<!-- Bandit who found bandits too sociopathic -->

<NPCCharacter
id="spc_wanderer_empire_4"
name="{=t9e34kgH}{FIRSTNAME} the Robber"
voice="ironic"
age="22"
default_group="Infantry"
is_hero="false"
is_template="true"
culture="Culture.empire"
occupation="Wanderer"
skill_template="SkillSet.spc_wanderer_empire_4_skills">

<!-- the robber. possibly gang leader as nemesis -->

<string
id="prebackstory.spc_wanderer_empire_4"
text="{=22ajCymb}Oh, I suppose I can tell you. Nothing that no one doesn't already know, no how." />
<string
id="backstory_a.spc_wanderer_empire_4"
text="{=RaqBSakL}Me and some lads from my village, we thought we'd run away, join some other lads up there who make their living on the highways, if you know what I mean. Didn't much want to go scratching a plow across the dry fields all year every year like my father did." />
<string
id="backstory_b.spc_wanderer_empire_4"
text="{=xZuqLfE7}But I was young and foolish. Bandits - well, who'd have thought? They're real animals. Always drunk and stabbing each other, or too drunk to feel cold so they catch the plague and end up coughing up blood, or drunk and asleep when the patrol comes around so they end up on the gallows - I suspect you get the idea." />
<string
id="backstory_c.spc_wanderer_empire_4"
text="{=qgmt8aPz}So that was no kind of life, neither. I left the woods, paid a little money to friends who got my name off the outlaw list, and now I'm a regular law-abiding citizen. Officially, that is." />
<string
id="response_1.spc_wanderer_empire_4"
text="{=QIrR9NhL}A wise decision." />
<string
id="response_2.spc_wanderer_empire_4"
text="{=xzLIIPjB}A knave who could not abide other men's knavery! May such wonders never cease." />
<string
id="backstory_d.spc_wanderer_empire_4"
text="{=hinn6pmX}Life's better here in the city. More 'civilized,' you could say. Oh, the work can be a bit rough and tumble, but I feel I can relax after a long day with more refined company, like your good self." />
<string
id="generic_backstory.spc_wanderer_empire_4"
text="{=suf4hUxN}When I was a lad, I dabbled in crime and banditry a bit, but am now seeking more honest work. I still like the fighting and killing part, though. Anyway, I'm sure you've met a fair amount of men like me on your journeys." />