Back to the Past- Become Advisor
From Create Your Own Story
Becoming the Chief is tempting, however not only are you not prepared to shoulder a dieing village, you are certain the villagers would cause a commotion with being ordered around by an outsider. With that in mind, you tell the elder that becoming an advisor would be better.
Of course you have no idea what being an advisor to the chief of the village means. But apparently it means that you don't have to do labor work and instead manage the people. You also have a saying whenever there's an important decision to be made. And of course, the chief occasionally asks you about certain things, which you normally know how to answer thanks to your general knowledge. One of the first things you advised to do was to build stone paths by smoothing stone to have a flat surface and then digging them into the ground. Since the village was small, you only needed to do this through certain paths. This made it easier particular during rainy days since the stone paths would not become as muddy, making easier to walk on. You also explained the concept of distillation and fertilizer which while many were skeptical it would change anything, the village still adopted it. Unfortunately that was the most you could do, you have general knowledge but you were no genius, for example no matter how much you wanted to improve the tools that the blacksmith used and created, you had no idea how to explain it for him to do it. So while you couldn't do any revolutionary changes, you at least could introduce small changes in quality of life.
That said, you at least introduced the concept of shields to the blacksmith, something that you noticed lacking. While he did comment that it would be impossible to make shields for every warrior, both you and the chief were able to convince him to at least make one for the chief to use.
A couple months passed and you slowly got used to the new life style. It was still weird for you how change was much slower in older times then in your era. The small changes you introduced had slightly improved the quality of life, but not by much and you definitely felt like the fantasies that you had dreamed about were no where to be seen.
However that changed in one night. You had always been a light sleeper, while animal sounds don't bother you, things like steps or voices always had a way to wake you up. During one night you could hear footsteps outside, which was unusual, looking through the window you saw multiple men carrying swords and torches slowly creeping through the village under the guise of the night. One of which was about to enter your house. Quickly grabbing your sword you position yourself beside the door. Suddenly it started, yells and screams could be heard as the invaders broke through the doors, but you were ready for the one at yours, as he ran inside without noticing you, you stab him through the back of his neck, killing him.
No one else seemed to be with him and from the number that you saw, they weren't that many maybe a dozen more or less. So you sneakily moved out of the cottage, using the darkness as your ally and guiding yourself thanks to the torches that the attackers carried.
| Equipment:
Clothes, Glasses, Lighter, Pocket Knife, Painkillers, Sword and Sheath |
