The Sneaksy Gnome (Adventure!)

[Ivory]

The next day when I woke up I went back to the bazaar while thinking of what to do next. But, before I could think of something, a human came running through the bazaar being chased by a monster!

I sprung into action and used my fancy new dagger to save him!! At least at first....then the monster turned on me!!! I was still only level 6, so this was a slight problem.

Lucky for me there were others around who followed my lead and joined in the battle. In the end, we defeated it and saved everyone there from its rampage!

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An ogre in the bazaar was so impressed he let me try on his fancy armor!!!

I was worried it wouldn't fit me at first, but it worked out ok! If the gnomes could see me now, they would never believe it!!!

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I ran around wearing the armor for a little bit. I could tell the ogre seemed pretty nervous that I would scratch it or something.... but I still managed to find the barbarian graveyard!

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After that...I gave the armor back and was back to thinking of what to do....

The magician I met the day before had given me some bandage buying money for real bandages....but I had heard about an even better armor than patchwork I was curious about. It was studded armor! One of the best armors!

But to make that, I would have to learn smithing....and I heard that was pretty expensive.

As I went around Freeport trying to find out just how expensive smithing was, I noticed some more sleeping guards. First elves, now humans?! Gnome guards never slept on the job!!

The human guards looked pretty uncomfortable with their hats on though....so....I borrowed those too! I could only find a few, but I was sure I could turn them in for a finders fee!!

Didn't take long to find out who wanted them at least.

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After that I discovered where the forges were....and whew, I was right, smithing was really expensive! I spent almost the rest of my money making some metal bits!

As I was looking around Freeport for a file mold to turn them into studs for the new armor....I noticed a wood elf working at another forge!

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I was pretty unsure about trying to turn the metal bits into studs myself, I was sure I would lose most of the parts and only make a few myself....I wondered if maybe the wood elf could do it instead?

I asked him how good he was at smithing and it turned out he had been doing it a lot longer than I had! So I gave him my metal bits and the file to make the studs! Better him than me!

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After talking to him some more it turned out he also knew how to sew!!!! Sewing studded armor is a lot harder than patchwork armor ....maybe he could put the things together for me too! This was going a lot faster than I had thought!!! Originally I imagined I would only be able to make a couple pieces...but, now I had hope of getting an entire set of the fanciest armor!

He said he would be happy to, but I needed to find some good quality wolf hides first.

That's when I remembered the tailors in Kelethin and all of their wolf skins for sale! I told him to wait there and ran out to find another druid! I was in a hurry! I had to get the pelts and bring them back before he went to sleep!!

It didn't take too long to find a druid, and before I knew it I had bags full of good hides!!

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Then I ran back to meet Treelord in Freeport to finish the armor.

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I was tired from all of the running I had been doing....so while he sewed them together, I went upstairs and found a gnome sized bed to take a nap on. I guess lots of gnomes come to Freeport, they seemed to have a lot of gnome beds!

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When I woke up, Treelord had already finished and left the armor for me and even a fancy hand made bag!!

After a little bit of hunting I reached level 7....and studied how to pick pockets....

Now I was prepared....prepared for real adventure!!! Armor, picking pockets, a dagger....I was going to be rich! I just had to find something with lots of treasure!!