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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8745967" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 116: February 1996part 1/532 pages. Return of the comedy humanoids! This time on skis! Jim Holloway gives us one of his wacky illustrations where humanoids ape more civilised cultures poorly, which probably isn't going to end well for someone, but when your breeding rate is several orders of magnitude faster than humans you can lose many battles and still win the war. I guess comedy season is coming early or something. Time to see how irritating it is this time around. The Raven's Bluff Trumpeter: The main thrust of the news continues to be building towards war. Sarbreenar was indeed pretty thoroughly destroyed and looted last month, although they managed to evacuate most of the people, so they're optimistic that they'll be able to rebuild in a few years if they don't suffer any more catastrophes in the meantime. While a decent chunk of the Raven's Bluff forces were away dealing with that, a large and well organised fleet of pirate ships attacked Raven's Bluff harbor, while goblins attacked from the land. They were eventually repelled, but not without cost, and it's increasingly obvious some mastermind with inside knowledge of the city's watch schedules is behind all this. Let's stay unified as a city, find out who it is and strike back! This jingoistic attitude does not please the priests of Eldath, who are pacifistic to the core, and they're foretelling woe and catastrophe. But despite all this, life goes on. There's still the usual gossip about political figures maybe having affairs, and follow-up on what caused the recent admantite shortage. Apparently the price was being kept artificially low by smuggling, the people responsible were caught, and now none of the smiths want to pay the full legal price with tax on top so there's none available at all. Man, what a breakdown of supply & demand. It may come back in the future, but if it does it'll be much more expensive. Guess this war'll have to be fought with inferior iron weapons & armor. Another month of generally thickening plot then, with things looking increasingly interconnected. Hopefully the tournaments at this time were actually letting you engage with these events in meaningful ways.</blockquote>

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