My next mission was to get some of those velium studs!!
After some research I heard rumors of a velium mine out in the wastelands.... the only catch was it belonged to orcs....and orcs definitely weren't fans of elves.
After some exploration I found the orcs fort.
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Sneaking inside, it wasn't long before I found what my informant had told me to look for...a crystal teleporter to the mine? -shrug- I've seen stranger things I guess.
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When I got inside the place was crawling with orcs! It looked like instead of a pick, I was going to be mining with arrows!
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Sneaking around the mines I set ambushes for their miners....carefully picking them off without alerting the others.
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I even had a chance to use some of the new magic I had learnt while hunting tigeraptors!
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It seemed like days I was down there!! The orcs continuing to send more down into the mines....though I did notice they began to send guards with the miners. Perhaps they weren't as dumb as I thought?
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Nope, nope, even watchmen didn't help them.
In the end, I had collected huge piles of velium! In fact, so much that I could barely walk out of the caverns.... so, slowly I hobbled back to Thurgadin, it was time to figure out what to do with it all.
With no smiths or brewers in sight...it was up to me to learn what to do. So in Thurgadin I studied brewing and smithing just enough that I could work with the eggs and velium I had gotten.
It was hard work!! But still not as hard as learning to fletch was -shrugs-
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When all was said and done, I had my oil and my velium studs ...and of course my tigeraptor skins. Now, I had to find someone to sew it all together!!
After asking around a bit I was able to track down a crazy Iksar in the commonlands. Even better is he was willing to sew it all together for the extra velium and eggs and raptor skins I had found!! That was perfect for me, since I had spent all my platinum making the ingredients!
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A little while later and he had sewn it all together!! My new tigeraptor armor was perfect for archery!
And....more importantly....dragon hunting....
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It's time to get back to the wakening lands before Wuoshi wakes up!! The hunt is on!!!