{"id":5882,"date":"2019-01-28T10:20:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T18:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=5882"},"modified":"2019-01-28T15:28:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T23:28:29","slug":"kill-or-be-guild-ch2-what-a-way-to-waylay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/?p=5882","title":{"rendered":"Kill or Be Guild, CH2: Way to Waylay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5829 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/banner-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/banner-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/banner-1-600x283.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/banner-1-520x245.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I knew nothing about the&nbsp;<em>The Guild II&nbsp;<\/em>before I began this series. Fortunately&#8212;despite the tendency of old strategy games to be complicated and inscrutable&#8212;I&#8217;m finding it pretty&nbsp;straightforward to determine when I&#8217;ve been given a cake by a neighbor. Based on how often that&#8217;s been happening, I&#8217;m forced to assume it&#8217;s a major gameplay mechanic. Perhaps <em>the&nbsp;<\/em>major mechanic.&nbsp;Your guess is as good as mine how I can parlay that into a criminal empire, but if my dynasty it tanks, it won&#8217;t be due to low blood sugar.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of low things and health problems: let&#8217;s get acquainted with my starter henchman. His job description is apparently &#8220;tramp.&#8221; It took me a while to realize this was not merely his first name, but a title of sorts; in the meantime I&#8217;m afraid it stuck. In my heart and my LP, Tramp he shall remain.<\/p>\n<p>Grunt hello, Tramp.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5886\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-17.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-17-600x375.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Credit to the art team, because this does look like the sort of person who comes free with a criminal hideout. When I saw him I thought to myself: there&#8217;s a dude who just did a 15-year-bid for sleeve tampering and impersonation of an Elvis. He flunked out of med school for testing reflexes with a crowbar. He&#8217;s already filling out the &#8220;employment&#8221; section of his parole form with &#8220;burgulur gild.&#8221; Let&#8217;s see take him around town and see if he&#8217;s got any tricks up his, well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m coming to grips with my menu of larcenous enterprises, the game gives a helpful crime time tip:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5888\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-19.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-19-600x375.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A classic village racket! You sidle up to Bogdan the Weaver and say, &#8220;Hey, I saw you in your parlor last night, robbing a bank. Cough up some money or I&#8217;ll tell the bailiffs.&#8221; And he&#8217;ll say, &#8220;How could you prove that?&#8221; And you&#8217;ll say, &#8220;I can&#8217;t, sorry for wasting your time.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s try something else. Among my icons is one that says &#8220;ransack building.&#8221; Doing that in the middle of the day seems like a good way to get Tramp killed. I tell him to go ransack the town&#8217;s tavern.<\/p>\n<p>He walks to about thirty yards away from the door, then stops with his arms hanging at his sides and peacefully regards it. There he remains gawping for a period which quickly seems indefinite. It&#8217;s not clear if he&#8217;s refusing, doesn&#8217;t understand, lacks mission-critical ransacking materiel, started thinking about asses while drooling faintly, or if he&#8217;s coming to grips with his life choices and wondering which teachers to apologize to first. I&#8217;m about to investigate when I&#8217;m distracted by a rhythmic clunk-clunk, which turns out to be three guards beating the&nbsp;<em>fucking<\/em>&nbsp;<em>shit<\/em> out of a peasant.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5889\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-20.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-20.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-20-600x375.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah! I&#8217;ve honestly got nothing. If the&nbsp;interface is hoarding any details on why these helmeted dudes all started whaling on a goodwyfe, or why she&#8217;s standing there with a bored look on her face, then I can&#8217;t find it. You could tell me this sort of scenario was two-thirds of the tutorial and I&#8217;d believe you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5890\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-21.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-21-600x375.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re hacking her to ribbons on the street corner and people are strolling by like it&#8217;s the weekly tree-trimming. What could this wimpled, apron-ass lady have possibly done to earn an armed response like this? Fail to tithe 10% of her cross-stitching? Fart at the liege-lord?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5891\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-22.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-22-600x375.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I think she&#8217;s dead.&nbsp;<em>Jesus.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That was rough.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5892\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-23.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-23-600x375.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, yeah. Let&#8217;s stroll just past there. Post up on that intersection. Aaand hit the <em>Waylay Passersby<\/em> option.&nbsp;Dibs on your turf, Maid Marian.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what I expected to happen when the action kicked in? I guess something between &#8220;nothing, lol&#8221; and &#8220;Tramp crouches behind a wall and peeks out like he&#8217;s in a romantic comedy manga.&#8221; Not so much &#8220;he morphs into a flowering shrub.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Immediately I figure this is step one of a Looney Tunes process whereby he springs out at pedestrians, but nope. As traveler after traveler brushes past, it becomes increasingly clear that this is just how his day&#8217;s gonna go. This is what he&#8217;s doing this afternoon. There&#8217;s nothing but &#8220;pick bees out of codpiece&#8221; on his schedule until clock-out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5893\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-24.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-24-600x375.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After a minute or so of nothing happening, a guard wanders over and basically yells for him to knock it off. As if I&#8217;d let the coppers tell <em>my<\/em> organization what to do. <em>I&#8217;m <\/em>the boss around here, and, Christ,&nbsp;<em>knock it off, Tramp. <\/em>I swear to God if I see any arborists on his next expense sheet I&#8217;m sending it back.<\/p>\n<p>So waylaying&#8217;s a bust. How about&#8230;extortion? Worth a shot.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5894\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-25.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-25-600x375.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Yes, heh heh, heh<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5895\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-26.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-26-600x375.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hey, results at last! Apparently someone finds Tramp as unplaceably eerie as I do. 311 gold doesn&#8217;t seem like a lot of money, but it&#8217;s enough to bring me from 700 gold to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;700 gold?<\/p>\n<p>Right. My fiscal total hasn&#8217;t changed. Checking Tramp&#8217;s inventory, he seems as broke as ever.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;I got the extortion money, but don&#8217;t know where it is. Or the game glitched. Or this transaction ate up exactly 311 gold in expenses. Or&#8212;it&#8217;s just possible&#8212;the public house, sensing a little first-day unsteadiness in the Rhodisland LaCroix Syndicate, just pulled off an&nbsp;<em>extremely&nbsp;<\/em>shrewd bluff.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TRAMP: Ey, mates, you better hand over your cash. Or me and my boss are gonna get&#8230;<em>narsty.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PROPRIETOR: (without blinking) Sure. I&#8217;ve given you 311 gold now.<\/p>\n<p>TRAMP: (eyes dart to the side, grin shrinks a little, slowly starts nodding) Smart&#8230;move, mate. So I just&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>PROPRIETOR: Yes, it&#8217;s in the standard place.<\/p>\n<p>TRAMP: <em>Right.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I spend some time combing my character screen. I don&#8217;t find any sign of the money, though I do find at least one cake. I also find the game&#8217;s upgrade and perk system, which&#8212;<em>thank goodness<\/em>. I really ought to start sketching out my build tree right away. You&#8217;ve got to allocate your points properly from Day 1 if you want to maximize your Strong Hair Growth build.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5896\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-27.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-27-600x375.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hey, good news! My relationship with the Taran dynasty has changed from &#8220;Non-aggression pact&#8221; to &#8220;neutral.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5897\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-28.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-28.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-28-600x375.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or, shit. That&#8217;s probably not great news. Once I figure out who the hell they are, I should look into whether they&#8217;ve got at least&nbsp;<em>two&nbsp;<\/em>guys working for them.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. If you want something wrong done right, you&#8217;ve just got to go out in the rainy evening and break into someone&#8217;s peasant shack&nbsp;<em>personally.&nbsp;<\/em>Tramp, take notes, because&nbsp;<em>this is how a man builds a dynasty.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Moments later I am fistfighting a yeoman in the mud.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5898\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-29.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-29-600x375.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have to assume I failed at my burglary check. There&#8217;s not a lot of prelude to that effect, honestly: it just sort of transitions from me approaching to the two of us duking it out in the middle of traffic. Big, robust, lipstick-red blood splatters burst from the backs of our heads as a single-file conga line of stray animals files into us.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I wouldn&#8217;t say I&#8217;m&nbsp;<em>worried.&nbsp;<\/em>I am a martial arts expert, after all. But this does seem like the sort of thing a doctor would rather wasn&#8217;t happening to me:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5899\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-30.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-30-600x375.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As casually as possible, I dispatch Tramp to yank his finger out of his nose and come help out. He sets out a-strolling as the Doublet Dragon streetfight continues.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-31.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-31-600x375.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As soon as he arrives, he jerks out his sword and slashes the dude a good one. My nameless mark hits the street like a sack of potatoes. For a couple seconds, I just stare at the screen in bafflement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then a scroll appears:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5901\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-32.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-32.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.chocolatehammer.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/guild1-32-600x375.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, I gotta tell you, that is <em>outstanding&nbsp;<\/em>news. Truly!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna go do the fucking tutorial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEXT WEEK: BABY&#8217;S FIRST MOB<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew nothing about the&nbsp;The Guild II&nbsp;before I began this series. 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