《Gaming on a MUD is difficult.》CH.3 Goblin Stronghold
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The goblin stronghold started one room north of the west road. Two goblin gate guards were in the first room and they auto attacked. Unlike rats, these goblins had gear equipped. They wielded some goblin pikes and wore some goblin boots.
I was expecting my new longsword that light had bought from the weapons store for me to clean these guys up with my 18 strength but it didn’t go that way.
Goblin Gate Guard missed you.
Goblin Gate Guard missed you.
You hit goblin ineffectively.
HP: 19/20
Goblin Gate Guard missed you.
Goblin Gate Guard missed you.
You hit goblin ineffectively.
HP: 18/20
I made a quick escape back to the south. Apparently, I was not getting hit by the goblin likely because of my new leather armor and high dexterity. However, instead of me killing the goblin my attacks were doing 0 damage to the goblin and 1 damage to me. Something was not working right. Taking a moment to collect thoughts it became obvious what the problem was. Light’s advice should have been followed. Light said to go and train with a trainer in shadow with the sword.
Isaiah’s player felt bad. She gave him some good advice and took some time to set him on the right path and he just decided to do his own thing. Well, it was time to fix this right now. Isaiah made his way back to shadow and started going up and down streets. He found a church, a weapon’s shop, a library, a bank, a general store, a healer, and finally a trainer.
The trainer’s name was Masjock and he was a burly man. Looking him over his description ended with a highlighted ‘attack Masjock with the weapon you want to train in’.
You slash Masjock in the right arm.
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Masjock tickles you innocently.
HP: 17/20
You stab Masjock in the left leg.
Masjock tickles you innocently.
HP 16/20
You slash masjock in the head.
Masjock tickles you innocently.
HP 15/20
This went on for a while. Not wanting to test if masjock would kill those who came to him for training, the elf left for the next room. It was at this point that having healing spells would have been nice. A wave of regret passed over Isaiah’s player for having given up the priest class. It was not enough to force him to suicide and try to re-create as a fighter/magic/cleric though. Trying to level 3 classes at once just seems like too painful of a grind. However, there was a ‘heal’ command. It was not great, only healing one to four hit points and froze the character in place for a few seconds. Also, it seemed to fail as much as it succeeded. After a couple minutes of mashing ‘heal isaiah’ he was back to full health. Using the command ‘profs’ to check his weapon proficiencies it showed he was at 15%. This was very time consuming. After some painful grinding he got longsword to 100%. However, there was another thing that popped up in the ‘profs’ command.
Your parents taught you in spears and you feel most comfortable with that weapon.
What did that mean? Isaiah decided to try out the gamewide OOC (out of character) line and ask.
Isaiah (OOC): What does it mean your parents taught you spears in your weapon profs?
Someone (OOC): It means you can get spears to 120% in that weapon.
Isaiah (OOC): Are spears good?
Someone (OOC): You’ll just have to find out.
Well that was a bit frustrating. Who is someone? Have to ask Light when I talk to her next. Next up goblin stronghold round two.
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The goblin gate guards were not too difficult with a proper weapon. They did a little damage but died. This time Isaiah remembered to bury the corpses before moving it. It gave him a few HP so he didn’t have to go back to using that heal command. Things were going well and in continued into the innermost part of the goblin stronghold.
Goblin King is here.
3 goblin royal guards are here.
Goblin king strikes you in the head strongly
HP: 13
Goblin royal guard slashes you with sword.
HP: 9
Goblin royal guard slashes you with sword.
HP: 4
Goblin royal guard misses you.
You slash goblin with sword.
It was at this point that I froze up and didn’t run away in time.
Goblin king strikes you in the torso.
HP: -2
You are at death’s door. Your body is slipping from you.
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