Lots of good stuff this evening. I made it up to level eighteen and Pooh got up to level seventeen. We went into contested territory for the first time and found a bear that was so high level the game wouldn’t even tell me what level it was. Pooh died. I ran. That’s what pets are for. Learnt some new skills that might come in handy. Made myself a new gun.

Trouble was, the gun cost me a lot of money. I found the parts I could, but I ended up having to buy some parts, including some expensive leather to complete it, which really wasn’t cheap. I guess I could have asked the guild for the leather, but I don’t want to leech. I can’t contribute anything yet, after all. Anyway, the new skills and the gun parts cost well over 1G and my previously healthy balance is now looking a lot lower than I’d like.

It occurs to me that I probably could have bought a new weapon that was better than the gun for half the price it ended up costing me, but I like making my own stuff. And I have to get my engineering skills up somehow.