The Ravenblack Grimoire

Greetings!

We here at the Grimoire are looking for a few no-nonsense reporter types to join our staff. As many of you know, this paper is not run as most papers in our fair City. Instead of the run of the mill gossip and bickering we strive for excellence through solid reporting. Currently we are seeking news hounds to do bindings, severances, obits and the occasional Editorial.

Those interested in a job are encouraged to inquire at the Grimoire Staff contact page (360)located at http://360.yahoo.com/profile-5rT7GSQ2aa8PTx4BkcQADCUvdRmcRzw-?cq=1

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Latest Update - July 26 2008 - Safety Deposit Boxes

You can now purchase a safety deposit box key for 11000 coins, from the Cloister of Secrets at Gloom and 1st. If you possess a key, you can put your other objects in a magical safety deposit box in any bank, and withdraw the objects from any other bank. There are few advantages to this; flowers will not decay while in storage, and you're safe from accidentally giving items away or using them if they're in storage.

Well, it looks like God Ravenblack has finally got off his large duff and given the city something new to play with. Not that he hasn’t from time to time thrown us a bone but those moments have been rare and far between.

I thought about writing an article about the Republic, Yggdrasil vs IDC, POE, ES, Dawn debacle and then I thought to myself. What better illustration of the whole action than to post the end result.

IDC, POE,ES, Dawn Lineage Fatalities

Malicous
Lady Gray x 2
Altania x 2
Kali
sorla
limelight x 2
Velvet Kiss
Samantha Dawn
Lass
IceAngel
Lathered_up
Matej – 2-3 times
Scarlet Dawn
Crisdawn
Lesion
Cwolffire
master219
deadpaparick
shyeyeloverkil
Miranda Dawn
doncey
shaarinya
Jycea
Sabrene
TygerNight
MidntTigr
Spellbyne
BlueVamp
LilRaver
BlackBlank

There is a wide body of sociological literature on the concept of framing. In short, framing is how individuals understand their experiences and express it in a narrative. Of course, the veracity of these expressions is always questionable but that is not the important factor (at least for Erving Goffman). What matters is how individuals frame it. From this simple concept, a sociologist brought this concept to social movements. The basic argument is movement activists must frame experiences to resonate with a wider audience, to recruit and gain support. In many ways, this is rhetoric and persuasion. We all do it, especially governments when it comes to war.

And so the women are sold too, in much the same way:

Miranda Dawn sold to Lesion – 135,000
Nnamira D’dar sold to Sartori – 110,000
BladeofRayne sold to Rodargo – 90,000
Velvet Kiss sold to Lesion – 75,000
Labyrinth sold to TooL – 75,000
Anuksunamun sold to Zadow – 70,000
Icsis of Exuma sold to Phoenixxe – 66,000
Synangel sold to Goliath – 60,000
Josephine sold to Calisto – 56,000
Vampuro sold to Xandra – 53,000
Sweetblood17 sold to Mistress Ash – 50,000
Ellora sold to Mistress Ash – 50,000
Lady darkness sold to Seth Lomax – 50,000
CG Dragonfly sold Drusilla – 45,000

And the final results for the Drip Red silent auction are as follows:

Thylantis sold to Mina – 310,000
Count Tuna sold to Morgana18 – 150,000
Goliath was sold to Tatana – 120,500
Rykoth sold to Morgana18 – 100,000
TygerNight sold to Mystic Dreams – 100,000
Scratch sold to Gypsychilde – 95,000
AcerNeros sold to Xandra – 90,000
Daly was sold to Drusilla -86,000
Deylin sold to Velvet Kiss – 65,500
Spensor sold to Ebony Moon – 51,000
Angelo was sold to Miranda Dawn – 50,000
Nesmuth sold to Miranda Dawn – 50,000
Rico was sold to Goddessred – 45,500
Torlogh O’brien sold to Mistress Thorn – 45,000

Your word.

Perhaps one of the most important thing any vampire can hold true to. Agree to do something and then renege on that agreement is likely to have unpleasant consequences. Such consequences are now showing themselves in the form of a duel challenge from Lord Galamushi to Damari.

To satisfy my own curiosity, I sought out Damari to ask her exactly, as she sees it, what is going on. She's known far and wide for her bitchy remarks, her sometimes direct, sometimes subtle ways of speaking and in general possessing the knack of worming her way under the skin of others. Not necessarily a bad thing. That is unless you happen to be on the receiving end of her displeasure.

It’s not often I do investigative reporting. I prefer the more editorial leanings of this calling but I couldn’t resist this tid bit when it landed on my doorstep. I even went out of my way to investigate whether this was merely spurious conjecture or the real deal.

I have to tell you my avid readers, it’s not looking good for Lestat. From my super secret source I was given a location where Lestat was luring every human he could muster just to garner the special blood fattening power he gets from God Ravenblack when he turns new humans to this dark way of life.

You would think Lestat, in this Saintly form would have learned his lesson. God Ravenblack has already stripped him of everything a vampire could possibly be stripped of for one such thumbing of his nose at the great power of this city. But does he really dare to do it again, in another form, so soon after being stripped of his powers, his life and his body?

Earlier today, the loss of a childe of Murrz Ramirez was brought to the attention of the Staff here at the Grimoire.
RavenBlack, the Lord of our fair city, detecting a vile taint around the corpse of King Lestat, smited him in one fell blow, rendering him little more than a temporary shell within our fine city.

Various sources reported at some point in time, Lestat had been seen slumming in the ghetto's bragging of his abilities to illegally move coins from servants to others for a fee. We can only surmise here at the Grimoire that if Lestat indeed had this dark art skill, this would not be the first time he has used it. Confidence in charging others a fee for this indicates that one would have to be particularly skilled through practice in this trade. And were he not skilled through practice, one could again surmise the number of vampires he put in or could have put in jeopardy had he used it on them.