My First Quests!

HOKAY-AY! (hey, have you noticed yet that I'm going to make this a thing?)

So alright! Now that I was set up at camp and knew everybody in town, I was all set to start taking on quests! 

QUESTS!

Quests, journal! I mean - think of the possibilities! People ask you to do stuff and then you do stuff and then they pay you! It's like having a job but without any of the monotony and this time I don't have a boss! They could ask you to rescue a princess, or maybe slay thirty dragons, or stop a giant tree from stopping Time, or anything!

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT MY FIRST QUEST WAS?

Ya know, your mushroom puns aren't helping to soften the blow any.

So yeah. I take my bigass hammer into the woods and gather some mushrooms. Some Wyverns give me the stink eye and I just shrug out of embarrassment. 

After that disaster I figure what I need might be a bit more excitement. I turn in the quest and catch a ferry to the nearby port-city of Tanzia, where they have their OWN guild giving out their OWN quests! I quickly sign up there.

I think the Guildmaster might have been drunk when registering me, but still. 

Here things pick up right away! I see a posting for the hunting of aquatic carnivores and I go right at it. I figured I'd have a real knack for underwater hunting as I learned swimming from a certain Pirate who could hold his breath for ten whole minutes.

While I didn't get AS good as him I'm still an expert swimmer!

Now this quest was much more my style. I was bashing heads and and kicking tail all over the sea! Between me spinning like crazy underwater with my hammer and these crocodile-dragon like beasts swimming like snakes, I never knew which way was up! 

Which is totally my excuse for why this one is inexplicably blurry. 

After coming back to Port Tanzia with a load of Hydro Hides I was on Cloud Nine and feeling fine. Fine enough to go brag to a pack of other Hunters I saw hanging out at the guild counter. It was totally cool - and not publicly embarrassing at all. I did totally not rub their awesome armors and beg them to take me with them on whatever they were about to do next.

...but that is what happened next. 

I had explained fully that I was a badass Monster Hunter, which was not a lie so we started heading out towards a new quest they had. I was chatting away about my past jobs when I noticed that they had started getting ready for a fight - when I realized I didn't even know what this quest was. Then a shadow came overhead and something landed in front of me being very angry. 

Imagine some sound right here. 

It was at that point that I learned to never ever join a quest without knowing what that quest is exactly beforehand. Now, I didn't catch this birdy's name, but I think it was something like "Que-cue-ramen." It started beating the four of us around pretty soundly and all around kicking our asses and making a joke out of our attacks (even mine!). I was starting to get worried...and then something bad happened. See, after about  five minutes or so ANOTHER shadow came down and something angry landed in front of me. 

It's lookin' at meeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Now, I kept my cool and didn't say anything (okay, being speechless may have had something to do with that) but the experienced Hunter party I was with were able to let me know this was a bad situation by announcing "OH NO IT'S A BYUTHAGABYG!" [Transcriber's note: may not be accurate] 

Thankfully, the Cutey-Quill-Wraith didn't want to flex with Blather-Bug either, so it flew off. Since apparently we only were contracted to kill the bird, we ran right after it, letting the freaking dragon/wyvern/I-didn't-care-to-count-it's-legs to stay in the area and do...uh...whatever it wanted. Ragnarok. I don't know. 

We managed to catch up with the Cockatoo in a high nest of bones and dung, and after seeing what else is out there, Coocoo bird didn't seem nearly as big a threat, and we finally managed to bring it down. I even had one of the Hunters say "Nicely done Rivet!" Hear that Journal? "Nicely done Rivet!" 

I was so happy that when we got back to Port I drank enough milk to pass out at the Kitty-bar.