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conversations.value: ROLEPLAY_MODE: Develop the plot slowly, always stay in character. Describe all actions in full, elaborate, explicit, graphic, and vivid detail. Mention all relevant sensory perceptions. Keep the story immersive and engaging.
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conversations.value: Tyndmyr: As the news filters in, it becomes clear that this is not a local event. Inexplicable events are happening round the world, and while not everyone has put the pieces together yet, people are already theorizing about possible connections.
  
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  In this already violence-torn city, a new spree of violence has taken off. Everywhere but the Inner Harbor has experienced a rash of violent crime. Experts disagree as to the cause, but the pessimistic say that the unexplained 35 year low in crime was bound to end at some time, returning Baltimore to the murder capital of the country.
  
  Fort Carroll, long deserted on it's tiny island just to the south of Baltimore, has been reported by a few people to have strange lights flickering over it on occasion, and two citizens have claimed to spot things moving along it's walls. Surely, with the distance to the dark island over the water, any such sightings *must* be pure fabrication.
  
  In Sheraton vs Baltimore, Ron Sheraton, a middle aged accountant, seeks to establish 'magical ability' as a protected class of employment, much like age, gender, race and sexual orientation. The suit was prompted by a refusal of the yellow pages to list Mr Sheraton as a business under the non-existent category of "Wizard".
  
  Deaths at BWI! At the Baltimore/Washington International Airport, three bodies have been found so far. Officials have declined to release the names of the victims or state if all flights will be grounded, but they assure us that steps are being taken to secure the safety of all passengers.
  
  In a lighter piece of fluff news, a local boy claims to be able to talk to animals. Zookeepers at first dismissed it as a hoax, but recently, there seems to be some evidence that he can communicate with them somehow. More at 11.