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You decide to focus your efforts in getting an apprenticeship with the court wizard. You look for people that have been his apprentices.

In the entire Low Ward, there is only one guy, the Alchemist Kroft. He set up a shop in here because his daughter was banished from the inner city for becoming paralytic. She died in a horrible accident later, and even though he was invited to return to the inner city, he felt disgusted with it and decided to remain the low ward. You talk to him one day:

"They live in a pretend world, the folks at the inner city. While the soldiers die in droves killing the monsters outside, those people live feast after feast without a care in the world. I think I can do more good in here, even though the goods I sell are basically charity from how low the prices go."

"Is it true that you've been an apprentice to the court wizard?"

"Yeah, it is true. He learned a lot of magic in the north and when he arrived here he was better at magic than everyone else, so the king hired him. Most magicians who study in the north return much more powerful after a few years. I wonder why they don't stay there though..."

You ask him if he could put a good word for you.

"A good word? Well... the best I could do is give a letter of recommendation. Not sure how my name is remembered in there. But for that you first have to work for me! If you work for me, I'll give you a Gatherer permit and you'll be allowed to enter and leave the city through the catacomb tunnels, to go fetch potion materials for me. What do you think? About the pay... well, I can barely survive myself... I can't really pay you. At most, I can share my food with you. The people in the Low Ward bring me plenty of food. In fact, people often pay me with food. As I said, I'm basically doing charity."

> Accept Alchemist's Kroft work proposal
> This is slave labor, decline
> Write in