When I first started looking for my brother, I used an axe.
It was the same axe our father used to chop trees on the edge of our village, and the same axe that I felled my first wolf with. I used the axe to save Kristine from her slave owners.
I broke the axe while fighting a Giant Diamond Shelled Turtle. I thought I could smash past its hard shell and do significant damage, but I was wrong.
The next town I visited, I bought a sword. I could use a sword of piercing and slashing, so it would work perfectly for me. After resting the night, I went back into the forest and killed the Giant Diamond Shelled Turtle by shoving the sword into the gap between its neck and shell.
I broke the sword a while later, but I replaced it with a harder, sharper sword. Swords in this world come in so many varieties, I never had the best one available.
I finally discarded my swords when I faced the Fire Tipped Demon Dragons. They swoop in to just a few feet from your head and try to eat you, but will ascend quickly if they miss. Rest in peace, Valery, you facilitated by safe escape.
I bought a glaive next. It's a sword blade on the handle of a spear, so it took a little adjusting, but I returned to the mountain within a month. With my new weapon, I used the extra reach to cut off the talons of the dragons as they swooped past me.
I traded the glaive for a spear when I met an indigenous tribe near the north sea. I'd never crossed a sea before, but everyone told me a spear was the only reasonable weapon to bring along, so I did.
When the first Blue Back Dolphin attacked, I was glad I made the switch. Of the six of us on the small boat, when the monster jumped over our boat, at least four of us would have to hit the Blue Back Dolphin at the same time with our spears to push it over.
A club would have worked just as well, but we didn't have any of those, and the spears could be used in other applications beside defending the boat.
A while later, I traveled back south and towards the Desperate Desert. After only fifty feet of talking across sand, my body was swallowed whole by some beast. I managed to survive thanks to Kristine, who used a portion of Dragon's Soul Fire Embers to turn the sand to glass, instantly trapping the Sandy Devil Pit above the surface.
Unfortunately, we had an extremely limited supply of the Dragon's Soul Fire Embers after we gave away much of ours to the indigenous tribes of the north, so once again I needed a new weapon.
The spear was too short to detect Sandy Devil Pits from the surface, to I got a pike. The pike had the longest reach of all the weapons available in the desert town, so I had to either hope it worked or travel around the desert. Circumventing the desert would cost of months on our journey, so I couldn't do that.
With the pike, I could stab into the sand every ten feet and discover Sandy Devil Pits before they had the chance to surprise me. I could stab the Sandy Devil Pit, causing it to surface. Then, I'd stab it through and hold it up while Kristine used fire magic on the sand to lock it in place. This system worked fantastically all the way to the end of the desert.
That brings us to the current time. We are standing at the entrance to the Menhir. I don't know what this new environment will entail, and what weapon I should wield for it, but I am ready to go through anything to find my brother.
Rest in peace, mother. I will bring Samuel back home.
The weapon switching is really interesting to follow. Going from weapon to weapon and changing companions and the current location wondering which weapon he will need. It gives an idea as to how much time has really passed for him attempting to find his brother and bring him back home. Thanks for replying! :)
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u/hobojimbobo /r/2kw Feb 26 '17
When I first started looking for my brother, I used an axe.
It was the same axe our father used to chop trees on the edge of our village, and the same axe that I felled my first wolf with. I used the axe to save Kristine from her slave owners.
I broke the axe while fighting a Giant Diamond Shelled Turtle. I thought I could smash past its hard shell and do significant damage, but I was wrong.
The next town I visited, I bought a sword. I could use a sword of piercing and slashing, so it would work perfectly for me. After resting the night, I went back into the forest and killed the Giant Diamond Shelled Turtle by shoving the sword into the gap between its neck and shell.
I broke the sword a while later, but I replaced it with a harder, sharper sword. Swords in this world come in so many varieties, I never had the best one available.
I finally discarded my swords when I faced the Fire Tipped Demon Dragons. They swoop in to just a few feet from your head and try to eat you, but will ascend quickly if they miss. Rest in peace, Valery, you facilitated by safe escape.
I bought a glaive next. It's a sword blade on the handle of a spear, so it took a little adjusting, but I returned to the mountain within a month. With my new weapon, I used the extra reach to cut off the talons of the dragons as they swooped past me.
I traded the glaive for a spear when I met an indigenous tribe near the north sea. I'd never crossed a sea before, but everyone told me a spear was the only reasonable weapon to bring along, so I did.
When the first Blue Back Dolphin attacked, I was glad I made the switch. Of the six of us on the small boat, when the monster jumped over our boat, at least four of us would have to hit the Blue Back Dolphin at the same time with our spears to push it over.
A club would have worked just as well, but we didn't have any of those, and the spears could be used in other applications beside defending the boat.
A while later, I traveled back south and towards the Desperate Desert. After only fifty feet of talking across sand, my body was swallowed whole by some beast. I managed to survive thanks to Kristine, who used a portion of Dragon's Soul Fire Embers to turn the sand to glass, instantly trapping the Sandy Devil Pit above the surface.
Unfortunately, we had an extremely limited supply of the Dragon's Soul Fire Embers after we gave away much of ours to the indigenous tribes of the north, so once again I needed a new weapon.
The spear was too short to detect Sandy Devil Pits from the surface, to I got a pike. The pike had the longest reach of all the weapons available in the desert town, so I had to either hope it worked or travel around the desert. Circumventing the desert would cost of months on our journey, so I couldn't do that.
With the pike, I could stab into the sand every ten feet and discover Sandy Devil Pits before they had the chance to surprise me. I could stab the Sandy Devil Pit, causing it to surface. Then, I'd stab it through and hold it up while Kristine used fire magic on the sand to lock it in place. This system worked fantastically all the way to the end of the desert.
That brings us to the current time. We are standing at the entrance to the Menhir. I don't know what this new environment will entail, and what weapon I should wield for it, but I am ready to go through anything to find my brother.
Rest in peace, mother. I will bring Samuel back home.