The Sneaksy Gnome (Adventure!)

[Ivory]

I keep hearing people say being a rogue is a hard life....that they can't solo....and that you gotta twink them.

My theory is these people didn't pick the right race! Obviously a gnome is the only one clever enough to survive as a non-twink rogue!!

And so....it is my goal to prove that a rogue can rogue without a fancy group or without batman like wealth!

((Rules are no twinking or powerleveling! Small gifts and passerby buffs are ok though. Also, mostly I'll probably solo....I like to solo since I tend to AFK a lot while workins))

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The Beginnening

There once was a gnome that had lived in the safety of Ak'anon her entire life....but she always dreamed of adventure outside of the city! She didn't know magic...and she wasn't enough that tough....so people said it was impossible, that she was too weak, with only 65 strength there was no hope!

So she never tried to leave....listening to the other gnomes and only played in the city, eventually gaining the nickname "Sneaksy" for her habit of eavesdropping on adventurers that would come into the city.

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That was, until one day an erudite merchant came into town selling magic items!

One of the items was a crystal he said could turn anyone into a great adventurer, even a little gnome! But it was expensive.... costing 1,000,000 platinum!

Though Sneaksy didn't have even 1 platinum....she had to have it!

She knew not many gnomes were so rich, but there was one gnome with plenty of money, a weird old gnome named Welno Tanboots. She had found his treasure room one day while exploring, and even knew where the key was!

So, she decided to borrow the money. Obviously once she used the crystal she would be a great adventurer and plenty rich to pay him back. It was a foolproof plan!

The next day the erudite left the city....1 million platinum richer....and Sneaksy had her crystal!

For the following week she slept with it under her pillow as instructed...but she didn't feel any different....

That night, she went to her crystal hiding spot to get it again for her pillow when she discovered it was gone!!! And in its place was a note....

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Welno was onto her!! He had found out his money was missing before she became a great adventurer!!

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Day 1

I was pretty nervous going to see Welno! I wondered what he would have me do.....maybe even...make me clean floors?! Whatever it was I was sure it was going to be boring!

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"You owe me quite a lot of money Sneaksy....not many people can steal from the leader of the gnome rogues!

You have some natural talent... so, from now on I'll help you refine your skills....and you will work for us."

And with that...I was recruited!!! He then gave me a tunic for protection and send me out into the Steamfont mountains to practice gnoming. It was time for adventure!

I hadn't been out to the Steamfont mountains much. But I was pretty sure the kobolds had all the treasure. So I figured they would be the best things to fight.

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The first kobold I fought wasn't so hard. It looked like this would be easier then I thought.

So next up, I tried to fight a gnome skeleton! I figured it would go pretty well, after-all, I'm part skeleton too!

But as I tried to fight one.....suddenly I was ambushed by 3 others!!!!

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I ran as fast as I could back towards Ak'anon.....but as I got close....one of the skeletons knocked me unconscious!

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It was only for a moment though, and I quickly regained consciousness....I knew if I didn't move fast, another hit and I would be done for!

"Save me save me save me!" I yelled as I ran down the path.

Luckily one of the watchmen was nearby! And he came running to fight off the skeletons.

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"Sneaksy....what are you doing out here? Go back inside..."

"What are you talking about?! Didn't you hear? I'm an adventurer now! And for the record, I was just about to beat those skeletons up! I was lulling them into a false sense of security!".

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I couldn't let Watchman Dreeb keep showing me up.... I had to get stronger....this shirt just wasn't enough to keep me safe from skeletons!

So I decided to leave the mountains and travel to the wood elf city of Kelethin to search for better armor. I had heard there were a lot of tailors in the city, maybe one could make me some armor? I didn't have much money, but maybe I could "borrow" some from the elves!

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Getting to the city wasn't so hard. When I got there I helped the guards fight off some bats and bigger skeletons and some wolves. I was getting pretty good at this adventuring thing -flex-

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I also figured I would need lots of wolf pets to get some good armor made. So I tried to focus on them.....and after getting a few I went up into the city and talked to some tailors. They were all pretty busy with their own things....but they had plenty of patterns. Maybe I could make my own armor?

The problem was I was pretty poor....

But I had enough money to at least buy a sewing kit and try to make one or two things. I also noticed the merchants had lots of extra wolf skins for sale! I could have saved myself so much trouble!!

After a few tries I managed to make myself a piece of armor. The merchant seemed pretty impressed with my sewing too! He offered me over a gold for it!!!

Hummm, I needed armor....but also needed money.....

Then it struck me! I could make armor for all of the elves!! If I bought cheap wolf skins and patterns and sewed them together....I could still make a profit selling it to the merchant!!

So I got to work! And after a while I had done it! I had earned enough money to make myself a fancy set of patchwork armor!!!

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Problem was I had used up most of my money again to make it all.

So, I started to sit around thinking of what to do, next. I guess I needed a better weapon. I had seen some tailor patterns for whips, but they were so expensive...and needed to know how to brew too..... I definitely didn't have enough money for all of that....

That's when I met another skeleton just sitting in the city! This one seemed a lot nicer than the ones in the steamfont mountains at least....

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He also seemed to have pretty fancy things for a skeleton!! I bet he had money too! I knew just what to do!!!

"Hay...skeleton. I bet you want to buy some bone-chips don't you? I know skeletons like bones. I got 20 of them!"

"Wow, bone chips? Yes! I will buy them!!" The skeleton seemed pretty excited!

And with that, I traded my bone chips to the skeleton and suddenly had 20pp!!!! I was rich!!!! With this much money maybe I could learn brewing after all! And make myself a whip!