{"id":850,"date":"2000-07-16T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2000-07-16T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar\/?p=850"},"modified":"2000-07-16T03:00:46","modified_gmt":"2000-07-16T10:00:46","slug":"small-dalnoth-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/2000\/07\/small-dalnoth-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Dal&#039;Noth Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font>Day 191, Year 538 of the Ascendancy<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\n<font>&#8220;Old exiles never die, they just fade away&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nSuch was the case with my skin dye, and I was understandably miffed.<br \/>\nJust a month and a half ago, I had doled out 600 coins for my black<br \/>\nskin dye, and had been told that it would last for &#8220;months&#8221;, and here I<br \/>\nwas, just forty-five days later, and my skin dye was nearly all gone.<br \/>\nThe dye did not fade off my skin completely, but left a dark-brown<br \/>\nresidue, that made me look as if I were ill. Little did I know, that<br \/>\nthe status of my complexion was about to improve. As I milled about<br \/>\ntown, complaining about my ill fate, I was asked by the &#8216;Zo Arocet, to<br \/>\nopen up Dal&#8217;Noth Isle. I happily complied, and I was even invited to<br \/>\njoin in on their hunt. And so it began, one of the greatest money<br \/>\nmaking hunts of my life.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\n<font>The party that I travelled with was one of the<br \/>\nsmallest Dal parties I had ever seen. The party consisted of only four<br \/>\nmembers: Arocet, Cygnus, Klur, and myself. At first, I was a bit<br \/>\nskeptical that a party of four could survive long on Dal&#8217;Noth,<br \/>\nespecially when one of those four was a Mystic. However, I soon found<br \/>\nthat my doubts were ill-placed, as &#8216;Noth after &#8216;Noth fell before us.<br \/>\nAnd the coins, oh yes, the coins. As we traversed Dal&#8217;Noth Isle, and<br \/>\nslaughtered &#8216;Noth after &#8216;Noth, we received the countless bounties<br \/>\nplaced upon their heads. Particularly profitable were the Xar&#8217;Noths, a<br \/>\nnew type of &#8216;Noth that looks like a Sar, but wears blue robes. The<br \/>\nXar&#8217;Noths are not worth much when it comes to bounties, but those that<br \/>\ncarry chests can be worth as much as 200 coins. That comes out to fifty<br \/>\ncoins, divided out evenly among us. My purse was quickly filled in no<br \/>\ntime.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><font><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar-files\/img\/xardead.gif\" alt=\"Cha-Ching!\" width=\"234\"><\/font><\/p>\n<p>\n<font>We swiftly cleared out the Dal&#8217;Noth Town, and<br \/>\nproceeded to clear out the monsters out of the north-western part of<br \/>\nthe isle. After we were done with that, my path-finding skills came in<br \/>\nhandy, as we explored the Dal&#8217;Noth Outpost. All went off without a<br \/>\nhitch, until we exited the outpost, and found ourselves surrounded by a<br \/>\nlegion of &#8216;Noths and Dews. I was quickly felled, and Arocet and Cygnus<br \/>\nfollowed shortly thereafter, and only Klur remained alive. Luckily,<br \/>\nKlur had in his possession a chain, and he skilfully tied us into a<br \/>\nbundle, and dragged us off to the Dal&#8217;Noth Town to heal safely. We<br \/>\nhunted for a little while more after that, before returning to<br \/>\nPuddleby. I had made several hundred coins, in a little over an hour of<br \/>\nhunting.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>\n<font>Later, I was to return to Dal&#8217;Noth Isle. A small<br \/>\nparty of exiles had been massacred by a Xar&#8217;Noth on Dal&#8217;Noth Isle, and<br \/>\nI was called to let the rescue party in. The rescue went off quite<br \/>\nsmoothly, and the Xar&#8217;Noth was quickly put in it&#8217;s place. We hunted in<br \/>\nthe Dal&#8217;Noth Town for a short while afterwards, and I added even more<br \/>\ncoins to my already bulging purse. Returning to town, I decided it was<br \/>\ntime for a new dye to cover up my faded old one. This time, I decided<br \/>\non the gray skin dye, which cost a whooping 450 coins. Boy, I really am<br \/>\nliving quite a decadent lifestyle as of late. Hopefully this skin dye<br \/>\nwill last longer than the last one. For now, I am <i>stylin<\/i>.<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><font><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puddleby.com\/lundar-files\/img\/graydye.gif\" alt=\"Gray Skin Dye\" width=\"276\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 191, Year 538 of the Ascendancy &#8220;Old exiles never die, they just fade away&#8230;&#8221; Such was the case with my skin dye, and I was understandably miffed. Just a month and a half ago, I had doled out 600 coins for my black skin dye, and had been told that it would last for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/puddleby.com\/lundar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}