"Trading was brisk on the first day of opening. A stampede occurred at noon. Mr. Arle, a senior partner of the Luowei Merchant Guild and one of those involved, stated in an interview that losses caused by failing to buy in time would be pursued from those responsible for the accident...
At five in the afternoon, the closing price settled at 531 lang 7 river per share. The general manager of Shaleanna Mining Company promised that tomorrow, the Public Bonds-to-stock exchange rate would be raised to 450 lang per share. Kingdom Public Bonds trading remained active...
Sir Buffon, director of the Holy Kingdom Museum and head of the royal study, issued an analysis report on the much-watched natural gold nugget, confirming that it was relatively pure gold, though a small amount of unidentified material adhered to it...
Count Grenal, governor of the Shaleanna Region, promised investors that a stable planar passage would be established by next summer at the latest. Plans for developing the gold mine were under discussion..."
With a casual flip through the papers, Rorschach found that every headline was about Shaleanna Mining, especially information about stocks on the newly opened exchange.
There was comparatively little coverage of the sub-plane and the gold mine itself. Only a small column read: In response to calls from the faithful, the Church stated that it planned to build a church on royal lands in the sub-plane and was currently in contact with the Royal Palace...
Meanwhile, the Elemental Truth Gazette, published under the Mage Guild, ran Rorschach's group's adventures in the sub-plane as its front-page headline. The report was full of exaggerated, fabricated descriptions and read more like a third-rate novel. As the protagonist under an assumed name, Rorschach—renamed Loka in the article—had not given any interviews at all. Interestingly, the