<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><em>Welcome and congratulations for finding the thread. Here is the gaming thread where you, as your character, will be playing. I would like for each post to show your character as a brief summary of what he or she is followed by a picture of some sort. Make it very easy to locate peoples posts later down the line when the game gets into action like areas. Examples would be like your AC, HP, Spells in affect, Name, etc.  Also, please post your dice rolls for actions(attacks or skills or saving throws). Thank you. Now enjoy the intro and let’s get this ball rolling. </em></span><br/><br/>Upon the borders of Kor and the Emerald forest a numeral amount of merchant exchange stations. These outposts prevent people and products of illegal nature from entering and exit both empires. Normally they are small towns or just a single tower with a few guards. Merchants and farmers flock to these places monthly to learn about the comings and goings of goods and news from the shippers. Guards in the local area are handpicked from soldiers from the capitol. These bright promising individuals have high moral standards and Kor military discipline.  But merchant stations wear on everyone. Brothels and bars spring up at nearly every station and back alley deals with drugs are everywhere. Money flows from hand to hand in these places but people keep themselves quiet. Deals with guards and locals make the worst events being a simple broken window or a missing candle stick due to a disagreement. But at one such station, known as Bishan, will start a change that will affect the whole of all empires within the known world. It all begins with a single question….<br/><br/>Bishan, a place of budding wealth and grow reputation, is a good, clean, and carefully watched merchant station. Everyone comes and goes through the station at some point for major goods and deals towards the Emerald Forest. Merchants of all trades head out towards the Emerald Forest, wearing the finest fashions and jewels only to come in rags and despair.  Some make their fortunes of course and they control large estates within the Kor Empire.<br/><br/>Merchants generally employ a number of guards for their caravans for Bishan outskirts are littered with bands of thieves and murders, where town itself is a haven of safety.  It is here that you find yourselves, seeking your passions. For Bishan allows access to many parts of Kor and into the Emerald forest. Even Bishan itself is a place to gain employment as a guard, assistant, and even deal with back alley trades. A number of establishments are littered about the area, but the main attractions are a few choice areas. The barracks, where the soldiers of Kor and merchant guards relax and trade tales, the tavern, where people drink and tell tales as well as make deals, the brothel, where people relax and make deals and trade information back and forth and then the merchant lane, where merchants trade goods and make deals. Everyone goes through the merchant lane as they enter in to the town and guards are posted in pairs or groups about the area, wearing simple leather armor and spears with shields. They are wearing the colors of Red and Yellow for Kor soldiers or the darker colors of merchants.<br/><br/>Local gossip has been about the visions from the capitol and people claiming to have visions. Elves that go into Bishan laugh about the dreams and claim to say that prices will only go up if they continue their silly tales. Merchants fear price increases and the influx of wandering bands of people. This causes the merchants to increase their guards upon their caravans as they take their goods into Elven markets and Kor itself. You find yourselves upon the merchant quarter, weather staying within the town for the past few days or just wandering in. Merchants try to draw your attention with their wares, Prostitutes bat an eye towards you and hold a lingering smile, towards both men and women. While the tavern is in full swing with the roars of song and dance.<br/><br/>Guards go about their routines, smiling and chatting to the locals while checking goods and arresting drunks. A typical day it seems but something hovers in the air. A feeling of worry that can’t be found. People seem alright but weather it’s the day, the sun, or just a bad feeling none of you can’t seem to place it. Pushing it off as a bad feeling to rise to the day and push out entering into the merchant lane. Nearly as soon as you arrive you hear the sounds of a grouping crowd near the middle of the lane. Guards have dropped from their posts as they head towards the area. From your location you see people are drawn to something but you cannot see what. You overhear something about a merchant and rewards of gold for an easy task. What that is you don’t know. The mood seems to shift the more you listen to one of excitement and curiosity. Looking towards the crowd you wonder about your next step.<br/>