Report: Poison Licence (Task)

[Mr Bloodaxe]

Ever since I joined Cove, all those months ago, it was my aim to become a licenced user, to aid me in combat. After joining the Scouts before just before they disbanded I was unable to get the chance to learn, now I have the opportunity to make my dream come true.

Report: Poison Licence

Part One - The Poison

1) Head out to a City Library to read up on the art and manufacture of poisons.

Libraries are not really a place I often go, but I heard of one being in Britain, so I headed out and looked around to see if I could find the correct building, after a little while I stumbled upon it and began my search for details of poison. Having dealt with poison before I did already know of the use of nightshade but the books provided more details to further expand my knowledge and it made it clear that poison was not to be taken lightly, it was possible that after prolonged use it could cause my beautiful blond locks to fall out.

After reading through many of the books i found I decided that this step was complete and I should head out to find Petrus.

2) Seek out Petrus the Beekeeper in the lands east of Compassion Moongate. He will give you important advice as to the use of poison by animals.

Now this fella is east of the Compassion Moongate eh? Well I looked around for a long time finding this Petrus and he seemed to be rather elusive until i finally stumbled upon him through a narrow mountain pass. I was a little confused as he did not appear to have any beehives near him, so where he kept his bees I am not sure!

Anyway we talked about the use of animal poisons and spoke of these speckled scorpions which holds little sacs of poison inside them which they used to sting and infect their victims with. It would seem the key to killed them was to hit them fast so they did not have the chance to poison you. After a small task we said out goodbyes and I headed out to the next part of the task

3) Travel southwest to the sandy region. Here you will find speckled scorpions, which carry a potent poison in their stings. Kill these, and recover two poison sacks. These are the ones I want you to bring me.

I sped across to the sandy region only to decide to start to sneak as a approached the bridge and the soft moans of undead slowly grew louder. after crossing two bridges I found the sandy zone and an awful amount of creatures including those speckled scorpions that contained the ingredient i required. I hit them hard and fast, although they did managed to give me a dose of poison once or twice, my quick healing enabled me to overcome many of the beasts along with the other beasts that roamed around the similar area and recoved the poison sacs as required.

It seemed vital that the poison from these sacs be applied quickly before they became useless. After slaying a few more for good measure I headed back to Cove happier for the knowledge I had gained and ready to complete the final stage of the licence task

Part Two - The Cure

4) Poison cures are mostly made from Garlic. Head to Cove graveyard and slay the spirits within for magical reagents until you have 30 garlic.

The Cove graveyard is a place i know well, having visited it dozens of times already. So I headed their to slay the undead and they seemed to be there in abundance. They came at me with a fierce moaning that took me by surprise, although I managed to regain my focus and began to make my way through the waves of undead creatures.

A Lich suddenly made himself known with a big group of followers, looking like they wanted me to join their undead gang. They seemed to be overpowering me so I thought it would be wise to get rid of their home advantage and headed out to the woods so I could use my pathfinding knowledge to tip the balance in my favour, it worked perfectly as I used to trees to my advantage to sneaked around chopping them down until it was just myself and the strong lich left. I crept up behind and hacked at him with my axe until eventually he fell. I searched through their bodies and eventually found the 30 garlic cloves that I required to complete all the tasks for this Poison Licence

I hope this proves my knowledge and desire to use poison and my licence will be granted

*signed*
Ludwik Bloodaxe, Company Pathfinder