April 13, 1891
editor Nisha Rayna
senior reporter Pip Zarad

Re Grand Opening at the Theatre de Back Alley
article by Aerial    photos curtsey of Bungo

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A great time was had by all. The re-grand opening drew quite a varied crowd to the city,  Plenty of conversation, drinking, dancing, and ladies offered hours of entertainment. The Theatre offers a wide variety of entertainment including tarot card readings and massages. Mystyk and Dy did a wonderful job with the theatre and its new decor.  Walking in we received a warm greeting from the gracious hosts and made our way around to the many friends present.  The performances by the ladies on stage did not go unnoticed.  The bar attracted quiet a bit of attention as well, offering most anything anyone could think of ordering.  The theatre is sure to be a busy place with all it has to offer, drink, ladies, dancing, and more, your imagination is the only limit.  London has long been in need of such  entertainment, ambiance, and class.
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Recent Fires at the BURLESQUE TEA ROOMS

The recent fire was reported this week and if you remember on  April 3, in the late hours of the night, someone set fire to the door of the newspaper office while three people were inside.  Naya, Pip, and Nis all were able to get out with slight injuries once Bungo was able to take in most of the flames with Pip putting out the rest.  It was reported many bystanders on the street just stood around even though calls for help were issued.  Lord Bungo is issuing a reward for information leading to the capture of person or persons responsible for the blaze. Is there any connection between this fire and the one following…..

London According to Pip
“What Tea May Come”

I hope you are not all shocked to hear that the new tea room, in all actuality, does serve tea. After what a couple sources told me about the place, I wasn’t so sure. Many of these places are a mere excuse for the relinquishing of clothing from the female form. I am afraid that London’s brutish side loudly voices its testosterone-induced urges to the point of drowning out the likes of Shakespeare and Voltaire. The proprietor of the tea house seems to be a realist. While she is trained in the high class of theatre, the need to survive and make a living rears its homely head and has lead Miss Julianna Wilde to include … somewhat baser forms of entertainment. Our interview was done in the sitting room around a tray of tea. The room is richly decorated in deep reds and rather provocative paintings. Another lady, Miss Dasha Vondraczech (looking for a job as a dancer) was also with us at the time.

[11:10]  Pip Zarad: “So Juls, tell me more about your vision for this place.”
[11:11]  Dasha Vondraczech looks between the two of them with a simple endearing smile and nods in silence as she listens intently giving both speakers her attention.
[11:11]  Julianna Wilde: “oh yes indeed I hope we will always work together I am very flexiable”
[11:11]  Pip Zarad  grins.
[11:12]  Julianna Wilde: “well it has always been my dream to have my own theatre but it seems the general public in these parts do not have the stomach for Shakespeare and the like and we all have to earn a living so I decided on burlesque and Grand Guignol”
[11:12]  Pip Zarad: “Ah, I see.”
[11:13]  Pip Zarad  pulls out his pen and paper. “And have you been successful thus far?”
[11:13]  Julianna Wilde: “but for the grand re-opening there will be some wonderful additions to that”
[11:13]  Julianna Wilde: “oh yes considering the fire and this is our first few days back open we have been very busy”
[11:13]  Pip Zarad: “Tell me all about the new additions, but first, explain the fire situation to me.”
[11:15]  Julianna Wilde: “umm well I wish I knew where to begin, the show was going well, we had almost a full house, it was very exciting, I had just left the stage to change from my striptease to teh Grand Guignol costume when the smell of burning filtered through the air, it seems now a fire had been set on the roof”
[11:16]  Pip Zarad  frowns, remembering his own recent experience with a fire.
[11:18]  Julianna Wilde: “so my wonderful host for the evening, Mas, cleared the building and I am lucky to say no one was really hurt and only the roof and upper floors have been damaged which are now fixed and redcorated”
[11:18]  Pip Zarad: “You are very lucky then.”
[11:19]  Pip Zarad: “Any leads on the cause?”
[11:21]  Julianna Wilde: “Mas had a few burns and I tripped and bumped my head but the amusing thing was, if we can see the funny side is that I was in my betrayed bride outfit and coved in stage blood so it looked much worse than it was and as for Mas he seemed not to mind a few singes at all, I am trying to remember the wonderful man who carried me out, I forget his name, the father of Noko. Oh yes Pip I have a lead on the firestarter”
[11:22]  Pip Zarad: “Do ya now? Please explain.”
[11:22]  Dasha Vondraczech sighs wondering why anyone would want to cause damage to a place that brings joy to others.
[11:25]  Julianna Wilde: “well on the evening I was a little upset and confused as you can imagine, after all the expense and hard work by everyone involved so I had blurred some of it out, but having meditated on the subject I now recall a woman wearing a pink dress tell me she had seen a flying creature painting tar on the building and dropping a torch, the name she gave me was Emerald Melbourne”
[11:26]  Julianna Wilde: “I am still trying to remember the name of the witness”
[11:26]  Julianna Wilde: “but I do not think we were introduced”
[11:26]  Pip Zarad  jots down the name and then returns to his main body of notes with vigorous scratchings.
[11:26]  Pip Zarad: “If you find out, please let me know.”
[11:27]  Julianna Wilde: “Aye I will indeed. Pip, do you think the two fires are connected?”
[11:30]  Pip Zarad:  “It’s hard to say. Very well could be. “I’ll let you know if I find anything. I have a personal interest in this villian, obviously.”
[11:32]  Pip Zarad: “And what now, then, as your establishment rises from the ashes so to speak? Any pheonix-like additions to the place?”
[11:33]  Julianna Wilde: “give me a moment to meditate on it Pip i have a feeling something is coming back to me, *chuckles* oh yes but that is a secret for now.”

She would not tell me more of her secret, but I have no doubt it is something grand, coming from such the imaginative mind of an actress. Who knows what other things will be offered after that first cup of tea. Perhaps I will try a sip or two and find out.

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A New Sight to see in the City Square

Near the Ten Bells, while walking down the street, what should I see before me…..*rubbing my eyes to make sure it is not an illusion*.  A huge carousel stands right in the middle of the streets.  I asked a man nearby if  he knew anything about it but he just disappeared.  Walking around I met another lady, who seemed nice enough as well as another gentleman, both seemed to know only that it was not here yesterday.  As for the questions I asked regarding the fires and other things, well anyone that was close by left without saying anything.
A few days later…..the carousel seems to have vanished.
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Story time at the tavern

A wonderful evening of guresome, horrific tales read by Morgdah quiet a crowd to the tavern.  As she read “The juniper tree”, “The Goose Maid”,” The Crows” and” The Death of the Little Red Hen” by grims fairytales, a captivated audience asked for more and more. When asked if she would be willing to read again or make this a regular event, her answer was “possibly”.  The crowd cheered and clapped and expressed their wishes to hear her read again soon.

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Musings of a muse:

—Lovett’s Meat Pies—-
by free lance writer  Sinnurna Cooperstone

*feeling my stomach growl and the sudden sucking in my gut, I looked down* “alright, alright already..ghesh. I know your hungry!” *I exclaimed as I strolled thru town accidently bumping into a passing patron and counting his change* “Hmmm..not to shabby, a few coins” *the pouch felt light but heavy enough for her uses*  “I think this calls for a world renown, best in bread, meat pie!!”  *my stomach answering back in a neko like voice, as I travel over to Lovetts pie shop*

(Its a quaint little place across from the hospital. Cannnnnt miss it.)

*The door opened to my touch with a little clamor, and instinct took over..yes little mouse 9 o’clock..appetizer..num, num! licking her finger off daintly as the tail disspeard down her throat causing a tickle like no other*

“MMMmmm.. I love this place already..ohhhh lookie lookie..” *Lowering my face to sniff  the various topped pies and taking a seat tucking a bib in rapidly and another laying across my lap*

(yes soo..I’m a messy eater, sue me! But a woman has to do what a woman as to do..in this case..its EAT!!)

(SOo..what was I talking about? ohhh ..*glances around* Supper!)

Soon after the owner came over offering some of their best, with a little mug of ale.. *blowing the dust in a poof from the top of the pie I dug strait in, after coughing a bit..well maybe it was’nt dust..could have been sugar?* *I shrugged, softly as my mouth watered at the first bite, little gristly, definally dripping with fat.  Slosh that down with some Ale, wash rinse and repeat..”MY KIND OF MEAL!”

I left a few coins on the table and tip toed out, “honestly I did leave coins! Damn mice probally stole off with them..”

“All in all I give it two paws up!. Very cozy, quite romantic, “the mice where great, the pie was better!”  It was a bit distracting at times, as I would occasionally hear a gurgling sound, someone must have been brushing their teeth and dropped the water basin cause I heard some soft sliding noise and a clammer, but at times like when your hungry who cares right?”

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London According to Pip
“Fountain of Youth”

It never ceases to amaze me what and who I come in contact with in our fair city. Picture, if you will, a man aged beyond natural looks, gray and pastey … almost eaten away of outward vitality. With him is a woman, black as midnight, who drinks like a sailor. Her past seems shrouded in mystery, as though they are both hiding something. The man, a doctor, is more of a scientist as I see it. The man as devoted his entire life to the longevity of mankind. I asked for an interview which I will now include.

[16:50]  Cliff Connaught  smiles “I’m not sure that my story will be all that fascinating. As a boy, I was very drawn to the idea that life was too short. I became nearlly obsessed with it, you might say, and so I have dedicated my life to discovering ways in which it might be extended. In the couse of this, I have developed many treatments which not only extend life, but almost as a byproduct make the living of it more pleasant”
[16:51]  Magdalenamarie Connaught listens to her husband speak and rubs her shoulder with her free hand
[16:52]  Cliff Connaught: “you, see, most of what we think of as the aging process is a result of the constant erosion of our natural life-forces by the stresses and ill-feelings we collect in everyday life.”
[16:53]  Cliff Connaught: I have devoped treatments which particularly address the erosion of the curative faculties of the nervous system, particularly the pineal gland, or ‘third eye’ as it is called. A healthy pineal will make a healthier person, I have found.
[16:58]  Pip Zarad: “And what brought the two of you here to London?”
[16:59]  Cliff Connaught: “Homesickness, you might say. Though I was born in Ireland, I have always thought of London as my home. It’s been far too many years that I’ve been away, and I thought it time to return and renew my acquaintance with the old girl.”
[17:09]  Pip Zarad: “So do you have high hopes here? Tell me about the run in you had with the angry husband.”
[17:11]  Cliff Connaught: “I hope to be able to be of service, to provide some relief to those who suffer in the city. And, for myself, to renew my acquaintance with my home, to feed on her bounty, you might say, and in doing so renew myself as well.”

He was not able to give me a demonstration of the process, but did show pictures of before and after which I will include for you all. It is … amazing, to say the least. A feat of medical ability beyond my understanding. It appears that the altered state is dependent on continued treatment.
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But what is the price of eternal youth? You need only ask a vampire to understand to ageless monotony of long life. Without knowing what is involved in the process, I would only hazard a guess that with great feats such as these which attempt to counter the natural course of life, a price of equal value is wagered.
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Hospital  Reporting

Dr. Neko reports that there are two new staff members at the hospital
A new attending physician - Dr. Rowan Vultee
A new medical/personal asst - Sinnurna Cooperstone
(hopefully we can interview these staff members next week and learn more about them)

Recent accidents Reported

The fire at the tea house, though I only had one patiant and she was fine. Other then minor cuts and bruises though, nothing out of the ordinary

Recent attacks Reported
None

Recent deaths Reported

One recently DISCOVERED. Though it looks like the man had been dead for weeks so theres no way to tell. I’ll be performing an autopsy this week.
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Recent Arrests, Complaints
At the time of printing we were unable to contact the sheriff.

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Unknown Object appears in TornOak

An unknown object has appeared in TornOak, at the present time we are unsure of what it is or where it came from, the residents and visitors to TornOak are asked to keep there distance for the time being.
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Help Wanted:
London Legacies Gazette is hiring for the following postions.

Gossip Columnist
Staff Reporter

Please see Nis if interested.
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Help Wanted:
Local business woman, BreAnda Wendt, seeks maid and/or butler for position at The Black Rose, a finishing school for young men and women. At this time the position may include help with rennovations as the school prepares for its opening.

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Grand Opening Rescheduled:

Phoenix Nights:

The Grand Opening for the Burlesque has been rescheduled for April 25th  4pm.

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NOW OPEN

REJUVENATION CLINIC

Doctor Clifford Connaught is Pleased to Announce the opening of his Rejuvenation Clinic.
Having spent decades in travel and study perfecting his techniques, Doctor Connaught has returned to London with a series of Unique Treatments for Nervous Disorders, the effects of Aging, and various and sundry Debilitating Conditions. His Treatments are such that most patients experience a Complete Relief, and many never have cause for complaint again.

Offices are now open, in the warehouse building to the East of the Hospital. Appointments may be made through Magdalenmarie, the Doctor’s Wife and Assistant.

April 7, 1891
Editor: Nisha Rayna
Senior Reporter: Pip Zarad

FIRE AT THE LONDON LEGACIES GAZETTE PAPER OFFICE
by Nisha Rayna

Due to the Fire Friday evening, some of the copy was lost, we are looking to see which articles and ads are missing and they will appear next issue.

Who would want to burn down the local newspaper, that seems to be the question everyone is asking this week.
Late Friday evening as Pip, Nis, and Naya sat in the office talking of possible leads for articles in the latest edition of the London Legaces Gazette, an unknown person set the door to the building aflame.  Those present say they heard a noise near the door and the area smelled strongly of lamp oil.  Upon opening the only door to the building, flames leapt up and in.  Pip tried his best to beat out the flames with his jacket while the ladies stayed near the window next to Nis’s desk, a possible escape route should the fire not get extinguished.
Bungo then appeared outside on the street, on the other side of the door, and took the flames into his lungs leaving only the smoke and damage to contend with.
The blaze damaged 36 percent of the building, leaving the structure intact but the interior extremely damaged,and all equipment destroyed.  Work crews will start to work immediately replacing the door and windows and  the interior that sustained damage during the blaze.

REWARD!!!!! 5000 coins: For information leading to capture of arsonist, who started the fire at the paper the night of April 3, 1891.

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London According to Pip
“Chasms and Schisms”

As I intimated at the outset of these articles, this humble column was conjured with the simple vision of bringing a little cohesiveness to the diverse body of characters who are living, breathing, and grasping for their niche in this complex cosmopolitan world we call London. I have a piece of mind to share with you on this subject that has broken my peace of mind. Now, lest I revert to my preaching days under the aged tutelage of the long-winded Father Maple, let me take a deep, cleansing breath and try to expel my intense emotion and be as objective as I can.
As you may know, a mysterious and callous force decided to set fire to the newspaper office, causing a good bit of damage. (Please, if you don’t like the way we’re running the paper, you can always talk to us about it before feeling some incendiary desire to burn us to the ground. We really are quite reasonable.) Who and what was salvaged from this very unreasonable display of destruction, you might say, depended greatly on those willing to accept an active, positive role in the situation. Unfortunately, bystanders remained bystanders, apparently due to previous fears, grievances, and pride. The fact is, the gazes of passive onlookers, unconcerned for the common good of London and the lives of its people, are burned into my memory more deeply then the physical flames in my flesh.
It was not long after this experience that I witnessed another example of a trying circumstance made more difficult by personal hostilities. Miss Nee sought help of Nis and Kyra to be rid of the demon inhabiting her, and after not a little violence, the demon left Nee and entered Nis. I took it upon myself, at this point, to find Bungo and Vog to attend to their mates. How was I supposed to know that even under these desperate circumstances, fear and hatred would arise among the group? Even Dr. Neko, attending to the grievous wounds of Kyra and Nee, was distracted by the presence of Vog because of her knowledge of his previous actions. And I as well, my hand poised above the gaping, bloody chest of Kyra, found hostile musings filling my brain. It was at that point I realized the power we all have; the desire to work evil toward those we have learned to hate (even if for good reason) and the ability to hold back that malice in forgiveness. And so my hands rested there, as if an analogy of every person in London, hovering between grace and judgment.

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London According to Pip
“On to the Theatre”

I have only recently discovered that there is a theater of sorts on the south side of town. Not long after, I found that it has come under the management of my very own adopted family, the Toreador. It is called Theatre De Back Alley and it appears we are in need of eager persons. Eager for what, it is hard to say, though my imagination runs wild through the options. I do know, after talking to Dy NIghtfire, that activities will include, but not be limited to, a tarot card booth, beautiful dancing, a full bar, bath house complete with full body massage parlor, female … company, and very . . . unique, live shows. It is an expansive place of two stories with room for dancing, music, and even an elaborate fountain in which I must admit taking a dip with a lovely woman. If you venture a visit, I would evaluate the teeth of whomever you go with. It is a prime place for relaxing, enjoying a show, and draining the blood of your date. To find out more, I suggest visiting the openning this Thursday night at 5slt. Should be an interesting time.

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Help Wanted:

Legacies Memorial Hospital

Now Hiring various positions (Shelter and Food Provided)
Paramedics
Nurses
Medical Assistants - Students
Mortitian
Possible lab technicians
Please see Dr. Neko Nacht at Legacies Memorial if interested

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Sheriff seeks Deputies
Please see  Sheriff Crionis Brinner
The jail is located around the corner from the newspaper office

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Theatre De Back Alley

Now hiring
Dancers, Security, Bartenders, Masseuse/Masseur
Interested parties should contact
Dy Nightfire, Mystyk Nightfire, or Jenny Marshall

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Help Wanted - Opening Soon

Burlesque Tea Rooms
Staff Wanted

Are you a waitress or dancer with a taste for the macabre
Then come inside