OK, this is just a mickey take of the Grantabrugge Gossip, with OOC stuff.
Apologies to the refs :-P
Election Results Are In
MagicalEric? new Mayor!
Shocks as crazy elf announces sensible stuff!
More as it happens
Week ending 1st May:
Issues of the gossip without Gilbert - 1
Dragon spotted in Grantabrugge!
More demons and undead. What did you expect?
Tormentor dead. Players across city dejected at one less source of angst.
Gossip fails to notice upcoming elections
The Grantabrugge gossip has been roundly criticised over its non-existent election coverage just one week before the upcoming Mayoral elections. One of their editors commented "You can't expect us to cover everything that happens in Grantabrugge, otherwise we'd need too many reporters." Rumours abound that Alicia Du Montford Du Pres has supressed the election coverage so that no-one can say she's a Sordanite.
End of Lent Term:
Gilbert back in Gossip after tiny absence!
2 PKs, Maz plots more so that he can reset the system with Maelstrom rules.
Demons, undead, Bavarians, yawn.
Strange phenomenon in Grantabrugge means everyone only manages to do in 6 weeks what normally takes 1.
Those new to Grantabrugge have been suggesting that it has to do with the demons. Or the necromancers. Or possibly Mathemagicians. Those who have lived in Grantabrugge are accepting it as just a weird effect of the ley lines, and then just turning over and going back to sleep, muttering "another bloody portent"
Drow Germander killed - ref being stupid blamed.
- The Drow Germander has been reported dead. Currently witness reports suggest that she walked straight through a wall of fire. Since this character had shown no suicidial tendencies, the death is being treated as suspicious by the players. The current theory is that a ref was stupid and didn't see the rope, leading to Germander's untimely demise (and perhaps causing the refs problems by screwing up their plot, but we can only hope). This theory has been backed up by the issuing of a warning to all players from the Department of Truth warning them not to be stupid because it should be 'obvious' if the Wall of Fire spell has been cast.
Angst outbreak continues!
- In recent weeks, many characters within the system have been experiencing the condition known as 'Angst'. Originally only found in tabletop roleplaying and Vampire, this often life-threatening condition may have been transmitted to the system by any of a number of people who have recently been in contact with WhiteWolf?.
- In a statement, refs said "We deny everything. You can't prove a thing." A later clarification was issued, stating that the condition was all part of the Quality Roleplaying Experience (tm) and the players should be glad that there weren't snakes in there with them too.
- The Church of Bast has said that anybody experiencing the symptoms of Angst should come to them for an extended period of 'treatment'. Meanwhile, it is the advice of the Gossip that all characters stay at least ten feet from White Wolf at all times, avoid the colour black, and wear protective equipment (ear defenders, gloves, goggles) whenever they interact with someone they believe to be infected. Such steps should prevent the outbreak turning into an epidemic.
- -Sesqui of Humact, Correspondent with Special Authority for the Colour Black
- Ariane Tallis of the Alchemist's Guild maintains that a certain amount of angst is acceptable if it is caused by events since you started drinking in the Wessex Arms.
Eric sent to Asylum
- Eric (aka 'Magical' Eric) of the Red Guild was recently carted off to the Asylum that opened to deal with the people disturbed by the recent demon posessions. He was checked for sanity and much to everybody's surprise he was certified sane (within the limits of the more scatterbrained Pyrokin) by a qualified Johnite. He was later released from the Asylum and is still awaiting a certificate of sanity from the institution and a copy to send home to his grandfather in Andalucia. Due to the closure and destruction of the Asylum and the likely death of the aforementioned priest he may be waiting some time. However he remains hopeful that the certificate is just taking a long time to arrive by an expecially fat carrier pigeon and has since spent many a happy night standing on the roof of the Red Guild shooting any pigeons he sees down with firedarts and checking to see if they have his certificate of sanity.
Red Guild members complain about cuisine in canteen
- We have recieved unconfirmed reports that members of the Red Guild have expressed concern about the cuisine in their canteen, one aggrieved mage was heard to say "You can have any meat you like so long as it's pigeon!". However the Senior Bursar and President of the college say that the menu is excellent and is here to stay, aparrently the canteen has recently found a new source for aquring quality precooked meat at a fraction of the price they were paying before. 'We're very pleased about this new supply of food.' remarked the Senior Bursar 'It's going to allow us to inject money into much needed projects such as flameproofing the entire eastern wing of the library, where we allow the Journeymen mages to research, which is needed now more than ever. It catches on fire so much that you'd think somebody been habitually letting baby pyrokin in there and not supervising their use of certain ignite spells.' The culprit is as yet unidentified but an internal investigation is underway.