A Holiday Venture-Gossip Column!

Hello, Pathfinders!
This month is full of new gossip and fascinating new people popping up and around the Grand Lodge!

First off, we’ve been sending so many people over to Jalmeray and I am so jealous. I bet the weather is warm and lovely and the people are handsome and beautiful and gorgeous, and the food is delicious! But, alas, your Venture-Gossip must stay where their heart is: Absalom!

(At least until I get shipped off again for sneaking into private areas…)

Who have I seen lately? Well!

A new socialite has appeared on the scene! I haven’t actually seen her in person, since last month I was in the Mwangi Expanse talking about ships, ugh. But she’s apparently quite wealthy and quite lovely, keep your eyes peeled for Duchess Hesla Embersplitter!

Oh, right, I was asked to mention this:

If any of you have seen Kitsch’s favorite marble pestle, she’d appreciate it if you’d make sure it makes its way back to the Office of Procurement and Supplies before the end of the year. She needs it to powder some poison arrows and help prepare her popular ginger and cardamom cookies for the holiday party. She last saw the pestle when she was putting it in her left cheek pouch.

Anyway!

The Waterfall has been wandering around the Grand Lodge lately, sending people on all sorts of missions to various islands! I tried to poke my head into a meeting and was informed by her that my “natter wasn’t currently re­­quired for such a delicate meeting.” If any of you know what that word means, I’m eager to learn myself.

A handsome visitor has come to visit our own Fola Barun, perhaps for a lovely Crystalhue dinner? He’s a lovely fellow by the name of Yellick Broadcoat and seems to have rolled into town just in time for the festival of the winter solstice!

Illustration by José Luis Islas López

I’m eager to see who gets up to what and with whom, though I know for sure that a certain Miss Decemvirate Petulengro will be accompanied to the festival on the arm of Miss Kinlynn Silverstride!

Left to right, illustrations by Saruna Macijauskas and Carol Azevedo

That’s all I have for now! Have a merry solstice and a happy new year, Pathfinders!

With adoration,
Your Beloved Venture-Gossip

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This is our last Organized Play blog of the year! From all of us to all of you:

Happy new year! We’ll see everyone in 2024!

Shay Snow
Pathfinder Society Developer