Simple adventure thread here for those looking to join! Some bandits up to no good, hiding up on a small town they've taken over. Let's go smash them and take their stuff, aye?

Tristain stared steadily at the thin, reedy looking woman who was nervously wringing her hands in front of her, staring up at him with hope and fear evident in her eyes. Finally he sighed, and nodded. "Fine, madam. I will heed your request. If you find any others willing to go on the extermination, I will be waiting at the local tavern for two hours." The woman bowed repeatedly to him, her body bobbing before she took off not running but definitely walking faster than was the usual. The mercenary way he'd her go, before sighing in aggravation. He just had to be trying to make a name for himself, didn't he? Here he was taking a contract that had no actual pay-off, because the bandits had already taken everything.

Well. The bandits had taken over the small outlying town, and were currently using it as a base of operations. From what the woman had told him, there weren't actually that many bandits - but an illness the last winter had devastated the small guard, and so no one had really been left to defend when they came to attack. Now, they ere casually looting the town as they modified it to serve as a fortification. If they got this off the ground - well, with everything else going on, the small bandit band could very well grow into a more legitimate threat. Still, while that was something to have in consideration, it wasn't the reason that the woman had come asking for his help.

No, she had come asking for a far more simple reason. She wanted revenge against the bandits. According to what she had told Tristain, she had been on the outskirts of the town when the bandits attacked, and had managed to escape notice. She had seen them kill almost everyone she knew - and in typical fashion, they had not been nice about what they did to the villagers before killing them. So, she had escaped, and begun looking for help. Tristain was the first one who had listened past the "I can't pay you" long enough for her to explain that she didn't want anything back from the town, just the bandits dead. Which meant that anything and everything they had taken was fair game. There was the potential of far greater rewards than just what the woman could have offered herself there - who knew how long the bandits had been gathering treasure?

And taking on a bandit town was sure to be something that got people's notice. The more 'noble' ones would likely crow about the fact that he had taken the contract when the woman couldn't pay. The more practical ones would know the real reason, but would likely be impressed.. So long as he could pull it off. Even if the woman was able to convince others to heal, which he doubted would be the case. Still, he would wait as he had told her. So to the tavern he went, to get some water while he waited to see if the woman could find anyone else who would listen to her plea.