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Noret Flood
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April 19 - April 20, 2022
He knew himself well enough to stop this downward spiral before it gathered too much momentum.
Even though he’d expected a similar reaction, the sense of impotence was rapidly eating its way outward through his limbs. Randidly slapped his own cheeks to remain focused. I’m improving. I’m taking steps forward. Trust the process. No great building was ever erected in a single day. You’ve got this.
“Three things affect how quickly you earn Skill Levels,” Shal said, setting his box down and giving Randidly a long look. “First, repetition. More is better, that is simple. Second, the theoretical difficulty. The more difficult it should be to accomplish, the more of your effort goes toward raising the Skill Level. “Finally,” Shal punctuated this with another splash of acid across Randidly. “The actual difficulty. Extra training has meaning.
The stronger you become, the more you understand how weak you’ve always been. Yet you cannot stop struggling. Such a choice leads to death. He who stops improving dies. There are no exceptions.
He was the Ghosthound. And he would not flinch.
White, Green, Blue, Purple, Red, Orange. Common, Uncommon, Rare, Ancient, Runic, Legendary. These are Rarities; they describe items as well as enemies. There is also Pink, which is Unique, reserved for extremely Rare spawns and the Dungeon Boss.
Randidly supposed this brutal pace was part of the point, to keep pushing if you could go further. To extend your boundaries and make you forget your former limits.
never confuse moving slowly for remaining still.
if you don’t take the cold, realistic view, the System will kill you far quicker than these suspicious thugs.”
They had a thousand motivations. A thousand justifications. A thousand reasons. They either struggled and fought for all of them or none at all. Sometimes, it only took one powerful ideal, one object, one symbol, for the complexity to fall into line. Everything else was swept away by the force of that one thing. It didn’t seem likely anyone in the village would act out too much, especially with this powerful figure lurking in the shadows. Decklan found his lips moving again, almost against his will. Ghosthound.
Newbie Path and Trainee Path unlocks at 100. Apprentice is 400, Journeyman 750. Although
For the patron saint of rot and death, I certainly seem to creep around a lot.
It was honestly kind of cute the way so many crowded and jostled to get a piece of dead bug skin.
Was the reason they started using necklaces to denote authority, because I’ve been wearing this? There’s no way that’s the case… Right?
Grow slowly, but always advance…
He was not afraid. Because right now, he needed to be the one who wielded fear.
Why does it feel like the stronger I get, the more people I have to talk to?
their mugs filled with the new trendy strain of coffee, and plates laden with a luxurious meal of baby wolverine, garnished with freshly harvested saffron.
He supposed that was half the reason monster hordes were sent against Newbie Villages, to encourage Skill growth.
