Character. I do draw a hard line between myself, the player, and my characters. ^^;<br/><br/>Blink, it sounds a bit like this might be my fault. I'm not sure if that's the skeletal background, or my very casual OoC references - whichever, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to confuse anybody.<br/>Innoki is the one being sent by his mentor, technically. However, I do have the campaign trait for him, because he was along for most of those trips, after all. I just don't like trying to justify a character having wild amounts of experience, without actually having experience points.<br/><br/>Okay. So, much later.... The 'On the Payroll' trait is pretty specific. The person it applies to is supposed to be super-experienced and knowledgeable and ... I swear, this thing refers to, at minimum, a third level character. That's not a starting trait, at least, not to me. So, I treated it as Innoki wasn't the expert there. He was the expert's apprentice, and thus, he was along for a good many of the digs, schlepping things, being bounced off surfaces (because his training wasn't allowed to suffer) and occasionally being grilled about his weapon and the accompanying technique (because, let's face it, Innoki is not carrying around a falchion here), and offered advice and such.<br/><br/>But he did know the man.<br/>... I swear, I am not usually one of those people who explains stuff, but.. I thought maybe I should clear that up.<br/><br/><del>..stupid phone. I'll attempt to explain better when I am not fighting a stupid interface... </del>