288 7.16 Tavern and Smithy Discussion. (1/2)
We arrived at the trading district of the village and settled down at one of the benches at the tavern. ”Hello young man, you brought guests today...How wonderful. What do you wish to have and for your guests? Sky juice for all of you first? Take a look at the menu and let me know once I return.”
”Oh, hello Miss. Yes, this is my family. We lived not far from here. I thought it would be nice to bring them out for meals once in a while.”
The mistress of the tavern handed us the menu and we looked at it and saw how pricey some of the meals served there. Nevertheless, it was my treat so it should matter too much. The menu states as below:
Salted Duck Eggs 2 for 5 coppers
Fried Rice with Salted Fish for 8 coppers
Pork Dumpling 2 for 1 shilling
Steamed Fish in Wild Ginseng 2 shillings
Roasted Braised Chicken for 3 shillings
Roasted Peking Duck for 4 shillings
Roasted Pork Belly for 5 shillings
We settled for 3 servings of Fried Rice with Salted Fish, 1 serving of Roasted Pork Belly, 1 serving of Roasted Peking Duck, 1 serving of Roasted Braised Chicken and 3 servings Pork Dumplings to go. When the food arrives, I paid 16 shillings and got back 26 coppers back.
We 3 literally had a feast there and the Braised Chicken and Peking Duck was not a whole bird but were only a quarter of a bird each. Nevertheless, it was enjoyable for us to have someone else to cook food for us once in a while. The area was clean and the tables were clean too. Basically, we do not have any complaints and gave the tavern 5-star ratings for the food and service provided.
”Elder...could you wait for us here? I'm going to bring Matilda to get her set of axe and pickaxe and we'd be right back.” I told the Elder and she just nods her head in drowsiness because it had been some time she had eaten this much...!
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”Hello there my friend...! I've already made 4steel daggers out of the pieces that I got from you yesterday and it had been totally sold out. Those Refined Steel Plates are very good and I have orders lining up for the daggers as well. By the way, what can I do for you today?”
”Ah...my fine Smithy. Do you have axes and pickaxes? We would be going to chop down some timber and also to look for gems in the mining area. I also want to discuss something with you later.”
”Sure...sure...we have wood, stone, iron axes and pickaxes and they are priced at 1, 4 and 8 shillings respectively. What would you like, my dear friend?”
”We would like the iron ones for the axes and pickaxes. Do you have a kind of holder for them to lug it around since we do have to carry some other stuff as well?”
”Ah...for you my friend, I'd throw in those 2 leather belt holders and 2 leather back straps for free. 32 shillings or 1 gold and 12 shillings my friend. So what do you want to discuss with me, would you and lady friend care to join me inside the workshop?”
The blacksmith went inside and pushed the curtain to let us both in. We both sat facing the blacksmith and I began to ask him, ”Kind smithy, how much do you know about sockets and fusion of gems?”
”Oh...sockets, yes...yes...I know all about them. Red gems can be socketed into armour while Green gems can be socketed into weapons. There are three weight subclasses of armour, Light, Medium and Heavy and there are four main classes as well such as Normal, Rare, Epic and Legendary.”
”Normal armour has 2 sockets, Rare has 3 sockets, Epic has between 3 or sometimes 4 sockets while Legendary has a fixed 5 sockets. The three weight subclasses for Light would be Cloth and Leather, Medium for Mail Armour while Heavy would be Full Body armour types.”
”Same goes to Weapons. We have 4 Classes which are Normal with 2 sockets, Rare with 3 sockets, Epic with 3 or 4 sockets and Legendary with 5 sockets. Subclasses include Light, Medium and Heavy.”
”All daggers and one-handed or two-handed swords and others are considered Light weapons, Halberds and Battle Axes are Medium weapons and Great Battle Axes, Great Halberds and Great Broadsword plus other Greatness weapons are Heavy weaponry.”
”Mr Smithy, how about Vendetta here?” Matilda handed the Smithy her sword that had been recently revived by me. He held the scabbard with trembling hands and before he even withdrew the sword he asked, ”Where did you get this sword, Missy? This sword belonged to a past Legend and it had been forged by my late father.”
”My father was Robert Fitzwater of Yorkshire and my mother was Matilda Yates of Staffordshire and this was his sword that was given to me by my granny, Priestess of Yorkshire.”
He went down on one knee and bowed his head and said, ”Milady, please forgive me for not recognising you. My family had served you as smithies and we were in the household of Sir Fitzwater. We were the ones left behind and we buried your father in the rubble and handed his only possession to his mother, your granny, The Priestess of Yorkshire.”
”Please rise and don't stand on ceremonies, my good man. Please do call me Missy for I am no longer a noblewoman and have no right to be called Milady. I am an adventurer now, you see.”
”Yes, Missy. By the way, how is your granny now? Is she well...? It had been like 5 years since we last met here and I am not sure if she is still able to recognise me or not. How about you, young man. What's your story?”
”Ah...I'm just a trader that's all. Dealing in the Refined Steel plates here in this town. I didn't bring my sword here with me or else I have to bring in the morticians and the funeral parlour services.”