The Apprentices: COMPLETE (Epilogue now posted)

[thinkslogically]

Smells the ground

Smells waits getting more excited the longer wolves is gone. What could be bringing back?

Whatever Wolves offers, smells accepts and thanks him.

If it's an animal Smells asks what type of needs it has and if there is anything he should be careful about.

I wonder what it is. I'm enjoying the game more then I thought I was going to. Tiz my first forum game so I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out.

You have no idea how excited I am about the next update Glad you're enjoying it so far!

[Jacon]

Wears A Coat

Coats shrugs his shoulders and is reminded that he never liked the teller all that much. Afterall they were helping her and she wouldn't even give them a wand of healing.
He goes to the apothecary and waits for the goblin to stop shouting before speaking.
" Going on task for tribe. Need healing and help. What do you have?

[Taberah]

Do we have esp? or do we need to exchange info to keep up to date.

[thinkslogically]

Aye you've all got ESP, so you know what the others know. You can't share items without being in the same area though (your inventories are individual).

[thinkslogically]

Still waiting on two to post actions, and I'm off to sleep now so no double updates today. Next update will be up around 7pm BST tomorrow, so please post your actions by 6pm or else they won't count.

Cheers!

[DesperateFool]

Alright, I'll get the long sword and the light armor.

[thinkslogically]

Alright, I'll get the long sword and the light armor.

You can have a move this turn as well if you want?

[DesperateFool]

Oh okay. Imalamp also goes to the teller to gain some wisdom and guidance.

[DesperateFool]

Oh okay. Imalamp also goes to the teller to gain some wisdom and guidance.

[thinkslogically]

Turn 4

Smells the Ground waits for what feels like hours before Dances-with-Wolves finally comes back and presents you with a large bundle of blue fluff which explodes over the wall at you




Here we go then Young'un. LIke I said, she's pretty unpredictable, but she's only a puppy after all. She might help you track down this bugbear of yours though, assuming you can get her to focus long enough... She'll be able to take care of herself, but you'll need to work with her a bit if you want to get the most out of her - but I'm sure you can work all that out. If you decide you don't want to take her along, that's fine, just bring her back to me before you head out. Oh, but these might help...

You receive a bag of dog biscuits.

Elsewhere in the town, Wears a Coat leaves the Training House grumbling under his breath about the Teller's lack of assistance, and arrives at the apothecary's shack where he finds Dies in Water spacing out.



The apothecary meanwhile has stopped yelling and seems glad to have someone talk to her.

Going on task for tribe. Need healing and help. What do you have?

Oooh! A customer! Well, I have lots of things but if you're heading into the wilds I suppose you'll be wanting healing potions. I'm afraid I don't have many left, but... I have... four minor healing potions, 1 strength potion and 2 stone-skin potions. It's not much though for a trip to the wilds... The Teller has a wand of healing somewhere which she might lend you, though I haven't seen her with it since her hut blew up hahaha! Wouldn't be surprised if it was still in there myself... Anyway, will you be paying for these now or shall I just put it on the Training House tab?

Dies in Water continues to stare.

Back at the Training House, ImaLamp thanks Punches for his new gear and heads out to speak to the Teller.



I'd like some wisdom and guidance please.

...ok. Um... Well, I don't really know what to tell you that I haven't already told your companions... Oh! Don't eat yellow snow...


Warg Puppy
HP: 6/6, Att: 2, Def: 2

Gets same movement bonus as scouts.
Can be commanded to either 'track' (identify the next direction to go) or 'search' in an area. Sound too good to be true? Yeah, she's a puppy, so results are likely to be be unpredictable and variable.

A goblin can spend an action 'training' the puppy, which might help.

[LicentiousDey]

DiesByWater
"Yeah, just put it on our tab, we'll probably procure enough gold to pay it off by the end."
He continues to stare at the Apothecary for some time before moving to the Training hut to wait for everyone to group up and go.

[Jacon]

Wears A Coat

How much does those potions cost? he asks the vendor. He makes a mental note to go check out the tellers hut to see if he can find that wand

[Taberah]

Smells the ground

"Woo, puppy!" Smells starts petting the puppy. Hmmm what to teach em first. O I know! Smells Moves away from the puppy and calls it... oh wait I don't have a name , Licks Faces with have to do for now. Smells starts patting his knees calling over Licks, Awarding her when she follows.

Smells Continues training Licks while moving into the training hall.

I have no clue how to train an animal, rewards for doing good stuff? Major action to train, ah just to be clear I'm teaching her to come when her names called. Since she's still a puppy she's going to wonder around a lot will be useful. Move action to well move to move inside the training hall.

[LicentiousDey]

Animals are best trained with reward and punishment, but can not be trained with repetition. When the worg doesn't do something when you tell it to, don't do anything until it finally does it (like an hour later) and reward it with treats or praise, usually praise. If it does something bad then scold it, but don't hurt or taunt it.

Like: If you say sit and it doesn't do anything, don't say it again, just wait for it to sit.
Or: If it poops in the hut you yell at it and clean it up.

[Taberah]

Ah that's good to know, thanks LicentiousDey.

If you guys are wanting to leave, I wouldn't wait for me. I plan to spend a bit more time here. I want to check out the tellers hut. I'll catch up to you guys. If you guys think that's a bad idea and we should get the ball a rolling though I'll head out with you guys.. soon as I get my weapons/armor O:

[LicentiousDey]

Goblin rule #1: STICK TOGETHER

We should wait for you, and I actually think I'm chomping at the bit, everyone else will probably want to check everything out first too.

[DesperateFool]

Ill train my warg . He's cute. Also, I have sOme yellow snow right here...

[Taberah]

Alrighty, since we're going to stick together. I'll continue on my current route, next turn if the majority of the people want to leave. I'll head out with ya guys instead of sticking around town

[thinkslogically]

Turn 5



"How much does those potions cost?"
"Yeah, just put it on our tab, we'll probably procure enough gold to pay it off by the end."

The vendor grins at the young goblins in anticipation of a sale.
"The price is very fair, though if you use the Training House tab then you can take it up with Punches when you get back. I imagine he'll have you mucking out the warg pen or some such delightful activity to pay off the debt but it shouldn't take strapping young lads like you very long! I tell you what, I'll give you everything I've got.

She gives Wears-a-Coat the 4 healing potions, 2 stoneskin potions and 1 strength potions.

Dies-in-Water stares at her a little longer just to be creepy then heads over to meet the others at the training house, keen to be on his way!



ImaLamp looks after LicksFaces the puppy while SmellstheGround goes inside to choose her loot.

They both spend some time with the warg this turn and she seems to be learning to listen to you both a little better.



"Right Young'un. Same story as for the others with the gear. What are you having?"

4x Minor Healing Potions: Heal 1-4HP. One use.
2x Stoneskin Potion: Increases Def by 2 for 3 turns.
1x Strength Potion: Increases Att by 2 for 3 turns.

You can distribute your stuff between you as you see fit (for free) as long as you're in the same area as the goblin you're giving the stuff to / taking it from.

Training Note: From now on, only one person can train the puppy per turn (it's a lot of concentrating to expect from a young beastie after all!). I've let you away with it this time because I don't think I made that clear before :S My bad!

Also, yay! you got the puppy! That dog was the entire reason this game became a game rather than just me messing about with a bunch of random sprites If you guys want to play over the weekend, I'll see if I have time to update - should be pretty quiet for me over the next couple of days, but no worries if you're not around. Next scheduled update is Monday.

[LicentiousDey]

Dies will toy with his new daggers, drawing on the ground while he waits for everyone to get ready. He hums a tune he once heard sung by a human.

[Taberah]

Smells the ground

I'll pick up a bow, some arrows, and the light armor.

"Hey Imalamp, wanna bring Licks Faces over to the tellers hut and see if we can pick up the trail?"
On the way Smells hands Lamp the Bag of Dog Biscuits.
Moven on over to the tellers hut.

If ya guys decide ya want to leave this turn I'll edit my post if that's alright. Oh, I'm so going to regret getting a weapon with a miss chance later, but we might as well test out all the weapons. Question about arrows do I effectively have infinite or do I need to worry about running out? "choose her loot." also I'm a dude but it's a common mistake, people say I type like a girl sometimes.

[thinkslogically]

If ya guys decide ya want to leave this turn I'll edit my post if that's alright. Oh, I'm so going to regret getting a weapon with a miss chance later, but we might as well test out all the weapons. Question about arrows do I effectively have infinite or do I need to worry about running out?

You can effectively have infinite arrows for this game;

"choose her loot." also I'm a dude but it's a common mistake, people say I type like a girl sometimes

Apologies, that was a slip of the keyboard

[Jacon]

Coats goes to the Tellers huts to see what kind of guards are set up. Perhaps he can trick them and get past...

[DesperateFool]

Imalamp continues to train LicksFaces while the other members get ready. He also gets a cup of his favorite beer. ( if he can)

[Taberah]

DesperateFool, want to bring Licks over to the teller hut while you train her o;? It'll make use of your movement action and she might help us out over there.