Second Story Man

<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Has your life here been so difficult? You seem to fail upward at every opportunity.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>So says Careena the hag teaching Clyde Hatchett how to use magic. It certainly doesn't feel like that to Clyde who's still got a day job scraping mud (at least he hopes it's mud) out of monster pits and whose thieves' guild is more concerned with baking cookies than with protecting him against a rival gang. He keeps accumulating roommates - like a freed sex slave and a retired paladin - who make him nervous but for very different reasons. And let's not get started on the mimic that's taken up residence by Clyde's shower or the supposedly-tame grimeling in his closet...</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>And yet even with all the annoyances distractions and occasional death threats Clyde's found himself at the center of a massive conspiracy to kill the Emperor. He's the only one with proof that could save the man and take down an entire network of corrupt nobles evil slavers and power-hungry despots. Clyde really hopes Careena is right about him - the fate of the entire Empire depends on it.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>