Well, I’m going to give up. At least for this evening.

Things started well enough. I found the person I was meant to deliver the report to and completed my mission… but things started to fall down a bit at that exact moment because as far as I can tell I didn’t get any experience, money or items for completing it. Very odd. I then started mission two, which seems to involve me going to a dangerous area and… er… waiting for some paper to change colour. Or something.

I’m pretty sure that’s beyond me for now.

I talked to a few more computer-controlled people, but didn’t get any quests. Not that I seem to be able to do much right now. If I stray more than a hundred yards from the town gates the enemies are too strong for me.

I didn’t get any experience from that mission I did. If there are any quests that I can do there’s no easy way for me to find them in this huge city. And who’s to say if they’d give me experience if the mission didn’t.

The only way I can see to level up is to go out and fight the monsters just outside the city gates, who I can kill pretty easily. Or, rather, I could if there were any. This being a new beta, six billion other people have got the same idea and there simply aren’t enough monsters to go round. I got lucky and managed to tag three in about twenty minutes of wandering around. All of them in a two minute period where I found myself in the eye of the storm for a moment. An oasis of calm in the sea of adventurers.

Still, I’ve now got an annoying white blob on my screen that means I’m fighting for my country, or something, and have got some items – Flint Stone, Bat Wing, Zeruhn Soot, Wind Crystal, (another) Bat Wing, Beastman’s Seal, (another) Wind Crystal and Insect Wing. No idea if I’d regret selling them, so I’m keeping them for now.

Maybe I need to wait a few weeks until I’m the only newbie left in the village and see if I can level up by killing monsters then. Unless anyone knows any other ways for a solo red mage to get some experience points…