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 Vincent Volcano, retired maestro, scarf aflame and patience cremated. “Hope” arrives with the sort of title that makes studio executives misty-eyed and critics reach instinctively for the brimstone bucket. A one-word abstraction. Very brave. Very marketable. Very easy to slap over a slow-motion trailer where someone stares out a window while a piano is
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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 Techie Tormento, your gentle nerd-devil with a soldering iron and unresolved firmware trauma. The Brimstone Impwatch 5 has arrived from the ever-smoking labs of Glooglehoul, and friends, it is exactly what we expected: polished, competent, expensive, and only slightly more exciting than watching a cursed loading bar render in 4K. This year’s big infernal
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
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Greetings, my little ash-sprouts! Nana Netherbloom here, broadcasting from my potting shed in the bubbling suburbs of Cinderwick. Today we’re tending the Brimstone Begonia, a cheerful perennial whose blossoms spit sparks whenever someone nearby tells a lie. Naturally, it flourishes outside the Infernal Parliament. Plant yours in equal parts volcanic soil, powdered bone, and shredded
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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
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Sammy Sizzle here, reporting from my skillet-shaped desk in the Fifth Frying Circle, where “healthy cooking” usually means removing the pitchfork before serving. Today’s infernal miracle: Brimberry Soul-Tein Griddlecakes, a vegan breakfast so suspiciously wholesome it was briefly investigated by the Department of Temptation. The secret? Silken doomfu. Yes, doomfu in pancakes. Wipe the ash
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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
Oh my brimstone buttons, little imps, today I got the Screechy Soot-Sprite Slingshot from Gigglegore Toys, and it is BEAUTIFUL. It has a bendy bone handle, two stretchy lava-worm bands, and a tiny basket for holding real live soot-sprites. They squeak when you load them. They also bite, but only because they are excited. The
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