Vol. 5 - Journey - Chapter 42
Once his computer terminal was fully booted up, Darren checked his messages. Tamara, his lore obsessed friend, had gotten his message and promised to look into the history of the Garou. Thomas sent a reply and retold the story he'd heard from Snowlily's mother again. Just in case he forgot to mention anything the first time he told Tamara. His other messages mostly consisted of spam and were summarily deleted.
With his messages checked he went to a forum. Not the public forums for AoG, but a private invitation-only forum. This particular forum was filled with nothing but people who could be considered... eccentric. All of them were professionals in one aspect or another and were only allowed on the forum by invitation from an existing member. Every member was top-of-the-line in one field or another. The whole forum was dedicated to getting people discussing various games and working together to common goals. PvP obsessed fighters could connect with armorsmiths and get custom armor made. Armorsmiths could get in touch with gatherers to get the material they needed and so on. It was a large community to work together. Darren led the section dedicated to crafting and was head of the 'Blacksmiths Union' on the forum.
His best skills lay in blacksmithing, though he was passable in other areas he wasn't enough of an expert to lead those 'unions' on this forum. Every different profession was led by someone who specialized in that field and Darren was the over-all 'boss'. Not that he actually had the right to boss anyone around or anything. He was just in charge of keeping things in line, a job he'd been really neglecting from the beginning. Since everyone on this forum was a professional he didn't really need to boss them around so he felt the position was more about him being a figurehead than anything else.
It'd been sufficient time within AoG for the blacksmiths to experiment so he was heading into their sub-forum to take a look at their discoveries and share some of his own. In this way everyone would become better at what they loved to do. It was nice that here, on this forum, sides in conflict, good versus evil, none of it mattered. It was all about the craftsmanship and sharing of knowledge between professionals. He browsed around the topics posted and found that the way he'd been crafting had been attempted by others with similar results. The most popular topic covered the 'proper' way to craft as a blacksmith and left a smile on his face. The topic was only a few days old, which meant he wasn't all that far behind the other professionals in that regard. It also explained why he wasn't the first person to craft an Uncommon grade item. Someone had done it about a week before he had, within the game.
That's alright, with his new knowledge and the knowledge of the other people on the forum he was confident he would be the first to make an item above the rank of Uncommon. Still, he wasn't greedy and made a new post to share his discoveries with his fellow blacksmiths. He pointed out how to make psuedo-magical items with basic materials and suggested that any craftsman who could find someone with the 'Transmutation' ability should make good friends with the wielder of 'Transmutation'. He didn't give specifics on what the 'Transmutation' innate ability could do, but giving out the hint would get some people to explore. It would be a big help if he wasn't the only player out there making 'godly' tier materials out of scrap iron.
After sharing some of the information he had on crafting he switched to the exploration sub-forum. He wanted to see if any of his buddies where near where he was heading. He left a message letting the players on the forum know that he was currently on his way to the country of Solvikia and would be making landfall at the port city of Botstrand in about two weeks. It would be nice to be able to do some business with some of the folks on the forum while he was near them. Until faster travel options had been unlocked, discovered, or made, this was the best way to meet up.
He browsed around a bit before leaving the private forum and heading to the public forums of AoG. With the thousands upon thousands of posts on the forum, it would be annoying to try and filter out what he was looking for. Still, with some subtle use of the search filter, he found some interesting topics that caught his attention.
| Race change reversion! |
| To any players who have forcibly had their races changed due to circumstances beyond their control. It is possible to revert back to the human race! Doing so is not easy, but it is possible. To do so you need to begin a long questline in the Kingdom of Boskaria. Head to the capitol and look for a hermit named 'Sevis Thront' and speak with him. He'll give you the steps necessary to revert you back to human from your current race. It seems that the questline varies from race to race but the end result is a potion that reverts you back to human. WARNING! The difficulty and length of this questline depends on your race. There can also be side effects from losing the bonuses your race previously provided. DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!
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