Conan Day Four: Barrels of Fun
All Creatures Will Make Merry Under Penalty Of Demonfire
I made level 7 today! I spent several minutes dancing a grim little jig along the main path in celebration. I did a couple of quests today. But first, I had to deliver my Evangel, Unto Them Who Had Ears.
A preachment, dear friends, you are about to receive, on rancid wine, Stygian lotus and the temptations of Caprinae!
Dramatic nightgown flourish!
I started in the town square, disagreeing with every statement of the town crier, and claiming that death and fiery apocalpyse were at hand.
That's my club hanging from my waist, not a thigh-slit in the dress robe.
I moved to the path outside the city, shouting at newcomers on their way to retrieve bricks from the demon-haunted quarry. Usually they were too busy fighting pirates to pay attention.
Welcome to back to life! Let me tell you about my friend Mitras!
I haunted the ressurection zones, and said "I told you so!" to respawning players.
BOOGA BOOGA!
I crept up behind players who seemed lost in thought, and called them to repentance.
Now, get off my preaching rock!
Finally, I stood in front of the town gates and claimed to be the Bishop of Tortage.
Total Converts: Zero
So, the quests. Those were epic.In the first quest, I ventured into the wilds (50 feet outside the city gate) to retrieve three spools of non-magical thread from a shack for an out-of-work tailor. In return, I received a pair of shabby pirate pants. I only had to kill 8 people to get the thread! I'd say that was a win-win for everyone.
I'm telling my grandchildren about this day!
Next, I took on a quest for a blacksmith. He wanted me to scavenge a meat cleaver, a bundle of leather, and a rolling pin from some abandoned market stalls on the waterfront. Man, if I'd known cleavers were going around spare, I'd have ditched the hooked stick a long time ago. Alas, I was not able to use the meat cleaver, as it was a "quest item." As an aside, the smith said he needed these things for his work. Blacksmiths are always using meat clevers, right? And rolling pins are great for flattening out sword blades.
In return, the blacksmith gave me five dead rats. These are, apparently, intended as comestibles.
With these two glorious adventures under my belt, I decided for something a little more exciting. I went out to recover two barrels of stolen goods from a camp of pirates. I'd already killed about 20 of them while preaching at people and retrieving thread, so, hey, what's one more encampment?
Ow. Ow! OW!
On the plus side, I found a piece of carrot cake when I came back to loot the corpse. No, I'm not kidding.
Man, those pirates were a lot more dangerous than I remembered...I did get the barrels, in the end. And, I had my first positive interaction with another player. I wandered into a basement full of 18th level prison guards, and a wandering adventurer who was there on a quest saw me hiding, and led me out to safety. That was nice.
He did not, however, Repent.