Welcome to Cove

Recruit Arc's Trials
* Escort Five Nobles out of Cove to destinations of their choice.
* Collect Ten Thousand Gold Pieces.
* Tithe Five Hundred Gold Pieces to the Shrine of Compassion (contributing any prayers ye may have).
* Collect Fifteen Tribal Berries (to keep for Miss Dellamona).

Recruit Orange's Trials
* Slay a Stone Harpy.
* Collect Five Hundred Feathers.
* Collect Ten Thousand Gold Pieces.
* Recruit one individual into the Militia.

Finshing these tasks ye must then produce a professional and detailed report, including paintings, placing it on this Board. Upon successful completion of the Trials, ye will then be eligible for promotion to Junior Guardsman, and thus receive the Covian headdress cap.

Work hard at ye Trials, and the Covian cap shall be yours in no time.
Commander Eason

Recruit Arc's Trials
Part one - Collect Ten Thousand Gold Pieces.

I had just arrived at the Barracks for another day of.. hard work and after a click browse over the newest pin ups on the message board i noticed my trials were ready to be undertaken, so i checked my pack and set out to complete a task.

I noticed no other guards on duty were at the barracks or near by to help me, so i set out on my own to the dungeon of Despise, just north of Britain, to gather the gold.

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Arc comes face to face with the Dungeon

I entered the cave and took the first flight of steps down into a deeper part of the dungeon, it all seemed pretty quiet compared to what i had heard about the dungeon, i could several "thudding" sounds ahead of me so i worked my way through the dungeon to find out what was going on, only to find the corpses of many two-headed giants.

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Busy indeed...

I continued through the dungeon, still nothing but the large thuds ahead of me and piles of corpses everywhere though i did come across what looked like a swamp with a two-header stuck inside, it looked pretty beaten so i thought it better to put it out of its misery.

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A "shocking" fate for the beast

I knew this was getting me nowhere, i had been here for a while now and still no gold so i began searching the bodies of the already slain beasts, they held some gold, it seemed whatever was slaughtering them wasnt that interested in gold so i took what gold i could carry and moved on through the murky caves.

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Scavenging for scraps

I walked and walked through the caves, nothing to see but a few stagles and mud piles and oh.. did i mention more corpses?

I was getting bored, this was going no-where, was i lost? it seemed i was walking in circles i was ntertaninng myself by kicking stones down the cave and listening to the echo, i was getting way off track.

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The bordome settles in

I continued walking aimlessly through the caves until i came to something i hadnt seen before, a pile of rocks blocking the way so i climbed and moved as many rocks as i could to get through and found a hidden room with another stairway leading even further down.

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Atlast, somewhere to go!

I followed the new passageway through some more caves which seemed to be a little more guided, as if made by something, however i kept my pace and could hear some grumbling from around one of the corners, i poked my head around to see a huge armoured man there muttering a strange language and toying with a huge pouch which seemed to hold alot of gold, i stepped back to think my steps and looked across the way to see a crystal ball of some sort, i threw a stone to hit the ball but missed, the sound didnt seem to distract him at all so i flicked through my book to find the telekenesis spell, i uttered the spell and pushed the crystal ball from its resting place, hitting the floor with a thud, the best seemed to had noticed it and i readied an energy bolt in my hands.

The best moved to the crystal ball on the floor and scratched its head, this was my chance! i leapt from my hiding place and hurled my energy bolt at the beasts head, before it knew anything it was laying on the floor so i took this chance to rummage through the bag and see what it had, seemed this beast had been busy.

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Arc strikes gold

While stashing the gold in my pack i heard roaring and grunting coming from down the cave so i rushed to get the gold into my pack but it was to late.. i looked out to find 5 of the beasts stending ahead of me and they charged me, i swallowed hard and knew i wasnt going to get out of this without a fight, so i bit my tongue and began to battle the bests with every spell and curse i knew.

When the dust settled i was the victor, my armour had taken quite a beating but i was now a rich man, or atelast the militia was. I packed my pack with the gold and dragged it through the caverns and to my trusty packhorse waiting outside, loaded him up and set back for Cove.

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A job well done

*Signed*
Arc

An excellent start to your Trials, Recruit Arc. And a fine report also.
I do wonder whether that new passageway ye went through is anything to do with the rumour of a force set on attacking Britain... *ponders*

Recruit Arc's Trials
Part Two - Escort Five Nobles out of Cove to destinations of their choice.

Another day, another duty, i stumbled into the barracks to ready for my next task,
"Escort five nobles..." I thought to myself "Damned snobs", so i cleared my blurry
eyes and set out for town to find my escorts.

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Atlast the day is finally over, now im off to get some sleep, trial complete

*Signed*
Arc

Well done, Recruit Arc! All that is left now is picking those Tribal Berries, and paying tithe to the Shrine of Compassion.

Commander Eason

Recruit Arc's Trials
Part Three - Tithe Five Hundred Gold Pieces to the Shrine of Compassion.

I had just woken and was ready for another trial, i poked my head into the barracks and again no-one was around to aid me in my next task. I then read the board and readied my things for this next task and then set off on the road for the desert.

For hours i walked with only the sun and the wind for company, i hated to walk, especailly as the temperature slowly rose as i made my way closer and closer to the desert, i could see the grass and dirt ahead of me getting dryer and harder until i found a guard outpost, the guards ther were busy beating off some rogues so i leapt in and helped them defeat them then made my way to the desert.

The sun was scorching, i was so hot and tired i could barely walk but before all hope was lost, i could see my goal! light reflecting off the waters in the distance so i sped up my pace and ended up bumping into a band of Orcs and other beasts.

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For Cove !

Each of them fell to my curses and deadly spells and i smiled to myself and turned to find a HUGE band of beasts and other creatures ready to try and stop me in my tracks, i was to tired to fight anymore so i ran as fast as i could towards the shrine island ahead of me.

I managed to outrun them and got the the island, but they were still coming! i had no choice but to seal off the only way onto the island with a protection spell and quickly tithe my gold to the shrine.

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I quickly took my gold from my pack and pushed it towards the ankh and knelt down in prayer, the scortching sun still on my back i was losing strength, and with it so was the protection spell holding back the beasts, the wall of energy was becoming weaker and smaller.

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I finished my prayers and turned to see the wall about to collapse, i knew this was my time to leave and i chanted a spell to teleport me back home, by the time the beasts got onto the island, i was long gone.

*Signed*
Arc

A fine effort, Recruit Arc.
One more Trial to complete!

Trial One - Slaying A Stone Harpy.
For this trial I decided to goto Chaos in Ilshenar. It was nay a hard battle but here is proof of my victory.
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This is also when I began to collect gold and Feathers from the harpies remains.
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Trial Two - Collect Five Hundred Feathers.

For this trial I went to Covetous, Covetous is a dungeon with many Harpies inside so it was an ideal place to go gather feathers, in a short time I salvaged Six hundred feathers from their remains.
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However I did become full after collecting the feathers and I felt as though I could do with a higher challenge of foe to collect the gold so I banked the feathers and began thinking for my third task.

Trial Three - Collect Ten Thousand Gold Pieces.

After the Covetous visit i'd already accumulated 1,500 gold pieces so I only needed to gather 8,500 more. For this I wanted to use my axe a bit more so I chose to visit an earth elemental cave in Ilshenar Sacrifice for a while.
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It didn't take long looting the gold and gems from the earth elementals to accumulate a net worth of ten thousand gold, once i'd reached it I returned to the bank and got the feathers and travelled to Cove Barracks for a rest whilst looking over the Ten Thousand Gold Piece Pile and the Six Hundred and Fifty Feathers.
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Now I just need ter find someone ter recruit into the Militia. *thinks to himself* That's gonnabe hard.

Well That's three done. *Nods*

An excellent effort in thy Trials, Recruit Orange. And aye; finding a new Recruit shall be somewhat difficult - but ye have proven to be a man of unnatural resource, and therefore I trust that ye shall complete the task swiftly.

Trial Four - Recruit someone into the militia.

I've done it I managed to recruit two heads into the militia.

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That's the last of my trials.

[Signed -]  Jackhera Orange

Outstanding effort, Recruit Orange. I am most impressed. I look forward to the Ceremony this eve; ye, both of ye, have completed your Trials well.

I finished last. This means the ales are on me after the promotions *Nods*.

[Signed -]  Jackhera orange