Rumors of Winter, 1718

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  • Pleasant Everhart’s past is about to catch up with him.

  • The Everhart crew are undercover agents of the crown, seeking out illicit magic practitioners.

  • When in doubt of all else, you can trust Cleary at your back.

  • The difference in quality between the people of Tojima and Drevnia could not be better demonstrated than with the example of the Tojiman boxing champion being beaten by an upstart Drevnian with no previous boxing history

  • Julien Jr just wants a hug from their dad but is having a hard time showing it

  • Prudence declared that all members of Widower’s Club may only drink their tea black in a pink teacup.

  • The arcanum fox had several children after its transformation

  • Damienne’s breeding program is a failure because all the aetherhogs are gay

  • There are earth elementals being kept in a paddock just outside town

  • During Remembrance, it is possible to defeat revenants by identifying who they were when they were alive.

  • Hedgehog Milk is inherently safe to drink, no matter the state of the Hedgehog.

  • People around the island claim they have heard words within Julien Jr.'s gurgling…

  • The tavern pantry has recently exhibited a worrying tendency to giggle maniacally.

  • The orphans from Drevnia are actually Captain Stanton’s many bastard children

  • Amity Harlow’s secret admirer is Cleary, but shhh it’s a secret

  • A cold front will be blowing in Sunday morning.

  • Sloane Cleary was bitten by a cobra and after five days of excruciating pain… the cobra died.

  • Be wary of any who shed blood & lay on the cursed ground during the ritual we failed to stop. They are coming.

  • Lily Ferris returned her militia officer commission to the town council so that they might use it elsewhere

  • The photos taken at the Carnival of Souls were copied by the fae to put bounties on the colonists.

  • Czesława Alizé is the only true battle-ready surgeon.

  • The Handsomest Scholar shall be decided by who can carry the most books while reciting poetry.

  • The Handsomest Surgeon competed with another in secret and lost. However the individual who won and the observer agreed to keep it a secret.

  • FISH BOY! FISH BOY! FISH BOY! FISH BOY! FISH BOY!

  • The contest for most attractive scholar will involve rope, hedgehogs, and miniature carriages.

  • Due to the amount of arcanum the fae used when making Waxillium, he could be considered a greater elemental

  • A notable politician has been heard quoting talking points of the Round Aether Society.

  • The plague is an act of biological terrorism being carried out by Tiyago

  • A warehouse on the docks recently burned down in a surprise explosion.

  • Strange noises have been heard from that spooky house straddling the river.

  • Julian Jr has been seen along the coast.

  • There’s something living under the library, and whatever it is, it’s highly educated.

  • Damienne Fawkes has A LOT of aetherhog milk that she’d like to put in A LOT of people’s food.

  • Scáthach Alizé has a richer past than any of us know.

  • Hedgehog acupuncture will cure curses.

  • Bees are the descendants of the Fae

  • A sufficiently powerful elemental, when defeated, will split into two smaller identical versions of itself until the resources that made the original elemental are exhausted.

  • In the depths of Winter’s cold embrace, do not despair, Spring too shall come.

  • You can get arcanum laced sap from the trees of Port Katherine

  • Countess Annaliese von Silberholz has been interviewing those touched by arcane energies. Highly improper for one of her station!

  • As the world is built upon giant hedgehogs, if you were to grind one up, you would get arcanum dust

  • James Corvid is looking to challenge The Raven to a duel for ownership of his Title.

  • The season has been uncharacteristically warm so far.

  • Prudence Joy Mulligan has become increasingly enthusiastic about Widower’s Club…

  • Pleasant Everhart can almost always be found at the library. Maybe he and Livewell are good friends?

  • The Law Offices of Isaac Everhart are offering several new services of wildly differing natures.

  • Pleasant has been teaching Zed how to read. That is why they spend so much time together in the library.

  • Dame Vaast has been overheard in the bathhouse practicing lines from the latest popular dramas.

  • The twins have been hovering around an uncharacteristically quiet Ravil

  • The Widower’s Club has vowed to lay curses on the spirits on anyone who wears a black veil with no claim on it.

  • Count Kleis is the epitome of class.

  • One of the ships owned by Gustav, Gustav and Gustav might be carrying smuggled goods.

  • During the eve of remembrance, a certain species of bird’s can be found laying their eggs by the moonlight

  • Those whose research causes the town considerable grief should consider making a generous donation to the Town Council.

  • Lord Kleis has been hanging about the Engineer’s Guild and admiring the well-crafted sprockets.

  • That component doesn’t do what you think it does.

  • Lily Ferris has taken to drinking in the dockside taverns, cavorting with all manner of persons

  • Ravil is the most steadfast person in Port Katherine. Do not hesitate to trust them.

  • Arcane is a deadly pharmaceutical property.

  • Teodora seems especially interested in the New Year’s Eve party

  • Nothing strange at all is happening in Port Katherine.

  • The attempt on our MP’s life has left the town scarred… but our resolve has never been stronger.

  • The barbaroi are immune to the plague.

  • Winter is Coming

  • The Soames family is clearly unfit to host any kind of party, what with Radumil’s drinking habit. Anton Gustav is a much better candidate.

  • So why is Matthias Alize out at all hours of the night?

  • Vaast Verenberg would sooner see Port Katherine burn to ashes than negotiate with the Fae.

  • Pirates taste delicious when licked.

  • Auntie’s Amazing Elixirs are good for the health and good for the wealth.

  • If you see a man with no shadow, you’re already dead.

  • Annaliese hates science and has been feeding the town misinformation for an entire year.

  • The Engineers’ Guild is headed for potentially major changes.

  • Lady Rukia has begun a Vigorous exercise regimen in preparation for the solstice.

  • Boatswain Alabaster cares so much about the Barbaroi because he has an Aether Mutation he keeps hidden under his clothes.

  • The only person going grey faster than Countess Annaliese is her bodyguard.

  • People have reported having hallucinations in the forests on the lands of Montgomery Lenadora.

  • The Doctor’s Relief Society is still seeking volunteers to help cure the plague.

  • Lenadora Montgomery has quietly unlocked the secrets of the Arcane. He is more than meets the eye.

  • Many folks around the Gustav Gustav and Gustav offices seem to know Volt Volareth

  • The Most Handsome Surgeon in all of Port Katherine has been seeking a change (one which may or may not result in auto-elective-surgery).

  • Serendipity Locke has been slipping some "suggestive" components into her fancy potions.

  • Auntie Verenberg has been writing all manner of letters.

  • Bertrand Steinmann wears gloves to cover his sticky fingers.

  • There are several high level ghosts that hide and spy on the colony acting as a gossipy Kithirian chorus

  • M Marinus Upgrades and Repairs offer Experimental Solutions for Experimental Problems

  • Muggers cannot show you a cannon.

  • The von Silberholtz family is constantly trying to figure out what Annaliese is up to so they can forbid it.

  • The frost this Remembrance is too early, even for this far out near the Ring.

  • A fashion show is coming to Port Katherine next Souls

  • Lilywhite has picked up whistling of late. The tune seems unfamiliar

  • Boatswain Jules Alabaster is looking for Political endorsement to help advance his rank.

  • Countess Montgomery may well be a spy for the enemies of Port Katherine.

  • If the Fae knows the land and the land knows the Fae, how does the land come to know us?

  • Magnus Amira is a secret admirer.

  • Port Katherine has been seeing a steady increase in the number of Spiritualists in town.

  • There have been eerie lights seen near where Terrick fell during Fire.

  • The tavern has been quiet of late, with both Ravil and Cleary strangely silent

  • The Round Aether Society is half-right. Pan Aetherium is round, but in the wrong spatial dimensions for humans to observe anything but the flat world we see.

  • It’s so hard to find good domestic help in Port Katherine lately.

  • Bertrand is in fact heir to Queen Katherine herself and has been sent to Port Katherine for the safety of the kingdom

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