No, I wasn't thinking that subtly, I was just thinking that a petty arsonist might think it a safer target to burn down a few grape storage sheds than someone's house (which lets face it could easily become murder) and I wasn't thinking this NPC Bad Guy wants that, he just wants to send Caelius a message to back off on some deal he's muscling in on or some leverage he's putting on a member of the senate or something.<br/><br/>There could be a couple of sides to some political skulduggery going on and Caelius has supported one side and the arsonist (or whatever crime he commits - maybe vandalism) is working for the other side. Or to bring the plot more back in with a link to the gladiator school, the backlash could be from some arena fight fixing that's been going on.<br/><br/>We could get quite involved in the power politics of the senate with this plot but its a biggie and would quite taint the whole game so I'm a bit reluctant to make the suggestions unless our dear GM wants that.