3. Prologue

Prologue

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    Prologue

    _Growing up in the slums of Mulmaster can be tough, in order to survive you need to be quick on your feet and even quicker with your thoughts. The slightest hesitation and your already dead. You've got the local street gangs, the drug pushers, slave traders, cults and other Religious organizations watching you at all times, waiting for their opportunity to drag you into whatever foul scheme they may have in store for you. All my life I've lived by a certain set of rules, these rules have kept me alive now for nearly 27 years. The number one rule has always been no emotion, in my line of work emotion can cause you to hesitate and as I stated before hesitate and your dead.

    Now, I am good at what I do and what I do is kill. My skills have allowed me to rise up from the lowly levels of street scum to be living quite luxuriously in the upper tiers of Mulmasters criminal organizations and if I would have just followed rule one I wouldn't be in this mess.

    You see, a few weeks ago I broke rule one. I got involved, or fell in love I guess you could say, silly emotions (god it gives me cringes just writing that down)…her name Danica Kowa, she was originally from Kara-Tur and her father was one of the up and coming smugglers who had recently settled in Mulmaster, her father Chao-yang and his criminal organization was directly competing now with my employer Delzine Deveraux. Delzine was A Twisted half-elf with a sick sense of humor, and perhaps a dirty worshiper of Cyric.

    Delzine came to me with a job, to infiltrate the Kowa Organization to learn what information I could. An easy enough task and would allow me to perhaps get a closer look at Danica. Easily enough I was able to infiltrate their lower ranks and slowly and surely I worked my way through the ranks, gaining the trust of Danica's father and the bed of his daughter.

    I relayed information to Delzine, and Kowa's shipments would get disrupted and waylaid at regular intervals. All the while I was falling in love with his daughter.

    Then the day came, Delzine had wanted to set an example, and in his own twisted way I am sure he wanted to set an example to me as well. He ordered me to terminate Danica, the way he said it the bastard, I can still picture his lips moving with that evil grin on his face as he gave the order. Of course I made no objections, it would be foolish. Delzine could sell me out in a second and I would have two of the largest organizations hunting me down. I had no choice.

    So I planned.....

    I took up all my belongings, all the trinkets and anything of worth I'd accumulated in my time and began selling them off. I amassed as much gold as I could and began setting my plan in place. It involved smuggling Danica out of Mulmaster and sending her back east were I would then rendezvous with her.

    She would get out and I would follow a tenday after, to ensure no one was following. The plan went off without a hitch, or so I thought. I received a letter from her, in it she writes that she had run into an issue with transport and was stuck in a town called Peltarch and as I write this down in the belly of a ship bound for that place I can only hope that Danica is safely there._

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