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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shieldhaven" data-source="post: 1942937" data-attributes="member: 23427">Two Trick grew up as a city boy in Beryl.  His father Giuseppi was a fisherman who spent his life savings to pay for his eldest son's apprenticeship to a chirurgeon named Tolemey.  He found it to be difficult work, but with a great effort he began to earn praise rather than thrashings for his labors.  At the age of seventeen, Two Trick joined the ranks of journeyman physicians.He celebrated this achievement by visiting his father and brothers.  They spent the day talking and sailing.  While walking home from the docks that night, a press gang fell upon them and chained them up.  They were dragged off to a war galley headed for Opal.  The five of them served on the ship for years.  His father lost his right hand in a boarding action against pirates from Chimney.  He was dropped off once they returned to Opal, as he was just a burden to the crew.  Two Trick eventually came under the tutelage of the ship's wizard, Teak, who knew a little about deceit and a little about brute force.After seven years on the ship, Two Trick with twenty-four and the only member of his family who had not died or been dismissed due to wounds.  The captain finally gave him the choice to stay or go.  When they reached the city of Meadenvil, Two Trick left the crew and looked for a new line of work... he had never made a decent sailor at all, but between his crossbow, chirurgery, and minor talent for magic, he had much to offer a prospective employer.He is now a young man who looks several years older, weathered by the sea as he is.  He has a manner that puts others at ease.  He has seen more blood on his own hands than a man of his nature should, though he has lost precious few patients.  He is much better at misdirecting by means of truth than telling a lie outright.</blockquote>

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