After much tweaking and work I finally got my smith up to level 255. I have about decided to set up shop and do nothing but produce armor and weapons, preferably on contract from other players.

Having decided that, I set up my shop...i.e. announced that I was at a certain forge and ready to take orders. My first customer comes up and wants to know the price of a full suit of plate. Naturally, I forgot to prepare price lists, and or shopping lists. Kind of made me look a little dumb.

In any event, it should be fun doing something so mundane for a while.

Trades are an interesting aspect of Everquest that I haven't explored as well as I should. I have one character that is pretty good with smithing, but only after sending my wrist into spasms.

I have never taken a character high enough to actually produce something that someone might want. With my new barbarian I decided that I would actually try to work a trade up. I started digging through my notes to find the recipe for making thread. Then I opened the sewing kit and found that Everquest had changed everything since I last tried to sew. Now the recipes are on the top of the sewing kit.

Now if I can only remember how to crochet. Is that skip 1, purl 2 or...

More later on the Barbarian Berserker who sews his own kilt.