Tec Mage Chapter Three: Upgrades And Home, Sweet Home
Atlas had two piece of Cylinder wood that he cut a flat piece at the tip, he had attached the two pieces of wood together using a door hinge, then drilled a hole at the end of each piece of wood.
Atlas had attached the wood hinge combo to the shoulder of the scarecrow, it was a make shift arm.
Atlas picked him self up and moved over to the weapons, picking up a wooden sword, he moved back and placed the hilt in to the end of the arm and fasten it to the arm with strips of leather, after that he drilled a wooden pole into the ground behind the scarecrow
Then attaching a metal wire to the back of the scarecrows head, he lead it around the pole, then back to the arm attaching it to the base of the inner elbow, he tighten the wire so it had no slack and made the arm so it was collapsed on its self
After the arms completion he placed long thin pieces of wood on the scarecrows body, acting like rib cage
"Finished" said atlas, it was simple work but well made, he could of made it better with a different design but this was just basics.
As Atlas stood up the instructor approached him "that looks a bit interesting, what's the aim of that" then?"
"Well let me give you a example of it" replied Atlas
Atlas stood in front of the scarecrow raising his spear, he stuck the head pushing it back, the wire then had more slack thus giving the arm room to fall and strike with the sword
Atlas blocked it then pushed it back up, "there you go a scarecrow that fights back, plus the makeshift rib cage helps with precise hits, not only that if you put weights on the arm the strikes become faster and harder"
"Ding"
Knowledge stat added
"knowledge stat, what's use is that maybe able to learn faster, not sure oh well its not hurting me"
"Ding"
A useful piece: you have completed Attacking scarecrow
Designing and creating with intent useful and life changing things brings happiness but also pain and sadness, its all up to the person that wields the invention
The invention [attacking scarecrow] is a useful piece, many have used scarecrows to help with fighting and training but with the added attacking it will be even more useful, despite having no craft skills the creator has a firm understanding of such thing, well made but simple.
Knowledge value: 50
Effects: increase speed of learning weapon mastery by 3%, ounce weapon master hits beginner level 6 it goes down to normal
Number of useful inventions 1
Fame rises by 10 point.
knowledge rises by 5 point.
1+ wisdom 1+ int
It seems that you get a boast in stats by inventing Atlas was thinking, this maybe useful in the future
"Let me have a go at that" asked the instructor
"Sure but let me adjust the weight of the arm first" Atlas went into his bag and pulled out two chains, he twisted the chain around the arm then nailed it there, the 2nd shorter chain he placed over the shoulders of the scarecrow to balance the return weight.
"Ok, give that a try" said atlas
The instructor started striking the scarecrow and blocking the strikes coming down
"its good but needs more weight to it and the attacks are not changing so its easy to read the attacks for anyone but it will certainty solve the problem of striking the scarecrow for hours on end if only a little, yes i like it i like it a lot.
The instructor turned towards Atlas, he had a much higher opinion of him now, the instructor raised his hand and said
"my name is Borin and i've been the instructor here for about 15 years"
"oh ahm my name is Atlas.. and these are my apprentices Dracken, Mary and Kevien" Atlas said while shaking Borin's hand
"You've done a good job, you know what...... would you be interested in more work" Borin explained
Atlas stopped shaking hands with Borin and asked "what kind of work"
Just the same as before, you see there's 330 scarecrows and i want you to upgrade some of the scarecrow, lets say 110 of them, of course i'll pay you 2 silver per scarecrow
At those words Dracken, Mary and Kevien looked up with hopeful eyes
Atlas thought about it then asked "do i have to pay for the materials", it had cost 1 gold 20 silver for the tools, wood, hinge, metal wire and the chains.
"No no no, that's your pay for upgrading the scarecrows, i'll reimburse you for the materials you use" Borin almost shouted
Atlas was thinking about the long run, at the moment he had food and wealth but he also had responsibility in the form of his apprentices
"wait lets renegotiate, i will do the upgrades for 1 silver per upgrade but me and my apprentices need a place to stay, it does not matter if its a single room i just need a place for the kids
Borin looked shocked, it was the first time someone had gone down in price for some other person
"Well...there is a place but it full to the brim with stuff, i don't know how big it is, i've never been all the way in there my master just dumped all the broken equipment in there and so do i, i've been busy, so you might as well use it"
Ding
Upgrades and living space
Borin has offered you a job to upgrade the scarecrows at 1 silver per upgrade plus refund of materials used and a place to live
Difficulty level: F
Quest requirements:
respect from Borin
have apprentice
show Borin sacrifice even being low level
Will you accept the quest.
"I accept" Atlas said
You accepted the quest.
"Lets get to work" Atlas said
Two hours later Atlas had all the equipment and had finished his 2nd scarecrow,
"Stop say that bit again" Atlas was speaking to Kevien
Kevien was reading a book out load called Class adventures weakness and strengths, he had got to the point about a high mage
"a mage can increase his/her wisdom and int by casting spells, is that the piece you mean Atlas" Kevien asked
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"Yes, thats going to be very useful"
Ding
Wis+1
Int+1
This was Atlas first stat boast "so you can get a stat boast just by listening to some one reading"
Ding
Skill learned: Careful listener
"Careful listener description" asked Atlas
Careful listener is a passive skill which alouds for knowledge to be retained easer by listening also able to hear further and even small whispers can be made out
"Great just what i needed, now learning will be easer" explain Atlas
The time in game was 10pm "time to sleep kids, i've got some blankets you go and sleep in the corner
"Finally some rest" signed Mary
"Mary for you to become a blacksmith you need strength, stamina and other such things that's why i'm doing these things" explained Atlas
"But can't we make some money as well" moaned Mary
"in till your strength is in its 20 - 30 you wont be able to handle anything, talking about strength show me your stats and skills" Atlas told Mary
"Show stats and skills to Atlas" said Mary
[Character Name: Mary] [Alignment: Neutral]
[Level: 3] [Profession: None]
[Title: None] [Fame: 0]
[Health: 110] [Mana: 110]
[Strength: 16] [Agility: 16]
[Vitality: 11] [Wisdom: 11]
[Intellect: 11] [Luck: 0]
[Leadership: 0] [Attack: 4-6]
[Defence: 0]
[Magic Resistance: None]
[Skills: Spear mastery level 1]
Increases Attack Power with a spear by 10%.
Increases Attack Speed with a sword by 3%.
Careful listener: a passive skill which alouds for knowledge to be retained easer by listening also able to hear further and even small whispers can be made out
Mary had gained the wis and int boast as well careful listener, but had a str, vit , agl and the spear mastery that Atlas didn't have, it was to be expected, when Atlas was picking up food, matirals and working on the upgrades the apprentices were hard at work hitting the scarecrows
"Your coming along nicely, not to long and we can start to make some money together, well its time for bed, its not much right now but after i have done the upgrades we will move in to this place that Borin has for us" said Atlas
The apprentices didn't mind sleeping in the training hall, it was just as warm as the orphanage and less crowed
Four days later Atlas had finshed his upgrades
Quest Complete!
You have leveled up!
You have leveled up!
Reward: Return to the Borin to claim it.
On top of the levelling Atlas int and wis had raised 4 more points due to the careful listening of the story's and two more point for the upgrades, knowledge had increase too but no stats seemed to be connected to it, on top of that the leadership stat had increased 10 points
"Show stats" called out Atlas
[Character Name: Atlas] [Alignment: Neutral]
[Level: 3] [Profession: None]
[Title: None] [Fame: 10]
[Health: 100] [Mana: 180]
[Strength: 10] [Agility: 10]
[Vitality: 10] [Wisdom: 18]
[Intellect: 18] [knowledge: 24]
[Luck: 0] [Leadership: 10]
[Attack: 2] [Defence: 0]
[Magic Resistance: None]
Atlas decide to put his 10 points from levelling into wis and int to increase them to 23 points apiece
Finished Atlas talked to Borin
"There all done, 110 upgrades that will be 1 gold 10 silver and the materials need to be reimbursed"
"Good job, good job, here's your money and come this way to the storage room" Borin said
All three apprentices moved away from the scarecrow they had ran out of books to read when the upgrades were happening so all had started to attack the scarecrows "not yet kids, you keep on practising, I will check it out
All three apprentices just stood there watching Atlas move away
Atlas noticed and pointed at the scarecrows to indicate to attack, they turn around in shock and started to hit again
Out side Borin showed Atlas to the back of the training hall where stood a very big warehouse
"here we are the storage hut" explain Borin
"Its massive, we get to live here, how much room can we have"
"As much as you can clean out, everything in this place is rubbish, broken or just lost and it piled to the top" said Borin
Atlas was thinking "what about the stuff in side, what should i do with it"
"Anything you want its all crap throw it out for all i care" said Borin
Atlas opened the door it was a sliding one but was slightly stuck, finally opening the door completely, a huge pile of random things fell out, the whloe place was pitch black
"You weren't lying........ well it looks like a big job im going to need my apprentices as well for this"
End of chapter 3: Upgrades And Home, Sweet Home