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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gramcrackered" data-source="post: 1803270" data-attributes="member: 19168">Hmmm...background...background...Thirty years-ago Barrel was forged as a weapon of war, a Warforged created when sentience was still a tricky business and his kind was focused solely on destruction.  It was simple, happy era, with Barrel's time being divided between only killing and waiting to kill.And then the war ended.  A peace treaty was formed out of nowhere, leaving Barrel suddenly out of "work" and with no real prospects on the horizon.  He was a relic of a brutal time - a time nobody wanted to remember.The next few decades were difficult.  Desperately wanting a purpose, Barrel found himself trying his hand at all sorts of random jobs.  Sometimes without any real idea of what he was doing.  Mostly for little to no pay.  And always with disastrous results.Consider his attempts as a sparring partner; having no real gauge of non-lethal blows, he kept killing the students.  Or the time he joined up with a local guard unit; there was some confusion about which crimes really required the death penalty.  And let us not speak of the horrible meals he created as a short-order cook; there are still men who shriek at the mere sight of a dinner plate....Can't think of a way he would have joined up with Adventures Inc.  Give me another day to toss that around.</blockquote>