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Message: <blockquote data-quote="randomling" data-source="post: 1299709" data-attributes="member: 8432">Part two. Home Base and local politics.Home BaseThe PCs will be based out of a port town called Tarantelle on the island of Lucca. It's the biggest trading town in The Hundred Islands - and the shadiest. It's a small city, population around 6,000. It's ruled over by a mayor (who's in the employ of the island's governor, who in turn answers to the queen of The Hundred Islands). We'll be starting in one of the shadier sections of the town, the lower dock district, probably in a tavern called the Buccaneer's Rest. More on the Rest later.Being a port town, Tarantelle gets most of its necessities through fishing and trade. It's a wealthy merchant town, and tradition has it you can trade anything in Tarantelle. And thus, the city has it's dark areas: thieves, pirates, highwaymen, and other nefarious types think of it as a haven.Secret #2Rumour has it that somewhere buried underneath Tarantelle is a marvellous artefact that was lost by the Church some 300 years ago due to a terrible curse. The artefact does in fact exist, and is indeed, underneath the city, but it isn't quite what rumour says it is...PoliticsQueen Leandra, a good and benevolent monarch, rules over The Hundred Islands. There is a large continent far to the east, and occasionally people visit from "the mainland", but The Hundred Islands have very little political contact with other nations.Secret #3Not every island is strictly under Queen Leandra's control. The information is kept carefully under wraps, but at least four islands have succeeded in rebelling against Leandra's rule in the last few years. In addition, the Queen's Navy has been repelling orc and goblin attackers from the North in recent months, and this gossip has only just begun to filter down to the rumour mills of Tarantelle...</blockquote>

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