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Isle of Elemental Madness!

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White Mage leads desperate charge against vile corrupting forces gathering within an island fortress off the coast of Western La Noscea. Aleport - Western La Noscea Famous for lonely lighthouse keepers and it's clumsy lunchlady To the dockworkers and ship builders of Aleport it was a day like any other and yet within it's Tavern Sahja Lunis, White Mage of the Twelveswood, spoke urgently of an impending doom for the entire coastline and was gathering allies to prevent it. Her mission: search and destroy. “There's an abandoned tower off the coast here that's aether shifting violently towards Earth.” She informed this reporter. “And growing more corrupted besides. It's going to be dangerous, but it needs to be done or it'll start corrupting the coast.” It was her belief Cultists now claimed the tower and were bent on twisting the Elements to the point of catastrophe. When probed for proof of her claim she replied. Sahja Lunis Journeyman White Mage of the T
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The Late Great Doctor Zarkoff I Presume?

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Hunt for bogus Alchemist who’s been peddling shoddy tonics with wretched side effects ends with Adventurers making grim discovery. The Lithograph of this highly disturbing laboratory has been  censored for the Reader's sensitivity Answering a summons by Lady Aurelle Draunair this journalist quickly gathered half a dozen able bodied Adventurers to the home of one of Ishgard’s most provocative nobles. Within her sinister and macabre laboratory Draunair at first scolded people not to touch anything before announcing her latest findings following further study of Zarkoff’s Tonic. "This self-proclaimed doctor is a very incompetent alchemist. Alchemist, being a generous term to use."  She informed us.  "Our doctor is giving out plant food. Or, rather, what is supposed to be plant food. He's mixed in some other kind of product, a hi-potion, I think, which is tainting the mercury catalyst and causing it to end up in the product.” Lady Draunair had earlier identified the
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Poisons for Potions!

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Beware, Quack Apothecary leaves over a dozen sick with shoddy but addictive Health Tonics. Illustration  of tonics from Raven's lithograph Archive Peoples between the Shroud and Coerthas have been warned to stay on alert following a rash of poisonings.  The culprit goes by the name The Great Doctor Zarkoff.  The poor and needy are his targets. The Snake Oil salesman pedals cheap potions, sold under the promise they give a temporary vitality boost, but in truth have wretched side effects and cravings for another dose.  Symptoms include stomach and head pains, fever and lethargy.  No deaths have been reported yet but many have been left bedridden. Medraut de Vallerard, a healer in Ishgard, has seen the effect these bizarre tonics have on the folk who continue to sleep rough in the Brume.  “At first I believed it to be the result of too much ale at the Forgotten Knight, as the symptoms were similar to that of being inebriated ... about five of them had taken this fake 'tonic'.
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Royal Spat over Uniform Policy Set to escalate into violence

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Ishgardian Baroness vows to command men to spill blood to defend her peerage after spat with rival in a common Tavern.  The Forgotten Knight, Ishgard.   No chairs were thrown in the confrontation. Patrons of the Forgotten Knight were shocked at a heated exchange between Baroness Yloraine Roussemont and Lady Aurelle Draunair yesterday.  It began when Draunair accused the Baroness of gathering sell swords to silence her via ritual combat in Ishgard's Tribunal courts, the issue at hand being Lady Draunair's scathing remarks at an earlier encounter within the same Ishgardian establishment.  "Were you so afraid of my biting tongue?" Draunair challenged. Roussemont confirmed she did indeed have two champions at her side and vowed to end a conspiracy against her, stating "I believe you're in league with House Durendaire, who would have me ousted."  Laughing Draunair retorted. "I do not care for ousting you from your station, because you are inconsequential
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