Town Crier Announcements
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**Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The Land of Narfell is experiencing a NEW threat far to the south, which MANY have been talking of in recent times! This HOSTILE force is a force of malign powers and ill repute! There have been whisperings of FEAR and of WAR, but let it be known that Our NOBLE Senate has already adopted a most exaustive and defensive policy towards these southern menaces.
Our Noble City has overcome a war of TREACHERY and BLOOD, with our heads held HIGH and VICTORIOUS. You, the People of Peltarch, may rest EASY knowing that the Senate who Serve you are doing their UTMOST to preserve our new found peace and security! The Senate will NEVER allow insidious threats to enter our precious Jewel of the Icelace and infiltrate our HARD WON society!
In light of this, BY OFFICIAL SENATE DECREE, every SINGLE individual identified by the Office of the Magistrate as being affiliated with the so called"Crystal Army" is to be SHOT ON SIGHT within Peltarch lands by any members of the Peltarch Military Forces. All forces have their orders. Any Citizens encountering these individuals on Peltarch Soil are to act with EXTREME caution as they are DANGEROUS and SUBVERSIVE! Lists and discriptions have been placed around the city, and will be updated by our scribes as is relevant.
Additionally, you, the People of Peltarch, much be cautious of ANY travell southward to AVOID AT ALL COSTS any of the Crystals in the Nars Pass, for they are DEADLY. If travell is unavoidable then BEWARE and exercise the utmost in caution, for your own SAFETY and WELLBEING! Hear Ye, Hear Ye!**
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**Hear Ye, Hear Ye! It is truely ENHEARTENING to look ye around our NOBLE Peltarch and see that now, as we approach the mark of One Year since the traitor's Civil War that rocked our Unfortunate City the Fair Lady Des has BRAVED the STORM of GRIEF to mark the TRIUMPH of our noble warriors in the battle!
The Lady has organised a special Memorial Banquet in HONOUR of Those Who Have Fallen, in the tragic War we all bear the scars of! The HEROES of our Noble Jewel of the Icelace will NEVER be forgotten, with TRUE loyal citizens to WEEP and CHERISH them!
The Famed Priestess of our own Temple of Tyr, Daisy, will be giving a speech at the Banquet, which will be held in the newly constructed Amythyst Hall, Peltarch's TESTAMENT to PROGRESS in spite of the destruction wrought by the Civil War! How FITTING a place to hold this event!
Invitations are already being sent out to the Banquet's Guests! The FINEST Entertainment will be provided by Peltarch's Bards. Following the Banquet, the Commonfolk are also invited to pay their RESPECTS to the FALLEN! Hear Ye, Hear Ye!**
((Banquet on July 30th, 22:00 CET
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**Hear Ye, Hear Ye, one and all! The Peltarch Government requires YOU!
Are you skilled in the ancient governmental ART of ORGANISATION?!
Are you an ADEPT of the ABACUS? Have you a KNACK at NUMBERS!?
Do you YEARN for the smell of our FAMOUS Icelace Lake EVERY MORNING?
Do you LOATH the vile, scum who attempt to WEASEL their way into FREE MOORINGS!?
Do you recall the Narcotics Crisis and have a PASSION to scan, test and verify ALL goods imported into BELOVED Peltarch to PROTECT its Citizenry from Illegal Smuggling!?
Are you DEDICATED enough to LOVINGLY and DUTIFULLY log each and EVERY arriving and departing water vessel in our Noble Docks?!
Perhaps YOU, might be interested in the Most Noble Position of Peltarch HARMOURMASTER!?
Applications are now being taken by Herald Thril's team of scribes at City Hall, written applications ONLY! All Applicants will be most FULLY checked, verified and vetted by Herald Thril's men, comparing your persons to any and all past records the City has, for such an ILLUSTRIOUS post MUST be filled by the RIGHT individual!
Applicants note, pay will be no less than FIFTY of Peltarch's Golden Pieces for every month's employ, Hear Ye!**
((Pay per RL Week, PM applications to Linah
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**Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Those warriors who make this Fine and Noble City their home, the time has COME for you to repay the greatness granted to you by your Grand City! The Jewel of the Icelace has been DAMAGED, and it needs WARRIORS to guard it once again!
Our great and honourable Defenders who SAVED Peltarch from the VILLAINS who dared to try to rend everything we have strived for assunder, NEED you, mighty warriors! They need men to replace their GALLANT brothers who FELL in servitude to their HOME! They need LOYAL recruits to replace the TRAITORS who now rot in the NINE HELLS!
The Defenders are not for the faint of heart, however! They are the ARMED FORCES which PROTECT Peltarch from GREVIOUS threats on ALL SIDES, every day! Ogrekin, Kobolds, Banditry, Traitors and any who DARE bring hostility unto us! Their work is disciplined! Their work requires DEDICATION, TENACITY and LOYALTY!
IF you think YOU possess these traits, AND can handle a good suit of PLATEMAIL, then send your applications to Captain Varid of the Defenders of Peltarch! Hear Ye, Hear Ye!**
((Letters to Varid can be relayed via a PM to our one and only, Linah
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**Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Peltarch is Saved! Once more our city is PROVEN to be ever resilient and ever above VILLAINY, BETRAYAL and TYRANNY! Never has there been such a BRAVE display of FAITH, LOYALTY and FEALTY as when the VALIANT Loyalists, DRIVEN from their city, charged triumphantly BACK into our own Commons, BACK into our own Docks and BACK into our ravaged City!
On seeing the FURY and RIGHT of these stalwart men and women, the TRAITORS FLED FOR THE HILLS! Since then, the Officials of Peltarch have been at work NIGHT AND DAY restoring the SHINE to the JEWEL OF THE ICELACE! Though they dared to try to tarnish our Mighty City with their FILTHY Coup, they could NEVER succeed! Not while one stout heart remained beating! Not while Lavindo and Varid drew breath! Not while Anakore and his Knights remained alive! No, nor while Mildsilver, Brynmor, Re'cual or Black retained eyes to see the HORROR they DARED inflict upon their HOME!
Mourn ye, folk of Peltarch, the losses ye have suffered, but drink well tonight, for the losses ye have NOT! Hear Ye, Hear Ye!**
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**Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The Captain of the Knights of the Cerulean Stars, Sir Anakore, has decreed that it is his wish that he aquire a fine blade of Eastern origin, known to those from those far flung lands as a Katana!
The noble Captain is seeking the highest quality possible in magical Katana and will pay a HANDSOME fee in exchange for one, up to no less than Four Thousand Golden Coins!
Should anyone wish to approach Captain Anakore regarding this matter they are free and encouraged to do so, they may also leave a message for him at the Headquarters of the Knights of the Cerulean Stars in the Civics District, or we the Town Criers would be only too happy to relay a message to Captain Anakore regarding this matter! Hear Ye!**
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**Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Once again our city's most ALTRUISTIC and GIVING Noble Lady has taken it upon herself to contribute in her usual graceful and BENEFICIAL manner to the well being of our Noble City!
I of course refer to our own, one and only, Lady Desdirata! She has LONG contributed her funds to ALL manner of Peltarchan causes, from rebuilding our damaged docks to maintaining an adequate provision of entertainment in our fine establishments! Now she has AGAIN displayed the VIBRANCY and ZEAL her innovations are FAMED for!
Her latest contribution to the Jewel of the Icelace is nothing other than an ELABOURATE and EXTRAVAGANT Ball Room complex for our FINE citizens to attend GRANDOISE functions and dances! She intends to have a place created so GRAND as to equal the SPLENDOUR of the noble citizens of our Vaunted City!
The proposed construction will be in the Commerce District, for SIMPLICITY of access! Not one minor detail has escaped the imagination of Lady Des in her generousity! Hear Ye, Hear Ye!**
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The criers remain in their small groups in view of guards when delivering this message too.
**Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Peltarch's STALWART Defenders have proven they still retain men of honour amongst their ranks! They have shown behind all the squabbling bickering whelps TRUE Heroes have not been lost utterly!
Captain Kaster Lavindo's men, long stationed out in the Giantspires defending Peltarch from Ogre enchroachments and vile Hill Giants have all remained TRUE to the defenders who stood against the Giants in the Giant Wars, the Eastlanders and EVERY military threat which has ever assailed our Fair City! They have not forgotten their ways of honour and DISIPLINE, unlike MANY spurious defender platoons stationed closer to the City!
Captain Lavindo's men recently staved off a MASSIVE assault on their camp by Ogres, Hill Giants and Kobolds! Why? Because they KNEW if they did not fight, Peltarch would be attacked! They preformed the DUTY of the Defenders! They DEFENDED their city! They did it with skill and professionalism! All squabblers should TAKE HEED and remmber your DUTIES!
Hear Ye, Hear Ye!**
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The Criers deliver this particular message in small groups, and near City Guards, in case any defenders get any ideas.
**Hear Ye, Hear Ye! As many already know, Peltarch has suffered a viscious Ogre assault upon our vaunted walls! The Vile BEASTS were compelled to assault us by UNKNOWN agents acting against our Fair City!
The Beasts were armed and deadly, with brutish strength and destructive magical energies they nigh RIPPED APART our City's mighty western defences! Indeed, those of you who are old enough to remember the Giant Wars of old, will wonder HOW our MIGHTY Walls could be so threatened by MERE Ogres where before they withheld even the FIERCEST of Giants!? The answer is SIMPLE!
People of Peltarch, you have been WRONGED!
People of Peltarch, you have been BETRAYED!
People of Peltarch, you have been FORGOTTEN!
WHY were our walls nigh USELESS!? They were not MANNED! Our IMPERVIOUS seige artilery was UNMANNED! Our sky reaching walls were UNMANNED! Our ENTIRE Western Defences were UNMANNED!
Where were the NOBLE and STAUNCH Defenders of your LIVES? Where were the honoured and heroic men of the Giant Wars!? Where were them who fell and held back the Eastlanders for DECADES!?
Has the last BRAVE soul in our army been CUT DOWN!? Or are they on the streets, BEGGING their comrades to stop BICKERING!? Either way, they are NOT on our walls! NONE of them were!
Devin Telan, our most honoured Veteran of the Giant Wars! Our Leader of the Peltarch Defenders! Let your memory SHAME those whom you once held in utmost disipline! The Ogre assault was REPELLED, by Citizens of Peltarch and Knights of the Cerulean Stars! Shame! Shame, Defenders, Shame!
Wronged! Betrayed! Forgotten! Hear Ye, People of Peltarch, Hear Ye!**
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**Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Peltarch's FINEST entertainers, minstrels and bards have announced there will be another awe inspiring, entertaining and bedazzling Performance at the Peltarch Bardic Theatre on the Eleventh day of Nightal!
The Performance will again consist of three MAGNIFICIENT Acts which will cater to ALL citizen's tastes, from the humble farmer to the mighty Noble, the labouring Dock-hand to the holy Priest and the hawking Merchant to the Vaunted Senator! All are welcome, welcome all! Standing room is FREE OF CHARGE for those folk who have not the spare coin to spend on such a MARVELLOUS day out! Seating is five and twenty golden coins, twice this for Noble Seating.
The First Act shall comprise a piece devised by a pair of the College's creative and talented Apprentices! The young bards Nate and Daria promise to give an Act truely INVIGOURATING!
The Second Act shall comprise Mistress Eowiel Senella and the Apprentice Penny Lane, who promise a musical and creative interpretation so UNIQUE that they ASSURE you it's like has NEVER been seen in Narfell before!
The Final Act comprises the Masters of the College, who endevour to show that their Apprentices still have a thing or two to LEARN from them yet! They will be giving a RESOUNDING REMINDER that it is THEY who have been in the hearts and FOND memories of the citizenry of Peltarch for so many years and they are not done yet!
The Peltarch Bardic Theatre hopes ALL citizens and visitors to our Fair City can find the time to enjoy this AMAZING performance and encourages EVERYONE to come! Hear Ye, Hear Ye!**
((Time will be this Thursday the 17th, starting at 10pm GMT, and no later.
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After a period of basic and day to day announcements which lasted a few years the town criers are once again dressed in their old smart black jackets and out three times a day, heralding the city's news and telling of major events in a familiar old style.
**Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Dread Magicks of Negative Energies assailed our mighty City once again this tenday! This attack was MOST deadly, but while the evil powers were stronger, so too were our noble City's Knights of the Cerulean Stars!
The Elite Mystical Knights marched out of the commons en masse with a number of Volunteers from the city, inculding a unit of Defenders and Senator Mildsilver, to meet the cause of the FIENDISH assault upon the city! Indeed, the ENTIRE Watchtower was ablaze and the air BURNED and CRACKLED with magical doings of the highest order! The Knights quickly ascertained the nature of the magical threat with due aid from Senator Mildsilver and spent an EXAUSTIVE effort trying to destroy the VILE magical Pillars bringing the tirade of VIOLENCE and DESTRUCTION to the Fair Jewel of the Icelace!
Eventually, once more the great mind of Senator Mildsilver deduced the location of the weakness of the Pillars and once eliminated, the Knights led the FINAL assault upon the cause of the deadly dweomerings! With a RESOUNDING report that shook the ENTIRE hillside, the Pillars errupted into a BLINDING shower of shards, the terrible power falling onto the city ceasing INSTANTLY!
Under orders from Magistrate Barrim, the City Guard began to douse the fires and clear away rubble within the city itself, whilst the Knights remained on the hillside to douse and clean up the Watchtower, the work of the NOBLE and RESOLUTE members of the Peltarch Military AND The Temple of Tyr was to go on for many many days afterwards! Hear Ye, Hear Ye!**
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**Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The long time Senior Town Crier, Eowiel Senella, has STEPPED DOWN from her position and RETIRED from her Office! The Elven Lady has said that she simply has held the position longer than she can suitably fufill it and thus is allowing it to be given to someone more ABLE to hold it!
For those citizens who do not know, the Office of Town Crier is under the DIRECT control of the Peltarch Magistrates and as such, Magistrates Barrim and Zephlin are expected to appoint a NEW Senior Town Crier who will continue the administration of the Jewel of the Icelace's noble staff of Criers, DEDICATED to bring URGENT information, TOPICAL news and other matters to YOU, The People of Peltarch!
Applicants are to send a letter to the Office of the Magistrates detailing WHY they think they would make a GOOD, HONEST and RELIABLE Senior Town Crier. Pay is to be decided by the Magistrates but will likely remain at the current rate as paid to Miss Senella. Hear Ye, Hear Ye!**
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Once more, grim faced criers carry a short and terrible message to the people.
Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Senators Ayanie and Adam Bromley have been slain, fighting for the welfare of the city. May they never be forgotten.
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**Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The Trial of Ikurus Darkrune has been DECIDED! Magistrate Evendur Mildsilver presided and brought up SEVERAL witnesses to hear their evidence! Sir Ikurus stod accused of many HENIOUS crimes! Grand Larceny of the Seafarer's Treasury, Grand Treason and distribution of ILLEGAL drugs!
The young criminal was seated whilst the Magistrate Mildsilver systematically obtained all the evidence he required to give a JUST and FAIR sentence! Black Dragon Knights were stationed to prevent any manner of foulplay, guards assisted the Magistrate in moving the prisioner about and Knights of the Cerulean Star prevented the accused from casting any manner of magicks.
On the count of Distribution of FOUL and ILLEGAL drugs, Ikurus was determined NOT GUILTY, due to lack of evidence.
On the count of Grand Treason, Ikurus was again found NOT GUILTY, due to the actions of Senator Adam Bromley in tampering with witnesses.
On the count of Grand Larceny, Ikurus Darkrune was found GUILTY AS CHARGED for planning to PILFER large quantities of wealth from the Vault of the Seafarer's Guild! The crooked thief was given FIVE YEARS inprisionment for his planned MISDEEDS as well as Lifetime Banishment from the City of Peltarch upon his release, UNDER PAIN OF DEATH!
Magistrate Evendur Mildsilver has once again dispenced Justice in his characteristic concise and judicious manner! No more shall the Jewel of the Icelace be BOTHERED by this gang! Comendations to Senator Adam Bromley and his Advisor, the Lady Skyla and all who AIDED them in their EXPERT prevention of the crimes this group under Ikurus had been intending to commit! Hear Ye, Hear Ye!**
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**Hear Ye, Hear Ye! A most henious and FIENDISH crime has been commited within the city of Peltarch! A FOUL thief has taken some of Peltarch's most PRIZED hallmarks! Senator Rath Ashald is said to be ENRAGED and FURIOUS at the theft!
Early in the smal hours of the morning, on the first day of Eleasias, a VILLAIN crept through the Civics District. He darted past the City Hall, down from the main plaza, across the bridge and into Ashald Park. Therein he commited his DISPICABLE ROBBERY!
No less than an entire BUNCH of Peltarch's FINEST flowers have been stolen from Ashald Park, their broken stems remaining behind as PROOF of the devious theft and the ARROGANCE of the pilferer! Magistrates Barrim and Evendur are said to be working ALL HOURS in conjuntion with Captain Dunderstone and Senators Koreth and Ashald to recover the PRECIOUS flowers!
Will they meet with success? Only TIME and DEDICATION will tell! Hear Ye, Hear Ye!**
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**Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The life of our BELOVED Senator Myrie Makare is to be commemorated by her precious Bards at the Bardic College in the form of a GRAND PRODUCTION in her honour! The Production is oficially set to have three BEDAZZLING Acts, each dedicated to the kind lady we ALL miss every day!
The First Act shall be a musical piece based upon one of dear Myrie's greatest loves in life. The Second Act is a play newly written and dedicated to Myrie Makare by the playwrights and the Third Act is to be a variety of talented bards working in unison to create their perfromance, as Myrie always loved to see.
A Statue honouring Senator Myrie Makare is to be unveiled in the theatre and the Production is entitled; "Rememberance - The Patron Saint of Arts" in honour of the truest supporter of the Bardic Way Peltarch EVER had. Admission to this MASTERFUL social event, which NONE can afford to miss be they Senators or beggars alike, is FREE of charge, as Senator Makare would have wanted it!
ALL are encouraged and urged to attend, the day PROMISES to be entertaining and enjoyable for everyone! Hear Ye, Hear Ye!**
((Event to be held this coming Saterday the 21st of November, at 12 Noon EST, which is 5pm GMT, as a cautious preliminary time. If this changes there will naturally be an announcement to reflect that too
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Hear Ye, Hear Ye! A bounty has been placed upon Zargothis, the vile and most evil villain, long a FOE to our city! This fiend can be seen by his skeletal hand, dark armour and malign evil presence. Those attemping to bring in this bounty are advised to use EXTREME caution in their attempts, as this foe is one of the STRONGEST Peltarch has ever placed a bounty upon, thereby explaining the extremely large bounty his death has been granted. We ADAMANTLY suggest only those CERTAIN of a stratagem to defeat this monster dare to attempt to obtain this bounty, hear ye!
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The announcement is given by grim looking criers, is short and to the point, lacking any of Eowiel's usual style. Judging by her reaction to the assasinations, it is highly likely she assigned the task to a junior crier.
Hear Ye, hear Ye! Senators Shana Je'laan and Myrie Makare have been assasinated by forces hostile to the city of Peltarch. They will be mourned. Measures to procure the perpetrators are being undertaken. Hear Ye!
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**Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Adam Bromley and Roland Brynmor have both suffered VILE and DISPICABLE attempts on their lives! Each attempt was designed to show the other as responsible for this HENIOUS act of underhanded TREACHERY! Let it be known throughout the streets of Peltarch that NEITHER Adam Bromley nor Roland Brynmor could ever even CONTEMPLATE these foul and vile deeds!
Many of you have heard the speeches given by these honourable men, DENOUNCING the cowardly WRETCHES who are truely behind this ploy to sully the names of these GOOD men of our Noble City! The one or ones responsible for these acts be not only CURS, but they also WALLOW in the depths of IDIOCY to think that our vaunted citizens, our noble city and our honourable candidates could be taken in by such a FOPPISH and poorly thought out deception!
The People of Peltarch are all INTELLIGENT and the DOGS who have tried in VAIN to pull the WOOL over your eyes have clearly underestimated EVERY single man, woman and child in Peltarch. None among us, the people of the Jewel of the Icelace could POSSIBLY be fool enough to fall into this rediculous game. Hear Ye, Hear Ye!**
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Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Zephlin Re'cual has resigned from his positions within our honourable city and has departed in honour. May he live more prosperously and charily than he did here, Hear Ye, Hear Ye!
