Write clear and hard about what hurts - Ernst H.

[sulahnan]

WHO: Athessa, Bastien
WHAT: Rescuing or retrieving an informant
WHEN: Post-Monster Mayhem
WHERE: Free Marches (Hasmal and the Silent Plains)
NOTES: Athessa and Bastien go on a sad field trip and have a great time.

“You know, I seem to recall having a conversation not too long ago,” Athessa is saying as she inspects the tear in her shirt. Luckily the blade that did the tearing caught only shirt, and not flesh with it. Barely even a scrape. The bandits can’t boast as much, unconscious or worse here on the side of the road to Tantervale. “About how looking for humans was a dangerous prospect.”

Technically speaking, they’re looking for an elf, but they seem to be finding the right sort of humans to enforce their little joke. Athessa is, at least, true to her word that she takes protecting Bastien very seriously.

The road from Kirkwall to Tantervale is a long one, and it’s looking to be just as sweltering as staying in the Gallows has been. Sweltering, tedious, treacherous, a veritable grab bag of unpleasant adjectives stacked like pancakes. But necessary all the same. Word is, an informant was making their escape from Tevinter and hit a snag. (The mission briefing was not brief, and Athessa is not a great reader and only skimmed it.) They didn’t make it to the rendezvous, so now it’s up to intrepid adventurers Athessa Sulahnan and Bastien Last Name to rescue...The Informant.

Look, nobody’s going to hire this particular elf for virtues such as reading or name remembering, anyway.