In the news: npcs/Rex Sauvage, places/Howling Gulf, Cacoal, factions/The Changeling Nation, places/Isle of Death, npcs/Than’ Targuhn, Sawyen, Suenth
NO CORPSE IS SAFE
Grave robbings on the rise!
With eyes looking toward the war, and men away from home and country, fighting dearly for their kingdom. Graves are being ransacked.
That’s right folks, vile graverobber’s seizing the opportunity to steal Nana’s necklace from her resting corpse… Despicable.
So guard your family plots everybody. I for one don’t want to see what time has done to old uncle Earl after his body is left out in the hot sun the next morning, just so a few opportunists can pry his gold teeth from his face.
Crime of all sorts has been on the rise since the draft, One such gang has been gaining traction in the inner city circles. They go by the name the “Dodgers” as they all seem to be draft dodgers cashing in on the lack of civil security as of late.
Lock your doors, Hide your wives.
MAGIC WHIRLPOOLS IN GULF
STILL MISSING
Our dear Rex Sauvage is missing
A couple issues back, we sent out a missing persons ad for our beloved Rex Sauvage, who’s tales of adventure excite and amuse us all. Rex has been a staple submitter here at the paper for many years.
It is very out of character for him to just up and disappear like that. Unfortunately for our scrying attempts, Rex wears an amulet that helps to protect him from location detection and scrying. Our efforts to locate him magically have proved to be fruitless.
If the unthinkable has happened, and we have lost our dear Rex, as is the case sometimes with the most daring of adventurers, we would all like to know how.
If anyone has any information regarding his whereabouts, please come forward. His wife and children are worried sick about him.
MAGICAL DEATH TORANDOES
Which side did they come from!? Who’s in control?
Spotted late last night, a pair of confirmed magical water spouts have been seen forming in the center of the gulf. They are gaining in size and just spiraling about each other.
No one seems to know who is in control! Who is the magical manufacturuer of these watery death bringers??
They can be seen only from some scouting ships who dare to get close enough. but have soared to the whopping size of 300 feet tall and 50 feet wide already. Massive amounts of water in the sky.
Many worry that these beasts will keep growing and form into some sort of magical hurricane attack
DECLARE THEIR COUNTRY
Doppelgangers Come out of the shadows
Amidst the current war torn countryside, news has broken that the entire country of Cacoal has been overrun, overtaken, and now fully being controlled by Doppelgangers.
The Leaders of the doppelgangers just want their country to be recognized as any other nation. This comes as a shock for many. As the slow and roguelike invasion must have costed many lives, many of which are unaccounted for since entry to the country from outsiders is no longer permitted.
“You can’t just steal an entire country, and expect everyone to just be okay with it!” Says Gerard Twombly a man who used to live in Cacoal. “It’s fucking ridiculous is what it is.” “I say we burn the whole damn country to the ground and start again, God damn doppelgangers.”
King Stroth has made no statement regarding the self declared “Changeling Nation”
LAYS WASTE TO ISLAND
“It was a horrifying being with a baren skull and no skin.”
It was a regular night of fishing for Than’ Targuhn when he saw a figure in the sky followed by what must have been a dozen or so others.
A green light flashed and noxious smoke started billowing forth from the figure.
FLESHLESS HORROR
“I barely escaped with my life. the screams, still howling in my brain…”
It is a popular spot for rare large monstrous fish, just East of Sawyen before getting to the Monstrous nation of Suenth.
However few venture into the mysterious island, as huge monsters and dinosaurs are known to roam there.
Locals have now been referring to the island as the ‘Isle of Death’
Caption: Artist’s rendition of the horror
Ad: Golem’s Galore
One stop shop for autonomous animated slaves!
Caption: City of Veset, Lausia, Kingdom of Hawkthorne
Canon facts
- This issue of Rugby’s Roaming Gazette is published in Conopimalis, Erepec, Kingdom of Squiyles; masthead dated MAY 8 4885; paper established EST 3865.
- Graverobbing is on the rise; a gang called the “Dodgers” (draft dodgers) is gaining traction in inner city circles amid wartime civil security shortages.
- Rex Sauvage, a longtime adventure-story submitter to the Gazette, has been missing since a prior issue; he wears an amulet that blocks location detection and scrying, which has frustrated efforts to find him. He has a wife and children.
- Two magical waterspouts (“Magical Death Tornadoes”) have appeared in the gulf, growing to roughly 300 feet tall and 50 feet wide, with unknown origin/control; feared to be forming into a magical hurricane.
- The country of Cacoal has been overrun and is now controlled by doppelgangers, who have declared it a self-styled “Changeling Nation” and seek recognition as a nation; outsider entry is no longer permitted. Gerard Twombly is a former Cacoal resident quoted objecting to the takeover. King Stroth has made no official statement.
- Than’ Targuhn, a fisherman, witnessed a skeletal, skinless flying horror accompanied by roughly a dozen others, with a green light and noxious smoke, near an island east of Sawyen, before the Monstrous nation of Suenth; the area is a popular spot for rare large monstrous fish. Locals now call the island the “Isle of Death” due to monsters and dinosaurs known to roam there.
- Advertisement: “Golem’s Galore,” billed as a “one stop shop for autonomous animated slaves,” with artwork captioned as depicting the City of Veset, Lausia, Kingdom of Hawkthorne.