New Arcosians in Mourning

The Arcosian Dragonborn are in a period of mourning, as one of their High Imams, Indran bin Denor Salam, died recently. It was quite a shock for many, since he was in good health and was prominent in the public eye. Well loved by all, his calls to prayer and his religious speaches were favorites of many Arcosian. He will be put to rest later in the week, after the period of mourning and weeping has been met. As of know, the rest of the High Imams have cloisterd themselves away in mourning, and have not relased any information to the public.

Our hearts go to our Dragonborn neighbors, and as they say, "May the wings of the prophet carry you to serenity."

San Si,
Wuu Tai News

New Plague?

There has been a new decease outbreak around dwarven town called Halor’s Hearth. Only a small population has been infected by this new disease, and much is still unknown,but it has some very unusual symptoms. Most of the victims have been affected by paralysis of some sort, and some softer tissues and some skin patches have died on the on the living victims. In addition, people who have the disease are known to babble uncontrollably and experience disorientation, memory loss, and inability to eat. Even with the dwarven newly emerging unorthodox schools of medicine, the dwarves are unable to cure this sickness. It is still largely unknown how the sickness spreads, but the dwarves reassure the world in their effort to fight off this epidemic.
To quote one of the dwarven lords who commented on this issue, Lord Eberk Breaksmith: “We’re doing the best we can. Trying different combinations of ingredients seem to have fought off some of the symptoms, but enhances the others. We want to assure EVERYONE that somehow I always had the means to fight this epidemic, and we are currently mass producing the cure. As per instructions left to me, I will ship out and administer this new cure before this horrid plague gets any bigger.”

Sao Zhou,
Wuu Tai.

Breaking news: Unkown caravan has begun descending Titanspike Mountain

A large caravan of elf like people was seen descending Titanspike Mountain yesterday. Titanspike mountain has long been known to connect our section of the world to both the feywild and the shadowfell. However most eladrin that come to our world come by airship. The people descending the mountain seem to have no form of airship technology. Witnesses have reported seeing dragons flying with them and apparently defending them. Those that have been reaching the ground have been heading north towards Gnollclaw Mountain, and strange glows have been seen emanating from the mountain. We have no other information at the time for that region has long been abandoned by most people due to demonic infestation. We will however attempt to keep you loyal readers up to date as we begin re-entering that region of the world thanks to the Storm Crows, who apparently cleared a major section of the area of the gnoll and demon infestation
Head editor - Wuu Tai News

World Trade Event

The Ministry of Arcane arts at the University of Wuu Tai has raised concerns with the Council over the recent shortage of supplies coming from the Feywild. As it happens, some of the services that help our brothers keep our city safe, such as barracks-site teleportation, are reliant on reagents imported from the Feywild. The Ministry argues that without a restored flow of these imports, many such services will have to go on restricted use, lowering Wuu Tai's overall readiness. The Council dismissed these claims as unfounded at their meeting last week, saying that Wuu Tai's effectiveness was not tied to a foreign exotic land.

Anonymous sources working at the air tower have revealed that the Jhaer Jhaes ol si Shol Trading Network, the city's main trading partner from the Feywild, have not made their scheduled shipment in 2 months. Reportedly one of their ships docked recently, but was one that had gone rogue, and was being brought to dock by the famous Storm Crows, last season's champions. This reporter was unable to reach officers of the air tower for comment on the situation, but it would seem the Ministry's claims of shortages are not exaggerated.

One thing's for sure, if these services become restricted, it will save me some coin for daily travel, but I will have a very long walk home every night.

Y.T. - Underground Press

Potions and tools - i can haz?

At some early point during the rest period in Wuu Tai, Rook shows up at Tim's door (or our door, or any door at which Rook can show up) with a number of things:

-A badly scribbled list of magical concoctions, clearly cribbed from Tim's reference book on item creation, along with hash marks next to some of them;

-A very large bag of gold;

-and the vague look of begging on his face.  You know, the look you get when you're the one person in the party who everyone knows can craft items.

(Requests for miscellaneous consumables that Rook can stuff into his backpack for later use.  Full list in the comments, to keep from spamming the board.)

The total loot from the Firestorm, and Mephistopheles' ship

In the Firestorm was found:

Boots of Striding and Springing (level 14, claimed by Xan)

2 potions of vitality (unclaimed)

In addition, the captain's and first mate's quarters contained, respectively:

Caustic Gauntlets (level 16, claimed by Cas)

Torc of Power Preservation (level 15, claimed by Tim)

And finally, in Jim's quarters upon his family ship, you found varied gems, gold, silver, and stolen art objects, worth a total of 9,000 gold pieces.  Some of them look to be of eladrin make, and others look very old, possibly found by his crew.

New Implement: Arcane Tool

Arcane Tools: Arcane tools are devices conceived long ago by the Old Empire engineers in order to aid the humans of the coast. Nobody really knows who or when the first arcane tools were made, but the creation can certainly be traced to one of the greatest human craftsman Cortez De’ Samerium. Arcane tools very greatly in their use and in their price. The simplest arcane tools are used by farmers to create “mage lifts”, unseen servants, mage hands, or to conjure water where needed. And the most complex arcane tools can be used to teleport entire armies, stop time on the battle fields, and bring back those who have fallen.

All arcane tools have a purpose and are lovingly created by the Old Empire humans. In fact, arcane tools have become heavily integrated into the life style of the humans in the south, and “Old Faith” design arcane tools are very common. Arcane tools have capacity to store and endure modifications, allow the same arcane tool to be used from early childhood into late adult hood. As the user of the arcane tool grows and gains experience, that person may buy a new arcane tool or upgrade an existing one.

Because of their common use, many cities use arcane tools for public service. Natural or unnatural disasters cannot be overcome by simple arcane raw power, however thousands of citizens can participate in a ritual at a moments notice to stop or slow down a possible threat.

It is however, rare to see arcane tools among non south human people. Although there are no laws or licenses concerning arcane tools, the humans always make it seem that ownership of arcane tool is restricted and a form of honor that will not be granted to outsiders. This is only due to their own arrogance and self superiority.

Old Faith: This is one of the most basic arcane tools. Initially, it allows user to cast a modified mage hand, that can lift up to 60lb for five minutes requiring 1gp worth of residium. In addition the user gains +1 to ritual castings, and is able to draw “runes”.

Pestilinye: This tool is favored by hard laborers. Initially it can grant the user 5 resistance to any one element for 5 minutes at cost of 4gp and this tool can create any physical non magical item for 6gp worth of residium. It grants a +1 to ritual casting.