Diary of Darkstaff the Svirfneblin.
I must admit that I was not enamoured of Gorion’s refusal to give me training as an illusionist. He thought that I should train as a thief, but I will show him. My training as a thief was helpful in Candlekeep. I unlocked a chest containing a gem worth 1000 gp with which I was able to buy a certain amount of popularity. I must admit that I was most surprised at Hull’s generosity when I got his sword for him, and when Fuller gave me a dagger +1 I was equally surprised as being dislike and with a charisma of only 1, I tend not to be given anything.
Not being liked, I was not at all surprised when I was attacked by assassins. However, due to the potion of oil of speed that I had just used I was able to keep away from them and kill them with my crossbow.
They were both carrying useful daggers and armour, and this was of great help when I decided that I wanted the possessions of Firebead. They are now mine and he is no more, though I am sure that somebody will resurrect him.
That little incident made me a level 3 thief. It was a little expensive to raise my reputation again, but the experience was worth it.
Gorion and I were ambushed and the fool chose to protect me rather than save his own life. Great for me, not so great for him. I buried him, went to Beregost where I rested and picked up a nice Cloak from Algernon before going to the Friendly Arms Inn as suggested by Gorion.
After dualling to be an illusionist I quickly gained a few levels by performing safe quests such as telling the Dryad what I had done whilst a thief, returning Rufie to Albert, Calming Marl, getting Alanna’s neighbour back into shape, and getting a book for Firebead. This was followed by taking the bowl to the priestess, the ring to Joia, the letter to Mirianne and suchlike, however this only brought me up to level 3.
The ridiculous thing is that they now consider me a hero. True I might have benefitted them, but what is most important is that it has benefitted me. I for instance would never have done what that stupid Finch did. I was attacked by yet another assassin, Karlat I think his name was. I blinded him and then killed him using my sling. Finch with no regard to her own safety attacked with her flail instead of her sling. Idiot! She got herself killed for no reason.
I then got Melicamp back into shape and charmed Bassilus into killing Zargal and some others. Realising that he was nearly dead I threw daggers at him, but it was mistimed and he was killed by the poison from a hobgoblin. I was at first disappointed by this, but then realised that if it hadn’t been for him, that hobgoblin might have killed me.
Needing the experience to regain my thieving abilities, I went Ankheg hunting. I blinded them first, and then killed them using ranged weapons. This worked well in general except on one occasion when I fought an Ankheg that kept saving against blindness. Nevertheless, I brought it to near dead. Unfortunately, it then had even more luck and its attack brought me to within one point of death. I fled the area and spent some time resting in order to regain my health. By the time I returned, the Ankheg had also recovered. However, this time it did not save against blindness and like the other Ankheg, it perished.
I then took on Greybeard with the help of a charmed Galtok and an uncharmed paladin. We killed him easily enough, but when I tried to kill Galtok, he cleared off and I wasn’t able to gain his possessions. The paladin also said goodbye and left without warning.
I returned the emeralds to Oublek and then charmed him into a fight with a baby wyvern. He lost but I didn’t and gained not only the emeralds but a substantial amount of gold.
Since my reputation had reached 20, I went shopping, bought a staff +3, a greenstone amulet and some scrolls. At High Hedge three rings were combined to make one ring with the attributes of all of them. It was expensive, but worth it.
Sadly my gold was not sufficient to buy all that I wanted. This means that I will have to continue to hide my true nature. That is annoying.
Realising that I was now powerful enough to take on those pesky spiders in Beregost, I did so and afterwards collected the reward. I followed this up with finding Perdue’s lost cloak and trying to return it to him.
I then went Sirene hunting and managed to kill them and the flesh golems without too much difficulty. I had to rest a lot to recoup my health, but was not ambushed by too many Sirene during my sleep.
Eventually I felt that I had enough power to take on those demons in the mine.
Heading in that direction I was ambushed by ghasts. Easy experience if time consuming.
The mines were easier than anticipated. There were no demons, just a few kobold and a half-orc called Mulahey who was easily disposed of. A blast from the wand of frost, then the necklace of missiles which as well as hurting him, wiped out most of his kobold allies. Then magic missiles and he was dead. The remaining kobold and skeletons were killed in melee.
I then sneaked out of the mine and wiped out a band of assassins using stealth, necklace of missiles and wand of frost. This just about depleted the wand of frost.
Heading southwards I investigated a cave system, killing ghasts and a revenant. The revenant hurt me badly, and it took several potions of healing to recover. In the cave where there were three ghasts, I had to use about fifteen healing potions, but eventually prevailed.
It was then time to fight Tazok. This I did with a potion of oil of speed, three blasts of wand of frost, two blasts of lightning bolt and two magic missile spells. This brought me up to level 7.
I then dealt with the caravan bandits and Tranzig, neither of which caused any problems, slept and returned to the camp.
I used stealth in the camp and discovered that I needed to head for Cloakwood next. I helped a hunter against some druids and headed into a spider infested area. I had to use far too many potions of slow poison for my liking, so decided to continue using stealth. Perhaps I can return when a bit stronger.
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(enemies that are coded as ambushing the character don't trigger the auto-pause, so it's easy to make that mistake). The only one to react quick enough to target Juve before he did take a potion to disappear was Rahvin. His shot missed, but unfortunately the shot was with an exploding arrow and it 
