sobrique | The Tragic Tale of Toffer Jack

Let me tell you the tale of Toffer Jack.
Jack couldn't ever remember when he was born. He just had early memories of living in the sewers amongst the rats. He grew up, nearly feral. He was a kid, with a sharp knife and a bad attitude.

Over the course of his life, he learned the paths through the sewer system well. It served him as he got older, and started to establish his gang. The sewer kids they were known as, although many weren't so much children any more. They owned the theives highway, and soon became a center of crime around the city. Stealing with impugnity, the road to fame and power was an easy one.

Toffer Jack looked around, and surveyed his domain. He knew all that went on in the city. And he'd never even left the sewers. His power over the thieves guild was derived from a vicious nature, and an uncanny knowledge of the passage ways.

One day though, his luck ran out. He ate some tainted food. It's hard to keep food 'nice' in the sewers, but this was worse than usual.
It took him 3 days to die. Coughing, choking and spluttering.
But die he did.

The police found his body, floating in sewage a few days later.

He lived his life by the sewer,
And by the sewer he died.
They couldn't call it murder,
So they called it sewer-side.