Well, it had certainly looked as though Andronicus of Erana was on what might have been considered a wild goose chase to some degree. Dionysus, in his infinite wisdom, had said to Andronicus that he was ordered to travel about looking for others of his own kind. Infinite wisdom was something that he seriously had his doubts about. The man was constantly drinking and it was very hard to take anything that he came up with seriously.<br/><br/>There might certainly have been other beast men in the world, and considering the great advances that had come to him in the form of his animal-like senses he would have been able to smell them. Nevertheless, the world was an incredibly vast place, and he wasn't even given the simplest instructions on where to go and look.<br/><br/>For the time being he had taken one of the famous triremes - the ships with three rows of oars that plied the Mediterranean - and gladly volunteered his services to row along with those who had also elected to make the journey. At the moment, his weretiger abilities were considered much of a secret. He hadn't let other people know about them, and no one had asked any embarrassing questions just yet.<br/><br/>Nevertheless, the fact that he never seemed to grow tired of rowing was perhaps unusual to say the least. Something about him seemed to suggest that he had the strength of an animal, and he wasn't about to share the actual reasons behind it. That being said, he had at least made it to the Thracian coastline without any great difficulty, and the moment that he had stepped onto the docks he had found himself in an entirely different world.<br/><br/>Even though he was in the shape of a human, he still found that there was an entire swirling mass of scents that only a predatory creature could ever have found right on the docks before him. Sweat and the odor of countless humans mixed together into an intoxicating cocktail that quickly turned into a sensory explosion.<br/><br/>At the moment, it was hard to make heads or tails out of any of this, in part because of his ability to transform into a powerful organism that did indeed have a tail. Regardless, he stepped forward and allowed his sandals to touch the somewhat wet docks beneath him. It didn't look like he was going to have an opportunity to go against the teachings of a god anytime soon.<br/><br/>That was, of course, no matter how much he would have liked to. It sounded, after all, like it would have been a good idea to violate those drunken instructions as soon as he started out on those docks.<br/><br/>Nothing seemed to suggest that this would be easy. Admittedly nothing ever had, but Dionysus didn't seem to completely appreciate just how complex the task that he had given his 'servant' really was.<br/><br/>Of course, there was very little beyond wine and women that the old letch ever really did seem to appreciate anyway.