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Dwarf Fortress - The World Of Bones - The Adventures Of Callisto
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Callisto Thola “Callisto of the Vales” had been a clerk in Testpacks, a human hamlet, and rarely went far. She was a casual worshipper of Udir, the Goddess of Consolation. Testpacks was controlled by The Courageous Councils. Though Callisto belonged to the civilization of The Good Faith.
She was a human with dark tan skin and extremely long dark hair to match. She had a recessed chin and her slightly upturned nose was short. Her slightly large-irised teal eyes were slightly wide-set. Her looks were the norm for her people.
And she had a pet war elephant called Lekli Gomori.
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She had decided it was time to leave Testpacks. First she asked a one of the farmers about the region. She learned that there were nineteen other villages in the area. All used the market at Warmthamazes.
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She also learned a little about what was outside the Testpacks. Which wasn’t very helpful.
She collected her equipment. Which included a copper buckler, a iron mace, a copper mail shirt, a copper helm, and two waterskins. Plus some coins and food.
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Testpacks wasn’t very big. It had a Shrine and a bunch of houses. The place only had a few hundred humans. Mostly farmers.
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She decided south was as interesting a direction as any and headed that way. So she, and her Elephant, went south and entered the Desert of Equaling. Which wasn’t hard to do as it covered most of the Erased Continent. Also known as the World of Bones.
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What would she find? Good times? Death? More farming towns?
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Posting to watch the adventure unfold.
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Dwarf Fortress - The World Of Bones - The Adventures Of Callisto
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Callisto, and her Elephant, continued south. There wasn’t much to see of the landscape.
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Mostly sand, clay, and a not a lot of plants. And fewer animals.
Night came. But just before it fell Callisto saw a river in the distance.
She stopped to light a fire, had some water, ate a meal, before going to sleep.
When she woke up she drank some more water, ate another meal, and headed in the direction where she had last seen the river.
She found a river. A small, thin one. She refilled the one waterskin she had been drinking from and pondered which way she would follow it.
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It would be a source of water and might help her find other settlements. She headed south.
She found and killed a small bird. But it was too small to butcher.
Then they found a fat alligator. She, and her Elephant, soon made short work of the creature. She then butchered it. She was able to get 21 meals of meat and 22 bones.
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Following the river south they noticed a Fort to the east. So they headed over to see who lived there or if there was anything to find that was worth grabbing. They found a gate on the north side of the Fort.
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What would they find inside? Friends? Foes? Angry alligator people?
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Dwarf Fortress - The World Of Bones - The Adventures Of Callisto
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So Callisto, and her pet war Elephant, entered the gates of the Fort. She examined one of the walls and found it made up of Saguaro Rib Logs. Weird.
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Inside there was three buildings. One seemed to be a mess hall or dining room. One was empty and showed no signs of being used.
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Then she found the barracks. For lack of a better word anyway.
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She examined the humans before her. Most seemed to be civilians. Cheese Makers, Farmers, and so on. She tried to find the most important one to talk to.
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The most interesting piece of information she received was that the Fort traded with nobody. It was “insulated”. Which was a interesting word choice.
She decided to examine the southern wall by entering one of the towers and going up.
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The walls didn’t go up very far. They were only three stories up. Surely enemies could scale them?
When came back down but realized it was a small Fort with only three buildings. An empty one, a mess hall, and a sleeping area. It had no workshops or any way to survive on its own. It must have been some kind of military post or base.
She decided to head back to the river.
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On the way back to the river Callisto had some mule spleen and some water.
The river cut south into some hills and then turned west. Callisto and her pet continued to follow. It was the best source of food and the only source of water.
It was getting late. So she decided to start a campfire near the river and go to sleep.
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When she woke up the next morning she was very hungry and ate two meals worth of food and fulled herself up with water directly from the river.
Now she would follow the river westwards. Where would it go? Would it go to the ocean or some lake? Or disappear into the ground?
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Dwarf Fortress - The World Of Bones - The Adventures Of Callisto
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Callisto felt a little full but was willing to keep tracking west and following the river.
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The river finally turned south and seemed to end in the lake or small inland sea. She noticed that a river also linked to the large body of water in the south.
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But soon she realized the water was flowing. It wasn’t a lake or sea. It seemed it was just the river having widened itself to a massive width.
Along it lived flocks of geese, a few snapping turtles, and a gator here and there. Maybe it was more of a marsh?
She moved south to meet the ‘slim’ part of the river. After a few hours she noticed a lake to the west. It had no rivers linked to it. As she was hungry and thirsty she decided to visit and have a meal on its shores.
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As she approached the shore she ate some gator meat and drank some water. She went to try to full her waterskin and her pet shoved her into the water. Luckily she knew how to swim and got back onto dry land. But she wasn’t too dry herself after that.
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She than carefully filled the skin and moved south along the shore. There was no wildlife to be seen here.
It was around noon so she decided to head back towards the river and continue south.
Soon she noticed something to the west. Another Fort? And to the east another river.
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So of course she went to explore the Fort first.
It was a Fort. And seemed to be much bigger than the last one. Funny enough as she got close to it time seemed to slow down.
She finally found the gates in front of a weird ramp.
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What would she find inside? More civilians? Soldiers? Gold? Sandwiches?
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Dwarf Fortress - The World Of Bones - The Adventures Of Callisto
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Callisto entered the Fort, with her pet, and approached the first building.
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It seemed to be a dining area. With books on the floor and a dwarf.
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She didn’t have enough room in her bags to carry the books so she decided to read them while talking to the dwarf.
She read two books and greeted Kol Amber, who was a Lasher, and seemed friendly. The dwarf even petted her pet Lekla.
Turned out Kol was very happy to talk to somebody and that the Fort was ruled by the Society of Balding. The Fort was named Brushedstars and Zolak Dungdungeon was the commander. Like the last Fort there was no trade.
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After reading some of the books, while the dwarf pet the elephant, she heard a lot of noises outside approaching the building.
Soon the building full of heavily armed goblins. She kept her hands empty and watched them carefully.
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She decided to greet one. A maceman, by the name of usbu Amulsmunsti seemed friendly enough. He even petted the elephant.
Callisto decided to search the other buildings and leave the locals alone.
The next building was split into two rooms that just had books. She picked them up and read them before moving on.
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She noticed that three of the books had been about Forts. And well written at that.
The next building was sleeping quarters full of goblins and humans.
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Being somewhat crowded, and not wishing to talk to anybody as they didn't really have much interesting to say, Callisto left the building and moved on to explore the walls.
She worked her way to the top of the walls, which were twice as high as the other Fort, where she had a meal while looking over the wastes.
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She decided to leave the Fort and explore the river to the east of the river she had been following. She believed she could find the source of the mystery river.
Night fall before she could reach it. So she started a campfire and went to sleep.
What would the other river take her. To its source? To sauce? To the middle of nowhere?
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Dwarf Fortress - The World Of Bones - The Adventures Of Callisto
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So Callisto, and her beloved elephant, woke up the next morning and headed east to find the new river.
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Once she reached it she headed north to see where it ended or where it started.
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And she found the end and explored it. They found a bunch of small streams combining together. Suggesting this was the source of the river. And also found food in the form of a badger.
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She butchered the kill, make sure her skins were full of water, and decided to follow this new river southwards. Maybe the two rivers would meet.
In fact the two rivers did join up and continued south.
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She stopped to eat and drink before moving on.
Soon she found a area which, once again, the river seemed to have spread out. Like a small lake. Which seemed to create mist or fog? Turned out the clouds were rain.
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There seemed to be a couple of saguaros and highwood trees growing near the lake. And there were also herds of hippos and many ducks and ospreys. The lakes in this world seemed to be a great place to live near.
Why do people NOT live near the lakes?
After a break to eat and drink from the river she continued south. There seemed to be so much life along the rivers. Which made sense.
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Then the river ended. And she had to make a choice. Strike out to the south and continue to explore. Or turn around and find out how far the first river went the other way?
And why were there buzzards here? Shoo!
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Dwarf Fortress - The World Of Bones - The Adventures Of Callisto
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Callisto decided to stay with the main river and head north. At least she could travel knowing she was near water and animals to hunt.
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Turned out buzzards were not worth killing as they didn’t have enough meat to be worth it.
It takes a few days to pass the two Forts and other lakes she had found. She found herself at a massive lake or inland sea. A new one.
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It seemed very big and seemed to generator its own weather. She explored the shores to see what wildlife lived here. Sadly the rain make it hard to examine the region and she decided to follow the waters north.
When it was time to settle down and make a camp her Elephant ran after some wildlife. Which ran so fast she could not see what it was.
Callisto hoped her pet would find her in the morning after she had her fun.
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By morning her pet was back. And even after eating a meal and having some water her tummy still growled. But she lets the snapping turtles she passes alone.
A few days later, to the east was a massive lake. Bigger than the others. And while the river splits to feed, or come from, the lake it also continued north.
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She pondered continuing to head north. Or checking out this large body of water and, maybe, even settle down there?
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Dwarf Fortress - The World Of Bones - The Adventures Of Callisto
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Callisto decided to check out the largest lake she had ever seen. And maybe follow any new rivers she found going to or coming from it.
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Callisto circled around the lake but noticed little in the way of wildlife. At that point she decided to follow a new river heading south from the lake.
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She followed the river till nightfall and went to bed. She was woken up by a pack of dingoes.
They kind of looked as surprised as she and her pet Elephant. Maybe they had noticed the campfire and didn’t realize she was there also?
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Either way it looked like a fight was on. The dingoes rushed her and her pet. And almost overwhelmed them. She was pinned under one and bleeding. But she fought back with teeth, mace, and buckler.
Many was killed and the rest, wounded, ran off. Her pet was wounded and she went to it to fight off the dingoes who were attackinbg it. She brought her pet back to the fire before going to sleep.
The next day she butchered one of the dead dingoes for its meat. She had been wounded but she had healed during her second sleep. And her pet seemed to have recovered also.
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Now where to go?
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I hardly ever see lakes in the game but you seem to be finding loads of them.
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I hardly ever see lakes in the game but you seem to be finding loads of them.
Yeah. Kind of weird. This is a world based on DarkSuns and there are no oceans. But rivers and lakes do exist. Which is good otherwise I would have run out of water days ago.
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Dwarf Fortress - The World Of Bones - The Adventures Of Callisto
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Callisto and her pet sleep for another four hours and wake up in the late morning with a flock of vulture nearby. Maybe drawn by the corpses of all the dingoes?
She had some gater meat and drank some water before moving on.
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And finds the edge of the world. Seems it just stopped. Oh well. Callisto decided to return to the river and continuing north. So she refilled one of her waterskins, which was empty, and heads back.
But not before trying to walk right up to the edge.
Funny. It was like a invisible wall.
It took about a day to get back to the main river which Callisto has decided to name the “Main” river.
She stopped to make a fire, eat, and sleep.
After waking up, filling the waterskins, she moved north and found another lake. Was it the source of the river? Or the end?
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Callisto and her pet explored the shores. She wondered if there was another outlet. Maybe to the north?
And noticed a town or hamlet to the north. Maybe worth a visit?
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And directly to the east seemed to be something. Buildings? Before heading over she ate some meat and drank some water and took a nap.
The structures seemed to be religious in nature. In other words she found a shrine.
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The statues were interesting but meant little to Callisto.
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After checking out the roof Callisto and her pet went inside, out of the rain, to check out the rest of the shrine.
It had more statues but nobody seemed to be attending it.
After leaving the shrine she found a pedestal with a four sided die.
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Of course she had to toss it. Why not?
“Do Not Avoid A Necessary Conflict Today.”
Callisto frowned and pondered the idea of avoiding a necessary conflict. Why would anybody avoid a necessary fight?
She placed the die back on the pedestal and decided to head north to the populated area.
The nearest Hamlet was named Fedleaps. And the nearest structure was named the Page of Honeys.
Callisto didn’t remember such names and approached the Page of Honeys.
Humans.
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The first human she talked to was Nilun Ngilshopapos a axeman. Who had very little information for her.
Though it seemed the Page of Honeys was where the government ruled from. Was it the local mead hall? Or City Hall?
And there were thirteen other villages nearby and the main trading market was at Warmthamazes.
She left, noticing she was out of water, and went to refill her skins at the lake.
She had run out of rivers. And now had some interesting villages to explore. Should she explore them or go off to explore where the rivers didn’t go to try to find more Forts or Shrines?
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OOC : Wait...Warmthamazes....we started in this region! Or in one of the other villages....I've gone in a big circle!!!! Well, I have been following the rivers so I guess I ended up coming back. ::)
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Walking in circles isn't always a bad thing as you get to see things you didn't see the first time.
Also why not head to the towns, they always have interesting stuff going on in them.
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Dwarf Fortress - The World Of Bones - The Adventures Of Callisto
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After a short nap in the wild Callisto went back to explore the hamlets to the north. Would there be shops to trade her meat for more equipment? Maybe another backpack?
The local farmers seemed to grow Fisher berries. Good for brewing. Maybe they brewed the berries, as wine could last longer in storage than the berries, and then traded it to caravans? Not that Callisto every noticed caravans.
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By nightfall she found the hamlet of Fedleaps. She decided to explore the hamlet and find a house she could sleep in.
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She found a house with some humans and asked to sleep there. She was told she could. So she slept in a corner with her pet.
The next morning she ate breakfast and then went to find a store in the hamlet. And found none. It was all farmers’ houses and a shrine.
Though she did find a useful well to refill her skins.
Of course the well had a few humans around it and she talked to a few of them to try to get an idea of any shops in the area. There were none in the hamlet.
She left to the east and approached Threesavages, a new hamlet, on the hope of find a shop or two.
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Like the last hamlet, it was all houses, one shrine and one well. She didn’t bother to ask anybody any questions.
How would she find the MAIN trading town? Maybe if she asked where Warmthamazes was?
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And somebody was able to tell her. There was even a tavern there! So she would just have to go northwest.
So off she went. She passed a few hamlets, first Rinsedassault, then Cobaltway, then Searingtrust, then Tenderperplexed, while traveling. She noticed that the hamlets seemed to have a lot of trees among the fields. Were the people trying to push back the sand and heat by creating their own forests or were they using trees to keep the soil from blowing away? Or were they making wind breaks?
In the last hamlet she found traveling monks. But more importantly a NEW river. Where she refilled her skins.
It also suggested that the local natives were slightly smarter. They had at least built their houses and farms next to a water source.
The map showed Warmthamaze was only to the north. Maybe a few more hours away.
In fact there was a road to it. It was just north of Tenderperplexed.
So she was now here. But the edge of this “Town” was abandoned shops.
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Maybe trade wasn’t good as the farmers had said? Oh no! Would the tavern still be open?
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Dwarf Fortress - The World Of Bones - The Adventures Of Callisto
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Callisto first decided to explore the abandoned shops and houses. Maybe there was something useful? Or maybe she could find a clue why a major trading center was showing such decay?
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Ducks and turkeys seemed to walk the streets along side the humans who seemed to occupy the town.
She used a well to refill her skins and picked a house to take a nap in.
It was night when she woke up. She was well rested and decided to explore the town while the citizens slept.
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Was this town dead? Where did most of its people sleep?
There was a market but at night there was nobody. Though she did notice they sold a lot of different items. Maybe if she worked on some of the bones she carried she could sell them?
So she found a empty building and went to work.
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After making bone items she could wear she decided to nap till sunrise and go sell them to the traders. That way she could gain some coin and then try to find the tavern?
Of course the merchants made fun of her name but she tried to trade with them anyway.
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For her work she received two silver coins. Not bad. At least it was local coinage and more acceptable to the townsfolk.
Sadly while the traders knew of many people, places, and monsters, none seemed to know of a tavern. Maybe they were all from the hamlets?
Though she did find a tavern called the Mouth of Crewing. She decided to go on in and have a few drinks and ask for more information.
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Which didn’t seem to have any staff. So she decided to serve herself. At least she tried. There was no cups or goblets in the coffer she opened. It had musical stuff in it.
She examined the upstairs and found a bunch of empty bedrooms.
She pondered if she could make a bone cup or something?
She went back downstairs and finally found the coffer holding the goblets and mugs. She grabbed a rose gold goblet.
After drinking some sewer drew she decided to head out and explore what seemed to be a fortress in the middle of the town. No doubt a better part of town. Or the center of the government.
She returned the goblet to the coffer (while pouring some of the sewer brew into one of her packs) and left the tavern.
Nope. Inside the walls were as bad as outside. Though she did pass the Lunches of Biting. But she passed it.
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She figured government officials would be more interesting to talk to.
The keep was…crowded…
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She started to chat with the Lord Consort Ecen Ewomlir. Who was pretty boring. So she tried to talk to the Chamberlain Shato Rabinlaspar. Who was less boring as he explained he had been a criminal a few years ago.
So Callisto decided to chat with the Baroness. Turned out the Baroness Rusna was just the Baroness Consort and the real ruler was Bushik Wanedurged who was also a Baroness. But a real one.
So she started to talk to the Baroness Bushik.
Callisto asked to become a hearthperson and the Baroness turned her down. “You are not worthy.”
She asked if she could be a performer and didn’t even hear any answer. Mostly because everybody was talking.
She decided to try to perform something for the crowd. Maybe she could get a job as a performer if she could show some skill. Outside of hunting and bonecrafts.
So she told the tale of the founding of the Abbey of Blossoming! Sadly while she started out well she screwed up some of the details and the crowd decided she sucked.
Then she decided to give a sermon on Commerce. Surely a trading center, even one as poor as this one, would enjoy a sermon related to trade?
Once again she started out well and then it went downhill.
And the crowd was more than happy to tell her she sucked at it. Tough crowd.
Sadly, this was unlikely to get her a job in the town.
Still, if you drown while trying to swim, try try again. Or something like that.
So she tried another sermon. This time about the value of Hard Work. Maybe not the BEST value to preach about to a bunch of upper class snobs who lived in the middle of a ruined city.
Once again it started out well but soon her lack of skill showed and the crowd started to toss insults at her.
She tried to talk to the real Baroness again but the ruler was less than impressed by Callisto’s performances or how many animals she had killed in the wild. And she finally broke off the chit-chat.
Callisto frowned. She wanted to join in a society. But this one didn’t want her.
And to be honest she wasn’t sure she wanted to stay here. The hamlet’s were cleaner and more friendly.
Should she continue to try to impress these folks? Maybe go on quests? Or maybe go to one of the hamlets and try to find a job here? Did the hamlets have jobs?!?!
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Seems weird that there are that many people living in a town that dead, also why would you want to live with all those snobs, bet you could find nicer people somewhere else in a more lively place.
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Seems weird that there are that many people living in a town that dead, also why would you want to live with all those snobs, bet you could find nicer people somewhere else in a more lively place.
I plan to stay in the trading center, torture the snobs while practicing my skills at story telling and preaching. Once I get good at it I can go to one of the hamlets and see if they will take me in as a performer or priest. I just have to figure out who to ask permission to join the hamlet...
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After enough time they shall lean to love your story telling!
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Callisto decided to continue to practice in front of the live audience. And when she became tired she could easily find someplace to take a nap in the keep.
As she pondered what story to tell next many in crowd petted Lekla.
She decided to tell a few tales of the dwarfs who lived in the Abbey of Blossoming.
Mixed with sermons, of course. And even a poem or two.
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The crowd’s reaction was…mixed.
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The Baroness still, even after so many performances, needed to something REALLY good before she would agree to make Callisto a performer.
So Callisto continued to practice on the room of Nobles, clerks, and abbots.
Then she took a piece of bone and made it into a scepter and gave it to the Baroness. She liked it but it didn’t change her mind.
So she went back to telling tales and poems.
She then took a break to read some books that were on the floor. What a messy place this was.
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Then she spent a few hours, away from the crowd, to compose a new poem. Incineration And Nothing More. It was truly awful. So of course she used it on the crowd. Maybe it would be used as a weapon for future generations?
By the tine she finished some in the crowd seemed to have liked it. Weirdos.
Also by now she was getting sleepy. She asked if she could sleep in the keep and was told by the Baroness Bushik “The Honeys of Luster is west.”
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Callisto, realizing she had been dismissed, decided to leave the keep.
What a bunch of jerks.
She wandered about until she found the Portentous Date, a tavern, and entered it.
It was empty. But the bedrooms upstairs were clean and not occupied. She picked the nearest one to the stairs and went to sleep after having a meal.
She woke up in the midnight of the night to a growling. Her tummy. She had a midnight meal and went back to sleep.
When she woke up she went back to the keep to continue to practice. And pick up her bones which she had dropped on the floor.
She did some more tall tales, a few poems, a few sermons, and even tried to sound like a vir. Then she tried to sound like a angish. Some in the crowd joined in. Mixed results again.
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After a few more performances she decided to leave the keep. It was just too annoying to get such bad feedback from the crowd of snobs. Maybe she could find a hamlet to try her story telling skills with.
Also her waterskins were almost empty.
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At the river, where she refilled her skins, the town was still mostly ruins. Lots of people, mostly humans and dwarfs, and a shrine here and there. But mostly there was ruins.
As she left the town, heading towards the Hamlet Tenderperplexed, she did pass some open businesses and even a market place. Even a few houses that still housed people. So the town had a few working structures. But most of it was still ruins. And flocks of ducks.
She was beginning to think that the trading town had been nothing but monks, traders, and a government that ruled, and taxed, them. A town of people who didn't live in the town. Just travelers and traders. Like the town was one big tavern. Not that the taverns were staffed.
She decided that the only business was trade. But the trade from the hamlets was no longer able to support such a large town and people had gone elsewhere.
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As she approached the hamlet she wondered if she could find a job or home. If all the people had fled to the hamlets to find work that suggested that there might not be able positions left for her.
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Callisto and her elephant approached the hamlet. She noticed there was a group running about the fields and tried to interact with them.
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Turned out to be a bunch of human monks and a goblin doctor?
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After a small chat she moved to Tenderperplexed. Which was nothing but houses and one Skrine.
She decided to ask about the government. Maybe of she found the Mayor or Ruler she could join the hamlet?
She entered a house and asked a animal trainer about who ran the hamlet. Seemed a Lady named Thram Smilescrape, in the Mead Hall named Cloudy Howls, was the ruler.
So Callisto went off to find the Mead Hall.
She noticed the populace was mostly humans with a few goblins here and there. And some of them liked to talk to her pet elephant. One even agrued with it about something. Weirdos.
She found that the Cloudy Howls was to the east of the hamlet. Maybe where the upper class lived and worked?
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She entered the Mead Hall and asked for a job. Either as a performer or as a hearthperson. The Lady turned her down.
So Callisto told a few tales and did some sermons. Even a poem.
Turned out the upper class is still the upper class. Even when they lived in a Mead Hall in a farming hamlet. Snobs! They had mixed reactions to her skill. Mostly insults.
So she went to another room and turned the gator bones into art. Earrings, rings, and so on. Stuff she could wear, trade, or give as gifts.
She gave the Lady a bone crown. Funny enough the Lady already had a human hair crown. Why would a human wear a human hair crown?
The Lady refused to hire Callisto but agreed that, when nightfall came, she could sleep in the Hall.
So she read a book about a cook which she found on the floor. The only book there. At least the rulers of the ruined town had a bunch of books. Also stored on the ground....were there no libraries?
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Callisto sighed. What to do now? If she wanted a job she might have to go on a quest and maybe kill a monster or return a item. Or get killed.
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So Callisto went to the Lady and asked about troubles.
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There seemed to be a lot of them. The town Rulers had no problems while it seemed the hamlets had troubles for days.
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The Callisto asked about the missing treasure but the Lady Thram didn’t seem to want to answer. So she started talking to a Pikeman named Sizet Sugtegism.
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So a rib scepter was missing….ewww…
Stolen by a human mummy named Zih Moltenqueens. Really? And people made fun of her name.
Sadly the Pikeman had no idea where the human mummy or even who to ask to find out.
So she started asking everybody.
And found out, after a lot of questioning, that the mummy was at Holedell? A tower to the southwest.
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She was even able to get directions to it!
She left the Meadhall and checked the map.
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It didn’t seem THAT far away. But towers were bad news. Not just full of monsters and traps. But hidden rooms and junk. Even if she defeated a mummy would she find the scepter?
And would there be sources of water on the way?
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And so Callisto and her pet elephant started by following the river south for a period of time before heading southwest.
After a few days travel, and after butchering a peacock, she arrived at the hamlet or Passionfights. Which had a river flowing right up to it. No doubt why the people had built their hamlet there.
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The hamlet was full of ruined houses and abandoned buildings.
There was nobody around and she moved on. She killed and butchered animals when she needed the meat and kept a close eye on her skins so as to keep them full when she needed to.
Sadly, the mountain blocked her from going to Holedell directly. She would have to find a round about way to get to the Tower. And she was running low on water.
She had to go through a evil forest to find a lake to refill her water skins and try to find something to hunt. She was out of meat.
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Would she be able to resupply herself before she starved? Would she find a way to the Tower? Did she take a wrong turn?
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Callisto was having a problem. There didn’t seem to be any animals around the large lake. And non of the plants were something she could eat. She wondered about how long she could last without meat or veggies?
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She tried climbing a orange tree but it had no fruit for her to harvest.
As she approached the south side of the lake she started to melt and bleed! She ran back to the north and tried to recover by drinking some of the sewer brew.
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What happened? Did the heat get too much? Even where she was resting it was burning.
At least she had survived. But if the tower was in a region too hot to travel in then trying to recover the treasure was pretty much out of the question.
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She checked herself and realized it was time to head someplace safe. And she still needed food.
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Time to give up the quest and find meat. So she made a run for the nearest sign of civilization she could detect, to the west, and searched it for food and shelter. Luteclustered, as it was called, was a farming hamlet and, sadly, had little in the way of shops, taverns, or even warehouses.
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At least there was fresh water.
The strawberry fields seemed to laugh as her as she wandered about looking for ANYTHING to eat.
The people were mostly farmers and they were willing to allow her to sleep in their homes if she wanted. From what she could tell, from asking them questions, there was little in the area and little to trade. This part of the world was even less populated than all the regions she had visited before!
As she searched for food, wandering among their fields, she found spinach growing in one of the fields. Which she could eat!!!!
She ate a few leafs and then picked a abandoned building to sleep in. From its many rooms she assumed it had been used as a warehouse during a more profiable period in the hamlet's existence.
By morning she was feeling a tad better. She picked some more spinach to eat and put in her backpack.
At least she was no longer on the edge of death. And she would have more scars to show off to the natives.
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I wander what happened to cause the melting?
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I wander what happened to cause the melting?
I have heard that regions can become superhot but this was weird. I was lucky to find someplace with food. There were no animals in this region. Truly a wasteland.
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Callisto decided she owed the local government for all the spinach she had eaten. And stuffed into her backpack.
So she went in search of the local mead hall. Maybe she could tell them a few sermons in exchange fir the spinach?
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From a farmer she found out the person in charge was the Lady Busbel Deskstockade. Of course she had to ask around to find out where the Lady was.
Nobody seemed to know where she was so Callisto went searching for a mead hall or city hall.
While searching she found a herd of horses and camels. She attacked one of the fat horses. She needed meat.
They ran away after a few hits so she went after the camels. Sadly, even wounded, they were too fast to chase down.
After a few tries she gave up and went back to looking for the Mead Hall. Which she found. Which was called the furious Savior.
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And yes, the Lady was there. So Callisto chatted with her a tad before asking for a job. Any job. She was turned down of course.
So she gave a few sermons, did some poetry, and even a few tales.
Once again there were mixed reactions from the crowd. Nobody in these lands understand Callisto’s art!
At least the Lady was willing to let Callisto stay there the night if need be. But jobs were still off the table.
Callisto sighed and asked about…troubles.
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Seems the Lady’s son had been kidnapped by Stozu Wheelsmenaced. A goblin. The Callisto pondered this and asked where this Wheelsmenaced was. Of course the Lady had not a clue. But suggested Callisto ask Anur Presentcontain who was a well traveled traveller.
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Turned out Stozu was a protector of the defenseless and so on. He was a holy fountain. Whatever that meant.
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But the Lady had no idea where to find Anur who knew where Stozu would be. Callisto sighed and decided to explore the Mead Hall and ask the crowd for information.
Turned out there were armies on the march, abductions, beasts, and other troubles. Were there no law enforcement? No jails? No Heroes?
She finally ran into Anur himself! Well, a Anur anyway. And asked about Stozu.
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Callisto was disappointed to learn that Anur, well, this one anyway, knew nothing about the goblin in question.
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Nor did the Holy Fountain know where the goblin might be.
Callisto was beginning to think all the people in this world were worthless idiots.
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Then Callisto had a brilliant idea. Why not ask Anur Ocnaputi about Anur Presentcontain?
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But when asking about Presentcontain Ocnaputi just talked about himself. Ehhh????
When she asked where Anur Presentcontain WAS Anur Ocnaputi replied with a strange answer.
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So…Presentcontain and Ocnaputi were one and the same.
But that brought up some…interesting information.
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He had no idea who the son of the local Ruler was? Oh boy. So she switched tracks and asked about the missing Treasure.
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A MUMMY wanted a book returned? She wasn’t touching that with a ten meter pole.
Callisto decided to stop asking questions for a tad and relaxed by doing some more poetry and sermons.
After the performances, in which some of the crowd retched, jerks, Callisto went back to asking questions. And getting mostly nowhere.
Maybe she could ask about OTHER troubles. Ones that were not about kidnapped kids nobody could find or treasures taken from mummies. She asked one of the warriors about the…’skulking vermin’.
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That sounded more like something she could handle. Now to find monastery called Notchfaint. She was told it was far to the northeast. Great. At least that was not toward the burning, melting, region.
She left the mead hall to check her map.
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Well, it didn’t look far. And there seemed to be rivers on the way.
Callisto sighed and wondered if this was the start of her fame. Or was she going to be killed by a bunch of crazy cultists.
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But when asking about Presentcontain Ocnaputi just talked about himself. Ehhh????
When she asked where Anur Presentcontain WAS Anur Ocnaputi replied with a strange answer.
So…Presentcontain and Ocnaputi were one and the same.
Yes, "Presentcontain" is just the English translation of "Ocnaputi" from the DF human language.
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Yes, "Presentcontain" is just the English translation of "Ocnaputi" from the DF human language.
Ohhh....that explains that. On the other hand now I have to deal with a language barrier! Darn you realistic settings!
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Callisto decided that, before going on her new quest, she would reenter the mead hall and try to recruit some of the soldiers and others inside. After all, if she was going after what seemed to be bandits having a GROUP of adventurers with her would even out the odds.
As long as she didn’t need to pay them.
And none wanted to join her. Some because their duty was in the mead hall and some because they feared not getting their share of the adventure and the rewards. In other words Callisto was a nobody and they didn’t trust her.
So she decided to start on her “Quest” with nobody but herself and her elephant.
As night came she came up a hamlet named Tattooeddawned. At least there was a river there.
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She ate some, slept till dawn, and then noticed some nearby camels. She might need more than spinach on her quest and she tried to sneak up on one to attack it.
She wounded a few but even hurt they ran faster than she could and she gave up and went to the river to refill her skins.
She found the hamlet full of ruins and abandoned buildings. Another place of broken dreams and empty purses. Just a lot of camels and horses and a few poor human farmers.
She marched all day and passed another hamlet called Rinsetuft. She checked out the populated areas only to find this hamlet had houses that was well cared for. Interesting. She didn’t stick around so she had no idea HOW this hamlet was so rich and well taken care of. What did they trade in?
Late afternoon they came upon another river where she stopped to search for something to hunt or gather.
She found and killed a snake which gave her one piece of meat. Enough for one meal. At least the river gave her some water to drink.
Luckily they were almost at Notchfaint.
They had to make camp one more time. But they were only a few hours away. When they woke up, after a small breakfast, Callisto and her pet marched northeast towards Nothcfaint and the bandits.
When they reached the monastery Callisto pulled out her iron mace and buckler. Time to fight.
Next chapter - will she die? Will she murder them all? Will they have loot? Will killing a bunch of people she didn’t know get her a place in polite civilized society?
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Well, time to hunt down the bandits and kill them all! While searching for the vermin she found a iron statue and a native platinum pedestal with a die. Surrounded by potato plants.
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She examine the iron statue.
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She grabbed some potato plants to see if they were something that could be useful. They were, sadly, not something she could eat. Though she did find some spinach.
Then she continued her hunt.
And she found a building. She heard no noises from inside. But if the bandits had killed the monks who use to live here….maybe there was nobody left inside to make noises….
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Of course…if the bandits were still sleeping? Or out raiding? She went in.
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The building turned out to be empty. Two rooms that were emtpy. Maybe a looted warehouse?
There was no sign of any monks or bandits. Though she did notice a troupe of gray langurs in the distance to the north once she exited it.
She started to circle outwards. Maybe they had a camp?
She found some tracks of weasels but no bandits.
She found a statue and a alter.
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Interesting but not very useful.
After that she sighted some one-hump camels. But where were the bandits? Was she in the right spot?
She stopped to check her map. It suggested there was another building. Which she soon found.
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The building had been a meeting hall or dining hall. Maybe for the monks?
She checked the map and headed east to find another building. One with beds.
This one also had Kobolds!
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Well, seems she had found the vermin. But when she looked them over she noticed they were unarmed.
So they were likely just thieves. Was she meant to kill them?
She tried to talk to them but…well, Kobolds had no language.
Callisto frowned. The Kobolds were thieves yes, but these were unarmed and pretty harmless. Killing them seemed…unjust some how.
She tried to ask about the local leader. Maybe she could get them to move to parts unknown so as to stop annoying the local governments. But it was useless. And she had a job to do.
So she attacked. She killed one and wounded the others who fled out of the building. She examined the dead one and, somehow, found out it was named Shrulin.
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When she left the building the wounded Kobolds had returned and almost ran into her. Funny enough they ran past her and into the building.
Soon another Kobold was down on the ground. Dead.
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The other wounded Kobolds ran away so Callisto went to examine the second corpse. Seemed this one was named Dabagafayrsnin. What a weird name.
Callisto waited in the, what she decided must have been the barracks for the monks, for one of the Kobolds to return. One of them did and she ambushed it as it came into the southern doorway.
She killed it easily.
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Its name seemed to be Pagachimus.
She decided to wait again and see if the last Kobold decided to come back to the building.
It would sneak in, she would hit it with her mace, and it would flee. But each time it was hit a bone would be smashed or a major organ would be smashed.
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Finally, the last Kobold named Lrukustraybin, was killed.
Callisto sighed. Her quest was over.
She examined Lekla.
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The pet was not looking well. Her trunk had been damaged by the dingos and these Kobolds had also wounded her legs and feet.
Callisto, herself, had long since healed and only had scars to show she had ever been in combat. The Kobolds hadn’t touched her.
She decided to sleep in the building till dawn the next morning and then return to the hamlet to announced her victory.
But she found it hard to sleep in the building with all the dead Kobolds.
So first she butchered them and took their skulls.
Then she moved south. As far away as she could from the site.
At the nearest hamlet call Tinferries, she piled the skulls together in a clearing outside the hamlet, used them to fuel her campfire, and went to sleep.
By morning, as she ate a breakfast, the flames had turned the skulls to ashes.
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Their bodies were butchered and their skulls destroyed. It was unlikely they would come back as undead or ghosts. Callisto hoped.
Also Lekla had healed. At least the wounds she had received from the Kobolds.
Now to tell the hamlet of what she had done.
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she headed southwest towards the hamlet of Luteclustered.
The return was somewhat boring. She saw some animals, made sure to keep her skins full of water, and ate spinach and the snake meat.
She also washed herself off by swimming across one of the rivers.
She was even was able to hunt down a male ostrick and collect a good amount of fresh meat.
Soon she was stepping into the Furious Savior.
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After telling the tales of how Callisto murdered some Kobolds in Notchfainted in cold blood the Lady was happy to make her a Hearthpeople.
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Callisto now had a job! And she was given her first assignment. To kill a leopard that threatened the people. It was named Squashedflashes and lived in the lair of Ivygloomy in the Sewers of Abating.
Callisto sighed and pondered how she was going to hate her first assignment. She asked WHERE Abating was.
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It turned out to be a half day’s travel to the northwest. The Lady Busbel happily marked it on Callisto’s map.
Callisto went outside and checked the map. It truly wasn't that far. Well....now she was chasing down a big cat.
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First, Callisto asked if anybody would go with her. Now she was an employee asking co-workers to come with her the hope was many would come along with her. Surely they wanted to hunt down and kill a cut kitty?
And nobody would join her still. They seemed to be worried about sharing the glory and loot with such a ‘large band’.
Callisto wondered if that was a ‘fat’ joke directed towards her elephant.
So she gave up and started on her journey.
Northwest it was!
She passed through a hamlet called Steppebooks. She only stopped to refill the skins.
She stopped for the night with the Ivygloomy only a few hours ago.
The next day, after a small meal, she was off again.
According to the map at one point she had passed it.
She kept looking and even had to have another meal while looking.
And then she found it!
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Seemed to be a ramp that stank into the sand.
The tunnel was…well, empty. And not really a sewer either. Or maybe a VERY old sewer?
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Seems the big cat wasn’t at home. Now what?!?!?
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Maybe you could wait around a bit and see if it comes back.
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Or look for tracks. Or wander about the area in the travel screen looking for any * to investigate.
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Or look for tracks. Or wander about the area in the travel screen looking for any * to investigate.
Maybe you could wait around a bit and see if it comes back.
Both good ideas. First I will patrol the travel map. If nothing happens I will sleep as close to the "Sewer" as I can and see if I get attacked in my sleep....better sleep with the mace close.
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Callisto decided to patrol the area around the…Sewer? More like a den. Either way the big cat MAY be hunting. Which would be why it wasn’t in the den.
Wait, didn’t leopards hunt at night? Either way, she started to make ever bigger circles around the den.
She noticed movement to the west heading right towards the Sewer and turned around to try to meet the unknown individual or group.
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It ran and Callisto, with her pet, gave chase.
It was a LEOPARD!
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Callisto mounted Lekla and charged the big cat. She hoped to reach it before it fled. They had the good luck to hit from behind.
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Eh….that was easy. Well, Lekla killed it to be honest.
She butchered the dead cat. Took its meat and skull.
Maybe she should deliver the skull to her Boss Lady?
She slept in the fields of the hamlet of Steppebooks after having dinner . Which was in the Blue Hills. Called that because of the…hills.
She had breakfast the next morning and refilled her skins. And also have some sewer brew. Just to help keep her warm. Part of the river had been frozen.
When she got to mead hall, before entering, she took a swim in the nearby river to wash off any blood or dirt she might have picked up during her travels.
She was now wet but clean.
After greeting Lady Busbel, and giving her a report, she gave her Liege two gifts. One was the skull of the, now, dead big cat.
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AND a gater bone scepter she just happened to have in her backpack. The Lady didn't really seem impressed.
Then Callisto went to ask Anur about anything else she could solve. Every time she asked the Lady about troubles the Boss Lady always, and only, talked about her kidnapped son.
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Turned out there were REAL bandits bothering the people. Anur said their camp was to the north and marked it on Callisto’s map.
Callisto went outside and checked the map in the sunlight.
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By the duck flies it looked about two days away. Maybe three.
Callisto checked her inventory.
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She had enough meat for the journey. And, as always, would have to keep an eye out for water. And her equipment was in good shape.
All her wounds had healed and she was doing well. Still, bandits would likely not be Kobolds. They would also be armed and dangerous. She might want to think about how to approach the camp.
Maybe at night?
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OOC NOTE: The patrol idea worked. Thanks! The silly cat had me chase it for about half a day!
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Dwarf Fortress - The World Of Bones - The Adventures Of Callisto
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Of course, before heading out to hunt down the bandits, she asked a few of the people inside the mead hall if they wanted to join. They all turned her down. Mostly with the excuse that their place was in the mead hall.
What they seemed to be doing at the time was telling each other bad jokes.
Callisto sighed and left the mead hall.
Outside she decided on a title for herself. She didn’t just want to be known as a maceman. So she decided on the title…Cleaner.
She also gave her pet the nickname ‘Kitty Killer’. She then headed, with her pet, north.
On the way north she found a river, where she refilled her skins, and something else. Peat. Wasn’t that used as fuel?
They moved north again, crossed the river as it went west and found a flock of giant cockatiel. Which of course they attacked because Callisto was always worried about having enough rations.
They picked a large one and killed it. Then butchered it. None of the other birds reacted.
Now she had too much meat to carry.
By afternoon she was within walking distance of the bandit camp.
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She decided it was time to take a little nap, let darkness come, and then kill the bandits in a surprise attack. Hopefully.
She slept four hours, ate a meal, started towards the camp, dropped the extra meat she could not carry, armed herself with mace and buckler, and guided the elephant through the darkness.
She wanted to scout out the camp, see if the bandits were sleeping, before attacking.
As she come closer to the camp there were trees which she tried to use to hide her approach.
She started to notice a chest and a bag. She was on the edge of the camp. Now to kill!
After searching she realized that the camp was the chest and the bag. She took the silver and gold coins. And a pair of copper gauntlets. And pondered what to do next.
She started to circle and BEHOLD! A sleeping goblin.
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Callisto mounted her elephant and stared down at the goblin. There was no sign of any weapons outside of a knife. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
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She butchered him, took his knife and much of his money, then went back to circling.
After a few sweeps she started to wonder if the one goblin was the ‘bandits’. And she wanted to find a place to keep some of her coins.
So she claimed the bandit camp as hers, naming it the Camp of Clearing, dumped some of her coins and extra items into the chest.
She even put some meat in it and the extra waterskin refilled with water. She only needed two skins anyway. Maybe she would be this way again or maybe future adventurers would need it?
On the way to Lutecluster she was running low on meat and decided to hunt on the journey.
They totally failed to kill a giant Barn Owl but Callisto did find some wild spinach. Oh yummy.
She returned to the Furious Savior tired but healthy and told the tale of how she killed the…er…’bandits’. Well, how her pet killed the bandits. Well, one bandit.
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Then she slept for eight hours in the mead hall. When she woke up she was starving and thirsty. So she had some spinach and water.
Everybody in the mead hall was sleeping. Mostly on the ground.
Callisto realized that as a Lady of her own holding she may no longer be a heathperson of the
Lady of the Furious Savior.
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Was she an unemployed Noble now?
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Dwarf Fortress - The World Of Bones - The Adventures Of Callisto
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Callisto had a series if short naps till the sun rose into the sky. Then she asked for her position from the Lady, who made her a hearthperson again. Then Callisto asked for her next quest.
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Callisto frowned. Wasn’s a Ettin a two headed giant? Even her pet might have a hard time with such a monster. She tried to find out more about the creature. Mostly where to find it.
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She didn’t bother to ask anybody to join her and went out to check her map.
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It did not look that far away. Hopefully she could find some animals to hunt on the way.
Callisto sighed and started marching northeast.
She traveled through Tattooeddawned and refilled her skins at the river.
From there she moved straight east, traveling through the hamlet of Rinsetuft.
As she approached where the ettin lived she noticed a lot of ibexes.
And ravens. Lots of those.
She also discovered her bags held no more meat or spinach. Uh oh. The next animal she saw, who was not her pet, would become rations.
Funny enough she found a small guppy.
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Could she eat it? Nope. She dropped it.
As she headed north she started to find a LOT of stuff on the ground.
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She searched them for anything interesting, of use, or something she could eat.
She found some items of value and also ate a mussel.
After picking up a LOT of cool stuff she found a cave entrance.
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“Crap,” she whispered to herself. Funny enough she sensed it but could not FIND the entrance.
They climbed to the top of a nearby hill top and still found nothing.
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Maybe if they set up camp and went to sleep for a few hours and searched at night? Could they find it sleeping?
“If I can’t find the cave entrance I can’t find it sleeping or not,” she mumbled to herself.
Problem was she was getting drowsy.
But after much searching about the hill where all the items was dumped about she found a cave.
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And the Ettin got the drop on THEM!
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Then it was all a blur of action. The Ettin attacked Callisto a couple of time and missed. She was too fast. But its strikes against Lekla were landing. In fact soon the elephant was having problems breathing!
As the Ettin was pulling her pet apart it finally let its guard down and Callisto smashed her mace into its right lung.
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Then Lekla was dead and the ettin could focus all its might on Callisto.
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Then there was darkness.
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Well crap and things were working out so well until that last quest.
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Well crap and things were working out so well until that last quest.
Yeah. The Ettin was way above my paylevel. Not that I was getting paid. I should of just looted the place and see if any of the items was a treasure I could return to the Lady. But don't worry - I have plans for The World of BONES!
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But don't worry - I have plans for The World of BONES!
Exciting!
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Dang. I quite enjoyed Callisto's adventures. RIP.
But, I guess, with an ettin and all, it was inevitable.
But don't worry - I have plans for The World of BONES!
Waiting to see what more the world has to offer!