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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue_Genie" data-source="post: 1815494" data-attributes="member: 13477">Sounds like a good idea Devyn, although you would definitely stand out in Corvis, being of Idrian ancestry.  Another thing to consider is whether you have joined the local criminal gang or not.  If you've been "practicing your trade" for any significant length of time, you will have run into them, and if they've seen you "working" then they would have put major pressure on you to join them.  On the Western side of the river, where the University is located, the Griffons gang hold sway.Another thing that everyone could start thinking about is figuring out why you're working for the University as "troubleshooters".  Are you just interested in the money?  Are you drawn to the danger?  Or are you passionate about research and exploring history?  Remember that in Cygnar (the country where Corvis is located), natural philosophy (i.e. science) is quickly becoming a serious study, especially when it is melded with magic.  Yes, most natural philosophers are still rich dilettantes, but especially when it comes to weapons technologies, governments realize that there are major advances in warfare which can be achieved through study.Yet another note is that I am setting this adventure in the month of Tempen (the fourth month of the Morrowan calendar), A.R.603, a mere month after the city has been liberated by the undead Legion of Lost Souls.  For those of you unfamiliar with the events which transpire in the Witchfire trilogy, I will briefly summarize.QUICK SETTING BACKGROUNDIt all began last Longest Night, about four months ago.  Longest Night is a triennial event, which is basically a huge celebration (think Mardi Gras).  As the streets of Corvis were filling with revelers, troubadours, vendors, musicians, actors, a horde of shambling, undead creatures started spilling out of the sewer entrances and walking out of the river and attacking the townsfolk and heading for the cathedral of Morrow.  The leader of the undead was a vile necromancer named Alexia (who also happened to be the niece of the current Prelate of Morrow).  It seems her mother had been executed as a witch 20 years before, and she was here for a bit of payback.  Luckily, a group of adventurers intervened, and were able to convince her to call off the attack.  With a word (or so it’s told), she withdrew her control and the undead collapsed into a piles of dead bones.A few months after this event, more chaos erupted when most of the city council was murdered in their sleep by members of the deposed King Vinter Raelthorne’s secret police, the Inquisition.  They co-opted the City Watch (either through enticement with riches, or holding their families hostage), and began a reign of terror.  Within a few days it was rumored that the deposed King himself (long thought dead) had returned to Cygnar, and was in the city.  He brought with him soldiers of an unknown race, who helped him maintain order through fear and intimidation.It turns out these soldiers, later named the Skorne, were only holding the city until a larger invasion force could make its way through the Bloodstone Marches.  Just as the Skorne army was entering the city unopposed, however, Corvis was saved by yet another undead army, once again led by the necromancer Alexia.  In a large battle on the Black River Bridge the armies clashed, and the Skorne were eventually defeated.A week after this battle, the 3rd and 5th Mounted Fusiliers from Fort Falk finally entered the city, and began mop-up operations against the Skorne and any Inquisition sympathizers.So needless to say, Corvis did not have an easy winter.  Now that spring, and Tempenfest, the annual week-long celebration of rebirth and fertility, are upon us, people are still bruised and beaten, but a little more optimistic.  They are ready to start putting the nightmare behind them and get on with their lives.  One thing is certain, however, their lives have been changed by the events of the previous four months.</blockquote>

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