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[attr="class","np-date"]Saturday, 19 August, 2022

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In a preliminary notification received by the Oracle, it appears NEP witches have successfully sealed the rupture in Eclipse. Covens prepare to welcome back their witches… (page 3)

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Chaos from the Towers as 100s are Arrested

by Staff Contributor

After a sudden announcement of "over the network" gambling incidents, related to the Silverwing Gala "virtual" roulette, over 400 related arrests were made by the Delphi City Police. 

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"It was a cheap trick, overloading our systems like that," said Gira Lonett, the current police commissioner. "We were up through the night, going from one end of the city to another."

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The arrests made will likely fall into a series of Class A misdemeanors, with maximum sentences ranging up to a year, though Lonett said many would be released on bail. Gambling is an illegal activity in non-licensed premises, a law that has frequently been contested, and historically flouted by Sybaris.

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On August 18, the coven hosted a "virtual" gambling event in conjunction with Gemsplit. The initial broadcast, which appeared to override city monitors and home networks, was cut off by Delphi Telecast part-way through. Viewers were then invited to participate in a dubiously legal game of roulette online.

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A source familiar with the matter, who asked to remain anonymous, told the Oracle that Delphi City is building a case against Gemsplit for endorsing criminal activity. The documents provided by the sources were independently confirmed by Oracle staff.

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Gemsplit declined to comment on the matter. 

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This is a developing story. 

Learning to Live With IMS

Opinion-Editorial by Gracie Wilver

Gracie is a ninth grader studying at Olympus Academy, and the winner of our IMS writing challenge. She has been sick with IMS since June.

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Some days, I give up on the idea of a cure. With shops that refuse me entry, and neighbors now avoid talking to me for fear of me “blowing up”—it would be obvious to think that those would be my worst days. After all, I had only met my familiar what feels like yesterday, and now I wonder if our relationship will ever really be the same. I don’t even know if I will ever join a coven. The hopelessness should be the worst of it.

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But it’s really not.

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The worst-case scenario (that there is no cure and never will be) is actually comforting. Every day, life with IMS continues to become more manageable: when I am lonely, I call the call centres and make friends with other witches missing their familiars. I learn to do things the conventional way. I read fiction more, instead of grimoires.
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People are kinder to me, I think. And to each other. Tartarus, where I live, seems to be recovering from the frenzied spring riots, and humans and witches now have more common ground to stand on, should they choose to walk it together. 


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These days, I talk with my mom a lot more—she’s a human, and never quite understood my furious and single-minded determination to join Cerberus’s ranks. To be honest, I don’t think I did, either.

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I wonder now if the way that we lived life—determined to gain power, glory, and knowledge—is a way to live at all. Yes, I am certainly a witch with or without this curse. But before racing to become witches, I think, we should all learn to be more human.