Alec Smith posts

1/12/12
Martyn Eytinge gave Alec 52 shillings.

1/13/12
Alec fought and defeated 2 Shadows in a hunting attempt, with the secret assistance of Iarakine, and not so secret help of Terri Solana. Discovered a bag of 80 coins, a small golden bracelet, a decorated silver comb, and a golden idol.

Alec payed 15 shillings to partake in a festival event, failed to win, but recieved a cork gun as a consolation prize. He spent another 15 to win back his last, lost it, then spent thirty and won on a festival game, regaining all the money he lost.

Alec returned the 52 shillings from Martyn to Kurt, then spent 210 shillings to rent a room for a month at the Inn.

After hunting a quartet of ghouls, Alec gained another 143 shillings from the remains of their corpses, likely money from before their death. He was joined by his companions, Taric and Terri.

1/14/12
Alec took Daemon and Sirius out to hunt shock lizards. They came across a pair of them, Terri appearing not long after the start of the battle, and the three of them fought the lizards. Robyn appeared toward the end and decimated the final lizard. 120 shillings found on a corpse the lizards were feeding on. Alec's share was 30.

Alec skinned the scales of the Shock lizards and sold them for a good 400 shillings with the assistance of Terri. 100 were divided amonst himself, Terri and Taric, and the final 100 was sent to Daemon and Sirius.

Toward the end of the day, Alec was joined by Taric in a hunt on a troll that had been causing havoc for passing adventurers. The two went in a little over their head, nearly dying, but with strategy, skill and a little luck, they both barely made it out alive. After the troll corpse was incinerated and looted, they traveled home, two merry men. 550 shillings earned.

1/15/12
Alec lead a group to a goblin cave with Vorn Tyrr, to attempt negotiations. After failure in coming to any terms, and a violent dispute, Alec fled with the group, who came upon a large contigent of goblin riflemen. Although he was attacked and shot at multiple times, Alec managed to avoid harming any of the goblins by his own hands, and succeded in diplomaticly avoiding a battle with the goblin rifleman.

1/16/12
Alec spent 100 shillings's worth in resources to repair a gun belonging to Solus Weathers. After restoring the weapon, he returned it, and was payed a sum of 150 shillings, earning 50.

Alec led a team of adventurers to a small abesquillian colony, and attacked the outer region, where works were harvesting resources. After killing off 9 of them, the group searched the colony for valuables. They hauled back a large amount of chittin from the cave, worth 1700 shillings. Terri convinced a smith to buy them for 2000, and 500 went to each person.

For the final hunt of the day, Alec lead his team of monster hunters, Taric and Terri, out to find something scary. What they ran into was an exceptionally fearsome troll that had defeated many a great warrior. The battle brought all three close to death, with Alec losing much blood, Terri getting clawed through her gut, and Taric losing all ability to move. But through their combined efforts, the managed to just barely defeat the incredibly powerful creature. Terri landed the killing blow. Alec bandaged up Terri, Taric, and himself, and they made camp in a cave to last the night as best as they could. A lot of nice loot.

1/17/12
Alec led his team hunting again, along with Ganelon and Martyn, the first being a little experienced already, the second, a total novice. The hunted down a party of three ogres, and an ogre barbarian. After dividing up the loot, the group went their separate ways, with original monster-hunting trio making their way home to appraise and sell their newfound treasures. In addition to this current set of treasures, the past set was identified and sold, as well. A share of 5467 shillings for each of the 3 monster hunters.

1/20/12
Alec completed work on an Arquebus rifle. Construction came with two big mishaps, resulting in a loss of 2,300 shilling's worth of resources. The rest of the costs were 2,800 shillings to fuel the creation of the magical enhancement. Alec successfully created a slight magically enhanced Arcane Arequebus Rifle of Scorching Ray at the cost of 5,100 shillings. He named it Sunflare.

Alec led Terri to a cliff to show her something he'd discovered. An Ettin had occupied the cliff. To clear the cliff, Alec and Terri teamed up against the Ettin, Alec baiting it with the range of his rifle, and Terri attacking it as it passed. Together, they managed to catch the Ettin by surprise. Unfortunately, it wasn't swifly done. Alec suffered from two major bruises and some bone fractures. Some coin from leftover adventurers was discovered. 381 shillings gained.

1/22/12
Alec lead Ganelon Brama to go toe to toe with a Hydra. He provided minor assistance in the slaying of the beast, allowing Ganelon to do most of the work and prove his worth. As repayment for his assistance, Alec took half of the earnings and split them with Terri. They each gained 197 coins.

1/24/12
After hearing a report about a group of around eight gargoyles that liked to prey on caravans traveling through a mountain pass to the Wastes, Alec gathered up his team of monster hunters, including the newly joined Ganelon Brama, and they headed northwest to take on the challenge of the eight. What they found were sixteen intelligent gargoyles who trapped them in the narrow pass. Despite this, the team fought with tactics, perseverance, and a lot of damn luck, and just barely pulled through. Alec himself came out of the scrape not far from death, but he did it with a smile. 4800 Much loot gained, specifics not yet decided.

1/26/12
While searching for the man that robbed Abdul, Alec, and Abdul stumbled upon a crazed werewolf, the transformed William Arkhauser. They fended him off through a close call, but failed in, or perhaps avoided, killing him, forcing him to retreat.

After the encounter, Ganelon ran to see what was going on, and later joined Alec in his original hunt. They followed Alec's hunch from when he spotted a Gorgon earlier, and the two faced off with the magical beast. Alec fought from range and evaded harm, but Ganelon was gored and trampled. I the end, they won, at the cost of Ganelon's well being, and proceeded to remove the Gorgon's precious horns and hooves. Gorgon Horn x2 and Gorgon Hoof x4 Gained.

1/27/12
Alec spent 5 coins on some wine today.

Alec tracked down a group of undead he was certain he'd seen a few days before as a cluster of dead Watch. He and a group unfamiliar with their hunts, plus Ganelon, sought to clean up the mess and take whatever was left undesired. They managed to put the group down, though Alec sustained bad injures, as did another party member. 547 shillings Gained.

1/29/12
Alec spent another 4 coins on whiskey.

Alec and his usual group, save Terri, with the additions of Deven Cakebread and Linera Windwalker, went to a newly discovered Hydra's cave. The formation was suspicious and appeared to be newly formed, relative to the rest of the surrounds, but the bodies were not. After a somewhat challenging battle, and with some heavy wounds incurred to Alec's legs, the Hunters and their company made it out, alive, having defeated the Hydra. The killing blow went to Taric. Loot TBA.

1/31/12
Total Supply costs: 700 shillings.

Alec completes work on a more powerful enchant for his rifle, Sunflare. The weapon now has a higher likelihood of striking vital parts of a creature. Added Keen to rifle, removed 1500 shillings.

Alec and Ganelon lead a group of hopefuls, Jessica Winters included, on a hunt to clear out an Abesquillian worker's mine. It went well, being a simple task, and only workers threatened them. After fighting through their tough armor, the group put each out of commission and collected a bounty of fresh chitin. The group recovered 3048 coins worth of chitin, and the proceeds were split evenly. 762 shillings gained.

2/1/12
Alec finally sells all the loot the group had accumulated. 19,945 shillings Gained. Another 1,500 shillings spent for an improvement on Alec's magic chain shirt, magically enhanced from slight to minor. 12 coins spent on 1 flaggon of rum and 2 flaggons of mead.

2/2/12
Artisan's Crafting Tools purchased at the cost of 55 shillings. Resources for an Adamantine knife (considered a dagger), including the adamantine itself, purchased at the cost of 2251 shillings. Knife completed and sold for 3002 shillings. Alec spent 4 shillings on whiskey.

Later that day, while attempting to visit a goblin village, Alec and Ganelon ran into some over confident bandits: a pair of rogues, and the rest, thugs. Alec's arm was busted, but he and Ganelon managed to defeat the group, save for one thug that ran away. After arriving at the goblin camp and speaking to Suile, the goblin, they were told the group may have been responsible for some of the caravan raids. After getting his arm patched up and paying Suile with some half-plate they found, the pair lugged the rest of the loot back home, where it was appraised, sold, and split. 2,755 shillings gained.

2/3/12
Alec ran into a run-in between a three bandits and Deven Cakebread acting in defense of a young elf girl, Cleophee. He fired his weapon off and managed incinerate one, and nearly incinerate another. The remaining two fled.

2/4/12
At the request of a certain overconfident and enthusiastic elven girl, Alec lead himself, Terri and Cleophee on a hunt to deal with a group of corrupted earth elementals. The large elementals proved a challenge, nearly killing Terri and Cleophee and dealing some powerful blows against both Alec and Ganelon, but the group pulled through with several tense moments and decisive attacks. A lot of loot gained, and the loot is sold for a very high amount. Alec takes a portion of Cleophee's share as payment for training her and teaching her the basics of magic. 5500 coins gained.

2/5/12
Alec and Taric reunite, and Alec shares his knowledge of Taric's illness with him. Following Taric's desire to hunt, the pair go out in search of anything worth a fight. They run into a troll hunter, and after its defeat, are ambushed by the troll's pet, a bear of legendary qualities. In a decisive moment, Alec narrowly manages a life-ending shot on the powerful bear, saving his friend from near death. Gained some of the troll's loot.

On the way back, they were ambushed my a huge spider as it was migrating to a new location. Suffice to say, they had a good laugh over disposing of it. Gained loot off remains of the spider's snacks.

Finally, as per a late-night request by Cleophee, Alec took her out to hunt a portion of a branch of Abesquillians. Weaker grunts came out to greet them, 5 in total, and Alec and Cleo dealt with them, with Alec instructing her of where she went wrong, afterward. Gained the chitin to be sold.

2/6/12
Alec completes work on Ganelon's slight magically enhanced fullplate, adding two more layers of magical shielding to form a mediocre magically enhanced fullplate at the cost of a portion of his sacred field. Ganelon payed for the resources.

2/7/12
750 coins removed for two powerful potions. A third was purchased, but paid for by Cleophee. 2500 coins spent on resources for the further improvement of Alec's chain-mail, along with more of his sacred field, reinforcing the armor to a mediocre magical quality.

2/9/12
Alec completed work enhancing a ring of protection he found, costing him 4,000 shillings in resources and more of his sacred field, creating a mediocre magically enhanced ring of protection.

2/10/12
Alec completes work on his rifle, bringing it up to a status of minor magically enhanced at the cost of 2500 and an additional portion of his sacred field.

Alec, Taric and Ganelon fought a group of undead ambushers in the form of four greater ghouls, a giant Ettin skeleton that seemed to be enhanced, and a pair of accompanying powerful wraiths. Additionally, the group overcame a trap set to crumble a set of walls, but succumbed to a powerful gravity trap. When all was said and done, the group collected whatever treasures were huddled in the camp of the ambushers and made their way back. Some loot was gained.

Alec fought alongside Cleophee, Deven and Saren in a hunt to clear out 3 enormous crocodiles who had, strangely, left their natural habitat and were raging in the general area. Difficult as it was, the beasts were put down, skinned, and the resources were traded with the goblins. The trade was made for 4,000 shillings total. 1,200 will be paid in coins, and the rest will be in silk.

2/11/12
900 coin subtracted for the cost of 3 invisibility scrolls. Alec managed to catch on to the people terrorizing himself and his friends, and though the scuffle ended with them both getting away, an act of terrorism was prevented.

2/13/12
Alec spends 4500 coins in a resource costs to construct a Masterwork Arcane Caliver pistol of Invisibility, naming it [/i]Phantom[/i]. He completes it on the 13th.

3/17/12
A long struggle with the half-daefar, Sythrivum, has taught Alec some valuable lessons in keeping a foe more powerful than he at bay. Unfortunately, he lost his magical ring in the encounter and was unable to recover it.