*Thougts*
~Sound effects~
+”Whispers”+
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Chapter 27: New Property
And now after a long night the sun finally rose over the edge of the cliff, and Kyle and Neuron were drenched in the blood of the bandits they have slain.
“Hey Neuron, you look freaky”
“Look at yourself, I bet you look much worse than me”
* You have completed the quest: Exterminate the Bandits
Although some have fled it was still a success, because you instilled fear in their hearts, and you have killed their leader, so they won`t band together for a long time.
Rewards:
+500 Contribution points for the Agakyos Kingdom
+300 Fame
You have leveled up!
You have leveled up!
You have leveled up!
You have leveled up!
You have leveled up!
You have leveled up!
* Bandits are still human!
+300 Infamy for torturing a Bandit, even though he has revealed everything he knew, and you gained nothing from torturing him.
“Hey Kyle, I gained 6 levels for completing the quest” after he read the next message:” What 300 Infamy!, isn`t that a bit too much, and he also deserved it, admins that’s for you, you stinking dirty….” But fortunately he got interrupted by Kyle
“Neuron! Shht, you shouldn`t swear towards the administrators, this is surely a message to everyone who tries to torture NPC`s”
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And really, although they didn`t know it, Unicorn corporation published news that some Players somewhere needlessly tortured a bandit, and that they made a new policy because of that: “Whoever tortures NPC`s needlessly, will, from now on receive severe punishment.”
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And to change the conversation he added” I gained 5 levels, and Neuron, just read on, there are more messages!”
Fortunately Neuron got convinced and read on, although grumbling.
* While questioning the Bandit leader you have gotten information about a scheme within the capital of Agakyos Kingdom
Quest: Find out what is going on inside Saramas
Rank: C
Rewards:
Intimacy with Agakyos Kingdom
Unknown
Requirements:
Must have questioned the Bandit Leader before killing him
Time to complete the quest: 1 Month
Cannot be refused
* You accepted the quest
* You have chased away all bandits from Kilakios valley.
You have now the right to get the ownership of the Kilakios valley
“Hey Neuron, do you want to own a valley?”
“Not really, it ain`t worth anything after all”
“Just think Neuron, there was once a town right, you can see this from the ruins “
“Right, and?”
“I see, you where the last in line, when god distributed Wisdom, but come on, think a bit!”
“Hey that wasn`t nice!”
“Good, while I go talk with the villagers over there you can figure out, what I meant by it”
And with that saying he let a fuming Neuron behind, and slowly approached the villagers, which after seeing that the battle was over approached them, but because he was all bloody and presented a horrible look, with puke, gore and unrecognizable things all over his armor, shield and hammer, well you get dirty when you are able to smash your opponents skull with one swing like a melon, stopped.
Because Kyle realized that, he waved both his arms in the air to let the villagers know, that he didn`t pose a thread, and soon one of them came over.
“Hey Neuron, got any ideas in the mean time?”
“Shut it! You meant that we can build our own village and earn buckets right?”
“About right”
Speaker:” H h hello” he stuttered when he was near them
Neuron “hello to you too”
Kyle:” I wanted to talk with you, because there were many bandits that escaped, and I want you to warn the other villages around here!”
+”Many?”+ asked Neuron, but he motioned him to stay quiet
Speaker:”No, that is bad! They will soon attack those villages! May I inquire your help once more to protect us, although we don`t have much to compensate you, but I see you hate bandits” he begged
* New Quest: Protect the villages
Kyle:” I decline”
* You have refused the quest: Familiarity with Captives has decreased
Neuron:” Why, we could defeat those bandits, they are weak! And there weren´t so….”
But Kyle interrupted him and spoke to the man
Kyle:” If you are concerned about future raids, we got ownership of this valley and we`d love to invite all villagers to live here with us.”
The one the captives chose as speaker looked at all those still smoldering ruins and asked:”But were shall we stay if we decide to come live here?”
Kyle:”Don`t worry, I f you decide so, we will erect houses for you to reside in”
Speaker:”I must talk about it with the other people”
Kyle:” Sure do”
“hey Kyle, are you crazy?” Neuron hissed as soon as the speaker was away
“Why”
“How will we erect those houses, we don`t have any building materials or anything of the like, and why did you say, that many bandits escaped, we both know, that it isn`t true”
“First it was to convince them to come live inside our town, we will need NPC`s and second: Don`t worry, this is a game! You preached that to me many times, so if we want to build something it will only cost us money and nothing more”
“Really?”
“Yeah, so let’s just wait till they finish their discussion”
When the speaker neared them once again a message appeared
* You are now on friendly terms with the captives
Speaker:” Thank you for your kind offer, we will gladly accept”
Kyle:” Good to hear, so how many people can we expect?”
Speaker:” I don`t know, but roughly about three hundred I guess, are you sure you will be able to build so many houses”
Kyle:”Don`t worry, if you come in a week time, there will be a empty town standing here, ready to give lodgings to all People who come to seek shelter.”
And because Neuron was left out of their conversation he added:”Yeah, and don`t worry, we will also take care of those boulders that are blocking the entrance.”
When he heard that Kyle gave Neuron a strange look, because he figured, that in this case we would mean him
Speaker:”Thank you very much! I will relay this message to all Villages those bandits threatened, but it would be great, if just one of you would come with us to protect us from those bandits that are still out there”
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Neuron:” Don`t worry, I think they will need time to regroup and attack you once again, after all in small numbers they are really weak”
Speaker: ”Thank you so much, so we will return in a week’s time, with all villagers that decide to live here”
Neuron:” great, I hope to see you soon”
Kyle:”Me too”
And with that they waved goodbyes.
“Hey Kyle, why could you attack all the bandits, I thought you couldn`t initiate an attack because of your class?”
“I didn`t tell you? When we got the quest I had a line attached to it stating, that I am now allowed to attack the Bandits. It seems like quests to kill something nullify this class restriction. Anyway, give ownership of Kilakios valley to Kyle and Neuron” Kyle said, as soon as the villagers were out of hearing range
* Kyle and Neuron are now the owners of the Kilakios valley
“Hey, why did you put your name first?”
“Alphabetical order, but now let’s find out how to build something”
Although grunting Neuron did as told and now Kyle and Neuron were trying to open a menu that let them build houses, they tried nearly everything, like shouting Building menu, or Place house, but then Kyle had an idea
“What if we have to be in a special house to build anything?”
“Yeah, the house of their leader!”
After Neuron had that idea both of them sprinted towards that house, which somehow survived the fire.
Inside both of them shouted “building menu!”, then after the message appeared “normal house!”
* Kyle wants to build a normal house, do you accept?
YES/NO
* Neuron wants to build a normal house, do you accept?
YES/NO
“Damn, if that will pop up anytime it sure will be annoying, so allow Neuron to build anything he wants!”
* You sure to allow Neuron to build what he wants?
YES/NO
“Yes”
* Neuron can now build what he wants, without asking you for permission
“Great, so Neuron do that too”
“Right!”
With that cleared they tried to build some other houses, but they run dry of money after placing 5 houses that cost 500 gold coins each, of course they hadn`t that much gold to begin with, but they were by no means poor, it is just that most of their wealth was in loot, and so not in the form they needed to buy buildings. After they realized that they began discussing once again.
“Damn we are out of money!” Shouted Neuron
“Yeah, but not everything is lost”
“?”
“The ones living here were bandits, so they would naturally have a vault, right?”
“Yeah, but doesn`t most of it belong to the villagers”
“Wow, I never expected you to be saying that, I remember that in our previous town you were a ruthless thief that even earned himself a nickname”
“Hey, I just took it from the rich”
“Don`t tell me you want to be some poor Robin Hood imitation”
“Sounds good”
“I hope you are joking”
“Yeah I am, so where do you suggest we search?”
“I’m not suggesting anything, I’m just logging out, I was logged in too long anyway, many things happened, so I am tired”
“True, many things happened, but anyway, don`t phone me in the middle of the night ever again!”
“Even if our new town gets raided”
“That’s the only exception!”
“Yeah, yeah I get it, so what about the thing you had to do today”
Without flinching Neuron replied:”University is already in progress, and I don`t want to attend it today, because I would only sleep during the lesson anyway, due to some brute waking me up in the middle of the night”
“And, you angry about it?”
“Nah, it was worth it”
“Good, that you see it that way, anyway I’m logging out, good luck on finding the vault”
“Yeah, I wish you a good rest.”
While they were saying their goodbyes they went out of the house, to see the buildings that they just build and noticed that it looked really strange.
“Do you also think those buildings look strange within all those still smoldering ruins” asked Kyle
“Yeah, I think we should clean this place up before building anything, do you mind, if I also destroy the houses we built too?”
“No I don`t mind, but please before you do that look for the vault, if we don`t have enough money to build many buildings by then, you should let them be, ah, and you should collect all the loot to, while fighting I didn`t bother to collect it”
“Roger”
After hearing that Kyle logged out, leaving Neuron alone inside the valley were still ash flew around, due to the wind, that freshened up.
As soon as Kyle logged out, Neuron began to pocket al the loot scattered around. Luckily all of it was concentrated in the entrance valley, so he hadn`t to go around searching for all of it, then he stood before the high pile of rocks they used to prevent bandits from escaping, and also to crush some of them.
*Damn, how will we ever be able to clear that, I hope we don`t have to it by hand, anyway, for what do I have a defender* and while whistling a happy tune he began to search for the vault, but because he didn`t know where to start, he decided to go around the whole area with the cliff on his right side, just to see if there would be some caves or hidden entrances inside the cliff surrounding their new Town, because he reasoned, that a vault had to be inside, heavy rock, to prevent theft.
And there were in fact a few, but he didn`t venture deep inside, he just looked inside and when he didn`t spot anything of interest he continued. Then when he was nearly finished with his round and neared the entrance valley again he found another cave, that looked really awesome with stalactites and stalagmites, and also a big lake in the middle, that was illuminated by a ray of sunlight, which passed through a crack in the ceiling.
*So that is from where they got the water for growing the crops, but where the hell is the vault?*
~Facepalm~
Then he shouted:” Am I an idiot, of course the leader of that scum would prefer to place his ass on all valuables his goons procured!”
After that declaration he dashed towards the house, and because he couldn`t find anything he began to trash the place, when he moved a carped he found a hatch that he of course opened. It was tightly shut but that didn`t pose a hindrance to Neuron.
He just smashed it open with his axes, not bothering to look into the pile of loot that once was the leader to eventually find a key, he thought of that method to be faster.
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After 1and a half hour in real time Kyle logged in, because he was wondering too much what Neuron would do so he couldn`t get a good sleep, and so Kyle just decided to log in again.
What greeted him was a leveled place, everything had the same height, and the same brown color, three buildings were erected, but unorganized
*Damn neuron, he just managed to build 3 Buildings, he even destroyed all those we made prior.*
Then he heard some voices, as he went near them he couldn`t believe his ears and so he dashed forward, just to see his hunch confirmed.
End Chapter 27
Yeah, I love cliffhangers :twisted:
(Just writing, them of course)
Now feel free to guess who he heard
XD