- Job Description:
- Job Title: The Plague: The Shrouded Stalker
Rank: D
Category: Normal/ Job Series
Job Location: Beanstalk Village
Solo Word Count: 500
Group Word Count: 1,000
Additional Requirements: Must have completed The Plague: The Unusual Weed.
Job Description: You have received a letter from the Herbalist stating that she needs you to come immediately. She has done some research and needs a wizard’s opinion on the matter. On the way to Beanstalk Village, you may or may not notice a figure cloaked in black, following you in the shadows. If you choose to assault him he will flee. He will always evade you if you try to catch him, only to return to continue to follow you unseen. Along the way, you also notice one or two of those weeds you helped the herbalist collect not too long ago.
Once you reach the village the herbalist leads you into her home and begins to explain the plant. She tells you that it grows its roots through literally anything, breaking down the physical material in order to spread. Once it has spread a good deal, its roots sprout to the surface and begin to form into a new plant. While she explains this, the stalker will be listening through the walls. You must either kill or arrest the stalker before this job can be completed. In the end, she decides to send this information to a friend of hers who is a scientist and a wizard in order to get more information.
After killing or arresting him, you can check him for anything he has on him. If you do, you will discover a used match, and a silver coin with a skull on one side, and a hand on the other. Upon hearing about the stalker's fate, Herbalist will give you the jewel.
Enemies:
Cloaked Stalker
The cloaked stalker wields a black rapier designed to kill and is very fast, agile, evasive, and precise with his blows. He can deal up to x2 of your rank in damage with each strike. It takes seven rank D attacks to defeat him, if you can land a hit on him at all.
Enemy Rank: Boss
Reward: 5,000 jewel and access to The Plague: The Sickness.
The sun was high above the road leading away from the forest near Beansprout Village as a redhaired woman walked the path, transporting a purple flower. A ways behind her, far enough to just remain visible, walked another traveler on the same path. A charcoal colored coat ruffled behind him in the wind, a tattered wizards hat adorning his grey hair as blue and golden eyes were locked on both the road and the woman ahead. The young man made no gestures, nor did he display any particular urgency in his pace. He simply matched the speed of the woman ahead of him and calmly kept walking.
A ways off the path, following along a more wooded stretch of land, another figure followed the progress of the two on the road. This one worked much harder to conceal themselves and did a better job of keeping largely out of sight as much as was possible. However, like the man on the road, this figure did not show any signs of hostility, merely following after the two and observing.
Wordcount: 178
