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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phoenix" data-source="post: 2975406" data-attributes="member: 16166">...and Then the City is Quiet Once More.The Outskirts* were quiet, apart from the gentle pitter-patter of rain that splashed against the shattered rooves and empty streets.  The smell of fresh water was sweet and Corbin enjoyed the gentle warm breeze that drifted through the shattered house that sheltered within.It had been six weeks now and no-one had bothered him, it was amazing to think that anywhere in Metropolis could be abandoned.  Every other suburb was overfilled, with hundreds living on the streets, in shanty homes, under bridges, and even in the sewers.Six weeks had granted Corbin time to study the tablets, a little.  It was still difficult to determine exactly what they were, but the promises they spoke of of a lush utopia beyond Metropolis was unmistakable.  The promise of such a paradise alone had awakened a power within him, allowing him to create mystical effects like he had never imagined before.But the people he was supposed to meet out here had not arrived, they were two weeks late and there was no sign of a single one of their troop.  Agents of the League of Ancients had offered him the sizable sum of fifty golden crowns to view his tablets, and another fifty to assist them in translating some ancient text in a dig they had already begun.Through the shattered buildings and across the rubble-filled streets, Corbin saw life.  A group of six men in chain vests and shields picked their way carefully through the rubble, crossbows pointed into the shadows.  The symbol on their shield didn't look like the League's, and the blood sprayed across their armour suggested they were less than friendly.[sblock]*The Outskirts are often talked about but never visited.  It is said that after years of infighting by various merchant factions and heavy overdevelopment, utilization of siege weaponry destroyed much of the poorly constructed suburb, and rioters finished off the rest.Poor soil and dangerous creatures said to live here scare most people away, being nothing left to loot an no way of growing anything of value.  It is called the Outskirts because travellers rarely bother to travel to the otherside of it, so therefore they assume that this suburb is the last before reaching the Outer Wall of Metropolis.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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