Rumors of Spring 2023

blehnert · May 4, 2023, 7:04pm

F.I.S.H. are friends, not food foes.
Lilywhite was an undercover agent, he was killed before he could reveal what he knew
Rhett is the leader of the F.I.S.H. cult and has been blending in because of his supposed propensity for bad luck with animals. That is a really good cover story…
Cleary has been seen off on her own a lot lately…
Livewell has officially opened up shop and is shelling out magical secrets to townsfolk.
A hollow heart means a hollow hive.
Pleasant Everhart has been spotted by the docks wearing a chicken suit and hoisting a sign reading “Ask me about my cloaca”. When pressed he insists this was an assignment from the Heron King.
Bets are that Annaliese will be the first citizen of Port Katherine executed by the Tiyagans for treason.
Who is that, upon the sea, the aether whipping at their coat. It’s a threat, come to pick a fight with ye, but beware the beef.
Paper bones and an inkwell heart – Annaliese rends her pages apart.
You know, Reverie hasn’t tried any of the townsfolk before… food for thought…
You have disturbed the dirt. This means you, Eldrid.
Prudence never wanted to divorce Monty, she loves him still and is intentionally trying to turn Thaddeus into Monty.
Avy have been spotted around the grounds of the memory palace drafting plans for a “Bartleby Mk. II”.
Forward she steps, amongst her subjects, her throne to ascend, the circle to mend.
Amity Harlow is leaving the navy and becoming a pirate.
Foxes in the woods are better than Foxes in the aether.
The Marinii are actually just two people who look extremely alike and decided to take the same last name as a slowburn long con
Sibella comes from a long lineage of secret nobility.
Tiyago seems to have a better relationship with their changelings than we do. Maybe it’s better if we let them stabilize this island.
Nahtrach is actually, like, three ghosts in a coat.
Memories never disappear.
Alden doesn’t actually know what he’s doing, but he’s so confident about it that he may as well.
None of Petra’s explosives actually work - they throw the bomb, wait until no one is looking, and then say “BOOM” really, really loud. We’re all just so afraid of explosions that we haven’t questioned it.
The Invocation of the Seasons does more than just uncurse the public works… And the Shadow knows it. It’s all going according to plan.
Rosie and Sibella might have to see whomst has the sharper tongue. Aether knows Rhett has been cut by both of them.
Lt. Harlow has been training her bees in semaphore
They say Queen Katherine is taking her fleet to attack Tiago, since so many of their forces are being held up in Kithria due to the war. They say she hopes to cut the head off the snake.
Step 1: Get on Stu and Lou’s good side. Steps 2-4: ??? Step 5: Profit.
In an interesting development, Clorica was seen standing on the side of the tavern, somehow finding footing halfway up the wall where there appeared to be none.
Spring and Autumn are replaced by newcomers. Winter has been cut down to size. Summer swells. Shadows rise.
Townsfolk have been finding knucklebones around the graveyard, and occasionally farther afield.
Of course Annaliese never reveals what’s under her hat. She keeps her books in there.
How much, exactly, are you sweeping under the rug, Isaac? Or, perhaps, into the aether?
All rumors are true.
Just what strings doth Sibella pull? You shall ne’er see, ‘til you are wrapped in their entirety.
Hide your kids, hide your wife, Sibella is marrying everyone!
The sailors in town haven’t been sleeping, they can still hear the screams.
Bishop’s got a bounty on his head from long, long ago.
ZED is slowly corrupting into a bird. All of his chaos and shenanigans are smokescreens to distract us.
Gideon sure has been buying a lot of clocks and watches recently.
No one can dissuade the Marinus Twins from their clever plans, but Evy has learned which of their strings to pull to keep the worst accidents from happening.
Alden is taking the Inquisitor job a bit too seriously these days… anyone slightly spooky or swishy should be wary.
Alara is run by a sentient kettle, and that’s why they all whistle
Rhett has a tattoo hidden on his lower back.
Almanzo is so good at beekeeping because his family line was (blessed? cursed?) by a Changeling long ago.
Stu and Lou are hiding under RUkiye’s skirts
There is a curse on the scions of the von Silberholtz family. None of their weddings may succeed on the first try.
I saw a road made of arcanum leading into the woods
Isaac Everhart is currently courting Daphne (for marriage, not magic, you perverts).
Isaac Everhart is currently courting Daphne (for magic, not marriage, you perverts).
What skills bought Matthias a place with the Alizé?
Grace’s lace braces you neatly in place; be aware just in case they encase you without a trace.
No citizen of Port Katherine has ever committed a crime.
James has seemed rather off lately. Could it be the ghosts of the past returning once more to haunt him?
Two by two, in coats of blue, new soldiers approach; they’ll take their due.
He may be a doctor, but that doesn’t mean he’s good at math. Don’t let Dr. Ebeneezer give you financial advice, this is a warning.
Petra has never actually been to surgery! They have a deal with the surgeons.
If only Cruim McHenry’s older brother Bhett Randolf McHenry was alive, then the war would be won. It is truly a shame Admiral Bhett R. McHenry was lost in the aether.
Llewyn is a champion underground boxer.
The ‘His Excellency’ part of ‘His Excellency Markgraf Luca da Riva Grissoni von Carrara’ isn’t a title / being formal, it is a part of their legal name.
Sibella has paid someone to kill a woman for her and she would happily do it again.
The Markisa should have asked the Zlotan nobles for their aid, rather than demand their obedience. She stung their pride when she should have stroked their egos.
ZED is slowly losing his mind to a massive creature of the deep. Don’t worry though, he’s getting a replacement.
Has it been a year and a day yet?
You cut them off, but back they grow. Perhaps you need what the aether knows.
The Zlotan homesteads should have fallen in line. We need all the resources and cooperation we can to win this war.
She may try to deny it, but I know what I saw and it was Annaliese slowly tearing pages out of a book and eating them one by one.
At her wedding, Anna will reveal her secret: that this whole time, she’s been the heir to a noble family.
Isaac Everhart has been dipping arcanum in the aether and eating it. Don’t ask me how I know, I just do.
There’s a extra-special secret bank vault installed in Jules’ arm. It’s full of neat components!
McHenry invented drinking water.
Rukiye is retiring to her comfortable estates off island. Good luck to everyone else.
Sláine keeps a few small bloodworms in a jar. Just, you know. For medicinal inquiry.
Clorica, Clorica, what have you wrought? Don’t fear, darling, twasn’t for naught. She looks and she looks and she’ll find what her heart seeks – but only once her despair reaches its peaks.
Avy is a vampire, and their romance with Rhett is ill-fated due to Rhett’s love of garlic and sunshine.
You’ve been asleep for so long.
The sinister truth behind Velenza’s studies: she wishes to metamorphose into a glorious aetherbeast like Big Stanton.
At night the fireflies whisper secrets among themselves.
Byrgen is close to achieving the Ultimate Oozehood. Congratulations!
Tea Alize secretly commands the bloodworms to drive business to the Surgeons’ Guild.
Bertrand is preparing to follow Livewell’s footsteps.
A Cleary day makes any dreary day brighter; I’ve heard such days can make a field flourish.
Egg.
Anna is the very definition of kindness… to the point of suspicion. What is she hiding?
The wind whispers sweet nothings if you would just listen.
Clarity would really like to throw tea in the Markgraf’s face.
There are no mages in Port Katherine. Certainly not dozens of mages.
“Rhett Handsome”. That’s all it says.
I fell in a hole and met
I whisper to my love, “Who’s to travel from across ye seas to play with forces not known to thee. Oh it listens for cries and pleas For not known the miracles do cost a fee. Do not fret my love, about the treachery cast upon you and me”
A year and a day? That’s child’s play. Or so it will seem, when from the forest mushrooms stream.
The grove is blooming
Some might say Stev is a swarm of bees in a trenchcoat, but have you heard Amity humming lately?
Julian is dead. Emile is a construct baked for us by the Gourmand.
Velenza spends an awful lot of time researching with Seren. Could there be more to the relationship? Doesn’t the Countess know about what happened to Seren’s last paramour?
The mechanical arm is for hiding snacks.
Lilywhite will never be forgotten.
I heard Francis still has nightmares about turkeys.
Cleary assassinated McHenry weeks ago, Anne has been puppeting the corpse around to avoid alarming the masses.
Isaac and Annaliese are planning a ghost filled wedding deep within the Aether.
The secret to Tiyagan beef brisket is actually just MSG
Vaast’s high PI score is the result of many accepted bribes. If he’s lucky we’ll all make him MP again someday.
It started with meat game, but now Vesper is dominating at all the island favorites. What will be next?
Nathrach is also afflicted by the were-curse. His animal form? A seal.
Heysel-Bright has had a few too many close calls. Will he die first, or live long enough to lose what’s left of his humanity?
If you know what you want then you go and you find it and you take it.
Lilywhite isn’t dead, he’s sleeping.
Someone is planning to sacrifice all the eggs to be found at the Festival of Dawning to summon an omelet elemental
Run little Kovatch. Run from your past. Time is a circle anyway and it’s coming for you fast.
Beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans beans
Rhett was seen by the Fae gate with blood on his lips and a fork in hand.
Vaast enjoys being sent to surgery and only runs for office to attract more assassins.
Stev is just a big bee in disguise, that’s why they wear such big hats. To hide all the bee-ness.
The eyepatch is fake. Seren has someone else’s eye in that jar.
Ravil is writing a book about their illicit romance with Scrap, much to Rukiye’s dismay.
I am the Queen now!
I don’t know which for sure, but one of the artificial limb owners in town is looking to steal back a real limb from someone in town…
Northmarch will be making a trade deal with the Van Gerrisham family upon its liberation from the Tiyagan invaders.
Metal hands hold a gentle heart.
One must waft the aether, not inhale it directly.
Tiyagans are allergic to Chepstone Hotdrink.
Lead under nails, soot in the air, metal under soil, not a moment to spare. The mines know your deepest fears and Jakob is of the mines.
Lilywhite faked his death to take up his new position as Queen Katherine’s consort.
When will Sibella tell us the secret to a happy marriage?
I hear Jacob is wanted in Kithira. Maybe that’s why he’s hiding here in Port Katherine?
I heard there’s a surgeon in town who will give you a third arm if you ask nicely.
Stev has poison running through their veins
If a Tiyagan has a battery, it must be violently subdued. This is why Tiyagans don’t use electricity.
Ravil singlehandedly killed an entire squadron of Beans’s patrols that interrupted Lilywhite’s wake.
All town council members have been replaced with Tiyagan lookalikes.
Annaliese has a secret pet that she keeps in the woods.
Isaac Everhart is a cheat and a scoundrel and you should not believe his lawyerly lies.
Miss Ornelle may be top shelf classy, but her taste in drink is not.
So many resources have been allocated to the war that even the capital is facing food shortages.
Don’t mind the holes in the ground. No really, don’t mind them.
Grace’s beautiful lacework hides coded messages within each delicate loop.
You know what they say about mechanical limbs. Add Damienne to the list of townsfolk most likely to pour a drink on themselves or others.
I spotted Lilywhite futzing with some floorboards near the back of the tavern once.
Cleary’s shoes are haunted by tame ghosts that keep her company.
A small dove bobs and weaves through the sky as a kettle of hawks swoop down upon it.
ELLSWORTH!!!
SCRAP SCRAP SCRAP SCRAP SCRAP SCRAP SCRAP SCRAP SCRAP SCRAP
One of the apothecaries will do anything for lizards. Anything. Guard your lizards carefully.
Prosperity misses publishing the paper ever so much, so she’s taken to scrawling messages on the tavern napkins and folding them into darts to throw at people to deliver the latest news and gossip.
Damienne’s been hiding the chupacabra under the cabin so Rukiye won’t find out.
Don’t let the sweet accent fool you, Gideon is a highly trained assassin from Drevis.
Ore veins of all types on the main islands are starting to run dry, new sources will need to be found!
Petra has never actually been to surgery! They have a deal with the surgeons.
A cloud of bees was seen drifting lazily among the headstones of the town graveyard. Strangely, at that time, no one could seem to find Stev Lureen…
Why does Bosun Angus wear that glorious cephalopodic buckle on his bandolier? Could he be in league with the Squid Eater?
Rosie’s siblings plot again, to steal her away from her fair friends!
This time, Ravil is getting a new leg, and here’s the kicker…
Kelso leaps before looking and cuts twice but measures once.
The bees of Port Katherine are secretly Alaran spies.
What Sláine knows could save or destroy the island. We live at her mercy, but luckily her kindness runs as deep as the currents of the aether.
Clorica is not a person turning into a goat, she is a goat turning into a person.
Rhett was seen carefully tucking a pair of mouse ears under his glorious hair…
Beef? Seems fishy to me.
Rukiye is willing to kill to lower public works maintenance costs
Annaliese does not know how to read.
Primrose Thomas has thorns, but my oh my, is she pretty.
In search of curse?
Silence reveals alTogEther too much; inVestigate the hum and the drum.
Avy loves watching other people suffer. Their favorite game to spectate is the wheel.
The hive are sending bees to assassinate Clarity.
Stev is secretly a hive of bees commanding a Revenant
Livewell is living well
Prudence is considering adding the color Light Black to her wardrobe just to spice things up a bit
Nobody has noticed yet but the Gourmand has been providing one secret ingredient to each meal. Shhhhh
The bloodworms are the veins of the previous colonists given life.
I heard if you make the Pspspssps sound, Cleary will appeary.
Francis pocketed something important, and it’s come back to haunt us all.
A drink can only be called Koshu if it comes from the Koshu valleys in Chepstone. Anything else is just knock out juice
There is smoke rising from the well
Has anyone seen what’s in Annaliese’s hat?
Stev has a secret: they’ve been dead this whole time! They are a ghost possessing a revenant who is trying to merge with the Bees…
Show skepticism of the red doctor.
Prudence needs no pre-obituary, for she shall never die; her curses shall grant her immortality.
I heard dancing will be prohibited unless you’re wearing your skirts inside out.
We may have elemental flurries and bullets, but the fastest thing on this island is actually Kelso.
Rhett actually isn’t a vampire; he likes garlic too much for that.
The humming in their bones, the crawling in their mind, they’re oh so nice and pleasant, a grand ol’ time you’ll find. But look a little deeper, into honeycomb eyes and all you’ll see is emptiness and a skull buzzing with flies.
The sweet sound of lyrical syllables combined upon a page to create a feeling within us. Words contain power, choose yours wisely, lest you accidentally summon something.
Rukiye likes Port Katherine.
Willowby’s search for a worthy boxing opponent is heading towards dangerous skies.
Miles Skylark can capture your soul in his portraits, and he uses them to increase his own lifespan.
Remy’s abysmal luck at sea has only gotten worse; if she looks at a boat, it begins to break.
The shadow cometh, the shadow goeth, like the tide against the docks of Port Katherine. But beware the high tide, and what it may bring…
Does Clorica seem to enjoy her time as a goat far too much? Maybe she wants the change to be permanent…
Does anyone know whatever happened to that glass eye?
Come and see the shadow play
Silas ate his twin in the womb. It’s true, I know. But then… what is Stev?
It wakes.
No one knows Romance like Anna knows Romance.
The Hiiiiivveeeeee
He will never be Satisfied.
All rumors are false.
BYRGEN BYRGEN BYRGEN BYRGEN
Sibella has no white flowers, and has resorted to using paint.
Eliot doesn’t mean to skip muster. He is cursed to always move in the opposite direction from large gatherings of Kithiran navalwomen.
Whatever you do, do not let Francis touch the fish. This is life or death.
Ravil is writing a book about their illicit romance with Scrap, much to Rukiye’s dismay.
Reverie has made a deal with the Mousecapone for a chance to try every kind of cheese. Now there are two rat-controlled chefs among us.
I saw Rosie emerge from the woods with an extra shadow.
Sibella is planning to destroy Cruim on sight with a single word that will shatter his ego. You should ask her what that word is…
Chicken Noodle Soup actually invented McHenry, it turns out.
The Marini have traded away their Aether Condenser. I wonder what they got in return…
Here’s the secret they don’t tell you: You can just TAKE stuff from the Tiyagans. It’s all free.
If you thought the novel was salacious, hold onto your hat for the stage play adaptation of Scrap’s many romances. It will blow you away – maybe literally.
Isaac’s bear impersonation services are higher rated and more frequently sought than his ones as a lawyer.
The tombs rise, the tombs fall. The mouth of the grave yawns for the next participant in the dance we call death.
Stev and Silas? Easygoing, nice folk. But I hear they’ve got this one sibling who’s a real tough mutton. Or was that a fine cut of meat?
If two different people ask Silas Amira about his past, they’ll receive two very slightly different answers.
Jules is hiding something in those vaults.
Isaac is only practicing law because he finds it really funny.
I saw Avy crying in the woods. Or were they laughing hysterically? Hard to tell in the dark.
Bishop has been experimenting with the Spider component in his alcohol. I’m sure there are no concerning properties involved there…
Remy wants to take over the island.
Lilywhite? I don’t recall anyone by that name.
Port Love Exclusive: Prosperity is both Dashing and Available.
Eldrid needs a hug. You can tell by the way that he is.
Eliot smells like flowers, perhaps it’s all the time he’s been spending with the Spring fae.
Prudence is nosy to distract herself from how absolutely terrified she is of the deep grave waiting for her. If she’s prying into your affairs too much, perhaps she’s closer to Death’s door than she ought to be.
If you need a true friend, look no further than Almanzo.

Verdic · May 4, 2023, 7:51pm

Thank you Ducky!