Onec spent the next morning in the woods nearby town, training. The last thing she expected to find on her way back was a band of bandits.
(Plus a marksdwarf and bowman across the river).
She dispatched everybody with amazing ease, using her newly begotten (read: stolen from a mead hall) silver mace. She felt much, much more powerful than ever before, and courageous enough to venture away from the hamlet she grew up in toward one of the fortresses in the more remote parts of the world. But first, she wanted to visit Creviceglad and see the chaos that she had heard rumored.
But before that, she was going to drop off some more skulls at the museum. See, she had one from an alligator, an ibex, a white stork, a honey badger, a boar, a goblin, and a dwarf. If she couldn't bring back something epic, she at least was going to make a catalogue of (dented) skulls in the museum.
In Creviceglad, Onec saw buildings with dead animal men, and met one badass, crossbow-carrying priest.
Randomly, in the street, one of Onec's companions sprinted forward without saying anything.
"What are you doing! Get back here!" Onec yelled, then swore, taking off after him. By the time she caught up, the companion, a pikeman, was laying into a reptile man vampire. The pikeman punched the vampire in the mouth, sending teeth and blood flying everywhere. They were on a rooftop now, and the fight seemed to be very onesided. Thinking quickly, Onec put some of the vampire's blood in one of her empty waterskins. She had heard rumors that vampire blood could convert the drinking into a vampire themselves, and that would be potentially valuable in the future...
Onec came to her senses and sprung to join in on the fight. They had the reptile man cornered on the rooftop, a three story drop below. Onec landed a couple hits, painful, heavy hits, but the reptile man refused to go down.
He must not be able to feel pain, Onec thought, as the desperate vampire jumped off the roof to escape them.
"Hey, not on my watch!" Onec yelled as she grabbed onto the ledge of the roof, attempting pursuit. But she was getting much too ahead of herself. She had never climbed anything in her life. She lost grip and fell all the way down...
Onec figured it wouldn't be the last time her armor saved her. She quickly gathered her senses. She looked around. The vampire and her were in an small, alley, and there was only one exit. She quickly stepped between her enemy and the only way out.
She took stock of her opponent and saw that the fall had damaged his arms, head, and one leg. He was reduced to crawling. After a few glancing blows and a few more outright misses, Onec connected.
As the figurative smoke cleared, Onec realized that she had just done her first heroic deed.
"Well, his skull will make a nice addition to the collection at the Museum."
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Skills and attributes update:
EDIT: I'm headed toward bookamazes. It's an extremely slow journey, because of companions, rivers, evil lands, and the fact that DF crashes about half the time when I try to fast travel or sleep.
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Topic: The Museum II; adventure succession world (game is finished) (Read 110563 times)