Port-à-Lucine - Quartier Publique

[Paragonville]

An increasingly brooding Emanuele Quattrocchi, the handsome new actor to the Theatre, has been seen stalking the rafters of the Theatre ever since the attempt on Siobhan's life had been made.  Anyone coming up whom he does not recognize recieves a swift tongue lashing.

[Little Lotte]

"This is becoming routine"

"Perhaps they are cursed?"

Whispers float around Port-a-Lucine recently after the newest attack, this time on a member of the troupe from Theatre de la Cathedral, at one of their own events! The Borcan actor known as Emanuele was said to be poisoned by two halfling gentlemen who came to see the troupe's recent endeavor of "Dinner Theatre". The beginning of the show was proving very successful, a laugh riot but a shadow quickly fell when the actor drank something belonging to the two small men. He then keeled over, frothing at the mouth, eyes bulging and if Doctor Drukker was not there, he may surely be dead now!

[Dusk]

[A Dementlieuse with black and a spot of red hair calling herself Constance Sèverin could be seen around the Quartier Publique, and at times other districts, making certain that the latest issue of La Bougie was distributed around the city.]

[Dread]

The normally friendly and jovial creative director of the Théâtre de la Cathédrale is, strangely enough, nowhere to be found...

[DM Panic]

After some days of absence, another murder surfaces, nearly two weeks after the last victim was found with her feet removed, stuffed in a trash barrel by the docks.

Tiny teethmarks riddled the extremities of the body, letting investigators to believe that rats had found the corpse more than a day before they did.  The murder seemed to be a strangling, and the square of flesh carved out of the victim's back seems to tie it to the recent string of killings.  However, unlike the other victims, this girl did not come from an impovershed background.

The young girl has been identified as Annette D'Torescon, newly wed wife of Pierre d'Torescon, heir to the d'Torescon sugar cane fortune in the colonized portion of Souragne.  Authorities have been placed on high alert, and have seeminly awakened now that a victim who's family could reimburse and compensate justice has been claimed.

As a a final note, and an oddity that seperates this killing from the others:  When the woman was found, a long strand of hair that framed her face was dyed scarlet.  Authorities are baffled as to the killer's motives behind this.

[Nemien Callishan]

Rumour begins to spread that the little Mordentish woman known to many about Port was recently discovered unconscious near the cathedral walls with horrible burn marks on her throat. While it is highly unlikely she will be able to speak for quite some time while recovering from her injury it would appear that, while convalescing, she fully intends to pen a report of the incident for the gendarme although those who know her comment that she fully expects little to come of it.

[Dread]

Nothing short of a massacre has occurred within the Quartier Publique and the Quartier Savant, with at least a dozen nobles slaughtered in the most gruesome of fashions. Two well-known residents of Port-á-Lucine, Ardmor Marziale and Tess Odele, were seen following a blood trail leading to a sewer grate in Quartier Savant, even going so far as to move the grate and investigate what might have transpired below. They emerged bearing a far more foul stench and appeared no closer to discovering the debased someone or something responsible, yet there is no doubt that they shall not abandon their search... not yet.

[DM Panic]

Two men were apprehended by the Gendarme and executed publically in front of the Palais Dirigeant today.  While the men were originally apprehended on charges of poisoning the wine at the most recent fundraiser for the University's Chess team with a potent laxative, the pair were also found guilty of murder and conspiracy to commit murder.  The names of some of the victims found in the recent slaughters in the Savant and Publique were tied to the charges, though nothing concrete was ever linked between these men and the bloody murders.  It seemed very likely that this was entirely a political execution of a pair of commoners falsely charged to ease the minds of worried men and women while the true killers roam free.

[Sorrow00]

[A short female in a dark grey chainmail suit with a dark bluish cloak and hood was seen exiting the governers hotel, pausing in the middle of the street, rummaged through a thin pouch, reaching in, and dropping a beautiful blue rose to the ground, gazing at it briefly before stomping on it abit, crushing its petals and stim before walking off as if saddened or angry, locals were puzzled, but dared not touch the crushed rose, whispering amongst themselves]

[Countess29]

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[Mistertwix]

[Flyers are left all around the Quarter Publique with the bold letters of the words "NECROMANCER" and "'Les Presses du Savior'" written over them. They are left on public benches and under lamp posts, on the floor and under people's doorsteps and many more public places.]

[Amon-Si]

An odd, purple woman with metallic hair and eyes is seen exiting the    Théatre de la Cathédrale, pausing briefly to speak with a group of fops, before heading out of the city.

[Roose]

[A touching scene took place in the Publique today when Doctor Wymmer Drukker got down on bended knee to propose to Dame Lilianne de Moreau before many spectators. Dame de Moreau accepted the Doctors proposal of marriage, and the two shared a few quiet words and an embrace before Doctor Drukker marched himself off to the Gendarmerie to turn himself in for charges of practicing Necromancy.]

[Paragonville]

Shouts, followed by the subtle sound of fighting could be heard within the Theatre before falling silent.  Play rehearsal, or has the Theatre befallen even more hardship by the sword?

[herkles]

Rumors speak that Leon Leblanc attempted to m

[Dusk]

[Dubbed as part of his show, the magician calling himself Marcel the Magnificent could been seen being brought out of the Theatre de la Cathedrale, encased in stone. Immediately, he burst into flames, his stone form crumbling before those who witnessed his final 'act'.]

[Dread]

Rumor has it that Ardmor has taken a short holiday, though no one seems to know where he has decided to travel. No word has been given as to when he might return...

[Dread]

What started off as a short holiday has turned into a long and protracted disappearance. The whereabouts of the Theatre's creative director appear to be a complete and total mystery, and one can only guess as to where he has gone and when... or if... he ever shall return...

[Little Lotte]

The scene inside of the Theatre de la Cathedral is a horrific sight indeed. Blood stains the stage with bloodied foot prints leading away from the large pool and a thin cloud of a poisonous gas float in the building.

It is said that three members who work for Doctor Wymmer and the theatre were brutally murdered just moments after a group of Boritsi operative's boarded a carriage parked right outside.

[Shadowthrone]

Rumour has it that the wedding of Dame Lilianne de Moreau and Wymmer Drukker will be taking place on the 30th of June. It is said to be an open invitation and anyone will be welcome to the state ceremony at the Palais, followed by a reception in Edrigan.


((Aiming for 10pm GMT / 5pm EST))

[Shadowthrone]

Soon enough, invitations begin circulating amongst the gentry and commonfolk alike. It seems any and all will be welcome to attend.

[Delete Me]

From dawn to dusk, nearly every hour of every day, a heavily armored figure with a black and red tabbard would be seen standing on the Terrace outside the theatre, staring endlessly out at the water.  It would not respond when approached, or spoken to, nor would it move.  It was as if someone had put a statue in armor, and just dropped it there.  The figure wore a facemask, with a set of tinted sand goggles, and sported a Red Vardo Traders brooch on the cloak.

[Dread]

Rumor spreads that Althea Sylcerik, a member of the Clockwork Goose and actress with the Theatre, was responsible for the attack on Constance Severin, the same attack that rendered her unable to remember anything that happened to her. The gentry, who saw everything related to this bewildering and horrifying spectacle, claim that after she had confessed to the attempted murder, she ran herself through and then repeatedly stabbed herself over and over in a brutal fashion, even as her friends sought to keep her alive with some strange brand of healing magic.

Talk of mutilating the woman and worse rumbled amongst the throng of people who bore witness to the woman's madness, but ultimately reason won the day and the woman was escorted to a relatively unknown asylum in Barovia, owned by one Ekeil Zarcroft...

[Little Lotte]

It is said that the Theatre de la Cathedral's Creative Director Siobhan Crowley, fresh from a long trip to and from Barovia arrived at the Gendamerie to issue a public apology for the scene that the once quite famous Althea Sylcerik put on in the middle of the street. She offered to pay any damages and to even wash the cobbles of the blood, should they require it.

[FullMoon]

A foreigner of unknown origin has taken residence in the Penthouse of the Governor Hotel. The man is said to be unremarkable in appearance though he does have a powerful build and is clearly confident. It is said he was heard inquiring at the front desk about the well being of a certain Miss Crowley . He also let it be known he was looking for help in finding an event planner. Anyone curious about the position is advised to seek out Monsieur Ashdale.