The Sneaksy Gnome (Adventure!)

[PL_Barton]

Sneaksy has been joining Dagmore and his friends on adventures! Even drinking with two dwarves while she is supposed to be working.

[khanable]

What level is that swarm queen? Isn't little sneaksy like level 15? That's pretty rad

[Ivory]

I stuck around Karanas a little bit longer....visiting the guards at their towers now and then to see if they had gotten a new shipment of shields in....

But I couldn't help thinking that maybe there were more shields out there....somewhere, shields as far as they eye could see....

Then it came to me....the city!! That is where a gnome could find as many shields as she could carry!!!

So I left the Karanas and headed for Qeynos....stopping on the way at all of the guard towers to help, of course.

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Qeynos was a pretty nice city!! The guards can be kind of mean sometimes....but nothin I couldn't handle. And, as I suspected, they had a lot of shields laying around!

Who puts a shield on an arm? That is just asking for it to get lost. Good thing I found it before that happened.

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As I sat in the bank counting my treasure and bags of shields, I realized that this wasn't the only city with shields....there were lots of others!!! I could "help" guards all across Norrath! Finding shields! Being a hero!!! Getting rich!! It was time to answer my lifes calling!!!!!

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Before long I was back in Kelethin. I had remembered seeing shields a long time ago there. I'm sure they would be so thankful for my help.

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This city was even better than Qeynos too! Shields everywhere!! I was getting so heavy with shields I had to take shield selling breaks!!!

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Though, it wasn't without its dangers.....I think the guards got confused sometimes! I was just helping!!! Still, noffin I couldn't handle!!! Gnomes is hard to catch!!

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After I had helped all of the elf guards....it was time to visit another city!

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I discovered high elves don't really use many shields.....but still, I did manage to help them find other things!

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I also ran across a few sleeping guards, I was sure they wouldn't mind if I borrowed their swords.....really, I was doing them a favor, it is dangerous to sleep with swords.

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Still....I knew my work wasn't done.....this was only the beginning......

[Ivory]

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"Why hello Sneaksy, I haven't seen you around here for a while. What are you up to?"

"Hiya Dreeb! I'm not doin noffin! Just...uhm....buyin muffins...."

"Ok, stay out of trouble!"

I knew Ak'anon would be a perfect place to get shields from. I'd grown up here, I knew every guards patrol..... I wouldn't leave until I had found all of the shields there were!!!!

So, I rushed inside and began my work! Even getting our tiny gnome-gnome guards shields!!!

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I spent days in Ak'anon....finding all the shields I could.... really, if you think about it, guards can run better without shields. I was doin them a favor!! What if something fast invaded Ak'anon? With shields they would never be able to defend it!!

I had a few run-ins with the guards, but they couldn't stop me!!!

But before I left....I had to try and see what was in one special persons pockets.....I'd always been curious....I just had to know!!! It was surely something good!!!!!

For this job though, I would need a disguise.

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Inside the clockwork I could get anywhere!! And it didn't take long to slip past all of the extra security.....

When I got there....I carefully crawled out of the clockwork....this was it.....

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I had to check the Kings pockets!!!!!

But...as I felt around....I heard shouting from above....

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Oh no! I'd violated code 5150!!! The most serious of all codes!!!!!!

Moments later, everything went black.

When I woke up, I was in the torture chamber....and the king was behind me...

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"Sneaksy, we know you have been taking the kingdoms shields! You better than anyone should know gnomes see everything!!"

"I didn't do noffin!!!!" I protested....but I knew he didn't believe me....

"Now, if you don't want to face the torturer, promise to never steal from the gnomes again!"

"Ok-ish!"

"....good enough."

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Oh well, I had already gotten all the shields I wanted anyhow....and I'd been makin quite a lot of moneys from all of the cities I'd visited!!

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But I still wasn't done....there were more cities out there..... more shields to be gnomed!

[thufir]

Originally Posted by Spyder73 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This guy writes fanfic and gets 100% praise, I write fanfic and get trolled into oblivon.

#Mad
#WuTang

Originally Posted by maskedmelon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah, it is interesting. I've taken it as a learning opportunity (to figure out why this resonates so heavily with people). I think it is because it is short and to the point and punctuated with pictures. Pretty much anyone can appreciate the silliness and nobody feels threatened by it. The character, while confident and prideful is wildly self deprecating, but unaware and successful. People appreciate that, because in some small way it speaks to sincere fears (failure) and desires (success) everyone has and their able to smile at the suggestion of hope regardless of its fictitious nature. I'm not sure tbh though. Going to think on it more. ^^ IIRC people did respond favorably to a lot of your older stuff (~ 。^)b Props to Ivory though on writing something the people here enjoy.

for both of you, your stuff was well written enough, but it was about topics that didn't resonate with anyone. it was full of in-jokes and nasty sideswipes. nobody cared about someone's quest for an RL band name for their character, or their injokey exploits with their three friends. parodying that same band name quest that nobody liked is a fast ticket to nowhere.

ivory's stuff is friendly, cheerful, and most importantly, puts game events in an amusing context that is the best part about playing a sandbox game: writing your own stories. everyone can understand it and it's hilarious. this is the kind of thing that inspires people to play everquest. random people he meets even make it into the storyline! you want to write something that resonates on forums about classic everquest, that's your key.

kudos to you ivory, your ranger stories were awesome and this is even better. =)

[Jimjam]

Hah, this reminds me of something I do. There has been a bad shipment of spears in Rivervale, whenever I am in town (read: waiting for a rez) I pass the time by informing and enforcing the product recall on the Deputies. Naturally they are reluctant to let me disarm them, but the Sherriff has put a 10pp bounty on each of these bad spears so naturally it is my duty to disarm as many as I can and sell them before I click the rez box.

[Ivory]

Next it was time to visit the halflings again!! But this time for business....

I've found when visiting a new city for business, it is best to get bound right away.....

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After-all, this is pretty dangerous work!!!

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But....shields don't find themselves.....

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Again, I took my time....visiting each guard and giving them the attention they deserved...even going out to their wall guards to see if they had any shields that needed finding!

After another long day of gnome business, I sat in the bank and counted my treasure....almost 1,000 platinum!!!!

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But I was facing a bigger problem....I was running out of cities~!

Should I travel to the ogre and troll cities? Or maybe the dark elves? Or...iksar?! I'm sure each had plenty of shields! But they were even more dangerous than normal shield finding work!!!

So, I traveled to the commons later that night to relax and think......

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And there, as you usually do in the commons trading tunnels, I met a lot of shady characters (including tiny iksars!).

They told me of a mask....one that could disguise me so I could get closer to the evil city guards....and their shields!!

I had to have it!!! The ancient mask of the undead frogloks!!!!

[Ivory]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hah, this reminds me of something I do. There has been a bad shipment of spears in Rivervale, whenever I am in town (read: waiting for a rez) I pass the time by informing and enforcing the product recall on the Deputies. Naturally they are reluctant to let me disarm them, but the Sherriff has put a 10pp bounty on each of these bad spears so naturally it is my duty to disarm as many as I can and sell them before I click the rez box.

I wish I had disarm!! I would be so much richer!! Shield only sell for 1-2pps.....still adds up with a few bags full mw aha ha.

kudos to you ivory, your ranger stories were awesome and this is even better. =)

Thanks [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I had to catch up on my shield adventures....so I can get to what happened the last couple of nights. Probably the most amazing adventure yet! And, more importantly, has given me something that will make for some great future adventures!!!

[Crookstinger]

She already teased it but I'll delete my comment anyway. Looking forward to the next few tales. By the way, Sneaksy, what is your pickpocket skill level, and/or at what level did you start to be able to get the shields regularly without being whacked by the guards? I am just starting to level up my pickpocket skill.

[Sorn]

omg crookstinger spoiler alert >:(