Dissolution News - 29th of Growth, 721

Sources

• The Courier: the largest and most reputable paper in Ptolus, albeit one with a slight pro-Empire slant.
• The Guilder: a newspaper covering local guilds, currently under the control of the Ironworker's Guild.
• The Market Voice: a reputable paper focused on economic news and information; the source for classified ads as well.
• The Midtown Partisan: a gossip sheet mostly focussed on the noble families.
• The Noble Record: once serious competitor to the Courier, now centered on entertainment news, noble gossip and fanciful fictions about actual people.
• The Ptolus Herald: a widely circulated paper largely considered factual but with a clear anti-Empire bias.
• The Undergrounder: a seedy rag that serves up rumors about the events and people of the criminal underworld.

The Unlikely Six

• As a group
  • detect alignment shows many of them to be chaotic.
  • lots of comments about the "oddball" nature of the group, particularly mixed races.
• Caralaria
  • fashion is being imitated
• Lostwhite
  • clearly a barbarian sympathizer, in on the "plot"
• Naerai
  • Some sort of racist drivel
• Oreni Erthuo
  • Lots of mentions of father being an embarrassment
• Scoffney Shever
  • Hint of connection to Longfingers
• Sikarsis

The Runebearers

• Dullin Balacazar, grandson of Menon Balacazar
• Darata Chornim
• Corrent Epathi
• Tarthia Kor
• Wacther in the Skies

The Ledger

• Oreni's father Otan Ertho is listed several times for appointments with Erepodi.

Odds & Ends

• Inverted Pyramid
• Pythoness House
• Soaring Idyll apartment building falls in the Nobles' Quarter (looted an hour later).
• Some rumor that is really something that escaped from the Banewarrens.