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First Week of Regula

Xaositect Surprise
Marks New Cycle
HARMONIUM dry. There is an atmosphere of great excitement
patrols are on the amongst those massed there, but all are tight-lipped
alert tonight after about what is actually happening. Inquiries into the
hundreds of Xaos- nature of the gathering are generally met with a
itects started as- giggle. Aerioth, a spokesperson for the Godsmen
sembling in the was able to confirm that the Believers in the Source
Lower Ward, out- have received an extremely large but undisclosable
side the Great Foun- sum of money from the Xaositects for a special

Rule of Threes Rolls

project.
So far, the assembly has been peaceful, but
Harmonium patrols remain on standby to deal with

Through Hive Ward

any possible trouble. The problem with Xaosmen is
that you never know what to expect, Patrol Leader
Shorrek told us.
The project is thought to be part of the
FOR THE PAST several days, started rattlin their swords and Xaositects traditional celebration of the New Cycle.
reports have been surfacing from the flappin their bone boxes about As always, the exact nature of the project remains a
Hive Ward that describe teams of scraggin me til I told them I was late closely guarded secret. Last year, Xaositects mages
Hardheads, Guvners and Red Death for a meeting with some Tanarri painted the City Barracks with illusions to give the
roaming streets of the slum. customers. They let me alone after impression the Harmoniums Headquarters were
Independent confirmation of this chant that. Lok said he had no idea why built of chaos-stuff from Limbo. Factol Sarin was not
from several sources interviewed in they stopped him but said he would amused.
the Weary Spirit Infirmary indicate keep his sword loose in [his] (ta)
that members the aforementioned scabbard for awhile.

Attention!
factions have accosted berks on the Another source, who requested to
street around anti-peak asking leading remain anonymous, told of spying
and inflammatory questions about teams of bashers in threes system-

Cullers
these bashers faction ties as well as atically scraggin, trying and executing
specific questions about particular berks in streets of the Cage. Though
beings that might have been seen this situation has yet to be confirmed
recently in the Hive Ward. by our sources, chant of bashers being

Bautol Lok, a githzerai trader
doing business in the Ward said he was
confronted on the way to meeting with
some customers on Charnel Row.
When I told them I dont belong to no
addle-coved faction they looked at me
really peery-like and the Hardhead-
type accused me of bein a rabble-
rousing Indep, Lok said. Then they
wanted for
mysteriously lost from their kips and
cases has been circulating for the past
week. Reporters from SIGIS, attempt-
ing to question Harmonium high-up
and public official Tonat Shar, were
turned away from the Barracks with
word that the Factioneer was too
busy to answer questions about the Must be literate and on the case
situation. (sk)

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Tanarri Seize Come and experience the

Portal Stones
ultimate in celebration:
An entertainment extravaganza
to usher in the New Cycle.
Be warned - if you miss this party
It wont miss you, berk!
IN A SEEMINGLY monu- 20 to 30 stones nigh taller than a Neither of the nycaloths were
How to Find Us: Follow the music and trail of
mental move, Tanarri forces Gelugon set in a circle 60 yards prepared to comment on how
debauchery!
grabbed control of the hotly across. Lugh was ap-parently long they thought the Tanarri
Attractions include: Alzor the Gehennan dretch-
contested hill in Othrys known struck by the resem-blance of might control the hill or what
swallower, the Lower Planar Circus, the Festival of
as the Stones of Draetilus. the Stones to Celtic circles hed theyd do now they had it, but
Sixteen Mephits, Erasmus the two-headed silver
Although located in one of the seen in Tir Na Og (Outlands). both of the loths said theyd
dragon, the Abyssal Roulette room, Ordris the
most inhospitable swamps in Of the battle itself, SIGIS signed up with the Baatezu to
Pandemonian Bagpipe player, beverages and
the multiverse, the Draetilus cullers found few fiends willing fight in Othrys for some
delicacies to suit all exotic tastes (even Krynnish
stones have remained one of or able to spill the chant on any stellar jink.
clueless!)
the most coveted prizes in the part of the conflict. However, In local news, chant of the
Admission: 5 stingers (free to Sensates and the
Blood War. These stones two nycaloths visiting the Lower potential use of the Chaos
clergy of Pan and Lliira).
reportedly act as powerful Ward said they had the chant on ships in the battle touched off
(jw)
portals to numerous realms and the matter from Tanarri bashers a brawl in the Lower Ward
burgs throughout
verse. Governor Tenemus Al
the multi- come
According
straight
to
from
these
Carceri.
berks, a
late this afternoon. Apparent-
ly some Doomguard bubbers
Stop Press
Karak, second librarian of the succubus named Darkwing were taunting a Hardhead Tanarri Seize Xaositect Surprise
Vault of Knowledge,
SIGIS that historical records
told slipped the blinds on the Baatezu
with a band of alu-fiends and
patrol with slurred shouts of
Get out o town! The ships is Portal Stones Marks New Cycle
indicate the stones open cambions mounted on Carceri comin down! Several mem- SHORTLY BEFORE this THE EVER INCREASING
conduits to strategic places in sleds. bers of the factions were issue of SIGIS went to press, throngs of Xaositects gathered
Mungoth (on the 3rd layer of Before the sods could cough subsequently scragged and new chant of the Blood War around the Great Foundry
Gehenna), the Prime and even phlegm, the Tanarri bashers tossed in the Barracks for battle leaked to SIGIS. Little seem to be undertaking some
onto the Cage itself. busted 3 or 4 portals letting in disorderly conduct. The more than 48 hours after the kind of construction work. At
There are no records [in the hundreds of fiends, said one of exaggerated behaviour of the taking of the Stones, the this very moment, huge girders
Vault of Knowledge] that the nycaloths. Once the Tanarri Doomguard bashers is no Tanarri forces have relin- are being manoeuvred out of
reveal the dark of the creation had the hill, they barraged the doubt attributable to the bad quished it under a massive the foundry and are being used
or the creators of the Stones, Baatezu with powerful magic press the Ships of Chaos have press of Baatezu forces allied to erect some kind of massive
said Al Karak. Really the only disrupting their close formations received over the past year. with yugoloth mercenaries. scaffolding. With this number
direct chant I could uncover and sent them reeling back into Publicised doubts as to the SIGIS culler Daaras Intwood of Chaosmen on the job, the
comes from the journal of a the swamps. Theres even chant war machines effectiveness sent word direct from the scene scaffolding is being erected as
planewalking cutter named that the Tanarri even used the have been a sore point to of a vicious battle in progress fast as girders can be pro-
Lugh Lightfoot who visited fabled Ships of Chaos to defeat faction members whove at the site with neither side in duced.
the site as a mercenary with a the Baatezu forces and protect taken a lot of verbal abuse for control. Contrary to previous Harmonium patrols remain on
Loth company over 350 years the hill. If true, this may be one whats been termed an addle- information, Intwood saw no the alert, but are baffled once
ago. In one entry, Lugh writes of the first known field tests of coved fiasco. sign of Ships of Chaos or the again by the behaviour of the
of a battle over a circle made of the controversial war engines. (sk) reported band of infiltrators. Xaositects.
(sk) (ta)

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