[OOC: As this is the gathering of possible strong fellows to a cause, you can ask for invites, of course.]
Overall, The Sparrow's Inn was a good place for one to set up as a base of operations, so to speak. As the town of Shadowmere was a relatively central kind of town with government buildings, resources, and so on...you could find yourself in the middle of everything you generally needed if you lived here. This inn, being the sort of place setup to have tennants staying upstairs and food-and-drink accommodations downstairs with a
nice open fireplace, one could get immediately cozy in this homey environment.
Sano had good reason to stay here, even good reason to stay forever, but things had to be done.
For those not in the know, Sano Alistair had been - until more recently - traveling around to see what sort of potential people he could hire for a mission, one mission to kill one
extremely dangerous target. He had been to Adela and Essyrn before finally trudging his way into Serendipity from the south, to find himself in the middle of the Jadenshire region. That, as they say, is where it all changed. Not the mission, per se, just the way it was handled and how much he needed to get through it to reach its conclusion and live his life.
You never know what you're going to find on a quest like this, what OR who, in fact.
It was in this area that he met a rather powerful and potentially dangerous shadowmancer. That alone would easily get his attention, but it was also a fact that she was a bright and beautiful lady, on top of that. The only thing about her was that she had another personality in her head, a shadow from the
realm of shadows. Despite all that, they grew close and Sano had decided to stay around, and use Serendipity's messenger bird system to get word around that he needed people for a mission. It went kind of like this...
HELP WANTED
Strong and capable fighters and magic-users desired.
All disciplines may apply, though response may vary.
Multiple positions to be filled for eventual mission.
Further details to be found at The Sparrow's Inn.
Ask for Sano.
Dozens of responses had been made, from people who were either...{A} not interested and officially saying so, {B} interested at first but not after a few details were given, {C} very interested but not strong or careful enough to be of use, {D} clearly boasting and exaggerating and thus making them useless, or {E} proposing marriage.
The last one, by far, had been the most disturbing.
It had been from a woman who thought his rally to a quest was actually some sort of poetic declaration of love from a would-be suitor. She was apparently some distant noble from the coast of Serendipity and completely unaware that Sano's message had been neither meant for her nor poetic in ay fashion. Still, that didn't beat the
other issue. You see, while he and Nashya Belvedere - the afore-mentioned shadowmancer - were combing through these letters, some of the prospectives had failed to respond at all, making them wonder if they were going to show up in person or what.
Well,
one of them surely was. He just didn't know that this Goldswith 'chap' had actually been the brown-haired woman that had been quietly watching him busy at work, waiting for an opportunity to speak. And
who knows what other sort of person was gonna show?