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Doomguard and Dustmen Face-Off SIGIL (LOWER WARD)—After Weeks of Continuing and Detained by Their Comrades, Most of Them the Tentative Balance of the Cage S.I.G.I.S SIGIL’S INDEPENDENT GLOBAL INFORMATION SERVICE ISSUE 21 YEAR 1PRICE: 2 STINGERS FIRST WEEK OF SAVORUS NEWSCHANT Doomguard and Dustmen Face-off SIGIL (LOWER WARD)—After weeks of continuing and detained by their comrades, most of them the tentative balance of the Cage. The Doomguard battle, both in the streets and in the Hall of high-up factioneers. may want to bring it all down, but we will bring it Speakers, the conflict between the Doomguard and Ely Cromlich stepped forward and accused down by ourselves, in our own time.—Sir Twist” the Dustmen came to a heated climax last night as those scragged of being subversive Anarchist The Dustmen, true to their policy of indif- the two once-friendly factions discovered the insti- agents, and together the Dead and the ference failed to comment in time for this printing. gators of this series of gruesome encounters. Doomguard marched their prisoners down to the With all the worry over the conspiracy of But first, a little background. Several weeks Prison for the Red Death to deal with. Naturally, the Yugoloths, have we forgotten that there are ago, a group of drunken Sinkers approached the there were incidental knifings along the way, but other subversive agents at work? Ely Cromlich Mortuary and taunted the Dustmen guards there. what can you expect from two factions dedicated apparently had enough evidence to convince the Apparently, these guards took great offence to this to death and decay? Red Death that Anarchists had been at work in his and had the three or four intruders properly deci- Later, the Doomguard issued the following faction, as well as within the Doomguard. The mated. This sparked outrage from the Armoury, press release to SIGIS, with assurances that the incidents with these factions, and the terror of the and several groups of vigilantes on both sides went Tempus Sigilian (aka. the Bonebox Riddler) would “Cadre”, remind us that we have our own brand of to war in the streets of the Cage. In particular, the not be handed a copy. ‘Loths within our very own city: the Revolutionary corpses of Sinkers were left outside the Armoury “To the esteemed citizens of Sigil. The Lady League. each morning. Not a pretty sight. Or smell, for Pentar would like to offer her apologies to those Although our burg may be free of Sinker that matter. caught in the conflict between the Dustmen and the corpses for now, who knows when something may This continued on until last night, when Doomguard. happen again? It will take months for this wound a large group of Sinkers and Dustmen faced each “While this may seem out of character for to completely heal over, and there’s no guarantee other down in a large avenue in the Lower Ward. one so devoted to Chaos, it is evident that the free- that the Sinkers and the Dead are completely rec- The spokespersons and several other high-ups for all was brought about by Anarchist spies that onciled. But one can always hope. from each faction were present. At almost pre- sought to undermine a fairly stable relationship in —Sco’rut Morthus, SIGIS culler (st) cisely the same instant, a call of “Charge!” emanated from both sides of the stand-off. This DITORIAL cry came from several members, who were later E noted as those who generally led the raids on the opposing faction. These were promptly scragged SIGIS Awarded Substantial Damage from Harmonium WHAT’S WITH THE NEW LOOK?—In the start of quality Arborean paper to print it on! Who says an Savorous, the first month of the Sensate festival ill wind blows no good? calendar, we at SIGIS are delighted to bring you We’re also pleased to announce, beginning a limited-edition gold-leaf engraved edition of our this issue, the inclusion of a brand new section newspaper. How are we affording such extrava- entitled the “Faction Reaction”. In this section, we gance? You’ll remember the recent unjust banning ask all the various factions (and as many sects as of our esteemed organisation, I am sure. Following we can track down) to give us their opinions on the unsuccessful attempt of the Harmonium to some of the most important issues of our times. silence our voices, and the outcry of our readers at We hope you will find this section as revealing and such blatantly hard-headed tactics, SIGIS has suc- enlightening as we have. cessfully won its case before the Fraternity of We cannot promise to give the chant from Order to sue the Harmonium for the wrongful every faction in every issue, but a solid represen- arrest of many members of staff and loss of earn- tation is assured. And all those factions that don’t ings (thanks, Sly Nye!) respond are missing out on an excellent forum in SIGIS was awarded the costs of producing which to express their views and beliefs. Enjoy, Scragged this issue of the newspaper. So it’s thanks to and let us know what you think! Doomguard Impersonator Factol Sarin and the boys in pink who have so gen- Jerryla Perroli, Editor in Chief erously paid for gold-embossed lettering and high- (sk&jw) COPYRIGHT 1998 BY Scott Kelley and Jon Winter; ARTWORK COPYRIGHT 1998 BY Herbert Urban and Scott Kelley; SUBMISSIONS BY Scott Kelley, Jon Winter, Sir David Byrne o' Twist, T, Heinz Hofbauer, Matt Pinquoch, Gary Dawkins, Ragboy, Greg Jensen, Sianus Karathorn, Sir Twist, Nathan Letsinger, Richard Gant, Pirvan, Mooney, Jason Ng, Chris Visser, Ragboy, James O' Rance, Tom Bubul, and Galzion DISCLAIMER NOTE: All of the published Planescape characters, character names, symbols and distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks owned by TSR, Inc. All other material here is original and coprygiht 1998 by the given author where noted. Should there be given no auther the article is copyrighted by the editors Jon Winter and Scott KelleyNone of this is endorsed by TSR and none of it is in any way “official”. This material is for personal use and may not be published, altered, redistributed or posted on News Groups, Mailing Lists, Web Pages, FTP Sites ot Bulletin Boards without the permission of the author. The original SIGIS in HTML format is hosted at http://www.mimir.net/ a site maintained by Jon Winter. SIGIL INDEPENDENT GLOBAL INFORMATION SERVICE NEWSCHANT Slaadi Chaos Tromp Hits Blinds Again! SIGIL—The ill-fated and much talked-about neared the limits of Sigil they showed no sign of lanned cubes are well pleased to berk the sodding Slaadi Chaos Tromp, apparently mirroring the slowing down, until the horde crashed into, and leathery Slaadi into jinking off the SigilCage”, early Modron March around the Great Ring, took out the other side of, the famous Edge Tavern, before being lost in the heaving crowds. a turn for the blinds this week. As previously which boasts views of the nothingness beyond As any planewalker worth his salt knows, reported [SIGIS 20] the slaad overran the Great Sigil’s boundaries. Patrons stood back, applauded leaping off the edge of Sigil is a perilous venture at Bazaar, causing much chaos and killing several and watched the show as more than two hundred best. If the slaad horde is ever seen again, it could unlucky bystanders. While the initial horde was slaadi smashed through the glassteel windows and turn up on any plane in the Multiverse, at any dispersed by Harmonium guards the following day leapt into the void beyond. time. a Guvner spokesperson asked SIGIS readers using planar mancatchers and spells of compulsive After the last slaad had vanished, the “Lady to look out for a couple of hundred hungry and order and calm chaos, the slaad band, numbering of Pain” settled in the tavern, wobbled, and col- probably embarrassed frog-fiends, and report any some 300 individuals of all colours, later lapsed onto the floor. Underneath the robes suspicious bands of slaadi to the Courthouse. This regrouped in the Hive. It is suspected that some patrons found two rogue modrons, chuckling ami- culler wonders whether they’ll bother bringing irresponsible Xaositects and Anarchists helped to ably. To a round of applause, the modrons were them to trial. Knowing the Guvners, they proba- gather the frog-fiends together, before showing given free drinks and the freedom of the Lady’s bly will try… them the location of a previously-unknown portal Ward. One of the cutters, one Ylem, said “We —by Tromp Correspondent Laxuli Phae (jw) which led straight from the depths of the Hive to the Guvner Courthouse. NEWSCHANT Imagine the surprise of the Eye of Justice and defendant (against charges of Disruptive Behaviour in a Court of Law) Sly Nye, when over one hundred ravenous slaad poured into the visi- Death of a Town tors’ gallery through this portal. The gallery, OUTLANDS (TOWN OF FAIRHAVEN)—A contact of Fairhaven from which I heard a child’s voice. I ran designed for no more than thirty humanoids, mine informed me of a possible disturbance in the to the kip to only to hear the voice go silent. Once groaned loudly and collapsed, squashing three town of Fairhaven about two to three days ride inside, I came on a child under a bed, eyes wide Harmonium guards stationed at the back of the from Ecstasy, (this is the Outlands bashers, so and frightened, but the little one (a human around courtroom. remember this could be any days ride). Sensing six years of age) was still alive. The child reacted In the confusion, the Eye of Justice disinte- that this disturbance was connected to my earlier to my dark appearance and tried to flee, but I cast grated several slaad, and paralysed half a dozen investigations, I used a portal I knew going to a spell that put him gently to sleep.
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