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Larkin Quickgrip · Good Joined: 21 Jan 2004 Posts: 34 Location: The Slums

It wasn’t quite the send-off Larkin had envisioned.

In his minds eye he had seen scores of people cheering and wailing, screaming out his name over and over again. Maybe even a couple of the gangs would show up, all desperate to know how the tall and handsome hero was going to fair outside of the city. Semi-nubile girls would throw tokens of appreciation at him as he waved goodbye and set off on the greatest quest the city had ever seen.

Davvo patted him on the back. "Don’t worry bout it mate" he said " We've neva been much of a community city ave we."

There was nobody.

"Not even ONE!" Larkin exclaimed "You wudda fort Big Jim or Little Angus wudda shown up." He looked down the street towards the visitors gate, still empty and unused, just like the past couple of weeks. Larkin’s shoulders sank a little as he walked off towards it, Davvo keeping stride next to him.

Larkin handed over the rather large sum of money to the guard, a lot of it was in copper pieces, then turned to Davvo and did a quite ridiculous bow to the big man before striding off north leaving him behind.

Patting his pockets, checking his extensive thieving kit, just in case, his short but wicked knife and finally that mirror he made off with the other day, just for curiosities sake.

It surprised him when he actually reached the mist, he had thought it was his scar. At least he that was another worry gotten rid of. Holding his breath and closing his eyes he stepped straight into it.

Two steps and he had fallen straight into water

The Janitor · Posted: 04 Feb 2004 06:25 pm Post subject:

Larkin's departure was not entirely unobserved.

In an alley stood a man watching Larkin's progress with interest.
He drew little attention from the usually attentive dwellers of the
slums, despite his incongruous dress of a grey jumpsuit.

With the sound of the splash an expression almost of pain crossed
his face. With a sigh, he walked slowly towards the mist, muttering
about the need for better signposting.

A few moments later he was gone.