Inside sources at City Hall confirmed Mayor Violet Canongrove has personally extended invitations to each of the city’s five powerful factions to send select members to a meeting to “decide on a matter of importance to Auxientia.” Details can only be speculated on at this time but anonymous sources within
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For the fifth straight week, Haze Plague infects Auxientia, the death toll rising to 3,400 in the past week. Entire neighborhoods lie barren in the wake of the illness. Industries have shut
Flowers appeared on every block today as the city mourned the passing
At his residence in this city, on Wednesday last, in the 105th
Beginning in the early Steam Age, the lads and ladies were instructed to put lumenstones in their various mechanical wonders and did not bat an eyelash. They worked for Luciole Ltd., powering the numerous innovations that have become part of our everyday life; from sky transports to the Pneumatic Translation Devices (PTDs) that allow us reliable communication in the palm of our hands. Since the work required great detail, only those with a sharp set of eyes and steady hands were allowed the final step in the manufacturing process. Each worker would repeat this hundreds of times per day. Work
Will the Bāhira two-leader problem ever be mended? It was a quiet autumn afternoon when the two Bāhira leaders shook hands and walked away from one another over the decision to support Auxientia’s Airship Force Initiative. With the factions of Auxientia gridlocked—Parastin and Irregulars against the vote and Gilded and Luciole for it—-it fell to the Bāhira to break the stalemate and decide Auxientia’s future in the air. The vote, which was introduced ten months ago, would create a military Air Force under Auxientian control in the interest of policing the skies against pirates and defending Mutu’s borders, as well
For the fifth straight week, Haze Plague infects Auxientia, the death toll rising to 3,400 in the past week. Entire neighborhoods lie barren in the wake of the illness. Industries have shut down, mines have ceased operation. All of Auxientia lies fallow while death grips it in skeletal clutches. Haze Plague began as a result of the industrial pollutants regurgitated from the smokestacks of Auxientia for the refinement of lumenstone. While new procedures in lumenstone refinement allow for a longer shelf life and greater power capacities, these processes appear to have created air impurities, which have led to this devastating
Fires blazed above the intersection of Fleet and Harmony Street on Friday, burning several old buildings to the ground. The fire spread to the adjacent block, which sustained heavy damage. Thanks to the efforts of local heroes, no one was injured in the blaze. The three-hundred-year-old building that caught fire was the old Auxientian Bank, formerly the Treasury of Mutu. Auxientian Police Patrol officers investigating the ruins after the fire discovered an open trapdoor, the edges of which showed the recent gouges of metal tools and instruments, however there were no signs of people inhabiting the space. If the looters
Flowers appeared on every block today as the city mourned the passing of Cal Leo, former ambassador to the West Beyond. At times gangster, drug runner, smuggler, and scoundrel, Leo’s relationship with Auxientia was a complicated one. He began life as a poor urchin in Smokedown district, where he grew up on the streets, begging and stealing. Later in life, he said: “I felt left behind by the Parastin Order, the Gilded; the Bāhira would have nothing to do with someone like me, uncultured and undisciplined, and there was no way someone like me was going to have the smarts
For the fifth straight week, Tomison Arow has sat at the top of Jurmo Bridge. Passersby see him day and night at his post. Auxientian police have spoken with him due to public concern, even once arresting Arow and placing him in jail for a night, but the next day the peculiar figure—long beard, bald head, dressed in a Luciole LTD. inventor’s costume with leather apron, hammer, tongs, and all—resumed his seat by the lamppost, where he sits and seems to stare into the river below. “He isn’t causing any trouble,” said Auxientia Chief of Police Tanik Robard. “If Arow
In the first violent clash in fifty years, Auxientian forces engaged beyonders in a minor skirmish along the Western Walls. Two Auxientians and five beyonders were slain in the fighting. The conflict broke out on Wednesday morning when Parastin scouts at the Western Wall reported a beyonder patrol moving close to an old patch of wall in disrepair, damaged heavily in the fighting in the Six-Year Siege that threatened Auxientia’s western territory. The Parastin Order reported the incident via telegraph, and Luciole air transports arrived soon after with Auxientian Armed Forces and a scout ship, which surveyed the area for
The remains of a Parastin soldier were discovered along a stretch of the West Wall Thursday, buried in five separate places—north, south, east, west, and central, following the points of the compass revered by the Parastin Order. The remains belonged to Jahira Kalzahad, the hero responsible for saving the remote village of Sebuus from attacks by organized gangs of outlaws last year. In spite of the Parastins’ insistence that they investigate the death of Kalzahad on their own, the Auxientian central police have sent the Auxientian Investigation Module to report their own findings. The Auxientian Chief of Police issued a
Auxientian police are investigating the murder of Palani Bri, industrialist, after the destruction of his airship, Regata, last week. Regata departed from Steam Station Port on Monday with a skeleton crew. Bri’s planned to test a new hydrogen spanner he hoped to patent post-flight. The ship sailed the air for thirteen minutes before catching fire and plummeting to the ground. Neither aerobrakes nor parachutes were deployed, and the ship continued to earth unhindered. Of the crew, twelve of the thirteen were discovered on the ground, having escaped in personal gliders. The Auxientian Investigative Module questioned the survivors, but AIM have