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Friday, January 23, 2004

Rallic Packs & Foraging Machetes, Oh My! 

By Nysa

"I've got everything I need to complete the quest," Cen said, again, in a pleading voice.

I looked over at him, not in the mood for questing today. "Can't we just go and kill things?" I asked. This disappointed look in his eyes changed my attitude. "Okay," I told him. "Tell me what we've got to do."

It still amazes me how he can go from utter disappointment to sheer excitement in a second. He explained the last part of the quest to me, and the idea began to sound more agreeable. We only had to kill one creature, then run to Katta Castellum and turn everything in. Katta is one of my favorite cities, though I'd only visited it twice before. It would be a pleasure to travel to the massive metropolis carved into the side of a cliff. Plus, we'd be going through zones I'd never been through before.

Using my Invisible and Levitate spells, Cen & I ran without problems through the Grimling Forest. We found the cave that led to the Tenebrous Mountains, and sat to wait for the grimling runner who held the last piece of Cen's quest. We hadn't been there two seconds when he ran by us, but Cen realized that another adventurer was waiting on him as well. We sat, knowing he'd re-appear in 90 mins, rather than steal this guy's kill. Cen suggested we kill sonic wolves and we spent the next 80 or so minutes doing so, both getting close to a full bulb of experience.

When we had only 10 minutes left to go, we sat and waited. I, just inside the cave where we knew he would spawn, and Cen sitting at the cave's entrance, in case he ran past me. Soon I saw the ugly little creature streak by. I jumped down and gave him a nasty slash with my Centi, and he turned to attack me. I yelled to Cen that we had him, and he came in swinging. The runner was no match for our quick swords, and fell almost too easily. Cen looted the pattern he needed from the corpse, and we began the run to Katta.

Did I mention I love this city? I was able to track down Rallic Aristos for Cen very easily and he became the proud owner of his very first Rallic Pack. He went to the bank to do some business, and I wandered around - just enjoying the scenery. I found a small Halfling woman in a large garden and struck up a conversation with her. When she mentioned that she was looking for a good forager to find some rare plants, I offered my services. She agreed to give me a Foraging Machete, something I'd always wanted, for my time.

I hunted down Cen, who was in Katta's great pub of course, and told him we had another quest to go on. Since I already had the required Dawnflower Seeds sitting in the bank (foraged on a zelniak-hunting evening in Dawnshroud Peaks), I knew the rest of the quest would be a breeze. Excited, we decided to first go to the Twilight Sea just outside the city to try and forage the first item. We relaxed on the small island across from Katta, fishing and drinking while I poked around looking for a Twilight Orchid. It didn't take long to find one, and we put up our fishing poles and headed for the Scarlet Desert. We'd never been here before; it certainly is a shock to the senses to suddenly be surrounded by all of that red sky! We killed a few sunflowers and tried to take on a scarlet cheetah, but were almost killed ourselves! Somehow, in all of the ruckus, I was able to forage up the needed Red Sands Cactus. We headed, then, to Mons Letalis - a barren, wasteland filled with large stonegrabbers and rockhoppers. I cast Enduring Breath on us so we wouldn't have to worry about the pockets of no-oxygen that we ran into. It took some time, but I was eventually able to forage up a strange vine to finish off the quest.

We returned to Katta and handed the items over to the Halfing, and I was rewarded with my foraging machete.

To celebrate our day of successful questing, Cen and I went to Katta's infamous pub and got sloshed. I remember little of the rest of the night, though fragments do come to me of Cen and I fishing once more in the Twilight Sea...naked.

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