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Sun 6th Jul 2025 06:57

Fidget's Downtime

by Fidget

After returning from rescuing the Princess of Vagduhm, the party returns to New Aurelia. Fidget is not a person of great ambition, and he also doesn't like to stay in one place very long. He spends most of his time doing guard duty on the regular trade routes between New Aurelia and the other settlements nearby.
 
He gets on well with the people around him, and he's accidentally building a network of contacts throughout the continent--merchants and guards he travels with, various people in other towns, etc. He ends up spending a big chunk of the income to help with little things for the people around him. So, he isn't gathering much wealth, but there's someone basically anywhere he goes that's willing to do a favor for him.
 
Fidget caught the attentions and affections of the daughter of a merchant on one of these trips when he helped defend the caravan from a bandit group--he stopped them from taking her hostage. He likes her, but he's a little too oblivious to realize the depths of her feelings. She's angling for marriage. She maneuvers to be on his trips whenever possible and tries to spend as much time with him as she can.
 
Her name: Emilia Glavrick
Her father's name: Horatio Glavrick
Their primary trade goods: Textiles & furniture
 
The adventure will pick up just after they've decided to be a couple. Fidget will be a little more worried about coming back alive than he was before... but probably about as incompetent.