| Life was hard as a young man growing up in the city of Ov'reezy, and it became even harder when you had your heart stolen by a buxom, comely cook. You became a Thief, in order to steal it back (with interest). As luck would have it, as you were passing through the land of Stoatsford, you stopped at the inn in the quiet hamlet of Ironforge, and heard the local "seamstress" talking about the ancient crypt that the town had (perhaps ill-advisedly) been built next to, and the fantastic Gold Idol of Frazool 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 had a good handle on it but you soon were confounded by a fiendish tower constructing puzzle, and by the time you figured out to solve it, you were annoyed as an underfed tarantula. Fortunately, "giving up" isn't in your dictionary (probably because it's two words), so you persevered. You fought your way through countless hobos and jerks -- even a mind flayer! But eventually you found the lair of the sinister Terror Overlord Unpleasantor, and were able to defeat him by knocking him into a vending machine with a lucky critical hit. Bruised but successful, you made it back to the nearby city of Blurstishire and claimed your reward.
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