When Ruddygore hesitated and used a phrase like "odd" - it was enough to flag little alarms in the three apprentice mages.
"How 'odd' is this?" finally asked one of them.
"A human martial artist from one of the alternate Earths just ended up on a small set of islands to the Far East," said Ruddygore. "He's going to run afoul of the Rules in very short order."
"I'd think a fighter type would actually do fairly well," said the second of the three.
"Normally you'd be right, but this fellow comes in with a transformative magic curse and two other curses that I could spot right off the bat," expositioned Ruddygore. "Worse than that, while a typical martial artist is necessarily someone of discipline and inner strength - his particular art is more Chaos oriented."
"So, by the Rules, he's either going to learn discipline or lose his skill in the Art," noted a third who had some familiarity with the volumne dealing with martial arts Rules.
"Exactly. He's also got the added problems of this transformation curse, especially if he goes around in his girl form flirting for money or worse - doing as his father taught him and stealing to get by." Ruddygore waggled his fingers and showed the scene of a pigtailed boy wandering an overgrown field. "So this mission will be to inform the boy of his dangers, keep an eye on him until he's acclimated. Better if you could bring him here, but he looks the stubborn sort. Any volunteers?"
The three looked back and forth amongst themselves before:
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