*Thougts*
~Sound effects~
+”Whispers”+
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Chapter 29: The gang is reunited
After they greeted each other enthusiastically, Kyle asked Neuron:” How is that possible, not that I’m complaining, but aren`t they supposed to work in Gaber?”
“Don`t worry, I was also astonished”
“Yeah, tell us how you wound up here, and mainly where here is” Asked Warnton interrupting Neuron.
“Yeah, let’s tell whole stories, not fragmented ones” contributed Brairan
“Come on tell us what you experienced” added Tonan
“Good, I get it, then let’s begin, from where we last saw you”
Kyle and Neuron told their story, while interrupting each other to tell the most awesome things by themselves, it came to the part, where Kyle left Neuron alone to search for the Treasure vault. Neuron first showed them how little money was in the bandits vault. And that was accompanied by shouts and laughter about the incompetence of those bandits. Then came the part Neuron waited for the most, to describe what he found in the ancient vault, but instead of describing he just emptied his back pack on the floor.
After he did so he was overwhelmed by all sorts of shouts.
Shouts made out of surprise, swears that left the mouth because the situation couldn`t be described rationally, and many animal like ones.
When the stunning effect, that a whole mountain of gold and diamonds, coupled with glittering jewelry naturally had, wore of, everyone dashed at the pile and grabbed something to look at it better, all with ahs and ohs about the prettiness of those items, wondering how much all of this is worth, or just because their language couldn`t cope with what they saw at this moment. Then after some time they regained their composure
Tonan:”This must be more gold, than our king owns”
Warnton:” Yeah, I never did expect to see so many valuables at one spot”
Brairan:” You two are filthy rich”
Neuron:”That is no reason to pocket something for yourself, hand over what you hid in your pocket!”
Brairan:” Damn, you got me, but if I have to do it, you two shall do so too”
Warnton:”Couldn`t you have kept quiet, bastard”
Tonan:”hrrm, I just followed a bad example”
Kyle:”No Master, not you too!”
Warnton:”Yeah, he preaches about humbleness and righteousness, but confronted with so much gold everyone tries to pocket something” and after seeing their disappointed look, he added ”Brairan, look at what you did, now they are hating me”
Tonan:”Hrrm, just keep quiet idiot, they wouldn`t have noticed it anyway”
Kyle: “Master!”
Warnton:” finally showing your dark side, eh Brother”
Kyle:”You are Brothers! He never told me!”
Tonan:”Hrrm, sorry, I never deemed it worthy, we have different mothers anyway, and just call me by my name already, your training is long finished”
Warnton:” What you bastard, come here, I will teach you a lesson” He said, while unsheathing his sword, Kyle just couldn`t understand the world, but then Neuron stepped in.
“Yeah, yeah, do what you want, but I warn you, if you ever try to steal from me again, then….” He let the end of the sentence float to give it more meaning, while activating Hawkeyes because he now knew of their effectiveness
Brairan:”Oi, oi, as always, you can`t understand a joke, even if it jumps you in the face and farts up your nostrils”
Tonan:” Couldn’t you have kept quiet Brairan, I wanted to form a fight, to see how much my pupil improved”
Warnton:”Yeah, me too, you killjoy”
Neuron:” I see, you are fairing good, so Warnton tell me is your business still stagnating?”
Warnton:”No and yes”
Kyle:”What does that mean?” he asked when he recovered from the initial shock
Warnton:”It is a long story, but to cut it short let’s say I hate Freedmen, you two not included of course”
Tonan:”Yeah me too, they are so arrogant, always asking for things they can`t get, even insisting on it”
Brairan:”Or they use over the top flattery, because they think I will be friendlier with them and teach them some new skill or something, only to never see them again”
Tonan:”But the worst are those, that enter your training ground, and after a little time they drop the weapon and leave, they just stay long enough to get the skill and then leave, because of that all I hear day in and out are the screams of them while they are getting devoured by rabbits!”
Warnton:” Yeah, they come inside my shop and plead that I will teach them forging and everything associated with it, when I refuse they will nag and nag, and they are always complaining about my gear, that it is too expensive and they deserve a discount, because they have done this and that, but. I. DON`T. CARE!”
Brairan:” Yeah so to summarize again, we hate Freedmen”
Kyle:”ok, so what happened inside Gaber while we were gone?”
Now they turned to each other and discussed, sometimes fragments could be heard, like, no I want to tell; no I; come on, you know I`m the best storyteller; yeah, cause you are old; what does that mean?
Neuron cleared his throat and said:” tell it already, it was a long day, and I want to go sleeping”
Brairan:” good, so I will tell, if I missed something feel free to add it afterwards”
Warnton, Tonan:”got it”
Brairan:”So yeah, you really did a job on Gaber Neuron”
Neuron:” How so?”
Brairan:” The letters you shot inside Gaber while leaving really aggravated the three families, but they couldn`t do anything, so the smiling Chinese became a legend inside Gaber, and many young men were inspired by you and tried themselves on stealing. Somehow also many freedmen that came associated themselves with thieves, and many travelling scoundrels stopped in our town. It isn`t as grave as I described, but Gaber is heading to be a hive for thieves”
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And Brairan was right, somewhat, the situation wasn`t this worse, but now three Important NPC`s are gone, well important for beginners, to learn how to fight, or to provide them with gear. The ruling guild couldn`t even afford to hire new ones, because they had to pay amends for all those wannabe Smiling Chinese`s stole, and thus it left them moneyless, and so they abandoned Gaber, and it became a town with no ruler.
And to boot, all new players that started had to either begin with mage or thief classes, because the profession of Knight, Paladin, or anything righteous wasn`t appreciated anymore. Even a new class crystallized itself out of this hive for lawless people, the Unlawful Mage, shunned by all with good alignment, but a master in dagger combat, who specializes in stealth, poisoning enemies, and stealing techniques, like a assassin, but he can also inflict plagues on his enemies, shooting black balls of fire, that can only be extinguished by holy water, or by a Person with affiliation to the Church of Freya.
Because of their unlawfulness, the Church of Freya decided to burn this pool of sin to the ground and leaving nothing behind, she even set bounties for all those that have chosen the Unlawful Mage class, making them hunted everywhere they went, so that many had to delete their avatars and start anew.
And all of them blamed three persons for their misery, first it was the Smiling Chinese, and second it was the Players which caused the Archery and Training ground Instructor and the Smith to leave the Town. Namely Neuron and Kyle, they knew that those two traveled towards the east because of the footage they posted, and so all of them tried to head there, but it was a dangerous journey, the Monsters in the swamp up north were all really high level and tried to drag them into their wet home. And thus making their hate for those three Persons bottomless because drowning isn`t a well received way to die, and then they heard about an easy way to get where they wanted to go, and of course they headed there, hiding themselves before the always open eyes of the church and her long hands.
But they weren`t the only ones to hate them with passion
When the Black Raven Guild heard about the passageway the first thing they did was to head there.
But of course Kyle and Neuron were oblivious to that.
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Neuron:”Sorry”
Warnton:”Don`t be, you should have been before, but now that we are here away from it, I don`t care anymore”
Kyle: ”What about your families?”
All three together: “Bachelor and happy about it!”
Neuron:” Yeah, nice to see you back, so I have to do something, I will see you at least tomorrow, or during the next night” but before he could go to sleep Kyle grabbed him at his collar, turned him around and hissed with bloodshot eyes.
“Tell, me, how, they, are, here!”
“Good, good, no reason to be mad!” Neuron said, while he raised his hands
Brairan:” He truly is a handful isn`t he”
Kyle:”Yeah, but I have gotten accustomed to it, now it is even fun, well sometimes”
Neuron:” What does that mean?”
“Nothing, nothing” Kyle, Warnton and Brairan said calmingly
Neuron:” Stop hoaxing me, or I won`t tell it”
Tonan:” Don`t be a Pussycat”
Neuron:”You stay out of it!”
Tonan:”Wanna fight? I`m always open for business”
Neuron:”Sigh, oh well, I just placed the buildings there, and well, the first I build where a archery, a training ground and a smithy, then I got an idea and asked, if I would be able to hire workers, I was, but only if I could tell their names, location, and they had to agree to it, so that’s the story, and goodnight” he said, while turning around to search himself a quit place, were he could sleep
+”Hey, I thought you don`t have anything to do for this week?”+
+”I don`t have, it’s just that my mom is home and we are eating together”+
+”And why don`t you just log out when its time?”+
+”Because someone woke me up in the middle of the night, and since then I haven`t slept at all, if you count Royal Road it are two days! So yeah, I `m going to make an experiment”+
+”Experiment?”+
+”I`ll tell you later, Good night”+
+”Good night”+
Tonan:”Finally this fool is gone”
Brairan:”Don`t insult him, he was my greatest pupil”
Warnton:”Yeah because you had the most fun with him!”
Brairan:” I won`t deny it, so anyway I take it you want to build a village?” he asked towards Kyle
Kyle:”Yeah, only problem is, that we don`t have a plan where to begin”
Warnton:”Well let’s begin with that Metal Wall, I am quite interested in it, may I see it?”
Kyle:”I don`t know” he operated the town lord menu and said” Make Metal door Neuron destroyed surface”
Not far from them the ground shook, and the Metal Wall appeared, as if it was a submarine that surfaced to change the air, as soon as its motion stopped Warnton went towards it and shouted.
Warnton:”What the fuck is that!”
Brairan:”What’s the matter, did it bite you?”
Warnton:”no, and I will oversee the insult, but this metal plate is worth a ton too”
Tonan:” What, you know a place where we can sell old metal, for a bargain?”
Warnton:” No, this is made from pure Grakin”
Tonan:”What is that, sounds like some weird disease.”
Warnton:”No its not, it is a metal, that is harder than tempered steel even in small quantities, I never saw it pure, it is used to coat other, lesser metals, because it is also quite heavy. What defense must a armor have, that is made out of pure Grakin? But because of its light consuming black color it isn`t used as often, it is also as rare as Mithril, so quite valuable, and Neuron managed to make a dent in this 5cm thick plate, holy crap!” But the others weren`t listening to his sermon
Brairan:”While the fool is occupied with his new toy, tell us your plans”
Kyle:”Like we told you, first we have to increase our defense and build houses for the villagers, oh, and also a shopping street would be nice
Tonan:”What’s that?”
Kyle:”It is a place inside a town or city, where you can buy everything, you don`t have to go to many different places, everything is located inside this street”
Tonan:”Sounds nice, I once had a girlfriend that liked to shop, each time she dragged me with her I had to run around the whole town to even get one thing she wanted, what a pain”
Brairan:”So first we have to build a wall, I suggest it be a two layered one with a big moat between them, where only one bridge leads over, so it will be easy to defend”
Kyle:”Nice, so we will place one here, and here” he said, while he marked the places on the map he got from Neuron
Warnton saw, that they were apparently doing something, and so he came near them and added:”Some watchtowers would be great, one on each side of the cliff, and one right over the main gate on the second wall”
After Kyle marked it down Tonan suggested:”let’s make this shopping street you mentioned right after the gate, so no one has to look for it.”
Kyle:”Sounds great, and after that street, a fountain will be placed in front of the Town hall, were new Freedman can arrive”
Brairan:” Do they have to?, I don`t wanna see them again”
Kyle:”It would be great, but Neuron and I will see what we can do, it will also be a long time, till they can start here”
Brairan:”If you say so, I will believe it”
Warnton:” and how many villagers are estimated to arrive?”
Kyle:”I don`t know, it was said to be threhundred, but it is still uncertain, why?”
Warnton:” You don`t want to place too many houses, so I suggest we decide for a place for them, and build the houses when need arises, so we can also build them to their liking”
Kyle:”Sounds great, that we will do”
Brairan:”I suggest to place the houses near the cave with the lake, so they won`t have to go long to procure water.”
Kyle:”Added, so now I am also sleepy, see you tomorrow”
All:”good night” but they stayed long around the fire to discuss, joke and drink to party that their pupils became such great persons in the little time they hadn`t seen them.
Before Kyle went to sleep he placed the map near the sleeping Neuron with a note in which he asked Neuron, how he thinks of their ideas.
When the alarm clock Neuron installed rang he rose up, saw some paper, and without looking at it he logged out, to eat with his mother.
When the sun placed her light on Kyle he rose up with quite a big yawn and began stretching, after that Kyle went to see if Neuron wrote a answer, he didn`t
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*No answer, I guess he didn`t read it at all, doesn’t matter, but before I begin building I need a healthy breakfast*
With that thought in mind Kyle went to the lodgings of Brairan, Warnton and Tonan to invite them for breakfast, but when he tried to wake them up the only reply that came was groaning and swearing. It didn`t matter to Kyle, he just went out, searched a good place and began preparing breakfast
*If they are hungry, they will come*
But they didn`t come till he finished eating, so he had no choice
*Guess I have no choice* he thought while a grin appeared on his face, that could even rival Neuron *Wow, I’m becoming like Neuron, guess his idiocy is contagious* he thought while chuckling then Kyle cracked his finger joints and opened the building menu, first he deleted the archery training ground and the smithy, because both of them were in the place where they planned to build the lodgings for the villagers, and because he was at it, he also deleted the beginner training ground. As soon as he deleted them he exited the building menu and looked towards the places where they stood.
What he saw was the houses slowly disappearing from the roof downwards, then he heard three simultaneous sounds, that indicated body’s crashing on the floor and a storm of shouts swears and other indescribable things could be heard, but because it was still censored for Kyle he only heard beep sounds, well, Kyle knew what they were saying, so he just stood there laughing loudly
Warnton:”Oh, my head is killing me, first a hangover and then this, what the fuck happened!”
Brairan:”Seems like some bloody moron destroyed our houses, while we were still inside them”
Warnton:”Neuron you Bastard, I challenge you, may the winner live!”
Brairan:”It seems it was Kyle” he said dumbfounded while he got in a sitting position
Warnton:”What, no, Neuron defiled him, he is now on the path of darkness, Hey Tonan, see that, this is your pupil! Ähm, Tonan?” he added when he saw that Tonan was still snoring soundly
Brairan:”This is to be expected, he can`t hold his liquor at all, how about it? Shall we entertain ourselves?”
Warnton:”Yeah”
After that was cleared they snuck up to the still snoring Tonan and doodled on his face
Brairan:”Good, so that is finished” he said, while whipping imaginary sweat from his face, Kyle that approached them to see what they did couldn`t help it and burst out with laughter, finally waking up Tonan.
Tonan:”Keep quiet, my head is killing me, fuck, what is with all the light, it is blinding me, huh light, where the heck is my bed, and when since I’m at it my house?”
Warnton:”Good morning sleepyhead, Kyle deleted them while we were still sleeping”
Tonan:”he did what!?”
Kyle:”Hey, I tried to wake you up, all of you, but you wouldn`t budge”
Warnton:” What`s done is done, so where is breakfast?”
Kyle:”Make it for yourself, I waited for you, but all of you stayed inside, so I ate all of it”
Brairan and Warnton:”NOOOOO, “
Tonan:”Just shut up!” he shouted, while he distorted his face showing pure agony
While they bickered around Kyle left them and again entered the building menu
*this was fun, I guess now I know why Neuron does it*
While thinking that he placed all Buildings they agreed upon. But it still looked quiet empty, and then Neuron logged back in.
“I see you have built quite a bit, but what do we do now, the quest we have gotten has a limit of one month.”
“Let’s explore the place above the cliffs till the first villagers come, and then we head towards Agakyos, we have a month, one week more or less doesn`t mean anything”
“Sounds acceptable, but we have to give them the right to place buildings, if more come while we are away, and where shall they live in the mean time?”
“Yup, let’s do that right now, and they can live inside the town hall, just place a little smithy near it, so that Warnton can enjoy himself, and the others could sort all of our loot, well till the villagers arrive, then we have to find something else.”
* Brairan, Tonan and Warnton have now the right to place houses for the villagers
“Good”
“Ähm Neuron, did that experiment work? And if, what was it?”
“Yeah it worked wonder. I tried to sleep in the game to be refreshed in the real world”
“Why?”
“The time here runs 4 times faster, so naturally you will sleep 4 times shorter, and I tried to see if the relaxation of a good sleep can convert to the real world, and it does!!!”
“Great, that means even moar playing”
With that cleared they approached the other tree, but as soon as Neuron saw Tonans face he collapsed to the ground rolling around and laughing.
Tonan:”What’s the matter with him, has he finally gotten crazy?”
Kyle:”Not really” he said barely containing another burst of laughter
Brairan:”It is, because you look ridiculous”
Warnton:”Yeah, true” And finally they succumbed to laughter
Tonan:”Shut it, I still have a hangover, anyway, what are you laughing about?”
Neuron:”Your face, bwahahaha”
Tonan:”What!” to ascertain himself he run up Kyle and looked at his mirage on Kyle’s armor” Brairan and Warnton, this was the last straw!”
Brairan:”We couldn`t help it, you were sleeping like a baby”
Warnton:”Yeah, a really big and ugly baby”
Kyle:”Calm yourself, we have a proposal to make”
After they told them their plan many objections were voiced, mainly that they don`t want to stay here and instead go with them, but Neuron destroyed their hopes
“Do you have any equipment?”
Warnton:”Damn, I left my precious collection in Gaber, I miss my weapons!”
Brairan:”Stop crying, you weapon maniac”
Warnton:”Shut up!”
Tonan:”We will just buy it in the shops!”
Kyle:”Sorry, they are all empty, you don`t remember? We agreed, that when the villagers arrive they can decide which job to take, then they will be given some funds to buy everything they need for their shops, but till this day arrives, there will be no trade”
Brairan:”Then empty your backpacks; let’s see what you have in store!”
Neuron:”Ok, there you go”
And they emptied their backpacks producing a huge pile made mainly out of fur, some teeth’s, blood, and everything else they looted from the trolls and Monsters they faced till now, also their remaining healing potions, bandages, arrows, and much junk.
Kyle:”Help yourself”
He hadn`t to tell that twice, they rushed towards the pile and began searching through it, with some shouts like trash, what’s that, I don`t need that, This armor is good…Why has it holes in it? and so on. At the end they only found enough to poorly equip one of them, then a scuffle formed, who would accompany them
Warnton:”Brairan you are out of question”
Brairan:”Why?”
Tonan:”Because there is no bow, or good leather armor, nothing you could use, so Brother, how will we do it”
Kyle:”Maybe a competition?”
Neuron:”Yeah, how about a riddle, and who gets the answer first gets to go?”
Brairan:”No! That will take the whole day!”
Both:”You old bastard” they said, and began chasing after him
Brairan:”I know, the truth hurts, but come on, don`t over react” he said, while he rolled out of their way
Neuron:”Shut it, we have no time to spare!”
Tonan:”Hmpf, then how about a coin toss, I’m head”
Warnton:”Better than nothing”
Tonan:” Ha! You have to stay here, good luck in sorting all their stuff”
Warnton:”hehe, I won`t do it”
Brairan:”What do you mean by that?”
Warnton:”I mean, that I am going to make something out of that Grakin, and I am the only smith here”
Neuron:”Grakin?” And after he was filled in ”great make us something good again” he said to Warnton
Warnton:”there you have it, the boss orders me to forge something”
Brairan:”That isn’t fair, sorting that will be a real pain!” He said, while he looked at those huge piles, that had everything in them they looted till now, cause they hadn`t any time to sell it, and they couldn`t sell it in their own town, for many reasons.
Kyle:”Sorry, it is decided, but if you do a good job, there will be a reward”
Brairan:”I sure hope so”
Neuron:”But don`t pocket anything”
Brairan:”That hurts, don`t you trust me?”
Neuron:”Since you tried to steal, not anymore!”
Brairan:”Come on, that was a joke, I tell you a joke” he repeated because of Neurons distrusting face, but they were interrupted by Tonan, who finally armed himself
Tonan:”hey, this armor doesn`t fit me at all! I look like a dork” Tonan was a rather bulky and tall man but most of it were muscles, so the armor he tried on was just too small, everywhere his body parts stuck out, and the two holes in it didn`t make the presented image better, because they somehow resisted repairing, and of course, Warnton refused to do it, because he found it really funny.
Warnton:”Then don`t go!”
Tonan:” And sorting loot no way!, I’ll just ditch that armor and use the Bastard sword”
Kyle:”What if you are hit?” he said worryingly
Tonan:”Don`t worry, I am rather agile”
Neuron:”Let’s go already!”
Now they divided themselves, a grunting Brairan went inside the Town hall with all the loot they gathered, without the necessities for a hunt of course, to perform the given task, and Warnton began to cut down the Grakin plate with the tools he found in his smithy, while whistling a happy tune.
Tonan:”Good so how do we get over that?” he asked, when they neared the thirty meter high cliff, that surrounded Kilakios, giving it the byname Valley.
Neuron:”Don`t worry, we already conquered a much higher cliff.” And while saying that they proceeded like they did before, only difference, was that Kyle didn`t miss his first shot.
Now standing on the cliff, they had a great view over their property, and that filled them with pride.
Separately from each other, they thought to make that into a really good place for players and of course, a perfect resting place for them, well Neuron thought about Playground, but the action counts, doesn`t it?
But soon Tonan interrupted them:”hey, you can look at it as much as you want later, for now we have to scout the area” But there wasn`t really much to scout, this valley was part of a big Plateau, which apparently consisted only of a wasteland made out of stone. With no rock big enough to hide even a Goblins ass in sight, even for Neuron, so they decided to take a look at the mountains that raised out of it like watchtowers opposite the entrance valley. Those mountains actually performed a half circle around Kilakios, but the view today wasn`t clear, and so even Neuron could only make out contours.
After a twenty minute walk they finally arrived at the foothills of the aforementioned mountains
Tonan:”let’s go back, there is nothing noteworthy up here”
Neuron:”No wait, up there is a cave, before we go back let’s look at it more closely, I don`t want to have some monsters raid our village”
Tonan:” I can`t see anything at all, just longer and shorter shades and rocks, oh and some moss”
Kyle:”Trust him, if he says there is a cave, then there is”
After they went up the others spotted the entrance to the cave too
Tonan:”Holy Freya, how did you spot that, it is completely hidden; only an eagle would have spotted that”
After he said that, a silent thunder could be heard, but there weren`t thunder clouds in sight, only smooth little white ones. And without hearing it, they continued their conversation, without a care in the world.
Neuron:”Or a Hawk?” He added cryptically
Kyle:”Well anyway, before we go inside lets have some refreshment” He said, while taking out his cooking utensils”
Tonan:”Are you crazy cooking before the entrance of a dungeon”
Kyle:”uh, oh, never thought about it, you Neuron?”
“No, but sounds really convincing, let’s go up a bit”
Kyle:”Right”
Then when he was finished cooking, but Neuron noticed, that it took him longer than before, but he soon dismissed it, Kyle`s food was just too good
Tonan:” I can`t tell you how much I’ve missed this food” He said with a satisfied face
Kyle:”Shht, there is something below us”
Neuron:”and how do you know that?”
Kyle:” my danger sense skill told me so, it became intermediate!”
“Show us!!”
Kyle:”Shut up god damn it, this creature begins noticing us!”
Neuron:” How can you tell?”
Kyle:”no time for explanation read this, show danger sense skill to Neuron and Tonan”
* Danger Sense Intermediate Lv1
AOE 10m
Activates, when hostile creatures enter the AOE of the skill
You are now able to see the location of them on a Minimap (You can turn it on, or off)
AOE of Minimap 2m
The Minimap will consume 10 Mp per Minute
Mana cost 30
Neuron:”Sounds awesome, so for now let’s jump this creature whatever it is, and bring it down!”
They crawled over to the entrance of the cave, (Kyle without armor of course), and then they simultaneously jumped on whatever was beneath them, as soon as Kyle gave the signal.
Neuron jumped over it, holding his bow in the ready and shooting the arrow as soon as he saw some thin legs and a body covered with black fur.
Tonan did the same, but he landed on the really big behind of the creature with his feet standing on the sword handle, and thus driving it deep into it. Kyle jumped and simultaneous struck the creature on its big black furred body with his shield and War hammer.
The creature could only give a shriek when it was hit by three simultaneous impacts before it disintegrated.
End Chapter 29
I know it is long winded, but I like to write dialogs, it is funny^^
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