Sword Art Online: Altforv

Session Five: Ball Change

If she could have it any other way, Calamity would like to be able to choose where she could respawn. Calamity had her fair share of problems with『Integral Survivors Online』, for instance, sometimes the game would lag at random interval and boot her out of ISO, there were a few times that she would notice NPCs just sorta stare at a wall before the system would terminate them and spawn a new NPC in the same place who acted as nothing happened, and of course the『Motion System』seemed very finicky to her.

It was these spiteful thoughts that soured her mind as she was brought back all the way to『Canvas Village』on『Base Zero』, Calamity couldn't help but trying to feel her back, attempting to not think how stupid she must have looked while fighting the marauders.

"Ugh!" A voice next to her let out a grunt of disappointment, and Calamity smiles a little bit as she sees Ava looking tense next to her.

"What happened?" Calamity questions, as she follows Ava, who is starting to storm out of towards the edge of the humble village and towards the『Warp Point』.

"I sucked," Ava replied with a sigh, "I don't know why I decided to turn on my chat again, just to see GGs and 'get clapped'." She frowns.

"Wait, shouldn't we hold off for Teal?" Calamity looks behind her at the small dug up site where the two of them had come from, looking for a young woman with short black hair and questionable attire.

Ava stopped and quickly said, "Um, probably not, she is good at these sorts of games, she probably just dipped once we got dusted." Ava wondered to herself if that excuse sounded reasonable, and the right to doubt herself as Calamity felt as if there was something more to it, but decided to ask later.

"That makes sense hopefully that's the case, it sucks to get dropped like that in combat," Clamaity crosses her arms, her voice light flecked with salt.

"Let's just get to Teal and hash a plan, this time we have a better idea of what we are doing."

The pair walk up to the『Warp Point』, this one was different from the one they had seen on the『Ashen Ring』 as five tiles are placed in front of them, with one in the center and four others placed at the points of the diamond, connected with thin white wires. All of them are pulsing a slight purple color and letting a gentle hum emanate from the ground.

Calamity looks at the formation as she steps on it, "Man, we don't even the『Warp Point』to be this big, our party is so small, shouldn't we think about asking more players to help?"

Ava is trying to fit herself evenly on one of the tiles, even though it is not necessary, "I like to play in small groups, this way I don't have a bunch of people constantly trying to mess me streaming. Besides, its a lot easier to coordinate meetings and time stuff with a smaller group, right?"

Calamity shrugs, as she steps within the『Warp Point』area, "I guess."

"Alright, ready?"

Calamity gives her thumbs up.

Ava inhales and shouts, "Warp『Charred Forest』!"

As the words leave Ava's lips, sparks of electricity dance around the white coils that interconnect the tiles, there is a loud CRACK and the two women find themselves engulfed in a beam of fizzling energy. Calamity braced herself, having used these points many times before, and thus the feeling of her gut dropping out of her stomach. Calamity looked over to see how Ava was handling it, a wave of fiery hair whipping in the whistling winds, see didn't seem too bothered by the sensation.

Floshoo! A blue beam of energy strikes the diamond-shaped tile in the graveyard of a once-popular park. Teal, who had been waiting patiently at the point, sitting on her feet, lost her balance by the sudden flash of energy, cursing as she fell backward.