True adventurers are a thing rarely seen nowadays. Its not someone who looks for adventure but who gets into it anyway. But you survive. You take a job not because it will give you experience or new items but just to survive 'til the next meal, next ale, or next lover. I'm cynical and know it, but I have been betrayed too often and lost too many friends or companions in to really care anymore.
Idealism is a state of mind only for the young or foolish.
Each one of the people in this bar has a story to tell. You writer types always are a pain in the ass. You're the writer. I'm just a character as you say, but I got writes too. You don't describe me in any detail.