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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 3918332" data-attributes="member: 63"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">Celebrity Watchmen the New Face of Crime-Fighting</span></strong></p><p>By ARTHUR KNIGHT, Senior Excesses-of-the-Aristocracy Correspondent</p><p>20 Lharvion, 998 YK</p><p></p><p>[align=left]http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=31674&stc=1&d=1196629645[/align]SKYWAY -- They say fame comes to those who seek it, but glory comes to those who deserve it. So we should all pay attention to a group of celebrities from our grand city’s Watch, to see which they earn. </p><p></p><p>This month’s Tain Gala witnessed the rare attendance of mere watchmen, but amid the hundreds of exorbitantly well-paid security guards who one assumes are there to make sure the fabulously wealthy nobles don’t try to steal aboleth caviar from the merely <em>embarrassingly</em> wealthy nobles, these cops were not here for law enforcement, but rather for their grand debut. It seems we will want to get to know these officers, because, whether we like it or not, the aristocracy wants them to be the shape of things to come.</p><p></p><p>Chief Inspector Belew Yorgan of the Central Plateau watch accompanied five city servants we will all have our eyes on. Each of the five is assigned to a different precinct, so the group will have jurisdiction anywhere in the city, except Skyway of course. </p><p></p><p>Northedge and Central Plateau will be safe under Aereni mage Alexiaietano, while his watchwoman sister Yew Tue is assigned to Cliffside. Kalashtar mentalist Shadoa will be be responsible for the rowdy streets of Dura, while human Stephen Tyleat (<em>who we suspect is the quisling of the group -- Ed.</em>) and the towering half-orc Nicolai Obsidian, both veterans of the Last War, take Tavick’s Landing and Menthis Plateau, respectively.</p><p></p><p>These five officers, with the aid of famed master inquisitive Victor Saint-Demain, recently apprehended the “Shoebox Killer,” who had long terrorized citizens in the parts of town where they <em>don’t</em> have diamond chandeliers.</p><p></p><p>Some of the group seemed out of place in high society, where they rubbed elbows with such dignitaries as Baron Trelib d’Medani and Gehn d’Orien, though it seems illusion-happy Alex is taking to it well, as much a social chameleon as a physical one. We saw him chatting it up with Councilor Sava Kharisa (SOC - Lower Central; she recently established the Karvasi Asylum for the Criminally Insane in the Black Arch), as well as Aereni ambassador Lady Taelira and Victor Saint-Demain himself. (<em>See our accompanying report on Saint-Demain’s suspected push to hire on with House Medani’s elite inquisitives -- Ed.</em>)</p><p> </p><p></p><p>[align=left]http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=31678&stc=1&d=1196630743[/align]The rest of the group seemed more comfortable enjoying the free banquet, cigars, and other more sundry delights, than they were with the idea of being in the public eye. Reports suggest their new position entails a 50 golden throne per month salary apiece, though, so perhaps they were just trying to get used to a life of luxury.</p><p></p><p>Councilor Doran Cantar (IND - Middle Dura) explains that the arrangement, which he spearheaded, “is to show the people of Sharn that they don’t have to rely on outsiders for their protection. Too often the Watch has been, with all due respect, overwhelmed by threats too great for the simple trios of flat-foots who patrol our streets now.”</p><p></p><p>The Sharn City Watch reportedly spent 89 <em>thousand</em> golden thrones in the last year on the hiring of so-called ‘adventurers,’ to handle threats ranging from cross-jurisdictional assaults on the Daask crime syndicate and simple missions that would otherwise be politically “inconvenient,” to battling warforged behemoths in the Cogs and demonic cults in the lower city. Most of these adventurers were foreigners, who took their huge earnings and likely squandered it in Xen’drik.</p><p></p><p>Cantar, long an advocate of increasing Watch power, said he hopes this initiative will not only keep all that money in the local economy, but will also foster a greater sense of safety among the populace. “We want our citizens to know we’re looking out for them,” he said, “and that the darkness of war has passed. There are brighter days ahead.”</p><p></p><p>Cantar’s bodyguard Niro Graymalkin had a different opinion: “Nothing ever gets better. Never trust life when it tries to trick you.”</p><p></p><p>Just three days later, the quintet took in their first criminals. Perhaps it was mere coincidence that the three they apprehended -- for the vicious crimes of disturbing the piece, drug possession, and multiple counts of aggravated assault -- were self-styled adventurers from Aundair, living in Clifftop, a well-known adventurers’ quarter. A fourth suspect was killed after he and others in the group used lethal force against the watchmen.</p><p></p><p>So, fame or glory? The jury for now is still out, but this writer is leaning toward fame, and a black sort at that.</p><p> </p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>© 998, The Sharn Inquisitive</p><p><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=31672&stc=1&d=1196622987" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">Tales in Blood</span></strong></p><p>By an unknown contributor</p><p></p><p>(<em>This strange piece of literary horror was delivered to our office with a note warning, "Prepare for the black winter." We leave it to our readers to determine what it might mean -- Ed.</em>)</p><p></p><p><strong>Part One</strong></p><p>Flesh tears in bloody strips. Hungry mouths -- huddled beneath golden gates, perched atop spires stargazing, laid low in a city of blinding heights -- await a feast from the theater of men. A grand play we are, greater than the silvered pens of playwrights could compose, our truths more subtle than the decrepit critics of ivory towers could ever know.</p><p></p><p>One such prickly pen looks down from his high window, down upon the playhouses and brothels, the hot living places that history forgets. His office is to judge, but his verdicts are corrupt, his head filled only with dry words, dead poems he prizes while life beats in the city's heart below. He writes his sentences, but the ink just traces the empty path of hollow veins. How much better if his pen were alive, and his blood could flow again.</p><p></p><p>A black winter will fall, and its tale shall be writ in blood.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">-Quoth the Raven</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=31676&stc=1&d=1196630108" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 3918332, member: 63"] [b][size=4]Celebrity Watchmen the New Face of Crime-Fighting[/size][/b] By ARTHUR KNIGHT, Senior Excesses-of-the-Aristocracy Correspondent 20 Lharvion, 998 YK [align=left]http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=31674&stc=1&d=1196629645[/align]SKYWAY -- They say fame comes to those who seek it, but glory comes to those who deserve it. So we should all pay attention to a group of celebrities from our grand city’s Watch, to see which they earn. This month’s Tain Gala witnessed the rare attendance of mere watchmen, but amid the hundreds of exorbitantly well-paid security guards who one assumes are there to make sure the fabulously wealthy nobles don’t try to steal aboleth caviar from the merely [i]embarrassingly[/i] wealthy nobles, these cops were not here for law enforcement, but rather for their grand debut. It seems we will want to get to know these officers, because, whether we like it or not, the aristocracy wants them to be the shape of things to come. Chief Inspector Belew Yorgan of the Central Plateau watch accompanied five city servants we will all have our eyes on. Each of the five is assigned to a different precinct, so the group will have jurisdiction anywhere in the city, except Skyway of course. Northedge and Central Plateau will be safe under Aereni mage Alexiaietano, while his watchwoman sister Yew Tue is assigned to Cliffside. Kalashtar mentalist Shadoa will be be responsible for the rowdy streets of Dura, while human Stephen Tyleat ([i]who we suspect is the quisling of the group -- Ed.[/i]) and the towering half-orc Nicolai Obsidian, both veterans of the Last War, take Tavick’s Landing and Menthis Plateau, respectively. These five officers, with the aid of famed master inquisitive Victor Saint-Demain, recently apprehended the “Shoebox Killer,” who had long terrorized citizens in the parts of town where they [i]don’t[/i] have diamond chandeliers. Some of the group seemed out of place in high society, where they rubbed elbows with such dignitaries as Baron Trelib d’Medani and Gehn d’Orien, though it seems illusion-happy Alex is taking to it well, as much a social chameleon as a physical one. We saw him chatting it up with Councilor Sava Kharisa (SOC - Lower Central; she recently established the Karvasi Asylum for the Criminally Insane in the Black Arch), as well as Aereni ambassador Lady Taelira and Victor Saint-Demain himself. ([i]See our accompanying report on Saint-Demain’s suspected push to hire on with House Medani’s elite inquisitives -- Ed.[/i]) [align=left]http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=31678&stc=1&d=1196630743[/align]The rest of the group seemed more comfortable enjoying the free banquet, cigars, and other more sundry delights, than they were with the idea of being in the public eye. Reports suggest their new position entails a 50 golden throne per month salary apiece, though, so perhaps they were just trying to get used to a life of luxury. Councilor Doran Cantar (IND - Middle Dura) explains that the arrangement, which he spearheaded, “is to show the people of Sharn that they don’t have to rely on outsiders for their protection. Too often the Watch has been, with all due respect, overwhelmed by threats too great for the simple trios of flat-foots who patrol our streets now.” The Sharn City Watch reportedly spent 89 [i]thousand[/i] golden thrones in the last year on the hiring of so-called ‘adventurers,’ to handle threats ranging from cross-jurisdictional assaults on the Daask crime syndicate and simple missions that would otherwise be politically “inconvenient,” to battling warforged behemoths in the Cogs and demonic cults in the lower city. Most of these adventurers were foreigners, who took their huge earnings and likely squandered it in Xen’drik. Cantar, long an advocate of increasing Watch power, said he hopes this initiative will not only keep all that money in the local economy, but will also foster a greater sense of safety among the populace. “We want our citizens to know we’re looking out for them,” he said, “and that the darkness of war has passed. There are brighter days ahead.” Cantar’s bodyguard Niro Graymalkin had a different opinion: “Nothing ever gets better. Never trust life when it tries to trick you.” Just three days later, the quintet took in their first criminals. Perhaps it was mere coincidence that the three they apprehended -- for the vicious crimes of disturbing the piece, drug possession, and multiple counts of aggravated assault -- were self-styled adventurers from Aundair, living in Clifftop, a well-known adventurers’ quarter. A fourth suspect was killed after he and others in the group used lethal force against the watchmen. So, fame or glory? The jury for now is still out, but this writer is leaning toward fame, and a black sort at that. © 998, The Sharn Inquisitive [img]http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=31672&stc=1&d=1196622987[/img] [b][size=4]Tales in Blood[/size][/b][size=4][/size] By an unknown contributor ([i]This strange piece of literary horror was delivered to our office with a note warning, "Prepare for the black winter." We leave it to our readers to determine what it might mean -- Ed.[/i]) [b]Part One[/b] Flesh tears in bloody strips. Hungry mouths -- huddled beneath golden gates, perched atop spires stargazing, laid low in a city of blinding heights -- await a feast from the theater of men. A grand play we are, greater than the silvered pens of playwrights could compose, our truths more subtle than the decrepit critics of ivory towers could ever know. One such prickly pen looks down from his high window, down upon the playhouses and brothels, the hot living places that history forgets. His office is to judge, but his verdicts are corrupt, his head filled only with dry words, dead poems he prizes while life beats in the city's heart below. He writes his sentences, but the ink just traces the empty path of hollow veins. How much better if his pen were alive, and his blood could flow again. A black winter will fall, and its tale shall be writ in blood. [center]-Quoth the Raven [img]http://www.enworld.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=31676&stc=1&d=1196630108[/img][/center] [/QUOTE]
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