Postby InsaneIrony » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:49 am
Oh, and if you want a story...
I was Kara Miften. Spawned in Kirinn in the 600s. I knew the legendary Klug before he died. And the General who was in charge after him, too- she was nice. I told them my idea and started the Granary within two years of my spawning. Cross was spawned around my time too. I saw his store start up. I spent a long time farming, and loved it. Life was so peaceful. I became a Guardian and helped to fill the Granary. In time, hundreds of thousands of grams of food were stored in there.
In my late twenties, a man came back on a boat that had left. I knew the man who had built the boat, but that man wasn't there. The survivor was from an expedition that had actually found land. The first expedition to find Burgeoralip. He had survived and wanted to go back, more prepared. I and one other chose to join him.
And so we sailed, and were the second expedition to reach Burgeoralip Nhralls or Eshells. I was the one who came back and made it famous as the land of Burgeo. Because I was the only one to survive. We docked our boat on sand, and were surrounded by fierce and towering creatures. They were terribly strong, but the land was so fertile! We explored a little, but the other man who had joined us wanted to make a map, so he wandered off. In the second area we reached, Burgeo proper, there were carrots aplenty. A newspawn even appeared there, confused and surprised. But in days, we were nearly killed by the animals, so we ran back to the shore, to get back to the boat. Beasts killed the newspawn before he could run. As the expedition leader and I reached sand, a beast struck him down, leaving me to run to the boat for my life. I left immediately, assuming my map-making friend to be dead. And as I left, I could still see the shields on the shore, the shields that hadn't been strong enough to protect their owners from the beasts of Burgeoralip.
And when I returned to Kirinn in my thirties, I told myself it was more than enough adventure, and resumed my duties as a Guardian and keeper of the Granary.
We had our note thieves, but seldom anything serious.
I returned to find the Temple of Klug finally built. I had left while it was under construction, but it was a sight to greet me when I returned. Also, Cross's weapon store was doing very well, I remember. He could be gruff, but I think I liked him. I considered him a friend, at least.
The Temple of Klug ran out of priests, so I took up the care of the Temple. I also did a lot of farming, and continued to fill the granary.
I watched many leaders of the Guardians pass away, and tried to call back Guardians from resource trips, but without luck. Scott Lloyd returned and took charge, so I stopped trying.
There was one thief, who took a boat. I think it the boat that had made the first two expeditions to Burgeo was stolen, too. A thief managed to take everything from inside Cross's store, while it had been unlocked for an employee to enter or exit. Cross was pissed, and from then on he was stricter with security. I think I remember him going to Karnon Forest to gather more resources to re-stock his store.
That thief was the only taste of real conflict that we had for quite a while.
Until the bad news came. Trouble, caused by Blackrocks. We'd helped a Blackrock leader once long ago, when he and some lady docked to Kirinn, chasing a pirate. The Blackrock man was very important, very kind. The pirate killed him though, and sailed away. We kept the man's body in the Temple of Klug, if I remember correctly.
We had no experience with the Blackrocks. People came with stories of trouble, but Kara didn't really understand it all. Kirinn was always peaceful, a pleasant place for farmers and a quiet life.
I'm not quite sure when it was, but one day, Blackrocks on boats came and attacked Kirinn with such ferocity and viciousness that Kara could only tearfully compare to the beasts of Burgeo, which had killed without remorse. The Blackrocks kidnapped her, General Lloyd, and a man who knew the General and the Blackrocks. She tried to flee on one of their boats, but wasn't strong enough to maintain control of the ship with all the other blackrocks on board. She watched them murder General Lloyd.
Somehow, she ended back on land, and was traumatized by the events. Never before had she seen so many men kill, massacre people like the beasts of Burgeo. Too much strength given to men without hearts.
Cross was gone, but Kara was never certain whether or not he'd survived. She had a pair of pants she'd made for him. She wanted to give them to him, tell him it was a gift so he wouldn't return it, but she never knew where he was or if he still lived. Someone said he left, but she never saw him again.
I don't remember how she died. It could've been to sleep, or a heart attack. Or maybe she died at the Blackrock's hands. I don't quite remember.
-So anyways, if you say Kirinn was poorly defended- it certainly was. It was a sleepy town of farmers that had face no trouble beyond the occasional note thief or rare pirate. And the Blackrocks were beasts to smash through it with such mercilessness. XP Kara's entire life in Kirinn would've been uneventful except for her trip to Burgeo and the attacks later on.
1099-5: Bandit says: "Collect a sum of 100 000g of sand to offer me in tribute or I will kill you."
With a passion for hunting i hope.
