After my decision to become a fighter, I spent endless days hunting rats in the fields and towers. Now and then some kindly and more experienced fighters and healers would take me to the Undine Hut or to the Myrm Hive, or to Kitty Beach, but I felt my lack of experience and skill keenly and determined to advance as much as I could on my own for awhile, so as not to be a pest.
Doing this terrified me, however. I did not know the lands at all, and in spite of studying maps, I was often lost when traveling only two snells out from town center. As I crossed snell boundaries, my heart would leap into my throat in fear of what might be waiting on the other side. I would hunt until I was a sickly yellow hue, and then retreat to town where I would as Stora to heal me. Often during these times, there were only a few other exiles to be found, and I was well aware that if I feel, there might be no one to help me.
Eventually I got a bit stronger, and got to know the farms and then the fields right around Puddleby. But I still sometimes suffered nasty shocks, like walking into Witkus' weapons shop and being set upon and killed by Darshaks. I hadn't know they could even enter buildings in Puddleby. Luckily, by then I knew how to toggle for help and had told people I was headed south; seeing I fell to 'shak, they checked the shop pretty soon. During this time, a number of older fighters were very kind to me.
Doing this terrified me, however. I did not know the lands at all, and in spite of studying maps, I was often lost when traveling only two snells out from town center. As I crossed snell boundaries, my heart would leap into my throat in fear of what might be waiting on the other side. I would hunt until I was a sickly yellow hue, and then retreat to town where I would as Stora to heal me. Often during these times, there were only a few other exiles to be found, and I was well aware that if I feel, there might be no one to help me.
Eventually I got a bit stronger, and got to know the farms and then the fields right around Puddleby. But I still sometimes suffered nasty shocks, like walking into Witkus' weapons shop and being set upon and killed by Darshaks. I hadn't know they could even enter buildings in Puddleby. Luckily, by then I knew how to toggle for help and had told people I was headed south; seeing I fell to 'shak, they checked the shop pretty soon. During this time, a number of older fighters were very kind to me.
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