Ahhh.. number 7

[Rewde]

Well, I couldn't help myself, I really was not tired after watching the "Ball" drop.......

I managed to acquire that dang molkor hide that I needed to make me burin. It was the last thing I needed. I had my blank rune in hand, and my sacred ink. I proceeded to mark the rune with all sorts of crazy symbols not known to this halfling. I then make the casing for the danged thing, and with Karana guiding my trembling hands, I was able to mold the casing to the rune. I then port of to Misty thicket and run into Rivervale. I sit down at the loom, and place everything in the proper order and, following the pattern, slowly weave myself a new shawl.

I look down upon my completed project. What a fine piece of craftmanship this is, I think to myself. But, it's not over. I still need toslave away over that hot forge, go into battle with friends and people unknown just so that I may be blessed by "Him".

One day this too shall happen, I say to myself, one day.

[Cigarskunk]

Gratz!

When I did my 7th combine I was in the bazaar with a old delux sewing kit - I closed my eyes before the combine and didn't have the guts to open them for nearly 10 seconds after I'd clicked, but I was rewarded with the shawl on my cursor.

If it's any consolation, the 8th shawl is actually easier then 5-7 IMHO.

Skilling up smithing isn't fun, but if you survived getting your skills up in the other trades, then you can handle banging smithing up to 180 or so.

Thanks to the jump in the price of velium, getting all the blocks and bricks you need might be difficult, but it's still doable.

The real issue is the gems - that's something of a long and boring camp if you can't con the guild into coming in and wiping the entire caverns clear of Geos, but still, it's doable.

Ironically, the hardest part I found was getting my @#$% guild to do the shawl walk with me - we were having some issues at the time so scraping together enough folks to ensure success was an SOB and a half.