Rumors of Fall, 1718

  • Hedgehogs are inherently infused with arcanum. Drink the milk at your own risk.
  • Livewell Birkett can mix spirits to rival Serendipity’s, but it’s near impossible to get him to do it.
  • Wherever the Marinus twins go, science is sure to follow
  • There have been whispers around town that the Widower’s Club is “actively recruiting members”, whatever that means…
  • Gustav, Gustav and Gustav are all secretly one man, named Harold.
  • Auntie is surely the most accomplished Apothecary in town
  • The aether tainted who participated in the fight against Terrick are finding some side effects to the additional energies they took in in order to survive. Who knows what they can do now?
  • Trust the Mists.
  • The Fae have been watching us through the eyes of someone in town. No, not you, Julien.
  • Tea Alize has been quite the social butterfly of late.
  • When the fey go to sleep at night, they check under the bed for Sloane Cleary.
  • The Midnight Mariner has, twice now, left their blessing upon Port Katherine.
  • Being fishy doesn’t make you a monster: making Lady Ffion MacKenna cry does.
  • A new arrival on the island will deal in secrets.
  • Yes, Amarallys is a noblewoman, but she’s overcoming it well
  • There’s talk of townspeople refusing to fight should the council not pay the average citizen for lending a hand during battle. Some have even suggested helping the pirates or the fae should they attack!
  • One of the Gustavs is Immortal
  • Inhaling crushed arcanum enhances the senses, and has no dangerous side effects whatsoever.
  • If you defeat a Fae in a board game, they have to grant you a wish.
  • Before he took up swordsmanship, James Corvid trained messenger birds.
  • ZED and Pleasant have been spending many hours together in the library
  • Say what you will about Auntie, but you can’t argue the fact that she pays her guards for her nature walks extremely well.
  • Annaliese was asking around town about hair dye. Have all those long nights of research got her going grey early?
  • The reason Isaac Everhart has been studying law is to find loopholes in the legality of magic.
  • Some stand in the light to hide their shadows
  • If you get a Fae drunk, you can trick them into answering questions.
  • There have been reports of a woman, ghostly and pale, wandering aimlessly on the beach nearest the colony. Rumor has it that those who have heard her say she is crying, though for who or what is anyone’s guess, for she wails in a language that none so far have understood.
  • Kleis von Silberboltz has been personally overseeing his mines, and possibly even taking supper with the miners.
  • The previous colonists buried a chest before they were overrun, but as to where it is and what might be in it is anyone’s guess.
  • Annaliese yearns for adventure (and for someone to share it with).
  • Connor Herrick spends much of his time on the beach, staring out into the aether
  • Ravil Ibrashev is the most dashing and romantic swain in all Kithira.
  • Rukiye has been looking absolutely exhausted recently
  • An Aethyr Whale has been heard around the waterfront, singing popular showtunes.
  • Peter Laceholder wants to buy you a drink
  • Iusepp is the most dashing hero in town.
  • Don’t trust the hedgehogs.
  • Johnathan Heysel-Bright writes and writes, but nothing ever seems to come of it
  • Arcanum Tea is good for what ails you!
  • Supposedly,one can ward off the plague by rubbing a lizard over their bare chest, as this prevents your lungs from breathing in the sickness.
  • The Fae cannot say no if you ask them out on a date
  • Livewell Birkett Lureen was seen carrying some pie to the library.
  • Pleasant Everhart has been seen in the woods under moonlight, surrounded by foxes.
  • Rather than forming an expensive militia, the crown should support an increased presence of the Navy.
  • The Round Aether Society is gaining slow but steady traction on several continents.
  • Vaast is actually a Fae masquerading as a human. The real Vaast was kidnapped shortly after his arrival on the island. Fae-Vaast is here to infiltrate Port Katherine’s Town Council – and now Parliament!
  • The militia is short on eligible leaders after the latest round of military promotions
  • Magnus Amira is a gentleman.
  • The election was rigged
  • Dame Vaast is secretly one of the Alize family, not, as he claims, the von Silberhotlz’s.
  • Pleasant Everhart is looking for some honest work.
  • Amity Harlow has a secret admirer.
  • Arcanum really is the corpses of Fae
  • ‘Scrap’ Alizé has uncanny luck in carnival games.
  • Aether isn’t corruption; it’s raw, uncontrolled magic
  • Scarlett Edith Kelley is a Fae of Aether
  • Czeslawa used to swear by the hospital as a quiet place to take a nap during slow days, but not anymore
  • Waxillium Wick is just a candle brought to life by the fae.
  • Port Katherine itself is alive. Miners claim that they can feel the earth breathing while they work underground.
  • The Plague has been engineered by the Unifiers to push forward their dark agenda.
  • The place the Fae now live echoes our own realm, for better or worse.
  • Clarity Soames has made it onto numerous "bed, wed, dead" lists, and has been dominating one category in particular.
  • Apparently Varyn is a pretty good guy, but you didn’t hear it from me.
  • Captain Stanton is absent far more than can be explained
  • When Sloane Cleary touches aether, it becomes Cleary-corrupted.
  • Seren’s bravery, running into danger in her bathing costume, should be rewarded. Tip her well this Festival!
  • In order to win the title from the current ‘Most Handsome,’ of any group, a contest must be undertaken before witnesses to prove who holds the right to call themselves so.
  • The hedgehog population of Port Katherine are up to something sinister.
  • Countess Augustus Stoneguard is looking to open silver and gold mines
  • Ominous chanting has been heard in the tavern kitchens.
  • Stop. Look. Think. Can you afford the enemy you’re about to make?
  • Livewell has been asking around town about near-death experiences
  • Arcanum is crystallized Aether
  • Vaast von Silberholtz is seeking solace after being rejected by a handsome surgeon.
  • Only Arcane magic can harm the Fae, or seal the Gate
  • Bertrand Steinman knows what you did.
  • Don’t stick your hand in Auntie’s basket; you don’t know where it’s been.
  • Arcanum tastes like sugar
  • Ravil is on the prowl for their next mistake.
  • There are no Arcanum Draughts in Pitball, only players that Sloane Cleary has breathed on.
  • Snorting Arcanum improves your combat strength (and gets you real high)
  • Continued openings of the gate have contaminated the soil around it further. Whatever you do, don’t let your blood mix with that soil! Especially if you have arcanum on your person.
  • Volt hoped to shame Edward from showing his face again in this colony when he spoke for him in the Town Council election.
  • Who is Kleis von Silberholtz trying to impress with his ‘local chic’? Has he succeeded?
  • Annaliese really looks exhausted lately.
  • Faint music can sometimes be heard in the woods as Autumn gets deeper
  • The Widow’s Club is secretly researching Blood Magic
  • Some of the drinks at the bar may hold hidden properties.
  • Volt Volareth pocketed the printing press money that should have gone to the Town Council this summer, and lied about it even to the other Grey Gales.
  • Annaliese von Silberholtz has no time for small talk so you’d better know some natural philosophy to woo her.
  • The Widows/Widowers of Port Katherine are actually necromancers and their spouses will come back from the dead to fight their battles!
  • Leland, although the most handsome doctor, is as much of a coward on the battlefield as any other of Port Katherine’s doctors.
  • Quan was actually working for the revenant of Emperor William
  • The Widow’s Club is in leagues with Blackheart, and are acting as spies.
  • It’s the latest fashion for your spouse to die under mysterious circumstances so you can mourn their death.
  • Hedgehogs, all the way down.
  • There is a rare plant that grows for a few days only during Souls that, when distilled and consumed, allows anyone at all to touch the incorporeal.
  • Countess Rukiye Alizé was seen reading a bawdy novel by the shore early in the morning.
  • Aether and Arcanium when mixed together properly can allow for shape shifting
  • The Islands of the Pan-Aetherium are all just quills on the back of a giant hedgehog.
  • The library received some very interesting books in the most recent shipment from home.
  • Northmarch sure sounds like an interesting place to visit!
  • Sloane Cleary can win a game of Connect 4 in only 3 moves.
  • Countess Annaliese is known for her level head and careful experimentation procedures.
  • Isadora Sobeck has been asking about lessons in firearms.
  • Ravil is the most handsome artificer.
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We are horrible gossips in this colony

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IT’S ALL TRUE

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If it’s all true, there must be some kind of aether slug in my basket. He poops diamonds.

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Oh handsome and dashing Ravil, please protect us from the Illuminati Hedehogs!