Scarlet emergency lights flooded the flicker-lit halls of the smoke filled sub-basement forge-halls as scratchy metallic screeching temporarily drowned the whir of pistons and gears. The 518th Union Security Detail began to slide down ladders, mustering the crowds and shouting orders in cupped hands to the workers to grab helmets and tools: House Valencia Security Forces cracked down on a work-team again, doubtless with casualties. They always made sure to kill at least one. They’d broken to the surface to breathe fresh air instead of burning soot and smoke.who broke to the surface for some fresh air. This time, however, the survivors herded them off the edge of the smoke portal, down to the other outraged workers, who took to them with hammer, hatchet, and flame but not a single spark of mercy.
The blazing red blare of the alarm echoed off the metal and stone of the already blackened walls as the workers gritted teeth and stomped towards the black iron of the riveted doors to their forgehall. They clutched long knives, pipes, poles, hammers, and makeshift shields with cold iron in their eyes to intercept the heartless repercussions marching to enforce the will of the wicked. The owners called in the Standing Auxilliary, more Valencia thugs- criminal toughs and bruisers, as well as the Feralfang City Patrol- a body of criminals on a whole different level.
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Excerpt for The Owl’s Horn, Official State Press of the Great City of Feralfang,
Secured & Distributed by House Valencia
“Riots leave hundreds dead in Feralfang Industrial District”
Feralfang City Officials had to call in House Valencia Standing Auxiliary and the Feralfang City Patrol to suppress a riot after several Valencia Security Forces were brutally attacked murdered without provocation by cowardly labor conspirators.
Salvage teams are still dousing fires after several furnaces and engines were exploded by the anti-strength insurrectionists. Investigations are still ongoing to find the Spineless animals responsible for starting the riots. Only the Weak would assist such devious behavior and any found assisting the conspirators will be treated accordingly.
House Valencia and Feralfang City Patrol are both accepting applications for eager new recruits ready to prove their Strength as the safety and security of our city has never been so precarious.
