Build Sequence Is Key

Fortune

When Jason had calmed down the captain motioned for him to follow and tracked away hunched. Jason grasped that the situation was precarious and thinking that he might be able to get the captain as his hero he meekly followed behind.

After only about ten minutes of hiking the captain paced himself to walk next to the human.

"King say to find you here. You come to King."

That was all the orc said before going silent no matter what questions Jason asked. They were already in the hills, but the orc captain kept generally leading him higher and higher. They weren't headed to the top of the mountain. Rather they were skirting it about a quarter of the way up.

And then they came around the shoulder of the mountain and a huge war encampment spread out before him. Looking now Jason could see that this army wasn't just orc. It also had dwarves, elves, and just from casually looking while traveling through the camp once they actually came to the camp there were other species here as well. Although not in nearly the number the orc, dwarves, and elves were.

"Wait here." The captain said while pulling down his cowl.

The orc had been mutalated or had received many scars in battle his face and judging by some of the scars probably his whole body was disfigured. The flesh around one eye looked like it was permanently inflamed. Puss seeped from the corner of his eye. While his lips were also puffed out on one side, except of course where a scar ran diagonally through his lip puckering the otherwise puffy look.

Captain, the name Jason was using to call the orc since he still didn't know his name went into a tent. The tent was like any other tent here. He had been expecting a huge tent befitting a kind. But maybe this wasn't the king, maybe someone they had to speak to in order to see the king? Jason didn't know.

After about an hour of waiting finally a hand poked out from the tent flaps and vaguely waved at him.

"Me?"

Jason wanted to be sure he was the one being called. But when he spoke the hand pointed at him and waved all the harder.

"Alright, I am coming!"

Quickly moving through the flaps Jason saw Captain standing to one side and a middle age orc sitting cross legged on the ground at the back of the tent.

"Hello, player, welcome to Jubilani!" The orc said this as if it was of great importance.

When the human didn't respond the orc laughed, "What are they teaching these days. Jubilani is this world. Of course."

Despite sitting in the dust Jason found that this orc was very genuine. He was trying to connect. So he stopped over thinking it and just trusted that this was going to work out or he was going to die/possibly kill himself to escape. He had died once already it wouldn't hurt to die again. It wasn't so bad.

"Thank you, I missed the tutorial. Actually I was in a wasteland for a few days with an orc encampment that became friends, I guess you could say. By the way my name is Jason."

At hearing that Jason had already made contact with orcs both the captain and this new orc just nodded.

"That makes sense, no wonder you are listed as an ally to our observe skills. By the way my name is King Agrimor. You can call me Aggy."

Jason was stunned and feel on his knees in front of the king. He was about to bow his head to the dust, but the king stayed him with a hand his forehead.

"No need to stand on ceremony here. You can see we don't go in for the flash." When Jason leaned back up he adjusted his position so that he was sitting in the dirt the same as the king. "Would you tell me which tribe you ran into?"

Blushing and looking away, "I, I guess I didn't ask."

The king looked disappointed.

So Jason tried again, "But they raise dragons, I even met Azeroth there."

"You talked to Azeroth?" King Aggy asked.

"Yes." Jason wanted to keep it simple. There was no way he was revealing the dragonettes just yet.

"Ha, interesting, a very interesting player. Well you met the dust tribe. They should be arriving here within the next couple of days."

"Oh! Maybe I can reconnect with Hezmet. This will be great!"

The king shook his head when he heard the name Hezmet, but didn't comment.

"Well Jason, we Orcs like to be frank. I need your help. As you can see we are fighting a war with the Samaria Alliance. You probably saw their camp coming in."

"Err, I guess I didn't see them King Aggy."

"Come then."

The king rose up from his seat and brushing respectfully past Jason opened the tent flaps and exited holding them for the other two occupants of the tent.

"See. We hold this high ground while they are camping in the center of the plateau out there."

Now that the king was pointing out everything Jason could see that way down at the level of the plains anotber huge army was encamped. This one however was much larger than the one that he was currently in.

King Aggy turned to the human, "You can see. We are currently in a dire situation. Our way of live is crumbling as the Samaris Alliance slowly converts our lands to feed their hordes."

"You want me to help you beat that army?" Jason was incredulous.

"Yes." The king had the decency to look ashamed.

A window popped.

[Help the GooseBerry Alliance protect the land. Y/N]

"Ah, I can see that you have received my quest. Will you help us?"

"Hmm, what is with the name GooseBerry?"

"Oh, well that is what happens when you let Elves pick the name. They actually say that it has great portent. Power that we will sorely need." Aggy explained.

"Alright, I will do it." Jason said and then without hesitating anymore he accepted the quest.

"Thank you." Aggy bowed his head in gratitude.

But Jason wasn't paying attention to the king instead he was watching his screen as more notices appeared.

[You have accepted the GooseBerry Alliance quest chain. Congratulations on your decision. Read more about your first task in the quest menu tab.]

[You have been awarded 10,000 merit points.]

Jason could imagine Cecelia getting excited somewhere.

"I am right here, dimwit. You just can't hear or see me yet!"

More notices came up.

[You have acquired King Aggy as your hero.]

[You have acquired Princess Ce'astle'adel as your hero.]

[You have acquired ...]

What's this? Jason became overwhelmed as more than fifty notices showed up all at once. His entire field of view became opaque just like that.