To all heroes out there, Take Heed!
What all true heroes need on their quest first is a "meat sac of holding", as my ex roommate called it. A bag to carry your weapons and armor in. These are commonly called "backpacks" in laymen terminology. These have a few basic properties, the important one is inventory size, how much weapons and armor can you carry with you. As any true hero knows, having a big enough inventory to carry around with you. There exists a trade off between the amount of stuff, the size of it, and it's weight.
BEWARE - To much weight and you risk becoming immobile.
There are 4 basic categories of you carry around with you. Weapons, Armor, Tonics, and treasure/loot.
Weapons -
In this day and age, you can find weapons anywhere, and in any form. Some of them can be bought/traded for, others you have to quest to gain the knowledge to carry around with you. Here is a basic list of weapons that we carry thus far.
-Computer,Smart Phone, Internet, Leatherman Juice(multi-tool), lots of scrolls of knowledge on our area, a map with blue blinking dot of where you are at.
Armor-
Armor is essential in protecting you from the enemies of the area. Here, that is mostly the weather god. He commonly spits fire and thunder at you, rain, and sun. You must be prepared for it! Some armor is not used all the time, but is readily needed should the enemy present itself.
You need to protect yourself from:
-The Tears of the gods(rain), with a waterproof jacket and pants, and heavy boots.
-The Thunder of the gods, with noise protection so you can sleep when the thunder comes.
-The Light of the gods, with good light weight clothing to cover your body and/or godscreen to lather on you to stay safe.
-The Temper of the gods (hot and cold), with proper clothing of both light and heavy kinds.
Tonics-
Tonics can be found most everywhere, but the true hero knows how to find the hidden cave with cheaper goods. Tonics are important to ones health and keeping his stamina up. They come in liquid and solid forms, a healthy balance of both is needed. Local tonics are special because they can be extra tasty, but are never found again. BEWARE, if you run out of tonics on your journey you must immediately seek out the nearest cave and replenish them.
Loot-
Loot is very important to us heroes. It gives us much pleasure, especially if we have earned it, or pick it up faster than the other hero standing next to us. :) However with all loot, one must eventually find a treasure box to hold it. For us, they come in international flat rate shipping boxes. Each medium sized treasure box costs around $50 to safely get back to our lair.
BEWARE - Ship only expensive loot, as shipping cheap loot can result in more money spent on shipping than the loot is worth.
With every quest, us heroes are continuously finding better armor and weapons and crafting higher and higher leveled gear to carry around. This is true in real life as well. You learn what is essential, and discard/sell older gear that isn't useful anymore.
Questing-
Every hero knows that the amount of time a quest will take is unknown, and may entail mini quests or side quests. Each side quest must be done in order to get to the main quest completion. For example, we quests out this morning to get to Naples. Our quest had a couple mini quests. First, get from the house to town via our feet. Second, to catch a bus leaving for the next bigger town with enough time to get to the train to get to the next bigger town, and so forth. Scheduling these mini quests and allowing enough time to complete them is tricky. If you cut it too close, you risk missing a mini quest, and have to go back and start the quest chain again(take the next bus you find, and jump on the next train heading south). IF you leave to much time to complete the mini quests, you are left standing around twiddling your thumbs.
BEWARE - always leave yourself options. If you miss the bus, do you have enough time to walk to the town? DO you have enough money to bribe a transport wagon to take you?
For all us heroes out there questing, good luck and stay safe and flexible.
Lol, I remember the ol' "Meat-sac of Holding". Them was Shadowbane days, when you took your life in your hands every time you took a step outside the walls of your city (and sometimes just standing inside)
ReplyDeleteGood advice in this post. We're needing to put some hard thought into weight since it's easy to overpack when you need to plan for a year, a good portion of it being in the wild.