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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9133386" data-attributes="member: 27780">Living Greyhawk Journal 04: May 2001part 4/4Dispatches: This is somewhat smaller than last time, only covering 23 countries over 4 pages. The faerie folk all joined forces to repel an invasion of humanoids in the Adri Forest. If prince Molil is responsible, he can expect some retaliatory pranks in the near future. River piracy is getting out of hand in Bissel, leading to much diplomatic scuffling about who’s job it is to actually do something about it. The Gnarley forest has become a three-way battleground between adventurers, humanoids and undead. We’re gonna need to train a lot more rangers. There are rumors that the cup and talisman of Al’Akbar have been sighted in Ekbir. This is good for the tourism industry, but dangerous for all the people travelling there, since a train of pilgrims attracts all kinds of monsters looking for easy pickings. The Celanese ambassador to Furyondy was murdered, which has obviously strained their relationship and needs an impartial group of adventurers to find the true culprit. Politics in Geoff is even more complicated, particularly since it’s recently been found the Grand Duke has been accepting aid from the fey. Just what has he been giving them (or promised to give them in the future) in return? Knowing the fey, it won’t go well if he welches on the deal. The Gran March is handing out honours to the people who acquitted themselves well in the last round of invasions. In the free city of Greyhawk, adventurers killed the wrong Xvart. Whether the law will be applied in a fair and even-handed way like it would with a human remains to be seen. The Highfolk suffered two fiendish incursions. One has been defeated but the other is still at large. Keoland’s king offers an amnesty for members of the Scarlet Brotherhood who are willing to rat out their co-conspirators. Watch out for false data from people only pretending to turn coat. Ket celebrates the 100th anniversary of their defeat of Iggwilv. Let’s hope she isn’t going to get revenge in some subtle way. Nyrond is also holding a big celebration due to founding a new village and hopes many adventurers will make their new homes there. I’ll bet something will try to sabotage it and make them needed. Onnwal manages to break through the Scarlet Brotherhood’s blockade and get some much needed supplies. The Pale is having somewhat less luck getting their caravans through the orc marauders, and on top of that they have mysterious cattle mutilations to contend with. Is it aliens? It wouldn’t be the first time. Perrenland managed to clear out their latest humanoid incursion, but someone has managed to steal the Bow of Light. Any chances a PC group will get the chance to wield it? Ratik is also dealing with attacks on it’s borderlands, but the central authority refuses to do anything about it, forcing the individual nobles to spend their own money on defending their lands. This is not good for the economy, but as long as the capital remains comfortable, out of sight, out of mind. Or maybe some kind of conspiracy. Better check for dopplegangers. Utavo the Wise undergoes an abrupt shift of personality thanks to a very sinister looking magical gauntlet he found in the mountains and engages in mass sacrifice & demon summoning to strike back against the Sea Princes. So much for there being a clear good and bad side in that conflict. Food shortages in the Shieldlands cause rampant inflation. Maybe they’ll declare a holy war to distract from that. Ulek increasingly suspects many of the people lost in recent fights against humanoids have been enslaved rather than simply killed. Rescuing them definitely seems like a good objective for adventurers. Dosselford’s mayor needs rescuing yet again. Skeptics killed in the Duchy of Urnst. This puts every priesthood under suspicion, but particularly the temple of Lydia. At least you have a little more leeway to be an atheist here than on Toril as it’s not an automatic eternity of torment. A certain Jolene is missing in Veluna. This may well result in more 4th wall breaking jokes by the players as they search for her. Finally, the Yeomanry faces an influx of refugees, some of them suspicious. Let’s hope whatever spies amongst them don’t completely destroy the compassion for the genuinely needy. Geopolitics around here continues to be complex and have multiple variants on the same problem turning up in different places around the world.Living Greyhawk Contact List continues to evolve slowly. They stop bothering to list the persistently vacant positions of Naerie and the Bone March, evidently they aren’t getting enough players in Sweden or Greece to even have a hope of filling them. They have managed to successfully fill the Sea Barons slot at last, with Marco Digennaro giving us some Italian representation, while the Lordship of the Isles goes to Marco Saoner from Spain. The number of players in the latin parts of Europe must be growing then. We also see Tim Marling replace Clay Hinton as head of the Bandit Kingdoms, Bruce Paris take Perrenland from Mark Somers and Chris Jarvis take the Duchy of Urnst from Ryan Hicks. Australia isn’t having much luck with finding a stable administration but otherwise it seems to be mostly business as usual.Another issue packed with useful crunchy stuff, flavoured with enough setting specific material to give what they’re serving us a little more depth, this is all consistently good. Only one more to go, and it’s definitely looking like it’s a shame they couldn’t make it work economically. Let’s find out if they’ll have anything particularly special as a sendoff, or it’ll just peter out abruptly without any real warning.</blockquote>

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