Vol. I: Issue 047                                                                                             November 13th, 2026

Breaking news out of Oniontown, where the city has begun moving its growing piles of garbage onto barges anchored offshore in Briny Bay.

With very little progress made during the mediation summit held in Ätherstein from October 23 through October 29, towns across the Continental Concordia are beginning to come up with their own plans for dealing with the trash that continues to pile up. Here in Oniontown, Mayor Chip O’llini says the barges are only a temporary measure, meant to clear streets and keep city services moving while officials search for something more permanent.

And right now, Thrasher’s Heap certainly appears to have the upper hand. The talks were originally expected to continue through October 30, but attorney Ty Quilton and the other representatives of the Heap walked out a day early, bringing the summit to an abrupt end. Whatever hopes there were for a quick resolution to the garbage strike seem to have left the convention center with them.

Meanwhile, Gigaloaf Labs has been working around the clock on solutions of its own, and not every idea has survived the drawing board. One proposal called for constructing a warp portal directly above the crater of Mount Calypsus on Calypso Island. Trash collected throughout the Concordia could then be sent through the portal and dropped straight into the volcano.

The concept did not last long. Officials on Calypso Island quickly rejected the idea, along with the Continental Concordia’s Environmental Council, leaving Gigaloaf Labs to head back to the drawing board.

For now, Oniontown has its barges, other cities are considering plans of their own, and Thrasher’s Heap shows no sign of backing down. There may be no clear end in sight just yet, but I’ll keep following this garbage crisis wherever it leads, because Duke’s Gotcha covered!

 

Hiya friends!

Well, the Volcano Gala was this past weekend, and what a spectacular night! Most importantly, it raised a whole lot of money for Ketona Beach, which made the evening even more special.

As for my blind date… eh, I think I’m going to stay out of the dating scene for a little while. He was a nice guy, just maybe not my guy. A bit of a clean freak, and somehow he showed up to the fanciest event of the year in a big turtleneck sweater. So, yeah. Nice night. Nice guy. Moving right along!

Let’s check in with our friends over in Scrapple Hill, where things are looking cool, cloudy, and a little damp to start.

 

 

Light rain and drizzle hang around through the weekend, but things gradually dry out after that, with a few brighter breaks and temperatures sneaking back toward 50 by the middle of the week.

So keep the umbrella nearby for the first few days, then look forward to a calmer, slightly brighter stretch as the week rolls along.

 

The Mumph here, and I’ve got some good news to pass along to you all. Next week, construction on my parents’ place in Ketona Beach will officially begin!

It has been a long road since Hurricane LePunch, but we are finally at the point where things start going back together. Mom is already talking about what she wants everything to look like, Dad is pretending he is not excited, and Lady Purrella will no doubt inspect the whole operation.

And speaking of things coming together, the baseball season is starting to tighten up too. Let’s get into this week’s matchup.

 

 

The Black Birds broke a scoreless game wide open with four runs in the third, then let their pitching and defense do the rest. Maple Mountain finally got on the board in the seventh and added another in the eighth, but by then Whiskview had already tacked on one more of their own.

Final score, Whiskview Black Birds 5, Maple Mountain Flapjacks 2. Ganachek behind the plate takes MVP honors.

Whiskview moves to a perfect 3-0, while Maple Mountain drops to 1-2.

My two cents, we are getting late enough in this season that 3-0 starts looking awfully important. The Black Birds have put themselves in a very nice spot.

 

Hello out there…

Something rather unsettling happened to me two nights ago. It was somewhere around one or two in the morning when I woke up to a loud whoosh outside my bedroom.

Now, across from my bed is a small half-window that I have never bothered putting curtains on. It faces north, so sunlight has never been much of an issue, and it sits high enough off the ground that I have always figured nobody could possibly see through it anyway. That logic had always worked just fine until now.

At first, I checked the larger bedroom window and saw nothing unusual. No car. No person. Nothing blowing around outside. So I climbed back into bed.

Then I looked across the room. Perched among the branches outside that little half-window was the silhouette of what I initially thought was an enormous bird. And it was staring directly at me. Two tiny yellow eyes glowing through the darkness.

I jumped back up and moved closer to the window, and that is when I got a much better look at it. Long black-and-green wings, a curved red head, and a shape that suddenly looked a lot less like any bird I had ever seen. That was no bird…

It was a Chilifeather.

Or at least some variety of one. Before I could grab my camera, it spread those enormous wings and disappeared into the night. My best guess is that our late-night visitor was stranded on Gurth when one of Gigaloaf Labs’ portals malfunctioned during the first Expedition Munchmore. We already know some creatures crossed over when those portals went sideways, so finding one wandering around Whiskview is certainly possible.

Still, there is something uniquely unsettling about waking up in the middle of the night and discovering a creature from another world quietly watching you sleep.

So I made one very necessary purchase this morning… Curtains.

They go up tonight.

And that’s The Scoop.