“There is a murderer loose,” said Jarl Harald, stroking his long fair beard. “I charge you to hunt him down for me and do unto him the justice he deserves.”
This is a bit more like it, thought Asgarth. At least I might get to kill someone. He mounted up and set off across the dry-sunned expanse of rolling grasslands that is the Kingdom of the Nords. If I complete this task, he considered, perhaps Jarl Harald will take me into his warband and I could see some real adventuring instead of all this bullshit.
Not half a day-length had Asgarth ridden when he was set upon by sea raiders, roaming the country in search of victims. “Halt, knave!” the lead sea raider expressed.
Before Asgarth knew what was happening, he was overpowered and cast in chains. “This is bullshit,” he muttered as the sea raiders dragged him around the country for two days. Eventually, seeing his chance, he escaped their clutches, took his horse and continued anew upon his quest.
As night fell he came to the village whither the murderer was said to have fled. “Hail ye,” Asgarth announced towards the village elder as he rode into the village, recognising the village elder by his long white beard. “I seek a murderer who is hiding among you.”
“It’s dark,” said the village elder. “Come back when it’s day.”
“This is bullshit,” roared Asgarth, but withdrew and camped outside the village. He tried to read the only book in his possession but couldn’t work out how. At dawn he re-entered into the village. “Hail ye,” Asgarth announced towards the village elder again. “I seek a murderer who is hiding among you.”
“He’s probably skulking around here somewhere,” said the village elder. Whereupon Asgarth investigated a cabbage patch behind a house, which is where he had learned murderers tended to conceal themselves. Sure enough he found a murderer. “I mean to bring you to justice,” Asgarth snarled, drawing his sword.
You haven't told us who the letter went to. This is still bullshit.
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