Boom Goes the Wake Up Squad

The sound of gunfire is a lousy way to wake up (not as bad as a knife to the throat, worse than a pack animal licking your face).  It was a new sensation when I was startled awake in that small inn on the outskirts of Zorn (more commonplace now, usually a punk being an ass or two drunks settling a debate on who's dumber). I hadn't heard the fire arm I'd exploded the days before actually being used in its intended purpose, but I could figure that this was definately more of those "bang sticks" as they were called back then. People in the inn were shouting and stomping around.  I'd be lying if I said I wasn't interested in all the commotion. The bangs seemed to come in waves (because the firearms back then were single shot stuff and reload types, now bullets are self contained), the inn keeper had ducked down beneath his desk as I passed by.  I didn't have much on me at the time, just an open chested robe, pants, slippers, and my sword (I do find it funny how often I carry the sword since I'm a very poor swordsman compared to others).

Outside was utter chaos, fires were spreading, there were corpses in the streets that looked like they'd been ripped to shreads (fire arms back then used larger projectiles then today, they were basically hand held cannons).  I could see Red Hand officials running back and forth trying to determine where the shooting was coming from. And just like that it was gone. No announcement or loud anything, one second there were loud bangs, and then nothing.  I could hear anguished screams and people barking orders to put out fires, but the mysterious gunmen were no where to be found. I was about to turn around and go back to my room when a bag went over my head.

Now there's something about having a bag over ones head, its disarming.  You can't see anything, you worry about whats going to happen next, and in the end you end up doing whatever the person who bagged you wants because you really don't want the bag to remain OVER YOUR HEAD!  Also they shackled my wrists, because you really can't do the bag thing without restricting hand movements as well.  No words were spoken during this, I could only assume my captors were Red Hand because despite there being confusion you really couldn't snatch someone off the street in Red Hand territory without it being authorized by them.

I was right of course, and this was just the start of my troubles.  Like I said nothing ever goes right for me for long, what makes me really sad though? Never even got to visit Zorn proper back then, I'm sure it would have been a treat.