The Call of the Roost (Excerpt)
Vol. 1, Number 1.
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Officials Assaulted, Three Dead as Violence Erupts in the Big Drop
Imperial Officials Are Investigating Reports That Gangs Have Dangerous Xenos Tech
The Big Drop, Jagged Roost (UP) – Police and Mechanicum personnel were attacked in a violent gunfight that left three dead on Saturday in the area of the Jagged Roost called the Big Drop, said Adeptus Arbites sources.
See pict captures of the fighting here: https://imgur.com/a/gJWQ2
Mechanicum Biologist Crison Watck was injured in the fighting which eye witnesses involved gangs from at least four major houses.
Adeptus Arbite officers were fired upon as they escorted Watck through the Jagged Roost, said Lt. Clearchus Lysimachus.
"The officers were not injured in the fight. I can't say the same about Crison Watck, unfortunately," Lysimachus said.
The visit of Watck was for monitoring the stability of this hardest hit areas of the Jagged Roost in the recent hivequakes, Lysimachus said, although he would not say why a biologist was sent to investigate that problem rather than a member of the Seismographium.
"We know there were members of houses Orlock, Goliath, Cawdor and Escher there, although we are not sure exactly which gangs were involved in the fighting," Lysimachus said.
"Believe me, we are investigating and the Big Drop has now been cordoned off while we search for evidence," he said.
Violence has become an increasingly common event in the Jagged Roost say many locals.
"When I first moved here it warn't like this," said former Big Drop resident Philthy Lezruw.
"In the old days, we didn't have this kind of trouble. I never thought when I built my dwelling here that I'd be moved out of this area like they just did," he said.
When asked how long he had lived in the Jagged Roost Lezruw said he came in when the Arbites stopped preventing people from entering, about a month ago.
Another former resident Layne Yelats reported that he saw at least three people killed in the fighting.
"There was so much shooting going on it was tough to keep track of where it was all happening or who was shooting at who," he said.
Yelats said, "After the shooting stopped I went down to see things for myself and even in the dark you could see pools of blood. I know that three of those girls that came in did not walk away from here under their own power."
"I went around to some of the docs I know here and there were three bodies outside one of the surgeries covered in a tarp. I had me a little peak while no one was looking and saw that they was Eschers," he said.
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Inquiries to the named houses have not been returned.
