news feed; Friday, June 29th 2012

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Friday, June 29th 2012

Weather Mostly cloudy. A few showers likely. High 18°C and a low of 14°C (64deg;F/57°F)

Current Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous

Morning sirens go off at 5:15am, and evening sirens are at 9:16pm.

News & Advertisements

- There’s a Knight Flyers vs Grimmsocks Baseball Game at the Stadium today and one of AGI’s most popular talk radio shows are giving away three pairs of tickets right behind home plate! Just call in and sing a rousing chorus of “Take me out to the ball game” live on the air!

Then, be sure not to miss the Barbecue & Grilling Tailgate Throwdown Competition, where pitmasters from AGI and SERO’s rival smokehouse restaurants, Smokey Joe’s and Barbie Q’s, will be serving up samples of their finest ribs, pulled pork and brisket to fans in the parking lot after the 9th inning. Who will hit a Grand Slam in tender and tasty signature smoked meat?

- Now Buying Best rates for Crystal Spider webbing, harvested from the darkness. Deliver to Fergson Fedrick in the Underground Market,, maker of high quality wire blades. Best prices by the pound for stripped copper wiring in the city, too!
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[ News Notification Thread]

log no. 8 - voice

[inamartiniglass]

Now I've only been here for two months, but requiring Newcomers to get an ID without proposing citizenship is ridiculous. Instead of targeting us, try figuring out why the hell the Core is bringing us here. The governor seems more interested in tagging us like cattle for the slaughter than fixing the one thing that brings more problems to his island than just Newcomers.

[A soft, indignant my God is sighed before the feed cuts.]

video -> anonymous text; o11

[universaljanitor]

[The feed today clicks on, showing the Doctor in... a rather different mood than he's been in before. Less cheerful, less manic. His face is lined, brow pinched and furrowed in a mix between utter outrage and worry, and his eyes are dark and intense. Blazing with a fire that most of the Port hasn't been privy to, yet.

For you see? Three of his friends are/were missing. And while it seems that reports from those that are missing are trickling in, now... well. The fact that Newcomers were the ones who'd disappeared, after so much anti-Newcomer sentiment surging through the Port... and then the talk of IDs being required?

He's seen this cycle of hate and dissent time and time again. And it makes him sick]

In all my years, I've seen many, many things. Brilliant things, amazing things. The triumph of civilizations against all odds. The utter kindness a man can find in himself in times of crisis.

But I've also seen horrible things. Death and war and strife and famine... I've seen the casualties of the Battle of Watling Street, I've freed the tortured caught up in the Spanish Inquisition. I've looked over the countless kilometers of unmarked graves in the Jangreeth Civil Wars.

( non ic cut for length )

[His lips are pursed for a moment, tension clear in his face, nostrils flaring in barely supressed anger. But befroe he can say anything else... he reaches forward, and turns off the feed. He doesn't quite trust himself to keep a level head, past there.

But three hours later, in the middle of the night, an anonymous (heavily anonymous) text message will be posted to the Network.]

( Anonymous Text, cut for length )

Seventeenth Wish -- Video (Backdated to shortly after morning sirens.)

[hybrid_prodigy]

[He doesn't necessarily intend to talk to everybody, but he's too tired to make a filter. And he looks it. His face is pale and worn, as though he didn't get much sleep last night, if any at all. He doesn't appear to be physically hurt, at least. Not from the view the NV gives, anyway.]

I'm really sorry if I worried anyone.

Um . . . Miss Nelliel? Could you come bring me home? I wouldn't ask, but I'm pretty tired and don't think flying would be a good idea right now. [He's put his ki up a little above a resting level, to make sure he's easy for her to find; it'll be coming from Sector 6.]