For five years, the faithful of Sandpoint have attended church in smaller wooden structures rebuilt after fire destroyed the previous temple, and while their new pastor Abstalar was helpful, kind, and wise, church wasn’t the same. Now, the new cathedral is finally done. All that remains is for the Swallowtail Festival to renew the site’s blessings from the gods and it will be as if the Sandpoint Fire had never occurred.<br/><br/>The adventure assumes the PCs are in attendance, for whatever reason, at the Swallowtail Festival on the first day of autumn in Sandpoint. The Rise of the Runelords Player’s Guide provides a wealth of information for your players on how to create characters to fit seamlessly into Varisia.<br/><br/>Each of you is encouraged to come up with a reason why their character has come to the Swallowtail Festival. Most of you are locals, and of course they need no reason apart from the fact that everyone in town will be there!  There's free food and a sort of midway of game booths, and more excitement than a month of Sundays normally brings.<br/><br/>Whatever the reasons, each character will be in the public square outside the new cathedral when play starts.  I ask each of you to decide your reasons and if you're local or arrived in town a few days early, I ask you to work out here in the OoC if and how well your characters might know each other. Sandpoint isn't all that big, so unmarried young adults living in town are likely to at least recognize each other if not actually know them as friends.<br/><br/>EDIT:  keep in mind that one of our players (Jaillen (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=100614.msg4367425#msg4367425)) works at one of the local Inns.  If your character is from out of town, they might meet the pretty and entertaining young maid there.  I believe the only one of you that decided not to be a local was the half orc, and he's from Windsong's Abbey, just a couple days travel north up the Lost Coast Road.<br/><br/>Game thread will go up tomorrow.  Perhaps early in the day before I go to work.  If not then, then it will be early afternoon my time (Central Daylight:  UTC -0500)<br/><br/>