| At an early age, you were apprenticed to the Great Wizard Manny, but you grew tired of having to wax the floors and hose down the alchemical equipment day in and day out. So, you stole a spellbook and took off to become a Wizard on your own. You rode into the city of Zevroozlchester, and met a shadowy stranger in a hooded cloak who was sitting in the corner of the local bar. He told you about the legendary Ruby Polar bear of Goldthwaitia, which is rumored to be hidden in an ancient crypt near the village of Cold Crick, and promised you a hefty fee if you could bring it to him. Figuring he wouldn't offer you the quest if it weren't level-appropriate, you readily agreed. You were doing really well but you soon were confounded by a fiendish hurl-birds-at-pigs puzzle, and by the time you figured out to solve it, you were mad as an underfed goldfish. Bruised but unbroken, you readied your sack of doorknobs and marched forth into the darkness, where you were immediately captured by the Fire Necromancer Grimtooth's army of tattooed dire dwarves. They hauled you before their master, but got bored and wandered off during his long gloating speech. Seeing your chance, you pushed the evil nerd into his own antlion pit, and escaped to claim your reward from the grateful people of Flabbernathy.
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