| As a baby you were stolen from your parents by a band of gnolls and raised in a dark and wild quarry. They regarded you as one of their own, but the time came for you to make your own name as a professional Thief. As luck would have it, as you were passing through the land of Coney Island, you stopped at the inn in the quiet hamlet of Cowpat, and heard the local tavernkeep talking about the ancient ruin that the town had (perhaps ill-advisedly) been built next to, and the fantastic Azure Idol of Hatredstar that was purported to be hidden there. Without bothering to ask why nobody had managed to recover it already, you set out on your very first quest. You weren't having any problems but you soon were confounded by a fiendish rearranging of tiles with pictures of plumbing on them puzzle, and by the time you figured out to solve it, you were exasperated as an underfed weasel. Fortunately, "giving up" isn't in your dictionary (probably because it's two words), so you persevered. You fought your way through countless gnolls and gypsies -- even a mimic! But eventually you found the lair of the sinister Grim Marquis Goldthwait, and were able to defeat him by knocking him into a cheese-grater with a lucky critical hit. Bruised but successful, you made it back to the nearby city of Crunkleton and claimed your reward.
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