Zach woke up stretching his sore muscles. Looking around Zach saw Grim sitting at the table with a bowl of cereal in front of him. Today, Grim had settled on the brand Boo Berry and was munching happily on blue ghosts and marshmellows. The T-shirt of the day was black with the saying, “I Believe in Silicon Heaven!”, on it. Grim greeted him with a warm morning, which Zach only grumbled at and went over to a clay jug to poured himself some water to wash his face. The cool water hit his face and he instantly became awake wishing for a warm shower, hot breakfast burrito, and a cup of coffee. Instead the breakfast that he was going to have was in a rock stew pot that kept he dumped his left over meals in every day. Pulling out a clean bowl Zach scooped up the thick stew and used the spell Clean Water to add some more liquid to the stew.
“Silicon Heaven… I don’t get it.” Zach said as he sat down at the table.
Grim looked up from his bowl of cereal and snorted, “Its where all the calculators go.” Grim said like it was a inside joke, but all Zach could do is bring his spoon out of the stew and let the thick broth dripple back into the bowl.
“How about we sit down sometime and come up with a spell to make breakfast burritos?” Zach said as he finally took another spoonful of stew. The broth of the stew was flavorful, after all he had been throwing ingredients constantly in it allowing it to become richer and richer. The problem was that it was pretty much the only thing he had to eat for the whole time he had been here. Looking at cereal, Zach wished Grim wouldn’t summon food props as it reminded him of what he was missing. Grim shook his head and then flicked his spoon at Zach. A small droplet of blue milk came flying towards Zach and in a blink of an eye it expanded into a blue screen.
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Zach snorted at the screen. Perhaps it was ache in his neck from sleeping poorly, or the fact that Grim could have cereal in the morning and he was basically living on meat and vegetables, but Zach decided to unload a bit of his frustration on the little screen. “Yeah I have some feedback! It’s great that you include Packages now, but how about a search and filter feature. It took me ten minutes of scrolling last night to find beds, and even then, I didn’t really know if I found them all. Besides you need a timer on your Package deals to tell someone how long they have to buy them. Oh and if you want to be like the big websites, an editor’s choice would be nice to show off items that would be useful to the person…. And a wishlist section so people can day dream about buying things.” Zach said to the air with a bit of annoyance and grump.
The metal spoon that Grim was holding dropped into the ceramic bowl with a clattering and he gave Zach a dirty look. Grim opened his mouth as if to say something but then the world just seemed to pause for a moment. Like a video having trouble downloading there seemed to be a moment that should have continued but instead jumped. “Dude, what the fu…” Grim started staying as the time return to normal. But what had stopped him wasn’t the skip but the blue screen that was in front of Zach.
THE WORLD SPINS ANEW!
Know this the Divine Store has been updated!
A Package Section has been added to the menu. You will find deals and savings on multiple items offer the Divine Store in this section.
An Expert Pick’s Section has been added to the menu. Expert’s in their fields will be chosen to determine what is the best items for your class. If you do not have a class, then the Expert Pick’s Section will not appear.
A Search function has been added. There are two search functions basic and advance. Basic allows you to search Divine Store sections for words in the name or description. Advance Search is based on your knowledge of what you are searching for. If you lack the knowledge to help identify useful items they will not appear.
A Saved Item section has been added to the menu. Due to this section being added, all sentient creatures will have access to the Divine Store 2 months before their majority. At the time of their majority they will receive their DP as normal, but with the added feature now can plan their buys.
Do to the size of the update, you may have experience a small time skip. Enjoy the updated features.
Personal Message attached: Thank you for your feedback, and don’t worry we didn’t put anything in your stew during the time skip.
Zach looked down at the bowl and realized that the next time he felt being a little pissy, to shut the hell up. Getting up he poured out the contents of his bowl outside of his door and came back realizing that the message had said stew and not just the stew in his bowl. Sighing he sat back down as the cereal box and bowl disappeared. “I know! I know! I screwed up ok?! I shouldn’t have been an ass and…” Zach stopped as Grim pointed up in the sky like Zach should be apologizing to them.
“I am sorry to whoever runs the menus and screens. I am having a bad morning and took my anger out on you. I will do my best to treat you with the respect you deserve from now on.” Zach said to the air in the room.
Grim nodded and spoke, “Well, if that’s done, perhaps we can talk a little before spending all that DP you have?” Zach nodded as he sat back down. “So I reviewed your thoughts from last night and ideas about how you want to spend them. Thank you, for wanting to including me and ask my opinion. I think we should state our goals in order to prioritize. Short term goals, I have get to the dungeon town, trade what we can and get drops, items, and a few people to come back with us. A personal goal, is to pick up Courtney’s bride price, which I believe that has changed from a couple of milking cattle to either a grain golem for Markus or fence post warding for more pasture land.” Zach nodded and kept quiet about the bride price, to him it felt like he was somehow buying Courtney from her father. Whereas Grim had told him that originally the bride price was because you were taking away a set of hands from the farm. In order for the bride to leave her family it was expected to try and replace those hands with tools if you could. Besides it was a local tradition and even though he could marry Courtney without a bride price, she would expect that Zach would take care of her family.
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Grim continued, “As a medium goal, I think you would agree that upgrading our living conditions would be preferable. We should also get something that could help you with your class, and maybe help complete quests around the city. Long terms goals are work on the runic language to see if it can’t be turned into a programming language, and amass some wealth?” Grim made the last little bit sound like a question instead of a hard statement, but Zach couldn’t argue with him. After all he really hadn’t thought beyond just making a nice house to live in and having enough power to be relatively safe.
Grim thought for a moment and spoke, “Well we do have the Ward Construction Skill, we probably need a book on specific wards to help protect the land from roaming beasts and other things. We may also want to bump up the skill a couple of points but we really don’t know by how much until we get the basic design and try it. As for the cabin, if we upgrade it to a shop we would need seven books and ten pound of an arcane material, you can create the rest of the materials for the quest after the dungeon. I get the sense that if we go above and beyond the requirements we might get extra perks from the quest.” Grim paused for a minute as a blue screen with writing running across it appeared and then disappeared. “Alright, how about this for a couple of packages!”
Your Bloodline Companion has assess your skills and goals. The focus was set on low DP items. Of the thousands of items that fit your current needs a small set of Packages have been generated.
(Package One) Common: A total of 8 books and 10 lbs of common mana infused material have been chosen to meet your short and medium-term goals. The title of the Books are; Practical Warding, Weaving a Golem, Elemental Personalities and Locations, Balancing Mana Channels, Elven Wood Shaping, Alternative Summoning Circles, Mary’s Guide to the Best Golem Components, and Odds and Ends. For the material, 10 lbs of Mana Harden Glass which blocks mana leakage has been chosen. Total DP Cost 60.
(Package Two) Uncommon: A total of 8 books and 10 lbs of uncommon mana infused material have been chosen to meet your short and medium-term goals. The title of the Books are; Geraset’s City and Country Wards, Lorn’s Ancient Study of Circles, Elemental Titans and Servants, Dwarven Golem Primer, Review of Argos Runes, River of Mana, Doll Shaping and Alignment, and Todd’s Useful Stuff. For the material, 10 lbs of Alkahest which dissolves and separates all components into its purest form has been chosen. Total DP Cost 130.
(Package Three) Rare: A total of 8 books and 10 lbs of rare mana infused material have been chosen to meet your short and medium-term goals. The title of the Books are; Unnamed Journal I, Clan Stonehand Schematics, Clan Stonehand Infusions, Runic Alternatives, Setting Mana Channels in Molds, Unnamed Journal II, Tome of Pathways, and Analyze Commands. For the material, 10 lbs of Creation Clay, the clay sculpts itself from the user’s thoughts has been chosen. When used in Golem Creation, stat increasing potions can be mixed into the clay and replace of the requirement for the Artificier’s stats to be used during binding. Total DP Cost 380.
Zach’s eyes got big at the Rare package. It was a lot of DP, and there weren’t really tangible benefits just the fact that Grim felt like using rarer ingredients would increase the rewards. So Grim and Zach compromised, talking about each package and the books. Grim had apparently used Zach’s skills to find the books, so they both trusted the fact that something within the books had to deal with his class. So Zach and Grim worked out a package so that was little less DP but would still have the Creation Clay as a material. Pushing the accept button, 235 DP went away in a flash.
Purchase Multiple items confirmed!
You have gained Balancing Mana Channels!
You have gained Elemental Personalities and Locations!
You have gained Geraset’s City and Country Wards!
You have gained Lorn’s Ancient Study of Circles!
You have gained Review of Argos Runes!
You have gained Dwarven Golem Primer!
You have gained Clan Stonehand Schematics!
You have gained Analyze Commands!
You have gained 10 lbs of Creation Clay!
Your current DP is 265!
Zach asked Grim to go ahead and setup buying the Scaling Breastplate, as he wanted the skill of Blacksmithing to help build additional Golems for the next forty years. Grim suggested that they keep at least 100 DP for emergencies, so Zach went ahead and opened up the new package section trying to find a deal. Though there was nothing for Artificer class in the 100 DP range, but he did find something that he liked. Grim nodded at his selection and Zach confirmed the purchase.
Purchase the Merchant Package!
You have gained Level 10 Trade!
You have purchased a 10x Grimoire Upgrade: Extra-dimensional Space!
(Current Extra-dimensional Space 5’x5’x5’)
You have purchased a 1x Grimoire Upgrade: Weight Reduction!
(Current Extra-dimensional Space weight reduction 20:1)
You have purchased a 1x Grimoire Upgrade: Pocket Wallet!
And you have purchased Modular Scaling Breastplate of Blacksmith for Dwarven Golems.
Your current DP is 150!
Zach smiled, the merchant package wouldn’t help them fight in the dungeon or build golems, but with close to 125 cubic feet of space, Zach won’t have to worry about running around with a backpack. After the purchase Grim just snapped his fingers, and Zach’s packing was done by Auto-Loot. Digging out the Breastplate, Zach wanted to inspect it before putting it on his golem.
Congratulations, you have purchased a Modular Scaling Breastplate of Blacksmith for Dwarven Golems! Your Golem Creation, Observe, and Mana Theory have been used to identify this object. By using three or more skills in identification of an item, additional information will be yielded.
The Dwarven Race are Master Craftsmen of all things metal and stone. In order for them to fuel their passion for creation, they created golems to perform menial tasks like farming, hauling, tanning, and cleaning. However, in order for the golems to do the multiple of tasks that the Dwarves did not, their clan of Artificers came up with a plan. The plan was to create a basic frame for the elemental and mana core. The frame would then have specialize sockets, which when switching out plates or pieces of armor inscribed with different spells and skills, the golems could be made to perform multiple tasks.
This Breastplate is wholly embedded with a scaling infusion. No additional wards, enhancements, spells, skills, attributes, or auras may be placed on this Breastplate. The infusion is set to Zachry Alan Lee of House Ridhurja’s mana pool. In order for the Breastplate to be reset Zachary Alan Lee must either die or willing give it to the next person. Current level is 4 and your mana pool is 329.
The Breastplate gives the Skill: Blacksmithing Lv 4!
The Breastplate gives +2 Strength!
Achieve level 10 for a new enhancement!
Putting the breast plate on his golem, Zach left the cabin to go meet Andy, Milly and Alexa before heading out.