Lady in the City, Part 4: The Quest Reward

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
Let's start the next Quest already! There's still time before dinner!

Typical Bespectacled Mage
You just ate.

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
Oh yeah...

Typical Bespectacled Mage
What's your urgency anyway?

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
We need to earn gold and score loot!

Typical Bespectacled Mage
You're unusually enthusiastic today. Are you feeling all right?

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Typical Bespectacled Mage
Speaking of loot, there's a little matter we've to decide as a party.

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
How to divide the loot?

Cliched Spikey-Haired Swordsman
That is indeed  the situation. It is by great fortune that the Horned Helm that was part of the reward for the Quest to defeat Dreaded Spitting Slug in Absolutely Disgusting Sewers-

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
Don't remind me of that place.

Cliched Spikey-Haired Swordsman
-has been blessed by the addition of a Star!

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
A what now?

Typical Bespectacled Mage
A Star! You know how a Plus adds 20% to an item's Stats? A Star is the equivalent of 5 Pluses!

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
So? The Horned Helm is a low-level Equipment. The extra 100% to the Stats isn't going to be much.

Typical Bespectacled Mage
Like the Pluses, the Star forms a Set Bonus with other Equipment with Stars. The bonus is an additional 100% to Stats for each other piece of Equipment with a Star! And the Star is a modifier that is possible in both Weapons and Equipment!

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
How does this make the Horned Helm of any use?

Typical Bespectacled Mage
Now say if we were to find a high-level item with a Star on it! This Horned Helm will further boost that item's Stats!

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
This is great and all, but we still have to find that high-level item with a Star, don't we?

Typical Bespectacled Mage
Um, yes.

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Cliched Spikey-Haired Swordsman
For an item of great promise, we should as a party come to a decision of what is to be done with said item.

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
It's useless on its own.

Cliched Spikey-Haired Swordsman
That is indeed true. May I suggest we add it to the party inventory until we find some other similarly blessed item?

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
Wow, so you are capable of sensible suggestions!

Cliched Spikey-Haired Swordsman
I thank you, Gorgeous Lady Acher of Epic Grace, for the kind compliment!

Typical Bespectacled Mage
Actually, that was biting sarcasm.

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Taciturn Female Healer
Can I borrow that Horned Helm with the Star? It has double the Stats of my regular Horned Helm.

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
Wait, you've been wearing that low-level piece of Equipment this whole time!? How long has it been since you've upgraded your headgear!?

Typical Bespectacled Mage
I do not wish to hear that outburst from someone who buys pretty clothes instead of useful Equipment!

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Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
Now that that's settled, what do we have for our next Quest?

Typical Bespectacled Mage
You're unusually enthusiastic today.

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
You've already done that joke.

Taciturn Female Healer
I have a Quest to Patrol Absolutely Disgusting Sewers! It pays good gold!

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
Not that place again! And a patrol means we'll be there for a long time!

Taciturn Female Healer
I have a Quest to Defeat a Swarm of Killer Bees! It'll give a lot of Experience Points!

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
That pays too little gold!

Taciturn Female Healer
I have a Quest to Find a Pointy Hat! And we can keep the Pointy Hat as a bonus reward!

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
And what are we going to do with the low-level item that is the bonus reward?

Typical Bespectacled Mage
She's being picky about the Quests again.

Cliched Spikey-Haired Swordsman
That is indeed the norm for our fellow companion, Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace.

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Typical Bespectacled Mage
I hate to interrupt but-

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
Shhh... I'm still deciding on a Quest!

Typical Bespectacled Mage
-it's dinnertime.

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
What, already!? Hey, the time on my smartphone says it is so!

Typical Bespectacled Mage
We don't have time for any Quests now.

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
Just a quick one! Taciturn Female Healer, what's the shortest Quest you have?

Taciturn Female Healer
Here! Deliver a Bag of Groceries from the Roadside Fruit Stall to the Small Hut behind the Roadside Fruit Stall!

Typical Bespectacled Mage
What!? Such a simple Quest exists? Can't the person in charge of the Roadside Fruit Stall just step away for a few minutes to deliver the Bag of Groceries himself?

Cliched Spikey-Haired Swordsman
This Quest does seem to lack the possibility of displaying one's valor.

Gorgeous Lady Archer of Epic Grace
I'll just go complete this Quest and claim the tiny gold reward all to myself!

Typical Bespectacled Mage
People are just abusing the Quest system by having other people do even the most insignificant of tasks. What's next? Quests to go fetch the kids playing at the door for dinner, or pick flowers from the garden outside for the table?

Taciturn Female Healer
Actually, I have one such Quest here on my list. The one to fetch the kids, that is.

Typical Bespectacled Mage
People are unbelievable!

Wandering Grumpy Ogre
If I may interrupt and suggest that you should stay away from such Quests if you don't like them. With you Hero-types beating some of us so often, simple Quests like these are the only way we can earn gold!

Erm, did someone mention a Quest about fetching kids? I love kids!

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Part 3: The Afternoon After
Part 5: The Evening Argument

Adventures of Heroes Who Talk Too Much