Looks like its a bust, then. Sorry, Farland, I tried! Feel free to adopt the plot I sent you to a game of your own.
If anyone *is* interested in a low-fantasy 3.5 game, there are still a couple of spaces left in another, non-farland one I am about to start on another board: http://www.garicscity.com/boards/viewforum.php?f=38