As Jake had suspected, the magical complications that would be involved in this adventure were going to be a problem.<br/><br/>"Great," Jake grunted out as he leaned his chair further back.<br/><br/>Even if Fillet had decided to not be the one to carry the amulet himself, the rogue was going to make sure that he was going to stay far away from the magical object - whether in pieces or not - and keep every single finger and toe he had away from it.  The only riches that he cared about were the coppers, silvers, and gold that men and women would steal, prostitute, kill, and just make a living for.  And Fillet asked that question that had gotten Jake to take this assignment in the first place: was he willing to do whatever it takes to become rich?<br/><br/><i>Not everything,</i>Jake mentally replied.<i>But hey, all I have to do is keep my hands away from the amulet and maybe kill a few trolls that the world can certainly live without.</i><br/><br/>But that was just step one.  Venturing into a perilous jungle, possibly invoking the wrath of a tribe of cannibal trolls, all for just one piece of the amulet.  There were two other pieces and where would the next one be?  Desolace?  Quite the depressing place that.  Swamp of Sorrows?  That was particularly...sorrowful.  The Plaguelands?  Jake had seen enough undead to last a lifetime.  Northrend?  Jake had seen enough of the dead and the cold to last<i>two</i>lifetimes.  No way was he going back there unless he had a good reason.<br/><br/>And the third piece wasn't even on the same planet.  Just how in the hell were they going to get to Outland?  Jake had never been there before and only knew of the stories about the orcs' former home.  Supposedly it had some pleasant spots but there were some real bad places as well.  If the stories were true, Lyle had heard that the first thing that the joint Alliance-Horde expedition that had seen upon being sent through the Dark Portal was - other then an army of demons of the Burning Legion - but a road of trampled bones that stretched through half of the Hellfire Peninsula.  By the Light, were people like them - simple mercenaries - even allowed to go through the Dark Portal?<br/><br/>That gamble that Fillet mentioned was certainly looking a lot less pleasant the more Jake thought about this.<br/><br/>Before the rogue could allow himself to be consumed by his thoughts, a giant white, furry, and black-spotted form suddenly lurched up onto the table.<br/><br/>"Hey!" Jake cried as the ghost saber that he had seen in the company of Tygrane clamped it's jaws onto the venison that had just been left on the table.  With the discussions that had followed, Jake had completely forgotten about it.  He wasn't even hungry right now but just the fact that an animal was just leaping up and taking it from him got him to act.<br/><br/>Despite the ghost saber being more then capable of tearing him up with those fangs and claws, Jake nonetheless reached out and grabbed an end of the meat that wasn't firmly in it's mouth.<br/><br/>"That's not yours!"<br/><br/>While the discussion continued with the gnome saying something about his sources having been<span style="color: green">'many times been proven right'</span>while Tygrane voiced similar doubts that Jake had about the bag, Jake wasn't paying attention.  He tugged on the piece of meat.<br/><br/>Problem was that he was a human and the ghost saber was a very big cat.  Jake wasn't sure if the cat even felt it as it just turned it's head and continued to carry off it's prize.  Problem number two: Jake was still stubbornly holding onto it.  Problem number three: having already been leaning his chair so far back as it was, the struggle only caused the piece of furniture to lean that extra inch further back and-<br/><br/><i>THUD!</i><br/><br/>".....Ow."<br/><br/>While the ghost saber laid down at Mora's feet and gave Jake what had to be a glare while it munched on it's prize, the rogue - currently lying on his own back with the chair toppled over next to him - gave it a glare in return.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>