I admit that posting that description from City of Winter didn't help matters  :-[  and I apologize for the confusion.<br/><br/>Also, I'm likely to pull a LOT of material from JAGS Wonderland (great setting, but the system?  Not my thing).<br/><br/>A few common bits to get things started:<br/><br/>1)  Odd as it sounds, Sorcerers<em>do</em>occasionally feel the need to get together and talk shop with other Sorcerers.  Every few years, someone somewhere will hold a convention somewhere...Sorcerers only.  Not everybody attends, obviously, but for those who do there's a couple of room parties, a few panels, and some decent catering in it for them.  (A common trick is to hold the mini-con within a New Age seminar cluster or Science Fiction convention...)<br/><br/>1a)  Five years ago, a wanna-be by the name of Elmore Splindt made an utter ass of himself at the Con in Prague...and promptly dropped off of everyone's radar.  Hopefully he's not coming back, one way or the other.<em>(If your character is neither too young nor too indigent to have attended, feel free to speculate about Elmore, decide if and how you knew him, and chat in-character about the 'Prague Mishap'.)</em><br/><br/>1b)  This year, the Con is being held in sunny Los Angeles!  Okay, actually it's in Pasadena...and you're all attending.  The organizer is a fellow named Rocky Montag and he, for reasons best left unexamined, has managed to infiltrate a local convention of scripture-pounding types.  Worse, he's gotten you all signed up to do panels...which are open to the rest of the con attendees.  This gives you an idea of Rocky's sense of humor.<em>(This is, more or less, where we'll be starting...with kickers taking precedence, obviously.)</em><br/><br/>2)  All of you have picked up rumors and rumors of rumors from your various contacts over the past few months, both in the Waking World and in the Dreamlands, that something big is coming.  Unfortunately, details are scanty and nobody's speculation seems to match anyone else's.  Par for the course.<em>(Feel free to invent these, and speculate amongst yourselves!)</em><br/><br/>3)  Anybody want an old and distinguished scholarly aunt or uncle with a penchant for rare books?