* Lead Patrols to the Covian Orc Fort, the Covian Graveyard, and the Vesper Graveyard, fetching at least ten thousand gold pieces.
8th December - 2005 - Approx 23 GMT
Time had come to take on my first task, to enter three places and get out victoriously with an enormous sum of gold at my feet. But I was not alone, the following guardsmen stood bravely at my command:
Rupert Ridir - Watchman leader (Thats me by the way)
Vince Valentine - Regular Grenadier
Fabien - Recruit
Nicholi - Recruit
Ben Radau - Recruit
I declared for the brave guardsmen that we were supposed to go to the orc fort, the cove graveyard and the vesper graveyard to earn us a healthy sum, namely 10.000 gold coins. With one or two sighs I ordered the men to arm up and make sure that they all brought enough bagspace for the coming treasures! Then we marched towards our first goal, the orc fort...
I lined the lads up, asking them to stay close and heal at the first sign of blood. And they managed to do it quite nicely I have to say, only a few times they fell during the whole patrol! *grins* Into the fort we went, facing every possible dangers! Small orcs, larger orcs and inhumanly large orcs! We beat them all to dust and cleaned their bags of gold.
It went rather quick in the fort, we moved swiftly in formations, stayed close and healed eachother well. The recruits sometimes ran off (due to the lack of training I assume) but we managed to stick close together quite often. We scrapped together all the money we could get before heading out of the fort, heading to the next place, Cove graveyard.
I lined the lads up outside the graveyard, I had to tell them about the lurking lich who inhabitans this graveyard, without a tremble the lads in the line gripped their weapons tightly and we went into the graveyard. And there it was, the famous lich...of course we happen to be more famous so it went down in a few seconds. Probably Vinces look in his eyes which charmed it or something...Anyway, the graveyard seemed awfully quiet and we soon ended up with no undeads to beat back to their graves so a skirmish was in order.
But ack we could only take so much zombies before almost falling over sleeping on the graves! The bloody skeletons and zombies didn't even dare to step inside the fences, whad'ya say about that?! We brought them fear! We took their treasures and we left without a problem! Onwards to our next target, Vesper Graveyard. We took down any threat along the way which had escaped from Cove Graveyard.
The arrival at the Vesper Graveyard went smooth, only lost three recruits and a grenadier in the forest. Eventually they all found their way back on track to me, strangely all came from different directions so I wonder who they had followed. Maybe the ol' lich had charmed them or something. Nay matter! Another quick lineup to inform what was going to happen, same thing as Cove graveyard but without any lich this time. In we went.
It seemed like our force was either too well equipped or too good for its own good. We hardly had anything to beat up in there! One undead woke up, three got knocked down. Vince decided to check out a nearby hut out of boredom running low on zombies and ghosts to chase back to their graves. Another graveyard secure and the undead now fear the Cove Militia.
Without any further delay, I ordered a forced march back to the barracks. After this "tough" patrol we surely had enough gold to last for an eternity with bathing in ale!
The lads fought bravely, the militia had earned the gold it wanted and I was one step closer to my goal. Dismissed.
/Rupert
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