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- > The answer comes to you quickly.
- > One of three things is the most likely
- > Either she wakes up and appreciates it.
- > Wakes up and doesn't care or question it.
- > Or she thinks you're a creep.
- > You really hope it's not the last one, but no matter how this pans out, you can't foresee a truly long term problem.
- > At least you hope.
- > Stop worrying about it.
- > ...
- > Nope still worrying about it.
- > Best to just clear your head and meditate for a few hours.
- > Breath in...
- > Warforged don't breath...
- > Okay focus on something else...
- > Something you remember well.
- > The first thing that comes to mind are the events of today.
- > Not the fall or the various meetings with p0nies.
- > The events leading up to this little development.
- > The details of the job you where hired for.
- > The people you where supposed to working with.
- > And the ultimate reason you had accepted the mission.
- > The men who had brought you the contract where a simple bunch.
- > Oddly enough each was actually considered a rogue.
- > The first, the apparent brain of the group, was some sort of mechanic.
- > The second, an assassin, was supposed to be the groups fighting arm.
- > The third, an apparent acrobat, was supposed to scout ahead and find or eliminate the most major threats.
- > You never got good looks at any of them, as they all wore similar full body suits and masks.
- > Seemed rather stupid to you, if they where adventurers chances are they could afford better gear to conceal themselves.
- > Anyway, the three had approached you with a simple task.
- > They wanted your help exterminating a clan of Kobolds.
- > They had tried to sway you with tales of a simple task, and easy money.
- > Wholesale slaughter is something you would never consider under normal circumstances.
- > This contract was different however.
- > This clan had been abducting and brutally murdering citizens.
- > That alone had forced your hand.
- > However what had truly inspired your conviction, was another important detail.
- > They had begun to abduct children.
- > That didn't fly with you.
- > So you hefted up your maul and your shield, slammed back what was left of your tonic, and followed them to the sewers.
- > From the get go it had been a slaughter.
- > The rogues you had accompanied had a simple plan.
- > You could use your strength and size to generate a distraction allowing them to stay in the best places to do damage.
- > It had worked incredibly well.
- > You didn't walk away from the fights unscathed, but Number One...
- > Yes that is what he had you call him...
- > Had been more than skilled enough to keep you standing.
- > For a while it had seemed that the job would go off without a hitch.
- > Of course Number Three had pointed this out...
- > Mere minutes later you had stumbled into the main room.
- > Then everything went bad, fast.
- > The room had a few distinct features.
- > The first was an alter, not much different than the one you where dropped onto.
- > The second was the shaman opening a portal in the room.
- > He just laughed maniacally as he succeeded.
- > Then in a flash of light he was gone.
- > You had quickly found yourself engaged on all sides by kobold warriors and throwers.
- > That alone would have done almost nothing.
- > The beholders that had poured forth from the portal on the other hand...
- > Within seconds your group had been cut down.
- > You where not so easily beaten however.
- > You had tactically retreated into a low hall way where you could fight the flying creatures.
- > Scores of kobolds had fallen to you, and no less than six beholders had been slain as well.
- > Your skill with your maul, honed over your half a century of life, had allowed you to smash them with but one swing.
- > There where however, always more.
- > Just as blood thirsty as the last and while you felt no fatigue, injuries, no matter how small did begin to add up.
- > Eventually an Elder Beholder had set it eyes on you.
- > It was more clever than it's comrades.
- > It had used its telekinetic abilities to force you into terrible positions.
- > It was not long before you where overwhelmed and fell to them.
- > The rest is history...
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