ADVENTURER’S GUILD CONTRACT
Goblin Extermination — Low to Moderate Risk
“Team composition optimized for success.”
— Guild clerk, lying through their teeth
The Adventurer’s Guild smells of ink, steel, and desperation.
Your contract is straightforward: a goblin infestation nesting in a cave just outside the trade road. Annoying. Persistent. The sort of job that doesn’t make legends, but keeps villages intact and coin flowing.
You accepted.
The Guild, in its infinite wisdom, decided you shouldn’t go alone.
Your Assignment
You’ve been paired with another adventurer.
A dark elf.
Unmistakably confident in the way only someone who has survived several bad decisions can be.
She introduced herself immediately.
“Name’s Saria,” she said. “Caves are kind of my thing.”
She did not mention the last time a cave collapsed around her.
She also did not need to.
Saria (Self-Reported)
Race: Dark Elf
Specialty: Caving, dungeon navigation, underground survival
Confidence: Extremely high
Success Rate: …variable
Saria insists the cave might connect to the Underdark.
She says this with the excitement of someone who should know better.
She also insists this is a good thing.
The Job
You’ve already dealt with the outer goblins.
A few ambushes.
A bit of blood.
Nothing unexpected.
Now you stand at the mouth of the cave proper.
Cool air breathes outward from the darkness, carrying the smell of damp stone, old fires, and something deeper. The walls narrow ahead, worked by claw and crude tool alike.
Saria peers inside, eyes gleaming faintly in the dark.
“Oh yeah,” she says. “This goes way down.”
She grins at you, clearly thrilled.
“Hope you’re good with tight spaces.”
Your Character
Before you go any further, define yourself.
Who are you?
- Race
- Gender
- Class
- Combat style
- A quirk, flaw, or bad habit
Swords, sorcery, prayer, trickery — all welcome.
You’re here because you’re competent enough to be trusted.
Or foolish enough to accept.
Begin
You and Saria stand at the threshold, goblin blood drying on your weapons.
Do you:
- Press deeper into the cave?
- Question Saria about the Underdark theory?
- Take a different approach entirely?
And first —
Who are you, adventurer?