I started out my first day on the road to recovery just like I had planned, by begging for a new weapon. I tried begging in various areas, each time asking only for a crappy weapon. I wasn’t interested in money or any real help just a simple weapon that would let me get started. When no one would give me anything in Kerning City I moved out to the construction site nearby and started to scavenge up things that people were leaving behind. I wasn’t trying to steal items but people were just killing monsters and never even bothering to pick them up. After about a half hour someone finally sent me a trade invite and it didn’t come from someone who was high level and could afford to throw away a level 1 weapon, it was a level 14 character. He gave me my first weapon, a wooden club. Normally, I’d try to repay the kindness he showed me with something in return but all I was able to do was give him his first fame. His name was xNaruto8 and when I am back to full capacity as an assassin again if he’s still playing I’ll track him down and repay him.

So now here I am with nothing at all to my name but a wooden club that gives me 12-15 damage per hit. It’s almost like being in the early levels again except I do more damage and with over a thousand life, something as simple as an orange mushroom isn’t going to kill me. I beat up on enemies in the construction site for a while and headed back to Kerning to see about getting a better weapon. Unfortunately, the lowest dagger I could buy was 4k and the Garnier was 3k. I only had around 500 mesos at this point so I decided to head back to Lith Harbor where I remembered cheaper items.

When I made it into Lith Harbor I went into the weapon shop and sold all of the random junk I had picked up along the way and ended up with just enough cash to purchase a Fruit Knife. Fortunately for me the fruit knife is a luck-based dagger so it fit perfectly with my assassin build, raising my attack to 23-102. I was really feeling better at this point as it was no longer taking five hits to take down a simple red snail.

I started to head back to Kerning City while using my new weapon to cut straight through the enemies I was encountering, stopping in at the Pig Beach to see if I could gather up some cash there. Back when I was training I always left Pig Beach with way more money than I thought I had collected so I figured this would be a good area to work up to throwing stars again. Pig Beach was really full of people and after hacking away for a while I finally had to stop to recover my health.

Having over a thousand health is a great thing but I had gotten too used to being able to just pop the tops on a few white potions when I was getting low and I hadn’t managed to get a single potion yet so I just had to stand around for a while, healing up 10 HP at a time.

Once I was ready again I worked my way back to Kerning and on my way was delighted to have an enemy drop a White Bandana and another drop a Red Potion. I felt a lot more protected with my new bandana and I now wasn’t nearly as naked. I made it back to Kerning City and sold all the random junk again for money only to find out that if I could sell the only ore I had picked up for 500 mesos that I could afford to buy a Garnier and a set of Subis. No one was willing to purchase from me so I just went and beat up some Orange Mushrooms until I was ready.

I had originally planned on selling the Fruit Knife but I realized that being able to do decent damage when next to an enemy might save my life later as I only had one Red Potion and that wouldn’t save me for long. With my new Subis my damage only increased a tiny little bit but it was certainly worth it. For an assassin to be stuck with a melee weapon isn’t that great as all my skills are geared towards Throwing Stars. By using Subis not only did I now have a long range attack, which keeps me from getting hit as much, but I also could use Lucky Seven and get my Critical Strikes again. It still a far cry from the 400 damage strikes that I was able to do before but at least I was managing to break the two hundred mark again.

While in Kerning I checked the prices on my level 30 clothes only to find out it will cost me 85k just to get a top and a bottom again. I left to go explore the world and try to find an area where I could build up some monster Etc drops that I knew would be easy to sell for some cash. I toyed around working my way through Perion on my way to Ellinia where I ended up spending time fighting Green Mushrooms. I was hoping that maybe I’d get lucky and manage to land a Pan Lid which would buy me a new set of level 30 armor but the luck just wasn’t in it for me today.

Eventually I worked my way around to the Blue Mushroom Forest. Besides being a good place to kill things and pick up the cash that they drop, I’ve managed to get Gold Ores from them and I’ve had person after person ask if I had Blue Mushroom caps. However, at this point it was dinner time so I ended my first day.

I really think my progress went great the first day, working from nothing at all to doing one hit Lucky Seven kills on Blue Mushrooms. I ended up with a weapon, a hat, seven thousand mesos, two ores, twelve red potions, two blue potions and gained another 7% (9,000) exp. Not bad for a naked assassin.

There are five pictures for today and I can only post one picture here so instead I uploaded the set to my file hosting space online. The first two pictures are of me standing in CH 1 Kerning trying to get a weapon. Next there’s me getting my butt handed to me by nothing more than a pig. Obviously after that is me doing recovery the only way I really can without any money, which is by standing still for a long period of time. Lastly is near the end of the night when I was having fun playing with throwing stars again.

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