The market stalls have wildly varying prices and quality, but after about an hour of looking around and "enjoying" the VERY pushy attitudes of both the salesmen and the beggars (eventually, Yunikki just pushed one over, and Sucy made one convulse on the ground for ten seconds. You... don't know how she did that.)
Eventually, you find a few weapons that are available at a decent price/quality ratio. Most of them are a bit more curved than what you're used to, and a bit shorter as a result. Still, they sit in the hand quite well, and the weight is spread a little differently to allow for easier swinging. On the other hand, the grip causes it to be a bit harder to keep a hold of, and there isn't nearly as much weight to it all. You'd need to get used to that a little a bit... Of course, these blades are not really made for the fingers you're working with, anyhow. It'll work, sure, but it makes it a little awkward to wield. The scimitar you have, even if the material is very unsavoury, fits the hand a lot better than anything you could find in the bazaar. That is, if you keep looking at one-handed weapons. Something more interesting you found is a Ram Dao, essentially a very large billhook. The handle seems rather small for the sheer size of the blade, but its long enough to make it easier to handle. It's clearly meant for letting the weight do the talking, though the hooked design makes sure that it'll make anything hit hemmorage even worse. It's a frightful weapon, in short. The price tag, however, is a bit less attractive. The salesman has three Ram Dao's, with varying materials and prices. The iron one has the price tag of 140 coins, while the steel one costs 300. There's also an Ilithian steel Ram Dao, but that one is way out of your price range, costing a whopping 800 coins. The engravings and gold trim probably add to that price, but Ilithian steel is popular for bragging rights.
You decide to keep browsing the market for anything else, and find, against the odds, a bola vendor. You briefly consider the fact that, despite your skill with them, you have thrown no bolas in about a year or more. Oh well, they're cheap here. weights and some solid rope doesn't add up to much, and they sell for 10 gold per bola. The merchant keeps himself afloat using all manner of knives, though, and there's even a bulk sale for goblin knives. Serrated pieces of shit that cause far more bleeding, at the cost of rusting easily and breaking quickly. He also sells a few daggers made of an enchanted material that glows in the dark. That's about the end of it, though, it just glows. Hal warns you that there are plenty of snake oil salesmen here, and it doesn't take long before you spot a literal snake oil salesman, who promises that his potions will turn you into a ghost. Lovely.
Before you forget, you also look over the shields. Most of them are more form over function, coloured in a dazzling spectrum of colours and spirals while being only the size of bucklers. Even the larger shields are just round, many have an animal of some sort engraved or outright cast into the shape. You even saw one shield that looks like a bronze head of a pig. You did find a few more practical shields, however, usually the simple ones. They went for about 70 coins, while the useless shields are actually pricier (except the pig head. It costs 40 coins). Considering you're looking for proper protection, you don't even count them as part of the equation here.
Well, the prices are on the table, though one can also find a scimitar for about 40 coins, if you're really dedicated to iron over magical bone.
Final choices? You have 450Basic Stats
Level: 13
Health: 60/60
Stress: 25/70
Poison stings: 1/1
Restraint 3/3
Mana: 50/50
Corruption: 5/10
Thirst: Sated
Children
Adam 8/8
Alice 9/9
Cactus 10/10
Items and equipment
Items:
450 gold coins
14 outfits
1 fancy outfit
Magic Cookbook.
10 rations
Equipment:
Bone scimitar
First Tome of Eternal Darkness
D-VA armor
Skills and spells
Magic:
Resurrect vermin: Allows you to resurrect very small creatures such as rats(invests 2 of your max mana) (no mana cost)
Resurrect average beast: Allows you to resurrect creatures such as dogs, cats and other similar-sized creatures.(invests 7 mana) (no mana cost)
Resurrect Humanoid: Allows you to resurrect humanoid creatures. (Invests 10 mana) (Costs 14 mana)
Reshape minion plus!: Allows you to majorly change the appearance of your resurrected minions.
Control Undead: Allows you to attempt to control an undead that doesn't belong to you. (mana cost of 2 per second, unmastered)
Minion Vision: Allows you to see what a minion sees. The minion must have eyes.
Disintegrate undead: Delete a corpse you currently control.
Animate Piece: Allows you to animate just a piece of dead tissue. It requires your constant attention, and cannot act independently. (Drains 0 mana)
Graft: Allows you to use dead tissue as a replacement limb. Requires a lot of mana. (1 per second) (average limb takes around 20 seconds to properly graft)
Gather Soul: Allows you to make a soul visible. You could try putting it in a flame of some sort to keep it around. (9 mana)
Soul battery: Allows you to use a soul-infused flame as a small mana-boost. This snuffs it out, however
Undead flashbang: Allows you to blow up a minion for a flash-bang effect. (9 mana)
Stitch: allows you to close a wound and stop bleeding as fast as you can stitch. Costs zero mana, but requires something to stitch with.
Siphoning Cloud: Breathe out a cloud that drains the life from victims and gives it to you. Adds a LOT to intimidation (4 mana)
Smoke Cloud: Breathe out harmless but thick smoke. (1 mana)
Deathbolt: A bolt that hurts the body's connection with it's soul. Causes minor wounds to appear over the body as it attempts to compensate (1 mana)
Doombolt: A more powerful version of the above (4 Mana)
Pinworks: You can apply spells into a bone spike, relative to the size of the victim. You can also make traps if you use an offensive spell.
Companions
Tom(cat)
Pig(Pigeon)
Skills:
Claws: Your arm has been replaced with a powerful claw. This is BOUND to you, and cannot be removed.
Pride: You have a mind-controlling leech in your arm. This is so mindblowingly unethical/illegal it would put you in "kill on sight" status with a lot of organisations/people.
Broodmother: Once per day, you can sting something to create spiderlings, which are large, clever spiders that adore you by default. Your instincts cause you to be VERY protective of them.
Crossbow usage: Novice
Adaptation: You regenerate mana faster than most
Gun usage: Novice
Oral Fixation: Can cast spells spells from the mouth.
Draining: Can drain blood using fangs.
Major experience in blocking and swordplay.
Climber
Crafty: Bolas
Cooking skill: Excellent
Corpse Cutting: Quite Decent.
Animal handling: inexperienced.
Necromantic knowledge
Soul Sniffer
Author
Topic: Web of Life: A Drider's Adventure (Ended) (Read 185103 times)