Minxie18 wrote...
Deliciously-Demonic wrote...
Hmm...since my hopes for finding Fenris in a cage and having to kill tons of bounty hunters and him having a snazzy remark if you're a mage has been crushed (D:), I'm saying that your group has been hired to help some other mercs hunt down a runaway slave (Fenris!), so they go to the place where the rumors state he was last seen (because he doesn't exactly strive to stay hidden, now does he...cocky bastard. >_>) and set a trap...but it fails, and the group Hawke and Co. teamed with was slaughtered. Cue Fenris swaggering in, stating the obvious but giving the leader a chance to run. Dude grabs his shoulder 'n is all 'you're coming with me!' and then POW! Fen phase-punches him, then turns to Hawke and goes, 'Who the hell are you?'
I think it'd be more like dirtsa said earlier - they probably wouldn't say "Go hunt down a runaway slave" but rather something more like "Go hunt down this very dangerous elf" or something misleading.
And it's not simply because the mercs in the story would want to trick Hawke. I was also thinking that a job to track down a "runaway slave" might be too easy to accidentally turn down - what I mean by that is people who play the game (and have no idea who Fenris is) might instinctively refuse to take the job because they don't want to help bad guys catch a slave. If that were the case they'd miss out on recruiting Fenris and have no idea. 
True, true.
Merc: Hey, listen, you're mercenaries, right? We have a job we're doing, but we need a bit of help.
Hawke: -narrows eyes warily- What kind of job?
Merc: It's...ah...chasing down this elf. Apparently he's really dangerous, he's killed five parties of mercs in the past month!
Hawke: Sheesh. You'd think after two or three times, they'd give up.
Merc: They don't because this job pays really well. Some chap out in the Imperium is contracting it.
Hawke: Well, if he's really killed as many people as you say, we had better get him locked down before he moves onto to innocents.
Merc: -nod- Thanks. Here's everything we know about him...