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A somewhat Reputable Newsrag published in the Undercity Sigil’s Independent Global Information Service Issue 10 Year 1 Price: 2 Stingers Second Week of Retributus Hardhead Corpses Found Mercenaries Shatter in Hive Slumhouse Guilder Resistance FAUNELMercenaries in loss of their leader, Errol SIGILThe bodies of three this seems a simple case of a they was gonna search my kip the employ of Spireward Greenleaf. Harmonium officers were Hardhead raid gone sour, for Anarchist traitors I might Trading Co. struck back at the Now that[Greenleaf] is discovered in a abandoned sources inside the Harmon- be harborin! I couldnt believe Verdant Guild today, turning a gone, stated William Barr, Hive building around peak ium reported that several me ears! Then they push me routine raid by the Guilders people wont be so bold when yesterday. One of the officers oddities were discovered at aside and started rippin me into a decisive defeat. Errol they challenge Spireward. Oh, was still breathing when the scene of the crimes. These case apart, moving all the Greenleaf and Johnathan they may wish to, but theyll several Harmonium faction- included: a dead tridrone in furniture and feeling up the Forrester were among the find it hard to recruit after the eers found him and the others the alley behind the building, walls with some sort of magic Guilders slain as the small lashing we gave the Guilders. splayed out across the floor of excessive amounts of cranium rod they had. I tried to tell em merc party turned both magic Some of these berks will even the kip. Before he succumbed rat droppings and a nearby to pike it, but one of them and steel against the raiders. take this as proof that unified to his injuries, the officer gave portal. Layered upon this meaty bashers just pushed me When Johnathan Forrester action is the wrong way to go, descriptions of his attackers strangeness is chant that the aside and told his pals to keep fell, the loggers took up their which is what they believe to his fellows who put out Hardheads were searching for on working. Then, just as soon axes and joined the fray, anyway." a warrant for their arrest. something other than the as they came, they stomped on turning a simple defeat into a The lumbermen, despite Apparently, in a routine raid Gatehouse Night Market. In out leaving me case an utter wild route where Guilders their losses, are jubilant of the Hive searching for the fact, squads of Hardheads had shambles. You can bet I filed a were hunted down by workers tonight, toasting the mercen- infamous (and almost mythic- been seen scouring the Lower complaint with the Guvners! venting weeks of fear and aries and swapping stories of al) Gatehouse Night Market, and Hive Wards for two full At this point, it is unclear frustration. the conflict. the Hardhead patrol stum- days prior to the assault on the just what the Harmonium Best estimates indicate that "Sure I was there! Even gots bled upon several bashers trio of officers. Indeed, were searching for and what over thirty of the Verdant meself one! bragged Drell engaging in some nefarious SIGIS cullers discovered a connection it might have to Guild were written into the Delvar, a victorious logger, trade. According to the rash of complaints filed in the the lost officers. For the dead book, while only about When the first arrows whist- Harmonium, the patrol was City Court assessing abusive moment, the Harmonium is half that number of loggers led in, I thought ta meself: immediately set upon by behaviour by the Harmonium sticking to its story and will were lost. Drell, yer in fer it now, ya these dangerous cross-traders officers patrolling the Wards. begin a search for the per- Even more crippling to the are!, cause them mercs look- who used powerful magic Yes,weve had a number of petrators of the crime. Guilders movement was the ed a motley bunch, but they items to defeat the patrol. complaints against officers by (sk) done all right by me. The Harmonium spokesman folks in the Lower Ward skinny old blood, and the little Tonat Shar told SIGIS the whose kips and cases were one with the butterfly wings, threat these bashers posed to searched by the Harmon- they jumped right up and let the innocents of Sigil could ium, said Bureau Chief Jamis Cadre Investigation loose with blasts o fire. Them not be underestimated. The of the Ad Hoc Bureau of trees, they got so hot, they three[Harmonium] bloods Courts. Most of the comp- blowed up! Guilders was who perished were some of laints assess the Harmonium running about with they hair our finest young officers. proffered fake warrants for an clothes all afire. They been They fought valiantly against the search and seizure of Team Expands screaming ta eat the berks in these murdering scum and, property in these various kips Baator! The troll an the rest assured, the Harmonium and some bashers allege the YESTERDAY AT A PUBLIC due will help speed the invest- tiefling, they roared by me will not quit until those sods officers damaged their pro- meeting, Factol Sarin of the igation along. The Harmonium then, swingin away. I aint have been scragged and perty in the search. The Harmonium told an assem- is convinced that assigning him never seen nothin like it! He thrown to the justice of the Fraternity of Order plans to bled group of citizens and to the case will insure that [the troll] was swinging his Prison. Be warned: these assess the veracity of these cullers that three days ago they these heinous crimes are blade about, cuttin through cross-traders are extremely claims and issue fines or- assigned a new invest-igator to brought to justice. SIGIS was branches and men without dangerous and armed with dering restitution by the the case, a cutter known as unable to arrange an interview even slowin. Even that stum- powerful magic. Posters with faction when appropriate. Christopher Verdue. Although with Special Investigator py, walking advertisement fer their mugs and a reward for TaranGly, a dwarven metal- citizens were peery about Christopher Verdue, but ac- the Harmonium [the dwarf their arrest will be scattered smith working in the Lower assigning a new blood to the cording to unnamed sources, Farim Copperbeard] was wad- throughout the Great Bazaar. Ward, told SIGIS that the case, especially a fresh recruit Inspector Verdue is actually a ing into it. When I saw `em Any information leading to officers who raided his kip who has only been in the powerful human psionicist, [the Guilders] startin ta run, I their capture will net some were almost frantic with faction a short while, Factol probably a clairsentient, cap- chased em, an I done fer one, serious jink as well as the gra- haste. These berks showed Sarin assured the public that able of reading objects for too! titude of the Harmonium. me a piece o paper with some the assignment of Special information of their former Donald Kyng, culler Although on the surface barmy screed on it and said Investigator Christopher Ver- owners. (af) (rm) Copyright 1997 by Scott Kelley [email protected] Disclaimer Note: Jon Winter [email protected] All of the published Planescape characters, character names, symbols and distinctive likenesses thereof are Roy Morton [email protected] Alex Roberts [email protected] trademarks owned by TSR, Inc. All other material here is original and copyright 1997 by the given author where Alec Fleschner [email protected] noted. Should there be given no author the article is copyrighted by the editors Jon Winter and Scott Kelley.None of Rich Gant Submissions by it is endorsed by TSR, and none of it is in any way official". This material is for personal use only and may not be Scott Kelley [email protected] published, altered, redistributed or posted on News Groups, Mailing Lists, Web Pages, FTP Sites or Bulletin Boards Jon Winter [email protected] Roy Morton [email protected] without the permission of the author. Alex Roberts [email protected] Alec Fleschner [email protected] The original SIGIS is in HTML format and is hosted at http://www.mimir.net/ a site maintained by Jon Winter. Rich Gant The SIGIS in RTF is hosted at http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/6827/ a Hofbauer Heinzs site. Sigil’s Independent Global Information Service NewsChant Plague Mort on Slide Sensate Again: Residents Flee PLAGUE-MORT disappear- ficial information regarding ed yesterday from the face of the whereabouts of this the Outlands. The duration of known subversive. Sources its absence is unknown, and it close to SIGIS have managed is entirely possible that this to learn that Guardian agents Sinker Celtic incarnation of the burg be- are looking for the cambion, came the latest to fall onto the and may have had more Plain of Infinite Portals. This success than the Harmonium. time, the slide has been It appears that he is planning blamed on the activities of a to rent accommodation from bizarre chaos blood cult that Shemeshka the Marauder, had set up a camp and a shrine although as no-one knows Celebration! just outside the burg. which buildings are owned by As is usual with gate-town the King of the Cross-trade, disappearances, a new gate ap- her involvement cannot be peared near the location of the confirmed. Guardian agent missing town. Locals camping Clarion, a known opponent of Follow theRule-of-Threes down to the Civic Festhall around the new gate reported the Marauder, was unavailable that numerous high-ups, for comment.