[The news as contained in this post you can take as IC knowledge. However any posts it links to are purely OOC information, unless you happen to have a good explanation why you would know about them IC.]
From the low-calorie-reporting-alternative Lola Rennt.
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Chestnuts Roasting.
Cruel and Unusual Punishments Planned for the Holiday Season?
It's that time of the year when the Yuletide Trees get lit up, when snowmen and reindeer can be seen. When every person's thought turns to how much they're getting, and from whom (and for certain guards how little they're getting, and how much it has to do with the frequency of bathing.) Your festive reporter has been ringing her little bells and has come up with some predictions for things we'll be seeing across Britannia over the coming wintry weeks.
- Irvyn announces a lavish Christmas party, where he declares his undying love for Guardswomen Kaelyn, and promptly marries her, bringing forth a new age of prosperity for Trisnic
- Various Brigands reinvent themselves as odd-job-men, and start fixing shoes, and leaving little gifts for the sad and unhappy children of Vesper.
- Baron Twothumb wakes up to be confronted by three spectres, who show him his past, present and future, in an effort to show him the error of his ways. They do so. He kills them. Life goes on.
- Several new laws passed throughout the land; people committing dangerous deeds (such as leading Dragons through town, holding powerful and dangerous weapons, etc.) find themselves tortured in appropriate manners. Said punishments abandoned after a chestnut seller short-changes his customers, and several drow ironically ask for... well, you can guess the rest.
- Mage Muldran Skully announces that he is forming another expedition, and sends word for groups of people to bring him the following ingredients: Twelve lords a-leaping, eleven ladies dancing, ten pipers piping, nine drummers drumming, eight maids a-milking, seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, five golden rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree. The Shadow Court rebels, and seals him in a small room for the next 323 years.
Your prescient reporter thanks her newly employed Tarot Reader Davina McYell for her insight into the future happenings, and guarantees all events will take place by 7th January.*
(*This guarantee is not enforceable in any court of law.)
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[b]Picture Supplement
Another in the irregular artwork series as received by the Poste this morning. It made your darling reporter feel a bit morose, actually...
Quote:
You see a sketch of a woman, sitting before a table on a comfortable looking chair, facing you. Her face is illuminated by a candle on the table in front of her and behind her the room falls into silent shadows.
Her long dark hair is gently falling upon her shoulders caressing her face.
Her features are gentle and it seems as if her face is radiating something mysterious, like if you look at someone that knows all the worlds joys and sorrows.
Her eyes are directed at the cards in front of her, though as you look at the picture the eyes seem to look at you.
The woman is wearing an elegant dark robe, embroidered with some golden magik symbols, which lets her blend with the darkened room giving her an almost spectral like feeling.
Around her neck she is wearing a necklace with some magik symbol and on her finger she wears a simple ring, as if showing she does not need more to show her beauty.
She is smiling as she looks at the card and it gives her look a kind and optimistic feeling and you notice that she looks just like Alraune Kestrel.
On the first card on the table you can make out the word "Spring" and it shows two lovers kissing each other sitting in the grass.
The second card is called "Summer" and shows a couple holding hands surrounded by a bunch of children in front of an elegant house.
The third card which the woman seemingly just has turned around is called "Autumn" and shows two old people happily sitting outside some house watching people playing with their children.
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Letters
This missive was found slipped under the office door. It wasn't addressed to the Poste - but we're not the Poste Office - so let's print it.
To the staff at Swaggers Inn
Dear All.
Reports have just come to me from various sources and I just hope they are true. You see I heard the Von?Sah were in Trinsic last night, trying to throw their weight around. Seems your little Tammy got quite upset about that and gave the mouthy drow are right thrashing. The one she beat up so easily was identified as none other than Kalannar and Moiraine?s adopted daughter. Now if the fragrant Moiraine is to believed, her family just does not do that sort of thing.
Anyway seems they did not learn their lesson the first time and had a second go. This time two females got nice and beat up by your staff. A third one, described as an ugly male with one eye, (can only be Jaraxle Von?Sah) fled like a scalded cat. Ah well cannot always have a perfect outcome.
Still it surprised me that they actually wanted to cause trouble, since their usual protectors, the Duchy guards, were nowhere to be seen. Must have surprised you too, since they never do anything unless its from under Moiraine?s skirt.
So my heartfelt congratulations to the staff involved. It made me laugh so much when I heard that I nearly had a little accident. In fact it pleased me so much that if you are holding a collection for some orphanage or other, I would only be too pleased to send you a sizeable donation.
Thank you again.
Vierna Hun?ett
2nd daughter to House Hun?ett
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What's on? Tonight - Sunday - 8:00pm - Umbra University
Tonights Lecture:
Concerning Montor.
Tuesday 5th December - 8pm - Performing Arts Centre, Jhelom
A Discussion on the
Virtue of Valor
Know of anything else happening? Let the Poste announce it to all and sundry! Or Monday, or Tuesday!