| As a baby you were stolen from your parents by a band of barbarians and raised in a dark and wild mineshaft. They regarded you as one of their own, but the time came for you to make your own name as a professional Thief. As luck would have it, as you were passing through the land of Bafflesbury, you stopped at the inn in the quiet hamlet of Deaf Chicken, and heard the local farmhand talking about the ancient crypt that the town had (perhaps ill-advisedly) been built next to, and the fantastic Gold Idol of Diablolo that was purported to be hidden there. Without bothering to ask why nobody had managed to recover it already, you set out on your very first quest. You weren't having any problems until you got lost in a necropolis -- all the walls looked exactly the same! You did find a sweet mace +1 in a carrion crawler's lair, though, and were able to intimidate some gangsters into telling you where their boss's hideout was. Right before they stabbed you in the calf. You holed up in a small storeroom with a lockable door, and spent several weeks resting until your hitpoints were back to full. Then, keeping a careful eye out for ents, you made your way to the lair of Horror Wizard Grunwold and the object of your quest. You thought he nearly had you when he summoned a foul owlbear to his aid, but you put paid to the beast with your footaxe and knocked the villain screaming into a iron maiden with a well-placed kick to the foot. At last, the treasure was yours!
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