From the Introduction: Worse Than the Disease is a scenario for adventurers in their second careers. It is set in one of the Empire's cities; any one will do. It centres on a daring act of burglary committed by the PCs and therefore requires certain Character types, preferably those of a larcenous persuasion. If your party consists of law-abiding types there are a set of pre-generated Characters at the end of this article that you can use to run the scenario as a one-off.