Rolling ahead, now that I've had an opportunity to get back online (last few days were a bit busy).  Carnie is hopefully just overrun with Real Life, but I'll add a pair of 'helpful' NPCs who may or may not be useful as villains down the road.  Granted, with their epithets they aren't likely to be friendly...<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">Current story elements:</span><br/>The Roll of Ten Thousand Glorious Djinn<br/>Naga ("Romantic Serpents")<br/>Erd the Unspeakable<br/>Dread Lord Patsakos<br/><br/><br/>Time to work on additional story threads, which are the comments in your playbooks with the blanks in them.  You should have three by the time we're done, and then I use those to springboard out plot (adjusted, of course, by your Heart's Desires and Temptations).<br/><br/>I have a rough guesstimate of something in mind already, which will involve Erd the Unspeakable and a pink fluffy towel, but only if it actually comes to pass.   :-)<br/>