<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>Heroes of Sandpoint</strong></span><br/>(http://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/e/e3/Sandpoint_TheOldLight.png)</div><ul class="bbc_list"><li>External Links</li><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Pathfinder SRD (http://www.d20pfsrd.com)</li><li>E6 Wiki (http://esix.pbworks.com/w/page/9900109/FrontPage)</li><li>E6: The Game Inside D&amp;D (http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=352719)</li><li>Players Roll All The Dice/Raising The Stakes (http://esix.pbwiki.com/f/RaisingtheStakes.pdf)</li><li>Reputation System (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/campaigns/reputation.htm)</li></ul><li>Out of character Threads</li><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Elluiki: Heroes of Sandpoint (http://elliquiy.com/wiki/Heroes_of_Sandpoint)</li><li>Elluiki: People and places of Sandpoint (http://elliquiy.com/wiki/Heroes_of_Sandpoint/Sandpoint)</li><li>Interest and recruitment Thread. (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=100137.0;all)</li><li>OOC Thread (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=100623.o;all)</li><li>Character Thread (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=100614.0;all)</li></ul><li>Game Threads</li><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Heroes of Sandpoint [Chapter 1: Burnt Offerings] (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=100755.0;all) (you are here)</li></ul></ul><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Introduction</strong></span><br/>A simple, relatively peaceful town with all the color and common oddities one expects from a tightly-knit community, Sandpoint sits at a point on the Lost Coast halfway between Magnimar and Windsong Abbey. Wood buildings and cluttered docks line the town’s natural harbor, while farms and the manors of wealthy citizens dot the surrounding countryside. During the day, fishing, farming, lumbering, glassmaking, and shipbuilding occupy most of the townsfolk, who commonly retire to their homes by way of Sandpoint’s many taverns. A playhouse and would-be museum make unusual attractions in such a small community, but Sandpoint’s true landmark is the Old Light, a lighthouse of ancient origins that lies in ruins.<br/><br/>A relatively peaceful town, devoid of many of the dangers of a true frontier town and intrigues of a sprawling city, Sandpoint has nonetheless had its share of troubles. The fading scars of a recent terror still linger, a time most folk refer to as the Late Unpleasantness. Just over five years ago, a madman stalked the streets of Sandpoint, killing dozens. Known as Chopper, the killer’s month-long terror ended bloodily when an eccentric local artisan was revealed as the murderer and killed during his attempted capture. Adding to the pain, less than a month later the local chapel burned to the ground in a conflagration that nearly consumed the town’s northern half and left the local priest dead.<br/><br/>Emerging from the shadow of these events, though, Sandpoint has healed and rebuilt, with many townsfolk viewing the coming dedication of a new church as a symbolic end to the healing and return to normality. 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/>For whatever reason, each of you find yourself in the public square outside the new cathedral on the morning of the first day of autumn.  You're anticipating Sandpoint's annual Swallowtail Festival. There is free food and the tents of various traveling entertainment troupes and a midway of game booths, and more excitement than a month of Sundays normally brings to the thriving if normally boring little town.<br/><br/>