Change of Attitude

I can’t believe it. Cra is actually buying equipment. She always insisted on making it, even we had no time for hunting.

Recently she made some fortune. I have no idea how she managed to do it, as in the past couple of months we had no time for anything besides breeding. And now she is spending this money on buying materials for equipment and even equipment pieces. The new set for sadida is almost done. The set for eniripsa is the next in the list, according to cra. And she even promised to get some new equipment for me, but the equipment I want is highly overpriced at the moment, so I want to persuade her to wait till prices drop. If I have to I’ll get the heavy artillery, namely Petrovna. Old lady is incredibly good in negotiating budget solutions, she always has 1001 argument against spending even 1 kama.

The most surprising thing is, however, the set cra is putting together for herself. For months she was working on mastering water magic. But the pieces she is getting now are no good for water magic wielder. It looks like she is going to change her preferences in magic back to air and fire. Well, we’ll see it soon.

The one thing hasn’t changed. Cra is still buying the cheapest stuff she can find. She is relying on Drelas in making all the items look good. Considering the amount of runes in the chests it shouldn’t be that big problem, even I dislike the idea of maging amulets and boots.

KIndhearted Iiwar

The other day we went to pay a visit to Bworker. We were a really overkilling team: two sadidas, two pandas, cra, enu, eni, and me, feca. With this team we could not only immobilise every creature in the Bworker’s throne room but were capable of pretty good manipulation of the battle field. However, we almost died since soon after the start of the fight Iiwar found out she was too kindhearted and merciful to help us to defeat Bworker. Instead of throwing us out of bwork’s  boss range she allowed him to punish both sadidas. Thanks Gods, she was the next to get acquainted with Bworker really close.

We were left five against eight monsters, including their really fast and agile leader. Without sadida’s dolls, with one of the pandas being rendered useless our usual strategy based on total immobilisation of all and everything couldn’t work. We were really lucky to bring cra’s new husband — a panda — with us. Usually we ask sram to help out, but that time she didn’t feel well, or more likely she was just lazy, and we invited our unexperienced friend.  It was the first time when the responsibility for the team’s safety was almost solely his. And I must admit he did great. He literally saved us.

We can’t, and, honestly, never bother, to lock Bworker with one of his Elemental Bworks. We do it a straightforward way: we just don’t let the bworks to come close and reduce their abilities for range combat. This is surely not the fastest way but the least painful; in fact, eni often complains she is unable to use her vast healing powers and has to resort to brute force in order to be somehow useful.

That day everything went wrong. We couldn’t stop the assault and we had no room to retreat and regroup. We almost gave up, but not the panda. He was always in a right place to throw Bworker as far as he could and at the same time keep it in cra’s range.  And while he was unable to completely isolate the threat or deal any noticeable damage his role is hard to overrate, especially when old lady’s efforts to prevent Bworker from moving had from little to no success.

After we were done with Bworker we asked Iiwar to explain herself. She told us it was totally unfair that a poor old Bworker was one against eight of us. So she decided to even the numbers…

Something Unexpected

We were sick for a couple of weeks. But everything looked pretty good:  our houses still were where they were supposed to be, birds were happy, pets were fed, and even enu had no will to grumble… until today.

We returned to our regular routine two-three days ago. Yesterday cra even managed to train about a dozen of birds and soul three archmonsters. Dragoturkeys were placed to the sheds and paddocks and we went to our beds.

Today sram went to her guild paddock and found some guildmate toying with her breeding equipment. It wasn’t nice of that person, but it was bearable enough according to sram. What really surprised her was the absence of five birds. The person who was near the paddock claimed there were only five birds when she arrived. I have no idea whether it is truth or not. Sram doesn’t know that person and can’t say anything. But she really disliked the fact that someone was touching her birds and equipment without asking.

It’s not a money issue. The missing birds aren’t very expensive or impossible to breed: a three purebred goldens (one is load bearer) and two ebony and crimson with capacities (not sure which ones, but not chameleons). These birds are cheap, so there is no much sense in stealing them… unless someone wanted to free room for breeding their own birds.

It is a very unpleasant incident. Sram even started to think about quitting that guild.