NexusTK essay
An essay I wrote for one of the Merchant Guild events awhile ago. 10 min. time limit.
NuxusTK is an MMORPG. Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game. Massively is a bit of an exaggeration, though. I'm not playing it at this time, but my characters are not deleted.
Edited for the horrible spelling mistakes, and added a couple sentences onto the ending, so that it wouldn't end so very badly.
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It was the dead of night.
All around Kugnae, there was darkness and silence.
...Except in the Marketplace.
"Steelthorns! Get your Steelthorns! Low-low price of only 35k!"
"Cheogans, Pirate clothes, Ilbon outfits, wedding dresses, all here and all for sale!"
"30k!"
"No, 50k!"
"50k for that piece of Slag?! Look at that rust, that scratch, those marks! I'll buy for no less than 35!"
It was pandemonium.
The young the old, the rich and the poor gather in the market place while all sane people are asleep. Looking for good deals, trying to gather those last few necessary items, or just trying to make what little money they can, Kugnae Marketplace makes or brakes people.
This is the story of someone who made it.
"Ah, sis!" A young man wined. I don't want to be out here now, I've got to train at the Rogue academy tomorrow! I'll never be a Baekho if I don't put in the effort!"
"Power does not always make you stong, Jack. You must have guile and wisdom also." His older sister admonished.
"Guile and wisdom can't prevent me from slitting people's throats if I wanted to, sis."
"But they can get you thrown in jail, if you don't use some of those smarts and kill unnoticed. Look, there's a new Merchant event sign up. It looks like it's a Treasure Hunt. If you can complete that, I wont bother you about you being such a dolt-head" Sis pointed out the sign, posted predominately in the middle of K.Marketplace.
[Merchant Treasure Hunt: MMM is great for bargains, but which stall has the worst?]
Jack sighed. He was horrible at remembering the current prices. He looked around in despair, watching the trading and bartering taking place around him. 'I must do this' He thought. 'It'll get sis off my back, AND I can get a free prize!'
As he watched people buying and selling, he noticed that while 3 ST had been sold since he had arrived (he loved ST's, wanted one for his Exist-day.) One of them, placed at a predominate place in the stall's display case, was not selling.
"How much for that ST," he asked.
"Ah, this? This is a marvelous piece of it's kind-"
"Screw that, the price, man!"
The merchant glared. "70k."
"No way, ST's are worth 40k, tops!" Jack glared back.
"This one was made at the supreme-"
"Blah blah. It's just like all the others. This is the bad priced item at for the Quest!"
The merchant still glared, but his eyes flickered to a small note posted on the stalls side.
["Travel west, young rider"
Quote by: BABABABO]
Jack looked west. It seemed pretty empty.
He traveled west quite a distance, but he finally came across a large rock. On the back of the rock was a scroll. On the scroll was the Merchant code.
It said [Bring this to your nearest merchant! Free application to the guild!]
It was all a scam to get people to join. There was no free item. Jack sighed and went back to his sister, and then went home. He completely missed the small glint of light from under the rock. A Steelthorn poked out from under the dirt, shining in the diffuse lamp light. Jack should have remembered one of the greatest tenants of the Merchant Code: Look underneath the underneath.
Remember, I didn't have much time for this, so it's going to be bad!
Prompt: Merchant Guild quest.
NuxusTK is an MMORPG. Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game. Massively is a bit of an exaggeration, though. I'm not playing it at this time, but my characters are not deleted.
Edited for the horrible spelling mistakes, and added a couple sentences onto the ending, so that it wouldn't end so very badly.
~~~~~~~
It was the dead of night.
All around Kugnae, there was darkness and silence.
...Except in the Marketplace.
"Steelthorns! Get your Steelthorns! Low-low price of only 35k!"
"Cheogans, Pirate clothes, Ilbon outfits, wedding dresses, all here and all for sale!"
"30k!"
"No, 50k!"
"50k for that piece of Slag?! Look at that rust, that scratch, those marks! I'll buy for no less than 35!"
It was pandemonium.
The young the old, the rich and the poor gather in the market place while all sane people are asleep. Looking for good deals, trying to gather those last few necessary items, or just trying to make what little money they can, Kugnae Marketplace makes or brakes people.
This is the story of someone who made it.
"Ah, sis!" A young man wined. I don't want to be out here now, I've got to train at the Rogue academy tomorrow! I'll never be a Baekho if I don't put in the effort!"
"Power does not always make you stong, Jack. You must have guile and wisdom also." His older sister admonished.
"Guile and wisdom can't prevent me from slitting people's throats if I wanted to, sis."
"But they can get you thrown in jail, if you don't use some of those smarts and kill unnoticed. Look, there's a new Merchant event sign up. It looks like it's a Treasure Hunt. If you can complete that, I wont bother you about you being such a dolt-head" Sis pointed out the sign, posted predominately in the middle of K.Marketplace.
[Merchant Treasure Hunt: MMM is great for bargains, but which stall has the worst?]
Jack sighed. He was horrible at remembering the current prices. He looked around in despair, watching the trading and bartering taking place around him. 'I must do this' He thought. 'It'll get sis off my back, AND I can get a free prize!'
As he watched people buying and selling, he noticed that while 3 ST had been sold since he had arrived (he loved ST's, wanted one for his Exist-day.) One of them, placed at a predominate place in the stall's display case, was not selling.
"How much for that ST," he asked.
"Ah, this? This is a marvelous piece of it's kind-"
"Screw that, the price, man!"
The merchant glared. "70k."
"No way, ST's are worth 40k, tops!" Jack glared back.
"This one was made at the supreme-"
"Blah blah. It's just like all the others. This is the bad priced item at for the Quest!"
The merchant still glared, but his eyes flickered to a small note posted on the stalls side.
["Travel west, young rider"
Quote by: BABABABO]
Jack looked west. It seemed pretty empty.
He traveled west quite a distance, but he finally came across a large rock. On the back of the rock was a scroll. On the scroll was the Merchant code.
It said [Bring this to your nearest merchant! Free application to the guild!]
It was all a scam to get people to join. There was no free item. Jack sighed and went back to his sister, and then went home. He completely missed the small glint of light from under the rock. A Steelthorn poked out from under the dirt, shining in the diffuse lamp light. Jack should have remembered one of the greatest tenants of the Merchant Code: Look underneath the underneath.
Remember, I didn't have much time for this, so it's going to be bad!
Prompt: Merchant Guild quest.