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[Morrow]

Bern whistled quietly to himself as he wiped down the bar in his nearly empty tavern. As it was not yet midday his only clientele were a handful of truly dedicated drunkards. He might as well have been alone. When the double saloon doors slammed open simultaneously and an enormous axe-wielding half-orc stormed into the bar Bern's first instinct was to dive for a weapon, but he recognized Dexter and stopped himself mid-dive. "Dammit Dexter, you scared the piss out of me, what the hell are you doing here so early?"

"Sorry Bern" Dexter practically bounced in his bar stool in barely contained glee.

Eyeing Dexter up and down and noting his new armor Bern replied "It's okay. What's gotten into you? I hear you don't work for Rook no more."

"I got a new job"

"Doing what?"

"I'M A HERO!" hebellowed, exploding off his seat, sending the barstool skittering across the floor and out the door.

Somewhere in the dark bar a drunk slumped out of his chair and onto the floor in shared excitement. Another snored a throaty cheer in Dexter's honor.

Bern looked up at Dexter's gleeful addled smile, stood up on his toes so he could lay a hand on his massive friends shoulder and said "Okay, well sit down, I'll pour you an ale and you can tell me all about it. And take it easy on the furniture."

Dexter sheepishly retrieved the barstool, sat back down, swallowed half a pint in one gulp and leapt into his tale.

"Me and my brother Garnham and this elf lady with a fur hat and a pet dog and a really long name that I can't remember so I just call her ma'am and this girl named Maggie who works for the church of Aster saved this young noble girl from this guy who stole her money and we think maybe hurt her parents and so she hired me and I gotthis armor and we went down into the basement of this castle and OH there was a boat and I fought these thugs and they shot me with arrows but it didn't hurt and then there was a big spider and a fire but it went out and we got her stuff and I killed a couple guys and I felt pretty bad about that but then we went to the basement and there was a big snake and it was made out of METAL and it bit me but it didn't hurt and we got her money back only not all of it and her brother is up to no good and Garnham found some paper that I couldn't read and he didn't tell our boss about it but she wasn't mad and now we think maybe her brother is up to no good because her parents died and they were on this boat and it caught on fire and they died and everyone thought it was an accident because their boat caught on fire while they were in it and they died because they got all burned up and DIED and her brother is missing and now I work for her isn't thatGREAT?"

"Great. Have another beer."