauses to try and read the writing on the stone.
    "..."
    ...
    "I cannot read this." She announces simply.
    Alas.

As Gwen starts hacking, and not in a computerey way, Schneider will look around, and when he sees an unusual stone, he cals out, "Hey, there's a way through a .... hey?" But he's wandered off a bit too far, it seems, and now he'll have to find his way back to Gwen and Akatsuki. Heading back, he looks over at the stone. "Ah, that's old, high orcish," he improvises. "Eat at Joes? But there was another stone that talked about some other way...?" Now if he can find it again...

Gwen ends up getting snared in the vines for a bit and has to struggle to get free. It leaves her having to spend a fair bit of time getting free. She also looks a bit sheepish at this as for. Akatsuki and Scheinder have some issues but in the end, the party gets past it. Finally, they hit the stone gate and Gwen will look it over for a moment and she get an diea about the old gate.

"Well I think I can use some magic to help with the earth if someone could do something else about the gate or the wall? Either will do!"

Schneider will help Gwen out of the vines, cause he's a gentleman and all, and once she's sorted out, he frowns at the gate, which turns out to be resistant to fire when he tries that. You never know. He is at a loss at this point. He summons an earth elemental, his backup plan at this stage, but it is far too small to accomplish anything useful. He watches thoughtfully as Akatsuki works on the lock, grumbling abuot asbestos gates.

    As Gwen and Schneider work on the earth magic, Akatsuki takes to a knee at the gate, pulls out a set of lockpicks and-
    With a soft click of the lock, she puts her lockpick kit away.
    "The gate is open."

It Gwen and Schinder were left to things it would take a heck of a lot longer. Akatsuki is able to get the lock but it takes time slowing them dsown even more still it could be worse right? The party enters the courtyard and there is good news. The place seem to be intact for the most part it could very well be fixed. The spring are staring to fill once more yet well there's a small issue. There are frog monsters which are coming out of the spring the frog men want to fight from the looks of it as they move to assail the party.

Gwen gets the idea to put some magic to use chanting and causing TORRET OF PURE WATER to start trying to clean the springs some more and wash some of the frog men away.

Schneider ohs as Akatsuki gets the gate open while he's trying to get his tiny golem to do anything useful. He attempts to look like this was all part of the plan, and heads inside, where the frog-men turn out to be causing trouble. Fireball is his go-to here, also, but turns out fire is not hugely effective in the middle of a hot spring. Who knew? Plan B is a water golem, which might be a good plan if he were much good at water. Alas, Shneider is an exploder wizard, not a water wizard, and all he gets is soaked with steam and down on HP as, in a fit of last resort, he tries beating on the kappa with his sword. There is a reason it's a backup weapon: he is not very good with it.

    And then... Enter the frog men.
    In the instant they hurl their spears, Akatsuki nimbly vaults out of the way, replying in kind with a flurry of thrown shurikens as she lands on her feet.
    "I am not getting in that water now."
    It's probably full of frog-man slime anyway.

Things go well for the party between the water of Gwen and Schneider? With Akatsuki's ninja tricks the forg men are chased off or dead at this point but thing are not over. There is some serious monkey business is going on as a hulking massive Monkey appear with boss bars on its. It's got a crown and a staff and then the vhing roars in challenge s is lands, attacking the party for this spring belongs to it and no one else.

Gwen would rush in casting magic spells namely holy and water spells at the King.

"LETS GO!"

When the kappa are finally driven off and the boss appears, Schneider cheers up. He grins as Gwen calls, "Let's go," because GO is exactly his plan. This is a fight he can be useful in! "Kaizard, aruzard, kisk!" he chants, and a heavy force gathers quickly. "Hansay Glossik! Unleash total destruction! Sage of Hades use the seven keys to open the gates of Hell!" This is his dread spell, then, the thundrous energy gathering ominously as he chants the final syllable with a shout, "HALLOWEEN!"

There's a reason it was called a forbidden spell in his source material, though obviously it didn't forbid him. What it unleases is something like hell on earth, with thermonuclear destruction, bad guys getting vaporized (which is what happens normally when they run out of HP), and Schneider looking pleased with himself.

    With the frog men handled all that's left... Is the sudden, gigantic, monkey that leaps from out of nowhere.
    "?!"
    Akatsuki is taken briefly by surprise as the beast comes in swinging, barely dodging out of the way in time, but doing so in a nimble and agile fashion and-- where did she go?
    As Gwen holds all the aggro, Akatsuki appears behind the Monkey King, kodachi flashing in her hand as she deals out vicious strokes and backstabs to maximize her DPS.

The Monky King does not seemt o be normal it seem he whould be a boss fight, they don't kill the Monkey King but they hurt it enough? The monster choses to od something rare. It chooses to save it's own life and depart ther's some fur left behing so far as drops go. "Well I think this place could be promising but we'll need to clean it up more." She's beaming at this. "Oh yes food! I owe you people meals!"

Schneider looks around and sighs. His belly rumbles at mention of food, but this place ... "This place is kind of a dump. It'll need a lot of cleanup," he says thoughtfully. As to free meals, he nods, "Yes, please!"