In the news: Sawyen, Suenth, Meschen, places/Kingdom of Binneth, places/Orc Lands, places/Kingdom of Hawkthorne, npcs/Rex Sauvage, Desna
Unseen and Unheard
Changelings remain quiet during death cloud panic
With closed borders and tight lips. Part of the stolen land that once belonged to the proud nation of Squiyles is silent.
Their silence began over a month ago when they declared themselves a ruling power. Since that declaration there has been no word.
Now during these trying times, with the impending death cloud all we here is the same.
Silence.
All trade has also ceased since the initial declaration. What does this mean for those who are migrating west toward those closed borders?
Swaths of people with nowhere to go are moving west away from the ravages of the miasmic cloud. What will happen when they arrive in land that is no forbidden to be on?
Only time will tell.
Miasmic Cloud Spreading Fast
Evacuation
Any and all! You must get out! and fast!
Folks! Seek safe territory! the cloud has swallowed the eastern portions of Binneth, the orclands, and Hawkthorne!
Underground bunkers are being constructed as initial tests suggest that the cloud has difficulty penetrating the soil.
Makeshift ventilation units are being cobbled together with makeshift mechanical and magic ferver.
It’s messy out there, governments are opening borders, then closing borders. Announcements are being made on how to handle the impending cloud that differ from day to day and hour to hour.
Get out! Go! Stop reading this! for the love of Desna get the hell to safety!
Death Cloud
Miasmic cloud swallowing up land and moving fast
From the shores of Sawyen and Suenth a green cloud of deathly energy is eminating outward. Each day observers are noticing it reaches further and further. Reports of many ocean vessels not returning from the ara as well.
“There was a big ol’ green light.. and then just bones were thar after my brother jumped throu’it” Says Buckley. a fisherman who awoke to see the cloud creeping toward the vessel he was crewing on.
We received multiple reports of pulsing bright spots of energy in the distance in the cloud. No one that we know of has entered the cloud successfully that we know of.
Caption: Artist’s rendition of the miasmic death cloud
Forgotten Town Dies to Miasma
Lost to Time
Isolated town meets outsiders, refuses to evacuate
During the evacuations of surviving portions of Suenth and Sawyen. Small Islands surrounding the countries needed to be evacuated as well.
a small mountain village calling themselves Meschen was discovered. The party of volunteers struggled with the locals to get them to understand the threat that was heading toward them. It was to no avail.
The following was stated by the leader of the mission:
“They showered us with a feast of potatoes…
We told them there wasn’t much time and it wasn’t time for french fries or potato salad.”
“Their culture was tied to the mountain. They lived here and grew up here. They had only seen one group of newcomers before us”
“When we tried to describe what was heading toward them they had no concept of what we were telling them.
Short of forcefully capturing them and binding them to remove them from the island we were out of options.
We left them to their fate, they did however gift many gifts from their town.”
Caption: Artist’s rendition of the attempted rescue of the lost town of Meschen
Swashbuckler Story Tellers
Rugby’s Gazette needs a new field journalist
Amidst the terror and torment that afflicts this world on the daily. We know there are travellers with tales to spill.
With the disappearance of our dearest and most respected journalist Rex Sauvage, a hole has been left here at the gazette.
Will you be the one to fill our hole?
Can you dash through flames and brighted the hearts of our readers?
Do you seek thrills and make the tales that bards weave into song for centuries?
Are you a dashing handsome explorer who needs a soapbox?
The readers at Rugbys Gazette need your talent!
Show it off, we pay very well for good quality submissions.
Ad: Community And Private Miasmic Cloud Fallout Shelters!
Caption: Lee’s Impending Doom Solutions — Located in Yosari, Kaku, Kingdom of Gaithiyre
Canon facts
- Published by Rugby’s Roaming Gazette, est. 3865, out of Stogath, Stogath Isle, Western Territories.
- This issue dated JULY 4 4885.
- The nation of Squiyles declared itself a ruling power roughly a month before this issue, closed its borders, and has issued no further word since; all trade with it has ceased.
- A miasmic “death cloud” — a green cloud of deathly energy — is spreading outward from the shores of Sawyen and Suenth, swallowing eastern portions of Binneth, the orclands, and Hawkthorne.
- Ocean vessels near the cloud have failed to return; a fisherman named Buckley reports witnessing a green light and his brother reduced to bones after jumping through it.
- Governments are constructing underground bunkers as shelter, since the cloud reportedly has difficulty penetrating soil; ventilation units are being improvised with combined mechanical and magical means.
- A small mountain village called Meschen, isolated and previously having met only one other group of outsiders, was discovered during evacuations of Suenth/Sawyen’s surrounding islands; its people refused to believe in or evacuate from the miasmic threat and were left behind, after gifting the rescue party goods.
- The Gazette’s previous field journalist, Rex Sauvage, has disappeared; the paper is soliciting a new field journalist/storyteller.
- Advertisement: “Lee’s Impending Doom Solutions,” a miasmic cloud fallout shelter business (ventilation, water, food, communication), located in Yosari, Kaku, Kingdom of Gaithiyre.
- Rumour: multiple reports describe pulsing bright spots of energy visible within the cloud at a distance; no one is known to have entered the cloud and returned.