Cauldron, no other city in the world would be built in a volcano active or not. Leave it to some wizard from ages past to suggest that a city should be built here, for better or worse this city has become the bastion of civilization in the deep south of the Flanaess. Located on the border of the Amedio Jungle, and the nigh impenetrable Hellfurance mountains, the city that you have (or soon will) call home is a melting pot. All of the civilized races live in the walls, and even seeing the occasional Half-Drow, or hobgoblin isn't that uncommon.<br/><br/>Though most of those that live in Cauldron are plain old ordinary humans. Mostly 'foreigners' from the north, most of the Olman (dark-skinned humans who live in the Amedio jungle) stay away from the city. Tonight fate has found its way into your lives, for your own reasons you walk the streets of Cauldron, a wretched drizzle falls form the ash-gray sky. The crowed, rain-slicked buildings seem especially bleak, and even frightful on this evening.<br/><br/>The buildings are packed together, their roofs almost touching in places as a steady stream of water travels from the highest roof-tops to the lowest. The din of water trundles from the rooftops, splashing down below, turning the street gutters into rivulets. A few lights burn in their windows, but mostly their shutters have been closed for the night. The scent of chimney smoke fills the air mixing from the smell of fresh bread from what must be a bakery.<br/><br/>Suddenly you hear a call for help, a man is tossed out into the street by two others, they wear black and white paint on their faces making it hard to figure out who they might be. They kick the man saying to him,<strong>"Stay away from the orphanage, you got that?"</strong>The two men are armed with daggers though they don't have them out currently, and are wearing leather armor.<br/><br/>(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v141/ShiniNekoNi/Shackled%20City/asault.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>OOC: If you want go ahead and roll a Knowledge: Local or Bardic Lore check (My ID is 5631) if you are trained in those skills to figure out what the story is behind the two men is. Also everyone can roll a Spot please. The party wouldn't be together per say, but you would be walking around on one (or both) sides of the streets when this happens. They wouldn't seem to notice you or care about you at first. Also if you don't mind anything you do as far as OOC stuff I would like for you to write at the bottom in orange, or just PM it to me.</strong>