Eyes on Absalom

[Fumarole]

The newspaper/leaflet on the inside back cover of Devil at the Dreaming Palace is fabulous. When I run this I plan on printing them (assuming future books have them also) and handing them out to the party once we complete each book.

Well done.

[Moximus]

This is cool - but what I'd like as a player handout is the issue before this.

Articles with a hint of missing people, ads for newly opened attractions, profiles of prominent business people. Fluff pieces about the Radiant Festival as teasers for the players to discover.

[Evil Paul]

How about this?

Eyes Over Absalom, volume 1

I'm going to do a few of these per AP, I think.

Some small changes and edits. I've renamed it to "Eyes Over Absalom" (which sits better on the British tongue, than the very American "Eyes On.."). Rather than purely a rumour-rag, I see it more as an actual newspaper, which is used by it's owners to stir up their own agenda. The name is slightly fascist, so I've cast it as a right-wing rag, like the UK Daily Mail. I've also added a reporter character, the gnome Cherry Cogsworth, as it doesn't really make sense just to have Reginald doing all the leg-work. Oh, and the Dreaming Palace is renamed in my universe to the Delightful Daiquiri Hotel. (If we're going to valence-swap Terry Pratchett, may as well throw in another Pratchett reference while we're at it). Other Easter Eggs = Olansa Terimor is the "Building Lord" which is the commonly used name of a character in the Lords of Waterdeep Board Game. The icons at the top are Starstone Catherdral and Azlanti Fort. Thorgrim Hastily's buildings are all stamped as "Hastily Made...", etc.

In regard to the long term plot:

Spoiler for GMs only:

it doesn't make much sense to cast the agents as heroes, and then suddenly flip this to make them villains. That's not how media campaigns work. You don't push one narrative with the intention of doing an about-face, rather you drip feed the campaign you want in the first place through a steady diet of lies and spin. So the paper will be unrelentatly ANTI- Edgewatch and ANTI- Wynsal from the beginning.