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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Edgar" data-source="post: 527276" data-attributes="member: 7230">Listen to Piratecat. Those are very good points! When you're playing power politics in a game, it's important to put everyone into different factions in one way or another. Each person has their own objective and plans to reach their objective. You may want to know that ancient Rome was a place where political (and physical) backstabbing was commonplace for the sake of election. One emperor was rumored to have even started a fire that burnt down much of the city so he could bypass the Senate and re-build the city the way he wanted to. You currently have Rome destroyed, but maybe you could have a former senator of the Republic from there want to take the city from the undead and rebuild it. He knows of an ancient artifact on the island that was long ago held by the Romans when they ruled Egypt. It belonged to a mummified Egyptian king but was stolen and now in the hands of the snakemen. It has the power to turn back undead and can help the senator and his forces re-gain power in Rome. So, he sends a messenger to ask the party to help retrieve the artifact.  There is another senator who has found out about the relic, too. He finds out because the old sage who told the first senator was his dear friend and had mysteriously died. When he goes to visit the daughter, he learns that he had told the first senator about the relic and then the same night died in his sleep all of a sudden. The daughter is suspicious and thinks he was murdered by the first senator. She tells him that the artifact is also incredibly dangerous and could destroy all of Rome not just the undead.  So, this second senator tries to stop the first senator and sends a group to stop the adventurers. He gets the aid of the local Egyptians who wanted to preserve the artifact and return it to the tomb. But the Cairo government also wants the artifact believing that it will bring great power and prestige to its rule. And from there it goes.   What do you think of something like that?</blockquote>

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