Post by Senka on Oct 8, 2013 21:24:30 GMT -8
Senka reclined in her seat as she read the missive from her wanre Suaco Nizzre, seems as if the poor girl had bitten off more than she could chew this time in the excitement of ‘free’ clothes, and chuckled as she remembered when she herself found that sneaky little elg’caress and her quest. From the spot marks on the parchment Suaco either got caught in the rain while scribing the note; or the realisation of the quests requirements had hit her hard.
The message started joyously with the facts that she was blossoming in her skills as a mage and that the creature she normally summoned took soo long to travel between the creatures they encountered, that she’d given up using it in favour of just using her magic directly, causing Senka to laugh in memory of the times she was ‘hunting’ with mages.
The locations that Suaco described travelling between; brought back fond memories, well mostly fond at least. As Suaco described quests she heard about and the effectiveness of the spells she was using that downed her foes swiftly as she completed said quests.
Senka took a long sip from the goblet beside her, revelling in the flavour of the human version of mead; humans have really got this right she thinks as she turns her attention back to the lengthy parchment.
“I was up in Rune when I approached the guide for information on the area’s quests he told me of a simple quest to deliver some information to an old wizard outside of town, I thought it sounded simple enough, till I arrived at the destination. It was in a dark forest that smelled of horror and death, as I ventured down the path I noticed that there were no birds singing, but the air was full of sound, the path though well worn showed no sign of crossing animals, just footprints of various sizes in the grassy edges (where there was grass) so focused was I, I didn’t notice movement in the areas off the path. I found the old wizard easy enough, he had made camp near a weird looking old shrine. Across the road there was a scout who’d been injured, so I went to see if I could assist him, he said that he’d be well enough to move in a few day, but if I could run an errand for him, he’d be grateful and give me some tokens to redeem in town.
I thought that sounded fine and agreed to help, then he told me that he was tracking Embryo and that I needed to stir up trouble to determine if it’s agents were still in the area or had moved on. It sounded weird but there was little else for me to do, so I agreed, and went off to make trouble.
By Shilen the place was crawling with undead I threw my spells to remove this blight to nature, no sooner than I destroyed one to Shilen’s embrace, two more ambled towards me, then the agents started appearing, after dispatching a vast number of them I returned to the scout, who at this stage I learned his name Hatuba. He thanked me for my work and sent me on my way, telling me that he’d got the message to his fellow scouts to be on the lookout still... how he did that when he couldn’t move a step I’ll never know.
I returned to Rune and heard someone spouting that she’d got her wonderful gown for free in Aden, my curiosity piqued I asked her about it and all she said was that for a few errands the gown was the reward. That sounded like a wonderful quest reward and the gown was stunning. I decided to head to Aden, far away from that forest of death. Luckily the Adventure’s guild had given me a scroll to Aden in the daily bundle that we subscribe to.
I talked to Trader Alexis about the rumour, and she sent me to the maid Leikar. It seemed too easy a quest for the reward of the gown, but I went off to retrieve the box of cookies for her. Chef Jeremy was up in an area called Hot Springs which sounded wonderful till I got there, the creatures were huge! The Chef in his ‘wisdom’ sent me to deliver a bottle of wine to an arrogant customer sitting in one of the hot springs down the way. I followed the path past some large antelopes and great bear like creatures, to an arched entrance. Beyond the entrance were spider like creatures larger than the house I grew up in, honestly, then a plant a bit taller stood up and moved, moved! More than a bit un-nerved I carefully made my way to the customer, I don’t think I’ll be going back there any faster than that forest near Rune.
The customer complained that the wine wasn’t cold, it took all my willpower to not knock him into next week, he’s a 15 minute walk away from the Chef; sitting in the middle of a hot spring of course the wine won’t be cold. I left him there as the spring air made me lightheaded and feel funny." Senka started to giggle at this, that whole area did funny things to you, mostly beneficial, oh the days spent hunting in there.
Senka looked hearing something in the clan hall, but a stillness still sat heavy in the room, looking around nothing seemed out of place, so she put it down to happy memories, though checked that her swords were still in reach, and returned to the letter.
“I told Chef Jeremy what he wanted to hear just to make sure he didn’t send me back into that place, so he gave me the cookies for Leikar and I used an escape scroll to leave the place. Leikar was so pleased to see the box of cookies I nearly lost a hand, but she had some sad news, her suppliers hadn’t got back to her, so she asked me to go check on them, which sounded fair enough, she was doing all this sewing for me after all.
I headed off to the blacksmiths to see Ferris, appropriate name for a blacksmith huh? Anyway he hadn’t started the ick’neos and didn’t have the materials either, so of course I had to go slay 5 golems, to get the pieces of iron for the sewing kit, why I couldn’t just take 5 parts off one golem he wouldn’t say, nor the reason there had to be a special sewing kit either. But dutifully I headed off to the Ivory Tower, slayed the golems and returned with the parts, the longest part was the running between here and there.
“Then Ferris asks me to go get more supplies 180 blocks of Iron Ore & 360 chunks of Coke, how big are these needles? Really?"
Senka laughed out loud at this, seemed a lot less to acquire than when she did the quest, the Artisan’s frames took days to find alone.
“I thought the same” Senka stated out loud to the empty room.
“I purchased those quickly enough and was able to move to Leikar’s next supplier Ellie in Giran, once again her supplier failed to deliver... I’m seeing a pattern here already; and I had to go chase him down. The weather was nice so I decided to walk down to the harbour to see Fenton, who passed the adena as well, and sent me to Alligator Island to hunt alligators for of all things ore, once again the travel took longer than the hunt, and I was quickly back to Ellie with the spoils.
To my dismay there were more items to be gathered Iron ore again, armour fragments? and accessory gems, these too were purchased , though I did contact Shebali for some items, I hope you don’t mind. I returned the materials to Ellie and in no time flat I had the jewellery box in my hands.
I headed over to Radia next to check on the cloth expecting by now to have another quest laid at my feet. As I suspected her supplier had failed her and I was asked to check on it. But even he didn’t know what to do, so I returned to Radia with the bad news. She sent me on though, to another supplier, back at the Ivory Tower, who in turn sent me hunting for spiders in the Sea of Spores, a very descriptive title, I’m glad I don’t have hayfever that place would’ve killed me. 10 spiders down and spinnerettes in hand ‘eww’ (I’ll have to wash out my pack again) I returned with a smile.”
Here the spots started appearing, though Senka could guess the reason, it was the thread for the cloth...
“He said he needed a few more items, exasperated I asked what more he needed, and he said 420 Armour fragments & 750 Accessory Gems? really for cloth? So I’m asking for help my Jabbres, my funds are dwindling fast and I’m getting worn on this quest. Could you please help me acquire the rest of these items? I found out that the creatures in Cruma Tower collect them for what reason I’m not sure, or how... and the angels of all things in the Monastery of Silence. I cannot enter Cruma Tower as the magics within now keep me out, and from what I read the Monastery is well above my skill level.”
“Well that was unexpected” Senka stated out loud “and unbelievable, no thread in that request to make cloth, either that will come later, or those fragments & gems have something extra, I’ll have to go hunting and investigate”
Hearing noise in the hall once more Senka sat the letter down on the table next to her chair and traversed the hall, swords sheathed but hands at the ready
This is a work in progress and subject to alteration
The message started joyously with the facts that she was blossoming in her skills as a mage and that the creature she normally summoned took soo long to travel between the creatures they encountered, that she’d given up using it in favour of just using her magic directly, causing Senka to laugh in memory of the times she was ‘hunting’ with mages.
The locations that Suaco described travelling between; brought back fond memories, well mostly fond at least. As Suaco described quests she heard about and the effectiveness of the spells she was using that downed her foes swiftly as she completed said quests.
Senka took a long sip from the goblet beside her, revelling in the flavour of the human version of mead; humans have really got this right she thinks as she turns her attention back to the lengthy parchment.
“I was up in Rune when I approached the guide for information on the area’s quests he told me of a simple quest to deliver some information to an old wizard outside of town, I thought it sounded simple enough, till I arrived at the destination. It was in a dark forest that smelled of horror and death, as I ventured down the path I noticed that there were no birds singing, but the air was full of sound, the path though well worn showed no sign of crossing animals, just footprints of various sizes in the grassy edges (where there was grass) so focused was I, I didn’t notice movement in the areas off the path. I found the old wizard easy enough, he had made camp near a weird looking old shrine. Across the road there was a scout who’d been injured, so I went to see if I could assist him, he said that he’d be well enough to move in a few day, but if I could run an errand for him, he’d be grateful and give me some tokens to redeem in town.
I thought that sounded fine and agreed to help, then he told me that he was tracking Embryo and that I needed to stir up trouble to determine if it’s agents were still in the area or had moved on. It sounded weird but there was little else for me to do, so I agreed, and went off to make trouble.
By Shilen the place was crawling with undead I threw my spells to remove this blight to nature, no sooner than I destroyed one to Shilen’s embrace, two more ambled towards me, then the agents started appearing, after dispatching a vast number of them I returned to the scout, who at this stage I learned his name Hatuba. He thanked me for my work and sent me on my way, telling me that he’d got the message to his fellow scouts to be on the lookout still... how he did that when he couldn’t move a step I’ll never know.
I returned to Rune and heard someone spouting that she’d got her wonderful gown for free in Aden, my curiosity piqued I asked her about it and all she said was that for a few errands the gown was the reward. That sounded like a wonderful quest reward and the gown was stunning. I decided to head to Aden, far away from that forest of death. Luckily the Adventure’s guild had given me a scroll to Aden in the daily bundle that we subscribe to.
I talked to Trader Alexis about the rumour, and she sent me to the maid Leikar. It seemed too easy a quest for the reward of the gown, but I went off to retrieve the box of cookies for her. Chef Jeremy was up in an area called Hot Springs which sounded wonderful till I got there, the creatures were huge! The Chef in his ‘wisdom’ sent me to deliver a bottle of wine to an arrogant customer sitting in one of the hot springs down the way. I followed the path past some large antelopes and great bear like creatures, to an arched entrance. Beyond the entrance were spider like creatures larger than the house I grew up in, honestly, then a plant a bit taller stood up and moved, moved! More than a bit un-nerved I carefully made my way to the customer, I don’t think I’ll be going back there any faster than that forest near Rune.
The customer complained that the wine wasn’t cold, it took all my willpower to not knock him into next week, he’s a 15 minute walk away from the Chef; sitting in the middle of a hot spring of course the wine won’t be cold. I left him there as the spring air made me lightheaded and feel funny." Senka started to giggle at this, that whole area did funny things to you, mostly beneficial, oh the days spent hunting in there.
Senka looked hearing something in the clan hall, but a stillness still sat heavy in the room, looking around nothing seemed out of place, so she put it down to happy memories, though checked that her swords were still in reach, and returned to the letter.
“I told Chef Jeremy what he wanted to hear just to make sure he didn’t send me back into that place, so he gave me the cookies for Leikar and I used an escape scroll to leave the place. Leikar was so pleased to see the box of cookies I nearly lost a hand, but she had some sad news, her suppliers hadn’t got back to her, so she asked me to go check on them, which sounded fair enough, she was doing all this sewing for me after all.
I headed off to the blacksmiths to see Ferris, appropriate name for a blacksmith huh? Anyway he hadn’t started the ick’neos and didn’t have the materials either, so of course I had to go slay 5 golems, to get the pieces of iron for the sewing kit, why I couldn’t just take 5 parts off one golem he wouldn’t say, nor the reason there had to be a special sewing kit either. But dutifully I headed off to the Ivory Tower, slayed the golems and returned with the parts, the longest part was the running between here and there.
“Then Ferris asks me to go get more supplies 180 blocks of Iron Ore & 360 chunks of Coke, how big are these needles? Really?"
Senka laughed out loud at this, seemed a lot less to acquire than when she did the quest, the Artisan’s frames took days to find alone.
“I thought the same” Senka stated out loud to the empty room.
“I purchased those quickly enough and was able to move to Leikar’s next supplier Ellie in Giran, once again her supplier failed to deliver... I’m seeing a pattern here already; and I had to go chase him down. The weather was nice so I decided to walk down to the harbour to see Fenton, who passed the adena as well, and sent me to Alligator Island to hunt alligators for of all things ore, once again the travel took longer than the hunt, and I was quickly back to Ellie with the spoils.
To my dismay there were more items to be gathered Iron ore again, armour fragments? and accessory gems, these too were purchased , though I did contact Shebali for some items, I hope you don’t mind. I returned the materials to Ellie and in no time flat I had the jewellery box in my hands.
I headed over to Radia next to check on the cloth expecting by now to have another quest laid at my feet. As I suspected her supplier had failed her and I was asked to check on it. But even he didn’t know what to do, so I returned to Radia with the bad news. She sent me on though, to another supplier, back at the Ivory Tower, who in turn sent me hunting for spiders in the Sea of Spores, a very descriptive title, I’m glad I don’t have hayfever that place would’ve killed me. 10 spiders down and spinnerettes in hand ‘eww’ (I’ll have to wash out my pack again) I returned with a smile.”
Here the spots started appearing, though Senka could guess the reason, it was the thread for the cloth...
“He said he needed a few more items, exasperated I asked what more he needed, and he said 420 Armour fragments & 750 Accessory Gems? really for cloth? So I’m asking for help my Jabbres, my funds are dwindling fast and I’m getting worn on this quest. Could you please help me acquire the rest of these items? I found out that the creatures in Cruma Tower collect them for what reason I’m not sure, or how... and the angels of all things in the Monastery of Silence. I cannot enter Cruma Tower as the magics within now keep me out, and from what I read the Monastery is well above my skill level.”
“Well that was unexpected” Senka stated out loud “and unbelievable, no thread in that request to make cloth, either that will come later, or those fragments & gems have something extra, I’ll have to go hunting and investigate”
Hearing noise in the hall once more Senka sat the letter down on the table next to her chair and traversed the hall, swords sheathed but hands at the ready
This is a work in progress and subject to alteration
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