Reunion
((17 March 2008))
The tale of Calsh's search for his family after the fall of Gnomeregan has been posted.
Calsh Trinketrun was finding himself more irritated at the goblins than ever before, despite the fact that their behavior wasn't any different than usual.
Certainly, he expected some ribbing; after all, he was a gnome spending a few weeks in the arid goblin town of Gadgetzan as he waited for one of his suppliers to meet up with him. The goblins were proud of their engineering feats, and he knew that those of his own race were as well; there was normally nothing wrong with a little friendly (and sometimes not-so-friendly) rivalry. If nothing else, the results were usually entertaining, with both races finding the most convoluted and useless devices to build to one-up their adversaries. Calsh didn't have any particular problem with the goblins; their obsessive focus on profits made a great deal of sense to him, and he often found it easier to deal with them on business matters than many other races, as long as he maintained a thick enough skin to not let their showmanship get to him.
Calsh was not an engineer — that was a profession better suited to one blessed with more cleverness than he — and for once, he was frustrated at the rivalry that he shouldn't have been a part of. News of his home city that had been spreading around the sun-baked settlement, and he desperately needed to verify how much of it, if any, was true.