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I'll be starting Endless Night with my group this weekend, & going along with the sandbox possibilities of spending time in the drow metropolis, I came up with some rumors to be found via Diplomacy (gather information function). I came up with twenty (perfect for d20 rolls).
Spoiler:
1. Most of House Azrinae has recently left the city for reasons unknown.
2. The embassy from Nemret Noktoria has been getting quite vocal about a lack of preferred food.
3. A vein of blightburn was uncovered recently, it appears to be growing somehow.
4. House Parastric has been releasing an unusual amount of horrors into the southern caverns outside the city.
5. Something has been leaving brainless corpses around Ghenavoc.
6. House Misraria has been calling (not summoning) succubi & sending them out to take over various brothels to create various charmed assassins & gain an edge over the sly killers of House Vexidyre.
7. A derro lich is successfully crossbreeding cytillesh & ghost mold.
8. Rygirnan has recently seen an uptick in rare metal items being crafted in the various forges.
9. The tiefling population in the city has been slowly increasing for months now.
10. Houses Vonnarc & Azrinae have recently become at odds.
11. Local derro have found/created numerous passages to the surface.
12. House Moivas has been secretly releasing small swarms of vermin to feed on House Udrinor's fungi farms.
13. The urdefhan shop owner of Enigma has been strengthening his ties to his daemonic allies.
14. House Tracinoa has been adding to the city's defenses with numerous acid & poison pools outside the city proper.
15. Arn the Embersoul has been making forays up the Flamefall, mustering demons (even those directly serving noble houses) for an as yet unknown reason.
16. Someone very dangerously miscalculated an Abyssal summoning/calling, & an unstable rift formed. It keeps winking in & out of existence, traveling around the nearby wilderness, spewing forth... things.
17. The Cyclic Sublime has been staging operas that entrance viewers so that they volunteer to fight in the arena.
18. House Rasivrein is subtly testing the defenses of the Azrinae compound in hopes of finding a weakness that enables them to successfully assault it.
19. Varmirhias, Daughter of Shax, has been visiting Rygirnan a lot recently.
20. Smart troglodytes are sneaking into the city & inciting the native troglodyte slaves to riot.
2. The embassy from Nemret Noktoria has been getting quite vocal about a lack of preferred food.
3. A vein of blightburn was uncovered recently, it appears to be growing somehow.
4. House Parastric has been releasing an unusual amount of horrors into the southern caverns outside the city.
5. Something has been leaving brainless corpses around Ghenavoc.
6. House Misraria has been calling (not summoning) succubi & sending them out to take over various brothels to create various charmed assassins & gain an edge over the sly killers of House Vexidyre.
7. A derro lich is successfully crossbreeding cytillesh & ghost mold.
8. Rygirnan has recently seen an uptick in rare metal items being crafted in the various forges.
9. The tiefling population in the city has been slowly increasing for months now.
10. Houses Vonnarc & Azrinae have recently become at odds.
11. Local derro have found/created numerous passages to the surface.
12. House Moivas has been secretly releasing small swarms of vermin to feed on House Udrinor's fungi farms.
13. The urdefhan shop owner of Enigma has been strengthening his ties to his daemonic allies.
14. House Tracinoa has been adding to the city's defenses with numerous acid & poison pools outside the city proper.
15. Arn the Embersoul has been making forays up the Flamefall, mustering demons (even those directly serving noble houses) for an as yet unknown reason.
16. Someone very dangerously miscalculated an Abyssal summoning/calling, & an unstable rift formed. It keeps winking in & out of existence, traveling around the nearby wilderness, spewing forth... things.
17. The Cyclic Sublime has been staging operas that entrance viewers so that they volunteer to fight in the arena.
18. House Rasivrein is subtly testing the defenses of the Azrinae compound in hopes of finding a weakness that enables them to successfully assault it.
19. Varmirhias, Daughter of Shax, has been visiting Rygirnan a lot recently.
20. Smart troglodytes are sneaking into the city & inciting the native troglodyte slaves to riot.
I used some other sources to come up with this listing (Into the Darklands, Classic Monsters Revisited, etc.), & I know what'll be true or false in my game, but I thought I'd throw this out there.