Yes, you are all an established party, complete with reputation. Personally invited by the crown for this unofficial crew. Mercenary yes, but crown backed for special needs.<br/><br/>As to the name of the party a few points:<br/><br/>1. A hammer is a tool used to afix something to another in a permanent fashion, often damaging both but making a greater, stronger whole.<br/><br/>2. Another use for a hammer is to make a direct and severe change in something resistant. Each strike of a hammer changes the form of that which is hit, the more resistant, the greater the obvious change.<br/><br/>This unit isn't something one would call for long-term, subtle maneuvers and change. No, this is a group for immediate action. When something must be dealt with, destroyed, or brought to kneel, the Descending Hammers are called. This is the reputation that your crew bears.<br/><br/>The king wed for state, his mistress is visiting family a close relative's death. The king has drawn upon Maki for her very reputation for negotiation style. Always in private, no secrets between the two, nothing between the two, even clothes. She may always get her way, but they follow through. She may screw the person she is dealing with, but the deal itself is sound and honest.<br/><br/>His daughter, wanting to tend and heal the ruffians, thieves and crooks of his kingdom. He understands that his personal coffers will take a hit, as well as the negotiations for his kingdoms need for the Descending Hammers to deal with the kobold threat on his eastern borders. Kobolds are not the normal threat the Descending Hammers are called in for, though this is only the pretense with a purpose. The real purpose is to send an overwhelming force to protect his daughter, as she learns valuable lessons about the harsh reality for an unsupported beauty within the real world. They are to strip her of all things of station, let her know she has nowhere and no one to escape. Harden her, or send her screaming back to her father, willing and obedient. Make her a tool for the kingdom, either a tissue to balm the wounds, or a hammer to shape its future. Either will do, as long as she answers to the hand of rule. Take whatever liberties they need, her virtue is negligible due to her reputation, none feel that she is pure and her ability to heal makes it ridiculously easy to forge.<br/><br/><strong>Now, Maki, submit your price for the venture, remembering that your public reason is to quell the kobolds who have pillaged and killed farmers on the eastern border, an organized and crafty band, larger than most by all accounts. So, no public announcements of titles, since it was kobolds, not a dragon or anything.</strong><br/><br/>The Princess will be directed to an inn where a representative will make themselves available to hire her for a mercenary band that needs her skills having lost their own healer recently, though their skill shows through in the fact that their healer retired instead of dying in the field.<br/><br/>Very well, then, looks like we shall enter this game a bit more actively. Don't worry and never say I don't listen to my players. We shall have a great and glorious action scene to open our story. Gouts of blood, death and (fiery?) destruction, hopefully theirs, shall bring forth this epic tale.<br/>