The next morning, I get up, and go back into town. Since it was daytime now, I walked up to someone and said “Hi! I’m a traveler, could you please direct me to the adventurer’s guild?” He responds and says “Of course! The adventurer’s guild is 3 blocks that way.” He points to somewhere northeast. “Are ya looking for some quests?” He asks jokingly. I respond with “Something like that, yeah.” and then I start heading in that direction.

  After a few minutes of walking, I arrive at a large building that is clearly the adventurer’s guild judging by the sheer amount of people pouring in and out of it. I push through the crowd, and arrive at the front desk. I ask “How does adventuring work?” The lady at the desk replies “You sign up for a quest to help out the locals, then you do that quest, and then you get money. It’s pretty simple. You can also sign up to be an adventurer, but that is a competitive market, and you’ll only really have a chance if you have a reputation with us beforehand.”

  “Alright, well, are there any important quests to take right now?” I ask. “There is one quest of critical importance.” The lady responds. “What is it?” “We need someone to investigate a local break-in that happened last night.” “Really? Where?” She then proceeds to describe the exact place that I had entered through the unlocked door. “How do you know someone broke in?” I ask. “There was a trail of footprints leading to and from the door, and the door was left wide open. The weird thing is, nothing was actually taken, Just the carpet got muddy.” She responds, looking confused.

  “Alrighty then, I would like to sign up for this quest! Also, how do parties work here?” I asked before I left. “Simply high five someone and they join your party. If you slap them in the face, you kick them from your party, and if they slap YOU in the face, they leave the party. It’s simple enough. Health distribution is given mostly to the party members who contributed the most. Rewards for quests are equally distributed between every party member." She says. "Alright, Thanks!” I say.

  Leaving the adventurer’s guild, I start looking for people to party up with. I was looking for someone who wasn’t too experienced at this sort of thing so that way I could still get the majority of the health (speaking of which, what did she mean by that? I would assume that you get experience to level up, which gives you more health, but the way she made it sound made me think otherwise) And I also wanted to find someone who looked trustworthy enough that if things got out of hand, they got my back.

  Looking right across the street from the adventurer’s guild, there was a restaurant labeled “The Partygoers Delight” which sounded like the kind of place where I might find someone to join my party. I walk in and a bell rings. I walk over to an empty table and start scouting people out. I quickly found 3 people who looked younger than me, and would hopefully be up to joining a party. After walking up and chatting with them, one of them named Tom said he would be fine with joining my party and helping me out with the quest. I give him a high-five and add him to the party.

  Tom added to party:

  Tom: Hp: 14/14

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  Dang. He has 14 hp, which feels kind of low, and there isn’t mention of a level at all. This system is kind of weird. I get to know him, and then after a couple of hours of chatting, I go back to the plains and go to sleep on the familiar, at this point, mud.

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  “F***ing FINALLY I’m out of that PRISON!” I yelled when I FINALLY awoke from meditation. While I was in that ETERNITY, I had thought a bit about how I wanted some minions, but it might be a lot harder than I expected. In order to get minions, I first needed to survive until I could find some. To do that, I needed some tools. But before anything else, I needed to check my newly gained skills:

  Name: Trazyn

  Race: Human

  Class: Cosmic Artificer

  Sub-Class: N/A

  Hp: 10/10

  Inventory: Map, (1/6)

  Equipment: N/A

  Status Effects: N/A

  Skills: 3

  Recently Gained Skills:

  Manasight: Allows you to see mana, allowing for more ease of enchantment and other mana-based creation.

  Inbunement: Infuse your mana into your creation, giving it one enchantment based on what it is. (?)

  Interesting. I think this imbuement will be quite useful, but since I don't have any tools or anything to enchant, I first wanted to try out manasight. I used Inspect on the skill to figure out how to use it, and then tried it out. Woah. Everything wildly changed, and I saw wildly different colors. Everything had a tint of gray, but the ground was brown, and the sky was blue. The tree next to me was gray, but really bright. I looked at my hand. It was a dull green, dull gold, and the same bright gray as the tree.

  The fact that my hand was gray didn’t feel very healthy, and I thought that maybe I should leave the area. I started walking in a random direction and looked for a river, and I turned my manasight off. After a few hours of walking, I found a river at the very edge of the dead forest. Beyond the river was a normal forest that wasn’t gray at all. I swam over to the other side and felt much better.

  It was almost like that gray was like a disease or something. I decided to be wary of that area in the future. I then spent a few more hours that night collecting a bunch of mud bricks and preparing them for the future. I did need a kiln for my plans, after all. I then fell asleep on the ground next to the kiln.

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  I woke up that morning after making all of the twine, and decided that today I would strengthen my axe, and maybe even make another, just in case. The old axe was almost shattered at this point, and I was honestly very surprised to find that the axe was still intact.

  I started by replacing the stone I had on my axe, and I spent a solid hour looking for 2 perfect rocks, but only ended up finding one. It felt strangely heavy, but I ignored that. It felt like there were some chunks of metal in it, so I assumed that was why it was so heavy. I cut the axe head to fit the new rock, which took another 2 hours. Then, I used over half of my twine to make sure the new axehead never flew off.

  I also added some twine to the handle to make it grip better, so that it would be harder for me to accidentally send it flying while chopping a tree. I then spent the rest of the day carving another handle for something I can make later. Maybe a shovel?