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I wandered through the desert for a year or two before I came across another town. It was a nice little town, but it was quite a bit larger than Lupinya and there was quite a bit of variety in the races and types of people there. By this time, I had read my spellbook cover to cover and had a pretty good handle on all of the lightning-related spells, my guitar playing was at a level of 1000 Wyliungs-a scale I made using Zakk Wylde, Herman Li and Angus Young as the bases- and I was rather proficient with my other axe too. I also was in desperate need of a job, so I applied at the local tavern for the jack of all trades position-I did pretty much anything they needed me to do, like cleaning tables, serving the drinks and my main duty was entertaining the patrons.
It paid like crap, but hey, it was a job. One day after about a month of monotonus work, I was getting ready to go on stage when a patron unlike any other walked tthrough the saloon-style double doors. He was a wolf like me, but unlike me he was huge- like 7 feel tall, had hazel eyes, bright white fur and looked like he could tear a Sherman tank in half with his bare hands. But his imposing size wasn't what caught my eye, but it was how he acknowledged me.
It wasn't with the usual hatred or utter indifference that I've come to expect from people, but this large stranger looked at me with a friendly gaze and a nod, like he actually cared about a young bar musician. I left him be and went up on the stage to do my normal setlist, and about halfway through my set someone began to play a bass in perfect harmony with me. I looked over and I saw it was the big fella that came through the door earlier. After the set, we sat and talked for a coupl hours and learned a whole lot about my new buddy. His name was Kethian, he was 3 years older than me, and he shared my sense of humor and most of my tastes (the man puts steak sauce on his pancakes) and after a week or two of regular hangout, we decided to move to the biggest city in the country and set up a little "hire us and we'll do anything" company there.
We handled things that were too dangerous for normal citizens, like cleaning out creatures from basements, farms, mines, and any other kind of place the critters can dig into or collecting certain objects from dungeons, caves, and ruins of old forts. Sometimes we had to do things that were technically...against the best wishes of the city guard if you catch my drift. Things such as reclaming a lost gambling debt from someone who won it or breaking up the property of someone who spurned the advances of a deserving lover, and we never actually did anything worse than that. But we did get paid a whole-crap ton of money by the mayor of the city/governer of the whole county-a Mr. Fravuk Carle to expand into assassination-at least for one job. Kethian can't really get into the whole sneaking thing because of his size, so I had to go on the job basically by myself to go do some recon and finally take out the target. When I actually went out to do the mission, I met another individual whom I found quite interesting../