<div class="floatleft">(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/8b/e5/05/8be505687996b46f6a5d5651901e1457.jpg)</div>Rini (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=254604.msg12584187#msg12584187)<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Stats</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Hit points:</strong> 51/51  <strong>Hit die: </strong> 7D8/7D8 <strong>Initiative:</strong> +5<br/><strong>Conditions:</strong><br/><strong>Abilities:</strong><br/><strong>Equipment:</strong></div></div><br/><hr/><br/><em>"I'm a little busy here" Rini said, her legs dangling over the edge of the Baker's Ruin Shaft. The yawning chasm had opened up in the city when some Dwarves had undermined a small section of Cook territory while hollowing themselves out some more living space. Now a thick iron cable stretched off into dank dark of the new pit, taught and swaying gently in time to Rini's kicking feet.<br/><br/>"Orders straight from the Head Cook" said the Gnome runner who'd found her, holding out a scroll bound with hardened wax, that goofy looking seal of a Pie pressed firmly into it. Rini didn't even move from her spot as a spectral hand slipped out of her backpack and reached out to collect the scroll, handing it back to the halfling who slowly unwrapped it as the cable creaked. <br/><br/>She took her time reading it quietly while the Gnome runner stood there shifting their feet about antsily. He hadn't ever done work for the Head Cook's before and messing it up sounded like a good way to never get a chance again. Right now his career was in the hands of a rather unconcerned looking Rini, head bobbing from side to side as she read the scroll before giving a soft little sigh and standing up. <br/><br/>"Come here" Rini said, beckoning the Gnome Boy over. Boy? Well he was probably older than her, but he still had a bit of nervousness about the eyes that the experienced Cartel members quickly lost. You were brave or you weren't in the right job. She let the Gnome over to the chasm and then sat him down by the cable, before leaning over the pit and shouting down into it.<br/><br/>"Got to go Dervin! You going to apologize yet?" she yelled into the dark. A rather gruff and unpleasant Dwarven curse was flung back from the hole and Rini felt cheated that she didn't know what it was. It sounded like a good 'un.<br/><br/>With a laugh sent back at the still rather livid Dwarf, Rini leaned over to pat the Gnome runner on the shoulder. <br/><br/>"All yours now. Just snip the cable when they say sorry for dropping our bakery into the ditch. He ain't that far from the ground down there. Hard head Dwarves. Then you probably want to run before he finds a way back up here."<br/><br/>She left the Gnome boy there looking wide eyed at their new responsibility, she had a much bigger problem to solve right now. A whole new world of trouble out there. It was finally time to leave behind the streets.</em><br/><br/><hr/><br/>Rini had barely had time to grab some personal effects and a few helpers to carry some of the heavier things before they'd all been bundled onto the ship and sent on their way. She'd hardly been seen by the rest of the crew as she got herself comfortable but even her work ethic couldn't suppress Halfling curiosity forever and she'd joined Blackbird on the deck, just watching the scenery fly by and marveling at those imposing towers in the distance. She'd always felt the city was huge but the world was so vast the darkness could swallow up stretches of land a thousand times the size of Arcanz  and contained ruins that made the highest peaks of the city seem like nothing but grass.<br/><br/>She got to watch her first real sunrise and it cut through her stoicism enough that she didn't even raise a squeak when Blackbird had wrapped her up in a big hug, laughing instead and shaking her head to get the scarf binding her hair back out of her eyes as Blackbird pushed it over.<br/><br/>"Well you caught me red handed" she said cheerfully, bomping her head playfully against the Wood Elf's stomach "I always thought you roof crawlers were full of nonsense. There's just so much out here though, it never ends. I've never been so happy to feel so small."<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>