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2022-04-07 09:59:40 +0000 UTC View PostDay Five. Dawn.
I knocked on the door to the Tartan barracks for what felt like forever before someone answered. The door opened a smidge, and an unknown player stared down at me from within.
“I need to speak to your...
2022-04-07 09:56:32 +0000 UTC View PostDay Five. Pre-Dawn.
“Kill him!” the broadsword-wielding goblin screamed.
Before the archers could release their second volley, I was upon the goblins. The melee fighters moved to intercept me. I dodged the first wa...
2022-04-07 09:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostDay Four. Midnight.
It was just before midnight when I left the Red Rat war camp. Hurrying south through the forest, I headed back to the safe zone to carry out the next part of my plan: causing more mayhem.
With the first of my primar...
2022-04-06 02:41:11 +0000 UTC View PostDay Four. Early Evening.
I strode about the crater, looting my victims of their valuables. From within their cages, the prisoners screamed at me to free them. I ignored them, not about to be rushed in my search. Disappointingly, none of the ...
2022-04-06 02:40:29 +0000 UTC View PostDay Four. Early Afternoon.
I made it out of the Red Rat camp without incident. I did not retreat far, though. Finding a likely tree, I scaled its heights to observe the goblins. While I waited to see if the apprentice would do as I instructe...
2022-04-06 02:39:08 +0000 UTC View PostDay Four. Early Afternoon.
I didn’t hesitate. Darting forward, I slapped my left hand on the goblin’s cheek. In the same motion, I drew spider’s bite and struck at the shaman’s throat.
Klaxis has passed a physical resis...
2022-04-06 02:38:10 +0000 UTC View PostDay Four. Morning.
I headed back north, in the same direction from which I had just come. I still wasn’t certain how I would accomplish all that I needed to, but I knew already that I had to begin with the Red Rats.
...
2022-04-04 05:33:02 +0000 UTC View PostDay Three. Night.
I reached the camp boundary without incident, and once more, my deception skill ticked upwards.
Your deception has increased to level 47.
Ducking into a nearby empty tent, I stripped off the gob...
2022-04-04 05:32:10 +0000 UTC View PostDay Three. Night.
I weaved through the camp, swaying drunkenly and raising the empty jug to my lips anytime a goblin came too close.
Some of the passing warriors inquired curiously about what was in the sack, but none ...
2022-03-31 05:15:31 +0000 UTC View PostDay Three. Afternoon.
An hour later, stifling incessant yawns, I set off west through the valley. I hadn’t dared to sleep any longer and had forced myself awake despite my body’s protest. It took only a few hours to reac...
2022-03-31 05:12:48 +0000 UTC View PostDay Three. Morning.
Under the watchful gaze of the gate guards, I looted both corpses.
You have acquired 10 gold. Total money carried: 45 gold, 9 silvers, and 0 coppers.
After I took their coin p...
2022-03-30 02:05:01 +0000 UTC View PostDay Three. Morning.
Leaving the alley, I made my way anticlockwise through the fort. The goblins paid me no mind.
The hood of my mage’s cloak was pulled over my head, and my shoulders were hunched slightly. The playe...
2022-03-30 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDay Three. Morning.
I tracked my first chosen targets for a full ten minutes, observing their behavior and identifying their weaknesses.
The team I followed was formed of two mages and two heavy fighters, all rank six ...
2022-03-29 04:18:21 +0000 UTC View PostDay Three. Morning.
After a few minutes, the watching goblins grew bored and moved off about on their business, deciding to ignore my presence entirely—which suited me just fine.
I needed less than a minute thereafte...
2022-03-29 04:17:27 +0000 UTC View PostDay Three. Morning.
After leaving the Tartan legion’s barracks, I retraced my steps to the dark druid’s cabin. On the way there, I counted the coin in the money pouch. There was over twenty gold in it.
You ...
2022-03-28 04:32:16 +0000 UTC View PostDay Three. Morning.
“I see,” I said, unsurprised. Given all the trouble Talon had gone to, the least I could do was to hear him out. “Go on.”
The captain did not respond immediately. Placing his hands behind hi...
2022-03-28 04:27:23 +0000 UTC View PostDay Three. Morning.
Outside the door of Mariga’s cabin, I dropped back into stealth concealing myself in the porch’s dimness.
Benadean had been right.
The dark druid was odd and, although I did not trust her ...
2022-03-24 03:06:00 +0000 UTC View PostDay Three. Morning.
I chewed over the alchemist’s words as I slipped out of his cabin. I could not fault his logic even if it left a bitter taste in my mouth. He was only half-right, I thought. Gold in itself woul...
2022-03-24 03:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostDay Three. Dawn.
After the mages disappeared from view, I crouched outside the door to the alchemist’s shop and knocked. In the distance, I could hear the four roving the streets and calling out to other players.
I k...
2022-03-23 03:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostDay Three. Dawn.
Leaving the tavern, I headed southeast. The streets were still empty, and much of the town lay in shadow. Gelar’s shop was the closer of the two destinations I had in mind.
According to Benadean, Gelar was a gnomish ...
2022-03-23 03:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostDay Three. Dawn.
The gate slammed shut ominously behind us.
I paid it no mind, though. I was sure I could scale the inner wall if I needed to—it was half as tall as the outer one. But getting past the fort’s other ...
2022-03-22 03:20:33 +0000 UTC View PostDay Two. Night.
After I reclaimed my swords from the rhomodillo’s corpse, I stood guard while Cecilia’s party looted the bodies of their dead. They took their time, storing their companions’ possession in their backpac...
2022-03-22 03:19:03 +0000 UTC View PostDay Two. Night.
I sat down against a tree trunk and inspected the dead player’s shortsword more closely. It was a plain blade and made for a poor substitute for my own weapons—both of which were still buried in the rhomo...
2022-03-21 04:09:46 +0000 UTC View PostDay Two. Night.
After another long pause, I turned around and followed in the players’ wake. Like the two bounty hunters I had encountered before, this group was also afraid of the dark and kept their torches burning.
<... 2022-03-21 04:05:35 +0000 UTC View PostDay Two of Michael’s Pact with Erebus. Midday.
I didn’t leave the clearing immediately.
I spent a few minutes taking stock of myself and my supplies. My potion belt was half-e...
2022-03-18 04:50:08 +0000 UTC View Post
