Rumors

[Hillary]

A group of students were apparently forgotten. They are no longer forgotten.

Unrelated, a large explosion and unscheduled launch occurred in Nottingham.

[Hillary]

A rumor is going around the school that a young cleric of The Eveningstar, god of scrying, smiting, family and twilight, began to spout odd lines of prophecy over his morning cereal. The boy was baffled but then ran off to his temple to make offerings in thanks. Other nearby clerics dutifully copied down the verse.

[Hillary]

Strange rumors are coming from off campus. Reports of accidents happening that should have killed people, leaving people instead horribly injured but alive. People with terminal diseases remaining sick, but not passing, no matter how long they've been sick. Even murder victims not dying, but simply getting up and walking to a healer, despite their wounds.

[Hillary]

[meta: this rumor is available to PCs at the school with any of the following: paladin training, weapon training, connections to paladins or fighters at the school, the ability to get rumors from the nurse]

There was some kind of accident in the training yard. A weapon slipped, padding wasn't secured properly, something. But then, they were training with edged weapons, so injuries weren't entirely unexpected. What no one expected was for Marra to get a throat cut because her gorget slipped. What no one expected more was for her to lie on the ground bleeding for a moment and then get up and heal it. She walked away unscathed from an accident that should have killed her.

[Hillary]

Today at lunch a strange young man sat down at the Tennyson/Dawnrose table and caused them to go silent for multiple minutes. He was then seen leaving with Professor Rosaline. She was heard to address him as "cousin".

[Hillary]

Professor Rilian McIntyre was seen with a new very humanoid, very feminine clank.



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A headless chicken was seen running around campus with bites out of it, partially denuded of feathers.

[Hillary]

Death is once again a normal part of the world. There are some reports of people dying of stupidity all at about the same time that deaths resumed.

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A day after deaths began to resume, the moon stopped its normal trek across the sky at night and to all appearances has decided that staying out and full all the time, day or night, is the new cool thing to do.

[Hillary]

Construction of a strange new temple has begun on school grounds. There is a lot of confusion involving the construction project. No one seems to know who is funding it, or building it even. It just appears to be slowly being built. Some students have tried to determine what it is a temple to and were found later in the nurse's office getting tended to by Prefect Talia, the mindhealer.

[Hillary]

A no-holds barred, grudge match throw down occurred in the outdoor training yard today. Due to the damage, it will be closed for repairs for a week. Janet, paladin of Ares, and Bret, paladin of Lugh, are rumored to have been the combatants, and both appeared in the nurse's office, badly injured.

[Hillary]

Rumors abound on the Nightshade Campus of a new University student capable of making anything happen.

[Hillary]

[META: Innates without mental shielding have the following:]

You've been having nightmares, terrible horrible nightmares about being a small child and being abused by someone older and male and shadowy.

[Hillary]

Two new students transferred into the school today from Russia. One is 12 and being placed in second year Arcana House as a bard. The other is 8 and is being placed in Primary. They are siblings.

[Hillary]

Rumors are coming in far and wide of people behaving like zombies but not being actually undead. The place of origin for most of these people seems to be the northern sections of England

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Clerics of the christan god experienced a sudden loss of power yesterday. No one is sure why.

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Rumors come in from Ireland of a teenage girl in odd clothing found dead near the shore. The bleeding had all but stopped by the time the local authorities arrived, but they were heard to comment on the odd golden hue.

[Hillary]

At the school, a blond teenage girl has been seen wandering the halls. She is translucent and passes through solid objects. She also has enrolled in some primary classes.

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Liverpool: A serious magical accident occurred, killing hundreds, injuring more. A firestarter experienced power breakthrough at the docks and they went up like match sticks.

[Hillary]

Around England: Grave robbing is becoming a serious problem in towns with limited constabulary. No signs of these bodies have been found.

Northern England: A group of Twilight Blades staged an operation at a small farm. They suffered some injuries but managed to burn the hives.

Liverpool: The clean-up operation continues, the death toll is mounting.

London: The Empress is expected to speak publicly on the matter of the tragedy in Liverpool.