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Brutus is good at two things: making crossbows and shooting people with them. (he'll branch out more later don't worry)
It sounds like Brutus is more of a bouncer than a mercenary, but hey, everyone has to start somewhere
So I was really going to show off here
I sold everything Brutus had on him to buy a bunch of shields and turn them into wood. I was going to turn that wood into crossbows with crafting bonuses using the crafting skill.
I forgot that you have to buy schematics at the blacksmith before you can craft things. You can't go to the blacksmith during the opening vignette.
Brutus, while screaming internally: "I've made a huge mistake."
Look a lot of people are going to read this and go "ohhh the trader says you have dents in your armor when you're clearly naked, not so reactive now huh????" but come on. Who could predict there'd be a player so stupid they would sell their armor and spend all their money trying to buy materials to make weapons they can't craft.
Thieves are stupid. They think they can do whatever they want just because of the gang they're in. Fuck them.
Best body guard in NA right here
I was able to salvage my disastrous buying spree, by mistake. I bought some extra crossbows planning on also turning them into wood. Turns out you can't scrap crossbows for some reason. I equip the big crossbow and stick the baby crossbows into my belt slots. All according to plan everybody.
Not going to bore with the details, I just have a ranged crossbow battle with this Boatman where I unload every crossbow into him. He's dogshit at ranged, but deadly with his sword up close. Good enough to kill a fat trader though.
Brutus performs the customary rendering of diaper men. He also steals the assassin's clothes. All according to plan! This is all going according to plan!
Brutus finds some stupid orb. Orbs are stupid.
If the inn keeper has any thoughts about Brutus showing up to work in a diaper and then wearing the clothes of a man he just killed, the inn keeper keeps them to himself.
Easy money? In AoD? No way this could go wrong.
No one kills people Brutus just met.
You don't have to keep the old man alive. However, like most old men he's a dodge tank, so the longer you can keep him alive the less attacks will come your way.
Brutus take a step back and draws away one thief. The nice thing about hand crossbows is they can fire at point blank range, unlike every other ranged weapon.
Brutus then takes the time to maneuver behind the other thief. You get accuracy bonuses for attacking enemies from behind.
Eventually the thief dies. Thieves are stupid.
The damn old man stole Brutus' kill though. For reasons that will be shown, it's important to farm up as high a body count as possible if you're going to do a mix of fighting and talking.
Feels weird to be the asshole aggressor for once in AoD. Feels... good.
You can become a thief if you want to here, but thieves are stupid.
And there you go, part 1 of the LEGEND OF BRUTUS. Talking about combat wears me out, but at least I can zip through other stuff that's been shown in the Julius story. Next LEGEND OF BRUTUS update will probably blast through most of Teron.