<div class="floatleft">(http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n562/gigalomanic/SoKP.jpg)</div><div align="center"><strong><span class="bbc_u">Narrow Sommers</span></strong> (http://www.myth-weavers.com/sheetview.php?sheetid=373302)<br/><br/><br/><em>“The right and respectable Lord Dlan of the reputable Wood Manor, I recommend me to humbly beseech your good lordship that you shall not take the understandable displeasure though I write you as here to say that I shall require an extension in the anticipated time in regards to the generously entrusted task of locating your fair daughter. The roads to her last established location prove themselves hazardous in these times she, herself, greatly skilled at hiding her track -- in truth, I would admire such a quality were it not the cause of such ire for your lordship, but I have digressed. I pray that, in your wisdom, you might find patience and rest knowing that I have it in great authority that your daughter is still in fine health.“</em><br/><br/>[<strong>...</strong>]</div><br/>Narrow sighed. He took time for a second read-through of the letter to make sure it was fit for sending. How he hated kissing the arses of his higher profile clients. Alas, they were invariably ones with the money -- money he needed to continue funding his carefree wandering of the world -- so he had to bite the figurative bullet on that one. Speaking of which, the reward for retrieving Tess definitely but slowly must be dwindling to a modest sum as he took time which, hardly seemed worth the trip back at this point. The only real reason he hadn’t turned in his resignation as of yet was to prolong their initiative in hiring anyone that might get on their trail. He still fully intended on taking Tess back to her family, even knowing how she felt on that issue; shirking out from the job mid-contract would likely end up affecting opportunities for other high-paying clients. It’s just that he simply couldn’t bring himself to go behind her back after what she had done for him. He would just wait until he felt he had repaid her before continuing. At least, that was the thought. But while the mind told him to plan for one outcome, his gut told him to prepare for another. A life-debt wasn’t something that would disappear shortly. He could only write so many apology letters.<br/><br/>He slipped the letter, along with 3 silver, to a servant in a merchant caravan that was scheduled to stop in vicinity of the address for supplies 3 days later so that he would act as missive. Said letter had taken longer than expected to write -- he would be late in meeting Tess again. He hoped she wasn’t getting herself in trouble while he was gone; the number of wealthy targets concerned him. Narrow wasn’t morally opposed to her stealing, he just felt that with all the work she had to do to cover her tracks might as well be put to use doing work that wouldn’t require him to bail her out should she fail.<br/><br/>The way over on to the Hungry Duck, Narrow noticed the busy crowd; a feat rather hard<em>not</em>to accomplish. Along with that, he thought he heard the voice of a woman from up high. And sure enough, Narrow’s senses had not failed him: as he curiously looked toward from whence the words emanated, he found himself pleasantly rewarded with quite a view. A rather well-endowed gnomish lady leaned out the window, her bare cleavage shielded by but a forearm. Unconsciously, Narrow had let out a cat call before he blushed, realizing the whistle might’ve been loud enough to hear. He quickly continued on his way, taking a shortcut through the crowd. Apparently someone was willing to fork out some money for some kind of task. Normally it would’ve totally been the kind of thing Narrow would wind up getting himself involved with, but for right now he was accompanying Tess to... really now, where<em>were</em>they going? Before recalling ever having a destination, he wound up walking by his companion as she joined in the crowd.<br/><br/>”Eh? Tess?” Narrow noticed she was trying to listen in on the man who was hiring. Narrow grinned slightly. Maybe he could get in on the job after all... “Oi, you interested in this? I normally do these things for income as they allow lots of travel, though I haven’t had a chance to take any new offers up since we met. Sounds like a good time as any if you want to start giving these a try.”<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>HP:</strong> 12/12<br/><strong>AC:</strong> 12 [explorer’s outfit]<br/>Money after payment: 46 GP, 5 SP [5 SP cost for delivery based on 2 SP for parchment and 1/sp per day for 3 (pulled this number out my ass)  days untrained labor]<br/>Perception: 22 [take 10 and +12 skill mod] I assume that is enough for anything covered in the post. ;p</div></div>