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. 

First Full Day

HOKAY-AY!

Well I survived my first full day as a Monster Hunter journal! It was easily in the top 45 most badass things I've done. 

So first thing was to go back outside and get to know the townsfolk personally.

The chief and his son.

Who I found out is named Junio!

There's also a little Gnome-like smithy, a Goblin-ish farmer with a buncha cat friends, a stalker shopkeeper, a totally cool outfitter who really gets me, and the Guild Employee who this whole village is obsessed with. They all call her "Sweetheart." It's kinda creepy. 

Speaking of creepy, while Junio is really nice and helpful, I think the village chief thinks I'm a man...he kept telling me to get presents or to bring back animal carcasses to try and "Woo" the "Guild Sweetheart." I kinda just pretended I didn't hear him.

ANYWAY!

After meeting everyone, I was given a map of the island and told where to find the local Hunter's Camp. Wanting to start right away, I grabbed my trust Hammer and set out into the wilds. 

...yeah, jounral, I use a hammer. I know that might seem like a strange choice, but in actuality I have a LOT of practice with hammers! No, really! My last job required me to be an expert with them! It was actually seeing how much damage they could do that gave me the idea to be a Monster Hunter in the first place...see...the last job actually had a few monsters itself...

-and I seriously wanted to bash in their heads.

So I set out on my journey. This island is absolutely gorgeous - colossal mountains, sheer cliffs, constant waterfalls, lush vegetation growing all around - this is paradise! The view is always enough to give you a second wind; which is good since you need it to cross the distances and deal with the threats you face!

About halfway to the camp I met my first pack of large creatures. This was it - my first Hunt. 

My Grandma told me there is NOTHING more dangerous than a hungry Herbivore

I crouched down and slowly approached. My pulse raced as I neared slowly - cooing like a bird to disquise myself as some other animal. My cunning plan obviously worked as when they looked over at me they simply had looks of confusion on their faces and went back to their own business. I grinned madly and then struck with the fury of nine gods! SMASH! KAPOW! KERSMUNSH! 

VICTORY FOR RIVET SKY! 

RAW MEAT~!

Fully satisfied with my prowess; I hurried on to camp. There I got to see what sort of place the other Hunters and I would be sharing as our base of operations on the island. 

I think I'm going to Love it here.

I Got a House!

      HOKAY-AY!

I was on a boat!

GUESS WHAT ONE-DAY-OLD JOURNAL?!?

All these people already know.

IT LOOKS LIKE I MADE IT! I got woken up to the sounds of a bustling fishing village and a cat poking me with a stick. I quickly gathered my few things and ran down the ramp to the boards of Moga Village!

That's the aforementioned cat on the barrel. Though on the island they like to be called "Felynes." 

After walking around checking the village (and maybe hopping a little to burn off the extra energy) I finally found the village chief and other assorted bigwigs. I explained I wanted to become a totally badass Monster Hunter; and after I showed them some coin they agreed to put me up with a home in the village! They said they already had some other Monster Hunters on their island, but that with the mortality rate they did have one shack open for me...

So. Freaking. Awesome. 

I just wanted to jot this down real quick and brag since so far you're my only friend, but I have a real strong feeling that's about to change big time. I'm heading right back outside to talk with the villagers again and see about exploring more of the island. I'll be back for you later journal!

Pulling into port tomorrow!

Hello, first entry in my journal!

So - as you may know already (if you're psycic), I've decided to start a new career in...da-da-da-DAAA!

                             MONSTER HUNTING!!!                   

So okay, I know I pick a new line of work every half-year or so, but this one is totally the coolest I've landed on - you've got to admit that you freshly opened journal you.

As per the usual routine I've ditched all my old legally-binding aquaintences; court-appointed legal-guardians and so-on-and-so-forth; pawned off all my old goods to get enough money for travel expenses; read only about half the pamphlet before signing up; and right now I'm on a boat! 

It's nighttime now and I should probably be sleeping - but I'm just too excited! I've got adventure all up IN my clothes! At least...I hope it's adventure...I really hope I haven't gotten some bugs in my clothes already.

I'm being serious - I'm just staring fruitlessly at the small light of moonlight on the waves that we're heading towards hoping it will speed things along.

I suppose I really should find a nice place to cuddle up with something and get a few hours sleep though - tomorrow I start a brand new life full of excitement and wonder. The moment I wake up I'll be at port in a new town bustling with excitement. This is what I live for! 

-and I promise journal, I'm gonna make you SO proud of me. I mean, you won't just respect the crap out of me - I'm going to be so bitchin' awesome that if for any reason this journal falls into someone else's hands I'm going to make sure I'm such a badass monster hunter that they'll be proud of me, or my name isn't---

Oh...wait...I haven't even told you who I am yet, have I journal?

Well - I'm Rivet Sky: Monster Hunter!                 Starting tomorrow.