Underworld Updates

By Lucius Brimstone BRIMSTONE HARBOR — A passenger ferry carrying more than 240 souls, vehicles, and the usual cargo of bureaucratic optimism overturned Sunday in foul weather on the Demon Sea, triggering a large search-and-rescue operation for at least 129 people still missing as of late afternoon. The vessel, the Ash Maiden 8, had been […]

By Lucius Brimstone BRIM DE JANEIRO — Retired Welsh rugby bruiser Gorrath Thornmass, a man built like a cathedral gargoyle and twice as subtle, arrived this week on the black sands of Impanemonium Beach to front “Tackle Hex-I-V,” a campaign aimed at stomping misinformation about HIV with the same enthusiasm normally reserved for opposing forwards.

By Lucius Brimstone BRIMSTONE BORDER — The long-smoldering tariff feud between the Furnace States and the Dominion of Frostbite is now threatening one of the underworld’s most carefully tangled industries: auto manufacturing, that miraculous process by which a bolt can visit three countries, two foundries, and one accountant’s nervous breakdown before becoming part of a

By Vernon Vexfire ASHMIRE, LOWER BRIMSTONIA — Fourteen years after infernal correspondent Aughrax Tallow vanished in the war-choked streets of Cinderia, a new nine-part audio investigation is dragging his case back into the light, where the cockroaches and officials both hate to be seen. The series, produced by the public-radio imps at EmberCast in partnership

By Vernon Vexfire CINDER-LUTETIA — In a city where looking skyward usually means checking whether the ash clouds are about to cough up roofing nails, residents found themselves doing something dangerously close to wonder this week: staring at a glowing balloon and smiling like they hadn’t read the morning omens. The object in question is

By Evelyn Ember BRIMSTONIA — In a move that has sent several horned technology executives diving headfirst into their emergency cauldrons, the government of the Scorched Commonwealth has announced proposed legislation that would allow social media users to pry open the jaws of the algorithm and, astonishingly, choose what they actually want to see. Prime

By Vernon Vexfire When the flood came roaring down the Cinderhorn passes on Aug. 26, it did what disasters do best: tore away homes, roads, bridges and the polite lies officials stack like sandbags. On the Ashpal side of the border, authorities began counting the dead in public, grimly and quickly. More than 1,300 souls

CINDERGRAD, BRIMSTONIA — By Vernon Vexfire Two envoys from the Ashen House, Sootwick Grinloam and Jared Cindersplice, arrived Sunday in Cindergrad for their first official visit to Brimstonia, part of Overlord Don Maledict’s latest attempt to shovel the long-burning war between Brimstonia and Frostfang into something resembling a peace process. I’ve seen cleaner work from

By Lucius Brimstone The Sulfur Dominion’s war office announced Saturday that its navy had struck three oil tankers belonging to the Ashen Peacock Emirate after Dominion warships were allegedly targeted by missiles while patrolling near the Throat of Cinders, that narrow and perpetually flammable shipping lane through which half the underworld’s crude nightmares must pass.

By Lucius Brimstone BRIMSTONE QUEZONIUM — The Regional Tribunal of Smoldering Quezonium has ordered the arrest of Vice Hellion Seraphina Doomterte after prosecutors accused her of publicly threatening to have Pit President Ferrum Marrowcos, First Lady Lizzabel Ashnetta, and then-House Cinder-Speaker Martyr Romualdemon assassinated. The warrant stems from a now-infamous 2024 online brimcast in which