After writing all that up I am inclined to agree, frankly. Constantinople loses some of its glamour when you consider it has been reduced to less than 20% of its former populace and has generally just had a really bad run of luck for the last three hundred years. 

So with two of three (or four?) potential players and myself leaning towards Jerusalem, I'm going to have to say that's going to be the setting of our game! I will [i]try[/i] to get an OOC up sometime tomorrow. P: