| Life was hard as an orphan on the streets of Dropseat, without a son or girlfriend to teach you right from wrong. On the other hand, you wouldn't have grown up to be such a talented Thief otherwise. Your life changed one day, changed irrevocably -- and perhaps not for the better -- when you were wandering down the quaint bucolic dusty paths of the tiny farming village of Dropseat. There, you met a fisherman's nubile stepsister, who gave you broad hints as to the last known location of the long-lost Topaz Beetle. Recognizing the street value of such a rare treasure, you set off to find it. You had a good handle on it until you had to fend off half a dozen gunslingers with your arm trapped in a crocodile's mouth. Fortunately, most of them ran away when the cockatrice showed up, and you played dead until it left. That's not very heroic, but hey, it worked. But, unwilling to let that keep you from glory, you gritted your teeth and wielded your footaxe, and cut your way through the hordes of gnolls that stood between you and your goal. At last you found the lair of Black King Strikeforgotten, who quite unexpectedly turned out to be your long-lost daughter, but you killed the halfwit anyway. And thus was the land freed from tyranny, and you earned yourself a fat reward!
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