Andrews bedroom

the door slowly opens and somebody walks in

Mother:Wake up!

Andrew:Huh? what?

Mother:Jesus you are already 24, it's 10am you should get a job!

Adrew:Jeez i get it

Andrew sighs, and sits up

Mother:Why can't you be like your sister, she has a job and goes to colleage

Andrew:I don't know ok? just leave me alone

his mother leaves the room

Andrew puts on his shirt and sweatpants

He gets up walks forwards and puls his chair back

He turns his pc on

swooosh the ventilators started running

Andrew opened some internet forums

And he noticed a one year old game Tales Of Creation

5/5 star reviews

"Hmmm....why not Andrew thought"

"1TB? jesus in heaven Andrew yelled"

"I'm gonna be downloading this like 3 full days

45 hours later

Finally Andrew thought as he sat there looking at the game

You better be good god damnit, really good

He put his headset on and turned the game on

A character creation window opened

"Hmm...i don't really care about this i look decent"

A name window appeared out in front of Andrew

"Einslie" Andrew said with confidence

He appeared in the starting city of Tarc, in its city square

"Well what now?" Einslie thought to himself

He looked around and saw what seemed like a guild hall

The massive wooden doors of the guild hall opened

Eislie swiftly walked in and looked around

He saw a notice board on his right and walked towards it

"Hmmm...rat infestation,goblins,orc encampment,ratmen pretty usual..."

But then he noticed a big red notice

Help wanted, smithing apperentice

"Now that could be something interesting"

Einslie walked back outside

Outside of the smithy

Enslie slowly opened the creaking door

"Hello?" he shouted

A shadowy figure appeared in the shadows of the door in the back of the smithy

???:Aaah so somebody read my notice, my future apperentice

Einslie:How did you know?

???:Nobody else comes here anymore

the figure takes a step forwards towards the light of a single candle

A dwarf appeared in front of Einslie

Einslie:Yes ummm....who will i be apperenticing under?

???:Oh i haven't introduced myself yet have i? Thorik Ironbeard is the name given to me by my ancestors.

Einslie:So what did you mean by "nobody comes here anymore"?

Einslie looked at thorik with a questioning look on his face

Thorik Ironbeard:Well ever since the bloodsucking baroness married our late baron, she came here with the Nero company, they took all my costumers with their cheap crap

Einslie:What?

Thorik Ironbeard:They craft in bulk cheap armor and weapons and than smiths like me that put love and mastery into our weapons and armor get overshadowed, but you are gonna change my luck

Einslie:How?

Thorik Ironbeard:She thinks she knows everything, but she doesn't know that this city had 2 iron mines, but the second one was abandoned a century ago, a orc invasion, warboss grusk, but i need you to go check that mine out and see if it's empty and come back to me.

A window appeared in front of Einslie

Help Thorik by checking out the forgotten mine

Rating:F

Rewards: 10x crowns, 500x affinity with Thorik, 1x worn iron dagger, 1x Journeyman smith title, 400x exp

Failure: -500 affinity, future quests might be locked

Thorik:Will you do this for me?

Einslie:Yes i accept

You have accepted a quest

Einslie opened the in game map

Einslie:So through the north gate and through the forest on the left

North Gate, Tarc Forest

Einslie stood in front of the looming forest

Einslie:Oh god that looks horrible

Einslie walked in

As Einslie walked through the ever expanding forest ahead of him he heard wolves howling in the distance and echoes of screams and weapons hitting armor

Einslie:Oh jesus this place is cursed

Einslie started running as fast as his body could allow until he found himself at the enterance of what seemed like a mine

Pant pant

Einslie wiped the sweat of his forehead

Einslie entered the mine

He felt uneasy every step inside

Walking to the dead end of the mine he found a rusty old pickaxe

Rusty old pickaxe

Rusty long forgotten pickaxe

Rating:Normal

Durability: 40/40

Attack Power: 8

Weight:

User Restriction: Level 1 journeyman mining level 1

Has a low chance to double normal to rare rated minerals

Einslie:Oooh this could be useful

Einslie:I should go

Back in Tarc

Thoriks smithy

Einslie: I am back

Thorik:So was it empty as i predicted?

Einslie:Suprisingly yes

A notification popped out

You gained 400 exp

You leveled up

You gained a title Journeyman smith

Thorik: I have something to give you as a thanks for helping me

Thorik left and went to the back of the smithy

After a minute he came back holding a dagger in his right hand and a silver coin in his left

You got 1 silver coin, 1 worn iron dagger

Worn iron dagger

rating:Normal

piercing damage: 6-8

slash damage: 4-7

increased attack speed: 2%

Chance to deal critical damage:3%

Thorik: And since you are going to be my apprentice, it's about time i taught you how to smith weapons and armor, come with me

Einslie walked through the back door of the smithy with Thorik

The first thing that Einslie saw was the tall furnace in front of him

Thorik stopped

and pointed at it

Thorik: What you see is a blast furnace, that's where you'll put the ore and get ingots

Thorik points to his right

Thorik: That there is a hammering table, that's where you will finish your items

Thorik walked again towards a pair of wooden crates

He rummaged in them for a while before taking out what looks like a parchment and an iron ingot

He put the iron ingot on the table and gave Einslie the parchment

Einslie took the parchment

Method of creation:Hauberk

Rating:Rare

Description:The method to create a hauberk with the preferred minerals

Einslie:Ummm... Thorik what's a hauberk?

Thorik:Think of it as a shirt made of small metal linked rings in a pattern to form a mesh

Thorik: Oh and you'll need this

Thorik handed Einslie a hammer

Old smithing hammer

durability:35/35

attack power: 6-8

Odds of making a normal rated item: 85%

Odds of making a rare rated item: 10%

Odds of making a epic rates item:5%

Description: An old worn out smithing hammer used to make untold quantities of items

Einslie took the hammer and swung it up and down at the ingot underneath his hammer

The ingot started emitting a blue hue as it started shaping into a hauberk right before Einslies eyes

One hour later of hammering

Iron Hauberk of the resolute

Rating: Rare

Durability: 75/75

Defense: 90

Movement Speed: -2%

Piercing damage reduction: 5%

Slashing damage reduction:8%

Blunt damage reduction:3%

If health is below 20% increases damage resistance by 32%

Requirements: Level 1 or above, more than 12 Strenght

Einslie:Oh wow

Thorik:Great job young one

Thorik patted Einslie on his lower back

Thorik:Try to wear it

Einslie:I don't think i'm able to

Thorik:Oh sure you are

Thorik grabed the haberk and threw it on Einslie

Level too low, stats adjusted

Einslie:Oof

Einslies knees buckled

Heavy Einslie yelped

He fell on his knees

Thorik:Wait i'll take it off

Thorik took the Hauberk off Einslie

Einslie:Is there an auction house here Thorik?

Thorik: Well of course Tarc is a big city with a lot of adeventures such as yourself

Einslie:Great..ok where is it

Thorik:You can't be thinking of selling your first rare item, its a memorabilia you can't sell that

Einslie:Yes i can and i am going to

Einslie opened his map, after a few seconds of looking at it he opened the door of the smithy and left

He stood before the looming building, looking at it, gleaning at it's posterior

Until its huge 3 meter long doors swished opened

And a thing walked out

Woah Einslie thought

It was an another adventurer

The thing started moving

It stoped right in front of Einslie

In that moment with that thing standing in front of him, all he could hear was his heart beating, the stomps of it and the sound of its plate armor while walking

He dared to start looking up its body until he came to the helmet

His eyes met the eye slits of the helmet

Red beaming from them

And then steam

"Move"

It exclaimed

Just the sound almost put Einslie to the ground, as it echoed in his ears

He took a few steps back and the thing started walking away from the building

As Einslie looked back at it he could make out a window above its head

Name:????

Level:???

All he could think, in that moment was wow, so that's how it feels to meet a no-lifer in this game

After a while he walked into the auction house

The inner thoughts of his were replaced by people bickering and yelling

"Hey that item is mine dude"

"Ahhah i don't think so because i saw it first"

"Aaawww 2 little babies fighting over a toy, now get the hell out of my way or my guild will murder both of you comprende? Good"

Einslie noticed the massive tables aranged into a circle in front of him, and found one with an npc that wasn't already preoccupied

Einslie: Hi i would like to sell this item?

NPC: Alright what should the bidding price be?

Einslie: I ummm....hmmmm

"Damn i should have thought more about this"

Einslie: 10 crowns

NPC: And how long should the bidding time be?

Einslie: 1 day

NPC: Alright, you will get a message if the item will be sold, or if not it will be returned

Einslie: Alright, i'll hold you to that

"I should go back to the smithy"