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| * Eye Turned Inwards, the Internal Affairs branch of the All-Seeing Eye currently suspects over a half-dozen graduates of the Spiral Academy recruited subsequently into the Eye have been turned by House V'Neef to become their personal assassination squad. So far, no penalties or terminations have been authorised as the Eye Turned Inwards seeks to find out how House V'Neef are predicting who they will recruit. | | * Eye Turned Inwards, the Internal Affairs branch of the All-Seeing Eye currently suspects over a half-dozen graduates of the Spiral Academy recruited subsequently into the Eye have been turned by House V'Neef to become their personal assassination squad. So far, no penalties or terminations have been authorised as the Eye Turned Inwards seeks to find out how House V'Neef are predicting who they will recruit. |
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| + | I'm tiiknhng you might be eligible to enroll in a sleep study. You know, one of those ones where you're monitored for several days to "diagnose" your sleep problems. It will probably turn out that your only difficulty involves your housemates, but at least you will have gotten a few days of sleep before the doctors figure that out ;-) |
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− | * The Blessed Isle hosts over a dozen cities with populations well over 100,000 people. This is a relatively recent phenomenon (though historians note is merely e return to a fraction of the post-Contagion population) and has born an inescapable consequence – rampant and uncontrolled crime. The traditional method of bucolic maintenance of the law – a magistrate for each prefecture to decide cases and root out corruption and vice; a few dozen blackhelms to break up riots and deal with unruly foreigners; and an understanding with the local tongs to keep themselves to quiet extortion, illicit prostitution and animal fights – have completed fallen apart under the pressures of the increased urbanised populations.
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− | * The nights are now an alternate ecosystem of roving gangs, highwaymen and cammorae and the citizenry who venture from their homes are entirely at their mercy. Even by day, there is an explosion in crimes such as heroin dealing, selling slaves to mortals, armed robbery and rape.
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− | * These are being politely ignored by the Imperial Government and, as Exalts are immune to their depredations due to their elemental power and patricians mostly protected by their armies of servants, there is no sign that this will change. The Thousand Scales have developed statistical data to ‘prove’ crime is stable and to pour scorn on any ‘unmanly babblers’ that suggest there is a crime problem. Powerful political factions, lead by legendary magistrate archon-hunter, Leedal Tomei, and the current Paragons of Danaa’d and Heiesh, have subtly made their disapproval known for those who suggest that blackhelms – armed peasant-thugs whose place is institutional violence on the direct orders of their betters – should conduct investigations or develop proactive strategies or that power should be derivated away from magistrates towards prefects by expanding the blackhelms to a wing or even, Empress forbid, a dragon for a major city.
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− | * Only in such degenerate days could the family have gathered conclusive proof of Rat-Kin, degenerate beastmen living the sewers of[your city]. These filthy anathema-spawn kidnap the dregs of society- indentured servants and slaves- but what they do with their victims is still under investigation.
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− | * Magistrate Leedal Tomei, graduate of the Heptogram and ex-Immaculate Monk, is the greatest man-hunter in the Realm. Rather than having his own circuit, he awaits invitations from other Magistrates to pursue criminals that have left their chosen jurisdiction and chases them down relentlessly wherever they may go. Currently, he has besieged Pelep Tanic Alaric’s best pupil’s cloister near the Dam of Serpents, demanding they turn over an itinerant monk that has claimed sanctuary but is wanted for child-abuse.
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− | * Not everyone is taking the matter of crime quietly - There is a rapidly growing cult of Invisible Cricket Practitioners (think a Terrestrial style that carries the vibe of Mantis Style and Ebon Shadows Style) in Tuchara. This hidden cult utilize a new and entirely forbidden art in honour of the mysterious urban legend known as the Invisible Embodiment of Justice Black. This figure is usually portrayed as a tall black clad man in a black cloak, wearing a Black helm's helmet modified with the visage of a praying mantis. He is beloved for having brought down the Red River of Laugher gang (cocaine smugglers led by a faeblood), the Monarchi family (a patrician clan heavily involved in extortion and supported by House Peleps) and the Abbot Dandelion (who was subsequently shown to be using his temple as a brothel for children).
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− | * The Society of the Veil & Lilly are ancient and mysterious order of assassins and poisoners. Half their agents are spread throughout high society and focused in the Realm, Lookshy, Great Forks and Whitewall, waiting to strike, while the leaders are alchemists with no established identity. The society is known for never giving up on a contract and never being caught- so far, they have not failed a single time. Magistrate Krati of Barrosk captured one of the agents recently, but the agent had taken a poison that activated only when the agent was asked charm-enhanced questions. An antidote has been developed and awaits another possible subject for interrogation.
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