As I made my way into a small town a few weeks back, I came across a rather odd group of characters. I ignored them as usual and went about my business. One of the characters caught my attention -- an almost completely naked human fighter that was drunk beyond belief. It simply furthered my disdain for what this world has become and my longing to see it all burn.
A scrawny looking fellow sat next to me at the bar and an ordered a hearty glass of milk and tried to start a conversation with me. I tried to ignore him like the rest, but he was persistent. As I was telling him to drop dead, a commotion broke out upstairs. Being none of my concern, I continued to drink as my new annoyance ran off to see what was the matter. A few moments later, he came running back down and yelled at the naked human that "this was the the one they were supposed to protect! She was the one with the reward money!". After hearing that and figuring that I can always use more coin, I started for the door to see if I could help. That is, until the naked man hurled himself at the tavern wall and made his own doorway. I followed him out of the new doorway and saw a tied woman being carried off by a small band of Goblins. They made off to the sewers and closely following was a small group of adventurers including the naked one, a paladin, a cleric, and cavalier. Not knowing how much reward was available for the maiden, I decided against going into those filthy tunnels. After looking the town's layout over a few times, I figured out where they would most likely wind up and I went over the the according sewer cover. The annoying little man decided to follow me along with a Tengu, which made me disdain them even more.
As usual, I was right and we dropped in right in front of the Goblins hideout and the now filth covered rescue party. I let them all charge in first and do the fighting, but made my presence known so I would be included in whatever reward was involved.
After all was said and done, we were all given 200gp, which was a little less than I would have liked, but isn't bad pay for dropping down a hole and watching others fight. we were then all offered to escort her to her next destination for 1000pg per person. Seeing as this group seems more than eager to do all of the fighting, I think I will join them and hang around as long as there is good coin for doing little.
