Well, my thought is that the girls got together and wanted to go into business for themselves rather than work for people who took a large cut of their pay. A reputation for fairness will bring in people, and some join out of protectiveness, coercion, and what have you. Again, if Nicci is agreeable, I figure that she pressed him into service for his shiny objects and because he's pretty much a pushover. Or who knows, being an Elf and unaccustomed to city life, maybe he came to town, she (or anyone) took him home for a night of debauchery and he failed to realize it didn't mean what he thought it meant.<br/><br/>I agree with eBadger's assessment that perhaps the rules also got in the way, but I gotta figure there's always a base motivation. Like money, the ability to rule one's own destiny, et cetera.