Sessions 2 and 3: Cleaning up Wizard City

(I was going to wait until after Sierra got to Krokotopia to start two-boxing but Colossus and Crab Alley require a lot of mob kills and the more enemies I get in a battle, the quicker the quest goes. EDIT: I also had noticed that one sentence was incomplete, and thus the date of this post is inaccurate, my bad. Bad blogger, not proofing your posts! <_>)

Level 12 came and went for me and I got my second spell from Ivan as I had killed Professor Drake's guardian troll, which peeved the professor off, but Ivan was nice and helped me get the power of Mythblade, so now my Cyclops do more damage! And I got the words of power for that spell from a centaur. I wonder if Life and Myth are inter-connected?

YOU ARE WINNER!!!

I raised Bentley to Adult and he got Relentess so I decided to retire him as my battle pet and entered him into my first pet derby! I won first prize, yay! I might go into pet derby as a hobby.

(Yeah, both battle talents were selfish talents which were useless in battle, but they did our Wildclaw well in the Pet Derby. He got first place and we got two arena tickets. I will probably work on getting the Pet Derby Warlord badge for Sierra, but not PvP as PvP is tough.)

I got a Damp Demon from the shared bank and finally found some lovely clothes which will be my permanent gear outlook. All the better gear will be stitched into these duds! 6_^

I also started adventuring with a Diviner called Grace Rainsmith. She speaks in a deep accent and talks about being a private detective, but she will be most helpful with her storm spells when I fight more of those giants to get my Blood of Giants badge. Her pet had an amazing ability to call fellow Sirens that wrecked s---(oh my, I must mind my language!) and took names!

I made peace with the Gobbler King and then took down the fake king in Crab Alley, Amaded, putting King Thermidor back on his throne and making sure the Storm Batteries were fixed - we need to keep the Storm Mill running or else Wizard City could be defenseless! I had to get the Spiral Key to Krokotopia or this Malistaire person would make these events seem like child bully fights in comparison! Oh noes!!!

I had some help defeating Foulgaze, the ghost who had taken over Sapphyra's Tower, but I single-handedly defeated Lord Nightshade... well, my Living Puppet helped out and did the final blow with a Myth Trap helping boost Blood Bat's spittle. Ew, what a way to go!

I got all of the books for Boris Tallstaff, who gave me a free ring and athame. The ring was sold but the athame was kept - it gave my health and mana a huge boost. I had to sell the athame Merle Ambrose gave me, but he also gave me the key to Krokotopia!

(The author wishes to ask forgiveness for his 6-year old drawing of a Spiral Key. He is not a graphic artist.)

Also, he gave me a key to come back to Wizard City, so I wouldn't get stranded. How nice of him! So I was off to my first travel away from home. I made sure I packed a lot of rations even though there were shops there. As I said, I prefer to live frugal and the prices abroad are insane. :p

Why is a Transcendant Theurgist in Krokotopia? Gnomes! is overkill. :-(

I was met by my new best girl friend, Grace, who had just arrived in Krok-T herself and we made an oath to adventure together as much as possible. Thanks to her, I got to the Chamber of Fire. Actually, I forgot about talking to Winthrop after making the rubbings for him and skipped his quests so I didn't know I had to fight a Tut to get the key to the Palace of Fire. Oops! I was too busy helping Sal'am.

Well, right now I have to rest a bit but me and Grace will take on the Pyramid of the Sun together and do it on 40 gold a day, or something like that. Frugality forever! ^_^

Session 1: Unicorn Way to Cyclops Alley

(Author's note: Since I forgot to update right after my first session with Sierra, I decided to go in Sessions instead of days. This session took play on the 27th. Oops.)

My name is Sierra Fairyfriend and I am a frugal wizard, a literal tightwad. I was determine to show everyone that Crowns can't buy happiness and one can save for a Red Barn Farm and three special houses. I drank a elixir to get the ability to own four houses as there are three houses you can make with crafting and I wanted the Red Barn Farm as my main house as I was planning on having two gardens - one for Mega Snacks and one for rare reagents like Amber and Sunstone.

That was far in the future, though - right now I had to talk to Zeke and get his first scavenger hunt.

My Creator, Raltsmaster, is keeping a list of all the quests I take on and listing how much EXP and gold you get from them, just for reference. It will be a daunting task as there are a million quests, but he feels like it can help people figure out how many levels they will gain from exploring all the quests and side-quests in the world. He's also working with me and Mindy to figure out all the experience and rewards from doing quests for my professor, Cyrus.

I gathered as many reagents as I could, knowing they would be vital in the future.

Apologies for the butt-shot of Lady Oriel - stupid event camera for the Sprite event caused it to swivel.

I completed all the quests and side-quests in Unicorn Way and got 80% of the way to Level 5.

Here are all the furnishings Mindy got from the Knight's Lore packs

I took on the crafting quests immediately and, while I had to put the station in the middle of my dorm room, I became a Novice Crafter and immediately bought the recipe for the stack of wood - I would need 30 stacks of wood when I got the recipe for my first craft-able house.

I fed my awful knight boots to my Wildclaw when I got better ones, and got this nice lotus for a later quest. It's always good to feed stuff to your pets no matter how inedible - until I started gardening, this would be my main method of getting rare reagents.

My first minion wasn't too bad - he did bust my Myth Traps now and then but his other spells worked well and complemented my Antiquated Wand spells - yes, I used the wand that gave one-pip spells, because I needed a lot of strong attacks until I hit Initiate Conjurer.

I reached Level 6 and took battle training under Diego and shortly later, as I was starting my visit of the Three Streets, I hit Level 7 and Professor Drake made me go on wild goose chases. I knew he wanted me to quit studying but he's got another thing coming! I ain't quitting my life as a Tightwad Conjurer, no siree! You'd have to rip me to bloody shreds! Er... nevermind, just enjoy this picture of the unicorn which gave me my first Words of Power. Get out of the way, idjit! <_>

(Sierra got the Troll minion, but is keeping both minions in her deck as the Living Puppet still does decent damage at this point and draws hate away from her.)

I heard some wizards were having open houses on their houses, so I visited them and started taking notes for my own Red Barn Farm when I got it. ^_^

 

I also got some free treasures from weird places, including a magic genie lamp! (Author: It's really neat that I could get the freebies from the Atlantean Bundle fishbowl, the Sun Palace gorilla, and the Sultan's Palace genie lamp and KI didn't disable these things. Sierra got some medium-range pet snacks and common reagents as well as some gold. Since some of these houses are now retired, it is nice to get to at least enjoy the fun stuff in them thanks to Castle Tours. I hope to find a house with the Pagoda or Hall, but I may have to wait a bit because it would be difficult to solo these instances.)

Bentley enjoyed the pet cannon games and became well-trained. (Yeah, got a selfish talent, but I don't care about the talents for Bentley as he's not going to be my go-to pet by the end. In fact, I might use the Myth Sprite that Sierra got from Rattlebones - first drop! - as I don't want pet cards clogging my hand when I duel unless they are good ones like Dragonblade.)

I helped the Fire Elves in Firecat Alley and defeated the Harvest Lord and Kraken in Triton Avenue with the help of my new Cyclops spell. It will be a struggle to build up three pips but I became Initiate and was able to equip the axe I was gifted, the Axe of Winter's Bane, which gives me a free pip and a couple of good attacks. I will not stop being a tightwad, ever. Even if people call me mean names, they will be jealous when they I let them tour my lovely homes with tons of pets and decor while they are out a zillion crowns for theirs. ^_^

Sierra's Stats at the end of session one

[Session 1 Ends: Sierra has cleared all the quests in Firecat Alley and Triton Avenue, and just has to defeat the Cyclops generals in Cyclops Lane before she goes on to the end-game of Wizard City.]

The Rules

This is the author, Raltsmaster. I am putting this post to show the rules I go by for this character. My goal: To get Sierra to Level 95 without spending too many Crowns and get her the money to buy the Red Barn Farm from the Crown Shop with gold and craft all three of the craft-able houses in the game - Grizzleheim's Watch Tower Hall, The Celestial Observatory, and the Wyrd House from Avalon as well as get enough gold to hatch pets until she gets a semi-perfect pet(one which looks cool with a may cast healing talent, Spell-Proof or Defy and Pain-Giver or Myth-Giver; May Cast Balanceblade is a plus). To do this, I follow these rules:

1. No henchmen allowed unless I have Crowns in the tens and ones digits less than 99, and only if necessary. If I have XX95 or something crowns, I might buy the Crab Man Life Henchman, but by the time she needs a healing ally, she's become Monica Stormglen's "girl friend" and she won't leave her side. Also, she's sure to have a partner with my other of those wizards like Grace Rainsmith or even Amy Mistcloud, my strongest, so I will always two-box and never be in dire need of an ally in a boss fight.
2. No buying anything in the bazaar which can be gotten by any other means. Yes, it will mean she will be farming bosses "FOR DAYS" but she'll get a bit of battle experience and loot she can sell for gold to help her in her own quests. She can take stuff people put in the Shared Bank so she won't really need to buy gear from the bazaar, and the Sailor Wizards can trade treasure cards she might need, so there's only the reagents and pet snacks, and she will be working on her gardening for that. So really, there's no need for the bazaar.
3. The Crown Shop is off limits except for elixirs if I need them - all the stuff you buy there with Crowns can be gotten in other ways, except for the rare stuff which isn't necessary like cool-looking mounts or gear; I may give her the Winterbane and Pagoda bundles but that won't be for days. Crowns will be mostly used for keeping Sierra's outfit the way it is by stitching better gear into it. 

I hope you enjoy this blog and the adventures of a frugal wizard. ^_^

I am an obsessive-compulsive tightwad.

People who know me think that I am a worry-wart about money. They tease me and call me "Angela Unicorn-Pants", after that famous wizard who was hosted by the Friendly Necromancer that went through the entire Malistaire story without donning a single piece of gear, wand or deck. (Though he showed everyone up when he managed to solo Malistaire and defeat him with the help of three Reshuffles and his minion.) Some gave pity on me and gifted me packs and stuff, to which I would smile and sell it or feed it to my pet. I will continue to fight with tight-wad iron fist after that debacle buying five Knight's Lore packs and getting nothing but a set of iron boots that slow me down and have a card that clogs my deck since I won't get a Damage Over Time spell until Zafaria.

My Creator was not always this way. He used to spend lavishly on game cards and bundles and pampered his wizards with fine houses and special gear and Ninja/Knight Lore Packs.

But one day, he read a book by a famous sorceress called Amy Daycyczyn, who was called the "Frugal Zealot." In this book, Amy gave a list of articles from a newsletter she had written about how to save money, and my Creator realized something.

He had been flushing money down the drain when there were so many cheaper alternatives to questing. His own Amy, an Ice Wizard who is now Level 85 at the time of this writing, got to Azteca with the help of henchmen, 10000 Crowns worth! Could she have gotten to this world as fast had she been forced to rely on friends alone?

Then he came upon all sorts of houses and found that he could afford a Red Barn Farm, which is a necessity to any wizard gardening for a living, with just gold and not shell out any Crowns. He had been buying houses with gold and he had a vision - he had always wanted a challenge, and decided to challenge himself by having a wizard own a Red Barn Farm (to make garden reagents much easier) and all three of the craft-able houses.

Yes, all THREE of them. Add in the cost of the farm and that's over half a million gold from recipes alone! (Actually, 320 grand, but it's still a lot.) He spent crowns on me to feed me an Extra Castle Elixir so I could own four houses, because I couldn't craft another house if I had a Barn Farm and two of the houses, that would use my limit up.

He came up with the crazy notion that, if Amy the Frugal Zealot could save up enough money to move to a rural barn farmhouse with attached barn and raise six kids, he could have a wizard own all three craft-able houses, own a zoo of pets and a beautiful garden which would vomit out rare amber and mega snacks for his other wizards like Chris Storycrafter and Amber Rainbow. When his father let him spend two weeks of allowance on a card that gave me Bentley, my Wildclaw, it began.

It's gonna be a long road, folks... I can't even get to the clockwork golems, the wooden constructs ganged up on me.

And so, I was created. My name is Sierra Fairyfriend, and I am a tightwad conjurer. Wish me luck.