(A note to the reader: this game is likely to involve extreme violence and gore, though not in any sexual sense.  HackMaster also has very detailed critical hit tables, so mutilation isn't entirely out of the question.)<br/><br/>Ania Oltin's day could have been going better, as the sun rose high in the sky.  Being an adventurer was dangerous enough for those who could afford decent equipment, and lately she hadn't found herself among that privileged few.<br/><br/>On the plus side, she'd finally reached North Havenshire.  As cities went, it wasn't much -- certainly nothing compared to Twin Forks, to the east.  There was no stone wall around the outside, just a wooden palisade.  But it was large enough to have something resembling a market, and merchants who might carry the sort of weapons that serious warriors were interested in.<br/><br/>Just after the smiling guards waved her through the gate, she overheard them saying something about a "gate tax" to the people coming into town behind her...