Sorry for the ridiculous delay there, but real life wants me to pass exams and make food and stuff like that, and not play games and ramble for your amusement. I swear I won't be so long with consistency... I hope.
Oh, and another thing made this update really difficult:
Round Seven: I Desperately Try To Entertain You While Bloody Nothing Happens
I need to find a Mage's Guild and train.
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Ah, Cromwych Hill! What a lovely town.
So much to see and do...
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...and steal...
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...and have the sky bleed upon you...
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...as you desperately try to escape on horseback...
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...to the Mage's Guild, desperately trying to get in before the entire sky catches on freaking FIRE.
Oh... it's locked for another four hours. Fine, ruin my immature daydreams.
Anyways, I go in four hours later and see two things of interest:
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Never, in my entire life, have I felt the urge to chug something so bad.
Also,
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So... so... BEAUTIFUL. Seriously, I've never seen fabric so attractive as that. Where'd you buy it? It's LOCAL? Oh, I must remember that for when I rob this city blind. What? Oh, uh, nothing.
Anyways, I find the local trainer.
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So, I'm training up in Destruction, Illusion, and Alteration. It costs 100 * my level, so I can get it cheap for now.
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Destruction please, my good sir - NOT THE EYEBROWS! AAHHH!! Um, I'd like to learn about freezing magic firs-
So, anyways, after three hours of hell freezing over (many, many times), I'm exhausted.
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Room, ple-
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*head pops up* Five days, please. *falls back down*
After a bit of recovery (that most certainly did NOT involve the lovely lady that carried me to my room), I took a look around.
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Armory!
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Pleasant armory!
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Item repair! Wait, do I need that?
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Yeah, this blade is nearly destroyed. Maybe I should have told him I stuck it up a Werewolf's bum before he cleaned it off with his bare hands? Well, I told him after, and he told me to get out of his shop and don't come back for a day. Okay, then.
Anyhow, Illusion training time!
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It mostly consisted of him turning invisible and sticking his finger in my spine when inevitably failed to flying tackle him. Finally, I turned invisible and punched him in the back of the head as revenge.
He said that that would be enough for today.
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So I decided to use my newly acquired skills to steal everything this city ever loved. Assuming it's worth money.
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I was about half way finished robbing the general store when I realized that something was missing...
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Much better.
By the way, here's my target area.
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I feel like such a diva when I go into clothing stores. It tempers everything to have no one to order me about, or toss me outside on my ear.
AHAHAHAHAHA! THE CHOICES, THEY ARE ALL MINE!
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If only I had been a girl... I would have shrieked with pleasure. Probably like a SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! No, EXACTLY like that.
Someone popped out of their house and yelled at me to shut up. Up yours too, buddy.
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The immature thoughts... they return...
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I swear, if I find some good black robes, I'm taking them. I need to cover my very-not-dark armor so I can stick daggers up bums with impunity.
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A completely different armory!
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Nothing useful.
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Weaponsmith!
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SHINY THINGS!
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Me, so excited that I'm groping the door in a failed attempt to unlock it.
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I win.
Anyways, it's daytime, so I go back to the guild and watch him stick his head in water for three hours. He then surfaced and coughed up a fish. Hey! Conjuration comes in future games, you twit! For this grievous insult to continuity, I stuffed the fish back down his throat from where it came. I'm not evil, though, I set it on fire to cook it first.
He doesn't want to train me any more. Suits me fine.
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After much pondering, good stuff happened.
By the way, I sold my loot.
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The clerk told me I was creepy after that admittedly girlish squeal. Can't imagine why.
Oh, and by the way:
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Anyhow, I want a questy thing to make stuff actually happen.
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They don't even recognize a novice, nobody guild member any more. Sigh.
Anyhow, he had a letter.
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A letter! With intrigue! More death, mayhem, and romance? Maybe!
Coming Up: I really wanted to make this post a lot longer, but the quest is kicking my ass. I just KNOW there are algorithms to make dungeon quests as long and obtuse as freaking possible.
So coming up, a quest, much screaming, and a glimpse at the inside of a temple. Hang on to your hats!