Port-à-Lucine - Quartier Publique

[BraveSirRobin]

Long into the night of the 4th of June the sorrow-wracked grieving of the occupant of Guest Suite One can be overheard on the same floor. It continues until sometime after midnight, where silence is found for but a few hours before the sounds of a grief-stricken young woman bleed from the room anew, coming and going throughout the night well into the morning, and even the afternoon of the 5th of June...

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A Gendarme is seen exiting the Western Gates alongside a red-and-black-clad noblewoman and a Le Jeune Compagny soldier. Later, the same Gendarme re-entered the city, alone, and dripping blood. A trail is left from the Baie to the Gendarmerie, where he was last seen limping about...

[Freydaelyn]

By the memorial for Raymonde de la Rochenoire-Tremblay a tall masked woman in winter themed clothes places an unopened Tremblay Family Fizzy Elixir and then a painting on an easel. The woman's demeanor is morose as she silently looks at the two before walking off in to the lower income areas of the city of lights.

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Memories
This oil painting uses bright colors and delicate brush strokes. There is no question who this painting depicts; This is a painting of Raymonde de la Rochenoire-Tremblay. She wears her usual green and cream suit that she had often wore before her marriage. The Souragnien woman has a playful smile as she plays her accordion.
Behind her a well lit ballroom where various nobles dance though who they may be it is hard to tell based on the perspective.
On the bottom left corner there is a masquerade mask with odd grooves on the sides sits on the floor. The name Madame Silver is signed under it.

[Maverick]

A rather skittish looking man wearing Bellegarde clothes was seen conversing with a blonde, rather academic man. The Bellegarde man looked left and right as if paranoid of the shadows. He clutched a parcel to his chest with one hand and wiped the sweat from his brow with the other. The man mumbled madly about something before the pair disappeared into the backrooms of Le Croissant Bleu.

[BwpsychoName]

The quiet of the night was broken as a fight erupted on the terraces. Gendarmes quickly halted the altercation and led a large number of people through the streets towards The Gendarmerie itself.

Rumors soon begin to circulate that the altercation might have an attempt on the life of a halfling by a foreign criminal element. 

[Freydaelyn]

In the morning the usually friendly demeanored Madame Abigayle Smith entered in to the Theatre with it's manager under a more stoic mood. After a while she returns from her meeting with more somber mood heading in to the lower income districts and disappearing in to the day.

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The sharp screech of a gendarme's whistle was heard piercing the air of the Publique last night. A fully plated man wielding a hammer and tower shield was driven from to the Western Gate by a procession of gendarmes. Clashing steel rang out into the night, and the gendarmes returned to the City of Lights with the body of the fallen fighter.

[Relapse]

In the dark early hours of the morning the resounding sound of footsteps echo in the streets as soldiers of the Jeune Companie prepare their march. Candles light the path through the city, a carpet of beautiful flowers of all colours and types laid by commoner and noble women alike. They take to the streets to see off the troops and the quiet morning is broken with roaring applause, cheering and the occasional patriotic cry.

Rain clouds converge over the city as the last soldier donned in red and white departs and the cleanup begins.

[Arawn]

Word spreads through the city of Port-a-Lucine as it awakens today. In a shocking reversal, the Council of Brilliance re-entered the city by sea, landing in a small ship under the gunfire of Claude, the Pirate Queen. The Provisional Government, under orders, it is rumored, to avoid bloodshed at all costs, fled the city before them, and their whereabouts are unknown. And from the East a column of red-armored soldiers marches back towards the city--this time, on an errand of peace.

[Yesper]

A single man is spotted trudging silently westward through the Quartier Publique, covered in blood. His gaze remains fixed forward on an unknown destination. In his arms cradled is a bird of prey, alive but too worn to fly.

[Randalla]

A dark-haired elf is seen frequenting the bibliotheque, often spending entire days inside of the lavish library. Helping out, working as an archivist, whenever he does not have the free time to read at his own leisure.

[Glowfire]

Narcisse de Verley could be seen walking through the streets of Port-a-Lucine with the intention of making his way to the Gendarmerie to answer his summons. Half-way there, he was joined by Baron de Mouisset from the terraces.

It would perhaps be noted by some that his wife, Renelle de Verley, was not at his side.


He is not seen leaving the Gendarmerie building.

[Little Lotte]

After nearly two days, Renelle de Verley is seen making the same walk as her husband. She stopped briefly on the terraces to speak with the solicitor, Senna Merula, before giving herself over to Gendarme de la Rochenoire.

She has not been seen to leave the Gendarmerie since.

[Duayne]

A new face is seen on the terraces of the Publique, donning the colours of house de la Rochenoire. He stands with an open journal, resting it against the stone railing, repeatedly mumbling basic Mordentish words and phrases to himself.

[MJ_Johansson]

Sounds of gunfire and steel clashing with steel can be heard throughout the Publique in the early hours of the morning. When silence once again filled the streets, a Gendarme clad in breastplate can be seen carrying a corpse and leading a shackled, dark clothed man towards the Gendarmerie, joined by three individuals bearing the heraldry of the newly founded house d'Espérance.

[Yesper]

A man familiar to some can be seen walking along the water, uncorked bottle of spirits in hand. He is visibly agitated, but makes no move to approach anyone while his poison of choice works to calm his nerves.

[Iridni Ren]

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[Iridni Ren]

A Vistani caravan laden with incongruous armored folk arrives in the night. As the group disembarks, they quickly change clothes, murmuring with disgruntlement in foreign accents and tongues before making their way into the City of Lights. For a long time they stand and converse on the terraces, as though waiting for someone. Their appearance is tired and perhaps anxious.

During their conversation, one voice blurts out with emotion, "Can we refrain from speaking about it, please?"

For a moment all is awkward silence save for the never-ending hawking of the wax museum by Belker.

Eventually, a gendarme arrives, and the group disappears with him.

[Wine-Stain]

This evening, the booming sound of an operatic duet spills from the foyer of the Grand Opéra Nationale: one voice is spinto soprano, and the other, dramatic soprano.
Pregnant pauses between verses suggest that it is a practice session.

[Hathor]

Mademoiselle Manishie Chanteuse has been frequenting La Grand Bibliothèque, along with the university and various book-shops around the city, with two goals in mind. She spends time tracking down new books for Salon Duet's little library, mostly historical tomes and political commentary. Additionally, she has been spending much of her free time studiously researching uses of illusion in music.

[Hathor]

The giamarga songstress from the Theater's troupe has been performing a few songs on the street as many performers in Port-a-Lucine do, singing and playing her harp or lute and often braving the cold when other performers retire from it.

[Glowfire]

The noblewoman Eglantine Desrosiers has made very few public appearances as of late and when she has been seen, she seems to favour the walking stick more heavily. Her time is mostly spent at the University at the Faculty of Arcane Sciences, burying herself in her studies.

[Alan Hunter]

An odd sight of a man wearing all black wandering the University is seen spending his time from dusk to dawn at the Medical segment of the university. Rumor abound of the man's attention and study is feverous. Those of Vallaki studying would recognize him as "The Doctor" when approached the man merely gave a courteous smile and wave. Though mostly kept to himself the androgynous face never seeming to show much emotion anymore. Various books upon Chigure, Herbalism, Surgery, and Alchemical History seem to be checked out from the library time to time the man also known as the Archivist Dracos in the Bibliotique can be seen with such books at his side at all times.

[JustMonika]

Rumors surface that the scandelous personage of Lilith Farthingdale, last seen being questioned by the Gendarme, has once again been since in Lucine, patronising Emmanulle the tailor and holding hushed whispered meetings with a number of regulars in that beautiful city of lights.

[Hathor]

As one waxes another wanes: the singer Manishie Chanteuse has retreated rather suddenly from society in the last week from an apparent illness, following a recent trip out of the city from which she returned weakened and withdrawn. It appears that she has departed from the Theater in a gentle manner, and can occasionally still be seen about the city quietly working on The Gallery and her research projects.