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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8913639" data-attributes="member: 27780">The Raven's Buff Trumpeter 2-7s: July 19984 pages. Four more people try to sell themselves to the readers of the newspaper and win public office. Would you like to vote for Sir Tyrell Darkmoon, who's accumulated 8 different titles in the course of his adventures, but still says he'll support the common man over spoiled nobles and strengthen the borders against external enemies. Or Lord Knight Rashverak Dandelion, who says he'll mix strength with a healthy balance of nurturing to go. Denzil Lassar, who simply thinks he ought to be in charge because he's awesome. And Jenilynn Leyland, a priestess of Tyr who's appealing to the "won't someone think of the children!!!!" demographic. Well, that last one definitely wouldn't get my vote, as that has a long record of going bad places even with the best of intentions. Speaking of which, apparently followers of Tyr have been getting overzealous in general lately. The Knights of the Right Hand have been enforcing their own idea of what's good without regard for the city's laws so much that they get kicked out of the Knight's council. Whether that's because they're heroic rebels or lawful dickish paladins (possibly listening to too much bad advice from disguised Baatezu) I'm not sure, but this seems like setup for further plot twists in the near future. Of course, their fears aren't completely unfounded, given the number of adventurers that recently married alu-fiends. Enough of them have done dubious things that they've all been declared wanted criminals, putting anyone who married one in the position of needing to turn them in or have suspicion fall on them in turn. One has been "persuaded" to turn on the rest and reveal their secrets via a helm of opposite alignment, which unsurprisingly revealed they were all part of an abyssal network feeding information back to Mykyssa Jelan and a still unknown demon lord. Even though they might have been exposed, I'm sure they're still capable of causing plenty of trouble with their mind-control and teleporting powers before they're all banished. The hint that next year's big events might involve things from the underdark continue, as do the eruptions at Firestorm Mountain. (very much nominative determinism there) We also get a threatening anonymous letter that says the many disasters various temples have suffered over the last year are all orchestrated by one villain called The Checkmate, who will destroy more if his demands are not met. Precisely what those demands are remains to be seen, but if he's not full of hot air he must have some pretty effective & sneaky powers to cause all this damage without being suspected before. I guess there's no shortage of rare spells in the realms only known by a few to trick people with, as so many articles have shown us.</blockquote>

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