Twelfth Night 1341 - Flying Monkeys over Rome

The city continues to be terrorised by demons in the form of flying monkeys. Scarcely a citizen now doubts their existence, for everyone seems to know someone who claims to have seen them - or at least knows someone whose cousin or aunt has glimpsed these terrors. Now every backstreet killing or disappearance is laid at their door - though level heads might point out that there were plenty and enough of such occurences long before their appearance in the night sky.

Such is the furore around these horrors that it is said that the matter has even come to the myopic attentions of the Council of Thirteen - the Captains of the Rioni charged with the oversight of law and order in the thirteen districts of the City. What action these idle wastrels have resolved to take is unknown but they are said to have promised rewards for information leading to the apprehension of these vile creatures and and a bounty to anyone who can bring in a corpse. The lack of any published handbill or enumeration of the rewards on offer has led the cynical to assume that they have little confidence that they can be found and no intention of paying up if they are.