So the human Ino Wingfolds set out to quest for fame, glory, and all the wolf-blood spatters he could eat.
Whilst the latter was easily enough to come by, the first two proved harder - all the villages and towns he visited were "quite untroubled".
Until Ino came to Actmops.
In Actmops' town hall, Ino met a bizarre pair - the human warlord Isun Ploturged, who spent her youth taming giant tigers, and the law-giver Forile, an opossum demon.
Wait, what?
Ino held a pleasant conversation with the hideous creature, who suggested that Isun might have some work for him. Taking the demon's advice, he took two steps to the right and spoke to the warlord, who proposed a task for him - slay Forile, an opossum demon and a drunk, who could be found in Actmops... right next to her. No list of heinous acts was offered to justify this order - the demon's very nature appeared to be reason enough.
Despite being inexperienced and daunted by the idea of murdering such an amiable creature, Ino complied - attacking Forile, who fell from the balcony shouting "I am Forile! Prepare to die!". Before Ino could charge downstairs to finish the job, however, he was met with another challenge - "I am Isun Ploturged! Prepare to die!" Apparently this contract was not meant to be fulfilled in public.
Both fell to Ino's sword, and he was forced to flee south and take refuge with the dwarves...
Looking at legends mode, it turns out Forile was masquerading as a manifestation of Isun's god, Copgur. I like to think that some secretive faction business was involved, or that Isun saw through Forile's charade. Am a little disappointed that Isun tried to kill me for completing her task and attacking a fellow member of her civ - can this be considered a bug? Could there be a script tweak that automatically makes a quest target qualify as an enemy (or at least neutral) to the quest giver and perhaps, by extension, their civilization?
From this experience, I also like the idea of meeting the occasional cloaked figure who gives out procedural assassination missions; I'm sure it's somewhere in Toady's goal list.