'A kill within every ten steps,

Not leaving traces within a thousand miles,

Dusting off one's clothes and leaving after the deed,

Hiding one's presence and name deep.'

~ Excerpt from Li Bai's 'The Verse of the Wandering Swordsman'

One bad moment left him permanently destitute. Down on his luck, Mark Greaves learns that necessity sometimes brings you to work you never realized you could be good at.

Dwarven Assassin

Priest of a death goddess

Gives life to the notion of no good deed goes unpunished.

Nod to Gossomer, for her Solomon Grundy forum post, my inspiration

500 Word NPC challange

The dark elf femme fatale Elainuk was the firstborn son of Robert and Lulu Bobblecork. She was born a healthy bouncy baby boy in the shire of Pedstand, which was part of the Cordially Aligned Tetrarchy of Halfling States.