Styx Flood Touch: Within the Hive Itself
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A somewhat Reputable Newsrag published in the Undercity Sigil’s Independent Global Information Service Issue 13 Year 1 Price: 2 Stingers First Week of Narciss Harmonium Hive Plans Hit the Blinds SIGILAt a press conference faction in the Hive Ward. Shar faction offices and soldier bidder other than the basher is two days ago, Harmonium told a group of stunned cullers barracks. a high-up Heartless) our in- spokesman, Mover Four Tonat that the Harmonium has be- Harmonium patrols have vestigation also revealed that Shar revealed plans to locate a gun refitting a decrepit Hive always been the main force for the building injunction was the Slaad musing on permanent presence of the slum-house for eventual use as law and order in the disrepu- pet of Guvner factioneers and Harmoniums latest setback table Hive, Shar told the had nothing to do with the bid. assemblage. Now for the first Why is there so much time in many decades, the interest in a sodding pit of a Harmonium will work from Hive kip? Chant out of the Styx Flood Touch: within the Hive itself. This Hive Ward says the dark of the new bureau, which we call the matter centres around some Encampment, will be our facts SIGIS reported last beachhead to an island of issue about a lost Tridrone and Blood War Blamed cross-trading scum. Knights of a hidden portal near where the the post, Chaos-men and Hardhead officers were put in TORCHThreatening to pipe. The tiefer got really I clearly heard singing as he Anarchists beware! The Harm- the dead-book. engulf half the burg, the River torqued off and stung the leapt out of the tower; he onium is ready to scrag law- Its obvious, slurred a Styx flash-flooded through addle-cove with some kind o seemed to be enjoying him- breakers at all hours of peak Slaad basher quaffing bub in a Torch last week putting tail she had hiding in her self. and we wont need to run half- Hive tavern. The Modrons dozens of sods in the dead- pants. The berk started jerk- In the aftermath of the way round the Cage to do it. want that portal and theyre book and causing hundreds ing and twitching and fell off flood, it became clear that A culler from the Tempus using the Guvners to get it for more to lose their memories. into the Styx. Leatherhead many fiend corpses must have Sigilian asked where the new em. The Hardheads are just Although the marshes sur- shouldve known better than been available as canoes for the kip will be built. Shar replied, spittin screed about law and rounding the gate-town have to mess with a tiefling. addled to jump on. Hundreds, The Encampment will stand order they just want the often flooded in the past, the The most amazing chant if not thousands, of broken on the very ground where portal under their thumb. The River Styx typically confines came from witnesses who say Tanarri, Baatezu and Yugoloth three officers of the law were Fated probably figure its gotta its meandering to the Lower they spied a cutter dancing on bodies washed into the marsh recently lost. It will serve both be worth some serious jink if Planes. Therefore, the resid- the backs of two dead fiends around Torch after the Styx to honour the sacrifice of the Guvners and the Hard- ents were thoroughly surpris- floating in the river. He was receded, making grotesque, those true bloods and remind heads are squabblin over it. ed when a powerful flood of trying bloody hard to keep his driftwood sculptures that im- cross-traders that the Harm- (This surprisingly edifying con- inky black Styx waters surged balance while these bloated mediately began sinking into onium avenges its own. versation came to an abrupt out of the Hinterlands. fiends was bobbin up and the mud. This fuelled spec- However, less than a day halt when the barkeep an- The flood struck with little down in the eddies, said one ulation that the flood was a after Shars speech, the Hard- nounced bet-taking over which warning, according to local witness. Cant figure out how consequence of a particularly head proposal ran into some faction would scrag the kip.) bashers, who said they were the berk got there. Lots of fierce Blood War confrontation snags down at the City Courts. A quick trip down to the forced to claw their way up bashers standing on the in Gehenna (or possibly the It seems that several Guvners Harmoniums new case sug- rooftops were cheering the sod Hinterlands). took exception to this plan and gested that the Hardheads on as he floated past them Massive numbers of fiends found some legal grounds on werent too willing to wait for one bubber started yelling so perishing in the Styx may have which to challenge the new building permits. Construct- hard he lost his balance and fell caused the river to overflow construction. A clerk down at ion had begun in earnest and right in the Styx! its banks, or the sheer malig- the Courts told SIGIS that the red-leathered soldiers littered Most of the witnesses to this nancy of the conflict may have Harmonium may not have the streets of the Hive around amazing story thought this altered the course of the river, filed the proper paperwork in the kip keeping the riffraff at basher was just trying to keep spreading the Blood Wars evil order to secure building perm- bay while carpenters and his head up, but one cutter said off into the Outlands. If the its at the site. In fact, com- stonemasons worked their she actually saw him willingly cause truly proves to be after- mented the clerk who wished trade. Theyre building a jump on to the dead fiends shocks from the Blood War, to remain anonymous, chant bloody fortress!, remarked a Char Downes, from safety! I swear by the Torch may be in for a lot more is that another buyer, a Fated bariaur standing nearby. prepared for more trouble her majesty, the Maiden of trouble in the near future. basher, already made a strong Whatever dark hides behind Pain herself, this addle-cove Chant is that the War has es- bid for the property. From those newly thickened walls, buildings, over rocks and even jumpedoutofatowerrighton calated to previously unseen what Ive skegged, I think the it seems that the Harmonium, around each other to avoid to the deaders, said Solla levels after recent prisoner Hard-heads are going to have at least, is willing to risk the getting lost. Berks were going Becken, a priestess of Loviatar. exchange went sour, and our to dig deep to find the jink to anger and resentment of their barmy trying to get away, said He must have been bubbed sources say there seems little match that cutters offer. normally close allies to keep it Char Downes, a long-time up on glee or something chance of the battles abating Although we were able to to themselves. resident of Torch. I saw one [Editors note: see previous anytime soon. confirm the chant on the bid Maija Intwood, culler sod crawl right up over this SIGIS for more information on Maija Intwood, culler (if not verify the identity of the (sk) tiefling hanging on to a drain the drug known as Glitterglee]. 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David Byrne [email protected] Paul Wolfe [email protected] The original SIGIS is in HTML format and is hosted at http://www.mimir.net/ a site maintained by Jon Winter. Brian Mooney [email protected] The SIGIS in RTF is hosted at http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/6827/ a Hofbauer Heinzs site. Sigil’s Independent Global Information Service Editorial Revelations of the Rigan Invasion by Tenemus Al Karak RECENTLY, I was blessed Derek dropped me the chant track her down, but I am very and a bit of divining magic, we to suspect that there may with a little time off from my on battle heroes and lost locals glad I bothered because the set off to uncover the dark of indeed be connections bet- duties at the library, and I and we even debated the dark chant Intwood slipped me the Rigan invasion. ween the circles, either figured that it was about time purpose of the fiends visit. All helped put the pieces of this The stone circle proved to directly or from an ancient to take a holiday. Being the old this and more we passed puzzle together. Cornering lie not far from the burg of time. Perhaps the stones in man that I am, you would before us, but it was precisely her in Fortunes Wheel, I ask- Delany, only a half-day hike.