You awaken in the bedroom of your large home, in the middle of the night, due to scampering noises coming from downstairs. Could it be a break-in? You find that hard to believe – after all, you live in the Imperial capital itself, crime should be non-existent here!

Slowly sneaking about your room as to not alert any possible intruders on the first floor, you light a candle and begin carefully descending down the finely polished wooden stairs, when you become aware of a crackling noise – like someone just lit the fireplace in the living room.

As you approach the doorway, you see that the dark room is indeed illuminated by the fireplace's orange glow, and there is a rather plump kobold female perched on the floor in front of it, busy warming her hands by the fire. Next to her, there sits a large sack, and you can just barely catch a glimpse of it being stuffed to the brim with jewelry, fine china, gold coins and the like – all presumably stolen.

'Ey, I can hear ya, you know... The kobold gal utters with a smug, sharp-toothed grin, not tearing her eyes away from the fire. Ain't no one out there that ever gots ta sneak up on me... Say, this looks like a rich folks' home? Ya got anythin' fancy for me to take~?