CHAPTER 04 - SCULPTORS GUILD
The sculptor's guild is located in the west side of the city, location of many other art related guilds. Even though the city Owall has a warrior orientation due to its location, the art related guilds are still distinguishable.
On the artist’s street in the west side of the city the buildings of the jewelry and tailor guilds are also present. The jewelry guild to the far right of the sculptors guild, and the tailor guild in front of the sculptors guild. The jewelry is a 3-story building, with 2 large men by the door as its guards. The facade is made of a darkish marble with 4 large glassy showcases. Each showcase is decorated primarily with a color associated with a given item. Blue for necklaces, red for tiaras, green for rings and lilac for earrings. The entrance is situated between green showcase and lilac showcase, with green being the showcase of rings and lilac being the showcase for earrings. The outdoor decorations, the the entrance doors, signboard and showcases frames are all made in shiny silvery metal. The taylor is a single story building, making a contrast with the jewelry facade it’s very ordinary, made of common materials, though painted in a fashion stripe pattern.
Burroughs workplace resembles a open carpentry. Its interior has multiples work stations, which sculptors apprentices can use to master their skill, though those facilities occupies most of available space. At the back of the building are staff restricted places, delimited by a balcony where a pair of brunette girls are placed as an attendants. Behind them, several carving tools are exposed in a tool store style. Nearby, on the left side there is also a door which gives access to the basement.
That is a geographic description, the reality is that Solrac could barely see where his next step would be. For some unknown reason the streets of West Owall were mobbed by fellow outsiders just like him. Long waiting lines were formed everywhere and growing non-stop.
~Come on! A waiting line to enter a art related guild. This place should be empty, except for buyer or people doing quests. Where does it even end?!
After some struggle Solrac found the tail of the line, taking the last position of it. After some time, he was no longer last, though he walked very little. In front of him there was a male human wearing the starter set of clothes who kept spinning like a fool, as he tried to absorb all of Owall with his eyes. Behind Solrac, there a gloomy redheaded elf with her name showing above her head in a red. Her attire was a little odd, almost all pieces were from differents sets of armor, her name was Tatiana.
Deciding to leave the spinning fool by himself, he decided to ask the attractive elf named Tatiana.
“Hey, excuse me. Could you explain me why there are so many people here?”
“All blame falls on Morata’s Lord’s shoulders!”
“Morata?”
The change of facial expression were clear, Tatiana made no effort to hide her stares . She stopped, and finally analyzed the person in front of her, as earlier she just answered his question without taking a second to see him, just to vent her anger.
*~ Starter set of clothes. Filthy. Smelly. Sweat soaking his shabby clothes. WTF had that guy been doing? Maybe this city’s crazy Training Hall that is avoid by all? Poor soul, he must be suffering a lot. Lets show some kindness, after all he is trying really hard.
~She is shamelessly staring me.
“As you should have already realized. I am a noob and never stepped a foot in this part of the town. I am here on a training hall’s quest.”
*~ Gotcha!
“You are my eye-catching type of person.”
“Th...Thanks, I guess.”
“Well, how should I start. Morata is a city in the north region of Versailles, from here it would be a 7-day wagon trip, risky but doable. Recently some intriguing facts about its Lord have been exposed. It seems that he is a sculptor,and that was able to overcome his class’s disadvantages. To summarize, he is good in fights and is making a living out of his art, which is quite unusual for a sculptor.”
“Please tell me that they are not here trying to follow in his steps?”
“Yep, that seems to be the case. Those fools under his influence and their own stupidity want become sculptors without even trying to analyse the whole model beforehand. That guy is a living definition of mental strength. Just to exemplify he finished the regular basic training in the shortest time in all Versailles, is skilled in more than 3 different fields, and to top it all single-handed quest level A and S, not forgetting that he owns a city without any guild assistance.”
“LOL. That guy is a monster.”
“Yep. Only those with the extraordinary determination could replicate him.”
“And they believe that they can follow that monster.”
Because they shared similar views, Tatiana did not particular dislike his companionship. She kept talking to him until it was their time to be enter the guild, even though she didn’t know his name until the end.
“Tatiana, I guess that now our path takes different directions. It was nice to meet you.”
“Welcome. What was your name again?”
“I did not tell you. Here I am called Solrac.”
“Not that easy boy. I will not allow such an intriguing person such as yourself run away from me.”
You got a friend invitation from Tatiana.
Do you accept?YesNo
~Nice, my first friend is a psycho murderer.
“Yes.”
“Cya. When you decide leave town mail me, but do not take too long. I have only a few remaining quests that I want to do in this town.”
“I still have to finish my training and pick a class, but if you are still in town by then we can go take a look at the city of Morata and see for ourselves that Lord and his town.”
“To Morata? I think that is still a little unrealistic for us. Just the wagon ticket costs around 2 gold. You may not know, but that is a lot for low level like us. I would be able to buy it, but would have to use almost all my savings and eat rye bread once again. Plus, the hunting grounds in Morata are overcrowded with all kind of monsters, we would need a full party to survive there.”
“Hum. More people you say?! Whatever, now I will just focus on finishing my training. Cya, good luck with your quests.”
When was Solrac’s turn to be attended, the brunette pair of attendants were no longer there anymore, but a blonde elf girl and a giant bald man had took their place. The girl had a exhaustion expression on the face, the man in the opposing side had a creepy clown smile.
“NEXT!”
~Dammit, I got the burnout girl. From what I could understand both of them were simultaneously attending the guild shop and handling the quests. But the creepy giant was way more friendly, as those that were attended by elf; left snorting. Worst happen to those that were stupid enough and tried to talk her out. They were abused by her, some even receive a hardest class quest. Lets keep cool and everything will end fast.
“What does you want? And speak fast, I do not have time.”
“I want to speak with Burroughs.”
“No. NEXT!”
~WTF
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“I not over! I am staying here until you go fetch him up.”
“What part of the ‘NO’ you could not understand, go clean your ear. Leave my sight filthy one! NEXT!”
“I am here on behave of Troyu, the training hall’s instructor.”
“There is only one Troyu on this whole town, and he would never be associate with one of such low standards. And its pretty clear for me that you does not possess appreciation for art nor beauty. Leave at once!”
Ignoring all the stares, Solrac started to undo his leather straps of his back, so he could unpack the quest item, the 2 pieces of Mysterious Logs in trusted to him by his master.
Describe he picking the log from his back and put them in the balcony.
“So, can you explain me how could I carry those two logs from the training hall up to here. As you can see those item are restricted to Troyu and his disciples.”
“No way. What kind of trickage did you do to fool him to accept you?”
“The one been bullied here is me, with his crazy training method. This is state I am now is all its fault.”
In the middle of the commotion the basement door opens. An from it a old man in a fancy attire came out with a astonished presence.
“That enough Tris. This lad is telling the truth, only those allowed by he would be able to carry those things. The matter of how or why he is affiliated with he does not concern us. Boy, grab your belongings and follow me.”
After crossing the balcony and entering the the door Solrac saw himself walking to a downward stair. The walls of the stairs were cover in mosses with occasionally having torches. At the bottom, there was a corridor that connected access to 5 differents rooms. The man lead the way to the fourth door count from the right. The room was a office, its wall were a single magnificent sculpture piece.
You have witnessed Heaven’s Glory
A new attribute has been generated: Art
Art has been permanently increased by 2
“Show ‘Art’ attribute.”
Art
A gift in comprehending and practicing beauty, art renders
meals and products elegant in an aesthetic and practical sense.
Improves when you see, hear, smell, taste or
touch beautiful things, or create artworks.
~This game just can stop of surprise me, there are so much to explore. It seems that every corner has a hidden treat.
The man after seeing that his guest were mesmerized by his office, silence went to sit in his comfortable chair behind his desk. Once seated he cleaned his throat to freedom the boy from his astonishment.
“I think we could start our conversation with self presentation. You go first.”
“Eh… Yes. My name is Solrac, the newest disciple of the Training Hall instructed by Troyu.”
“And I am Burroughs, guild advisor.”
“Nice to meet you, Mr. Burroughs. Just the man I was send after.”
“So what can I do for you?”
“My master had told me to ask for your aid in the quest that he intrusted me.”
“I will hear you out, but if I will be able to help you is another thing.”
“Ok. My master quest is harder simple. It demands that I must sculpt my training swords out of those logs that I carry here, the Mysterious Log.”
“Swords! Out of Misterious Log, that would be both a waste and act of pure insanely.”
“Why would you say something like that?”
“That log of yours though no very expensive on its raw form; after been correctly processed its price skyrocket. But never as a tool, much less as a weapon, generally as a jewelry made for richest nobles in all versailles, very appreciate by princess. However the appropriate process is very arduous and time costing, its strength vastly increases as on the center, where it would be the best place to craft yours sword. Because only there it would be possible to make a well balanced sword with proper durability.”
“So it is possible?”
“Sorry, but I have to tell you that it’s just too hard for you. You will only waste your time and mine. It would require a monstrous strength, far beyond you possess.”
“No way I will give in my first quest, plus giving up this particular quest would be even worse due to its penalties. There must be some way out.”
“As I have said currently I am only this guild advisor, to be more precise I am jewelry crafter and my son is this guild leader. I am just covering him while he is out in a royal quest...”
“Wait, do you said ‘Royal Quest’? I am unfamiliar with such expression.”
“Let me explain it for you. A royal quest is a quest directly given by a royal king. The kind of quest you have little or no saying, but is well rewarded both gold and glory. For example, my son which is one of the best of this kingdom was asked to do 3 giant sculptures to promote this kingdom. The king believes that the statues blessing will attract more outsiders to his lands, or so I hear. It seems that giant status is a trend nowadays.”
“Thanks for the explanation, Mr. Burroughs.”
“Where did I stop?”
“That you are a jewelry crafter and your son is this guild leader.”
“Yeah, right. That said with sculptor techniques that would require tremendous amount of strength to lapidate this logs for now its impossible for you. Nonetheless using jewelry craft techniques that are focus on the comprehension of the weak spots of the material and some luck you would be able to finish your quest, but keep in mind that the failure rate is very high.”
“Can I start now?”
“Of course, here pick this book and read it 3 times, then come find me in the Jewelry Guild.”
You have receive a book: “Principles of Jewelry Craft: A Practical Course”
“And also take those few coins and buy some new clothes. Otherwise you will not be allow to enter there, we are very inflexible in this matter. Now see yourself out. I still have some work to do, before I leave.”
“Thank you very much. I will read it as faster as I can.”
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