Quaesitor
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Guarding the Entrance [GH0601]
Objectives:
- Sponsor: Adventurer's Guild
- Location: Gelderholm City
- Required Level: 6
The hydra's minions attack swiftly and without warning.This isn't a cushy job where you can just relax and take a snooze.We need you to be vigilant. This is a siege.An assault on the city can come at any moment. Rewards:
- Prerequisite: Joint Military Exercises
- Guard the entrance to the dwarven city.
- Sound the alarm in the event of an attack.
- Defend the entrance.
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- Points: 150-220 EXP
- Money: 20 G
- Other: n/a
I've already been in the tunnels, so now it's time to man the walls and do some military work. While the city is under siege, it has managed to hold on until now, and I'll have fortifications, so it shouldn't be that dangerous. Thus I accept the quest and head to the walls.
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The first few hours pass peacefully, but I don't manage to relax for a single second as I am well aware that an attack could start at any second. Unnerving. Very unnerving. Waiting for something terrifying to happen but not knowing when it will happen is a terrible feeling. Time passes and I almost wish that an attack would happen - just so that I don't have to wait anymore - but then I remember how terrifying combat is and rein myself in.
Then, suddenly, I spot something moving far away in the shadows. Straining my ears, I can faintly hear something moving in the distance. Better safe than sorry! Without hesitating, I sound the alarm. The walls are already completely manned with guards ready for combat before the first enemies arrive within our range and a fierce erupts. I run around, supplying various defensive siege weapons with ammunition, pass messages around, and as a defender gets hit and falls off a siege weapon I man it in his place. Good thing I had some training for this.
I manage to operate the weapon - though not as efficiently as the defender before me - and it doesn't take long before another, more trained defender swaps with me. At this point, a few of the attackers have managed to scale the wall so I draw my sword and enter the fight on the wall, stabbing and slashing at the various snakes. Not too soon after, the fight is over - there aren't a lot of injured on our side and many snakes dead, but... as far as I know, that has never bothered the Hydra.
Dejectedly, I return to the guild at the end of the day and hand in my report.
...
The first few hours pass peacefully, but I don't manage to relax for a single second as I am well aware that an attack could start at any second. Unnerving. Very unnerving. Waiting for something terrifying to happen but not knowing when it will happen is a terrible feeling. Time passes and I almost wish that an attack would happen - just so that I don't have to wait anymore - but then I remember how terrifying combat is and rein myself in.
Then, suddenly, I spot something moving far away in the shadows. Straining my ears, I can faintly hear something moving in the distance. Better safe than sorry! Without hesitating, I sound the alarm. The walls are already completely manned with guards ready for combat before the first enemies arrive within our range and a fierce erupts. I run around, supplying various defensive siege weapons with ammunition, pass messages around, and as a defender gets hit and falls off a siege weapon I man it in his place. Good thing I had some training for this.
I manage to operate the weapon - though not as efficiently as the defender before me - and it doesn't take long before another, more trained defender swaps with me. At this point, a few of the attackers have managed to scale the wall so I draw my sword and enter the fight on the wall, stabbing and slashing at the various snakes. Not too soon after, the fight is over - there aren't a lot of injured on our side and many snakes dead, but... as far as I know, that has never bothered the Hydra.
Dejectedly, I return to the guild at the end of the day and hand in my report.
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