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I don’t know if you heard, but part of the revamp of the Cube quest was that you got, gasp, a permanent sidekick! Which was really damn cool! It doesn’t do anything worthwhile for someone who is farming and has like… a million clockwork ants, but once we get into a retcon or ascension kind of environment? I know I’m going to use the thing like crazy!

In any case, that change hit in the middle of April, and then, in may, we had the equivalent of Twilight Heroes’ first “familiar,” the highly implausible script. It teaches your understudy a new role, that of the grumpy old smuggler. This role is basically a combination of the Flea Market Trader and the Jujitsu Expert roles that your understudy can learn at the Firebird College at Philbin, but with a much higher level cap, and it does both roles at once, and it’s significantly more entertaining.

Basically, I am completely down for all those things. Item Find is never, ever going to be unwelcome, even if I’m the non-optimal sort who doesn’t always use it, and I much like Potato variants over in KoL, so I can totally see me being quite behind blocking attacks once I am lower level again and, you know, attacks could hit me. (Or this supposed very high level content comes out and I’m fighting enemies that can hurt.) From a usability standpoint, the grumpy old smuggler is a hit.

And, of course, it’s pretty darn funny from a comedy standpoint, too. It’s obviously full of Star Wars references, but the long, boring, old man stories my understudy tells that get Star Wars totally wrong and totally right make me grin. I only wish there was more of them. Although I never really thought of Han Solo as a grumpy old man…

But yeah, this IoTM is basically a complete win. Part of it, I’m sure, is that there aren’t any other IoTM-strength options for permanent sidekicks in the game. Once, perhaps, additional scripts get out there, the smuggler’s benefits may be significantly reduced, and less worth your time. I don’t know. But for the cheap that want to farm and for the future, the script is completely worth picking up, in my book. Yep. Completely.

Yep.

Do I end a lot of blog posts with yep?
Yep.