Take the pixie-hunting job.

I tell the elf I'll take the job. Without looking up, she slides a map of the Lilac Forest across the table towards me and return to her book.

I leave town by the Witchstone Gate, heading west along the highway toward the forest. It's a long walk but I don't have a horse and I can't afford to buy one, so I have **** but to travel by foot. The road takes me through farmland, between rolling hills and groves of pink-flowering trees. It's a beautiful spring day.

I've been travelling for a couple of hours when I spy a pale figure standing in the road ahead. It's too far away for me to make out any of its features. At the sound of my approach it turns, seems to spot me and runs off to the side of the road, hiding behind a low stone wall that juts up out of the grass.

Interesting. An ambusher of some kind? I could investigate, but that might be exactly what it wants.